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Show MORNINil TILE 10 EXAMINER: OGDE7 TTA1I, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1907. STRANGE STORY OF A CONSPIRACY AGAINST A RICH, TITLED ABBESS BARONESS VOX Jl EUSLER ISSUING THE 1IAVAK1AN GOVERNMENT Foil f ItMMHH) FOR WRONGFUL IMI'RISUNXIEXT OX A .MURDER CIIARGE THAT GREW OlT OF PETTY SPITE o. nuns ix hei: oonvext- - AMAZING STORY OF .?X INTRIGUE THAT WAS OVERSHADOWED WHEN FIRST BROUGHT TO LIGHT BY THE KOErENlCK RAILT-or S1GSIFIOAXT INSTAXUE oFTHE EASE WITH WHICH A LIFEIjOXG REFUTATION FOR PIETY, CHARITY ANlHiOOO WORKS MAY BE UTTERLY DESTROYED BY SPITEFUL Gossip the fart the 1 - 8mn I thereafter her income mas devoted to All the relief of th- - poor and to an sons ehartuble undertakisad variuie Right strictly JUaervaJ. A tha whole worU ngs. DreamM in the habit uf her Berlin. Fob. she could be aceu la the poores; w laughing at, (ha time over tha arant attention and dreariest quartets of Muuleh Kuepentrk romt-dTwaa paid la another drama la real carrying succor to the needy. Inspirlife a traced r which revealed tha ing cheerfulness la the broken-heartewrecks of a great city and imLady Bnpertor f a German eunven!. of religion tia woman of title, aa tha victim id parting the eH-ebtthe outcast and flic fallen. Her genone of the taunt vxlreurdinary la (ha United Ccpyrijhr Gml Britain hr rurla Brown. or-ce- r, of justice In criminal tle upbringing and her aristocratic an- Notice ha a jnat been direct cl to the cane afresh by the nnnoouc-met.- t that Banmaaa von Heualer has brought suit (or (lOfl.AM aa comi-aailon fur the terrible sugaring she endured white avrvlag three jeara and six months of a lift- - sentence for a murder of which she was absolutely innocent. When convicted on her first trial aba was a handsome, vigorous young woman. When acquitted on her second trial aho waa a wrinkled, prematurely aged woman, broken in health and sprit. Kbe regained her freedom, the Judge said, of all with her ehararter cleared stains, bat- nothing can over efface the record which bur martyrdom has slumped oa her owa person. One of the atraageat features uf the cane la that bar conviction la tho Brat tu gtanca waa duo largely to g conspiracy agaiaat her among tho nuns in tho convent over which aho presided. Despite their vows and devotion tho dw!V had got among them aome-- ' how sal filled tbetr beam with envy, malice and nil nnchaiitableneaa, which found vent la falsa and perjured teati-onynals. vicinity of Muuk-h- . Under her au-- i and guidance It became; Riora than ever a centre of charitable I works and true religion aeaL It is I difficult tu conceive of a life mure: fiee from blame and approaching j mure closely the Christian Ideal than that of ibis gud woman. Xevenbr less, a terrible misfortune overtook her and plunged her into the depths of niiaery and humiliation. Thera wer tw domestic servant made than t. the other domestic Minna Wagner by name, accused Barone von Heualer of having uii-- i committed this murler. She the order of the bow, acting n Lady Superior, she bad purchased from a neighboring chumiM. The chemist's evidence supported her own story so far in a mu.--h as tula g:ti bad bought n certain quantity of poison on given day. She km! J she had given this poison of the Lady Si- nn-le- r po.-an- u gray-haire- - . Barosria voa Heualer belongs to uaa of tho moat prominent and at tho same time moat respected bouses of tho South German nobility. Tho family posaeaaua g proud record, tia members have made It a rule uf life to live uprightly and to hand on tlw family name to their successor unblemished by tha fulllea and Inlqul-tiaperpetrated by o many aristocratic scions. Borne of the have been brave and doughty war rlors, others havo devoted their talents lo statesmanship, others to scientific research and other again to women uf IhJ exploration, while family cither have been good wlvea to their husbaada or havo devoted themselves to tho church. The lleuaieri have bean devout Roman Catholics through all centuries, sad It baa beea customary for at least one daughter of every aucceaalva baron to enle a convent and devote her life to the cause of religion. Baruaeag Elisabeth voa lleuale. took the veil at tha ago of 22, and , MIXUA Tfer at t ruMMuirtaa Tha Smast a . Instincts did not for one mumeut prt Vent her from plunging into .the depth, of misery and despair In order i t bring aid to those who stood urgently In need of It. As the years went by she grew In the of her ecclesticel auperi-ountil at an unusually early ags was he appointed Lady Superior In the Convent of Bl. Maximilian la the r