The evening world. Newspaper, February 23, 1903, Page 3

CARDINAL GIBBONS ON RAGE SUICIDE > Beget Children, He Says, for the Root of the Com- monwealth Is in the Homes of the People. THE CURSE OF DIVORCE Mary the Mother the Ideal Woman; When There Are Enough Like Her, No Unhappy Marital Experiences. BALTIMORE, Feb. 23.—Cardinal Gib- ons has‘some very Interesting things to say on the question of race suicide. He contends that marriage ts a duty, but doe# not advise It where love does * not exist. Large families, he contends, @re a blessing, and the question of economics should not interfere. Cardl- nal G ons talked in the handsome @rawing 9.0m of his palace. In addl- tion to the question of race suicide he apoke of the home, of women and di- vorce. “The question of the home,” said Car- @inal Gibbons, “and how best to pre- @erve it, and all for which it stands, Is the most Important question before the country to-day. “Whether you will place the home on @ durable foundation, and thus upbulld the nation, or whether, you will go back- ward in the home life to the pagan @ays, and thus bring about ‘race sul- elde,’ is the vital question. “For no nation can prosper as a na- ton that does not have a solid founda tion for its superstructure. This 1s a question of both morals and religion. ‘The dangers that threaten our civiliza- tion may be traced to the family, for the root of the commonwealth {s in the homes of*the people. Morally and Religiously Wrong. “The growing tendency in the men and women of the world to avold marriage nd its responsibilities !s wrong from both the moral and religious viewpoint. Not enough people view marriage as a sacrament, and realize that a large tam- fly fa.a blessing. 6: defeat nature In fulfilling the pur- pose of marriage !s as criminal as to sommit murder. This moral law. strict. unbending, Is alone recognized by the Church, It governs the whole question of marriage, and the sacrament would certainly not be administered to any one who violated the sacred ends of marriage. Such a one lives In a state of sin. No excuse Is possible—neither fivancial reesons nor any other. ‘The Question of economics has no place, should have none, in regulating the vize of families. "Of course, people are not expects’ to marry unless they love one another, but this sentiment should be rational} love—a love based on duty, on sensi-) bility. It should be a love based on| Bt, Paul's command, ‘Bear ye one an- other's burdens, and so ye shall fulfill| the law of Christ.’ Would Abolish Divorce, “Unhappy, discontented homes, this so- | Mal plaguo calls for a radical cure, and | the remedy can be found only in the apo- | Ution of our mischievous legislation re- garding divorce and an honest applica- tion of the gospel. “If persons contemplating marriage wese persuaded that, once united, they | legally debarred from entering into | & second wedlock, they would be more circumspect before marriage in the cholce of a life partner and would ve| ‘more patient afterward in bearing tne yoke and tolerating each other's infirm- | f ities. “The trouble 1s, too many marry ve- oause they believe they love. That which they call love is earthly and fleeting, a sounterfelt of the genuine emotion, And | When it has gone there is nothing lett) but. repulsion, perhaps emptiness ot heart and misery. ‘Then they want a Aivorce.” Drifting to Paganism? “The laxity of the divorce courts to- @ay leads one to ask whether we are not rapidly drifting backward to pagan slyilization. “The great model for the woman !n whose hands is the upbullding of the homes of this country ls Mary horselt. This ideal woman, who 1s yet real, hus the beauty of tne soul rather than of the body, which delights without intoxicating. The contem- plation of her excites no inward rebellion, as too often happens with Grecian mode! She is the mother of fair love, devoid of sickly sentimentality or sensuality, In her we find force of will without pride or imperiousness, We find in her moral strength and heroism without the sacrifice of female grace tha honors heroism of silent aunecing father than of nolsy action, im Much = Woman, shen there are enough women of type, who clasp hands with the Across the world's follies and ollsh beliefs. the qucation ,’ the divorce problem and experiences will no HELD FOR ABDUCTION. len Caught with Young Girle on Lexington Avenue Must Anewer, Bugene Schuerman, Henry Cohen and rick Miller were held in $1,000 bali each in Yorkville Court to-day on the ebarge of abduction, ‘Theresa Hamilton, aged fifteen, of No. 43 Hast Twenty-fourth etreet; Mary Graham, of Long Island City, and Kate y, of No. #0 Bast Twentieth