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Show WWVWWHWHWWiHWWVHWiHi STRANGE STORY OF MARY REILLY. From the St ouU Chronicle. MVVWWWVMUVWWWWWmMWVW Is one of the moat won Mary Reilly derf ul girls of the century. She is certainly the moat puzzling. Through her mentality, It la claimed, a loat aoul communicates with a world where It once dwelt In the flesh, and reveals the condUons under which It now exists. Its melancholy utterances turn the blood to Ice. They are drearier and more despairing than cries of Prometheus, bound to the side of frosty Caucasus, wl:h nothing In prospect through time and eternity Bave endless and almost unbearable suffering. This lost aoul seems to speak through the frail body of this wonderful girl, and even she does not understand the process nor the source of her power. Materialists are outwitted by her demonstrations. Spiritualists are delighted. Her exhibitions surpass anything previously known in their philosophy. Nobody who has witnessed them doubts the genuineness of her power. Skeptics who have Investigated say there Is not the slightest trace of deceit in her manifestations, either on her part or the part of those under whose auspices the exhibitions are given. She has confounded the wise and temporarily set at naught the arguments of those who have no faith in spiritualistic teachings. She is a mystery. Miss Reilly resides at Sioux City, la. Her family Is well known in that city. She Is 19 years old, bright and well educated. None of her family are spiritualists, and the discovery of her apparently wonderful ability to communicate vlth the spirit world was made purely by accident. Miss Reilly was born at Crete, Neb., and Is the youngest of a family of six, all of whom are living. Both father and mother were of Irish and the children were parentage, brought up in the Catholic faith. Several years ago Mr. Reilly retired on a competency and moved to Lincoln, Neb. Three years ago Miss Reilly went to Sioux City to keep house fbr her brother, T, C. Reilly, telegraph editor of the She Is 5 feet 6 Sioux City Journal. Inches In height and weighs 115 Her figure is slender, her pounds. complexion blonde. She cares little for society, but is Interested In anything of a literary nature. Among those who hare witnessed her performances and say they are willing to vouch for them are J. H. Quick and E. H. Hubbard, lawyers; J. Perrin Johnson, physician; W. J. Grandy, banker; William Magivney, assistant manager of the Sioux City stock yards; Miss J she observed that the letters indicated were In such sequence as to spell out As a words and coherent sentences. test she wrote out the alphabet, and, UBing the pencil as a pointer, received several communications of an astounding nature. Recently she has experimented by sitting at a typewriter and receiving messages through the keyboard. Sometimes the keys are struck with sufficient force to turn out copy from the machine, but ordinarily the letters are merely pointed out,and Miss Reilly calls them out while a third person records them. Some of these messages are of no mean literary merit. While Miss Reilly is a young woman of good educatlon.she has never displayed any such facility In composition or such felicity of expression as that Indicated in some of her communicaThe unknown tions. spirit whose supposed messages she records at times assumes various names.but the address is Invariably given as hell. Among Its first communications was a description of the sights, sounds and sensations characteristic of Its abode. When asked to describe the tortures of hell, the supposed spirit delivered Itself of this remarkable production: A nameless, voiceless, regret. An agony without a name for someone er something forgotten. A restless Dreariness unspeakable. longing for I know not what. "Have you any physical sensations? Sometimes I seem to have. They are all of pain. Pain caused by extreme terror and hardly separated from mental anguish. "You speak of terror. Of what? "The awful shapes and frightful sounds that glide and ring through hell. Moans and cries that have no fitting name to express the terror they never-ceasi- ng inspire. "Do you try to avoid them? I avoid one by flying to anSomeother. There Is no escapa times there la a stillness that you of the world have never heard. Everything Is nothing, and yet you exist In wonder and horror. It is as if you Yea were a new born child with the mind of a man. You cannot prove existence by sight, sound, taste, feeling or reason. Yet you know you are something, somewhere, with an overpowering desire to use all your faculties and no power to do so. Oh, the awfulness of being nothing, and yet remembering you were something. What foundation is there for the Bfcs4r1ng of wind. Darkneas. Illde-cos- s. ghastly shapes. They never have banned me, but still I fear them. In life I should have ceased noticing them k g ago when I found them harmless." Any way of avoiding them? I