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(IBITION
IX ATHENS.
i r RiNNER’s expose of the
r . TH i..irs in Athens there has
22 gratifying decrease ih^ this
^While we still have these
* am oug us, they are not
Cbrszen in plying their trade
rtlenUon was directed to
% Oliver will bear us out in
3, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 5,1883
rF?i /t
insinuation that our paper i 8
seeking to stab prohibition in th£wv
is slanderously false. W« are not ac
customed to making fights under cover
anil if we ever decided to advocate fc£h
license, or any other measure o Ur c -;?i
zens will hear from The
no uncertain Bound.
So far as we know, there is no move
ment to bring back liquor to Uhens
But there is a strong andVrowing sentil
ment in favor of a better enforcement of
our prohibition laws, and it is the duty
of every good eitizen to lend this move
ment his aid.
FOGIES TO THE REAR.
There are a few men in Athens who
are doing a great deal to retard the pros
perity of their city by opposing every
thing that requires any money to con
summate. This class has ever been
clogs to the growth and advancement of
the place, and now that our progressive
and enterprising citizens are making a
desperate effort to keep their city apace
with the spirit of the age. these fogies
are doing every thing in their power to
defeat them. They have comfortable
homes, their selfish interests do not
require the building up «f the business
of the|place, and just so their pocket-
Coi this paper did every-
£ power to do away with the
Sk in Athens, and now pro-
ft' irk just as hard to suppress
\ teas he did to close the li
ft!,,,. It is ridiculous to try
it
“Iji'evil by disguising facts.
Si be just as much sense in a
0 f the Gospel igonring the
in liis sermons, and
perfect.
it
(C Of HB
m that every mail is
Zm would only give eudorse-
Li encouragement to the evils
7 yd one would be deceived,
■e,'ors continue to flourish
, . b( !(m.louence of these whose
l is toco:
obut them.
the blind tiger
matters not to
thaur an
books are let aloue
them if Athens is never more
overgrown country village.
But we are glad to knovy that
this
NT BENS.
What the Flash Light and Cam
era Disclosed in New York.
CRUfcADE AGAINST LAWBREAKERS
Some of the Places an Officer Most Visit
In the Discharge of His Duty—Filth and
Vermin Plenty—Work of the Board of
Health—The Interior of a Chinese Den.
mitted that this was his only room. Its ,
appearance was sufficient proof that it was !
kitchen, bedroom and dining room for a fam
ily of at least seven. One of the inspectors
made a note in his book and said:
“All right, John, you may go back to yonr
six or eight beds, but first we’ll have to
fumigate this place a little.”
The flash light was adjusted, two cameras
made ready, and presently John Cell! thought
lightning bad struck him. Proof of his guilt
having been thus accurately recorded, John
Celli was bidden good night, with assurances
that the atmosphere of his tenement was
now a great deal clearer than it had been.
Of all the torn shells to be encountered in a
large city those that hang about a tenement
house occupied by the lowest class of foreign
ers ore certainly the foulest. It is not their
poverty that is most impressive, for many of
them have considerable sums of money hid
den away among their rags, but their utter
disregard for cleanliness. The policemen’s
lanterns only dimly lighted the halls of No.
S5 Mulberry street, and on every floor some
one of the party stumbled over a bucket of
putrifying garbage.
The floors and. stairs are rough with irreg
ular layers of condensed and hardened filth,
and toward the top of the building the air
was so fall of nauseating vapors that one
of the party was compelled to return to
the street. In the rear tenement on the
top floor, where the air was so bad that
the flames of the policemen’s lanterns
actually wavered as if half suffocated for
lack of pure oxygen,
class is now in a hopeless minority, and
their opposition to progress will amount
to naught.’ The paving ordinance was
a big step fbr advance, and our citi
zens owe our Mayor find council and
Hon. II. C. Tuck, representative in the
Legislature, a vote of thank’s for secur
ing its enactment. That bill is now as
irrevocable as the laws, of the Medes
and Persians, and it is like darting
straws against the wind to attempt to
evade it.. Any good lawyer will tell
you this.
