A TUNNEL INTO A JAIL. Remarkable Attempt to Rescue Prisoners. POSSIBLY WORK OP ANARCHISTS. I'ittMlMirwr Prison In the l'renent Home of the Mnn Who Tried to Kill H. C. Friek—Hmmu iioldiiiiiu In Said to lie luipllcnted. Pittsburg. July 27.—One of the boldest niul most systematic plans for the re lease of one or more prisoners from Riv erside penitentiary has been thwarted by accident. The first theory advanced when the matter was discovered seemed to point to the release of Alexander Bcrk man, the anarchist, who is serving a 22 years' sentence for the shooting of 11. <\ Friek, the steel magnate, during the big Homestead strike in 181)2, but the eon elusion reached by Director Muth of the Alleghany police department is that the real object of the rescuers was to secure the freedom of the notorious real estate swindler, J. C. Boyd, who is serving n seven years' sentence in the penitentiary. Tins opinion is shared by the Pittsburg police officials also, aud many reasons are brought forward to confirm the theory. Among these are the facts that Boyd is wanted in nearly every state in the Union on charges of real estate swin dling. has confederates all over the coun try and is accounted one of the wealthi est prisoners in Riverside. The plan by which the rescuers hoped to reach the penitentiary was by a tunnel from the cellar of a house on Sterling street, nearly opposite one of the gates. Their work is remarkable considering the obstacles to he over come. Investigation showed that it was over 200 feet long, hut because of its zigzag character had not reached the prison wall. One of the officers who crawled a distance of 201 feet in the dark passageway was compelled to return he fore reaching its end by reason of the foul gases arising. From this it is in ferred that the tunnel had tapped a sew er. Director Muth, however, believe., that the dead body of one of the blu nders will he discovered when the tunnel is opened from the surface, as is the in tention. lie thinks the man was over come by the gases and his companions for fear of complications fled. A Well Fi<iliie(l Tunnel. In the tunnel the men found a dry bat tcry electric light. In two places they found electric push buttons and bells which communicated with buttons ami hells in the kitchen and in the parloi alongside the piano. It was plain that tile woman at the piano could exchange signals with the men in the tunnel and that the playing and singing was largely intended to drown the sound of the fan Most of the digging had evidently beer, done with a "silent digger." a crescent shaped piece of steel with two handles, which could cut down the loamy soil ex peditiously. A pile of dirt ten feet high was in a coal bin in one corner of the cellar. A sheet of paper containing what see me,; to he a message in cipher was found. Or, the hack of a torn half of a card was a diagram containing the words "selfish ness, altruism, egoism." The other side of the card contained a printed invitntior. on which the words "Hygeia Ilnll,*' "Federation of Social." "Corner Ogdev and ltoby streets." were decipherable There are no streets of those names ir. Pittsburg or Alleghany. It became known last night that twr. strange men who had been seen entering the Sterling street house often visited the house of a cobbler named Dietrich on Spring Garden avenue, Alleghany Dietrich is an anarchist and is a friend of Jacob Bauer and Karl Knold, who went to the prison with Berkman. but have been released. When the afternoon paper extras appeared on the street. Dietrich closed up his shop and disap pea red. Jacob Bauer could not he found One of the Sterling street neighbors as serts that one of the women seen in the house bore a striking resemblance t< ICutma Goldman, who has always inter ested herself in Berkman's behalf. A force of city street employees will he put to work this morning to dig down into the tunnel on Sterling street and follow the passage to the end by breaking down the earth roof. llerkiiifiii'H Crime. Berkman's attempt on the life of 11. C. Friek was made during the big strike at the Homestead works of the Carnegie S'eel company (limited) in July, 181)2. lie forced his way into Mr. Friek's office in the llussey building. 232 Fifth avenue, and opened tire on Mr. Friek. Two bul lets took effect, and before Berkman could l>e overpowered he had also stub bed the steel manufacturer. Mr. Friek lingered between life and death for sev eral weeks, but finally recovered. Berkman was sentenced to the peniten tiary ami Sept. 11), 181)2, for a period nt 22 years. Two applications for a pardon for Berkman have been made unsuccess fully. BxoneriitcN Tunliont .Men. Berlin. July 27.