The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 10, 1897, Page 22

os s of rob- ilton and for pury X times between M be distance bout twen other covered with a At Salt Spring Val- ight fork passing over < Hill, between the bers seiected it as a good theater of operations, because both roads 1 ocod deal of treasure came ter a success was coup easy and p Captain Hume’ st yeur of between ockton was robbed in Cooper and all caughnt, s evidence and jten to the ne wa s rea! rington, though William Wave self v came. He had served turee terms in e State prison for grand larcenv sad robbery when he was jtteen years for the San An- Three years after the prison im he g o a box which was b ed San Quen- tiz to San co, escaped and made his way to St. Louis. There he was re- captured, take k to C and made to his time. After his discharge he does not seem to have robbed any more stages. He kept a road- side saloon for some time in Arizona, then be drifted back to Czal taken iil and died in the ho: lusa. In 1875, 1576 and 1877 several stages were robbed in this pa: the count Some of them were waylaid on Funk Hill, others on the other road, near the ve. spot where the recent hold-up took place. These were mostly the work of L A. Wrignt, alias Garv Five times between December, 1 i Februar: , that Fargo's treasure-box on this roaa. He operated as a lone hig nd had no pals. His last ex- n he robbed the stage running reka to Milton, was his undoing. He was caught and s up for filteen was heard of him afier t issupposed that he left wayman 1 the stage was again he'd Hill by Dave Park, A. D. Bry- others, They wereall caught and seat to San Quent Since their dis- charge the two whose names are given have been living in this State and appear to have reformed. ceptions to the rule. As a ganeral thi the law applies, once a highwayman al- ways a highwayman. More robberies took place-on the same tworoads in 1879 and 1830. The perpetra- d their names are un- known. May, 1580, Dave Thompson, who had served three terms at the State rison, stood up the stage between Mur- s and San Andreas. He was alone and was soon run down by the detective: He served out his fourth term and has appeared from view. On December 29, 1881, the stage from Milton to Sonora was robbed by a remark- able road agent. He may be a German and there is reason to believe that his real Charles P. Weibusch, but he name was passed by the name of Wilham th and Frank Hill. His first exploit was near Carson City, Nevada. He had taken upa position by the rcadside, intending to.rob the stage, but observing a well-appointed age following, he let the held up Mr. Kilgore, who hi: tch. was apprehended d sent to the Nevada State prison, but doned out, within two mont p the e from Sierraville to While waiting in ambush for thestage a light wagon appeared with six passenzers. Weibusch stood them all up out of sizht of the road for an hour 2nda half, until the Sierra Valley stage arrived. It contained four passengers, all of whom tha robver stood up, while he required the driver, der penalty of death, 10 break open Wells-Fargo's box. He was at e held Truckee. | work on it when two other vehicles drove up. The robber compelled their inmates to alight, and stand with their hands up| | and their backs turned, until the box wes | As the siage was bowling zlong a man % | upon nis luck, - | trian and a tireless mountair not | - They are ex- men, sixteen horses and four vehicles all under the control of bis single gun. Escaping detection, he robbed the same stage in the same place two months after ward, and ag: he went fr But fo months afrer: 4 he pre d too far He invaded the Calaveras | hunting-ground, as above stated, and, | while ho heid up the stage passengers, he ted precious moments in endeavor to break open Welis-Fargo's box. Th | = eave time for the organization of pursuit. | Ove or two of the men he had held up es- ‘ rested and convicted, and is now in Fol- som for life. In 1883, Black Bart, the original lone highwayman, appeared on the scene in Calaveras County. How good a workman ;he was at his craft may be inferred from | the ‘act that he rovbed Wells-Fargo’s Ex- | | press twenty-eight times in succession, | and pursued hiscalli for eight year His real name was Charles E., Bolton, | He was a New Yorker by nativity, and a { man of 50 when he began to cperate in | | Catifornia. He was a remarkable pedes- a | { | }caped and gave the alarm. He was ar- | | | | | | of educati and reading, correct manners, polite and affabie, and witty conversation. He unever swore or drank | or gamtled. He operated alone and never | bad a partner. extended from Ukiah and Yreks to Jac son; but his first and last robberies were | at the same spot—a secladed copse on the His teld of operations road from Sonora to Milton. He pro- [ fessed to be a miner. He bad a wife and Iy, who afier his convici went to s, where they may be to this day. | They never heard any more of him, and ne is probably dead by this time. ess-box, and the ted States mail about four times a year for eight year: astonishing that he evaded capturz so long. But he was adroit, and he appeared a respectable member of society. When he was nab at last for the affair near Miiton vember 3, 1853, he gave the authorities trouble. He pleaded guilty, furnished express company with accounts of his pre- vious deeds, and went ningly to Quentin for six years. He wore on abdomen the scar of a gunshot wound for which he was probably indebted toan express messenger; the wound and his nduced bim to give the ra that he would leave the § not 1o return; at any rate he disappeared irom history when histerm ed. Oneof bis whimsies was to call pcelf 8 poet and to sign his name . 