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SHE IAS BOILBD AUK, NO EYES. EARS. HAHDS OR SCALP, YET GOES INTO SOCIETY. . I.I -TT i NMt ilral TramUrm* ll" Iflrr Mrlml tilr ! Train Wrr,k Krm.rk.hlr rxblUH.I. .f tb !*!* u 111 This U the story of the miracle of medical science and human endurance by which a young woman who waa U.iled alire. who ban lo*t both eyes, eyelids, scalp and band*. and ha* auf- fered more than the agonies) of death. baa been restored to oomparatire healt h and good looka. The young woman U Mrs. GertruAe Baldwin, of Yonkers, N.Y. She was hoi r it. I injured and mutilated in the memorable railroad collision at Hast- ing*. N.Y . on Chriatmai Eve. 1891. No aumun bring has ever before been BO hTMMy mutilated and lived. Fifty thousand dollar*. the largest sum erer paid by an American railroad company (or in juries to a single person, was paid to her in settlement fur her injuries by the New York Central Railroad At the time at the collision Mrs. Baldwin was twenty yearn old, a grace- ful and loTely woman, blue-eyed and an I. urn-haired, and the bride of a year. The accident wrought a terrible trans- formation. She was crushed by heavy timbers and scalded by steam from thn engine. The skin and flesh of the head wan boiled off ; orer the parietal bom' a there was a place about the size of the band entirely bared to the white skull. where the unfortunate woman had been literally scaljrcd ; the eyelids wen boil- ed off, and so waa the skin of her face down to the now; the cartilaginous parts of both earn were (font, only smill stump* remaining on r it her side of her mutilated bead; the flesh of her nerk and left shoulder blade wan boiled off. and the left shoulder blade pro- truded; ibe had fallen at the time of the collision with her arms over her bnad, and the anus were boiled en- li'ely from the forearms to the points of t be fingers ; it was necessary that both eyes should be removed, and that tbe left hand should be amputated and all luit the thumb of the right band. Yet to-day this woman is a present- able person, with tbe rrstiffen of her former beauty. She Urea tbe life of tbe ordinary woman of wealth ; she at- tends social gathering" and receptions and entertains in her pretty heme 8he wean diamonds and dreaaew hand- somely. A curly brown wig coven tbe calpleas head and the places where the ears were; I .hie glasses hide the eye cavities; cosmetics make her face night- ly where tbe nkln gnfts have grown. HT pretty mouth and chin are unin- jured. On tbe thumb, which is all that remains of her right band, she wears a fine solitaire ring, and the stump of hrr left arm is btdileji Icneath tbe lace of her sleeve. She goes to cbunh She U seen out driving on pleasant days. Mil II V-l INGS HORROR Mrs Baldwin was one of a family party HMssUnVf *>( her husband. Humer R. Bildwm. his mother snd bis sister, Lillian, and a friend, Tbomu W. Policy, who took passage from New York (.'brill mas Eve. 1H91, on tbe Wag- ner car Gibraltar, the last coach on the Niagara express. They were Ixmnd to Niagara Kails to spend the holiday* The train came to a ludden stop at Hastings, and throuKh the blunder of a l.mkiMiiari nf tbe Niagara train, who failed to display tbe danger signal in t ho rear after t he train stopped, and I b<- Cincinnati and Si Ixmin express crashed into the (iibrallar at full speed Mr. llaldwin had gone into tbe suiok- er to light a cigar and was) not in- jured. Mr Pulley was fint taken nut ; he died the next day. Mrs. Baldwins in.. I her was next rescued. Ixit she im- mediately died Mis* Baldwin. when taken out. walkrcl Hrn.su the railroad trark anil dropped dead. Mrs. Baldwin had IH-.-M ihr.iwn on her hack at the first shock, and heavy timlnn lay across- her chest. Sh>- was nearest to tbe engine, and as t In- it earn ate ill way into her flash she struggled wildly to free herself, not for a moment losing consciousness until her huahand had chopped away t h- tiniU'rs that pinion- ed her and draped brr out in his arms. Then she fainted. She wan immediately taken to St. Jobn's Hospital. Yonkem. When her wounds were first drwsed tbe *calp and all that was left of the hair peeled off in tbe doctors' hand*; the eara and thr flesh from her bands dn>pp<-<i ..ff whrn touched. Great piexxui of skin IM.