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• -\A PICTURE OF WRATH. IRUIN AND DESOLAT.ON VISITED . ,C.ils1 A VILLAGE. Ireientonger Mr( muley of Cartersville, His Debte His flanker a•d Alec His Only Daughter -1 Pathetic story of I Ire In ilir Lyttoultig alley. DISNIAI. dreary sine, an old fur- nace slack upheld by the clasping ivy, a ros:( of decaying frame dwellings, surroun c (I by thic.:ets of impene- trable briar, the sterile fields around all covered with second growth pines, and this is Cartersville, in the Lycorning Valley, and for the evil that was done there the place , is accursed. In the great iron boom of 1853 this place was taken by a Scotch -Irishman named McCauley. It had originally been a charcoal furnace and was known as Folsom's. McCauley was a tireless worker aud well skilled in the manu- facture' of iron, but he needed capital and was not very successful. In his extremity he borrowed abtne money of Richard Carter, of Tamafeita, presi- dent of the Anthracite Bank, and a man of large means. McCauley. was a widower with one daughter, a girl of 17. He built a neat cottage and with the assistance of the daughter and a Welshwoman named Morgan began housekeeping. Mary lefetslantestkongie—essas - ha face, had tine eyes, a beautiful complex- kon and a wonderful figure for her y i eea.ra s. Her manners were those of a womfaIstaLethe world and shr talked intelligently and well, having but re- cently returned from an Eastern board- ing school, where she had become a good musician. No doubt the girl rebelled against her narrow. sordid surroundings. It was a pitiable life for a woman of cul- ture and refinement and she begged her father to let her go ont in the world, and make her -living as a teacher, but he was coarse and hard and told her that he could not spare her services tias go to any further expense. One day a visitor came who . was re- ceived by McCauley with servile def- erence. It was his creditor, Richard Carter. He was an Englishman of about 40, rather handsome, of the florid, showy type, genial and effusive in man- ner, but those who did business with him knew that at bottom he was hard and unscrupulouis while in society he had been long since outlawed, not only for ostentatious profligacy, but for out- spoken disparagement of women in RICHARD CARTER. general. By the working class be was hated as a harsh taskmaster. s at He was introduced to Mary McCauley and mafle himself agreeable, as he was intelligent and a good talker. while Mary exerted herself t3 please her fa- ther's guest, whose power and connec- tion with his tusinees she well knew. For the next two mar ths ('arter wag a constant visitor. Soon presents came streaming in, a fine pit.no replaced the little melodion, music books, fruit and flowers were daily forwarded, and tin der these seductive influences Mary McCauley developed a warm regard for the giver. She had abundut warning as to his chatacter; the IlSousekeeper knew him well and hated him vehe- mently, and did her bet t to put the girl on her guard. In the meantime her father's affairs were becoming more involved and he owed Carter more than the value of his plant, and was, desperate at the ruin that was inevitable. One day Carter made a demand for his money. Showing McCattley that further advances were out of the ques- tion he took supper with the family, and that night had a lung conversation with his debtor, mud' of which was overheard by Mrs. Morgan. ' Carter spoke of Mary's future, how Insecure it was, of the great interest he took in her welfare, he had no chil- dren and had come to. look upon her as a daughter. He was going to Europe, and would take, her with him, and could give all the neeled opportunity to complete her musieil education. In the meantime he would assist MeCauley In tiding ()ter the worst until better timer; came. Ills wretched 'ilebtor saw hat one thing --a resells from ruin. His reeri a as on fire with greed, and he sold els (laughter for the I ich man's gold. And Carter left. It Wile late at night, and Mary aleCatilee as called down stairs and her father told her his Oust - Den and Cartel's offer. Neither was Ile,elverl, and when they parted never to Meet again thr Orr; face was white and drat; e anti she told the house- keeper .11 row orilt• that it was all arranged she unman begged end pleaded ith her to lea'.' her home at once, hot Mars replied that It wax toe late, and PO they panto d Nest morn lag Carter came -with a fine carriage, and Mari without a parting wotd to any left her home for a future unpar- alltried. For a month McCauley did no work, wander* about purposeless, speaking fo nons. and at the end of that time. was found dead in his home, his bead reclining on the table. He was buried in it field back of the furnace, left no estate. anti Cartersville as it was lo- ran): known went to desolation and deca.V as it is now. In three months Carter became tired of his victim, and urged her to qualify for a position as teacher, so she entered the Methodist Seminary, at Wilming- ton. Del., Carter passing as her uncle. Here she became