Bellefonte, Pa., June 5, 1903.
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THERE IS NO UNBELIEF.
There is no unbelief!
Whoever plants a seed beneath the sod
And waits to see it push away the clod,
Trusts he in God.
There is no unbelief!
Whoever says, when clouds are in the
sky,
Be patient, heart,
and by,
Trusts the Most High.
light breaketh by
There is no unbelief!
Whoever sees ’'meath winter's fields of
Snow
The silent harvests of the future grow,
God’s power must know.
There is nc unbelief!
Whoever lies down on his couch to sleep,
Content to lock each sense in slumber
deep,
Knows God will keep.
There is no unbelief !
Whoever says tomorrow, the unknown,
The future, trusts that power alone
Nor dares disown.
There is no unbelief!
The heart that looks on when dear eyzlids
close
And dares to live when life has only woes,
God's comfort knows.
There is no unbelief!
For thus by day and night unconsciously
The heart lives by that faith the lips deny,
God knoweth why.
— Lizzie York Case, in Enquirer.
DOWN ON THE FARM.
When fiercely smites the brazen sky,
And pavements parched, and scorching lie,
Tis then the countryside invokes
It’s pilgrimage of “city folks.”
The locust, through the golden days,
His strident hurdy-gurdy plays;
The fire flies turnish, through the nights,
Their myriad electric lights.
The flowers that deck the meadows o’er
Eclipse the gayest milliner store;
They’re wholly free to all who pass—
No copper yells: “Git aff th’ grass!”
The cows that 'mid the pastures walk
Are fed on butter enps, not chalk !
No gong they ring, but gently moo.
The milk they serve is white, not blue.
Here winds no poddling caravan
With hail. *“Fre-e-esh fish!” ‘Banan’!”
“Banan’!”
But hens strut forth on sturdy legs
And kindly cackle : “Eggs! Fresh eggs!”
—By Edward L. Sabin,
IN THE WEE SMA’
HOURS.
Mrs. Ruggles disapproved—hysterically.
James Anstruther said less, hut thought
more deeply: But in the end Elsa triumph-
ed
There were so many things, she insisted,
that she would need for their little home
when the wedding occurred in October—
things without which she could not keep
house, but which ber mother’s limited in-
come would not permit her to buy. Seven
dollars a week and her three meals daily,
with absolutely nothing to do but hand out
keys and mail ! The hetel was within
walking distance of their home, so she
could save every cent of her salary, to say
nothing of what her mother could save on
their table in her absence.
Mrs. Ruggles had the old-fashioned south-
ern prejudice against business life for wom-
en. Ina vague way she realized that it
was perhape a particularly perilous posi-
tion in which to place her pretty daughter.
Then, too, she looked forward with dread
to the three meals alone each day. Little
did ber daughter realize how. much she
would save on the table, how seldom she
would set forth for herself more than tea
and bread and fruit.
Anstruther felt the rooted abjection
which every good, manly fellow muss make
at thought of his sweetheart working for
her daily bread. He wanted to assume
that burden himself, but Elsa had insisted
upon waiting until every cent was paid on
their home nest. Moreover, he disliked
the publicity of it all, the phase of life
which she must inevitably see day after
day. But Elsa alternately pounted and ca-
joled until she won her point and was duly
installed as key and mail clerk at the Stuy-
vesant House.
As first sbe was radiantly happy in her
work. The manager of the hotel, Mr.
Paxton, had been her father’s friend and
took more than passing interest in his new
employee. It was pleasant to wear her
long, trailing black skirt and a fresh,dainty
shirt waist every day and to sweep into
the dining room, where'well trained wait-
ers served her. And pleasanter still it was
to buy certain little luxuries she had long
wanted to add to her wedding outfit.
But by and by the serpent of envy raised
its head in her new found Eden. The regu-
lar guests passed her in such a bewildering
variety of frocks that her own simple outfit
turned rusty in her eyes. Out of town
people, in for a few days’ shopping, sent
home C. O. D. packages that made her own
purchases look absurdly small. She dis-
covered that what appeared like luxuries
to her were the everyday necessities to the
majority of Stuyvesant Honse guests. And
why should these women who carried their
beautiful gowns with such poor grace he
given all the good things of life while she
had so little to seb off her natural attrac-
tions? There were the two daughters of a
Butte mine operator who wore rings out-
gide their gloves and tipped the waiters
with crisp bills. They had actually offer-
ed her a tip one day asshe handed out
their keys. Thinking of it all, a fever
sometimes burned in her veins that even
the over-worked electric fan above her head
could not counteract.