CONDUCTED BY W. C. EDITORIAL 1 THE BESIEGED. post-morte- s tomers. Other saloons may close, one. like Tennyson's brook, T. furrver." M. CHARPIE and during all thla time the Berkeley W. C. T. U. haa home a t Although all legislatures that ro-- i Berkeimportant part in the vrae this yaar, Including Uii uf ley le nearly as largestruggle. as Ugden. A enrraspondeut there to the Union il'tth, are being closely watchrd by the liquor lobhlests for laws aimed at Signal, writes; We want all while .the traffic, and thousands of dollars rllibnuera to know of the victory. hav been placed In a fund to block Truly our Lord hath triumphed glorisuch legislation, several slates have ously." passed laws cither restricting or pro"An effort will be made to pans a hibiting ths traffic. Thera Is scarcely state that has dentine temperance Instruction law not one or mure hills aimed at liquor at the present session of the l.laho selling up for consideration, and It I legislature. Mr. C. K. Bralnard ot going to be a hard matter for even a Iayutte Is lookiug after the Intereai vigilant liquor lobby to effectually of the hill," says the Union Signal. "watch our la all direction! at once. Mrs. Bralnard was for many years The fort la the traffic Is being hard a member iff tha Ogden W. C. T. ft, pressed and has begun to snarl vici- and ao doubt received her Inspiration ously aad fight rather wildly and more from her preseui effort from the Utah or Ims openly. Isw ou that aulijert. "So shlnea a goid law Ig a naughty world. TWO NEW PROHIBITION STATES. Uroy Waller, chief of police In SpoTennessee has Just passed a hill kane, Washington, has issued orders providing for the extension of the to his officers and policemen to enAdams law to the entire elate, thus force he curfew law. requiring youths to keep off the streets after placing Tennessee In the Hat iff o'clock in the evening, end roads: Itoya under Is practically certain. This Is a four mile law prohibit- 17 ycura of ago must not smoke ciing saloons within four mile of a garettes, snj girls and luiys under that school nr church.' age must heap off Ihe street after 9 Th Oklahoma legislature has Just p. m. Miss Kate U. Hubbard, matron of voted to submit to a vote of the people a state prohibition law. The final the Juvenile court, la credited wlta the framing of Uie new regulation. result U a foregone conclusion. In opposition to HU the enemy subOne of the members of the Ogdt-mitted first a state dispensary bill W. C. T. who has Just returned then a high license Lw. and finally a from a trip to the State of Oregon, local option law, but the enthuslaaile over the "dry tun ns legislator la knsw what the people wanted and and cities of Oregon. Bhe said In a were not to ba sidetracked. speech before our local union that the Both houses passed the bill by general air of prosperity, culture anl happiness in those saluonleipi tuwp majorities. was a revelation to her and that a'l Utah need to surpass Oregon or any HERE AND THERE. other alaie la to get rid of the saA typographical error caused this loons. That'S right, too. No place could ao department. Iasi week, to make tho statement that ten member of the ahead uf Utah tf she was just rl.l of this that retards h.r legislatures In alne different statehad been elected by the Prohibition prosperity. party. It should have read twenty members, as the original article from PERHAPS THEYLL SHOW US. which we gleaned . the Information of them aa a score. We don't The legislature of Missouri h is bepoke want to rob the temperance party of fore It a prohibition bill. This Is th half Its glory. first measure favoring the prohibition of the liquor traffic Introduced In th- Colorado and Idaho are two of the Missouri legislature In twenty yeara. slates that have local option bills be The bill prus'ldes fur the submitting fore their legislature. These laws to the voter at the ata'c election, to will permit each county to rote for be held in November, 180g. an amendItself m the question of whether or ment to the constitution prohibitin'; not liquor as a beverage shall tie old lu Missouri. Ihe msnufartiire. within its borders. It Is thought that giving away, or transportation ufsail,! the law will pass In Idaho. vlnou. malt, dial tiled snd fcraii-ntciThs minoU legislature Is the scene intoxicating liquor." of a gigantic struggle between We hope the hill will pn-tho j Interests aad the people over a rater will approve the actionand of local option MU. The bill stands a legislature liy .1 huge majority vme ehanes of passing, though the larg Central Christian Advocate distillers and brewers of Chicago ivo fighting ft