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Show VOL. I. LIVES" IN A FOREST. began to fail, and her husband decided to take her on a southern trip. The detectives followed them. Whenever Blake paid a hotel bill or offered ROMANCE OF A WOMAN HERmoney for any purpose the officer seMITS LIFE. cured the bank note which had 'ien in the formers possession. Finally the Her Husband Was Convicted of a Mur shadowed man paid out a twenty-dol-lder of Which He Was Innoceat bill which had a red mark in one The Deed Done by a Rejected Dover corner. The detective immediately arA Death Bed Confession. rested him. At the trial the torn wrapper, with smear of blood, was identified as its (Ky.), (Bardstown Letter.) sitLOG cabin having been in the drovers possesuated in the depths sion. The bank note which had been traced to Blake was also shown. The of an almost unbroken forest, 12 stain of blood on the wrapper corremiles east of this sponded precisely with the mark on place, near the the bank note. A strong magnifying Rolling Fork river. glass revealed unerringly that the In Was hington murderers thumb, in tearing open the envelope had touched the topmost bank county, is an obnote. Blake stoutly protested his innoject of interest, it d being the home of cence, averring that the Mrs. Polly Blake, money had been paid him by Stephen Letton; that he (Blake) had plenty of kntin throughout the sectionHer-in money without resorting to robbery which she dwells as the Woman himmit. The story of her life would fur- and murder; that the drover and he were self and of best the novel. friends, nish the material for a thrilling For fifty years Mrs. Blake has lived could have no motive to murder him.A thorough search was made for Letin this lonely cabin, her only comof a couple and panion being a dog cats. In 1835 Polly Andrews was a lovely girl living with her parents on a farm near Springfield, Ky. They were respectable people, and Polinan ly, being unusually pretty girl, dustrious, modest and amiable, naturally had many suitors for her hand. Among them was one Stephen Letton, a prosperous young farmer of the neighborhood. This man was conceded to be Pollys accepted sweetheart. The Andrews residence was situated near the public highway, and travelers there. were frequently entertained During the summer of 1835 a stranger HER CABIN IN THE WOODS. giving his name as Thomas Blake, stopped over night with the Andrews. ton, but he could not be found, and He stated that he was from Boyle Blake was given a life sentence in the doubtcounty, and was in quest of. mules, penitentiary. Mrs. Blake never "whith'iie was buying for the southern ed her husbands innocence, and after market. He was a handsome man. and his imprisonment made repeated efto all appearances a gentleman of high forts to secure his pardon, but they standing. An attachment sprang up were of no avail, and ten years after between him and Polly, which resulted his conviction Blake died of consumpin marriage in the spring of 1836, not tion. A few years after the death of her before Mr. Andrews had, however, satisfied himself that Blake was all he husband Mrs. Blake received a letter had represented himself to be. bearing the postmark of San Francisco, After the wedding Blake took up Cal. It was signed by a notary public and a minister of the gospel. The his residence with his father-in-laand strange as it may sernn,m,a strong contents of the letter were remerkeble. It stated that Stephen Letton was fabrawl and tally wounded in a had made a death-be- d confession, in which he stated that he had murdered a drover in Kentucky, and had caused the crime to be fastened on Blake, because he had deprived him of the girl who had promised to be his wife. His motives were purely those of revenge, and now, being about to die, he desired to make what reparation lay in his power. Shortly after this Mrs. Blakes parents died, and having spent her means in her husbands behalf she retired to the lonely log cabin to finish her days in solitude. MRS. POLLY BLAKE, QUEEN OF BEAUTY. was formed between him and young Letton, Pollys rejected lover. If A Jerseyville, Illinois, Girl Who Won in Letton felt any resentment at his treata Receiit Contest ment by the young lady, he gave no (Jerseyville, 111., Letter.) on the evidence of it, but continued The Daily Democrat held a contest most friendly terms with the whole unby coupon vote for the prettiest family. over 16 in Jerseyville. married lady In the autumn following Pollys mar- Great interest was taken in the conriage to Blake, Letton sold his proptest and on Saturday night the voting erty and announced his intention of closed. On counting the votes it was Virnow West is to what emigrating found that Miss Alice Egelhoff was the ginia, alleging he had purchased an winner. Miss Egelhoff is the daughinterest in a coal mine there. About ter