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Show I T . BLEW UP THE JlAlIXId. WOMAN IN LEWISTOWN SAW THE DARK DEED. W4rfil (1m a Hckeld Slbn lmrlwnl U w sift CMtW, Errj rrlm la at imp of Ik HE weird story o ( PolMathias, th ish Jaw, who convicted himself of the murder of the peddler, while un- der the hands of tb may WhMt h outdone in this modern day by th revelations a wo man has made on the horrors of the Maine. The destruction of th battleship I still a mystery. Was It an accident T Was It a deliberate murder? Not even the war that was fought on account of it fettled the question to the satisfaction of the world for all time to come. Yet a strange story of it comes from the East It !a the story of a clairvoyant, a member of that mystic brotherhood that reads In dreams the fate of men. With graphic truth the story of the Maines destruction was told by Mrs, Geo. K. Leslie, the wife of a druggist of Lew- iston, Me, - Her education does not- go beyond that Which falfhrul children obtain in an ordinary country school. Ebs Is not h traveled woman, for she has never crossed tha borders of her native state. Of the world. Its highways and byways, shs knows nothing. Bbe is a good, gentls woman, a house-- . wl nJ a mother, but she has the gift of a seer, almost as great as that of the prophet who foretold and described the fall' of ancient Jerusalem. bpni. rutted sut that o a Spanish Officer. ' While la br trance she described B,,orm jeM minutely Havana harbor with Its menacing Morro castle. She told of the batteries, whose belching fires sought to carry destruction to the enemy. The Maine with its polished deck. Its whits siflei, its hatch, its quivering masts, was described by her, who had never stood on the gang plank of mors than a small river boat The officers of the watch, pacing the moonlit deck, the guards, the sailors stealing dbwa to their quarters, the captain within th security of Ms own cabin, all had a place In her trance vision of that beautiful ship, tying tranquilly In the softly billowing waters moored to an iron buoy. The good woman was pus-sle- d sbout tbs stability of tha chip. She could see no anchor, she told her husband, but described the buoy as an clairvoyant THE v j j - Her these modem appliances does not' ye NICHOLAS GBEAT beyond tie switchboard of a. telephrs U-- x. office, and she was not even famlltM with the workings of that Two men. DESERVED TITLE OF THE CZAR ahe said, were in the room, dressed in OF RUSSIA, the uniform of Spanish officers. She described the color of the cloth, the l xlrtiwl Faara PlweUauxio Ha stripe on the trousers and on the TwrJ the SWMUn at Ske Wkwte sleeves, the gilded epaulettes, and tha World Toward Ik MM Fwrfml number pf buttons. She saw a toll Mooarok Eartk. man, bent with age, with Iron-gra- y beard and hair remonstrath In a language wbh h she could not understand marks aa epoch with a younger brother officer. Thi human history latter was short and stocky, with a when the most scar or biithmark upon his face, whik powerful man in was partially hidden by a short the world begins a cropped black heard. Aa the old man campaign for uniremonstrated the younger one seemed versal peace. It in to be pleading earnestly for permission one of the rosy to do something. The former listened rays that herald with an expression of horror to the the advent of the youngers tory, and held hie hands milienlal dawn. aloft In a depraatlng gesture. The The London younger man grew more and more Chronicle calls the czar's peace proeiclted, the older more horrified posal the most striking document of the century," and the Loudon Tele- Finally, terror at r if ken beyond exgraph says. "Rarely, if ever, was thers pression. the latter left the room. Tb door clicked In the lock and the man s more Important document in the hiswith the scar rushed toward a matory of the world. Comparatively lit-- , hogany frame upon the wall which tie is known of the personality of the was filled with brass keys. Quickly absolute autocrat of 130,000,000 living he pulled a plug from one hole and j beings. Up to the time of hia accei-slo- n to the throne on Nov. 1, 1894, he drove it Into the other. From the room In Cabanas fortress the clair- j lived largely in retirement. Consequently people waited with some anxievoyant's mind raced back to the battleship, and simultaneous with the ty for some act that would enable them change the young officer had made In to form an opinion of him One of his the keys on the switchboard there first acts was to dismiss the police guards of an sorts charged with the came a terriffic explosion, T duty of It seemed to the seeress as If mil- tection. attending to Ms personal prolions of the giant firecrackers whim a man of Nicholas II. is beyond doubt courage. He Inherited this the youngsters of had exvirtue from bis grandfather. He Is a ploded In front of her husband'a store fatalist, and believes the hour of on the glorious Fourth bad been a man's death is fixed that in the designs of hurled into the battleship. She deGod. At the beginning