Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 30, 1903, Page 34

r'* August 30, 1903 gat within it, he drecamed. And as he dreamed he saw a woman, none other than the doctor's wife, who offered him from time to time, with unusual persistence, what seemed to be a wincglassful of wine. e steadily refused it. She forced it on 1 There was a struzgie —a dream strug- , and then Just then Iloldworthy Peters woke— woke to find that he was struggling feebly with his young wife. She was haking hin with unusual violence. He resisted this, and sank back into his chair, He wanted to be left alone. She shouted in his ear, she grappled with him, she tried to 11t him from the chair. Peters straightened up and made a sudden effort, and then sering to his feet, fell prone upon the He knew nothing further for a gpace of time. S8ome people came in, them a physician, who dil things to Peters that he constantly attempted to resist. He wanted sleep and plenty of it He thought he told them s», but what he uttered was inarticulate jargon. He was sick for a whole week. At the end of that time he was fully recovered. “What was it, doctor?”’ he asked of his physician. I'he doctor leaned forward. *‘It's poison,™ he replied in a low voice “and nothing els Where did you get it?" Paoters glancer around the room. And as he did so, his brain quickened and there came into his mind the details of the death of John Burtholomew. “Doctor,” he exclaimed, *“the chair—go, git in it. It is a present to me—and a re- markably fine piece of furniture at that.” The doctor went. Suddenly he jumped up as if shot. Then with his nose quivering he bent his face close to the woodwork that surrounded the headpiece. “Great Scott!” he exclaimed, thrusting his head out of the window for an instant. “This is what did the trick. And theres en ugh there to kill more men than you."” Two days later Peter stood in a furni- ture shop. The proprietors remembered this piecce of furniture; they had sold it to a young woman who had paid them in cash. “you sent it,” Peters suggested eagerly, “to 200 Baltic street.” That was the ad- dress of the late Bartholomew. They looked it up and shook their heads. They gaid that it had gone somewhere else. They furnished the address, and Peters fol- lowed it up. There was nothing there but a dingy lit- tle chemist's shop—the place was vacated. Peters afterward discovered that tlie police had found that this chemist, a man of the name of Goldstein, had been mixed up in too many nefaricus schemes to make his furtier sojourn in the city safe. That was the story. This woman, who- ever she may have been, that married Dr. John Bartholomew—and she married him primarily for his money, that was clear— this woman had determined to rid herself of him. And she did it by this means. Just what was the poison with which her chemist had saturated the wood of the chair Peters finally discovered. His phy- gician gave it a name. But since that time Peters and his wife have had the chair completely eleaned of the dangerous com- pound and that chair, notwithetanding it was the instrument that caused the death of old Bartholomew, and notwithstanding that it was an instrument by which the private vengeance of a woman spurned by him was to be wreaked upon Holdworthy Peters—that chair is still young Peters' finest piece of furniture. among Carpenter’s Letter (Continued from Page Twelve.) a1# -heeseparing. If you can mix your American braing and methods with those of the German you will have the right com- bination to get the trade of this great em- pire.” I have just received a report from the finance department, at whose head is Mr. Witte, the right hand of the czar, concern- ing Manchuria as it is in this year 1803 m .o land is but little known, and the greater part of it has not been prospected by white men. Even the Chinese opera- tions have been restnicted on account of the brigands who infest the mountainous regions, and most of the cities are con- trolled by the Manchus. According to this report, Manchuria is twice as big as Japaq, and it has a popula- tion of about 15,000,000, consgisting of Chi- nese, Manchus, Coreans and semi-savage tribes somewhat like those found in Si- beria. There are altogether about 700,000 Manchus. They live in the towns and are chiefly engaged in the Chinese army or the Chinese civil service, Some of them are tarmers, living chiefly in the northern prov- inces. There are about 50,000 Coreans, who, like the Manchus, are largely Buddhists. The bulk of the population is Chinese, some of the provinces being entirely in- Jhabited by them. This is so of the south- ern part of the country, to which the Chi- nese have been cmigrating for the past 150 years, The chief business of Manchuria is farm- ing. The land is mountainous, but it has rich valleys and its soil will grow any thing that can be grown in our countiry. Some of it is £o rich that it produces two crops a year. Much of it is good for wheat, oats and barley, and in the lower provinces TOE ILLUS corn and rice are ralsed. There are large plantations of tobacco and opium. There are many orchards, and the same kind of fruits that we raise in the north are pro- duced there. Every Chinese hut has its garden, aud in it the same vegetables that you find in the United States. Indeed, many parts of Manchuria look like the United States, and were it not for the Chinese houses one might suppose himself at home there. A greal mauy cattle are ared, and in the north theve are extensive horse farms, Much of the goods is carried across the country on camels, caravans being almost as common in Manchuria as on the desert of Sahara. The chief Russian settlements g0 far are in the cities along the Chinese Bastern railroad. One of the strangest things in Manchuria fs the city of Dalny. This is a town which the cgar has put up, as Aladdin built his palace, almost in one night. Dalny means far away. The city is the comme refal ter minus of the Chinese branch of the trans- Siberian railroad. The cgar gave