of Mr. and Mrs. George Egelhoff, this time Blake decided to return to Boyle county to settle up some unfinished business, and then to journey to eastern Kentucky in search of mules. As Lettons route led him in that direction the two men decided to trav-- . el together. After tarrying near Danville a few days the friends continued their journey. On arriving in Boyle county they repaired to the home of a wealthy drover, with whom Blake had frequently transacted business, and here the travelers separated. Before Letton took his leave of Blake, however, he borrowed from the latter a sum of money, which he promised to repay on reaching his destination, claiming that his money had all been invested there. The night following Blakes departure from the drovers house in Boyle county, it was entered by an assassin, who killed the inmates and secured a ALICE EGELHOFF.' package containing $1,800 in bank old residents of Jerseyville, and a gennotes. In order to conceal his crime Jerseyville girl, having been born, the murderer set fire to the house. The uine and educated there. She has reared building burned slowly, and the neigh- brown eyes and hair, fair complexion bors were enabled to extinguish the features; a figure of meflames and discover the murderous and regular prettily rounded and dium height, assaswork which had been done. The her But personal charms no sin, before leaving the yard, had torn graceful. can reveal a sincere and portriat of on the the package wrapper open gentle manner and a disposition of money and flung it on the ground. This irresistible sweetness. Miss Egelhoff was picked up by the officers of the home girl, devoted to her aging law, and marks of blood were found is a whose joy she is. upon it This was the only clue in parents, their possession. False Wine Labels. to Shortly after Blakes return of the United States Caldwell Judge Springfield he received the money dewhich Letton owed him. Detectives Circuit Court of Appeals has just is frauit that Francisco San at cided suspected Blake of murdering the or label drover, because he was known to have dulent to put a foreign brand been intimate with him, and had on spirituous or vinous products of dostopped at his home shortly before the mestic growth and manufacture, and that Such goods are liable to seizure. commission of the crime. ConsequentThis decision will make a lot of trouly he was kept under constant surveillance for four months. ble and no little loss to California In the meantime Mrs. Blakes health ar blood-staine- well-to-d- o, bar-roo- m . NUMBER 31. MARYSVALE, PIUTE COUNTY, UTAH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1896. SISTER ROXYS WORK. I HEAD OF THE POWER SOCIETY IN KENTUCKY, Peculiar Antics of Her Followers Colored Woman and Her Twelve-V Son Are Eloquent A ar-O- ld How She Makes Converts RW ISTER Turner, the recognized head of the Power society j in Kentucy, is the only colored woman in the state holding a license to preach. The Power society is a peculiar religious sect, the members claiming jto possess powers not enjoyed by the average Christian, says a correspondent'of 1 the New York Recorder. Sisfer Roxy is an unusually laige woman, tipping the beam at 363 pounds, and stands six feet two inches in her stockings. She beiing the head of the society possesses all of the powers, which include the power to heal the sick, commune with the dead, and to place the converted on an equality with the apostles. Her churcb in Lexington is situated on the corner of Wamock and Constitution streets, ;a small frame structure with a memberHere Sister ship of 120. Roxy preaches three times a week regularly and at intervals holds protracted meetings, which last sometimes three or ffeur weeks. l When these meetings are going on the white people, drawn by the weird and peculiar antics of the PoweriteA crowd the place and look on until the early hours of the morning. When a candidate is seeking the power constant watch is kept, and a dozen or so of the members prostrate themselves on their faces in prayer until relief oomes to the candidate. They often remain prostrate from twelve to twenty-fou- r hours. Two years ago Roily, the son of Sister Roxy, was a candidate for the power. After praying over him for a day and a night the little fellow arose, and said he had received the The members of the high power. church say he picked up a blble anS, read from it a text and from this text preached a sermon such as would have been impossible for any one not possessing the power to have done. All Good low town was excitement. The negroes rushed into the place and prostrated themselves near the pulpit. Scores of them crowded around the boy shouting and on the following day every window, every lamp and every bench in the place was found to be broken to pieces. At 4 oclock in the morning the police interfered and hauled a number