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Show ftOMANCC IN WHITTIER LIFE. Probable Dillon Why Quaker Poe Never Married. Th secret of tlio lung hsrhelnr Ufa f Jnlin (. Whlttier, the Quaker I, was revealed by the death In i-ttretua old age? of the woman he. onee Inved and from whom he v.as uiried. Hh: waa Kvellna llray, iKirn In Marhl 1 head. Mix, In Iklii. They attended . trhfMil together an ynuth nnil mnl.len. and living In the aamii tieighliui h.K.d they aaw niui'h .f esrh other. lint when Whlttler went to vli.ll his lore at Ikt homo a llnlo later In llfn he was not admitted to iIk' hniise. Miss llray's parents wc firmly set walnut any lovo affair between ths rnunle. At ll.i ace of 19 Whlttler and Miss llray. ho was hut 17, resolved that they hoiild mrt and never see earn other anslii. The wonder la that they ahoulil have kept the promise. Mlaa Ilruy. moving to the Weal, married mar-ried a clergyman named William H. Downey, who became a street preacher preach-er anil traet distributer In tho fervor of hla seal. When Whlltler died he left eonald-ernhle eonald-ernhle properly, of which tlii.ium waa itevlaed to the "AmeMhury Home for Old Women." aa If In prophetic vlalon of the day, which finally came, when Mrs. Downey applied for admlaalon to the homo aa a youth friend of the poet. Win would have been received without doubt, hut died ahurtly after making application. Longest Direct Wire. The New York Central ayateni will aoon own tho longest privato telephone tele-phone direct wire In the world. Thla will be a No. II copper wire, and will run along .the tracka of the Central Cen-tral all the way to Chicago. It will touch every Important city on the llnea of tho ayatem, and will there- 1 . fore extend a distance encoedlne; 1,000 miles. Weat ( . lluffalo ffe will follow the tracka or the Lake Shore railroad, and east of that city It will run along tho New York Central tracka, coming Into Weehawken along the Weat Hhuro line. Tho wire will croea the river, and will end In the Orand Central Hlatlon. The purpoae of the wire la to eniihln the officials of the eaatern and western tinea of the Vandertillt ayatem to communicate communi-cate with each other without tho delay de-lay occasioned by the uso of the regular reg-ular longdistance wire. Quick connection con-nection between western and caatcrn polnta la of tho greateat ItniMirtaiice for nmny affulra of railronillug on a large scale. |