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SUNDAY MORNING
THIRTEEN YEARS IN
AN ENGLISH PRISON.
j£Tt)HAV E seen and talked with
m j| I Florence Maybriek, the Aiuer
vtcywl * ean woman who for thirteen
|522l ycarK has languished In an
English prison for a crime
which she hus protected from the
first she never committed —the mur
der ot her husband.
Mrs. May brick was condemned to
be hanged, but jive days before the
time set for her execution her sen
tence was commuted to life Imprison
ment because (I quote from the court
records) "the evidence does not ex
clude a reasonable doubt whether
James Maybriek's death was in fact
caused by the administration of
arsenic."
The commutation of Mrs. May
brick’s sentence for the reason given
by the English court attracted ex
traordinary attention and sympathy
I
Mrs. Maybriek.
When She Was Sentenced,
for the American woman, and no pris
oner accused of a capital offense has
over had such powerful friends exert
ing all their combined strength to ef
fect release as site has had.
Florence Maybrlck'a unhappy fate
lias always lain heavily on my heart,
do when I reached London, in May, 1
at once set at work to get permis
sion to visit Aylesbury prison, where
Mrs. Maybriek has for the past seven
years been confined.
Mrs. Maybriek was about twenty-six
years old, as l recollect it, when she
was convicted of the murder of her
husband. Site has beon iu prison thir
teen years and Is therefore at least
approaching her fortieth birthday.
Her face Is an absolute blank ex
cept for that terrible sort of dumb pro
test felt In each feature. Florence
Maybriek might be sixty or thirty,
or any age between. She typifies
dumb anguish as no other human be
ing 1 have ever seen.
I stretched out my hand toward the
poor woman and the frail little figure
shrank back. “I am so sorry,” she
said. In a voice soft and low and ut
terly hopeless; "we are not allowed to
shake hands or touch any one.”
Mrs. Maybriek Is a little over tlvo
feet in height. She cannot possibly
weigh over ninety pounds. Her face
has the deadly waxen look which long
deprivation of sunlight and fresh air
Inevitably produce.
Her features are not regular, but
very pleasing—very gentle. Her eyes
are blue and large, and excepting
when she looks one dtectly in the face,
they are so expressionless as to make
one wonder If there is "any sight in
them.
But 1 looked into Mrs. Ma.vbriek’s
eyes determined to evoke a response
- determined to send a Utile message
to that poor hapless soul no matter
what followed.
"I am from America,” 1 said, and be
fore 1 could ho interrupted, “you have
thousands of friends there. You must
not think you are forgotten. We hope
soon you will be free.”
The blue eyes grew human and ten
der and looked into mine, still with
the despairing gaze. The colorless
lips parted in a painful attempt to
Judge Harman.
Who Sentenced Mrs. Maybriek.
smile, dteclostng beautiful white teeth,
and In a low, refined voice, very Eng
lish in pitch and inflection, Mrs May
brick said:
“Thank you. Yes. 1 know 1 have
friends in America. 1 had one great
and noble champion In Miss Dodge—
Oail Hamilton —and while she lived
1 had strong hopes. But she is dead—
ray dear unknown friend is dead.”
1 asked: "l there any message you
have to send to America?"
“Only the same message." said Flor
ence Maybriek—“my thanks, my pray
ers for the happiness of ail who have
given me a word of sympathy, and
remember. 1 am innocent."
“How have you lived?" I ventured.
'T cannot tell." Mrs. Maybrie.lt re
plied: "I often wonder how it is that
i have lived. I think It must be be
cause; my belief has never died that
one day, sooner or later, my inno
cence will be proved. 1 am willing to
die when that time come3. 1 must
live till then.”
“And your children?” I asked.
The blue eyes filled with big tears.
"I know nothing of them for the past
seven years. During the first six
years of my Imprisonment the May
bricks allowed me to see pictures of
them twice a year and I was to keep
the photographs in my cell for twenty
four hours each time.
“It was such a comfort to me! But
they stopped without explanation
seven years ago and I know nothing
—nothing at all about them. My lit
tle girl is sixteen, my little boy a man
about twenty. I have never seen
them since they were taken away from
me all those years ago.
“i believe they are told their mother
Is dead.”
"What do yon do, Mrs. May brick?”
I asked. "How do you manage to live
through those weary days and
months?”
“And years,” the prisoner said, con
cluding my sentence for me. “The
prison routine never varies. The
same, day and week, month and year.”