From this day on the foggy must
take a seat in the rear. He is no lon
ger the ruler of Athens Our progressive
citizens have stripped toft sutoh mistle
toes. These old high kickers and in-
junetibnists will be made to keep up
with the procession. They will no lon
ger be permitted to keep our city in the
background. Athens is now on the
sure road to pi*ogress, And every citizen
will be required to contribute his share
two
VERY month or so, at
midnight^r later, the ten
ement dwellers of Mul
berry street, New York
city, of Hester street, of
half the ill kept, frowsy,
bad smelling streets that
lie between Center street and East river, the
frowsiest and worst smelling of which are
those in the neighborhood of Essex market
every month or so, in the small hours of the
morning, these tenement dwellers are rudely
awakened by officers of the board of health,
escorted by a squad of police. There is no
ceremony, no apparent consideration of the
principle that “every man’s bouse is his cas
tle;” there is a heavy rattling of clubs on
bolted doors, gruff demands for admittance,
the which, if not speedily acceded to, are
followed by a heavier rattling of club3, the
breaking in of bolted doors, and, may be, the
arrest of the offending tenant, his family and
his “guests.”
little Italian
children, not more than 4 and 6 years
old; lay naked on a bundle of rags sleeping
peacefully. The glare of the lanterns awaken
ed them presently, and they smiled roguishly
on the invaders and looked quite as happy
and healthy as many children do who have
pure air to breathe and dean food to eat. It
was difficult to accept such marvelous evi
dence of one’s eyes, so I asked them:
“How do you feel, babies! Do you feel
sickl” m > .. . 4
For answer they laughed heartily and
punched each other in the stomachs.
“Do you have enough to eat!”
Again they laughed and indulged in sac h
infantile antics as could betoken nothing but
good health and full stomachs.*• The police
sergeant explained:
Mtheni.
aow step lias recently been taken
ldll do much to enforce our pro-
jjmlaws. We refer to the bill to
eseiiie penalty in our Mayor’s
Sow. let this officer visit on
tamsgressor brought before him
Otreiue penalty. Teach these
tigers “at when they disregard
tarso!ilmir county that they will
ide to stiller for it, and sufter
aiy, too. A $50 line or thirty days
streets amount to nothing move
isrnail license to the liquor seller.
Ii¬ charge any of the drug-
mtireity with violating the pro-
tea laws for the purpose of gain—
imlerthe present rulings they have
plrigiit to sell spirituous and malt
Ms to their patients. They should
hfliDfounded with the blind tigers,
while they doubtless sometimes vio-
tke intent end spirit of the law,
warts have more than once decided
%are not legally guilty. This
tdepartraent of their business is
t source of vexation to druggists,
are beseiged from morning to
itfordiinks, and are often forced
®ltr sell or give it away. The
calls of friendship aud other
are made upon them. We be-
lliat it would really be a kindness
** gentlemen to give them more
•ttion against this army of thirsty
■ Besides, stronger laws
*hting the sale of liquor by drug-
i will be necessary to prevent this
‘‘business being taken advantage
. unscrupulous men to engage in
whiskey traffic.
* i'Quor license is issued by
OGLETHORPE COUNTY.
The last issue of the Echo contains a
criticism on The Banner’s report of
the excitement in Lexington durixgthe
trial of the negro murderer Huff. The
letter was sent us from a correspondent,
and was published as a communication.
Several other daily papers in Georgia
contained similar reports of the matter
and we cannot see why the Echo should
single out The Banner to correct, when
the Atlanta Constitution and Augusta
Chronicle’s correspondents made almost
the exact statements as our paper. So
far as our article injuring the standing
of Oglethorpe county, her people well
know that the editov of this paper is
their friend, and has for long years
proved his devotion to their interests.
AS BAD AS A TRUST.
This is
proceeding which the tenement
dwellers bring upon themselves by their neg
lect to obey the law, which prescribes that
every man, woman and child must have at
least 400 cubic feet of space to eat and sleep
in. This means that a room fifteen feet long,
ten feet broad and eight feet high may serve
as the abode of three persons, and no more.
Daylight inspection is of no avail, for most
of the dwellers will b|e in the streets, and
those who are not are much too cunning to
be caught telling the. truth. The only re
course of the board of health is to pounce
down on them in the dead of night, when
husband and wife, children and lodgers are
sound asleep, and too suddenly for them to
take warning aud fly to the roof or down the
fire escapes. The effect of these midnight in
cursions has been to greatly remedy the evil;
but, in order to insure obedience to the law,
it has been found necessary to keep up the
practice at irregular intervals, aud not infre
quently a flagrant case of overcrowding
brought to light.