Many of the guests tried to patronize
her, but she kept herself proudly in hand.
As for the men, she vouchsafed them only
the demurest ‘‘good morning’’ when they
made frequent and often unnecessary trips
to her desk. This—until Ainslee came.
Ainslee represented a prominent New York
importer, ordered his clothes from a Broad-
way tailor, knew life and how to enjoy it
and had been a privileged guest at the
Stuyvesant ever since he had heen on the
road. He was a special favorite with Mr.
Paxton, who granted him the unusual favor
of an introduction to the new clerk.
Ainslee was to stay a week this time.
‘When Mr. Paxton heard it, he regretted
the introduction. Ainslee convinced the
head waiter that it was the diplomatic
thing and likewise a pecuniary advantage
to that dignitary to give him a seat at Miss
—— Ruggles’ table. Later he assured his pretty
table vis-a-vis that she was looking peaked
and pale. Her position was too confining.
She needed more fresh air in the evenings.
Now, the very next night he must run out
to Lake Placid to meet a customer. Would
she go along? It meanta lovely trolley
ride, dinner with music on the piazza and
a summer spectacle at the Casino. Ib
would take him but a short time to go over
business details with his customer, and in
the meantime she could be drinking in
that much needed fresh air.
Elsa consulted both her mother and ber
fiance, but with an air of finality that
showed the futility of objections. A note
of complaint sounded in her voice. She
never went anywhere, while everybody at
the hotel seemed to live for pleasure.
Anstruther might have reminded her that
last year they had gone everywhere to-
gether, but that now he was denying him-
self every pleasure to make the final pay-
ment on their home. Instead he kissed
her long and tenderly and said he felt quite
sure that Mr. Paxton would permit her to
meet no one who was not a fit companion.
It was a great evening for the unso-
phisticated Elsa, who did not realize that
the money Mr. Ainslee lavished was his
firm’s and was used to entertain the custom-
er rather than herself. In reality she
wae merely a side issue, a reward that
Ainslee felt he deserved for the efforts he
was putting forth to secure a new line of
trade. It would all appear in his expense
account.
Then Ainslee was so different from her
own quiet lover. She wondered if all New
York men would be like this—so excessive-
ly watchful of her comfort in small things,
so entertaining in their persifiage and deli-
cate in their flattery. She wished that
Anstruther had accompanied them. Lately
he had seemed so preoccupied and was less
mindful of her little needs when in public.
Yet when she reached home she was not
entirely sure that she had enjoyed the
evening. Perhaps the serpent of discontent
had raised his head too boldly this time.
The next evening as she was leaving her
post Mr. Paxton came to her, wearing an
anxious expression. The night clerk had
been taken ill, and the chisf day clerk had
been called to the bedside of a dying sister.
Could she, would she, stay on duty until
he could secure some one to relieve her ?
He would gladly do so himself, but he had
a political dinner on hand, Elsa promptly
sent word to her mother, also a message to
Anstruther to call for her shortly after mid-
night, when some one would surely be able
to take her place.
It was her first experience with night
work, and she was entertained by this new
phase of hotel life--the late arrivals, the
theater parties (for some of the playhouses
were stili open), the tired tourists return-
ing from trips up the lake. Midnight came,
but no Anstruther. The head porter offer-
ed to relieve her on watch and send her
home in a cab, but she insisted upon re-
maining, feeling sure that something had
detained Anstruther.
One o’clock—and 2! A slight commo-
tion echoed from the main corridor, and a
group of men entered noisily, Ainslee in
the center. They stopped and blinked un-
certainly at the circle of light surrounding
the office ; then Ainslee, with a remnant of
the grace she had admired the night be-
fore, strolled to the desk and stretched
forth his hand. His companions watched
him with wavering, watery glances.
*‘Y’oughter been ’long tonight.
turned Lake Placid red—bright red.
shame for pretty girl like you—"’
Something in Elsa’s horrified gaze check-
ed his flow of words, and a hand crunched
down upon his shoumlder. It was An-
struther, white to the lips, with the de-
layed message in his pocket and wrath in
his soul.
Fairly throwing the intoxicated wan into
the arms of the head porter, who bad been
roused from his nap behind the telegraph
desk, he strode round to the door leading
into the office. There his manner chang-
ed. Elsa's trembling figure and frighten-
ed face caused a revulsion of feeling. Very
gently he reached for her hat and gloves.