—Dr. Wiegand of tin North German Lloyd Steamship com pa ny in an interview said: "The official re port of our New York inspector. Captain Mueller, who is absolutely trustworthy denies emphatically that there was any incorrect behavior on the part of New York harbor tugs at the time of the Ho bokcii fire. On the contrary, the captains of the tugs did precisely what Captain Mueller asked them to do. Dr. Wiegau admitted that the company's sailings t Baltimore and the Rio de in I'lata had been diminished owing to the fire and t< the special Chinese emergencies. lie said that other vessels were approaching com pletion. two of which would he fustei than the Deutsehland. A. W. Campbell Dion In London. London, July 27.—Alien W. Campbell, nn American, a brother of Princess San Fnstino of Italy, died here yesterday. Allen Watson Campbell was a member of a well known New York family which has lived recently in Rome. His father was the late George W. Campbell. -The simi was n member of the Rough Riden? under Colonel Roosevelt and belonged to the Rock away Hunt ami the Calumet tlnbs. His sister. Miss Jane Campbell, was a beauty in society before her mar riage several years ago. Sin* lias lived abroad since her marriage, and her fami ly lias been with her during much of the time. Forest Fires In Montana. Knlispell, Mnn., July 27.—One of the Worst forest fires ever known in north western Montana is now raging in tho Swan Lake country, on the western part 5f the Lewis and Clarke forest reserve. p" WOMAN'S VOCATION. ™ With womnn's nimble Angers ' . I Awnke life's beauty everywhere; Things small and unregarded Beneath thy touch shall change to fair. With woman's tender Insight Unspoken sorrow understand; The watcher's aching forehead Shull yield unto thy cooling hand. With woman's noble purity, Be as the snow white liiies are, Their glowing heart shall beckon And be the wanderer's guiding star. With woman's strength eternal, Thy life, for others freely given, Shall shine afar, translueent, Clear as the crystal gate of heaven. —Carmen Svlva in North American Review. | MAIiOONEI) ON $ I AN ISLAND. | X BY M. QUAD. T ♦ Copyright, 1900, by C. 13. Lewis. $ !■■! ■!■ If you had a chart before you, you would see that Wakes island is a bit of a dot In the Pacific ocean, lying a little south of the regular sailing route between Honolulu and Yokohama. Now and then It Is sighted by steamer or sailing vessel making the passage, but the great majority pass it by 200 miles to the north. The traders call there occasionally for water or fuel, but as there are no inhabitants there can be no trade. It is an island three miles long by one and a half broad, and it was thrown to the surface by an earthquake. There is but one spot where a landing can be made even in the calmest weather, its its shores are rocky and rise to n height of from 30 to 100 feet. Much of the island is wooded, and bowlders lie about every where, and it is probably one of the loneliest spots in the universe. For some reason which no one can explain no birds are ever found there, nor is tlici'o any nuinfiil life. The only living thingff are land crabs, and they are of such size and fierceness that traders have had to flee before them. In the year 1801 the bjirk Restless sailed out of San Francisco on a voy age to Japan and China. She had just been purchased by a man named Rob ert Westall, who was little known, but had suddenly made a lot of money, and the cargo was also mostly his. He went with his ship, and a fate befell him which rends stranger than fiction of the sea. lie was a landsman, know ing nothing of ships and sailors, and it transpired that the captain he selected was a thoroughly had man, while the mate was little better. It was proba bly the captain's idea from the outset to get possession of the ship, but West all's suspicious were not aroused until after they had called at Honolulu and resumed the voyage. Then he over heard observations among the crew which alarmed him, and he went to the captain with his statements. lie was told without any boating around the bush that the bark was to change hands. lie was to be marooned on Wakes island, and sin? was to pursue her voyage as captain and crew decid ed. It was one man against 15, and of course lie was helpless. Neither threats nor promises had the slightest effect, and when he stormed he was cautioned to hold his temper, or he would be set afloat in a small boat to perish of thirst and starvation. When