-IP.I from the inside of her mouth and throat. THE FIUIIT FOH LIFE. The hoipital surgeon* believed that death would end her agony during the night hour* Hut in the morning they found her null alive, clear- hnaded. cour- ageous. enduring with a vitality and spirit that scarcely seemed possible in so frail a woman. Then began Ibe fight of science for her life. For days her life hung by a InhM thread. Hut the patience of * ii-noe wan infinite She was swathed in the softest surgical notion ; sl- lay u|Min liag* of ioe ; she wan given hypo- dermic injections constantly to keep up /h<- action of the heart and to allay the intense pain; her wounds were dressed every few hours in antiseptic dressing fluid, and she waa hat hen tin- dressing fluid. In a few days the blackened and swollen skin begun to slough off until tbe upper layeir was gone, leaving tbe urfaee raw and bleeding. Her left hand waa amputated just ahove tbe w-rlaf in the hope nf saving a* much nf her arm a* possible ; ibe knew I hat a neoond amputat ion would proliablv lie necanaary. The injuries to her head gave her great agony; the surgeon* feared that the inner plate of tbe skull miitlii have been injured and that the fathering pus, in that efent. wmild muse con gent ion. winch would have lieen fatal It WAS found necessary to amputate her left hand when all the flesh had sloughed from tbe fingers, leaving tbe ' boms bare. The use of anaesthetic* would have' '"on dana-erous in her feeble condit ion. Tbe xkiill was white and chalky were exposed. The meutul sbfck f tbe night of bsrror combined with her physical agony were finally too much for her wonderful nerve, and fora time' bar brain wan seriously affected; she' bad hallucinations and there wan a proasbiliiy of permanent insanity. V it in a few weeks she had wasted from 115 pound* in weight to 60. At one time her pulse had fallen from 180 to !t' and her respiration to 11, and the doctors llieve<I her dying, but she rallied. There had never been such marvellous vitality in a woman, tbe doctors said. As so- in as her condition made it pos- sil.le, she waa removed from the hospi- tal to the Getty llouae. in Yonkern. Dr. Emil Scbopen, who bad been chief in attendance on her in the hospital, took tbe entire charge of her. He gave up a large share of his practice to de- vote bin time to her. It was not a case for tbe brilliant coup d'etat ofa surgi- cal general. It was a case for the pa- tience and eternal vigilance of science. SKIN-GRAFTING HER SCALP. 1 !-. She has a beautiful borne on Highland avenue, Yonkers, and U sur- rounded by tbe luxury that wealth brings. Her sister IN her constant companion, eyes to her blindneaa. hands to helplessness. She has her pets- three dogs and a parrot. She has a aweet voice, and helps to make the cheer of the house with her songs to her sister's accompaniment. She at- tended a private reception some time ago, at which she danced with Lcr Husband with her old-time gayety. began tbe series of skin-graft- ajvi" -Sell have made Mrs. iialdwin again prenentable person. From over t he eye* to t he Hack of t he bead in some places there was raw-surface, to be cov- ered with new akin Portion* *' the heHlthy tianue of Mrs. Baldwin's r'.xter, Miss Eleanor Moore, were transplanted to tbe wounded bead. Tbe fint skin-grafting operation took place over a month after the accident. Ten small pteces of skm from the arms of Miss Moore were grafted on the fore- head of the so iured woman. Of these Tive retained their vitality and the format.iun of a healthy membrane* be- gan. But thn most terrible ordeal of all waa yet to come. Dr. Schopen had told her. three weeks after the accident. that ikic would have to lose her eyes in order to *a\e her life. Tbe eyelids had been boiled off. and as there was no way of supplying nature's protec- tion and lubrication to the eyehalU the eye* bad become terribly swollen and inflamed. The tortures of pain abei suffered from them sapped her feelde strength and her chance for life wax in having tmth eyes come nut. Day I.) day the night faded from them, and finally (he became totally blind. It waa impossible to delay the operation longer, for there was grave danger of blood poisoning or erysipelas, such was the inflammation Yet the eye spe- cialist. Dr Peter Callan, and Dr. Scbo- pen agreed that it was probable she would not survive tbe ordeal. "I know tbat I xliall never come out of this alive-." aaid tbe little woman, pitifully, "hut I am willing to take every possible chance of living tbat is offered me." There was in readiness every precau- tionary means of reviving her should the ether have a suffocating effect A powerful Faradic battery was at band, and a bag of oxygen gas with tune ap- paratus to insert in the windpipe to produce artificial breathing. BOTH KYE8 CUT OUT. EtbtrwM administered and the eves were, removed by Dr. Callan. Dr. Scbo- pen then amputated tbe four dead brines t hat wot ruded from the right band like tbe finger* of a skeleton and carefully patched tbe remaining thumb. He cut iway the dead hum and !lrsh of the left arm. but