of the Powerites off to the station house, where they were locked in the cells. Here they continued to pray, and the authorities grew much alarmed lest it should be necessary to have a number of them tried for insanity. They thought Roilys getting the power was the second coming of Christ, and that the world would immediately come to an end. From that day until this Roily has continued to preach the power doctrine. He has grown fat and at the age of 12, he now weighs 130 pounds. He says he never went to school ard does not know a letter of the alphabet, still he can read from the bible and Sister Roxy declares hymn book. she could no-- read a line until sheigot the power five years ago and commenced to organized a church. At first she held prayer meetings in her house and the homes of her neighbors, but so fast did the colored people become converted under her that she was able two years ago to build a She has also organized church. branches of her church In Cadentown, Warrentown, and Brucetown, suburbs of this city, besides Nicholasville, WinThe county chester and Louisville. authorities here have been called on to settle a dispute between the Powerites and methodists regarding the possession of a church in Cadentown. The matter has been In Judge Bullocks court in different forms for a year past, the Methodists claiming that the Powerites damaged the church property In their peculiar demonstrations while receiving the power. As a healer, Sister" Roxy is certainly a success. She Showed your correspondent a letter yesterday from Mrs. Frank Fox, a highly respectable white woman living in Clay City. She Is now hale and healthy, weighing 150 pounds and says her good health is due to the healing powers of Sister Roxy. Sister Roxy Relating the story, said: Lawd bless ye, honey! all youse got to do when yer sick is to blieve In de Lawd an sen lor me. When I went to see Mrs. Fox she wuz a skeleton. She had been lying in her bed three months an the doctors had give her up. I axed her if she had faith. She said yes. I knelt down by her bed an prayed, an prayed, an prayed, all the time holdin her hands an my other han over the , parts where she said the pain wua the worst. Does you know dat woman ectly i. CUSTOMS opened her eyes and said she wuz well an wanted to git up. Her people didnt want her to git up, but I toie them to let her do as she pleased. She got up, put on her clothes an went to a nearby grocery store, where she weighed herself. Law goodness! she was wuz a skeleton weighed only seventy-fiv- e She got de pounds. power, an is now a leadin believer in the Power society, an I spek she will start a church at Clay City before long. 'Sister Roxy is proud of her son, Roily, and says he is the youngest preacher in her church. She intends to give him charge of the Cadentown church next month. IN MEXICO. HOW THE MEXICAN DUDE DECORATES HIMSELF. Shirt Is an Especial AttachHis Hat, However, Is His First Pictures of Life and Best Love There. A Crimson ment (Mexican Letter.) HE hat is the main strength of the true Mexican dude. Upon these gorgeous streets, one is able to observe the finrl development of the English check. When a man sincerely sets out to havg a suit of checked cloth, it is astonish5 ing to what an extent he can carry his passion. There are suits of this description in the City of Mexico that in the vivid sun light of the country throw a checkered shadow upon the pavement. They are usually upon Mexicans of the lower middle class, who save them for afternoon strolls. I distinctly remember some window shades in a store in Upper Broadway, New York City, that I thought displayed the mosit devasting checks in the universe. They do not. But above all the reader must remember that the great mass of humanity upon the principal business street of Mexico City dress about the same as they do in other places. There is a little more variety, and of course there is an interpolation of Indians, who are utterly distinct. The streets do not blaze. If you wish blaze go into the side streets where the Indians live. The Indian remains the one great artistic figure. The caballero in his enormous sombrero and the skin tight sombreros the Mexican gentleman of fashion frequently A PECULIAR FISH. spends fifty dollars The Turbots Ball and Socket Eyes Are or even a hundred of Black and Gold. dollars. And these 'Lying limp and slimy on a fishmosplendid masses of and ngers slab, or dry and sandy in the braid gold Dutch fishwives baskets, the turbot pearl gray beavers surmount the aver- is perhaps the least interesting fish, age masculine head with the same ar-When tistic value as would a small tower of says the London Spectator. swimming in an artificial sea or lying small tower of bricks. In the first on the sandy bottom it is the most at- place, the true Mexican wears his tractive of all the denizens of this trousers