bitterly. ONE SALOON. suit, , r l, tn - i. -- "Beautiful Berkeley," the seat of iho University of California has banlshe-- i the saloon. For eight years the temperance forces of the efty have bce.i endeavoring to bring about this r inmates of the Institution should be free aa possible to devote them-selve- s to work among tha poor. One iff these servants died suddenly, anj a examination of her body showed that aba died from the ef fects of poison tskrn In her afternoon coffee. No aoouer was this discovery a that they hare been drinking there, and In fort aonie of ttie of the saloon have even Juetlrd church-goeroff the sidewalk In I heir efforts to regain their equllbreum. This saloon may have been close! entirely one nr two Sundays, hut if no no ons ever noticed It or missed seeing the usual string of back door cus- COMMITTEE MISS MABEL COOLIDGE MISS LEOTA S. KENNEDY SlMWWBIiMfiBtlBlWiTOia CLAYTON ENEMY AI t the Convent of 8t. MaiimlUlau who were employed In order that the Inference la TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT uT - Maalalltas Ctaaaaat, aa Wlwas Piaettfstty gaaaaaaa mb Bawlar Waa CUartclaS perlor, and related how, on the day of the tragedy, she had seen the Baroness creep down stairs to the servants quartern and pour a powder Into a cup of coffee which the aervant had prepared for heraelf. Minna Wagner was unable to explain why she v had failed to raise the alarm sad thereby aver the death of her fellow servant, but she stuck obstinately tu her story. That a woman uf Baroness vou Heualera reputation and antecedents should have been guilty of such an act seemed at first Incredible to those who conducted the preliminary Investigation. But after listening to the various stories which several of the nune voluntarily told about the Lady Superior It no longer appeare. so outrageously Inconsistent with her immr-Ulatel- THE EAEOkEBB VOg HKIBLER IV THE DOCK, fea Ikatcw MaSa Is Oas rt Parlaa tks lint Trial id tta SUM NMSI MRS. BL wxeux. Goea oa Now, we have no hard feelings toward the proprietor thereof, but he should obey the law, and whatever he may know to the contrary, moat of ui can see no reason why he should be aa exception, with the police de- partment. Sunday even-Sunda- ' eh :i!ii une-thlr- d Sunday la the day when even drinking men should be at home with the'.r delicate coating of the stomach and families, if they have one, aad If th- y of himself a chronic dnpep-tlc- . have not. they need the real" anyway, making and so, by Ike way, dnea the saloonThe trial brought out the fart that keeper need the rest and bla famll the few other ingredients were none nee, hia presence on that day of them known to be good for catarrh Xo onlooker eaa help wishing that or any of the diseases for which ft la he had as much Influence with the advocated and yet this cure (?) la aa this saloonkeeper once more braaenly city officers advertising la the geems to have. and printing pictures and Hues a certain little gate need tu papers, uf and even have a padlock on. over Sunday with idgea and governors. Xo doubt wmie the key kept at police. headquarters? of. them are actually .genuine testimonials. too, given by people who alOGDEN DRUG STORES. ways feel ' better after taking a "duae. The saloonkeepers of Ogden have reason to complain that they art beTHE CANTEEN AGAIN. - ing unjustly discriminated against. They have to pay a yearly license for dram selling, while certain H ug stores that aril as much aa some of the do. pay no licenses. They arj commanded to close on Sunday whle the liquor selling drug store serve patrons all day long on Sunday. One drag store has had the tlo ftir year of l(elng a sort ofrepula woman a saloon, or wine room. P OT of ,hat drn g Mom know what I want when he sees me romlng. said one woman to a friend and then went on to nay that, she was In the habit of buying liquor there. Several complaint have come t.. the W C. T. P. lately about drug atore selling fancy drinks to buy and girl that have either Intuxlrated them or sent them home with breath smelling strongly of liquor. Of cuiirae all these complaint are usually wound up with "Of ronrsr 1 wouldn't want my name mentioned. etc. It I not tn he wondered at that parent s.are loath to hrlng themselves anil their children Into notoriety b proxccuilng these drag stores and vet It would ho no disgrace to themselves to do ao. and It may have both ents and children trouble and the pardisgrace later on if a "atln-HIT. What can parent expect n organization with nu proof except "hear aav to accomplish if hei themselves wh. have the proof fall tu ad. After all It ought to tie onlv necea-aarto call llu- - n: tent Inn of the muvnr Jim chief of polioo to the Mate of and aa running the nffiilr of the cli Is suppiu-eto lie their chief it ought not l0 lie verv fur thorn to smn secure the evidence for runviction. One liquor selling drug store nunc harm In an hour han a can dj saloon can do in a week. af-fa- nec-canar- y A PATENT MEDICINE? frtaln well known catarrh cure I . ) which is able to print many photoforenoon and graphs of well known and handaoms f people on people In Its evening hundred advertisements was reavc witnesses to cently the subject of a civil trial In rt ,1"t n,,,n rp coming from Si racuhc. X T. it.,'!