when attempting to scrape t hr dead bone tissue from the exposed portion* of tbe akull Mrs. Baldwin was found to be sinking. So all further strain on her vitality was postponed The operations had taken half an hour's time aod Mrs. Baldwin rwgamed con- aciousneflu in a few minutes and to the astonishment of tbe lurgeon* seemed to feel no ill effects The loss of her eyes Mrs. Baldwin felt keenly ; shut in an eternity of dark- ness. she could not even weep. The windows of her soul were shut, the tear veins were dried, there were onlv I dank cavil iea where her eyes had len, and drops of agony in place of nature's merciful tear*. Her martyrdom did not end there, for very soon t tie re developed an af- feriion of the inner or middle ears which threatened her with the loss of bearing For a time she became deaf and hrr sufferings from her can were intense. At this time It became impossible for bar to taste food or drink ; she could not even swallow her saliva; she was nourished artificially She was thus bereft at once of sight. hearing, taste and loach, and her rea- aon was gone from her in the deliriums of fever. But finally care and science did their work, and she Ingan to mend. Her hearing was saved ; she Iwcame able fo eat light gruels and broths, the Kraft* nn her mutilated thunili showed healthy growth, so i hat she would not if entirely helpless in her loaa of hands when the cure wa* completed. The fever died from her brain, and reason ram* hack to her. ON THE TORTURE RACK. Day by day she gained in strength, ret very slowly, for naoh dressing of her wounds ware exquisite torture. The i|.*-t<.i watched with her many nights of 114:1 MI v. administering hypodermic in .!' mm to keep her alive under thin terrible rack of pain. One dressing of her wonnda sometime* required three hours, an sansitlve was she to each touch, so terrified at each additional , so piteous in her supplications to escape the neoessary treatment which made her writhe in every nerve of fneling. A her strength was able to bear them other Hk in-grafting operations were made, and with marvellous suc- cess. Tiny pieces of skin from her .ii.*jter' Uxiy took root on the mutil- ated scAlp, face, neck and thumb of Mrs. Baldwin, and with careful anti- septic dressing a new surface of skin developed from them. When Mrs. lialdwin drought suit against the New York Central Rail- road It was necessary that she. as the ri.mplaiiisnt, nhoiild sign the complaint. Hut Mrs. Baldwin had no hands, and will never write again. So on the doc- ument her husband wrote her name, and under it, as it wrnt on file, there were two straggling marks. Mrs. iialdwin held toe pen lirtween her teeth as it was placed and the nurse moved her head to make " her mark." Now, over three years after the ac- rl. Inn. ibe is in comparative health. II KM' I1RKSSFM WOMAN IN YONK- KRS. Mrs. Baldwin Is now twenty-four years nf age. and in spito of her infli.- i inns, a very InTight and cheerful little A MUMMY OF TO DAY. la Orirni.i rrlae* EMbalised kr a Lea- den l..<-lor. In a white-draped mortuary at the hack of 88 Keppel street, Russell square, In a quiet-looking early Victorian red brick house of exactly similar appear- ance to hundreds of other bouse* in red brick row* in Bloombury, tbe body of hi* late Highness the Sultan of Jo- hore. is lying embalmed in semi-state. Tbe house U that of Dr. Charles Bayle. I'hevalier de la Gregoire-le-Grand. a Legion d'Honneur, Commander de la French :. Dentist, who has made a *pe- cial s' udy of the art of embalming. When you e^ter at the alreet door the Faint scent of heavy perfume strikes you and grow* less faint aa you walk along the hall. Then a door i* opened -you notice that it is painted in tbe prevailing Blonoishury tint on the oul- ide and bung with while cloth on tbe inside as you walk down bite-cal<pft- ed stairs in * chamber built at f<. '- k of the house where once was a garden, tbe heavy perfume come* at you heav- ier and more powerful, and separates Itself iuto several distinct and conflict- ing scent*, before you, biding some thing behind it is a screen, all white, standing in a room of which the wall* and ceiling* are covered with white seen in white, soft subdued light, com- ing from a sky light veiled with white clotb. Tbe screen hides everything in tbe room but its ghostly self, and, nigh upon the while hanging* of the oppo- site wall, tbe crescent and STAR OF THE EAST in dull red that thrusts itself out from the white like a moaning in the night. Tbe dim whiteneas of the room, tbe heavy perfume*, the somber touch of the re.d tell q,uiu> as plainly what it U tbst lies tiebind the screen a* could black velvet and silver, burning tapers, arid