I was told that Mrs. Maybriek has
not only been a model prisoner her
self, but has had an unparalleled in
fluence for good on the other prison
ers, who adore her. Several women
convicts havo offered and begged tc
be permitted to serve a life sentence
If It would earn Florence Maybrlck'e
release.
While Mrs. Maybriek was speaking
the door opened and another attend
ant appeared. Once more I stretched
forth my hand, a friendly woman's
hand to Florence Maybriek, and she
shook her head and throw mo a sad
little kiss from the tips of her waxen
like Angers.
In another instant the door had
closed and 1 found myself In the cold
stone corridor, free to leave this house
of misery.
As soon as I reached London on my
return from Aylesbury I got the ad
dress of Mrs. Maybrlck’s mother, the
Baroness do Roques, and wrote her
asking if she would see me If I went
to Rouen, France, where she Is liv
ing.
I received an answer saying I should
be welcome.
The Baroness -do Roques lives on
the outskirts of Rouen in a tiny house
Mrs. Maybrick.
As She Is To-day.
of a few rooms of liliputian dimen
sions. for which she pays about $lO
a month. In this poor little refuge
for ton long years she has lived, at
tended only by a faithful Breton
woman.
During these years Florence May
brick's mother has devoted her every
hour, her every energy, her last avail
able penny, to an effort to secure a
new trial or a release for her uufor
tuuato daughter. Anew trial
Baroness de ltoques has always con
tended, would show conclusively that
as Sir Charles Russell, the .Attorney
General ar.d l.ord Chief Justice ot
England said repeatedly: "Mrs. May
brick ought to be set free, for she
was never legally convicted."
At the end of my visit the Baroness
de Roques gave me the picture of Mrs.
Maybrick. taken shortly before she
was accused of the crime for which,
she was tried, which is here repro
duced. —Harriet Hubbard Ayer in New
York World.
Strange French Tax Law..
Possession may be nine-tenths of the.
law-, but the remaining tenth oc
casionally makes trouble, especially in
France. A man in Paris had two
motor cycles, on which lie paid the an
nual tax uncomplainingly until the
motor cycles were stolen from him
two years ago. Tnc law insists he
should go on paying the taxes ituicll
nitely, as he cannot prove he no
longer possesses the cycles by return
ing the taxing plaques which were
attached to the machines, and. oi
course, vanished with them. As long
as he does not return the plaque.
the Jaw considers ho is In possession
of the cycles and insists on the taxes
being paid.
Play 3oth Ends.
In Guatemala, the Indian population
tries to double Us chances for the ef
ficacy of prayer by worshiping at a
Christian altar with images of its
heathen deities hidden behind it.
Where Arc the Peonies?
Somewhere in the world there are
| lID.OOt'.OOO big copper pennies, but no
| body appears to know where they are.
THE BRUNSWICK DAILY NEWS.
THE PESSIMIST.
Th'-rc go rt .s 12- .• man we would not meet.
He's always looking for defeat—
The Pessimist.
No faith in any ore has he:
No good in fellow-man can see.
This Pessimist.
He saerifloes friends and health
In striving for great fa.-no or wealth.
The Pessimist
The widow and the fatherless
No help receive In their distress
From Pessimist.
Selfish, and wrapped in worldly care.
MOST PROSPEROUS ORDER
The International Brotherhood of
Blacksmiths was organized in Atlan
ta, Ga., in 1889, but it was not till
1897 that it obtained a Arm foothold.
It took a prominent part In the nine
hour strike of last year, with fair suc
cess, some important concessions be
ing gained. The nine-hour movement,
begun last year, has resulted in great
and material benefit to the organiza
tion, and has made possible the exis
tence of many nine-hour contracts this
year which could not hare been ob
tained under any other circumstances.
The ultimate aim of the organiza
tion is to improve the condition of ev
ery man in the blacksmith depart
ments of railroad shops, shipyards,
machine shops, and. In fact, all fac
tories and workshops.
The organization is finely officered.
In 1898 Robert B. Kerr was chosen
general secretary-treasurer, and his
work has been so satisfactory that he
has been re-elected annually by that
prosperous labor organization.