streot, |charge received every care and to give ith the in the THE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUAK1 2», cove. Aff FOO, WHOSE ROMANCE WAS BLIGHTED BY HATE OF HIGHBINDERS, AND AH FUNN, HER ACTOR HUSBAND. BLAIR CONE, OLD WOMAN ACCUSER Former Superintendent of Out- door Poor, Who Is Missing,! May Drop His Efforts for Re- instatement in Old Position. | OTHERS WANT ACCOUNTING. George Blair, who Is seeking through the courts to be reinstated as Superin- tendent of Outdoor Poor, Is missing from hls home, at No. 585 Broome street, and It 1s sald that he will make no fur- ther efforts t vobtain his former post- tion, There are a number of persons anx- fous to know the whereabouts of Mr. Blair, among them aged Ellen Duff and her lawyer. It is sald that he has failed to care for Mrs, Duff as he promised when she gave him $5,39, the savings of her lifetime. It 1s said that others intrusted him with their funds and have had no accounting. Mrs. Duff has secured a judgment Against him, but she has sought in vain for an Interview, It is said that he promised her lawyer to settle the judg- ment on Saturday, but instead left the city on Friday. According to the testimony brought out in court, Ellen Duft was found by Mr, Blair wandering about the city in a dazed condition, He had her cared fo: and ‘earning that phe had about 95,000 In savings banks, persuaded her to give the money to him to hold In trust for her benofit during her life, and that: it become his after her death, Mr. Blair promised to see that his her decent burial when she died. He sent ber to the Convent of the Sis- ters of St. Dominick, In Rockland Coun- ty, where she stayed for nearly a year. Then the sisters decided that they could not keep her auy longer. She was some- what neglected after that, and her lends called for an accounting of the “Re Blair made no acc structed to do 80 by t admitied that he not have money at lus kenmediate disposal Mr. Blair's daughter, when seen at hie home to-day, wenied ‘that he had run away, but sild he had gone to Boston to finish a reat estate deal and would return to-morrow. HUSBAND AND WIFE DIE IN AN HOUR, Mrs. Williams Burned, Her | Spouse Fails to Survive the) Shock, Mark Williams and his wife. No. 419 Summit avenue, Jersey City, died within ap hour this morning, he the result of shock, she of burns | Mr, Wilhams was a paralytic and could not mov Last night the rea lamp was overturned tn the home of vouple, and Mrs, Williams's dress took fire. Heipless to ald her, and sj Willlams saw her garments burr ‘Two daughters who heard her came to the rescue, carried Mra, Wil jams out Into the snow and finally suc- ceeded in extinguishing the Hames, but Mrs, Willams lived only until’ this morning at the hospital. Death cams to her husband a few momenta jater | and both Saugniere ure fh the care of physicians hey are also suffering ——— ‘rom ahock: Died After Fall Downstairs. The death of John Forkel, twenty-fy: years old, of No, 45 Hast Seventy- fourts street, was reported to the Cor- oners' office to-day by Dr. Priedler, of ‘No, 88 Kast Seventy-necond mtreet, Dr, Friedier said that the ma home late last bd bpd he bop of creams MRS. HENNESSEY AREAL DUCHESS? A Brooklyn Woman Claims Sutherland Title and Estates, and So Writes Present Owner of the Title in Scotland. ALSO NOTIFIES CARNEGIE. Brookly™ has a claimant to the estates of the Dukedom of Sutherland, in Scot- lend. Sheris Mrs, Edmund D: Hennes- sey. of No, '63 Clifton place, and she 's she is the rightful Duchess of Suth- erland. Convinced that her claims cannot go without recognition, her Lusband, who Je a lawyer, has written to Ambassador Choate, the present Duchess of Suther- land and Andrew Carnegie, who is sald to have purchased a part of the Suther- land estate. Mrs, Hennessey has an old sketch of the Dunrobin Castle and the Suther- land coat-of-arms, which she says have been handed down to her from three generations back/ In discussing her claim to the estate she said: “I have not taken action before be- cause I shrank from publicity, but now I believe it is time this matter was set- tled. My family is well known in Brook- lyn, The men have been doctors and lawyers and military men. I base our claim upon our descent from the Duke of Sutherland of three generations ago, hich the present Duke cannot claim, “My great-grandmother was Mary Sutherland, daughter of a brother of the then Duke. She married an Irish doc- tor named Hussey, came to this country and settled in New York, For a long time she lived, with a suite of seventeen persons, at the old Abbey Hotel, Brook- dy Bubsequently the family moved West. I was born in New York. I have three sisters and one brother. "I have written tw Mr, Carnegie be- cause I want to ascertain what title he has to the entailed lands of Sutherland. 