0. 8.7 There were two in 1834 two more 1885 1d two more between Sonora and Mut in 1886. In one of these last Oliver O. Kent was con- cerned. He was caug: atup. In 1589 two stages were robbed on the other road, near the place where the hold-up oc- | curred the otber day, and in both cases the robbers escap 1890 the stage | | from Salt Spring Valley 1o San Andreas | was held up by George W. Cummings and Sporty Bob, and 1n the me year th stage from tlie same Springs to Mokelumne Hill was robbed by Charles Brown, alias Miles Howard. The se:ne of these rob- Leries was near the place of the lat2 hold- up. The robbers were caught and sent to State Prison. | 1n 1892 a curious attack was made on the stage on the same road, near Sheep Ranch. | | ice on nk Hill In g almost unmolested | | he was followed and caught that bour, siderable sum in gold $n a valise. ! opened. At ope time he had thirteen , standine alone on a bluft about fifteen feet | his credt when he transferred his field of bigh by the side of the road leveled his | 8ur without erying halt and fired a load | of buckshot into the venicle. The shot iled u lady passenger and wounded the driver and the express messenger. With out waiting to see the result of his sho | or demanding any plunder the shootist | took to his heels and disappeared in the | bush. The passengers were tco paralyzed i 1o foliow him and he has never been | | beard of from that day to this. As arob- bery the operation was a failure, but that was small consolation to the poor lady who was kilied. In the same year and in the same vi- cinity three other stages were heid up. The Sheriff of Calaveras had a man named McCiellan by the heels for a charge of being concerned in one of the cases, but he was unable to convict him, | In 1894 several hold-ups touk place at | or near the fatal spot where the affair oc- | curred last month. On May 3 of that vear a lone hichwayman halted the stace | between Sonora and stiiton, and having | t | stood up the passengers in a row pro- ceeded to blow up the express-box with | giant powder. Toe explosion was terrific, | and blew a lady's sealskin jecket into | shreds, but it d:d not kill any one oropen i 1 | the box, and the robber retired with no otber booty than what he found in the passengers’ pockets. Just a fortnight | afterward two robbers halted the stage be- tween Angels and Miiton. One of them, who was covering the passengers with his | gun, prudently hid the bulk of his peron behind a tree, which the eXpress messen- ger perceiving, he drew a bead on as much of the robber as he counld see and shot him dead where he crouched. His part- | ner 100k fright and made for the woods; | and he met his dezerts at San Quentin, where he is now. His name is Dowdie. His pal, who was kiiled, was known as John Kinnear. There bave been some robberies on the road from M:ilton to Angels since then, but they have not attracted much atten n. The booty secured by the thieves was small; such as it w: they got off it. None of the hold-ups involved any loss of life. In the old piacer days hoid-ups were not | infrequent in Placer and Nevada counties. | Ca Lees stiii rememters the names of Owen Smitt, Dixon, Cooper and old Frank Smith, whose acquaintance he made professionally when he was ayoung man and the most daring and successinl | thief-taker in the State. Frank Smun, | who stood up a gocd many men in his | time, though he never shed blood, had | served in the United States navy and in | s old age drew his vension from the | Government uuntil he died in the lunatic asylum at Napa. The case of Dorsey and Patterson oc- | currea in Nevada County eighteen years | ago. Theystopped a stage anu required the passengers to surrender their val. | uables. One of the passengers, 3 man | named Cammings, who had been a banker in a small way at Nevada City, had a con- | He | flatly refused to surrender it, whereupon | Dorsey shot him dead and Patterson laid hands on the valise. Both men were taken and tried, and by way of :liustrating the bumors of the jury system, Dor the murderer, was let off with a few years in | the penitentiary, while Patterson was | sentenced to the capital penalty and was | hanged accordingly. M. A. Sharp bad five stage robberies to ! one of the stage horses. | clutch could not be easily shaken off the | and kiiled the express operations to Bodie. On September 5, 1880, having