orders for it to be built just about three years ago, and an army of 20,000 men was set to work to carry them out. Since then the harbor has been deepened, great piers have been constructed, warchouses have been built and miles of docks erected. The city has been laid out and substantial buildings for busincss and residences constructed, an electric light system has been established, electric raliways laid down and all the san- {tary improvements of a great city gotten under way. Altogether more than $5,000,000 been spent on the harbor and city, and 000,060 more will be spent before the present plans are completed. This gives you some idea of how the Rus- gians do things. This whole town was built by the government before it was occupied. It was done, not by contract, but by day’'s work and by the piece. The houses were sold, when all was completed, at auction or privately, according to the orders of the government, and now a town of 50,000 Asiaties and 2,00 Europeans can be seen where three years ago the land was as bare as your hand. It is the same with the trans-Siberian ana Chimese Kastern railroads. Twelve years ago they had no existence except in the pluns of the engineers. Today they form one of the great railroad systems of the world, and they are doing a business which is beginning to pay, and this, not- withstanding they have the lowest fares of any long railroad on earth. FRANK G. CARPENTER. Tall Man Has Troubles There is in this city amn exiremely tall man, an exiremely tall and an extremely thin man, who asserts his life has been one of unmitigated misery on account ol bis height. Some dey, like most men who have com- plaints, he is going o write a book about it, Even in making this declaration he has been teased by friends, who have in- quired with mock eolicitude whether the book “will be as long and dry as the author.” He is strictly *temperanoce’’—or has that reputation. To these remarks the prospective author has replied that he will make the book a fountain spring of wit and humor—it he can find a publisher. As a prospectus he re- lates the following: “When I was a bLoy,” saild the man six feet six inches in height, ‘I had ono wish. That was to grow up big—the bigger the better. It's funny how one's ideas change. Now I am bhig, but it's mostly in one direction. There isn't much breadth. “My troubles began at school. By the tUme I was 14 years old 1 was six feet tall. 1 must have made a comical figure in short frousers. 1 pleaded wilih mother for long ones, but she was firm in declar- ing I had to stay in short trousers until 1 wars 15, “Some of the fellows named me ‘Line,’ which, according to Euclid, is ‘length without breadth.’ Others called me ‘Tongs,’ with reference to the length of my legs. “The smaller fellows, the fellows of three feet nothing, were the bane of my life One who about came up to the middle button of my ccat ugxd to make a pair of field glases out of his hands and peer up at me from a safe distance. Then he would exclaim: “*Why, hullo, Joneg; Cleopatra's ncedle.’ “Another, also from a wvespectful dis- tance, would advise me to wear an over- coat, so { could cast a shadow. Inquiries as to the state of weather ‘up there' were every-day occurrences. “By the time I left school I was six feel six inches, and 1 quickly found out tha schoolboys are not the only ones who tease s man built that way. “ “Won't you take your seat, sir ? a man asked me one evening in the theater ‘Ir you will I think the people Lehind you will be able to see something of the stage.' *“ 1 am sitting.’ 1 replied, indignantly. “ 0, 1T beg pardon,’ replied the lunatic; ‘1 didn’t know there was so much of you' “At that every one within hearing iaughed loudly. “One young beggar accosted me on the street and offered me the stump of his clgar * ‘Light that at the lamppost, will yer? 1 thought it was TRATED BEE. he asked. | L cam't’ 1 sid; T wot tall enough’ Dr.CH ARLES Y0, you can stretch yourself' Joined “On another occasion 1 was sitting in the park when a couple of boys came along. 1 arose to walk away and one said (o the other: ‘Say, but I'm glad he's all up at last. I thought he wus going right on up through the clouds.!’ “But 1 think the worst time I had was in my courting days. The young woman of my choice was a shade under five fect and barely came ag high as my heart, physically speaking You may imagine what a ludicrous contrast we p nted when we took our walks tegether. “The first time 1 walked with her a young urchin with an earnest look of inquiry asked my fair companion ‘Please, miss, did you take him in installments?" 1 hadn't even the rolace of boxing his ears “Another of the genus boy who ought to have known better, for he was on his way to Sunday school, serenaded me with: ‘Love me little, love me long,’' while a lous gentleman offered my flancee an ator if she would like to kiss me. “Kven in the sheiter of her home 1 was not safe. One day her youngest brotheg, a little fellow of 6 years, came rushing up to me and yelled: ‘O, Mr. Jones, please do make a knot." lake a what? T asked ‘ ‘Make a knot. Chariie'—that's an elder brother—‘Charlie saye that when you go to bed vou tie vourself in knots, and 1 want to sec one. Please do. It will be fun.’ ‘ ‘No, Kdgar,’ 1 rveplied. ‘The only knot 1 am going to tie is the marriage knot, and Edith is going to help me, aren’t you, dear?’ Some day,’ she answered 1d she did.”"-—-Chicago Tribune. Must Upbold the System One of the detectives came hurrying in. “Chief,” he said, “we are on the wrong scent, The man we supposed was mur dered has turned up alive.” “It can't be possible,” sternly answered the chief. “The fellow we've had in the swedtbox for the last two or tnree days has just confessed that he murdered him." —Chicago Tribune. YOU ARE TOO THIN! \ Call at the Sherman & WMeConnell Drug Co., (m aha, or write to 1. Y. Jones Co., Eimira, N. Y., convincing trial paciage of Dr. Whitaey's u(l:l‘ Fiesh Builder, absstutely Free. 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