- - of a errtiiin T.i The rcMilt of the trial which law cl Every ! but th'a flva days, waa that no drug atore lu New York state ran sell It without a liquor license, f The result of aa analysis of alx bottle bought In the open market by the excise department showed 27 per cent alcohol and 73 per cent water with only a trace of aubeb, burned eugar, ginger and mineral ash. Soma analyse uf the aaiue medicine haa revealed aa high aa 2! per cent of alcohol, fn other words when a total abstainer taken a tahleapoonful of the medicine (?i he takes of it a raw alcoboj and In a day's time taken as much alcohol as many moderate beer drinkers do. Let the same person take the aame amount of raw spirits Into the mouth and hold It there for n minute and he will liegla to realise Just how he la beurnlng the The brewers andwlne merchant and distiller seem never to have lost hope that they ran again invade the United States army. They aeem tu have forgotten that congress put them and their warei out of Ihe army only after they had deliberated eight yeara over the matter. It was not a hastily enacted meas- ure. They must also have forgotten that congress appropriated a large sum of money for reading rootiii and gymnasium. and that at some poata these place have Just been completed. At other they are In procea of building while in still other thev have not yet lieeu begun. These buildings were to art as eounter attractions to outside amtireinent. It Is will not unlikely that congre give this new plan a fair trial. Again ilici have failed In rount on Ihe fact that they have no aiatistlca to show congress. They nim shout This thing is a failure; see how drunkenness and court martin: have Increased. until are Mark they in the face, hut If they can't quote the army atatistlcs to prove it ami they cannot of what force will the mere assertion be? One of the stories rent out bv the liquor ie to ihe effect that ai Phorims. Va.. near Fortress Monroe. theie were only about a dozen In the days when the had a canteen, "bin now therearmy are more than forty saloons." The Phoebus' Sentinel of Dee. 21. I!":, saa: "It la an Infamous slan der; ihe entire article contains nothing hut misstatement. . . Prior to the closing of the canteen there were licensed place and now the number haa been reduced to twentv-elgh- t fifty-fiv- e The truth of the matter I that the twenty eight saloons In Phoebus at the present time visited more or less by soldiers, attract the at fort Ion of the canteen advocate, while the ft ft v. five saloons under the old regime did not Interest him at all. The Union Signal says: "Accord ing to the I .os Angeles Times when Tmon,Pn Appealed for !v 'Y' the abolition of the canteen congress waa peMI-'capestvrtd' au.l 'aurron- - r' 5 t character. For these nuns deplete-her a a species of feminine Jakyli and Hyde, wfta appeared to the onto; world a a saint, but revealed herself within the convent walls aa a treacherous, tyraalcsl woman who would at nothing to attain her ends. The result of these disclosures waa that one day aa officer uf police, with lx uniformed men' under bla command, drove up to tbc Convent of St. Maxiuiilllaa. and, demanding admittance la the name of the law, arrested Baroness voa Heualer on a charge of murder. The public prosecutor took up the case with great vigor. When the tlal took pure the conspiracy agaiaat Barones von Heualer was carried out with terrible surresa. The principal witness for the crown gave her evidence under oaib and her testimony could not be shaken la any one detail by the cross examining lawyers. The evidence given by the malcontent nuns deprived the Baroness uf tha support of. the simng presumption of innocence in her favor which would have had great weight with the Jurr had her character not been thus assailed. She was found guilty and sentenced to penal servitude for life. When the verdict wah made knows and sentence pasted Barones von Heualer, with a shriek of despair, fell tailing In the dock of the court