1 hold that Skibo Castle could not been atquired by him without the con sent of all the heirs, “I claim Lam by right of blood more of a duchess than 1s the Duchess of Sutherland, and that to my family be- long the tiile and most of the estat DROPPED DEAD ON WAY TO CONCERT, Herman Lindenberger, the Sculptor, Suddenly Stricken by Apoplexy. the death of Her- the sculptor, who the Irving Place Apoplexy caused man Lindenberger, expired suddenly in Hotel last night Mr. Lindenberger, who lived at No. 17 rospect street, Long Island City, had phatitan with his wife and thelr son, ch, to attend @ concert at the Irving Place ‘Theatre. When near the theatre Mr. Lindenberger cvom- plained of feeling very sick, and be and his wife started Into the Irving Place Hotel, where the sculptor intended reat ing until he felt better, Just as he entered the corridor he plunged forward, and before @ physician could be called he expired, Mr, Lindenberger, who wi ty-three years old, Was well known in metro- politan art circles, many of his works being in the leading galleries. peat Devery Becomes an Ar William 8. Devery has become « mem- ber of the Arverne Association, & pr teotive and Improvement organization of he Rocka’ WADLEIGH HIGH SCHOOL OPENED Formal Exercises at the Fine New Building in Harlem One of the Day’s Tributes to Washington. FOR EDUCATION OF GIRLS.) In the presence of a great gathering of educators, intermingled with the bright faces of high school gins, the formal opening of the Wadlelgh digh School took place to-day. It runs from One Hundred and Four- teenth to One Hundred and Fifteenth strect, just west of Seventh avenue, and 1s the first High School for girls to be erected in Manhattan. It was opened to students last September, but the for- ma! ceremony was not held till to-day. There was a glee club of 120 girls, all wearing the Wadleigh colors of blue and gold, Ghort addresses were made by President Rogers, of the Board of Edu- cation; Charles Babcock, Commissioner of High Gchools; Dr. Maxwell, City Superintendent of Schools; Ex-Commis- sloner Morris E, Sterne and Henry W. ‘Taft. For the clasr f 1903, Miss Kather- ine Louise, Rapp spvke “A Word from the Girl A long address was de- livered by Mayor Low. ayor Low sald: count the opening of fitting celebration of the two fiftieth anniversary of our city, ‘This is also the anniversary of the birth of Washington, {n whose life so many stir- ring events occurred In New York City. His disastrous defeat at the battle of Long Igand is, marked by a stone in Prospect Park. Hts name 1s commem- orated in Washington Park, Brooklyn; in Washington ware, Washington Bridge, and Washington ‘Btatue on the steps of the Sub-Treasury, where he took the oath of office as first President of the United States, In Fraunce Tavern, further down, was the sc where Washington bade farewell to hi officers. Mr, Low said that when he was Presi- dent’ of Columbia he received a letter from Joseph Pulitzer asking if thera was any way by which It could be made possible for the capable children of tne poor to fit themselves for collexe. Mr. Pulitzer offered in his letter to prov.de Columbia College with a fund. that would insure to each such child $260 a year in tuition for seven years if the cheme could be formulated, The Tu zer scholarships were the results, an Mr. Low sald he was happy to annou. that the first Pulitzer scholarship won in Barnard College was won by @ Wad- leigh School girl. Pho Wadlelgh High! School fa named after Lydia Wadlelgh, a ploneer in higher education for women, She estab- Nehed a high school In the public school in Twelfth street In 1856 and maintaine it until 1870, at which time there had been 870 graduates. TT PRISONER WINS IN POLICY CASE. | United States Court Rules Du- plicate Slips Were Not Orig- inal Numbers Drawn, is school @ undred end WASHINGTON, Feb, 2—The States Supreme Court to-day decided th | lottery case of Francis vs. the United | States, reversing the decision of the ! cult Court of Appeals for the Sixth Cireult, This Is @ victory for the de- mdant. The charge was the violation of the jaw of 18%, prohibiting the sending of lottery tickets from one State to an- jother by other means than the United States matis, The case originated in Cincinnat! and Pranc!s was found guiliy The opinion of the court was delivered by Justice Holmes, He sa'd that the offense charged was tha tof carrying policy numbers across the Ohio River United AN FOOS LOVE Highbinders Pursued the Flower of San Francisco Chinatown) from Moment She Became’ Bride of Actor Ah Funn. NOW GLOAT OVER HER BIER.