don't know. I know nothing except that I am here. I do not even know that I can only say I think I am here, or maybe that I think I think am here. I am a living spark of anguish that was once someone, somewhere, I think. Many hypotheses have been advanced by scientists acquainted with the case to account for these strange are manifestations. Spiritualists satisfied that the presence is Just what It professes to be a tortured soul from the nether world. Materialists confess themselves puzzled. They endeaver to account for the phenomena on the subjective mind" theory. Miss Reilmust somewhere ly, they maintain, have read or heard all the sayings attributed to the spirit. Having forgotten them, she is reproducing them from some recess of her mind where they have remained on file, unknown even to herself. The young woman does not seek to. combat this explanation. She merely avers that if she ever heard any of the strange utterances it must have been in her sleep, as she never remembers to have seen or listened to them before. The rankest skeptic concedes that to suppose her the perpetrator of a willful deception Is ridiculous. A few of the learned men who hare witnessed the manifestations are of opinion that the observations are the composite thoughts of all those present at the seances. Miss Reilly Is extremely unwilling to give exhibitions of her power to strangers, and only a select few are admitted to the sittings. The young lady has been repeatedly urged to, visit other cities. Liberal compensation and wide Increase of reputation are promised. She not only refuses all such offers, but threatens, in case they are continued, to stop her Interested performances altogether. persons, however, will try to Induce her to give a private exhibition for the benefit of eastern psychologists. They may be able to determine the source of these strange manifestations, but at present Miss Reilly is the wonder of the day. IN THE ODD COBNEIi. QUEER AND CURIOUS THINGS AND EVENTS. ' An Islnnd Death Trap Civilians Arm Permitted to Land There England Maintains It for Invading Parties Star y ef Little Ned. Wot Little Ned. A Steel la lion. By J. E. Turton. E tt'tR E playing the Eastern circuit, were Ned and Bill and 1. Bill was an old schoolmate of mine, and Ned his only boy, A pretty kid with flaxen curls and eyes of axura blue, And a face like that of an angel, it was so good and true. The flying trapese was our business, and Ned only ten yeara old, Would look like a very seraph with his waring curia of gold,he'd come like a flying thro the air d shot from a gun, And he'd laugh aloud us his hands clasped mine, as tho 'I were tits beat of fun. We were playing datea that summer, and one luckless day struck Troy. A two weeks' stand it was to be, and twas there we lost our boy. A brand new act was practiced hard, but always with the net. And up to date had never missed, and youd be safe to bet We could have done it a thousand times with never a mishap. But little Ned didnt want the net, and the plucky little Bald aa how any chap kid could do It that Wknte1 t0' niako his mark-'11- ' And vowed to Bill and I that ho could do It In the dark. So we let the boy bave his way, and the night had come; Tn opening opera houee was crowded, from pit right up to dome. Our turn was last on the programme, and climbed Into the air. The about and cheers were wo for were favorites there. deafening, , Three time had Bill let go of Ned and hie hande clasped mins, An V tiny 1 wung him back lha third hie father to rejoin, I whispered. Courage, little Ned, for the fourth wae to be our laet; I felt hie email form tremble as I nine-poun- exception of Brittany, by the middle of tbs sixth century. All through ths middle ages this part of Europe vaa not only ethnically Teutonic; it was German in language and customs aa well. The very name of the country is Teutonic. It has ths same origin as Franconia, In Southern Germany. In 812 the counrll of Toura, away down south, ordained that every blahop should preach both In ths Romanes and the Teutonic languages. The Franks preserved their German speech 400 years after the conquest. Charlemagne waa a German; hla courtiers were all German; he lived and governed from outside the limits of modern France. The Abbe Sleyes uttered an ethnological trulBm when In the course of the French revolution, he cried out Let against the French aristocracy: us send them back to their German marshes whence they came!" Even today the current of migration between Franca and Germany seta strongly to the south, as it has never done In virtue of economic laws deeper than national prejudice or hostile legislation. The movement of population racially has been strongly Influenced by the geography of the country. Were it not for the peculiar conformation of this part of Europe, there would be no geographical excuse for the existence of Belgium as a separate political entity, aa we have said; and Northern France would be