With gentle deference he offered them to
her and held open the door for her to pass
out. To the porter as he passed he spoke
a few curt words. To the girl he said noth-
ing until they reached the street—then :
‘‘We must have a cab, dearest. You are
still trembling.’’
Oh, the wealth of love and tenderness
and protection in his tones! She clasped
his arm lovingly.
‘No, no ; let us walk. I want to have
time to think before Isee mamma. She
must never know the truth ; it would
grieve ber so, and I must find ome reason-
able excuse to offer her for leaving the
hotel at once.”
And so, arm in arm and in the blessed
silence of those who once more understand
each other perfectly, they walked away
from the glare of the entrance into the
shadowy street that led toward—home.
—By Amy Lee.
We
It’s
Justice of the Peace Must Have Officlal
Seals.
Governor Pennypacker on the 23rd of
April approved the following bill, which
thereupon became a law, requiring justices
of the peace to procure and use a seal of of-
fice :
Section 1. Be it enacted, eto., that the
several justices of the peace of this com-
monwealth shall hereafter provide for them-
selves and use a seal of office, to be affixed
to all affidavits, transcripts, and all other
official papers.
Sec. 2. Said seal shall be similar to the
one used by notaries public, except that
around the outer edge shall be the name of
the justice, his county, and the words *‘jus-
tice of the peace.’’
Sec. 3. Hereafter every justice of the
peace shall append to each certificate or
attestation a statement in plain, legible
characters, in the English characters, of
on the date of which his commission ex-
pires.
Sec. 4. All acts or parts of acts inconsis-
tent herewith are hereby repealed.
The New Dog Law.
The new dog law makes it a misdemean-
or to poison or attempt to poison dogs.
The wording of the law is the same as the
old one, which makes it a misdemeanor to
poison any domestic animal. For the bene-
fit of those interested the following is the
full text of the new act, which was adopt-
ed on April 24th :
‘‘Every person who shall wilfully and
maliciously kill, main or disfigure any
horses, cattle, dogs, or other domestic ani-
mals of another person, or shall malicious-
ly administer poison to any such heasts or
expose any poisonous gubstance with the
intent that the same should be taken or
swallowed by them, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and being thereof convicted,
shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceed-
ing $500 and to undergo an imprisonment
by separate or solitary confinement at labor
not exceeding three years or both at the dis-
cretion of the court. Provided that the
provisions of this act shall not appeal to the
killing of any animal taken or found in the
act of actually destroying any other animal.
homeless.
Dr, R. F. Coyle is Chosen as Mod-
erator,
Honor Goes to West. as was Anticipated. As-
sembly Ready for Work.
Dr. Robert F. Coyle, of the Central Pres-
byterian Church of Denver, was elected
moderator of the general assembly Thurs-
day evening. Only two votes were taken,
and when Coyle had 322 votes on the
second ballot his election was made unani-
mons. os
Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke formally
opened, Thursday morning, the one hun-
dred and fifteenth general assembly of the
Presbyterian Church at Immanuel Church,
by preaching the annual sermon. He
reached there at midnight, one day late,
and many other commissioners who arrived
on belated trains were slow in reaching the
church. But there was no lack of activity.
All the morning before the opening of ex-
ercises wae spent in electioneering for a
new moderator. The larger part of the
commissioners are young men, and they
have shown keen interest in the election.
WEARS A GENEVA GOWN.
Dr. Vandyke called the assembly to or-
der at 11 a. m.. He was dressed in a flow-
ing Geneva gown. His sermon was on
the broad subject of ‘Knowing and Doiuy
So, Joy and Power.”” The text was from
St. John, 13th chapter, 15th verse: ‘‘If ye
know these things, happy are ye if ye do
them.”’
In his address, Dr. Vandyke anticipated
the wonder on the part of his anditors that
the message he delivered was not “‘more
distinetive, more ecclesiastical, more es-
pecially adapted to the peculiarities of our
denomination.”” He thought they would
say that ‘‘It is a message which could just
as well be brooght to any other church on
any other occasion.’’
He added : ‘‘I hope that it is true. The
things that I care for most in our church
are not those which divide us from other
Christians, but those which unite us to
them. The things that I love most in
Christianity are those which give it power
to save and satisfy, to console and cheer,
to inspire and bless human hearts and lives;
the thing that I desire most for Presbyter-
janism is that it should prove its mission
and extend its influence in the world by
making men bappy, knowing and doing of
things which Christ teaches.”