| Constant Fear of Revenge Finally .Caused Her Death, and Enemie: To-Day Came to Rejoice Over the Sorrow of the Beri visaged Chinamen fled into the narrow doorway at No. 10 Chatham Square, slowly And silently mounted the uncer- tain stairs to a darkened room where, through the curling clouds of incense | they could make out a tiny bler on which the delicate form of little Ah Foo lay In a flowered #hroud of pilk | ‘Though the Inscrutable visdges of these | yellow-skinned men told nothing of whore slant eyes shone with a gleam of exultation as they saw the kneeling form of Ah Funn, the most eminent of Chinese actors, whose art avalled not to suppress the great grief which de- voured his soul, For had he not seen his fairest flower slowly fade under the awful dread of these Highbindera who| had come to gloat over his grief. A Queen of Chinatown, Three short years ago Ah Foo was| the acknowledged queen of San Fran- cisco's Chinatown. Born the daughtor of a wealthy Chinese merchant, no effort had been spared to cultivate her fair, flower-llke beauty to meet with the highest {deals of the worshippers of the sun and Buddha. As she grew up into young womanhood she was sought by tcores of eultors, but her young heart, as do the hearts of her blue-eyed and fair-skinned sisters, sighed for a rv- mance. One day her father took her to the theatre and rhe say Ah Funn in all the magnificence of his gorgeous robes, and her heart thrilled. For the entire day @he sat and ‘watched his stalwart form glide about through martial scenes, waving his Jawelled sword and chanting his ardent lines, and when she went home she left her thoughts behind in the din/ lttle theatre where the josh-sticks burned and her hero still Iilted nis lines of romance and war. Again and again she went, and it waa not long before the brilliant young actor noted her slghs and languishing glances, and loved in turn, He went to her father, who scornfully turned him {rom his door when ‘he requested the hand of Ah Foo. Then Ah Funn swore an oath even more terrible than any of his stage vows, and one day he and Ah Foo disappeared. Father Sought to Stop Them, The wrathful father then called to his ald all the official powers he could command. He called upon the Chinese Congnis in a dozen cities, and as they were powerless to egrve ‘him, he went to Minister Wu. When the Ambassador learned that Ah Funn and Ah Foo had been married under the laws of this coumry he would not interfere, and ad- vised (he angry father to give the lovers his biessing. But when the steel is once cast in the heart ofga Chinaman it rankles, The head of the house of Foo sought the Sooret influence of the Higtbinders. Ah Foo and her actor husband were thon living in New York, and it was not long before they felt that they were the object of an influence that moves slowly but with the sureness of death. Wherever they went they felt that their footsteps were dogged and a dark shadow foll across their home. Whispers reached the ears of Ah Foo that the “hatohet men” had marked her husband as one of their victims, And soon the bloom of roses in her cheeks Was replaced by an ever in- creasing pallor. She started at every found, and the coming of evening made her tremble, She would allow no hand but hers to brew Ah Funn’s tea or cook his rice, Faded Like a Flower, Soon she began to fade and wilt, and though Ar Funn did everything in his | power to cheer her, he knew that it was |only a question of days before his flower would fall from its stem and shrivel up in death, ‘The doctors way it. waa neart fadlure. The funeral, which will be held to- morow, will be conducted, according to Chinese ouatoms, and. all Chinatown wil folitw Ah Foo'a body to the Cyprean Hill Cemetery, and even at the grave [there will be ‘many of the’ solem-vis- aged ones whose eyes will shine with {an exuitation which will cause many of the mourners to tremble with the thought of the mysterious under@round power which has, brought. so "mans |tragedies into the homes of thelr vic- time. OLO WOMAN IES A STORY OF HATE ved Husband.