of his reign, scribed the flames, the smoke, the he made the following noble declare rain ofdebrls, composed of fragments to live and to die fpr want, "I, tiop; of the ship and 'of human bodies. She Russia. It matters little to me where gave articulation to the cries of disor how I may meet my death In tress and pain, the .confusion, the ter- - spite of his courage, however, the possibility of a nihilist outrage la always MRS. GEO. K. LESLIE. Iron cask. From the ship the clair- voyant's vision carried her back to Morro caatle and Cabanas fortress. Quickly. traveled through, reception parlors, the office of the commandants, describing the color and style of the furniture and the musket powers have been tasted on various occasions by her neighbors, have long been cognisant of her mystic power. Thin does not mean that -- 1 he -- 1 ombl gists wife is a She professional. shrinks from publicity, and. speaks of her gift to no one. Not ever her will ahe let . name be known. Her husband Is usually the only Confidante of her strange revelations. The night s He tf aw excellent swordsman, a ears pistol shot and an accomplished horseman. Unlike many Russians, h is Intolerant of hard drinking, and punishes his soldiers severely for any transgressions In this respect. In appearance he bears no resemblance to his father, Alexander 111. The r has traveled considerably, and baa paid several visits to England. During a tour around the world, hts life was attempted by a Japanese fanatic, bnt he was saved by Prince George of Greece, who warded off the blow with hit n staff It is said that the czars fathsr was continually impressing upon his children the horrors of war. He used frequently to tell his children aneedotes of What be had seen when in th campaign at Bulgaria, and he never lost an opportunity of Insisting upon his one great moral, namely, that war was dreadful, horrible, beastly! May God keep you, he would add. from ever seeing it, or from ever drawing a sword. The life of the esar is by no means a romantic holiday. It Is a ceaseless round of hard work. Prince Lobanoff, one of the czar's eloeeet advisors. describes as follows the duties of a czar- "The task of an absoluts emperor In a dominion so vast as that of Russia is a crushing one. far exceeding the strength of one man. however great may be his capacity for work or his intelligence. The Emperor Alexander III., with bis loyal devotion to his duties, wished to accomwhole of his task, plish his tAk-t- he lie sometimes remained at his desk up to 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning, and then fell upon his bed utterly worn out. He died tn the flower of his age, entife- ly owing. I am convinced,' to an excess of hard w ork. well-wor- - HEAD OF THE MORMONS. Lorenzo Snow, tbe newly 'chosen president of the Latter Day Saints, is one of the moit forceful characters in Mormondom. He Is an Ohioan by PHILIPPINE ORDERS. SEALS AND STAMPS USED SECRET SOCIETIES. BY - V Evki rally Adapt Sma of Odd taUaarablp aid tb HoatUlt t Tfcale Fra Maaoary National Krllf too. Maay Itcalgaa laigla Letter.) HE Philippines srs commonly reported to be tbe moat ungovernable people of the far east, perhaps as a result of having been for centuries among tbe worst governed. The attention was Phiuppi .of this country to the attracted Philippines, when the Spanish-America- n war broke out, by the rebellion then in progress against Spanish power. The rebellion wag the result, according to its sympathizers, of the tyranny and oppression exercised by the religious orders of Manila, who. under the archbishop, largely monopolized the administration of affairs in the islands. Tbe loyal Spaniards, on the other hand, found the cause of all the trouble in the Innumerable secret so letles of the Philippines The conflict has been called that of Frlara against Free. Masons, it would be unfair to the great or ganization of Free Masons to say that they are in any way responsible for tbe deeds that have been done In their name in the Philippines, but that the rebebs have attempted to associate themselves with the renowned order is , evident from the photographs heie giv(Special who SE M.S AND STAMPS. (Believed to Have Been Used By Various Branches of the Katipunan, the Philippine Natives Secret Society ) which followed the destruction of the Maine, and before cable and telegraph wires flashed the dreadful news over tbe globe, the Lewiston seeress had another trance. It cams upon her In tbe night, and filled with fear of what waa revealed to her, ahe roused her husband from hi sleep and told him what ahe aaw. He got up, took pencil and paper and wrote down every word of the weird tale she unfolded. Next day he sent it to Senator Frye. The 8enator, who Ja well acquainted wRh the. wife of hla constituent, and knows her. to .be n woman of utmost character and respectability, submitted the statement to the Secretary of the Navy with a cordial indorsement. It was not made public then, because the country was at fever heat, and It would have but added fuel to the tense