ANSWERS NUMBER OF QUESTIONS.
The sermon was devoted to answering
questions mainly : ‘‘What is the duty of
the church, what is the best way for her doe-
trines to prove her all divine ?”’ The speaker
closed with a statement that what was most
urgently needed was a ‘‘revival of simplici-
ty, a revival of sincerity, a 1evival of work;
this will restore into us the joy of salvation,
and with the joy of salvation will come a
renewal and expansion of power.”
The sermon occupied over an hour, but
was listened to with deep interest, and was
delivered with much oratorical effect.
Floods in The West.
High Water Causes Great Damage—Many People
Homeless—Number of Lives Lost.
TorPEKA, Kan., May 29.—Six bridges
across the Kansas river collapsed this after-
noon ou account of the high water. The
flood situation is the worst ever known in
Kansas.
At 9.30 o'clock to-night the water had
surrounded the whole of North Topeka.
More than 2,000 people are homeless. The
river is rising fast and it is estimated that
by to-morrow morning fally 10,000 will be
The Union Pacific railroad
station is flooded.
LINCOLN, Neb., May 29.—Thirty-six
hours of heavy and almost continuous rain-
fall have aggravated the flood situation at
Lincoln. Salt Creek and Atelopen creek
are out of their banks and the low lying
districts in the western part of the city is
to-night a great lake, many houses being
surrounded and partly submerged. The
water has been rising steadily since noon
and many persons have heen forced to
abandon their homes. Whole families
among the poorer classes are to-night shel-
tered in the poor house and ward school
rooms.
The basement of the building occupied
by W. J. Bryan's Commoner office was
flooded to the depth of nearly two feet,
damaging paper stock and part of Mr.
Bryan’s library to the extent of several
hundred dollars.
GUTHRIE, Okla., May 29.—Reports of
destructive storms through the territory
continue toarrive. At Harrison the flood
killed five people : Mrs. Bryles and child,
a child of John Alexander and two persons
whose bodies have not yet been recovered.
The drowning of several Indians is report-
ed from Anadarko. In Gay county a tor-
nado killed Mrs. Isaac Jones.
CouxciL GROVE, Kan., May 29.—The
loss by flood in Morris county is estimated
at $1,000,000. Four persons were drowned
here last night. Edward Clemens perish-
ed while endeavoring to save his daughter.
Ralph Phillips, while trying to rescue a
little girl named Woods, was drowned
with her. A baby was found dead in the
Missouri Pacific yard. Slacking lime set
fire to the M. B. Smith lumber yard,
which was burned, together with the
Farmers’ and Drovers’ bank and Robbins’
drug store, the total loss being $50,000.
The big main street bridge over the Neosho
river went down. All the business houses
were flooded. More than a hundred houses
are under water and twenty have floated
away.
BEATRICE, Neb., May 29.—Never before
has this section of the state experienced
such a flood as it is now baving. The Blue
river near here is three miles wide. It is
still rising and the rain is falling in tor-
rents. The Burlington track is under ten
inches of water on the bridge. Ten cars
loaded with grain and coal were placed on
the bridge to hold it.
Twenty-five residences on the west side
of this city and fifteen blocks on the south
gide are under from one to five feet of wa-
ter. Many head of cattle, hogs and horses
have gone down stream to-day. Three
inches of water have fallen since last night.
Holmesville and Barneston have not re-
ceived any mail since last Monday. Not-
withstanding the river now from a half
mile to three miles wide, it rose ten inches
this evening in an hour and a quarter. The
property loss in this county alone will be
enormous. People living in the suburban
sections in many instances have lost every-
thing.
Wheat Fields Under Lakes.
Salina, Kansas, was the scene of the
worst flood in its history last week.
Fully 100 families have been driven from
their homes. Another rain fell Wednesday
night making four inches of rain within
the last 24 hours. In the northwestern
portion of the city women and children
were rescued from homes in boats.
The Missouri Pacific grade on the west
is holding back a threatening body of wa-
ter.
Many Persons Drowned !
The Treacherous Kansas River Has Made a Woeful
History for Itsely. Stream Five Miles Wide. List
of Dead May Reach 200. Praticulars ot Awful Dis-
aster.
TorPeEk4A, Kan., May 31. — There is
ground for hope that the worst has passed.