| & AN day long a procession of solemn-| their inner thoughts, there were some| @ FROM HER BURKS, i ‘Fire in First Avenue Tenement | Causes One Death and Injures | Man and Girl as Well, Mrs, Annie Lenox, sixty-five years old, died in Bellevue Hospital to-day as la result of burns received at a fire at No. 663 First avenue early yesterday. | | Mrs, Lenox, her granddaughter Lizzie, thirteen years old, and John 1 . the father of the girl, were all taken to thy tal suffering from burns and the inhalation of smoke. The man is ia a {tical condition and wi\l probably suc. und to his injuries |. The 4 fourth floor of ere 1 mi v q tved fn thi | ftont? rooms af th oor, and were awakened by the explosion’ of a ‘lamp in the rear apartment, | | "Poltoenan Pieres. of the Kast. Thirty. Afth Birect Station, carried the man out of the rooms unconsolous, the ald woman and ihe irl following him down ‘stairs. Pierce did not notice that ihe in i the women returned to the t some clothing until au ‘the poli ETHEL MAY ALLEN BRIDE AT 14 2 noe WHO WAS A ND DIVORCED AT 16. HE.DODHA WOMAN EDITOR LOSES DAUGHTER While Mrs. Heath Busies Herseif with Public Questions, 17- Year-Old Miss Irene Disap- pears from Home. A LIBEL SUIT RECALLED. Mingled feelings have been aroused in Mamaroneck over the fact that Mrs. B, West Heath has appealed to the police for ald in finding her daughter Irene, seventeen years of age, who left home yesterday with the intention of coming to the city, As editor of the Mamaro- neck Democrat and self-constituted guardian of the morals of Mamaroneck, Rye, ‘Larchmont and Orienta Point, Mrs. Heath has stirred up enmity to herself and has been tried on an indictment for criminal libel. It would bo crvel-to may that there are persons in Mamaroneck who are giad that Mrs, Heath is having troubles of her own, but there are certainly per- sons In the community, well known to the woman editor, who will not go to her and offer sympathy. She has been er:ticlsed Jn the past for paying so much attention to the morals of the com- munity, her critios holding that she was not paying enough attention to her famjly of seven children, Mrs. Heath has been stirring things up in’ Westehester County for months, Dat not until last summer did she ac quire more than a oral reputation, When she indicted for Mbelllt Miss Annie wynch, a school teacher, now em- ployed in this city, but formerly con- hected with the public schools of Mam- aroneck, her name became known from one end of the country to the other, Donned Toga of Reformer, The business trouble of the editrese Brew out of the impression én her mind that Mamaroneck and the other villages in the vicinity were extremely wicked, condition not apparent to elther the authorities or the foremost eltizens, She took {t upon herself to remedy matters, This was five years ago, She organ- ized what she called a vigilance com- mittee. No one waa ever able to learn | how many members the committee had, and some said that it had no members other than Mrs. Heath and one or two of her friends, But to read about the work of the Vigilance Commiattee in Mrs. Heath's paper would be to get. the impression that {t was a powerful or- ganization indeed. She Became a Power. Prominent men in the community to fear the editress, Mamaroneci the country around waited every week in tenge anxiety for the next fasue of the paper., There were few public offi- Gals and few private citizens of pram= jnence who did not feel at one time pr another the scratch of Mrs, Heaths clever in At lant, as Chairman of tt Vigilance Committee, she wrote a tter to Mise Lynch telling that young woman that it was her duty to resign her position as echoo! teaoher account of her ac- tions. Miss Lynoh did not resign, In- nd bad Mrs. 4, Pending, the Heath, whose porter of this bait now would edit h cell, and her daugh- has now asked sald that she would mi th was held at vember, It was tae basis of tho ¢ # against 1 was that she had ridden through the streets Mamaroneck with her sister In a buggy with Dr. Hoerr, the Hoalth OMver, anil That the buggy was built for two: also At she sat-close to Dr. Hoerr on the Veranda of her home, ‘The jury found that Mrs. Heath was not guilty of I Blace that time the Mamaroneck I ocr nas spicy a to 7 wi the police to look after thin ‘The trial of White Plains brought out Mrs. last that Miss has not b jaye Girl missing girl is desort being | When dast seen she wore a dark blue dress, & black Newmarket | jacket and @ bi beaver hat during the trial of her mother's Whel sult in White Plalut Miss Heath be ine acquainted with a teacher of box Me and puxilism, who has a Kymnasivin in this city. Recently It came to the cara of Mrs. Heath that her daughter, who was then living with a Mra, He iy this oily, was recelying at the pugilist Mrs, Herbert. it appears, was bosom friend Of Mrs. Heath, So bath mate was their association that Mixs nch ha Fed a damage sult agalnet 4. Hert based upon the charges ade by editross The case agacnet. Mrs. soon to be tried,” nal M day, 'l believe she thinks Iam gelig to testify against her and that she ‘| keeping my daughter from me