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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 ~ FI * ■ —— - ■ .■ 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.