the island Was finally readied, West all was ordered Into a boat to be rowed ashore. Not a pound of provisions or an extra article of clothing was to go with him. He was not even to have the means of kindling a fire. Rendered desperate by the situation, he made a light for it, but was soon knocked senseless by the blow of a capstan bar, and while in that condition was rowed ashore and dumped on the beach. When lie recovered consciousness, the Rest less was sailing away and was already miles distant. Jules Verne lias told how a sailor cast away on a desert Island almost naked managed to live almost luxu riously and provide for his every want. The difference between imagination and reality was exemplified in West all's case, lie tried for days and days to produce fire by rubbing dry sticks together, but lie never succeeded. He constructed a hut in the woods, but his food consisted of shellfish, roots and wild fruits, ami there was no way to replace Ills clothing. He soon found fresh water, and he also made the dis covery that the spot seemed accursed of all living things except the land crabs. As a rule these loathsome crea tures did not bother him during day light, but is soon as the sun went down they swarmed over the whole island. They were gigantic In size, and his only way of escaping them was to climb a tree. He built a plat form among the limbs ten feet from the earth, aud every night during his long stay he resorted to it. About once a month, generally at midday, the crabs would swarm by the million and hold possession of tlio island for two or three hours. At such times the noise made by their claws us they passed over rock and soil was almost deafening and gave him a great scare. While the man speedily recovered from the blow on tire bead given him on shipboard, his lonely situation soon began to tell on his mind, due day, at the end of throe months, he found that he had forgotten his own name. It was two hours before it came to lilm, and then, fearful that it might go out of his mind for good, he carved lif* initials on the bark of a tree with a sharp stone. After making the cir cuit of the island three or four times lie settled down near the landing placp, and every day for weeks pwl months and yonys |ip hoped that some trader would put In or some ship send in her boat. Traders did call on three or four | occasions, but he missed them. Once I lie was asleep In the tree top; again he was ill. On a third occasion the I crabs were out In such numbers that tlio trader grew afraid and put off as soon as he had touched. You will wonder how a man could have lived for a month as Westall lived for three years. For eight months there was a species of wild fruit some thing like a plum. Now and then a lisli was left by the tide for him to cap ture, but lie had to eat them raw. There were oysters and mussels and limpets clinging to the rocks, but after awhile he could hardly force himself to swallow them. In six months his boots were gone and ids clothing was in tatters, and as the days dragged away the man had it on his mind that ids memory was failing him. When a year had gone by, he could no longer recall his identity. The initials on the tree stood for a dozen different names to him. Six months later he was little better than a wild beast. During his second year, had lie thought to erect some sort of signal at the landing -place—some such signal as a sailor would have made-lie would probably have been rescued, as two or three traders came in for water, but he did not even heap up stones or set up a bush to attract attention. lie had ex isted on the island three years and two weeks when the American whal ing ship Jonathan touched there for water. I was in the boat first sent ashore, and while waiting for. the wa ter casks to arrive I followed a path up into the woods and discovered West all asleep on ids platform. 1 believed him at first to be some monster gorilla. The weather had turned him almost black, his hair was long and matted, and lie was without clothing. As lie came tumbling down I ran away and gave the alarm. That frightened liiin, and seven, men of us spent half a day in his capture. lie fought us with the greatest ferocity, and for a long time we could not make out his nationality, lie chattered a queer jargon or sulked, and we had put in at a Japanese port before we could keep clothing 011 him. I was one of the apprentice boys 011 the ship, and, as the wild man had taken a great liking to me and I seem ed to be the only one who could control him, the American consul advised that