very intimate with a Miss Smith, one of the teachers, and made the acquaintance of her brother, lie was at once_ s enamored, proposed marriage, and was accepted, Carter be- ing active in bringing the affair about. Smith was an upright man, but not very well balanced, very impulsive and excitable in character. The wedding was quite a social affair. TWO months after, the wife despairing of further concealment, told her husband all, lie fairly went out of his mind, and sought Carter at the St. Lawrence hotel, in Philadelphia. Carter had just made a profitable deal in coal lands, and fell MARY McCAULEY. exultant. He laughed at Smith's frenzy, and the next moment was a dead man, a pistol bullet fairly divid- ing his heart. There was but one opin- ion—sei l ved the profligate villain right. Smith was tried and acquitted, but never regained his right mind, and dis- appeared, while Mary McCauley still lives thousands of miles away in a for- eign land. No one knows her real name, or the part she took in the tragedy of Cartersville. Shipped the Wrong Corp... An aged citizen of Green Hill, W. Va., named Blamer was notified by Super- intendent Crumbacher, of the state hospital for the insane, at Weston, that Mrs. Blamer, who was an inmate ef the ,,institution, had died. Not betng able to go after his wife's remains. Blamer sent the money to the authorities, ask- ing them to ship the body to him. This was done by express Last week the body was returned to the express office with a note from Blamer that the body was not that of hie wife. Mrs. Blamer was 70 years old, while the body shipped was , that of a woman not over 35. This is the second time that such a mistake has been made at the state hos- pital for the insane. On a recent oc- casion the, body of the supposed wife of a Ritchie county man was shipped to him and the remains were burled: Two weeks later the husbaed was sur- prised to receive a summons from the hospital that \ his wife was dying,\ and by the time the astonished Ritchis county man reached the asylum hit wife had recoveiesi :rom heeilinesa. SAW THE MURDER. Gracie Harper Abducted and Will Prob- ably ite Put to Death. Gracie Harper. aged 16, was kid- naped from South Ottumwa, Ia.. at 2 o'clock the other morning by parties who are said se have beep following her for more than a year with that in- tent. Gfacie aeti her mother, Mrs. Bishop. came to that place from Kan- sas about four weeks ago with two wagons and teams. Mrs. Bishop's for- mer husband was named Harper, and she claims he a as implicated in, lu Gltat(71E ilARPER. fact, committed, the great harper 111 , 1r - ' der in Kansas several years ago :41te claims that Gracie was present and gist' the affair After the murder Mt s Ilar- per left her husband and married a man named Ilighop, who died recently. They have been constantly pursued by Harper and lite friends. who wished to sectire prorsioSRIOTI of the girl. Officers are in pursuit of the kidnapers Mrs Bishop declares her daughter will. he killed. Their driver, a young man who came to the* in !Missouri. end who they claim is a confeder ate of Harper, is also missing Horne, In the tia)ri of her pride and power hail A eirctis that \'mild aceom- mode , . ff,9.000 peoplti With such a trinitittitle, if a boy crawled under ties ran..aa It wasn't, not isid SITE WRITES PLAYS. MISS COYNE FLETCHER AND HER WORKS. A Fair Young Authoress Who Has Just Crowned Her Career with t•lory H er Dramatic Picture of 1.Ife. FEW women in tile history of litera- ture have achievtd renown as dramat- ists. Several Amer- ican women in late years have sue- ceeded fairly well in efie field, which had previously - I been monopolized by the masculine gen ' es and Germany furnished in Charlotte Birch -Pfeiffer, the dramatist, to whom we are indebted for \Fan- ('hon.\ \Jane Ayre,\ \Little Barefoot,\ and nearly a hundred. others, which never found their way into English, an example that women may succeed as playwrights, even though the sun of philosophy is against it. American women, moreover, have succeeded in a field of the drama that has been pe- culiarly sacred to men, for women are said to possess no humor, I. e., comedy. Miss Coyne' Fletcher, of New York, is the latest example of a woman's suc- cess in the lighter branch of the tirama, and though she is not by birth to the manner born, by adoption and long occupies a desk, around which bundles of time -stained papers are heaped up where the work which falls ts her allotment crwar at the day Is regularly p orformed. But the hours in the departments offer some compen- sationfor the hard task they impose hs them god on all who eat the bread of the g ent. Those who are i bo und g d o o i h ro om t go at go to 4wortk.rounni 4 to midnight 9 o'clock Leaves almost a day's time of leisure for the pursuit of fancy. For ten years Miss Fleteher has been a government clerk, and those ten years have appar- ently been well employed, for she is the author of two successful novels, — rile Bachelor's Baby\ and \.Me and Chummy,\ its well as of half a do/en plays. She is a s woman with a strong