robbed a stage on the previ- ous evening, he and his pal, Jones, | stopped the stage running between Bodie | and Carson. Jones bezan work by killing | Before he could | recock his pistol the express messenger shot him dead and received Sharp's fire | in the right arm. Leaving his partner | dead in the road, Sharp demsandsd the | express-box from the driver and robbed it of $700. He then made off, but the fame of his exploit followed *him. HHe was caught and sent to the Aurora jail. From that place of captivity he escapsd with an Oregon boot on his leg. Captain Lees found him on the side of the road trying | to hammer the boot off with a big stone. He was transferred in short order to the | | Nevada State Prison, where he was sen- tenced to remain twenty years. If he 1s alive still, he may sce the twentieth cen- tury through iron bars. | Captain J. B. Hume, the officer who is at the head of Welis-Fargo’s detective i service, bhas compiled in his “Robbers’ | Record” much entertaining information | regarding the road agents of the past. The captain is a hale, hearty veteran, on the | verge of 70, with a grav mustache, a sharp voice, a quick eye, a resoiute manner and a figure which indicates no decline 1n his early vigor. He looks like a man whose | throat of a robber. Heaund Capiain Lees | are a well matched couple. i In his book the story of many a man | now balf forgotten is preserved and may | be read with interest. There you find the record of W. E. Andrus, alias Big Foot, who was sent to San Quentin for thirty years for killing Henry Peck Benton and | wounding the stage-driver, Woodworth, l and a passenger named Kaufman. He was killed in the State Prison by a fellow priconer. Here is the story of Cicero | Grimes, who with his brother and others | robbed a stage at Casa Grande, Arizona, | messenger and a passenger. The robbers were arrested three days afterward; two of them were | Iynched; Cicero was sent to the peniten- | uary at Yama. Feigning insanity he was | | transferred to the asylum at Stockton, | from which he escaped and hasnever been | heard of since. Here is the biography of | James or John Ivey, the man of many | aliases and many escaves. He served the | whole or part of eight terms in the peni- tentiary and no sooner got out than he | fell into his old courses. S'x times he| escaped and was reiurned on new charges. From 1854 to 1884 he spent more months in jail than out of it. Kit Joy is here, the man who was so | lynched at Silver City when Mitch | Lee and Frank Taggari were guests of | bonor at the necktie party. He escaped, but was followed and two weeks after-| ward was brouvht to bay. He fought | like a tiger for his liperty and was only | subdued when the coutents of a shotgun loaded with buckshot were poured into his leg just at the knee. The limb was amputated, but the operation was! vunghingly periormed and had to be re- peated four inches higher up. He was wrought to trial for the murderin New Mexico, and in consideration of his crip- | piei condition and in deference to the | prayers of his aged father and mother | and other relatives the jary let him off with a verdict of murder in the secona degree, for which he is believed to be now serving his time at the prison in Santa | A savage brute, whose biography is in | | and set fire to it | executed, Captain Hume’s book, was Leander Mor« ton, who robbed the overland express in 1870. In the gr jailoreak of 1871 he escaped from the Nevada State prison, but was pursued through Esmeralda County. He was accompanied by two other es- caped convicts. On the road they met a boy on horseback carrying the meil, shot him dead, covered his body with brush This brutal ountrage roused the people of the neighborhood to fury. Under the lead of Welis-Fargo's agent they gave chase to the convicts and overtook them. in which Wells-Fargo's agent and one of | the Sheriff’s posse were killed; but the convicts were taken, One, a mere boy named Roberts, who was wounded, was released. Morton and the other fugitive were lynched by the people of Aurora. In running over the list of robbers, the reader is atruck by the failure of justice to prevent crime. Most of the prisoners sent to the State prison served out their sentences and then went back to their oid | trade of robbery. The examples of re- formation are infinitesimaily few. As every one knows, the senteuces are never except in cases of refractory risoners. A convict who is sent up for five years serves three years aud seven months; a sentence for ten years is really | for six aad a half vears} a sentence for ve months; one for twenty years involves a term of corfinement for twelve years and four months. 