far more thoroughly Tcutonlzed than it Is today. Professor W. Z. Ripley in Appleton's Popular Scienca Monthly. held him in my grasp. And now hes swinging once again, and he shouts: Let go' jrally God help him, he falls too and the next thins that 1 know, short, Wo are stand Ins around him on tho stas, d Bill Is well And I sob end cry nigh like mad, an infant, for I love ths little led; And when the doctor tells us at last his efforts are all In vain, I t right down on my knees, boys, and A SCRAPPY RAINBOW TROUT. pray God to spare him pain. At Had to Bo Pot In s Tank Where lie last, tho It seemed like ages, he open-hla pretty eyes Hod to llshsva. And mid in a voice all choked ae he gazed up Into 'the flies:with tears, A distinguishing characteristic of the Don t weep for me. Jack, for I'm all rainbow trout is its fondness for scrapcomfort dear old "dad. right. Mease fault-Yowerent to blame. ping. There waa an Illustration of lta 11 TLf?hai1 ,?yseems too bad ways In this particular the other day To have ended up the act that way. and at New York city aquarium. A num- Anda as he smile wreathedKisshis face. he me, ber of rainbow trout weighing from asnt towhispered, that better place, dad. I ni su. a ths angels here one-ha-lf welcomed him to three-quarte- rs of a pound with all their arms each, which had been received from And that s the story ofoutspread: Mill our mate, poor little Ned.and ms and the state fish at Cold M u " hatchery Spring harbor, were placed at the Aquarium In a display tank. In which there was already a rainbow weighing about half a pound, which had been there for some time. The new trout were receive! in good condition, but they were tired after traveling, aa fish always are, and they wanted a chance to rest. The old trout, however. Immediately began to hustle them about the tank. It would dart up to one of the new fishes, vhlch was swimming slowly along, and t at It. The startled flBh would start up and hurry off to the other side of the tank. As likely as not the old fish would not pursue' It, but would wait for the next one to come along, and then bite at that one, and start It up. Sometimes the old fish would follow up Its attack by dashing after the other around the tank, and It kept this up unceasingly, nagging and nipping the others until they were more tired out than ever. If, when they were put into the tank, they had been as fresh and vigorous as their pursuer, they would hare turned upon it very probably and made abort work of It As It was, the single trout bossed all the rest. Including fish, half aa big Again aa itself, and hustled them about unmercifully. In half a day it would have wearied them to death. But tho scrappy little rainbow didnt get that opportunity. It waa scooped out with a dipnet and put Into another tank. There waa a rainbow trout In this tank, too, but thia one was not tired with travel. It waa fresh and vigorous. And It was also big enough to eat the scrappy one If It tried to cut up any capers there. , Aa Island Death Trap. In a dispatch from Halifax, N. S., describing the strengthening of that port by, the British military authorities, mention was made of Georges Island, In Halifax harbor,, where a qulok-fi- r lng battery la to be placed next sum mer. It la probably not generally known outside of the English officers In com mand of the station that Georges Island la a huge pit filled with water and that if an attacking party succeed' ed In passing the forts at the entrance to the harbor and landed they would ba precipitated Into the water and drowned. The surface of the ground la sodded and planted with shrubbery and la apparently eolld, but the only really solid part of It la a narrow board walk on which the sen tries pace to and fro. In case an Invading party took the Island for the purpose commanding the city of Halifax they would break through and fall into the pit abou: fifteen feet below the sur face. The excavation was made about sixty years ago, and tbe secret was kept for not less than thirty years. It was not until 1867 that the dieeovery was made by two men In a boat, driven ashore In a gale. One of them attempted to make hla way to the dwelling occupied by the garrison and suddenly disappeared. His companion happened to get a footing on the board walk. Discovered by the sentry he was summarily ejected from the island, being placed aboard hla boat and sent adrift In the storm. He succeeded In reaching Halifax. The man who Woke through waa drowned. The story got spread about, but was not believed, and aa no civilians are permitted to A Curious Used. land at George's Island the peculiar A curious deed has been recorded in system of protection Is today practicalNew Brunswick, N. J. The deed gives ly a secret. New York Mail and Exto Charles Banka the privilege of al- press. lowing the eaves of his new houBe to MARY REILLY AND THE SCENE OP HER WONDERFUL TRANCES. encroach on the property of Mrs. Teutonic Freare. Sarah Edwards