very tight in the leg, and as mock ocean, and whether at rest or in his legs are always small and wiry, he motion has an air of vigilance, vivacity produces the effect of instability. When and intelligence greater than that of you see him crowned by one of those any of the normally shaped fish. This great peaked sombreros, you think he is in part due to its habits and in pari is likely to fall down upon slight octo the expression of the flat fishs eye casion. The same gentleman may run to This, which is sunk and invisible in the dead fish, is raised on a kind of turret spurs a good deal. There are for sale in the living turbot, or sole, and set in the shops in the City of Mexico silthere in a apparatus, ver spurs that weigh a couple of working almost as independently as the pounds each immense things that look ball and socket eyes of the chame- more like rhinoceros thaps than spure leon. There is this difference, how- to urge on a horse. He may, too, when ever, in the eye of the lizard and of he rides in the country, have a pair the fish the iris of the chameleon is of elegantly decorated pistol holsters a mere pinhole at the top of the eye- at his pommel. A double row of litball, which is thus absolutely without tle silver buttons extend down each leg of his tight trousers, and it is more expression. The turbots or butts eyes are black and gold and intensely than probable that his little jacket will bright, with none of the fixed, star- be embroidered like mad. After all ing stupid appearance of ordinary this, he will be seated upon a saddle fishes eyes. It lies upon the sand and that the sultan of a thousand Turkeys Jerks its eyes independently into posi- would never dare use for a foot stool. But the Intion, to survey any part of the ground Mounted then upon a charger tha.t pro- trousers is top heavy. down ceeds his cotton with in restrained dian or at his water above that the and serape, gait mincing, surface, on either side at any angle. If it had the avenue crowded with fashionable trousers, his dusty sandals upon which light rays to project from its eyes in- carriages, he with his full chin, black his hare toes are displayed, and his old stead of to receive the effect would be mustache and vaguely sinister eye, is sombrero pulled down over hie eyes the true type of the Mexican caballero. is a fascinating man. precisely that made by the sudden shiftWhether his blanket is purple or But, on the other hand, the true Mexing of the jointed apparatus which casts the electric light from a war ship ican style has been combated subtly some dull hue, he fits into the green at any angle on to sea, sky or horizon. for years by the ideas from the United grass, the low white wails, the blue The turbots, though ready, graceful States which have flown into the sky as if his object was not somuch to In the rural districts the get possession of some centavos as to undu- country. swimmers, moving in wave-lik-e lations across the water or dashing off caballero is still supreme, but in the compose the picture. At night, when he crouches in a like a flash when so disposed, usually larger towns and in the capital the men lie perfectly still upon the bottom. of the greatest wealth and position al- doorway with his sombrero pulled still They do not, like the dabs and floun- ways resemble the ordinary type of further over his eyes and his mouth And the covered with a fold of his eerape, you ders, cover themselves with sand, for American men of affairs. who are yet of a can imagine anything at all about him, with of younger color the generation, mimic the ground they for his true characteristic is impensuch absolute fidelity that except for mind to care for dress, study the fashthe shining eye it is almost impossible ions of New York and London with etrable. He is a majestic and silent to distinguish them. It would appear much diligence. figure of the darkness. Here begins the conflict between the He has two great creeds. One is that that volition plays some part in this subtle conformity to environment, for London creed of what is correct and pulque as a beverage is finer than one turbot, which is blind, has changed innate love of personal adornment. melted blue of the sky. The other is They clash, and the clash is sometimes that Americans are eternally wealthy to a tint too light and not at all in harThe great dis- and immortally stupid. If the world to be heard for miles. mony with that of the sand. tance which these mandates come also was really the size that he believes it confuses matters. to be, you could put his hat over it. MUD WASHES. Here is an attempt at a typical enSTEPHEN CRANE. Society Girls Have a New Scheme for umeration: 1. A black tie, a high white collar, Beautifying Themselves. For Home Manicure. a green opal stud in a shirt of crimson The old proverb that there is nothwho are obliged to