I be left behind with the man while the ship made a three months' circuit. Quarters were provided for us, and I was instructed how to go to work in an effort to restore the poor fellow's mem ory. By this time he had let fall enough to satisfy us that lie was either English or American. We had also connected him in away with the miss ing ship Restless. She had been re ported as leaving Honolulu, but that was the last of her. I put up a black board and turned schoolmaster. I chalked down the letters of the alpha bet, made figures, drew pictures and tried to start ids memory to work. For a mouth I had 110 luck. The man's mind was as blank as night. He tried hard enough, and he used to break down and weep almost daily, but he could not got hold of the end of the string. I had about given up all hope when one day as I was going through the usual performance memory caine back to him like a Hash. lie suddenly uttered a shout and sprang to his feet, and as I turned on him It was to find n new look on his face and to hear him shout: "It has come! It has come! My nnniG 1h Robert Westall, and I can re member everything!" So it turned out, but the shock of re covery brought about an illness that coulined him to his bed for weeks. When he could relate his story, the consul went to work to find out what had become of the Restless. Inquiries were made at all the ports of China and Japan, but no news was obtained. The search was still being prosecuted when a sandalwood trader from one of the Philippines brought the consul some wreckage picked up three years a gone which proved that the bark had gone to the bottom In a gale encoun tered soon after sailing away from Wakes island. To this day there have been no tidings to alter this belief. The wretches who so coolly aud de liberately planned the death of the shipowner by starvation did not live beyond a few days to enjoy their tri umph. The three years spent on the island made an old man of Westall be fore his time, and he never was cleat headed again, but he lived for 13 years after and managed to get togethei quite a little property and to spend his last years In peace. A Good Snake Story. The latest authentic snake story Is from North Glen wood Farm, neat Easton, one of the country places In Talbot county, Md. The other day a big black snake was seen emerging from nil Ice pond. It was killed. A protuberance was noticed about the middle. The snake was chopped in two, and a porcelain turkey nest egg rolled out. Captain Noble Robinson was tenant on the farm last year. Mrs. Robinson raised turkeys; using china eggs in their nests. She says that 14 months ago she missed tho nest egg from a nest near the Ice pond. She supposed a boy who had the range of the meadow had taken it. When the egg from the snake was shown to Mrs. Robinson, she Identified It as one she had lost by a certain Incised mark upon It. The snake had carried the china egg 14 months In his vermiform appendix, apparently without appendi citis. But he must have thought very hard of it and that It was very slngului that it could not be digested. ConntrleM That Tench Gardenlnff, School gardens were established tq Belgium many years qgp, qnd It said that to tlipui la due the prosperity of the rprql population, the larger portion being engaged In truck gardening. Aft er the Introduction of agriculture into the public schools of France, by a law passed In 1885 school gardens Increas ed In that country. Annual appropria tions have been devoted to an exten sion of the system In Switzerland tlnce 1885. AN INDIANA HEROINE. A Girl WIIONO Conrncre Probably Saved Many Lives. Miss Cora M. Wise holds a warm place in the hearts of many persons whose lives she, probably saved. She is the telegraph operator and tower tender at Sands, I ml., a little station on the "Big Four." The little tower that is her office stands 40 feet above the level of the track and the track is on an embank ment 20 feet high, making her office about 00 feet above the main level of the ground. She was sitting in this little tower, having given the signal to tin? extra freight train that all was clear. The train pulled out of the sid ing, and as it was passing her little tower a car jumped the track. This threw four other cars off and all of them came with great force against the tower, overturning it and sending Miss Wise to the ground in a mass of wreckage, which soon took fire from the overturned stove, and in a short Si!' MISS CORA WISE. time was consumed. Miss Wise ex tricated lierselt and managed to hobble around and climb the steep embank