1t is strange, too, that Governors should so often interfere to commaute sentences or to pardon prisoners whose release is sure to be followed by fresh depredations on society, with a| | chance of assaults upon life. rarely so harsh that there is any call for | executiva interference on the ground of bumanity. : : Captain Hume's report closes in 1834, but since then, he tells me. the old aver- age is about maintained. Tte volume of robbery has neither increased nor dimin- | ished. During the fourteen years ending in November, 1884, the number of slage robberies was 313, or something over per vear. The number of convictions for robbery or attempts at stage or train rob- | bery was 226, so that in a quarter of the cases the crime escaped punishment. It cost the express company nearly a million dollars in the fourteen years ending in 1884 to pay the losses from robberies and to defray the expense of keeping.an army of guards and detectives in the field. in the same period the business of road ency involved the loss of 33 lives, to wit, 6 stage drivers and guards and 4 passen- | gers killed, 16 robbers killed and 7 lynched | by parties of citizens. The mortality among the wrongdoers was heavier than among their victims. It feil in my way to meet a man who, mot to put too fine a point upon it, wasa | He | | stage-robber at one period of his life. has since reformed, and leaas so exem- lary a lJife that no one suspects this oiot in his eariy career, and it wouid be quite unjustifiable to mention his name, though | my friend Captain Lees would probabliy prick up his ears if he heard it. him in an affable mood, and over a whisky toddy he was willing to talk about a call- ing which he admitted at one time had considerable attraction for him. He did not care to discuss the moral side of road agency. not seem to deserve his serious attention. R A pitched battle ensued, | teen years is really for nine years and | Judges are | I found | That was an aspect which did | As be said tersely, ‘““You can find sinners in the churches.” He looked at itfrom the point of view of a veteran who was advising a young man 1n the choice of a | profession. Lighting a strcng cigar ce said: “Come to tote it all up and reckon the balance, there isL’t so much difference be- | tween. road agency and other caliin Road agents run more risk than clerks or farm laborers, but not mors than sailors or soldiers. And they have what none of thers huve—long spells of rest and leness.’ I imagine that that is the attraction of the road agent’s lte?’ & ® ° A born road agent is to live without work; to ave his grub supplied with- out exertion on his pa 1f you will read the histories of hizhway robbers all over i the worla you will find thatit wasidleness i h led them to take to th: road. ow a man who hoids up stages don’t | put in many days’ work in the course of a year. He plans a bold stro He studies it outin all ights. Sayitis a stage in the Sierra counties he intends to rob. He watches it for several days and mights so as to know exactly when it passes a sui ble spot, with a wood alongside the road. He knows how many passengers there will probably be, ~#e hangs round mines ana express offices so as to form an idea of the amount of treasure there will | probably be in the box. Then he fixes a | night and puts on a toid face and the trick is done. “No, there is not much risk. Peavle will generally give up their coin rather than fight. Most men are dazed when they are held up. There are always mo- ments when the road agent might be shot by a fellow with 2 quick eye and a steady { hand. Bat it doesn’t often happen. The | idea that resistance might have been suc- | cessful aoesn’t occur to the passengar.” Jonx Box i3 o & ] ® ° ER. Musical P A AND C Only 10 years old and yet a marvelous performer and a creditable composer of musie. Such is little Paloma Schramm of Los Angeles. Surely she muost be concedea to be a musical proiigy and altogether a won- derful ¢hild. Music is to her like the breath of life ana she cannotbe happy | where sirains of music do not strike | ber ears, | This little girl has played before large companies of musical people and all pro- nounce her a genius. A number have even gone so far as (o say that her ability entitles her to a place high in the musicai world in spite of her youtn. Paloma Schramm was born in San Fran. cicco, but has livea in Los Angeles for the | last seven years. Her parentsare both | German and are people of high musical | culture. Her father bas the ability to play any insirument with the greatest ease, and at the same time can get the finest re- sults out of it. So it can be readily seen how Paloma comes by her wonderful tal- ent. ! Ever since she has been able fo sit up | on a stool Paloma has played the piano, and it might be said played it weil Never in all her career has she been guilty of “drumming.”” The first time she ever ran ber fingers over the keys she produced ARLA SCHRAMM. At the age of three years Paloma wrote her first musical composition and after- ward played the same from her own writ- ten notes. ten musc constantly, besides improvising whenever the spirit moved Ler. She reads the most difficult masic at sight and is aiso able to play anything “by ear” after she has once heard it. When Paderewski was in Los Angeles on the occasion of his recent tour Paloma was taken to call on bim in his private car. He became very muck interested