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Show I ) h that they could not live apart and they proceeded to elope, settling In Cody, Wyo. There they faced the stern realities of life. The paternal allowance ceased. The young man of knew nothing of the gentle art In woman a The livelihood. earning the case was game. She tried to find a solution of their problem a bare living but the man recalled the pat tient wife, the home, the welcome that never failed, the placid corner to which he could always turn when he wearied of his gayer companions. In the wilds of Wyoming he left the object of his sudden and inexplicable grand passion and returned to his first love. Is it hard to picture the hopelessness of the second woman deserted? Then there was the famous Acer domestic reunion. Frank Adams Acer married beautiful Miss Addle Estelle Tilt in April, 1897. Two children were born to them and all was apparently mom ter happy until the green-eyeinvaded their perfectly appointed home. Mrs. Acer proved her right to a divorce on statutory grounds, but was the name of the kept secret. Two years passed, stormy years, during which the husband-fathe- r longed for wife, home and babies. And finally he won them all back. Mr. and Mrs. Acer were remarried on November 9, 1904, and are happy. But what of the third party, the woman in the case?" After all, is she not the greater sufferer for she has not public nor private sympathy? cided THTmAjGF D7 of THE OfflEC WWI'ana well-kep- IW 'Tilt CTO ottenmrs AGAINST Tilt MARRIAGE d Divorced Wife Who Became Queen in Social Circles Far back in one of the Rocky moun tain states the ghost of such a tragedy lies close to the annals of congress and its representatives. A man who had found enormous wealth in the mountains divorced the wife who had followed him over the packtrail and cooked for hiB miners. His second wife was a woman of magnificent physical beauty, some social standing and a few accomplishments, but lacking in what makes woman truly beautiful a soul. For a time she queened it over her husbands newly acquired social life. The first wife was forgotten. Then suddenly the latter appeared upon the scene, but a different woman. She b : New York. Floretta Whaley, de- Jared K. serted by her clergyman-lover- , Cook, is a wreck, wsls flashed over the wires one beautiful August morning. Floretta Whaley, deserted by her a wreck, was the clergyman-lover- , letters on in legend printed Park rows bulletin boards. Men and women hurrying to and from the bridge paused an instant, shrugged their shoulders and murmured: "Well, what else would you expect from such an elopement? "Mrs. Hart McKee sues for a divorce, whispered the cables under the sea. "Mrs. Hart McKee sues for divorce, echoed thousands of newspaper headlines all over America. And again the world shrugged its shoulders and murmured: "Well, what would you expect when their marriage foot-hig- h broke up a home? Later the Whaley newB was denied, and relatives of the girl declared that nothing had been heard from her. She was dead to them. The day of forgiveness was past. The Hart McKee announcement was not denied: The two stories stand In public opin-iofor dishonor and unhappiness and why? Because public opinion, that most volatile and restless of barometers, has shifted its viewpoint once more. Time was when an elopement held every element of romance, and the world applauded, writes Anna Steese Richardson in the New York World. Those were the days when young people oftentimes unnecessarily stole away with Dan Cupid, when an unreasonable parent could be made to see light by no other means. Then followed the period when, at rare intervals, a young woman ran away with a married man, or, more rarely still, a young man, like a feudal baron of the olden days, stole away the wife of his neighbor. To be sure, these cases startled the community in which they occurred, but scandal gradually died before the excuse: "It is a case of the grand passion. She was the one woman in the world for him and it is wrong for two unloving persons to live together." n f! discovered how overwhelming was my adoration for her that I would never let her get away from me. I dreamed of her, and soon I realized that she was the woman for whom I had always been pining. I promised myself that I would make her my wife some time, and my shaken. determination cannot THE MYSTERY OF THE LAWS IN CHINA by and by he stepped from the continuous to the smart Broadway reviews and he was ashamed of the little woman who had helped to carve this new niche for him. He did not feed her ground glass nor poisoned candy, as they do in plays, but he stabbed her loyal heart with words more deadly stiletto. And than the keenest-pointethe little woman did the rest with poison. To-da- The Success Made Actor Turn from His Life Partner The scandal was hushed up, the comedian went on his triumphant way; beautiful women of the stage angled for him, and one of them won him. He was successful and gossip dared not rear its head too high. Then suddenly it was discovered that he could not remember his lines. He forgot his cues. His dancing was uncertain, his antics were unfunny. Finally his engagements were canceled. "Paresis," said the doctors. But there are