ment, where she found a man ami or dered him to Hag No. 1, u fast passen ger train, which was due in a few minutes. She could do uo more, how ever, the effort of climbing the em bankment In her exhausted eouditiou being too lunch for her, and she asked to he taken to her homo in New I'olnt, a in lie awa.v. hands lifted her to the cab of an engine and in a few minutes she was being rapidly taken where medical assistance could he ren dered. She became unconscious im mediately after being placed on the engine. Miss Wise does not seem to think much of her deed and modestly refuses to he considered a heroine, but never theless it was only her great desire to save the passenger train that enabled lier to retain consciousness and clliuh to the top of the embankment and or der the flagman to signal the train. Woman I.nwjer.' Club. The Woman Lawyers' club lias dis banded for the summer, hut will re sume Its meetings again in September. It will probably retain Its old tpiar tcrs, 1!) West Forty-second street. A programme of papers and discussions will he arranged and presented at the meetings, which will lie held monthly as formerly. The club will give one public meeting next winter, to which uonclub members will he invited. Heretofore the meetings have been at tended only liy members. There are now 20 members in the club, ten of whom are either practicing independ ently in tills city or attached to some department in large law offices, and the remaining ten arc similarly en gaged in New Jersey and Connecticut. The officers elected to serve the ensu ing year are: President, Jllss ltosnlie Loew; vice president, Mrs. Philip Car penter; treasurer and sce etary, Miss Edith J. Oriswold, 220 Broadway; cor responding secretary, Miss Gail Laugh liu. These, with Mrs. Louise Fowler Glgnoux, form the executive commit tee. The chairman of the membership committee is Miss Mary G. Potter. The club is organized to assist and en courage women in their profession and to encourage one another,—New York Tost. Nasturtiums, Nasturtiums are grateful tilings and repay even indifferent care, hut when given generous treatment they are a perfect blaze of wonderful color and beauty. When nasturtiums refuse to bloom and go to leaf profusely, pick off the leaves by great hnndfuls, ruthlessly and releutlessly. Tills lets the sun and nil- get to the stems and buds and makes them bloom much more pro. fusely. Keep all the old (lowers picked off and never let seeds form. Once a week go over them and pick off every thing 111 the shape of flowers, leaving only buds, and next day luit one they are as gay as ever. The more they are picked the better they bloom, If you want a great show of flue large nasturtiums for any particular date, pick off all blossoms a few days before and give copious waterings. A I.m-ifc Tn.k, The new Legislative League of Wo men, with Lillie Devereux Blake as president and Elizabeth Cady Stanton as honorary president, has assumed a large task, lis, object as avowed is to secure oounllty of rights for women I't iogal, civil and Industrial relations. The league calls attention to the fact that In eight states a wife lias no right to her own property after marriage; in seven states there Is no law compel ling a man to support ids faintly; in 37 states a mother has uo right to hot children; in 10 states a wife has no rtght to her earnings outside the home, and the league claims there Is dlscrim luation in every slate agalust women In the matter of employment and com pensation. GEMS IN VERSE. OLD FAVORITES. Be My Sweetheart. Sweetheart, be my sweetheart When the birds are on the wing, ' | When hoc and bud and babbling flood kf Bespeak the birth of spring. Come, sweetheart, be my sweetheart And wear this posy ringt J Sweetheart, be my sweetheart *, In the mellow golden glow V/ Of earth aflush with the gracious blush Which the ripening fields foreshow, * Dear sweetheart, be my sweetheart, y As into the moon we gol F- Sweetheart, be my sweetheart • When falls the bounteous year, When fruit and wine of tree and vine * Give us their harvest cheer. Oh, sweetheart, be my sweetheart, v* For winter it draweth near. Sweetheart, be my sweetheart When the year is white and old, When the fire of youth is spent, forsooth, ! And the hand of age is cold. Yet, sweetheart, be my sweetheart I , Till the year of our love be told I . —Eugene Field '* My Psalm. I mourn no more my vanished years. Beneath a tender rain— Jr An April rain of smiles and tears— My heart is young again. The west winds blow, and singing low I hear the glad streams run. The