of Justice uud was carried out inuenalble to duff her nun's attire and to don the coarse uniform of a convict. ' She did not regain consciousness nntll she was In the prison In which she had to serve her sentence, and then she came hack to life to find herself In a smal hare cell, with stone walU and a e floor and a rough blank bed in the corner and nothing but araw to soften Its hardness. According to the custom In Germany la the ease of prisoner convicted for extremely serious crimes. Baroness voa Heualer spent the first year of her term in aulitary confinement. Her cell waa twenty font In length by twelve feet In width, and contained nothing but tha blank bed, a small wooden chair. The window, heavily barred, waa so high up that the unfortunate prisoner could scarcely look through it even when standing oa her single chair. Aad then all that met her gaxe was a bare wall. She saw human ben ings twice a day she waa taken out for her fkerdss. laming one hour, and when her cell waa Inspected to make aura everything was In order. Apart from this, Baroness von Heualer spent all the long, weary hours of day and night la awful solitude. The merely physical sufferings of a woman of ! gply-wha- her class, gently nurtured aad brought a mass of evidence la Baron., ap in refinement, were terrible enough Header, favor. yet they were insignificant compared Wagner, the witness with the mental sufferings caused by thaa any other, had brought abiuFk? the unmerited disgrace which had fal- conviction, died at a critiral & len npoq her name, Looking hack oa this period cf aoti-ttr- y ecnfinemeat. It seems surprising that the unfortunate woman waa not driven mad by her experiences - Days and weeks aad mouths passed, and still she was suffering Indescribable agonies In the appalling solitude of her miserable cell. At times rfie broke out into wild fits of Impotent fury aad threw herself against the atone walls of her prison with the idea of terminating her unhapiness by suicide. When them temporary f resiles had passed, leaving her humble and penitent ami ashamed of her Inclination to destroy heraelf. aha used to fall into the depths of despair and spend dand weeks la a kla-- certain editorial parabear extraordinary resemgraph blance to each other. A reader wonders whether the same pen did not iirlglnallv write them all. If ae, whose pen?" can In tone. Too much haa been said about the "unwritten law and too little about the majesty of the laws by which all Americana are supposed to be governed, whether they are rich men or poor. If the Ogdea papers guarded the THE: DOUBLE STANDARD. finer sensibility of their readers during that trial aa the editor of one of The Judge of tha court at tha grant them claimed, then they should that "Jerome-Delmaatrial now In prog- for have our sincere thanks. ress la New Ydrk haa excluded women But ths manner In which some edspectators from tha court room. itors wallowed editorially. In the Although thla la hard oa our sex and filth of that trial waa a nauseating calls attention to tha fact that a num- sight and more disgusting thaa anyber of them were willing to listen to thing that waa said by the witnesses. the details of the trial we were glad the order waa given. ROLL AWAY THE STONE. But what shout the men," asked a man Indignantly. "Sbuldn't they he It la hard to n.ake a mother believe, excluded, too? All the Judges are ver aa ahe weepr over the lifeless fora careful about the morale of the wo- of her am, that the glass of wine or men, In a trial of that kind. They act beer waa not loaded. aa If the men's .moral couldn't be It la hard to make the Jnry of 10 hurt any." 000,000 persona of this nation believe Well, the fact la w dont expect they look at the footprints of ths anything better than morbid and dis- drunkard leading from the happy pome eased curiosity lg the men. But we aad Ita environments to the wine expect something better of the wo- rooms, the beer garden and ths saloon men. Talk aa you please, man la the and from, there to prison, the asylum 'weaker vessel" when It comes to and the that the Intoxicating real strength of rharacter. and we are liquors ofgrave, the dramshop were not the always surprised when women fall be- cause of hia foil from manhood ard low the higher standard that our sex Intelligence and hl death in disgrace. haa unconsciously act up. for Itself. If we believe In the teachings of But certainly Judges could do much Christ and the w pray to raise the standard of their own sex to God for the truth, before If they would exclude all unnecessary our state or oursalvation of our city, nation, why not tell Spectators