The latest of these crusades against law
breaking tenement dwellers was headed by
Mi*. Charles G. Wilson, president of the
board of l^alth. It was an occasion of more
than ordinary interest, for a flash light and
two cameras had been included in the record
ing equipment, and promised to perpetuate
some startling scenes. One of the cameras
was in the hands of Dr. Martin, chief chemist
of the health department, and the other was
the inseparable companion of Julius Cham
bers, of The World, who is one of the editors
to a druggist, enact an ordi-
Jbat he keep a record of all sales
daring th e month, with the name
a customer and the amount of his
1<et this report be sworn to
-. month and laid before the Mayor
ncil for their inspection. Then
j/ &een " bo are the patrons of
rn S stores, and whether they
'“e
an unnecessary quantity of
P'nts. If a druggist is detected
Jr J* U,| u&nal amount of whiskey
kicH • let tilc ci *y officials, take
_ , ninthe Premises as they deem
ttw * druggist makes a false re-
"thii n be ‘“dieted for perjury,
a. “^estion is adopted we wager
*thet,2l be a 8ur P risin g falling
ttn w “uiber of drug store patients.
** 1 desire to have his name
. have his name
. „ Public unless he needs
*1111*! yfor m ®dicinal purposes,
tets a protect >°n to all honorable
*hWH«* 8 ? ain8t anoyance from
inenf? er8 ’ w insure to the
tilt;K me v nt of the nnderstand-
which physician’s licenses are
The Alliance will be called upon .to
combat a set of extortioners almost as
oppressive as the jute trust. We refer
to these Southern mills that have taken
the contract to supply them with cot
ton bagging, and that are making
profit even greater than the jute men
Very little of tills bagging is coining up
to the contract entered into with the
Alliance, for instead of weighing three
fourths of a pound, as stipulated, a
great deal goes but little over half a
pound to the yard. Besides it is a flfinsey,
rotton stuff, made in the cheapest man
ner, and not worth as much as osna-
burgs, that are sold at about half the,
price. Vast sums will this year be
made off the farmers by the manufac
turers of this cotton bagging. There is
no sense in fighting one set of extor
tioners by building up another.
It is true that this year our farmers
were forced to adopt any and every
means to eombat the jute trust, and ac
cept the best .trades they could get.
This fact was taken advantage of by
certain mills to extort a most usurious
price for cotton bagging, which the
farmer had to pay. Take the Sibley
mills bagging, for instance. Parties
well posted as to the value of such
goods say that ,9 cents per yard would
be a high price for it, yet the Alliance
is made to pay 12>£ cents. This is
wrong, and we hope that by next year
some arrangements wiU be made to
down the cotton bagging as well as jute
trusts,
We believe that the solution of this
trouble will be for our farmers to cover
their cotton with the fibre from the
stalk of the plant. In another column
we publish an interesting article on this
subject. -
ted.
one
tat
itprohihiH 1 the f act
!u mo h ra ! OI ! 1 1Se ! f0rced ifc wiU **
‘for an* , nd reformatory movo-
When is disre-
i,a force. ‘ e avv flagrantly violated
•ttr C j!! lf * R Jesses to see it enforced
** fookinJ 1 *! any move-
T 18 »Pp0?t CUd th ® SamC
that 14 accorded when
tase tn w aged. But we do not
a d,8 creet silence
_^ e ry opened on near-
^gniae an1 and %uor sold under
5 , n vi °l:itiou of law.
Ner ahtoS better to have it
^veiiiaQ^ 1 bceoso and. strict po-
AN ENTERPRISING”JOURNAL.
frock, trousers of the same and cork soled
shoes as white and clean as a sheet of paper.
He Conducted his visitors through a narrow
passage way, carpeted with matting, into a
room probably eighteen feet square. Part of
the way around the stones of the basement
walls was visible between sections of pine
wainscotting, but ■ it ,was brushed clean of
dust, and not a cobweb could, be seen any
where. The floor was covered with matting,
as were also seven or eight low conches scat
tered about the room.
“You see no bugs or vermin here,” said the
sergeant, triumphantly.
There were no bail smells either. The at
mosphere of the room could not be called
fresh and pure, though there was nothing
disagreeable about it, although a pungent
odor oppressed the senses from the moment
of entering. This odor was presently ex
plained to the uninitiated, for the place was
an opium deu in which four Chinamen were
lying in a state of. stupefaction. The man
who had admitted us resumed his preparations
for a smoke, cooking the opium over the |ilaze
of a fantastic little lamp and testing the con
dition of the complicated pipes used by opium
smokers. A smile of pleasant anticipation
lighted up his sallow face, and thus the flash
light and the cameras caught him.