in the child, and played one of his own com- positions, which has never been pub- lished, and which he had not played on this coast. The ckild listened most critically, and when he had finished went to the piano and played the wuole piece through, note for note. The great pianist was carried away by the performance, and, taking the little girl in his arms, kissed ber and prophesied most wonderful things for her future, Paloma has for a couple of years had the advantage of being under the instruc- tion of Herr Eecker, who is kept in our small Western .nusical world on account | of ill health. Herr Becker has under- taken Paloma’s musical education, and feels sure she will repay him for his time barmony. She seemed to know instinc- tively where the notes were located. and trouble. It is not an easy under- taking, either, to teach this bright little Since that time she bas writ- | rodigy of the Southland 1 zirl, who at the age of 8 vears, when Herr Becker first saw her, was vlaying Liszi’s | rhapsodies very incorrectly, perhaps, but | still very sweetly. | | Her: Becker found it a most difficult matter to take her back to the first rudi- ments of music and so train her as to | bring her technigue up to what it ongnt | to be. She had her own method of inter- | pretation and preferred it. No matter what she played this way was always snre {to be musical and melodious, even though incoirget. Comyosition seems to be Paloma’s prin- cipal desire. She hears music in every sound and writes it as readily as she sees and bears. Her parents dare mnoiallow | her to go to bed until they are assured | | that she is tired enough to drop to sieep immediately, otherwise her active brain thinks music, music, music, until she is so filled with it tnat she has to give ex- pression to the same, either by playing or | writing. And her brain being so charged | with all this melody, sleep will not come | that night. I As Paloma is 100 smell to reach the! pedals, her father has made a simple con- | | trivance of strips of brass that pass under and over the vpedals, supporting two up- right bars, which in turn have flattened | strips at right angles that are slichtly concave and on which she rests the feet. Paloma bas a sister 6 years old who also shows wonderful mausical talent, and the two often play duets together. The younger one is named Carla, | fairly flew over the lines as and shel <eams as much wrapped up in music as : her oider sister. A few days ago Mr. Schramm, at the in- | vitation of Mr. Brown, manager of the | Mount Lowe Railway, brought Paloma | and Carla to Ye Alpine Tavern. which is | sitnated at the terminus of this scenic railroad. The grand view from the top was more than Paloma couid look at unmoved. Back at the hotel she secured a blank music score and going to & table in the | zarden began to write. Hor little fingers | she dotied down the potes, and in the briefest pos- sible lime she was ready to play her com- position. TEose of the guests who heard her will never forget the music. It was fiiled with the voices of the wind, the sunshine and | the mountain peaks and the “'echo’’ rever- berated through it ali. Mr. Schramm has ideas of his own to the rearing of these two bright little | daughters of his and believes that physi- cal strength is one of the great requisites | of the career that is certainly before them. Witn this end in view he does all in his | power to develop and harden them. They dress most of tie time in flannel bloom- ers and go barefooted and bareheaded. | They are required to work in the gym- | nasium their father has fittd especially | for them & certain number of bours each | day, and in other ways barden their muscle and iest their enduranee. Carla, the younger, has had no lessons as | | yet. Aithough she does not write music she, nevertheless, improvises, humming | in her childish treble the air that she wishes to render on the piano. Appie FIsHER. | | Trap-shooting by mocnlight is one of the new diversions of the gun clubs of | New Jerse: MOONLIGHT TRAP-SHOOTING AS A SPORT. y. Accompanying this article is an illustration of the sport, About fif*y members of the Riverton Gun Club began a match of this kind last week. Fortu- | the myriads of busy insecis make \neir: | at least, the probabilities are that it is, for | heara an eightu of a mile and serves as a | warning not nately the moon did not deceive the caiculations of the organization, but presented as | good a shine as she could. The live pigeons were liberated in the customary manner. | The greatest difficulty of the sport was in inducing the pigeons to rise. Flying at night is not a tavorite amusement for birds, and the Riverton Gun Club's birds were no exception to the rule of their kind. It is expected by the enthusiastic members of the club, however, that the surviving pigeons will be trained to it after a few sea- sons’ experience. The shooting of the club is calculated to impress upon them the comparative safety of the operation, as three out of every five of the birds escaped. Did you ever