FIGHT TOBACCO TRUST
The eigarmakers’ union of Chicago
arc in high feather over the action of
the so-called cigar trust in purchasing'
al high prices the leases for certain
good corner stores iti which to open
retail stores and there compete with
the old-established stores, many of
which refuse to handle many of tho
so-called “popular" brands of cigars,
extensively advertised on billboards
and vacant walls. It is asserted that
most of 'hose brands of cigars are
made by child and cheap labor in
penal institutions, find that the com
bine is forced to go into the retail
market as a.matter of self-protection
to dispose of their product, which is
accumulating and for which no mar
ket can bo found.
One official high up in the cigarmak
eks - union said recently that the ro
KEEP UP WAGE SCALE
The contention of the Socialists that
the rate of wages is kept above the 1
mere living point by trade unionists
is borne out by some figures just given
out by United States Commissioner of
Labor Carroll D. Wright, says the So
cial Democratic Herald, it continues:
“Under what has been called tho 'iron
law’ of wages, labor is subject to the
competition of the overplus of work
ers tor the more or less limited num
ber of opportunities to work afforded
under the capitalistic system. Trade
INSIST ON AGREEMENT
The Chicago stock yards teamsters
gave Swift tk Cos. a practical demon
stration that the agreement made aft
er the last strike was made with a
view of being observed. The com
pany liar again agreed to live up to
the contract it made some time a go.
Probably it will not he necessary to
remind tho company by another strike
ENGINEERS ARE STRONG
President Lighthail, of the Steam
Engineers' International Union, re
turned front the convention of that
body and the Trade and Labor Con
gress of Canada, a few days ago. He
reports that the organization is grow
ing in membership arid power ail over
TIRED OF FRICTION
Carpenters' I'nicn No. 1 has a prop
osition to bring before the Chicago
Federation of Labor for indorsement,
which, if adopted, will prevent new
unions from going on strike until they
have been affiliat'd one year. The
claim is made, and the carpenters say
CONDITIONS IN JAPAN
There are about SO.OOO cotton opera
tives in Japan, chiefly in Osaka, ac
cording to our Yokohama correspond
ent, of whom (SO.OOC are women.
The factories are very primitive as
far as health appliances are concerned
and consumption is rife. v
EVIL OF CHILD LABOR
The cry for the protection of
; children is not the cry of a section,
but of humanity. Every new manu
facturing community has to face this
temptation to esploit child labor. Eng
land had the struggle years ago. The
northern manufacturing states have
Shunned by glad childhood even
Is Pessimist.
IIIh troubles all are mut half way:
At life’s high noon he's worn and gray-*
The Pessimist.
Old atf*. no hop'' or courage finds;
In mists of doubt his sun declines—
Poor Pessimist.
These lines shall not have mi3scd their
aim
If from the many we reclaim
On- Pessimist.
—Mrs. A. 14. in New York Mail and Ex
press.
Robert E. Kerr.
j [General Secretary-Treasurer of the In*
ternational Brotherhood of B’.ack-
I smiths |
tail cigar dealers in Chicago, New
York, Cincinnati, St. Louis and other
large cities had formed an organiza
tion for the purpose of refusing to
handle the product of the combine,
and that the eigarmakers’ unions all
over the country were aiding these re
tailers. Their motto Is to handle noth
ing hut union-made goods from inde
pendent manufacturers, and thereby
crush a mammoth enemy to both
unions and small dealers. Many of
the druggists in the large cities have
Joined with the union in crushing out
trust cigars. Even the big jobbers are
said to feel the results of the agita
tion begun by' organized labor, and
many of them are said to be curtail
ing their stocks or endeavoring to se
cure union-made cigars ns a "side
line.” iu order to appease their custo
mers.
j unionism has not only kept wages
l higher for organized workers, but
through its agitations and its effect
on public sentiment it has kept the
standard of wages for nonunion men
higher also. The trade unions must
be given credit for the ability of the
worker to pay the higher cost of liv
ing.
"It is incontrovertible that the
i unions oblige capitalism to pay higher
I rates of wages than it would otherwise
j have to. So it is small wonder that
| capitalism hate:; the unions.”
i that it has an agreement with the
i drivers, and then again it may. One
good feature of the last settlement is
| that the bulldozing barn foreman was
| removed to another department,
i where he can annoy nonunion men.
i T.iere Is no better incentive for men
! to organv.e than to have a bulldozing
| official over them.
the United States and Canada, and is
making working agreements with
largo manufacturing plants in all the
large cities. ’While in Canada he
formed local unions of stationary en
gineers in Toronto and Berlin, both
of which joined the Canadian labor
movement.
justly so. that the new unions formed
ibis yyar have kept the labor move
; meat of Chicago in tin moil for the last
live months, arid it is time a halt was
called in these matters. The propo
sition U.as also be n indorsed by the
1 Carpenue.Y District Council of Cook
! county.