on ‘hat| ecount,” | “Sire, Herbert, who {4 accused by Mrs. Heath of keeping rene away from home, was seen at ber villa in Mamaro- heck this afternoon by an World reporter. Bhs sald that fust assured M. jeath over the t phone that Lron, ee io ta ot n a once a Herbert is Heath to H The trouble ; stamp. | Lee is AML Right, {= | photogra ‘Phen be ran all the way to the O ee Anco! street augue ae (e's HUSBAND TOOK BRIDE'S CLOTHES She Literally Hadn’t a Dress to Put On When Police Went to Arrest Him for Burg- lary. SAD SEQUEL TO ELOPEMENT. A bride of three months, Mrs. Mattie Shea, daughter of a wealthy busine: man ‘ot New Haven, Conn., hadn't a dress to put on her back when the po- Nee went to No, 141 South Fighth stree Williamsburg, to arrest her and her husband on a charge of burglary. After a dress had been procured for her she was arraigned in the Lee Ave- nue Court and was discharged, the Mug- istrate beng convinyed that she had no share in the offense alleged against her husband, Mrs. Shea told an Evening World re- porter to-day of her unhappy honey- moon, which began with an elopement and ended in poverty and a police cell. She 1s a pretty woman, whose social po- sition and education make her present position all the more galling. “My father is C, J. Smith, president and treasurer of the New Haven Light- erage and Holsting Company,” she eald, “I was engaged to marry a prominent young business man of New Haven and had my trousseau ready when Thomas Shea came to New Haven, He repre- sented himself as president of the An- telope Mining and Stock Company, of Colorado, and carried himself like @ millionaire, 1 was fascinated by his clever manners and deceived by his pro- fessions of wealth. After our second meeting I agreed to elope with him and packed my trousseau. We ran away to Gloversville, N. Y., where we were mar- ried by a Catholic priest. Then we went to Albany. Then my husband sald he was among strangers and he could not get a check cashed. Pawned Engagement B “He took the diamond engagement riug my former flance had given me and pawned tt. Then we went to Put- nam, N. Y., and from there we came to Williamsburg. From time to time he had plenty of money, and again he would be broke. When he had no money he took my clothes and sold them. Sat- urday he sold the Iast gown I had left, @ tailor-made dress. If he hadn't sold it we would have hed nothing to eat! I had to remain in bed Sunday because I had nothing to wear, “I see now how I have been de- colved, and I have wired my father, He is coming here to-day to take me home, Then I will get a divoroe.” Shea was arrested on a charge of reaking into the office of Moses Mos- son & Bros., lumber dealers, and steal- ing a oheck book and rubber check When he is re-arraigned in the jue Court to-lmorrow he will face two charges of grand and three of passing worthless The police say be is a brother a& member of the no- torlous M gang, who is now in Raymond street Jail, Imposed on Friend The police y while in Putnam ahee hened ac r $100 on the el propel nt his pollee. Shea amsburg, and have aided him Ay have to larceny hecks, of John D was brought many. friends the F OTTOW Cone semen Dougherty, of the Clymer mation, says Shea asked him weeks ago_to havea. $ The policeman acoom- and while he was out he says wie stole s gold watch. William MeKray, a We igerapiier at No. 16) xeford intr also claim, o have missed a gold wateh a ‘vin out cashing a check for Prang. a butcher at No also holds one of cashed for him: moluted him, getting the money while he Shea. Henry 0s Hedford avenue hea’s Bhea dis fatherein-law « and take him Int He waa afraid to Haven. sok mits that after his elapement a aw ane forgive him Business with hi tte down in New HE RESCUED HIMSELF. aborer Fell Overboard and Pollee Knocked lelcles from Hin Clothes, Louls Walsh was assisting in unload- ing the schooner Alert in Peck slip carly today when he fell overboard. ‘Aithough he called for help none heard him, and after @ long struggle he res- | cued himee:t by climbing the piles at the dock. where the om nis ae [bu ae esis ia ;Schoolgirl Ethel May Allen Mare ried Frederick George Weller: Secretly, but Now It is Ans. nulled by Law. Pretty Ethel May Allen went back to school to-day with her golden halt hanging in a braid down her back juilt schoolmates will not know until thi read \t here that she has been the hi most like a tragedy since she left school. more than a year ago, a ‘They will first learn here that playmate has been a wife and that romance, begun when she was vorce court. It was in January two — years ago, when, as she and her bosom friend, Pearl Wagner, were going