men and women of the old days who know him best who say that it is not any real physical ailment, but a beckoning figure, the figwife, ure of the deserted, heart-brokewhose spirit cannot rest in a suicides grave And who can describe the misery of the second wife watching his living n death? PATH FINDING BY INSTINCT. Remarkable Sense Displayed by Halfbreed Scout. Black-foo- t d For a time this Bophlstry swayed Then domestic hisopinion. tories, not always written but still well known, divorce court annals and newspaper headlines told a different story. The grand passion died, even as the love of youth sometimes fades. One divorce led to another. Husbands returned to their first wives, while the women who had lured them from their hearthstones were left to face the world. wji its shrugging shoulders, as best the might. And then the world woke up to a great truth. The grand passion was not what it had been pictured; a power more potent and vital was exerting its influence over these romantic, couples. The world could not see this power, but erring husbands saw it and felt it and could find no avenue of escape from it. It wras their Nemesis the ghostly, silent, figure of the beckoning, first wifes love. Before Jared K. Cook, rector of St. Georges parish, Hempstead, L. I.. eloped with poor, foolish, Floretta Whaley, be said to the girls grandmother: "I swore when I first public scandal-d- efying never-sleepin- g One See Smiling Round the World the hideous pain the bone being crushed to a jelly. The most dreadful of all executions in China is the ling chee, or hundred cuts, where the condemned man Is given 99 cuts on different parts of the body, contrived with such devilish cunning that death does not come until the last cut, reaehim the heart, puts them out of their agony. This execution is only administered for three crimes; attempted assassination of the emperor or empress, the By MARSHALL P. WILDER copyright, by Joseph B. bow It.) Shanghai has 12 precinct police stations and one court, known as the "Mixed Court, because some representative of the several consulates sits each day with the Chinese magistrate. I was introduced to the magistrate by Dr. Barchet, and found him very gracious, and possessing a fair supply He was dressed in full of English. mandarin dress, brown satin coat, beautifully embroidered, and a black velvet hat turned up about the edge, and decorated with the button, the horse tail and the peacocks feathers that indicate a mandarin's rank We went into the courtroom, everyone quickly took their places and All prisoners the hearings began. when brought before the magistrate must kneel during the entire proceed killing of father or mother or the killing of a husband by a wife. The killing of a wife by a husband is not so serious a matter. In China a man must sign his own death warrant. by Inking his thumb and making the impression of it on the paper. Chinese law, when once it has a man in its clutches, is loath to give him up whether he be Innocent or guilty. So if he does not sign the warrant willingly he is tortured until he does it in sheer desperation. Political prisoners, who are sentenced to banishment, seldom reach the place of their destination, for after such a sentence there is almost always an accident, either by the chair in which he is carried being tipped while on a bridge by one of the coolies Btumbllng and thrown into the river, where there is no hope of escape from the clumsy, tightly-closeaffair, or else the banished one is mysteriously attacked by highwaymen and d All magistrate. When a policeman brings a man before the court he drives him by his he takes him when and cue, away, he pulls him by it, or if there are several prisoners, he knots their them cues and pulls together along in a bunch. With such persuasion, a prisoner is not apt to hesitate long. For thieving, prisoners are sentenced to a certain number of strokes with the bamboo, or the cangue for so many hours a day sometimes both together. The cangue is a large square board that fits about their necks, and besides being very heavy and uncomfortable, is considered a great disgrace, for it has the prisoners name and crime pasted on it. In order to make the punishment more severe, the prisoner is often condemned to be taken to the place where the crime was committed, and made to stand near the store or house where the nature of his crime, as well as his name are plainly to be read by every passerby. This is a terrible punishment for them, for the Chinese are very sensitive about being publicly shamed, losing face, they call it. bam-booe- sat. Hart McKee Divorce Like Page from Novel. The Hart McKee divorce Involves more persons and recalls a romance of coquetry and jilting unequaled outside the pages of novels. Hart McKee belongs to the circle of millionaires who New have kept the world at large guessing He divorced during the past decade. his first wife, according to societys vigorous rumors, in order to marry the wife of Lawrence C. Phipps, another member of the Pittsburg millionaire coterie. But, even while Mrs. Phipps was securing her divorce, he met beautiful Cornelia Baxter Tevis, widow of Hugh Tevis, one of Californias richest young men. And, meeting her, he forgot his fealty