face, a high forehead from which the hair is combed back in Elizabethan manner, a large, aquiline nose, firm mouth, large teeth, and a full, strong Physi- cally, too, she manifests qualities of strength well calculated to sustain the draft of an active and creative brain. There is something in the blood, too, calculated to kindle the fire of dramat- ic genius in her, for she comes latterly of good literary stock as a cousin of Sterling Coyne, the London dramatist and co-founder of the London Punch. Yet to the writer she confessed the dra- inatic instinct in her awoke tardily and late, after maturity of mind blazes away out of a wilderness of confusing sentimentality in which such literary mushrooms as Jeanne Libby are smoth- ered. \At twenty,\ she declares, with MARIE TEMPEST. — residence, at least, she must be classed an American writer. \A Bachelor's Baby.\ presented for the first time before a metropoBtan au- dience the other evening. affords the very highest evidence :A that rarest of feminine combinations, the truly dra- matic as contradistingulshed from the sentimental with the humorous. The climax of the second act, where young D'Arcy, to save his uncle's honor. vol- untarily sacrifices himself by confess- ing to the disgrace, which involves the loss to him of the woman he loves, and the touching little scene in which the lovers meet by stealth, and Geraldine implores him to speak the one word that will restore her confidence in him. are truly dramatic in conception and manner of treatment, while the prepar- ations for the reception of the baby in the last act are equivalently It concep- tion of the brightest wit. To many it will be something of a surprise that Miss Fletcher pursues her literary .14pir.itions amid the tax - MISS CON NE FLF.TCHER. Mg routine of a busy life as an em- ploy. , of the govoltiment Government Offices, both In England and America, have aomehow been prolific of literary gentile Chas Lamb Di a case in point and Its another. on this side of the waters. !MIAS Fletcher Is a clerk In the Post office Department and the wsiter was shown to a emelt room on the top floor of the post -office building, almost hidden from view br core in' eons rows of bendled docirmente, whieh extend from floor to ceiling In the taw - Odor. In his search for the talented author. 1n this little apat•ment She that dash of Celtic wit which marks her conversation as well as her writing. \I was ft goose.\ She has now' been writing for something like ten or a dozen years. and in that period Illis passed through all the disappointments and struggles which like a forge weld all aspiring talent. What these disap- pointments are like may be inferred from two examples. She had written a play entitled \The Americans.\ It passed into the hands some years ago of a first-class com- pany, which was engaged to produce Oscar Wilde's play. \Vera.\ Miss Fletcher's play started mit with every indication of scoring a hit. Time had, however, ffeen previously arranged for \Vera and AR soon as that piece reached the United States, \The Ameri- cans\ was withdrawn after a short run to make room for the work of a man to whoee literary reputation so much greater .public interest attached. \Vera\ made a failure, butt the with- drawal of Miss Fletcher's play, such are the ethics of the mimic world, could not be revived. \The Bachelor's Baby\ is a dramati- sation of her novel, published in 1891, and was originally submitted to So- thern, who was so delighted with it that he sent for the author, to whom he declared he had never read a piece better adapted to his abilities. MARIE TEMPEST. lite Sprightly Priam Donna of the New York Weill., It was from London that Marie Tem- pest came when she made herself fa- mous as Kitty Carroll in \The Red Hus- sar,\ at Paimer'm Theater, New York. She had previously made a great name for herself as a light opera artiste in London, where she was born. She first studied music in the convent at !truss' sets, to which she was sent a hell she was a little girl. She afterward tithed her nnisieal studies at the Royal Academy of Music, London. She Rang in concert for awhile, but soon went to light opera in : the chief role of \Boc- caccio,\ making an initanteneoue sic - cess, followed by others in \Ermittle \Inaria\ and \The Itet1 111114113r '' Then she cattle to this emintrx and has since become pi Inca donna In the New York Casino ('ompan). _ Idyll of the theeelde I am sore I have excellent reasons Vor doing en when I declare That this 14 the best of all seasons For the girl who has \nothing I. wear, I , ; Go to THE flINT I I , , F., Imported And Domestic Liquors, Wines, Cigars sal Ililwaukee and St. Louis - -- Bottled Beers. The Anheuser-Busch Celebrated BEST IN THE \Premium On WORLD. Draught. Pale\ i 1 SPARLING Wickes, Proprietors, & SCHARF - - Montana. _. J. W. MONAHAN, WICKES, — MONTANA. DEALLI: IN Hay, Grain, Flour, Rolled Oats, Corn Meal, FRYE FA__CDUFR. Lowest Prices for Cash. DEAN & TAYLOR, Wholesale and Retail Dealers int Beef, Mutton, Pork, Hams, Bacon, A N MONTANA LARD. Wickes, Montana. t• et eet..1 .