The boarding in system is larga
■ ly adopted, and the workpeople are
i crowded together in the most awful
!• fashion. As many as thirty-four have
| been seen sleeping in one room. Some
! children are paid a penny a day.—
| Loudon Express.
been compelled to make increasingly
strict laws to protect their children
and now the great development of
the south makes the question an
issue there, which should be settled
right before vast numbers of children
are ruined.
town a wiseacre is a man
I who has made a million
1 iifWl i "baking thf* street.” Up
MHM * ov/n a wiseacre i3 a man who
knows enough to leave the
street alone. There is a certain incon
sistency in the two definitions, but
both exist.
The down-town wiseacre is an in
teresting and instructive type, in fact,
he is a liberal education In himself,
but, like other liberal educations, he
costs money to acquire. One may And
him hanging over the ticker, always
smoking, always complacent, always
corfidential. He is as easily recog
nized as a detective or a head waiter.
One can sec the financial wisdom fair- !
ly glinting in his eyes. He breathes in
time with the delicate rattle of the
ticker. His heart ueats as the market
ir.ove9. He Is the personification of I
the Wall street market.
Naturally, then, he is more or less
of a barometer. A man comir.g into
a down town oGice I
after a week in the
: ’ ! ‘ juntains - where
j , <fspr where the din of
i[A the market is lost
ijLjj J 'j* :[_>• In the roar of the
'bE'iW- mountain stream,
-jjfo#' does not need to
flufil consult the ehron
mg ides to find out
jwAM.’] Just how the world
7| has been behaving
/ 1 itself. He may take
‘ 3 a comfortable seat
8 in a big red leather
chair and watch the wiseacres.
There are two of them, say, leaning
over the tape at the front of the cus
tomers’ room. They stand in moody
silence, holding their cigars between
their fingers and letting them smoke
themselves. It means that the air is
heavy. It means that the world ha3
been misbehaving. Perhaps one of
them was .ong of Rock Island at 200;
perhaps he was short of it at 175. Who
can say? Anyhow, the way is dark
and dreary to his eyes.
Another day one finds it very differ
ent. The tws) wiseacres are full of
wise saws and modern instances of
great things done in Wall street.
Their cigars smoke merrily, as they
should, being expensive weeds and
rare. There is much talk of “bull j
markets.” "long profits.” "quick turns
and decent," and all the other thing3
that make a man happy, even though
his wife be at Saratoga. In such a
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case one knows that things are or
dered well by tiie little blind demon
ci chance ihat cuts the pack and deals
the hands for the merry game of mil
lions.
Yet is the wiseacre something be
yond the mere speculator. The latter
takes his wisdom from the former’s
lips, or gets it in the tipster's proph
ecy. or from a chance remark of some
great man. The former manufactures
it on the premises, so to speak. Back
ot him he has years of experience,
some bitter, some sweet. Does it hap
pen that a certain stock goes climb
ing swiftly away beyond its value as
ing swiftly away
. beyond its value as
estimated by the
r gonr22l experts, the v%’ise
gH&jjgß acre saith to him
f have seen such
fv, things before and
A shall again. I think.
Sell mo a thousand
of this stock that
doth so vaunt* it
§
Does it happen
that the earnings
nf a certain road,
like Pennsylvania,
increase and multiply in startling ratio
while the stock stands still, then saith
the wiseacre:
so; methinks I see a certain
profit. Some day soon some mighty
one, looking for a goodly subject for
a rise, will light upon this road and
boom it to the skies. I shall hitch ray
wagon to this star while yet it hovers
near the earth, and see what heights
it scales. Buy me two thousand Penn
sylvania.” And presently he sells
those shares at tea points’ rise. So
prospers and grows great the goodly
cult of wiseacres.
There are, be it said, some wise
acres whose wisdom turns to foolish
ness. and whose bank arcount shrinks
and dwindles like an apple of last
year's harvest, or like the assets of
an industrial under the receiver’s mi
croscope. Such a one is he who lives
too lots under one dispensation.