without discrimination. where we have laid them and then roll It haa been said that women alone away the weight of the saloon are responsible for the "double stan- trust that heavy home wrecker, that child dard of moral! for men and women, that mind but here la one com among many, torturer, that man destroyer, that soul crusher, an.l that hell feeder, where a man a Judge haa act up a from the door of the sepulcher? double standard. n " If the millionaire who Is on trial for murder In New York Cltv manages lo elude the law, it will be because of the excellent newspaper service which hi millions was able to act in motion. "We must have a double staff of reporters." said the murderer and he was evidently able to "secure them. Even such writers as Homer Davenport and Winifred Black, were her liberty after three and a lulf of Imprisonment. Perhaps the most amazing fen,,,., of the new trial was the complete traction of their former statements the various members of the hood of Hr. Mmii,n whniI gt,.r . a, TRIAL. V C0Urt After cuq.' new evidence the sidering of appeal ordered a Judge and Jury Munich and resulted in the trlmunh.m acquittal of the Baroness, who , THE COKVKhT GV BT. MAXIHtLIAK. Xsr M natch, af VUU linua vaa H assise Waa AMaaa. of mental stupor the result of entire mony to the discredit of the Baroness lack of hope. had appeared so damning when given At the expiration of one year of soli- at1 the first hearing of the case. One retary confinement tha Baroness waa and all of them declared that they had moved from her lonely cell and set to bsea mistaken' in giving their former work. Thli waa aa Improvement la evidence, and thua at tha close iff tbs her lot, for she was employed occa- trial not one of the Imputations origsionally la tha company of other pris- inally mads agaiaat tha former abbas oners for six or seven hours la tha remained undemoliihed. The judge day, and consequently 'waa relieved, of in discharging bar. Mid it was lacom- -' the torture of uolltude. But la tbs prehenslble how ahe could have been tasks assigned to her no regard was convicted In 1901 shown for her former position. Shs Barone as von Heusler Is thus ones waa treated Jnst like the rest of the mors aa honored member of society. convicts. Sometimes ehe worked at This fact haa been officially recognised basket making, sometimes at making by hey presentation at ths Bavarian sacks of coarse material, at other court. At the time ahe waa convicted times at the humblest kind of meals! of murder ahe waa formally expelled labor. from the holy order to which ehe beMeanwhile some of her friends who longed, and since her release ehe hat had never lost faith in her Innocence nut resumed the veil. She is now worked diligently In her behalf. By living quietly not for from Munich. dint of strenuous efforts they collected RUDOLPH VON ELPHBERG. dered la despair.' Permitting wo- the editors who hate to print ft save men to run the army then waa a their own aelf respect to a certain exBat now tha t tent, by omtlttlng to comment oa tha preposterous Idea.' these women uf another aort (yea, details? Also could not the black letter bead verily) are appealing for the restoration of beer at the poet exchange, lines be saved for something of really they are forsooth. Women to the res- international Importance? If war with cue! It "makes a difference. It would Japan had broken out In the midst of seem, what sort of women are p re- that trial we wonder how the attenmitted to run tba army,' and perter' tion of the public rcould have ben congress. called to It or how It could have relt is nob to he supposed that the ceived the promlnefice It would degreat multitude of men and women serve with the big scare heads all la In the churches and In other organisuch common use. sations standing aide by aide with tha Editors may bemoan the taste of W. ; T. I", on thla canteen question the public, but there la no gainsaywill be Cawerved from their convicing the fact that they have a great tions by such yellow attacks. The responsibility in helping to mould tone of them repels clean think that taste and by the six of btad-llnevery Ing person and reminds one to con etc., emphaalxe or belittle anjr alder tha wtnrca!!' piece of newa at pleasure. For the Associated Prohibition Only a very few of the editorials on Press calls attention to the fact that thla trial have been aane and Ameri- A MILLIONAIRE'S E fresh obstacle la the way if eaa von Heualer uJ supporters they ascertained that the Wagner man always had been hysteric,! J"? mentally deficient, and that dence ought never to have been In line with the foregoing item, maybe that mother of thla city whoso twelve-year-ol- d boy waa brought homo to her a few days ago, too drunk to walk alone, doe believe that the wine cr beer waa loaded. Maybe, too. tho mother and fathers represented In that sleighing party of bova, school boys, when one poor boy almost stepped across death's river, do believe that the glaa or glasses were poison to the very depths.