tbe damp scent of dying flowers. In the mi Idle of t h room on a low tr, s- lle bed. white draped, tbe dead Sultan lies, to all appearances calmly and peacefully asleep. Dr. Bayle's balsams have changed dent h into sleep, and he lies with his grav mustache and wavy hair and his blar.k arched eyebrows, his handsome, soldierly, dusky features smoothed and softened, and with his eyelids lightly rl<ued in the calm and perfect repose hicb easy slumber brings to the fare of tbe man of the world. lie look* avu-lly as. one who knew anything of the Sultan would expert him to look in sleep. On his breast there lies a bound man- uscript copy of tbe Koran, and under it. placed there by tbe priest in ac- cordance with some custom or twlief. a pair of scissors. On tbe white floor at tbe side of the bed are the large paper bags of perfume one of rosemary one of patchouli and the other of rose leaves Tbe rosemary is for remem- brance a* well as for pungent odor, and. par hap*, betides their strong ner- hime*. the patchouli and tbe dried and crumpled rose leaves may have t heir meanings. The wonderful triumph over decay ha* been effected by Dr. Bayle'i system of arleriil injection. But not that system only has lieen carried out. In the Oriental systc.m of embalming tbe liody i* eviscerated and ML- organs removed and purified. In the old days they knew no other way. and what they did in the old days is. according to Eastern ideas, the only decorous thing to-day. So tbe Doctor has taken out the Internal organs, washed and cleansed them, applied his preservative treatment to them nepar- ately and then replaced them in their proper posit ion Hut t hat was only to satisfy the ideas of the Sultan's court as to what was RIGHT AND IN ORDF.lt Rtill it was not necesisary ; it waa not scientific. Dr. Bayle says. Four pint* of the perservative fluid, of which he holds tbe secret, forced through tbe arteries by air pressure, would have sufficed. You see." he says, "the body is already beginning U> dry; the hand becomes to >* a piece like of wood; tbe foot it is thn name; the fare I treat it in a different way, so as to keep it the appearance of soft- ness ; but you shall see that ear; it is already like a piece of leather." The ear looks warm and soft and natural enough, but when you touch it it isi *et stiff and hard. The legs are hound A MILLIONAIRE'S SORROWS JOHN W. HACK AY'S WEALTH HAS NOT BROUGHT HAPPINESS. U i if. u*. a *nr. .r WerrlM 1 mublrt and Brr. ?ui*u stiol l. O|rralc4 'by nteest, *)vrrwB>ela**4l Wlb Li , u u.. in. il.,u.rl..id Brekta I. Listen to tbe story of tbe troubles of a multi-millionaire. HU name is Jobn W. Mackay. He has commonly been thought of as a man whose life has been a phenomenal success. because be made a great fortune suddenly in early life, hut the truth is that bis life since be became wealthy has been one long series of troubles. The greatest of them, no doubt, was a week ago the death of bis eldest and favorite son, whom be waa raising to succeed him in tbe management of his vast fortune. VARIED TROUBLES. They range from tbe meat serious to tbe most ridiculous. He gets (hot by a crank and baa a rough-and-tumble fight with a social rival. He loses a son and lows a lawsuit. His great fortune has enabled his wife to make a brilliant social reputa- tion in Europe. She iias magnificent houses in London and Paris, and enter- tains the Prim* of Wales and the moat fashionable French society. Mr. Mackay by the mere fact of bis fortune. U kept away from her. He works in San Francisco and she entertains in London. Thus wealth baa broken up his L.uj.seholu. HU daughter's msrriage with an It- alian prince, once talked of as a brilliant event, has turned out a miserable fail- ure. He gets little or nothing in the way of personal comfort from bis millions His digestion and bis tastes cause i him to live simply and even coarsely. Fine winea and delicately cooked foods are not for him. NO LUXURIES FOR HIM He has to live on a rigid diet. A reg- ular course of muscular exercise has also been prescribed for him by his doc- tors. Tbe doctors have had plenty to do for Mr. Mackay. His digestion requires constant attention. Then be was shot and immediately after be recovered he underwent an operation for appendici- tis. He refused to pay a hill of 91-.