to the woman who, It was said, was securing a divorce for his sake. He and Mrs. Tevis were married and the Phipps family was suddenly and inexplicably reconciled and reunited in marriage. e On her side, Mrs. brought another tale of jilting and coquetry, having broken her engagement to a young lawyer, Gerald Hughes, on the very eve of her marriage, to wed her first husband. Today these two, man and woman of many moods and uncontrolled whims, are ready to part once more, and soinciety, shrugging its shoulders, Will he go back quires,, callously: to the first Mrs. McKee o to Mrs. For even the calloused, Phipps?" society circles of this mouey-maage seem to have faith that the man w ill go back to the love that he believes is most tolerant to his faults, most oyal to himself. George Gordon Massey of Dover, Del., petted son and man of luxurious tastes and goodly paternal allowance, married a girl of slightly less social standing. She bore with his shortcomings and made him welcome when ever he.wandered home from his life of artificial gayety. The prisoner throws himself on a piece of matting laid on the top step leading to the magistrates desk, his trousers are pushed down, exposing his thighs, and two men in ridiculous York-Pittsbur- g "Make Little Squeeze. wife like an angel armed writh a sword? And whocan truly picture the misery of the second w'fe, the woman who had come between? the gossips of Broadway whisper of even a sadder case. Occasionally in one of the cafes near Forty-seconstreet, or standing in the doorway of a theatrical agent's office, you will see the trembling, palsied figure of a man who once sent Broadway into gales of merriment. Today the laughter has faded from his Left Home for Woman eyes, and in its place there is a hauntHe Fancied He Loved ed look. Then suddenly there came into his Ten years ago this comedian, with life, a beautiful, dashing young wom- his wife, was playing on the Bowery. an, Evelyn Raue, wife of Dr. C. S. Then vaudeville came into vogue, and Raue, of Philadelphia. The two de- they moved from the Bowery into the - hats trimmed with blue, sugar-loa- f seat themselves on the prisoner's feet and shoulders, the latter one clutching his cue. Two men with little flat bamboo rods about a yard long squat each side, when one begins and delivers about 23 lashes then rests, and the other takes it up, counting aloud as they beat. The prisoner howl3 and cries and begs, tears streaming from his, eyes, for though it does not break the skin, it is extremely painful. The men sitting on the prisoner joke and laugh, the officers standing about carry cn animated conversations, and as this all takes place in a courtyard, open to the street, children run in and red d To-da- y d without altogether unknown to a compass and withouiTT sight of the stars. Unlike other guides, he never talked with others when he was at work. He would ride on ahead by himself, keeping his mind fixed on the mysterious business of finding the way. He was never able to give any clear explanation of his method; no doubt his gift was largely the result of heredity, iiut he had traveled in his youth for huge distances from points in western Canada to points in the western states before there were any railways, and that early experience certainly counted for much. Again and again he found shorter routes across country unknown to him than those used by men who knew the land by heart executions of any sort are free man, woman or child, to for anyone, In the afternoon I went back to the mixed court and saw some men It was done in a different place from where the trials take place, being at one side of an open court, where a desk was placed, behind which the assistant magistrate g I ing. Though all the prisoners were Chinese, and the cases were conducted in that language, 1 could follow most of them, as the English sergeants pre ferred their charges to Dr. liurchet, who is a proficient Chinese scholar, and he in turn translated them to the Tevis-McKe- And Now Is Shown the Other Side of the Story. Fumj Thing in d half-bree- be in some secluded corner of this continent or across the sea, Jared Cook and Floretta Whaley are waiting for the law to take its course and set the man free; and In Hartford a beautiful woman with prematurely white hair and eyes from which the Joy of living has faded, is waiting for what? For the law to set her free from the man who was untrue to his vows, and who thereby brought disgrace on her household and wrecked her life? Perhaps. But it is more likely that being a woman, a loving, steadfast woman, she is waiting, with arms outstretched, for the return of the lover and husband of her youth. And that message may silent, reach across oceans and continents and find a repentant man. And who but Floretta Whaley will pay the terrible price of his fall and repentance? heart-wringin- Here the little That the true scout is both born and made is the argument of a writer in the London Times, who says: "He has, for example, the capacity of remembering everything he sees on a Journey the same capacity which was possessed by Capt. Cook, the famous circumnavigator, who would take a walk through the streets of London and remember all the names above all the many shops he passed