Du the faces of those who were fully under
the influence of the drug were smiles—smiles
of realization. They were not all pleasant
smiles. Some of the sleepers grinned and
writhed, with twisted and strangely working
features, telling of unnatural sights and
sounds experienced in the weird land of their
dreams. On such a figure the cameras were
focused and the flash light blazed up again.
The Beene is not an easy one to forget. There
was no evidence of uncleanliness in the room,
but the smell of the burning opium, the sal
low faces of its willing victims, who perhaps
had never known an hour of healthy sleep,
the Oriental dress of the dreamers and the
surrounding objects' all unfamiliar in a
Christian household, ‘told of an Unwholesome
barbarism even more destructive of physical
and moral health than the filth and degrada
tion of the lowest Italian tenement dwellers.
Curtis Dunhah.
RUINED BY A WOMAN.
END OF THE WORLD.
The
It
THE BOSS EXPLAINS,
of great New York dallies who has never lost
the taste for personally getting at the bottom
of thlnga which distinguished him as a re
porter. The accompanying illustrations are
reproduced from four of Mr. Chambers’ most
successful flash light negatives.
Our descent was swift and silent on a
swarm of old offenders who inhabit No. 63
Mulberry street. An old Italian, nodding
over his fruit stand, woke up and grinned at
the advance guard of officers as the expedi
tion turned into Mulberry from Canal street.
The purpose of the invaders was equally
pin.in to a dozen stout loiterers. They
shrugged their shoulders disapprovingly, and
ono darted in at the open door of No. 65 and
up the stairs like a flash.
“Come on,” said the police sergeant in com
mand, plunging through the same doorway;
*“in two minutes this fellow will have half
the brood roosting on the roof.”
An officer was sent hurriedly to the roof
to guard the scuttle and another was left at
the street door to oppose the entrance of the
crowd that was rapidly gathering. There
was already a commotion in the second floor^
rear tenement, which one of the officers in-'
ited with the remark;
COOKING THE OPIUM.
“Oh, they have plenty to eat. They would
grow fat in the streets where a dog would
starve. They are so used to bad smells that
pure air would stifle them.”
The secret is explained by the mortality
lists. Only such children of these Italian
tenement dwellers as possess the most extraor
dinary vitality at birth live through the sec
ond week.
On the third floor we found a man and wo
man ahead of us making energetic efforts to
open the door of a tenement. They succeed
ed before we reached them, and out passed
fully a dozen Italian laborers half dressed,
talking volubly and gesticulating. The offi
cer made another note in his book.
“They are old offenders,” he said—“Pietro
Gueciardi and wife. They have no children,
and are so avaricious that they sleep on the
stairs outside, and give up their rooms to as
many lodgers as can be crowded into thfem.
This is the third time we have caught them
in the act.”
On the fourth floor we found another
chance to use the cameras to good advantage.
The occupants of a rear tenement "had forgot
ten to bolt the door, and we marched In upon
them before the “boss”—as the bead of the
household is called—could remedy this neg
lect. He stood in the center of the floor,
dressed in nothing but his shirt. All Mxmt
him, so close together that we stepped on
several sleepers, lay four men, three women
and three children. The room was not more
than tan feet square. Without wasting any
time the cameras were adjusted and the flash
light illuminated the room like a sudden flood
of sunshine. The “boss” was terror stricken
and his hair stood on end.
“What-a yon do?” he demanded, trembling.
“That’s all right, we’re purifying the air,”
replied the police sergeant. “What’s your
name!”
“John BuzzL”
“You’ve got too many people in this room,
John. Are you the boss!”.
‘ Yes, I the boss, but-a you see,” said the
man, cunningly, “these-a people come-a here
last night-a from the ship. To-morrow all
go away and-a no come back-a.”
“I happen to know that he lies,” said the
sergeant, as he made a note of what the cam
eras had recorded.