to the extent of four The northern third of France and half Inches, and binds tbe heirs of Mrs. of Belgium are today more Teutonic Prances Cobb, teacher, and E. W. Cald- doctrine of hell fire? is It can all crude mind a conceive Sioux Edwards for the same encroachment. than the south of Germany. This is the of City editor well, city I as would terrible. like It burn. to The consideration named is $40. Times. Several months ago, according clearly attested by the maps which was reaYour be real. would she to something who to those show the distribution of each of the pretend know, one son Is only a power given you to acsitting at a table with a pencil innewsphysical characteristics of race. It OS Consumption. Staving custom you to your surroundings. Life hand. Her arm was resting on a should not occasion surprise when we An Indiana man who claims to be without reason is hell. paper in which were several advertiseremember the Incessant downpour of In the old and 115 years enjoyment of But you have reason. ments printed In large type. All at Teutonic tribes during the whole hisInformed a has health robust reporter But not the power to make my suronce her hand commenced to move Inwaa a constant proIt toric period. that hla parents died of consumption voluntarily and the pencil to point out roundings seem familiar. I can never before of from all points of Goths cession 30 and that he has they were letters. At first she gave the matter quite decide If a thing has power to of Franks, Burgun the compass tobacco and used whisky exclusively no attention, supposing it to be only harm me. and others. Francs was entiredians, tor "What things? fifty years. eoms kind of nervous affection. Then ly overrun by the Franks, with the Carrjrlag a Sack of Coffee. Let us trace the cost of carrying a sack of coffee, which weighs about of a ton, from the plantation on which It la grown to tha seaboard. Aa the beat coffee grows at not less than 3,000 feet above aea level. It must go an average of about eighty miles on muleback before reaching the river. This means $8.50 paper for the one-alxtee- mule. Supposing It to travel 500 miles on the river, that freight will be $1.92 to Barranqullla; then eighteen miles of railway travel cost 33 cents; total, $10.75 in Colombia paper, or, at the usual exchange of 150 per cent premium, the total cost of 598 mllea travel of our sack of coffee la $1.20 In gold, le making an average freight per coast From of $0.01U$ gold. the to New York the freight la $0.40 for the sack, or $0.0032 per We have here the startling fact that to carry a sack of coffee 2,518 mllea by river, railroad and ocean ateamer costs but 88 per cent of what It does to carry the same sack eighty miles on a mule. Yet In thia we see another Instance of the pronenesa of human nature to strain at a gnat, while the camel goes down aa a matter of course. The river steamer, the little railway, and the ocean freighter are looked upon by the average Colombian aa extortioners, whi5h, by their high rates, are robbing him of hla hardly earned profit, but the sturdy little mule la his tried and true friend, and he Is begrudged nothing. Engineering Magazine. ton-mi- ton-mil- e. Kept ths Wolf from the Door. Rev. William Dixon and hla wife, strange to aay, have to eat, same aa other people. Mr. Dixon has for some time been pastor of the Ferry street Congregational church. In New Haven, Conn. A few days ago the pastor resigned. Why, Mr. Dixon, said the good members of the church, what on earths the matter? They got for their answer what they already knew that for a year and a half their minister had received only $125 for living expenses and had been compelled to eke out a precarious existence on pink teas, ice cream festivals and short cake suppers. On mature deliberation tbe reverend gentleman had concluded to atampede for some place where the monotony will occasionally be broken, even if it la with nothing more than corned beef and cabbage. Benedictions In England. The Benedietlnes, whom Cardinal st WestVaughan la minster and Ealing, were in times the most numerous and moat widely distributed religious order in England. They had no less than 186 abbeys, priories and nunneries. The London establishments were at Westminster, Clerkenwell and St. Helens Blshopagate. The head of their community at Westminster abbey had a seat In the houae of lords. Abbott Fsckenbam, the last holder of the office, delivered a remarkable speech In the upper house against the religious changes Introduced in tbe reign of Elizabeth. At present the Benedictines have a dozen houses in England, the three principal establishment! being at Downside, Amploforth and Ramsgate. Jonrnnls In Paris. In round numbers there are 2,5' journals In Paris. One hundred seventy of these are political or zatlona, over 100 each of fashion per and Illustrated journals, so' medical papers, over 200 flaanr pers, and about sixty dealing ' turf and other branches of f f |