see a hee-tree with a swarm of bees around it? Weil, magnify | that about 10,000 times and you will have a slight idea of a natural beehive in Men- docino County, not far from Ukiah. But| this one is notin a tree. Itisin ariftin the face of a cliff and tradition bas it ihat | there is a large cave on thse inside, where homes. This great natural curiosity is known to residents of the adjacent country as “Bee Rotk” and they have grown to look upon it as commonplace, when in reality it is the onlv beehive of the kind in existence; no reference to such a freak can be found in any scientific or popular work on ento- mology. In fact, the bees live there con- trary to all accepted theories in regard to their babits. Natural beehives in holiow trees are ali right, but why this particular | colony should have selected a hole ina | rock is past understanding. | There is no danger of a per<on getting wvery near this natural beebive without | knowing it. for at ail hours of the day a swarm of insec s hover about several nun- dred feet in all directions. An incessant, maddening buzz tille the air that can be to venture too near. But men do venture near atter having first put on a suit of leather clothing, fastened a mask of wire screen aronnd their hat brim and lighted a good big toreh, These pre- cautions are absolutely necessary. It takes nerve to approach close to the opening in the rock and the experience is a never-to-be-forgotten one. Bees to the number of miliions of millions will light on the intruder, bumming fiendishly and endeavoring to sting him 10 death. They form a perfect cloud and the air is fiiled with a fetid smell and a fine dust that gets | through the wire screen and causes an ir- | ritation of the eyes, Toe tiny insects really show sign of viciousness and fly into the flame of the torch in countless numbers as though they intended to ex- tinguish it. Round and round they fiy with a deafenine buzz and strong indeed | is the man who can stand the onsiaught of the tiny foes for more than a few minuies, It is almost impossible to make out just where the entrance to this natural beehive is. There isa sort of cavern in the clift that seems to have a crack through the inner wall from top to bottom, but most of the bees hover around a hole about 18 inches wide and appear to make that the point of ingress and egress. Many days it is impossible 10 even see the cliff, 30 thickly covered is it with insects, and they roil in and out of the opening like a stream of molasses, fighting, stinging, buzzing with madness., During the summer dead birds can al- ways be seen on the ground around tie mouth of the hive. They have been stung to death while attemptine to fly through the swarm of insects. Four-footed crea- ‘The Strangest Beehive in the World THE STRANGE BEEHIVE tures never venture within haif a mile of the hive, seeming to kuow that deatu lurks there. In front of the mouth of the hive there isa pile of dried honey that has flowed from the interior. molten lava that has been hardzned after being discharged from a volcano. A party of men living in the vicinity claim to have entered this natural beehive several vears ago. They selected a cold day in winter, when the bees were half dormant, and poured coal oil and benzine around and into the opening. Then they made a bi: fire of wood so that the whole cavern was filled with flames, Then tpey poked the redhot embers down into the opening and so Killed every bee in it. But there was not much to see after the men got inside. Only a large cave with the walls covered with gam and dried honey and enough of the sweetness in pools in the bottom to last a big city for several years. Of course the honey was unfit for use on account of being ful! of deac bees and ashes from the fire. The men, bowever, did not linger in the cave any great length of time as it was foul- smelling aud stifling. Although countless miilions of bees It looks like a heap of | IN MENDOCINO COUNTY. | mnst have been destroyed on this occa- | sion, the next summer they were as numerous as ever a: d just #s vicious { Indians of the neighoorbood say that in | “the gool old days’’ the bad men of their tribe were bound band and foot and | carried to within a shor: aistance of the beehive by men wrapped in blankets, There the helpless creatures wers left to suffer the awiul agony of being stung ‘o death. Stealing Ribbons From the Dead. Robbing graves'for miltinery is an occn- paiion which bas justlanded a woman of Catskill, N. Y., in jail. The oceupation originated in the desire of Mrs. A. L. Meach to be as well dressed s her neighbore. 8he was poor, but fond of finery. Her husband wag poor and fond of his wife. When Mrs Meach sug- zested the plan, the bu-band, like a ae- voted worser half, a sented and asso- ciated, although under protest. It was not the plan todiz down tothe caskets. Thatwould bave been impractic- able. Itwas simplyto gather in the riv- bons and flowers and wreaths and such things that were laid upon the graves by he relatives und friends ofthe deceased. /