In the rear of No. 65, is another tenement
building of the same size, separated from it
by a court yard full of bad smells and rub
bish. Drains were stopped up and overflow
ing; one would hate to see a cow stabled
there. Bat as we stumbled on In the gloom
the head and body of a man rose up in our
path. The lanterns being turned on him it
was observed that he was one of a family of
six who had made their bed on the floor of
this horrible inclosure and were sleeping
^ith no other roof than the star spangled sky
over their heads.
the fire escape.”
The officer pounded on the door with his
blub. There was silence within instantly.
Again the officer beat on the door a rattling
devil’s tattoo that awoke the echoes. No
Police-
The Charleston News and Courier has
long been widely recognized as one of
the leading newspapers of the South.
It is prompt and accurate in its publi
cation of news, and never swerves in its
expression of editorial opinion.
The News and Courier is an enter
prising journal. Under the manage
ment of Mr. J. C. Hemphill it has in
creased in circulation until now it has
a very great list of subscribers all oi ei
the South. The publishers are u
> thei
now of
fering handsome prizes to their sub
scribers, who happen to draw lucky
numbers, Among them are sucli exti a-
ordinary presents as follows: A trip to
Europe and return. One of Emerson s
finest upright pianos, an elegant suit of
parlar furniture, gold watches, etc.
answer. _ .. . ,
“Open the door! Open the door!
man, open the door or you’ll bo arr«tedl
Which threat, emphasized by another terrifio
rattling of clubs, produced the desired result.
The door was thrown open, and by the light
©f the policemen’s lanterns the president of
the board of health saw a guilty looking nest
from which every bird bjut one had flown.
Through the open window a convenient fire
escape told the story. The man who stood
insido with his hand on the door latch, sullen-
lv trying toccnveythe impression that lie
was newly awakened from sound slumber,
was the only person in the room; but in
every corner, at the sides andm the middle
of the floor were suggestive piles of rags and
cheap mattresses, with fragments of blankets
thrown over them.
“What’s your name?” demanded the police
sergeant.
“John Ceffi.”
“What have you done with your lodgers.
“Got—a no lodgers.”
“Your wife and children, thenf
«*No wife, no children.”
, <• Who sleeps in all them beds, then.
^ The man shrugged his shoulders. He ad-
‘Millerite*,” of Virginia, Located
in October.
The.“Millerites” have been at it again. In
deed there has scarcely been a year since man
advanced far enough'to hope for or dread the
fntnre that they have not in some part of tha t
world been at it. Their first general sensa
tion in the United States was in 1843, when a
large congregation gathered on a hill in
southern Indiana to ascend together; and
their second in 1844, the plea having been
made that a minute error had misled them a
year. In the west there remained a scattered
few, who finally concluded that the last day
and great judgment was to coma in 1857.
“Millerite,” by the way, must be carefully
distinguished from Second Adventist, though
many confound them. The Second Advent
ists are really doing a work of some value to
Christianity and do not pretend to set the
date of the “second coming,” though they
maintain that it is nearer than is generally
believed. A “Millerite” may be defined as a
Second Adventist who has become fanatical
enough to believe that he knows the day, and
they are so named from Rev. William Miller j'
who scared many thousands, of people be
tween 1835 and 1850. In 1840 he was directing ,
the publication of the Signs of the Times,
and a little later of the Advent Herald, Mid
night Cry and Millennial Harbinger. It ia
impossible to convey to the present genera
tion of readerp any fair conception of the
awful reality with which he clothed his ad
dresses. A reporter of the period who at
tended his noted Second Advent camp meet
ing at East Kingston, New Hampshire, says:
Suspended from the front of the rude
pulpit were two broad sheets of canvas, upon
one of which was the figure of a man with
head of gold, breast and arms of silver, belly
of brass, legs of iron and feet of clay—the
dream of Nebuchadnezzar. On the other
were depicted the wonders of the Apocalyp
tic vision: the beast, the dragon and the
scarlet woman, Oriental similes translated
into staring Yankee realities and exhibited
like the beasts of a traveling menagerie.”
And this queer chart has been imitated or
parodied by all succeeding bands of “Miller-
ftes.” The latest form of it appeared in
Michigan two or three years ago. But the
men who organized the late “ascension camp
meeting” in Virginia appear to have outdone
all their predecessors in grotesque folly. The
very name of the place is suggestive, for they
met at Screamersville, V^., to “go up” on
some day between Oct. 5 and 22. Dickens
could not have invented a better name. Here
is part of their address:
The forty-fifth anniversary of the going out of
the church to meet the Lord in October, 1844, will
Ono of tho Most Remarkable Conspiracies
i Ever Brought to Light.