do women Many ing that has not some use in the world silk. work that injures the delicate appear2. fine a bosom of of Cuffs shirt been lace, has was what we it knew if only ance of their hands, and who are yet more fine lace which falls in a beautiverified again. This time the discovto lose one of the most diserer was the girl wlho has returned ful cascade over the breast of a dis- unwilling of refinement, find that marks tinctive creet black or cutaway. in seashore from her outing at the are capable of doing their 10:30 men 3. dress in quite at Four they evening the mountains. The bugaboo of the own manicuring and that the practice a. m. which tan the is season summer girls Amateurs are usually aston4. A shirt with green stripes two pays. she brings back to the city with her. ished to find that manicuring is so simfour wide in and red hand tie. It interferes with her wearing of even- Inches and that the following directions of china ends 5. A blue the ple tie silk, to almost will go ing gowns. And she suffice: Pour some warm water in a to waist. fall the of which any extreme to accomplish that result effects are to be seen from bowl, unfold a small towel and lay it These of the wrinkle latest The in a hurry. time to time. It would not be reason- on one knee; take the right hand and city girl is mud. Plain, dirty, sticky able to quarrel with them or sneer at proceed to cut the nails in a mud. The idea is by no means new, then file the edges and step the The first young man has an them. has-ahut it is the first time that society hand in the water; then take right beau-tifier. a whole accepted it as a skin the left hand and steep in its turn. mud from or the mud Swamp Having carefully dried the hands, push the bed of a stream is the be3t. The down the skin round the base of the cleansed skin should be thoroughly nails with an ivory instrument; brush warm feels skin and dried until the the nails over with some red pomade, Then and perspiration has .started. wipe it off and then polish with a apply the mud thickly, taking care to rather pad, plain chamois-covere- d is especially keep it from the eyes. It fine small in using size, particularly necessary that care he taken to cover shine. till Then, they powder, polishing all portions of the skin alike, as the to crown all, sprinkle on the hands and smallest patch of uncovered skin is wrists and rub in some deliciously likely to stand out with disagreeable scented sue de camelia, which will at The next morning. plainness the once make the skin look white, smooth feeling of the mud on the face is not as and soft. New York World. unpleasant as one might at first supof a as coating pose. It feels much Dogs and Crocodiles vaseline or cold cream would and its an When Egyptian dog of the Nile The much are greater. beneficial results region wishes to drink at the waters hands are treated the same way, except edge he knows exactly how to do it and that' it is advisable to wear an old loosd at the same time escape being eaten from mud the pair of gloves to prevent a crocodile. In working out this litby being rubbed off during the night. The tle piece of strategy he runs a short idea of the mud wash is as old as hisway up the river and howls for some FASHION. OF GENTLEMAN A and tory. The old Romans knew of it The crocodiles, attracted by the time. it is very probable that Cleopatra used absolute right to wear his crimson sound, immediately crowd to that place, the prescription to enhance her charms. shirt if it does not burn him. He no whereupon the intelligent dog hastily In the west mud is a panacea for pois- doubt finds it decorative and comfort- runs to that part of the river which onous bites and stings. And the rural able. Perhaps his sisters think it the reptiles have left and drinks in The idea may be distasteful to a great admirable and perhaps some senorita safety. The idea may be distastefu lto a great with flashing eyes thinks nothing so many people, but it is the fad at pres- handsome as that little triangle of Pineapple In Florida. ent and has many devotees as social crimson which glows above his coat laculture thrives so at Pineapple It is never wise to deride the fancies always do. pels. has been tried In Florit where fashions of another people, for we our- points is being extended the acreage The Pile. that ida vre are of no what idea have selves and The ni blemans ancestral pile may not importations constantly, joining to. Within two days New York A be necessary. Has crumbled to decay, pinery much longer may be absolutely on fire with crimmonths ago at Citra by But still he has the pile of his son shirts blood red bosoms may flash started eleven Wifes papa, U. S. A. H. B. Sterns has proved so successful a the air like lanterns, Detroit Tribune. others arq to be established there. that about strolls in (he f'ccasionaly, 4 semi-circl- s e; |