excitement. Now comes the strange part ef the narrative. The druggist's wife had never seen n battleship, a fortification or a castle. In her waking hours she could probably not have pictured the excitement on board the ships In the harbor and on the land, the sink ing of the vessel as -- THE SEERESS AND SAW. WHAT racks along tbe walls. In the stillness of th night the tsie was doubly weird. Through the fortifications of Cabanas she hastened and entered s room filled with electrical apparatus. Her ken of DEATH IN WIRE. out alowly, and with it tbe reason of her frantic husband. Attracted br her cries, Davoust and a party of friends Hsitsai L'rmsy. . tied to her assistance, and only th In the Alameda morgue Mrs. Mastrengtn of his friends prevented him lies Davoust her body for a time from dead, rshall leaping on the awful sad atrlped from tbe lashing But at th moment when It belt. (Wsfee-reltvVclcctrlc and wire, of came apparent twat death had stopped even 1 n death by tbe awful agonAw of the sufferings of his wife be broke o Fran-ciscrecent San electi&ocutton, says a Sway and wire with both Edispatrh. So sadly deranged that hands, onlyehitebedj to be thrown back sensebn nefW may wake to know hts loss, - Marshal Davoust, the dead woman's less at the feet of the now discarded Th wires work was done. ts confined In the care of corpse. husband his darkened Pearl street AHtfriends Ktcrtring. A Topeka boy with the homw Ftath came suddenly and awarray at Sanfully to fkavousts handsome wife, a tiago has written to his home folk as literal volt from the heavens that in follows: I hav received the paper an lastai.fi. wrecked as happy a home which says I was killed and am buried found la nil Alameda. In Cuba. I am not ,as can b feeling so bedogged-l- y Though fmarrled for, four years, the lively n this hot hole, but still I honeymoim of the Davouste has never am Inclined to disbelieve the report. for an Ini tant wane. and It was with In fact, 1 am pretty certain I am that IhPWc of ne periodical pleasure jaunts alive, but not so sure about not being in prospect Mhat they left their home burled. It look a grave- New like last evening I to eaten at th Versailles yard around here.-mightily York Trib-un- e. station th si 4i narrow-gaug- e train for . 'Pali fraoclf Iq, Mr. Davoust made for Halt Th depot ify the front gate, but his Tha the Does The poet Tennyson's sympathy with wife took 9 shorter way through the back gate find across a vacant lot. On animals le shown by a w story told Fnctnal AVenue, near th lot through tn hts Memoir." A beautiful setter which ahe passed, she came 1b contact was glyeh him. At midnight It sudthat the new dog with tJ wire that for two weeks had denly struckj-hihnngwpparently loose and harmless might feel hungry and lonely, so fron one Of the citys light pole, end went downstair and stole a chicken for over ten minutes that harmless for Dear Old Don." Great was the wife held her with death's tenacity, colter nation In the kitchen . next vtd the 1,000 volts of scorching, twitt- morning as to what had become if the ing fluid that was In It burned her life chi-keCart the Life ef a Wife ssS Drove th . ' V SHE lt Ta-Da- y. well-know- he flres,j Went out, and all was burled beneath the mass of surging waters. The druggist had written down hie w ife's trance narrative verbatim. This statement was sent to Senator Frye the moment the news of the destruction of the Maine shocked present In his mind. The dismissal of the world from pole to pole. It the police guard nevertheless created has been shown to those most an excellent impieesion upon the subfamiliar with the situation n Cabajects of the caar. William T. Stead, in nas fortress and to Captain Sigsbes of n character sketch ef the young ruler, the Maine. The latter declared that aays: the description of his ghlp aud It "little is known of the czar but what la good. He was reared in a home .surroundings, m given hj the Lewiston woman, was accurate! to the miwhich waa a modal of the domestic nutest detail. Those who know Cabavirtues, and both father and mother nas were never more surprised than united their efforta to train him up in at the mental photograph drasn by the path which sowed good in their the woman, who had not the sttghtesuL10" What that path waa we nan Idea of tbe place. Well understand by gtancing at the history of the late re?gu. Alexander III. g It 'a a mile on land, but knot at sea waa a cautions, pacific, man, who waa devoted to his country and tn his church, who troubled himLAMB THAT HAD EIGHT LEGS. self little about speculations either in church or state. He was a man withThe marketman whose trade Inout nmbitlons other than the discharge cludes a good demand for legs of laifib of his duty, and he ever labored under would jump at an opportunity to sen sense of the onerous character of the cure an animal like the picture above. obligations which he had sworn to fuld This wonder was born th fill at his coronation." It Is said that Nicholas II. detests luxury, especially at the table. Th breakfasts at his court