So treacherous has the Kansas river proven
itself in the rising of the water, to-night is
so slowly receding as to be imperceptible.
The five mile wide stream is settling back
into its rightful channel. Up and down
the official gauge has fluttered all day.
To-night, however, City Engineer McCable
issued a bulletin giving out the cheering
intelligence that the water had subsided to
the extent of exactly 7} inches.
It may be some hours before another
drop may be noticed. With 172 or 200
lives lost, millions of dollars worth of pro-
perty destroyed, with hundreds of pistol
shots as signals of distress,blended with the
agonizing cries of unwilling inhabitants of
tree tops and roofs of houses and the water
creeping upward to them slowly subsiding
and alternately changing hope to despair,
the Capital City has passed te most mem-
orable Sabbath of its existence. Through
all this discomforting condition of affairs
was added the presence of a cold, dismal
rain.
The arduous work of the heroic rescuers
was not abated in the least by the condi-
tions which conforted them. For long
dreary hours,knee-deep in water and some-
times in water up to their necks, they
worked with might and main. To-night
they can point to 300 or more rescued
persons, who otherwise might have been
swept away in the current. Briefly stated,
-the present condition of the flood is this:
One hundred and seventy to 200 people
drowned,
Eight thousand people without homes.
Four million dollars loss of property.
Indentified dead, five.
Floating bodies seen, twenty.
People missing, 200.
Houses burned, result of fire in lamber
from slacking lime, probably 200.
Banks collapsed, two.
Wholesale grocery stores flooded, two.
Big business blocks almost ready to
crumble, fifty.
_ Wholesale commission houses departed,
six.
Rock Island trains containing 150 pas-
sengers, held here by high water.
City water works plant useless.
HARROWING DETAILS.
TOPEKA, Kan.,, May 31.—The number
of drowned people is known to. be at least
150 and a large number are yet missing.
Several were reported burned to death but
this could not be substantiated. From all
over eastern Kausas boats are being rushed
here for the rescue of the sufferers. The
north end of the Melan bridge, the only
way of reaching both Topekas, has gone
out and an effort will be made to stretch a
wire cable across the bridge :
All the pontoon bridges on the north
side were washed out and the only possible
chance of reaching the survivors then was
by boats.
Shortly after daylight nine boats arrived
from Ottumwa on a special train and they
were put into active service at once.
Soon after, reports of drowning began to
come in. A boat containing eight men
was swept away in the swift current about
7 o’clock and as far as known all were
drowned. A boat containing two men was
capsized. The boats were too frail to live
in the whirling waters.
More boats arrived from Emporia and
hurry messages were sent to other towns for
more. The river remained stationary after
having fallen seven inches. Heavy rains
were reported from up the stream, how-
ever, and it was feared that another rise
would set in. As seen from a high place
on north Tyler street, near the Rock Island
bridge, the stream appears to be widening.
The bridge had not gone out, as was re-
ported last night, but it was getting very
shaky. The current was running with an
incredible swiftness. Small boats have no
chance at all and many of them have been
swamped. Even if they could successfully
traverse the whirling, eddying stream for
the mile they would be almost sure to be
over-turned by striking against houses and
other wreckage.
North Topeka is a scene of utmost deso-
lation. Not a square foot of land could be
seen in any direction. There is but a
small chance of any of the residences being
left standing at the end of the flood period.
Sherry, Oakland and the region about
the Reform school, north of North Topeka,
are all under the rushing waters but the
situation is favorable in these places com-
pared with what North Topeka is under-
going.
The plan of trying to cross the river by
trains of the Kansas avenue bridge, have
been abandoned. Boats will be taken in
wagons to a point near Auburndale, a
suburb, two and a half miles southwest.
“They will then be launched and allowed
to float with the current to points where
people are to be rescued. This plan of
course, will involve much danger to the
rescuers, but this is lost sight of in the de-
sire to belp the unfortunate ones. It is
impossible to force boats through the cur-
rent.
Nearly all the fires have been put out by
the heavy rain which fell nearly all night.
The sky was overcast and the rain bids fair
to continue.
It was soon recognized that row boats
would be no use in coping with the cur-
rents. Steam launches must be secured at
once and to this end rush messages were
sent to the superintendent and agent of the
Rock Island, at St. Joseph, and to Mayor
Bergundthal and the secretary of the Com-
mercial club.