The aim and object of the wise
NOVEMBER 9
acre, of course, i3 ultimately to make
the "Dear Public” feel cheap. This
mission he has labored at ever 3ince
the Wall street game began, and still
the public doesn't seem to mind. If
one read with cn intelligent eye the
advertismnnts in some few papers in
town wherein are set forth the claims
of certain of the wiseacres to knowl
edge beyond tljo ken of all other %fise
acres. it would be seen at once
the dear public is the solo and ex
clusive object of ths solicitude of the
wiseacre who has become a profes
sional wiseacre. This professional
status, as has been remarked many
times, came wheh;
as aa amateur, the 'wsr'i
wiseacre came to
grief. Now he- is
anxious to get tho /KaPMJ
pleasure and profit
of bucidwg the *
tough old Street. g jrga-', "t- -
and to reap Kith ;|-
hiai the golden nar-
vest of a bull cam
paign. And, strange •/fTfCSSiZ
as it may seem, the
dear public is not
at ail adverse to doing the work in
the harvest field and getting there
fore what small horde of profit may
uappen to escape the Boss Harvester.
"A sucker is floated in on every
waye," is a trite but true proverb of
Wail street. And it is also true that
there are some few odd fishermen
down in the street, and also that there
is sufficient water down there to af
ford a fair premise of good eport when
treated in conjunction with the fish
ers and the "suckers.”
Whatever happens, the wiseacre
still remains a wiseacre. He knows
that if the crops are good the Grang
ers will make much store of goodly
wealth. He is certain that if Penn
sylvania is go
ing to go up pag’SW&fc. '' "****
higher, it is
now a good Ci" I
thing to buy, Iftukl
and that if it is
going to drop a
now a good I j, 1
thing to sell.
He is quite cer- lltlillmWavi I
tain that if the IjlnwY v 8 $3
'Canadian \ *
| Northwest gets U <
j to be as rich "
| and populous as the America*
Northwest, Canadian Pacific wit
be a great deal higher in price
than it Is now. He knows also
that If it rains to-morrow it will
be a wet day, while if the sun
.-’nines it is apt to be bright. His wis
dom, in fact, is touching and wonder
ful, and the gusto with which ha
spreads it around would lead an un
biased observer to believe that he ac
tually 111-. ed doing good for good's
sake.—C. ?.l. Keys in New York Times,
Remarkable Photography.
One of the most, charming happen
ings ever photographed by natural his
tory oamerists is the birth of a but
terfly. Mr. Fred Knock was the pho
tographer. He depicts the whole event
from the stage when the larva has
slung itseif by a silken girdle to a
twig until the butterfly, fully develop
ed. is poised on a leaf about to make
the first trial of its wings. Mr. Enoch
notes that in seven minutes from the
time that the chrysalis first split the
butterfly was fully developed, and
from the moment that the skin opened
uniil the new-born beauty was poised
on the empty shell it emerged so
quickly that exposures of a hundredth
of a second only were given.
Kept Socialist from Speaking.
A socialist member of the Italian
parliament, chamber, who recently an
nounced his intention of delivering
an address In the town hall at Ros
siglione, was prevented from doing so
by the cure of the town assembling
all the women of the congregation in
the hall, completely filling it. Every
time the member tried to speak the
women, at the instigation of the priest,
an to chant hymns and psalms,
'.liner-' rang the church beds, and
made so much noise that the member
was compelled to h ave the nail with
delivering his address. As soon
a; ho was gen-.- the priest chanted a
"Te Rum” as a thanksgiving for the
over: it row of the socialist.
Aluv.inum an Substitute for Paper.
It is stated that experiments with
aluminum as a substitute for paper
are not. - under way in France, it is
now possible io roll aluminum into
"beets four-thousandths of an inch in
tuicaness, in which form it weighs
less than paper. By the adoption of
suitable machinery these sheets can
- made even thir.er and can be used
: . • hook and writing paper. The metal
will r.ot oxidise, is practically fire and
water proof and is indestructible by
worms.
American Shipbuilding.
During the fiscal year ended with
June, 1.057 vessels, of 473,981 gross
t;ns, were launched in the United
States, as compared with 1,709 vessels,
of 489.616 tons, in 1901. The decrease
is in sailing vessels, cunalboats,
barges, etc.
Chairs Used by Royalty.
Two oak chairs made for the use ot
the king and queen of England when
they visited Middlesbrough, in 1899,
have just been sold fur £4 5a cacti.