home from school as was their wont with the!r boy lovers, Frederick George Wels ler and John Kissner, one of the boya “Wouldn't It be a sensation if we ali went anc got married?” ‘ “Wouldn't it!" vel ‘The idea was very attractive to theas: four youngsters, and from on the sensation it would create fell to discussing a double wedding as possible occurrence, and when they parte ed at Kthel's door, in West End avenue, ; Where ghe lives with her mother, i Laura Beyer, it wis all arranged, her} were to go together to a minister on) the following Saturday. And #0 did, but Pearl was afraid and b out of her part of the agreement, volunteered to be Ethel May's mald @@! honor, se: Deceived the Minister,” Fred Weller was jnst as eager fora marriage as ever, and Ethel Allen, n tng loath and still ready for an #0 romantic, the party visited the pai! eonage of Rev. George 8. Pratt, at - 164 St. Nicholas avenue, was, even at fourteen, queenly seemed as fully developed as @ wo With her sun-kissed tresses about her shapely shoulders she more than her years, and when caught them up on her head, as she for this occasion, the good man quite excusable for accepting her ment that she was nineteen and her bridegroom did not nave in saying he was ninetecen; eo, chai, Bon is ner foe ie a ear ‘agner as mi of ho to his bride, the Rev. Mr. Pratt performed the ceremony which made per tt schoolgirl Mrs. Frederick George ‘Then came the reactio: child-orlde was filled with ‘a p and she insisted on going ‘her 'mamma, first exacting o1 pledge of secrecy from John and But Fred Weller chafed at this rangement, and after many plead: for a change the youthful hua é name only wrew impatient of the situ@= | (be tion and insisted upon his le knowledging him as iter hi compromised by fleeing with Ml they took up their abode at one ot fashionable hotels in Broadway env poor Mra, Heyer distracted with’a i jess fear of what might have + her little girl. “At the end of sy secret was revealed to her thro’ z gossip which began immediately on isappearance of the “children. ¢ ‘The elopers after marriage were cated, but Ethel fled to an aunt In Pag- eraon, whence Mrs. Beyer took her iy Hing fome with her, The boy husband isappeared. os Mrs. Beyer appealed to Milliken @& Nicholson, and ult in her name as: — quardian of Ethel May, her daughter, for the annulment of the mi gerted by the influence of the Soclety, and which says that no girl un- der eighteen years of age can to a marriage. No word has been or sould be against Fred. Weller, could not help loving laughing, jen Ethel Allen, but in law she was ‘oung to know who she loved, or give hereelf to any man, Trial Lasted Only Fifteen Minutes, The case was tried by stern Ji Blanchard in the Divorce Court. It leas than fifteen minutes, for the husband did not defend the suit. Tea pike “sralt, Mrs. meyer, te as a pike staff. Mrs. r in answer to George P.° Nic! uestions. that ber little girl was Nov, 29, 1885, and she had not c to her’ marriage. course Ji Blanctard had to grant a decree nnulment of the marriagi same as saying that the blo irl was never married, and has never Seon anything else Gut “Miss M "and so one regis 5 Frederick George Weller is a free by the decree of the Court, but Ju over his heart he wears a button ing a picture of hhis Jute achool~strl like the one which illustrates this of his broken romance. AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL, What Postum Did There, ES A well-known figure at the tional Capital is that of an att at-law and solicitor of patents has been practising before the and the Department of the Interfor Washington for more than 26 1 The experience of this gen with coffee is unusually inter for it proves that although the ill ré- sults from coffee are slow they are sure. He says: “I have consumed coffee at my meals for many years, but of late years have been annoyed by deranged stomach and sleepless- ness, pains in my head, nervousness ‘and confusion of the mind. About 18 | months ago I quit coffee and come ¥ menced to use Postum Food Coffee, and have experienced the most lease ling and beneficial results therefrom. ~ “It has aided ay Boer creased my appetite for healthy foo appeased my stomach, invigorated my brain, cleared and quieted nm and mind and enabled me to soundly 8 hours out of the 84 has imparted buoyancy and ch ness to my dally life and cai to look on the bright side of thi general. It has fitted me to do lbrain work than ever before, | would consider it @ calamity to iprived of its use. are look on Postum a8 an. loure for the ills that coffee ¢ not only cures wl the ra) fourteen years old, has ended in the @is a a) y