-Againwhsse boya were the tbftc who could hardly get up the hill a few nights ago. because of the deadly stuff. Tf not your own boy, n.aybe it was your next 'door neigh bor1 boy. Were it your boy or mine, the glasa of cofor look different. Lets sweep our city cleaner, so that our boya may be strong and clean aad , ment with ua and brought ua to np per. The men ordered wine, u III my chum, and ao aa to be game I wine also, which I regret la this dY, aa I believe it made ms r things which I would not hav mM otherwise. I told the young man I was with It Was the flrat time I bad ever takae, aad be said he regretted it very mneh. I told- him it was my flrat aad lu, but the following week be met me at a restaurant and there waa wine ea the table, but be said ha did not believe me, and that I would ba liable to lake It with any follow. I regret It so much that I would do anything to get back hia respect, aa I think a good deal of him. I meet him occax-- 1 tonally, but be merely peaks very - N. T. Z. Now, glrle. If any of you have any doubte ae to men's opinions oa girl drinking Intoxicants the above letter may settle them. There Is not one man la a hundred wpo llkea to see a girl drinking cocktails. highballs, etc. Men may urg" you to drink, but they think more of you If you refuse. Y. Z. aaknowledged that ahe coldly- .K. talked unwisely after having had something to drink. Thera la always danger of that. Ym know the old laying, "Wtae In, wh out." In thla ease I think the young mig haa been unforgiving. The girl only took the wine once, and sincerely repented having done so. He ahoaU have seen that her repentance wai genuine and advised her to never toueh it again. It coaraena the nature aa wen a tha face. Women's heads an ao( strong, and the moment a womrt drinks spirits she begins .to talk foolishHer. face flushes and her eye , grow glassy. Ho woman, . whether old er youa. th can afford to drink. .It makes, young women look old, and: ft make the old women look older. you can't imagine nay woman attractive la Untie rtreumitaaces, . eaa you? ; kMfc-la- g ft woman A naturally refined make coarse or vulgar remarks when under the Influence of Intoxicants countenance t that affected her to such a : touch Intoxicants, glrta; healtfcsatisfied with your youth and Ut the only spirits you indulce U h the spirits of youth aud.hPF degra-Don- r. . - less By those rang grata whose hooka might be touched by prahiBj ttom our attention Is : tearfully RTr partition tly- called to "labor." bor, they say.-would- - j' suffer food lack of employment If the ntaau Aaw tore of liquor was stopped. from the drunkenness and crime r debauchery that 'whiskey' today ke upon the back of the working thane I an actual gala to labor m prohibition of the use of Intoxlew; For out of each WOO spent for llQr labor receives but 91.99. the ; labor cost per hundred dollaraof OM-I- f other manufactured article profit So you aee that labor actaaii. lost 1 nearly the total coat of the tv tall price of liquor, for the wMW class are the largest consumer atJ-will have something harder. than the calamity howl " tha unemployed, when nearly 9V acant of the financial return to tM quor Interests la pure velvet aPpl. rently engaged In creating sentiment favor of tho millionaire nuirdrrvr. And now notwithstanding the foct that this man and the one be killed as well aa the woman who was wronged all belonged to the under world In ri'lte of their wealth, the papers hare been, editorially, many of them, begood. coming mawkish over the "Chivalry "f one and the wifely loyalty" of WOMEN AND DRINKING.-- " It mar be that ths public, a cert an (By Beatrice Fairfax.) portion uf It. demanded the details of Dear Miss Fairfax: this trial, but why the details of thla I am 19 years old' and .would Uke particular trial when there are ao to have Th average man works gnd many trials Just about like It? U there Over a your advice on the following: year ago my chum and I met a good deal of. hia time for is demand for the details could not two young men, who made an engage keepers. aeir-sam- e IB Joke that N bar right mind, ahe would be horrified . She le aluply not reiponslbl for what she says or does.. But (ha w responsible for having taken the Aria will F - ? |