The agent was ordered to load the train
at once, secure a clear track and proceed to
Topeka. The train was to feel its way as
far as possible on the submerged tracks and
then the boats would be launched.. To-
peka citizens guaranteed all the expenses
of the undertaking. Meanwhile the be-
leagued ones were being encouraged as far
as possible to hold on a little longer in the
hope that rescue would soon be effected.
E. L. Bailey and E. M. Alexander per-
formed some of the most heroic work of
last night. In the darkness, about 3
o’clock this morning, at the greatest risk
of their lives, and they succeeded in reach-
ing one of the burning lumber yards and
rescued a dozen women and children. On
the way to the south shore one of the
women fainted from fatigue and fright and
this all but swamped the boat. The men
made superhuman efforts and finally
reached the pontoon bridge with their
precious cargo. Here willing hands seized
them and carried them over the Melan
bridge to safety.
This is only one of a hundred thrilling
rescues. The most prominent men of the
town donned oil-skins, and submerged in
water up to their breasts worked for hours
in the cold water.
The next thing looked forward to with
agonizing anticipation was the arrival of
the steam launches. Theirarrival was un-
certain in the extreme as the railroads
were all in a helpless condition. E. L.
oe AIR
Cowdry and his brother are among those
who escaped from the flood. When asked
for a story of his experience, he said :
‘‘Oh, it was terrible; I can’t describe.
It seems like I have lived in a horrible
nightmare for the past two days. Early
on Thursday we saw that the water would
be high, but with the usual persistence of
people who dislike to leave their own
homes, put off as long as possible. It came
near being our undoing. Friday the whole
of North Topeka, it seemed, overflowed
within an hour. The dreadful water came
creeping up faster than the people could
get ous. We were forced to leave in such
a hurry that we could not even take a
blanket. I am satisfied that our house was
destroyed. as it was in the direct path of
the fire. All I have in the world is the
clothing that I am now wearing. Hun-
dreds of other are in as bad a condition as
we are.”’
Mr. Cowdry was unable to make an esti-
mate of the loss of life as he left the dan-
gerous locality before the fire was at its
height. :
These areonly a few of numerous in-
stances of distress. Hundreds who were
rich are now poor and the people are in
distress. Most lost absolutely everything.
They had the savings of years taken by
water. Now they haveonly the titles to
the water-covered land.
The gauge went up and down all after-
noon until 3 o’clock a fall set in. At 4
o’clock the water had left the first floor of
the Rock Island general offices, but was
yet six feet deep just outside the building.
It was then that a gang of telegraph line-
men succeeded in getting a heavy wire
cable stretched across the top of the pon-
toon bridge. A large sand dipper was
attached to this and used to take large
quantities of provisions to those who were
not yet rescued. The first flood victim to
be rescued by means of the cable was the
Rev. A. N. Pearson, pastor of the North
Toheka English church. Mr. Pearson
sala :
‘We spent three days on the top of our
house. We were fairly warmly dressed,
but had only two loaves of bread for our
family of four during that time. All day
Saturday and to-day we had nothing to
eat. Our situation was desperate and ex-
tremely uncomforéable, but we at no time
lost faith in the ultimate ability of our
friends to rescue us. Yesterday my wife
and children were rescued; to-day my turn
came and I cannot begin to tell how thank-
ful I am.”
W. N. Keppard and wife, aged people,
were rescued at 4 o’clock. They were so
numb that they could not feel and had to
be knocked down into the water hefore
the men could reach them. They were
standing close together in the attic of a
house and so severe had been their exper-
ience that their minds gave way under
the strain. They cannot recover. A Mrs.
Anderson and her year old baby bave been
for three days in a tree in plain sight of
people who were powerless to rescue them.
The mother clasped her child close in her
arms and managed to brace herself against
a tree in a reasonably secure position. For
three days she kept up the battle for life.
At 4 o’clock her rescue was very near but
she lost consciousness. Both mother and
child fell into twelve feet of water and
were drowned, being immediately drawn
under by the current.
Harvey Parsons, a local newspaper man,
had a thrilling experience. He took a boat
Friday night and made his way to a house
in the hope of making some rescue. A
woman and her baby, names unknown,
were in the house, and Parsons took them
into bis boat. They had proceeded only a
short distance when the boat capsized.