are made up of the simplest courses, and few guests are Invited. When attending official feasts he cannot help but give evidence of weariness, but when among intimates he likes to joke and to laugh. Contempt for etiquette is remarkable in nil hts habits. Alexander HI. went through the street of St. Petersburg with a brilliant escort. Nicholas It. His goee out in an open carriage. father had the street through which be passed guarded by cavalry. Nicholas II. abolished that custom, and most of the time the police are utterly Ignorant of tbe course tbe Imperial carriage will take. Tbe etiquette of the court ts also less severe under the present czar than under his predecessor. Everybody can approach the sovereign. Nicholas II. ia an ardent believer In the education of the masses,' snd it Is said that he will win the title Imperial educator of the people." just WOULD HAVE DELIGHTED A one of hie predecessors merited that a BUTCHERS HEART. Franc and was killed by accident ef imperial liberator." The czar Is now 30 years of age. He shortly after birth. entered the army at 18 and is an ardent Don't stand In front of bars txo soldier. His regiment of hussars Is much or you may get behind them. said to be th smartest o! the service. truth-speakin- Ka-tagal-u, quasl-Mason- GREAT. birth, and, strange to say. Is a graduate of the OberiJn college, the alma mater of many languished men before him. Mr. Fow had heard of tha Mormons and was tm Introduced Into their circle by a visit to his sisters at Klrtland, Ohkz, whloh waa then a Mormon center. , He became convinced that th book of Mormon was tbe truth, and, being a man Of decided character, he determined to give up life to the cause. As anlssionaryr tn the Mormon religion he traveled It home and abroad, end hia labors Were always successful. There is sesreely a place In the United States which he hn not visited on his errand of proselyting, and he has been a member of the Mormon faith from the eaillbat days, when the s," eight-legge- f &&& en, taken on the spot by one of the ablest war correspondents in the far east. One of the illustrations represents a number of the private tokens used as paesporta and for similar purposes among the different bands of rebels. It will be noticed that several n Masonic emblems figure more or less consistently throughout these signs. One of the commonest of the tokens Is that bearing the name of or Tagalu society, the the Tagalus being the most numerous and powerful among the many native tributes of the Philippines. Another photograph is that of a apron used by fhe rebelg at secret meetings, and also worn in battle. The apron now depicted, which was found on the dead body of one of the insurgents after an engagement. Indicates pretty clearly that the brotherhood to whom It belonged aspired to deeds of blood. Nothing further Is needed to prove that the Free Masonry" of the ' Manila insurgents is as remote from that of the real brotherhood as the assassination of enemies Is from honest combination against evils. ic Illustrated Trains The Western of France railway runs an express train in tbe morning from Parts to St. Malo and Para me, the carriages of which have pictures upon them. One has an elephant, another a lyre, another a snake, andso forth. There are anchors, huntsmans hoyns, balloons, trlcolored flags, bunches of grapes, swallows, a pair of scales, a star and an angler with his fishing rod. It is thought that one of these designs will be more readily remembered than a number, and, according to all accounts, passengers are very Before pleased with the innovation. long the Western of France directors hope to have picture trains on all their lines. The man who leaves the train for a drink and can't find his carriage again will appreciate the change, and for over-thirspeople are not snakes just a little too suggestive? ty LOR1NZO SNOW, celebrated Ztor tn Missouri was the hope of the followers of Joseph Smith. Elder Snow Is now eighty-fou- r year old. buTkj in perfect health and possessed of all the keen mental faculties that are requisite for the leadership of the Mormon church. Hhnulda't liar Aakad. I wonder bow it happens Miss Kidd Is always out when 1 Jenkins that call? Plr3Oh, Just her luck. I How Navajo Blaakota Art Xada. The Navajo blankets are made entirely by Navajo squaws, who spend most of their time during the winter In weaving them. At almost any time during this season squaws may be seen at a little distance from their huts seat-- I ed at their looms busily at work. The. ' outfit, says the Boston Transcript, Is extremely simple two sticks on which strings nre hung, a long, flat stick to ram the threads with; one shaped like a cylinder with which to keep them .straight, and a small one like n comb to prevent tangles; nothing more. The wool In these blankets Is taken from, their own sheep and dyed with nature' dyes, .which they make from various herbs. The blankets are need largely for rugs by those who buT them, and will last for fifty yean, the coloring being durable' as well as ths texture. |