A drama in real life, which combines tho
distinctive features of the Diss Debar and
Flack sensations, with a touch of tragedy
added, had been slowly worked out almost to
the last act in New York city when an unex
pected interruption not long ago pat tho
principal actors to flight! Tho facts of the
case have been published in The New York
Sun. The comedy had advanced to this
point: An adventuress, who has other
wealthy New York victims, had estranged a
rich contractor from his wife ar.il family; she
had secured from him prbperty amounting to
almost a million; a secret divorce and mar
riage had been considered; the real wife had
bandy escaped an assassin’s bullet.
The real came of the woman in tho case ia
Caroline F. Wells. She was once, and prob
ably still is»‘the lawful wife of Emmet Wells,
a hop commission broker^ of New York city.
Her principal victim is. George F. Woolston,
a contractor well known throughout tha
west as a builder of railroads and water
works. Previous to 1883 Mrs. Wells, as far
as is known, was a dutiful wife and a good
woman.
About fifteen years ago she married Em
met Wells. So far as is known she was faith
ful to him during the eight or nine years
they lived together. In 1882 she left him,
going west with the intention of engaging in
the cattle business. She had about 211,000.
It is said that Mr. Wells consented to her de
parture. Years rolled by, and there was no
word from the would be “Cattle queen,” and
her friends looked upon her silence as evi
dence of defeat.
She invested her money and lost It, and be
came reckless. Womanly virtue was appar
ently thrown to the winds, and she soon be
gan to. live in greater luxury than if she hqd
remained with her husband.
She went out west as Mrs. Wells, and has
since been known by many aliases. She has
always been a favorite with men.
George F. Woolston is 43 years old. His
income has averaged between $50,000 and
$75,000 per year.
Mrs.. Wells and Mr. Woolston first met to
the west about six years ago. She was intro
duced into Mr. Woolston’s family as Mrs. E.
A. Willard, Of Boston, and he took pains to
spread the report that she was a wealthy
widow who wanted to invest -her money to
western property. It became necessary for
the “widow” to leave Mr. Woolston’s house,
but he continued to spend most of his time
in her company in other places. Mrs. Wool
ston could not be blind to the situation, bub
her remonstrances w^rq of no avail. Indeed,
Woolston deliberately proposed that he main
tain two households, treating both women
precisely alike financially. The wife failed
to consent. Finally Woolstpn spent almost
■ his entire time with his mistress., They trav-
eled all over the country, registering as hus
band and wife.
Woolston was lavish in hi3 gifts to his com
panion. He made her an allowance of $500
a month and all expenses, and she received to
addition magnificent presents.
be observed by tbe Adventists of
Oct. 6 to Oct, 23 (inclusive), 1889.
from
meeting
word Warrant us in expecting our Lord’s return
at this time. Tbe meeting will be held in Scream
ersville, Va., where the Virginia mission tent is
now pitched and will remain. All our brethren
who are looking for the Lord and desire to meet
with us are invited.
Any one' wishing to help this meeting with
money (and it is needed), can correspond with A
A Oanaday, Fredericksburg, Va. We hope to
have a grand meeting, and believe^t to be our lost
before Jesus comes. Lord Jesus 1 help us to be
ready, Is our prayer.
A A Canada?,
UNDER THE INFLUENCE OT THE DRUG.
It was now past 8 o’clock In the morning.
The work of the expedition had been accom
plished, and all of its members were more or
less‘overcome by the bad air that had filled
their lungs for more than two hours.
“Less than a block from here,” said the
sergeant, “in the basement of a tumble down
shanty, M show you a3 clean and neat a
place as you would wish to see. You have
had enough of the Italians; come and com
pare them with the heathen Chinese.”
“Chinese 1" ejaculated an inexperienced
member of tho expedition, with a shudder,
“why, they eat rats!”