Parsons contrived to get himself and the
others up into a tree and there they
remained until three o'clock this af-
ternoon, when rescued. They were
brought to a place of safety. But probably
will not survive. Two small steamboats
were pub into service at 4:30, one from Ot-
tumwa and the other from St. Joseph. By
these the work of rescue was greatly facili-
tated. One of the boats brought eighteen
people over and landed them near the des-
sicating plant. * They floated down half a
mile and became lost north of the Melan
bridge. This was before the flood had
reached its height.
By aid of the small steam and gasolene
launches forty men in South Garfield park
were rescued. They had perched them-
selves in trees. They had had nothing to
eat for thirty six hours. These men were
kept in a fenced grove where they could
not keep a close watch on the angry water
rushing about among the trunks of the
trees.
One of the men said they could not hear
the others speak above the roar of water.
Uncertainty was thus added to their other
misery and not one of them had any hopes
of escaping. Patrick Beline’ and wife were
taken from the attic of their smali dwelling.
The parents were obliged to hold the two
younger children constantly to keep their
heads above water. They were nearly
starved and probably cannot recover.
Miss Anna Noble, of the Union Pacific
railroad station in North Topeka, the head-
quarters of the Union Pacific, was forced
to leave the building when the water cov-
ed the floor. With her mother and young
gigter, the plucky young woman took up
housekeeping quarters in an abandoned
horse car. This was good enough shelter
until the water rose a foot above the floor
of the car, but there they had to stay until
to-day when they were included among the
rescued. :
Near the Rock Island depot is a passen-
ger train of seven coaches stalled by the
flood. The train came in Friday night.
The Rock Island “Y?’ washed out, as did
also most of the made land on which the
rails were laid, and as a result, cars cannot
be moved out of here for two weeks or
more after the flood shall subside. About
150 passengers are on the train. They have
not at any time, been in real danger, but
their situation is anything but pleasant.
They are well cared for by the road and
most of them have cars, preferred this to
the uncertain quarters. Up to five o'clock
this evening people were quartered in
North Topeka as follows :
In B street church, 100; in Topeka wool-
en mills, 100; in Casey’s flour mill, 94; in
an elevator, 56; in the fire station 84.
A boat was sent to the woolen mill with
a thousand feet of half inch rope which
was to have been used in making life lines.
At5 o'clock the first sign of floating
bodies was seen ; twelve bodies were seen
ing the North Topeka fire station.
Where these bodies are nobody can tell.
When the waters shall recede the bodies
doubtless will be found at different places,
miles down the stream. During the height
of the rescue work this afternoon a man
occupied his time in going among the
houses, remaining in North Topeka and
looting them. Police officers started after
the fellow with the intimation that it would
go hard with him when caught. Instances
of this sort are rare. The people give it as
their opinion that never in an event of this
kind has there been such a minimum of
this order of crime.
(Continued on page 4.)
The Grief of Mrs. Babbage.
Story of the Woman Who was Always Looking
for Trouble.
Looking for trouble was Mrs. Babbage’s
one weakness. She was perpetually scan-
ning the domestic horizon for storms clouds.
She saw dark prophecies of evil in every-
thing and proclaimed them with mourning
sighs and doleful shakings of the head to
ber daughter, Mrs. Winzerly, and to her
daughter’s husband.
5 It seemed almost a shame that nothing
unfortunate ever happened to the Winzer-
lys, but they certainly did seem almost im-
mune from the ills that are the common
lot. Mrs. Babbage did not oppose her
daughter's marriage to Winzerly on the
perfectly rational ground that he was poor
and struggling. She liked the young man
too much, and perhaps she saw that op-
position would be futile. But she told
them what they would have to expect.
She could see no prospects of any substan-
tial improvement in their circumstances,
Winzerly being the man he was. In fact,
they would probably become worse with
tlie ~inarch of time. Then she embraced
the young couple and gave them her con-
sent and her blessing.
. It turned out that Winzerly developed
quite remarkable business ability and pros-
pered exceedingly. Love seemed to have
made his permanent ahode in the Winzerly
cottage, which had twelve rooms and al-
modern improvements, and which Winzer-
ly owned. The children, Jack and Eloise,
were not cat off in the bud of infancy by
any one of the mortal diseases of which
Mrs. Babbage bad dismal premonitious,
bunt were sturdy and healthy youngsters,
and although they did all the things that
healthy children do and a few others of
their own especial invention, none of their
bones bad been broken and they were as
yet unmutilated. The Winzerlys even
had good luck with their servants.