without the least consciousness of effort. Similarly a red Indian who takes a journey will remember everything he nasses every tree, open space, stream on the whole length of the trail. the had spent intervening years abroad, where she had studied under In some cases an even more remarkable masters and had been gowned by able instinct for path finding is rethe subtlest of modistes and millin- vealed. Thus Col. S. B. Steele, who ers. She had become an accomplished commanded Strathconas Horse in charming, perfectly poised woman. South Africa and has known all the And before her lovely personality the famous western scouts and prairie demere physical charms of the second tectives, once told me that a Black-foo- t The first wife became employed years ago wife faded. a social queen in her disloyal hus- by the Northwest mounted police was bands own set. The second wife be- the best guide he had ever met, poscame a social outcast. But this time sessing, as he did, an almost uncanny the woman held out no beckoning sense of locality and direction. "Others could guide travelers hand of welcome. The man held his head high, but he had to make way through country they had visited befor the woman he had deserted. Who fore. But this man, who was made shall not say that her regal figure was chief of his nation or tribe, could take a party from place to place by more than a Nemesis an avenger that separated him from his second the quickest route, through country gold-ribbe- I continuous houseB. wifes dancing went very well. She was a good foil for her comedian husbands merry antics and quips. But out, playing and laughing, mothers with babies in their arms look stolidly on, the babies blinking solemnly, while a little crowd of curious men stand about the entrance. The mixed court, being jointly under the jurisdiction of foreigners, is necessarily more merciful and lenient than an unmlxed Chinese court. A gentleman told me of witnessing a courtroom scene in the interior of China, where a man who refused to confess was struck on the ankle bone with a mallet until he fainted flora The Cangue. And the effect of that uniwitness versa! and deadly system of bribery is only too apparent, a system that saps the strength and ability of China to become a great country, for from one end of the kingdom to the other there is no disinterested desire for advancement; only a case of the big fish eating up the little ones and no man so great that he cannot be bought. If a prisoner condemned to be beheaded will pay the executioner a fat bribe he may expect to be sent out of existence with neatness and dispatch after being heavily drugged with opium. But if he refuses, he must suffer a clumsy execution that will be attended by torture and pain before the end finally comes. Even in the simple and less painful bamboolng, a bribe will induce the whlpper to hold the bamboo stiff, causing much less pain than If allowed to bend and spring. It appeared that only those of ihe criminals who could not purchase ran som were executed. Those who had $50, or friends that could supply that sum, were liberated on payment of the same to the mandarin of the dibtrlct. The luckless 29 had apparently neither friends nor money. So they were marshaled out of prison under a strong guard of soldiers; and, like the prisoners In our Sing Sing who are allowed for their last meal the best that the prison cuisine affords, these malefactors were furnished any mode of conveyance at the disposal of the authorities to convey them to the place - of execution. The condemned were marshaled in line, and required to kneel on all fours before the mandarin and his suite. All knew the procedure, and there was no confusion. The headsman, armed with a keen, broad-bladeSword, stepped out. If this gentleman should fail to sever the head of his victim in three blows, his own would oe forfeit. But In this instance he did his work with both certainty and celerity. Approaching the first in line, he gave a swift, swinging lnow on the back of the neck and a decapitated onto the sword. head rolled This dreadful system of bribery and "squeezing" is the canker at the heart of China. Everyone expects it from everyone else; even the children trti not to be trusted. A Chinese woman sends her child to a chow shop, and weighs the food when it is brought home to see that her own child is nut her. "squeezing In making change, the smallest boy, as salesman, will keep back two or three Should you say: "How fash"cash, ion you steal my cash? You b'long allee same as t'lef, he will indignantMy no blong t'lef; my ly answer: ketchie you watch, then blong tief, but my just make little squeeze. It would seem as if all tbe horrible punishments so publicly administered would effectually prevent even the most reckless and hardened from committing crime, but It doesnt setm to do so, and the courts go on flourishing on the bribes extorted and tbe money paid by innocent people to keep out of court, for It is openly averred that a Chinese court of justice, ameng other delinquencies, is not even above blackmail. It is not surprising that among the people are such sayings as "Tigers and snakes are kinder than judges or runners," or in life, beware of courts; in death, beware of hell!" |