windows of my soul I throw Wide open to the Bun. , No longer forward nor behind v'.'T* -' I look in hope or fear, But, grateful, take the good I find— iv The best of now and here. I plow no more a desert land To harvest weed and tare. The ninnna dropping from God's hand Rebukes my painful care. 1 break my pilgrim staff; I lay Aside the toiling oar; , r" The angel sought so far away k* I welcome at my door. The airs of spring may never play Among the ripening corn, Nor freshness of the flowers of May Blow through the autumn morn. Yet shall the blue eyed gentian look Through fringed lids to heaven. And the pale aster in the brook Shull see its image given. The woods shall wear their robes of praise, The south wind softly sigh, And sweet, calm days in golden haze Melt down the amber sky. Not less shall manly deed and word Rebuke an age of wrong; The graven flowers that wreathe the sword Make not the blade less strong. But smiting hands shall learn to heal- To build as to destroy— Nor less my heart for others feel That I the more enjoy. All as God wills, who wisely heeds To give or to withhold, t' And knowrth more of all my necda 'Tk Than all my prayers have told I £ Enough that blessings undeserved , Have marked my erring track; • That wheresoe'er my feet have swerved Ilis chastening turned me back; That more and more a Providence Of love is understood, \p Making the springs of time and sens® •iv, Sweet with eternal good; That death seems but a covered way Which opens into light, . Wherein no blinded child can stray '£,■ Beyond the Father's sight; That care and trial seem at last. Through Memory's sunset air, *Likc mountain rangeß overpast In purple distance fair; That all the jarring notes of life Seem blending in a psalm, And all the angles of its strifo Slow rounding into calm. \ ( And BO the shadows fall apart, And BO the west winds play, And all the windows of my heart I open ta tho duy. —Whittier. Gtmn of Peucc. Ghosts of dead soldiers in the battle slain. Ghosts of dead heroes dying nobler far, In the long patience of inglorious war, Of famine, cold, heat, pestilence arid pain- All ye whose loss makes our victorious gain— This quiet night, as sounds the cannon's tongue. Do ye look down the trembling stars among, Viewing our peace and war with like disdain'/ Or, wiser grown since reaching your new spheres. Smile ye on those poor bones ye sowed as seed For this our harvest, nor regret the doedt— Yet lift one cry with us to heavenly ears- Strike with thy bolt the next red hag unfurled And make all wars to ceaw throughout the world. —Dinah Maria Craik. M School. ... The bees are in the meadow And the swallows in the sky; - The cattle in the shadow Watch the river running by. The wheat is hardly stirring; The heavy ox team lags; The dragon fly is whirring Through the yellow blossomed flag* And down beside the river Where the trees lean o'er the |>ooj. Where the shadows reach and quiver, A boy has come to school. f? His teachers are the swallows, And tho river, and tho trees. His lessons are the shallows, And tho flowers, and the bees. ir' He knows not he is learning. He thinks nor writes a word, jA But in the soul discerning | A loving spring is stirred. In after years—oh, weary years I The river'a lesson he Will try to speak to heedless ears la faltering minstrelsy. —John Boylt O'Reilly. Hero Wornhlp. >• "D* is not what you think." O judga# wise. Can we not have Valhalla for bur own Within our hearts, where alt the souls we prlzo Shall sit in state, each o his royal throne? What matter if wo do not always choose The few whw names, well weighed, ye write above At laurel worthy. Do ye then refuse Our hearts' free right to honor whom we love? What is one false among a thousand true— A thousand opening lives so well begun? "He is no hero, as you thinks say you? Well o ' nc then ' ° Ur faiUx "** U he lP to make him Back, judges, tn your work of weighing, slow, The dead > destine to Fame's court above I But leave us free to worship here below With faith aud hope the living whom we love. —Constance Feulmoru Woolaon. Experience. Bo fares It since the years began, I Tilt they he gathered up; The truth, that flies the flowing ran, Will haunt the vacant cup; And others' follies teach us not, ,V' Nor much their wisdom teaches, I And most of Bterling worth is what Our own experience teaches, i —Tennyso®. The Tribune Is The Leading Newspaper In Freeland! At the subscrip tion price of $1.50 per year the Tribune costs its readers less than one cent a copy. 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