‘Yes I know. It’sall very well,’ said
Mrs. Babbage, lugubriously, ‘but it’s a
long lane that has no turnings. I hope
things will always go smoothly with you,
my dears, and that you will always be as
bappy as you are now, but that would be
too much to expect. Man is born to trou-
ble, as the sparks fly upward. That’s Serip-
ture, and you won’t fly in the face of
Scripture. And, talking about sparks, I
saw Mary throwing a lighted match down
on the kitchen floor this morning. I ex-
pect we shall be all burned in our beds
some fine night.”’
Mrs. Babbage sighed. Really she had
some reason to sigh. She was by nature
intensely sympathetic and all these years
her unused sympathy had been accumula-
ting with no apparent prospect of any de-
mand upon it. She was self-sacrificing and
no sacrifice was required of her. She
would have worked her fingers to the bone
for the Winzerlys, and those fingers could
hardly find encugh darning to occupy
them, and were as plump and white as fin-
gers need be. It was no wonder that she
seemed unhappy.
But, as Mrs. Babbage said, it is a long
lane that has no turning.
One evening Winzerly returned rather
late to the suburb, and as he got off the
train the station master ran up to him and
told him that his house was on fire. Win-
zerly gasped, dropped his umbrella and
dashed off at full speed. As he ran he
heard the station master shout after him
that the family were all safe.
But alas for the house! When Winzerly
got there it was a mere smoking ruin, upon
which the village firemen were still play-
ing their hose. Not a wall was standing.
Mrs. Winzerly, with the children, was
carrying some of the rescued things into a
neighbor’s house, so it happened that the
first person Winzerly saw was Mrs. Bab-
bage. She ran to meet him, and he
noticed that her face was radiant. He had
never see her look so happy before, and
when he spoke her tone was one of trium-
phant joy.
“‘Henry,” she cried, “what did I tell you
the other day? Now I hope you'll believe
me. And there isn’t $50 saved altogether.’’
She almost laughed.
‘Nobody is burt?” asked Winzerly,
anxiously.
‘Nobody hurt,” replied Mrs. Babbage,
possibly with a tinge of disappointment in
her tone.
‘“Well, that’s luck then, said Winzerly,
cheerfully. ‘We're fully insured and now
I can build the way I want to.’
Mrs. Babbage looked at his smiling face
a moment and then burst into tears.
Authorities Are at a Loss in Lorain
Case.
Health Officer and Coroner Disagree as to the
Exact Manner of Agatha Reichlin's Death.
New Evidence is Discovered. Want the Body
Exhumed.
As a resuls of the investigation of the po-
lice into the Reichlin’s murder mystery at
Lorain, Ohio, Noah Spradlin, barkeeper at
Armstrong’s hotel, has been put under sur-
veillance as a witness before the grand jury
and it is likely that the inquest will be re-
opened hy the Coroner, while there is a
possibility of the exhumation of Agatha
Reichlin’s body.
Detectives have been doing active work
on the case, and as a result Spradlin
was summoned to police headquar-
ters. He is the man who sold Casimir
Reichlin a gailon of whisky for Father Wal
ser the night of the murder. ;
~ When put in thesweatbox Spradlin told
the police that Father Walser said to him,
the day following the murder, that the
murderer, as he was leaving the house by
the way of the attic, had threatened both
him and Casimir with the stone he car-
ried. 4
This was a surprise to the police, inas-
much as Casimir bad testified at the in-
quest that he, (Casimir), had neither heard
nor seen the murderer; that the priestalone
saw bim, and that he escaped before Casi-
mir was awakened by the priest.
Coroner French now disputes the report
of Health Officer Cox, who made the autop-
sy on the dead woman’s body. Dr. Cox
reported that there were no signs of vio-
lence on the body, aside from the wound
on the head, which caused death.
Coroner French says there was a bruise
upon the throat, as if the girl had been
choked and also a bruise upon one wrist.
This is verified by the statement of Police
Captain Ketchum. The Health Officer al-
so reported that he found a gallon of blood
in the woman’s stomach. :
The Coroner says that such a quantity of
blood conld only have come from a ruptur-
ed artery in the throat; that it would not
have run down through the esophagus, but
out through the nose and mouth, if itcame
from the wound in the head.
To determine the accuracy of the report
of the autopsy the body may be exhumed;
and the detectives are insisting that it shall
be.
If the inquest is reopened it is probable
that Father Walser will be summoned as a
witness.
——Subseribe for the WATCHMAN.