The policemen laughed and led the way to
a basement door near by, on which they
knocked with their clubs. It was opened by
p. pmiling Chinaman dressed in a purple silk
Hiram l. Crawford,
Wyatt A Clark, B. T. Pendleton,
R. O. Brown.
Like Father Miller they were disappointed,
but unlike him they did not rise grandly to
the occasion. On the 14th of March, 1844, he
closed his labors, stating that he had given
3,200 lectures on the subject since 1832. A
little later he announced, that a failure to
allow for the error of ;the Roman. calendar
had misled him, but his belief remained un
shaken that October would fetch it. “Breth
ren,” he said and wrote, “the Lord will cer
tainly, leave the mercy seat on the ISthand
appear visibly on the82d.” Once more, the
Speedy Adventists” gave up secular busi
ness, but in the next issue of The Advent
Herald the editor had to admit that the
promise of his valedictory in the preceding
one had failed. And poor old Father Miller,
now shaking with palsy, but with his mag
nificent voice as strong as ever, cried aloud
in public places:
“I am fixed—another and a near time is
set—and here I mean to stand until God gives
me more light, and that is today, today and
today until he comes.”
People who have not made a special study
of the subject would be surprised to learn
how many “last day” movements there have
been in the United States and Canada. In
1885 John Nickerson, of Cor’inna, Me., set
April 29 as the finality and gained over 100
converts. They spent many weeks in most
fantastic methods of “driving out pride,”
“crucifying the flesh” and purifying them
selves generally. Some women crawled the
whole length of the village through the mud
and slush., One man had himself buried to
the neck in the earth. Many paid old debts
w^ich time had outlawed, and a country
editor, whose humor rose superior to the
terror of the impending day, announced that
an “old hake in had paid up a nine
years’ delinquent subscription, and the most
hardened agnostic cannot doubt his conver
sion.” It is worth noting that there was at
the same time another excitement in progress
there, its promoters insisting that 1889 was
the year, and that furious debates took place
between the two.
THE WOMAN IN THE CASE. f
[From The New York Sun.]
Woolston aud his companion, early in July
of the present year, went to board with Pro
fessor Houston, at Wray’s cottage. Sheeps-
head Bay, under the names of Mr. and Mrs.
G. F. Walton. Mrs.. Woolston beard that
they were there, and went to see for herself
if the rumor was true. It was late Friday
afternoon, Sept. 20, when she reached tho
place. It was evident that “Mrs. Walton’*
did not expect callers. She was expecting
her “husband,” however, and as the carriage
drove np to the cottage she rushed to tho
door to welcome him. But it was the in
jured wife who faced her. “Mrs. Walton**
was the first to speak.
“I don’t know you!” she exclaimed, load
em
you
h for Mrs. Heuston to hear. “Oh, yes,
1” replied Mrs. Woolston.
The bogus wife turned to Mrs. Heuston and
said: “This woman claims to know who I
am. I never saw her before, but I know who
she is. She is crazy. £he was divorced from
my husband seven years ago, and she has
been following os ever sMce. I shall not
stay here another minute I”
Then she rushed to the railroad station and
boarded an outgoing train..
Mrs. Woolston put detectives upon her
track and then turned her attention to ths
tranks which had been left behind.
She secured a search warrant and they
were opened in the presence of several wit
nesses, and a mass of evidence was revealed.'
There were letters from Mr. Woolston which
established his guilt even without hi3 confes
sion. ;*
The most serious evidence found was in ra-
cooked
tha
lation to a divorce which was being
up in order to secure a separation
legal wife. 1
Tha flrst evidence that such a course was to
be pursued was found in a letter from a law
yer named C. Harold Fife, of Vicksburg,
Miss., and addressed to F. L. V. Walton. As
It was found in her trunk, and as she had
gone by the name of Walton, it was presumed
to be to answer to one written by her on that
subject. In the letter Lawyer Fife said ho
could get a divorce quietly in six weeks with
out Mr. W.’s presence. The fee would be $25
at flrst and $75 additional if the divorce was
obtained. i
The real wife, of George F. Woolston was
seen by a Sun reporter in Boston, where sho
lives with her two sons. The story which
she told was a long and painful one, and in
cluded the details of a plot to have her con
fined as a lunatic. She also said:
“An attempt was made to shoot me last
August when I was on my way to join my.
husband in the west. The train was just
leaving Pittsfield when a bullet crashed
through the window. It came just as J;
stooped forward to pick up something, and :
burled itself in the opposite side of the car.
If I had not changed my position the bullet
would have gone through my temple. I did!
not think it was anything more than an ac
cident at the time, but when I was overhaul
ing this woman’s trunks I found a scrap of j
paper that bad evidently been torn _ from
some letter in which that shooting at fair was
mentioned. Then I concluded that the bullet!
was fired more through design than by acci-:
dent.” j
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