- I 500 for tbe dot-tors who attended him i when he waa shot. He does not llong to clubs or go to theaters. He has no serious intereet in life except to make money, of which be baa already about fifty times as much a* be can spend. He is and has long lieen engaged in innumerable lawsuits. He baa quar- relled with all or nearly all of the part- ners of his early life, the men who made up the picturesque Big Four of bonanza day*. John W. Mackay. James G. Fair. Wil- liam O'Brien and John C. Flood were the Dig Four. They had all gone to California in '49. Mackay drifted to Nevada, where he gained possession of tbe famous lionanxa mines at Virginia City. Pointing to the entrance of one of these mines Mackay is reported to have said: "Out of that bole I took 9150.- 000.000." In 1878 the four eatsblished tbe Bank of Nevada. In IKHt Mr Mackay was concerned in the establishment of the Commercial Cable Company Ql'ARRELED WITH HIS PARTNER. A bitter quarrel broke out ltween Mackay and Fair. Tbe latter withdrew from tbe Nevada Dank on condition that Flood should withdraw also He I wsnted Mackay to tic up all his money in tbe bank so thai be could not go in- to other enterprises.FlooJ fell in with tbe suggestion, but when Fair had withdrawn he put lock his money. Then Fair was bitterer than ever. In 1PH7 tbe Nevada Bank was reduc- ed to desperate straits by the specula- tion in wheat of its Vice- President in the almence of Mr. Mackay. Tbe bank (ought the wheat crop of California at CO cents aUive its market price Mr. Macksy married hia wife in IHrTT She was tbe daughter of Col. Daniel C. HuiiKerford. of New York, snd I be widow- of a California doctor. She had social ambitions, which she determined to gratify when her husliand made bis fnrt une. The fashionable society of San Fran- cisco snubbed the miner's wife and Mrs. M.ifksy wisely went to Kurojio Her career there has lieen a brilliant success Mr Mackay first I .ought her a house, in the Rue de Tilsit in Paris, and gave her 910.000,000 in (tnvernment bonds ing the feet in posit ion." In a day or. two tbe binding will I* varnished, and then all will he ready for the sleeping Sultan to be put in his coffin with the rosemary and the pat- chouli and rose leaves on top of him. "And those Iwndagea are not remov- ed when the embalming is complete f" the visitor asked. " Those, bandages." said the Doctor, "shall be removed never." Never is a long time. The Sultan his full name wan Tun koo Ahuhikr bin Ibrahim, known as Abu Bekar. Sultan of Johore. or more correctly the Tuinongonx- died official- ly on Tuesday, the 4th of June. 1H95. That waa the day on which his minis- ters and court, having in the meantime, no doubt , taken t he necessary prevau- tions as to affairs in .lohore. finally abandoned all hope of his being still alive. On that same day tbe liody was taken to Dr. Bayle. and there were then present indications that his death had taken place quite a week earlier. The embalmed body will remain where it is for two mi ni ' hs longer, and t hen the Sultan will go l>ack to Johore to be buried In the tomh of bis father*. Irresistible. T.adv What ii thn price of thai crepe I Clerk That i* SO cent* a yard, mad- am. Lady Oil. that'll outrageously high. Clerk Rut it I* reduced from 91 l.uly Is that sn f You can give me 10 yards' t hen- House Terrace in HIS DAI tillTF.K'S FNHAPPY MAR- RIACK. In lMH. r . Miss Julia Bryant Mackay. their adopted daughter, married I'rmce Colonna di Ciil.it n> This marriage turned out very unhappily, and tbe Prim-ess recently obtained a divorce. In Europe she baa been obliged to hide with her children from her hulwnd Charges of cruelty and generally ills reputable conduct were made against the Prince The Honyngc-Mackay feud is one of the most amusing of the many rows that Mr. Mnckay has l-cen loiicerned in. It has been carried on by means of a fistic encounter, by lawsuits, by in- spired paragraphs in newspapers on Ixith siidos of the Atlantic and by a Iwok. The exact truth ftliout it ear- not be k' nn I ut the fo'lowing atcoun waa given by H person favorable to Mr. Mnckay when he last assaulted Mr Honynge. Charles William Ili-n ynge. it appears, is a man of uncertain origin. bu( probably English w h > made a fortune as a broker in California. It is alleged that ho originally spelt bis name Running. When he bseaBM ri -h be went to London in search of social triumph*. He preferred to pass as an American, because, high English soci- ety will tolerute an American more readily than an Knglish man of low birth I'nfortunately. in California he had laid at res.* nn the fs,-l that he waa an Englishman. Then some one wrote a letter signed " Publicola " or " Veri- *" t* the London Post asking ktw it was that an Kniflisiiman not eligible for presentation at court could go to- California, make money and come l>ack and be presented. Mr. llonynge im- mediately concluded that this letter referred to him and that Mr. Mackay, or one of his hirelings wrote it. THAT I'ON'. M;K ROW He replied with a number nf revela- tion* concerning Mr. and MM. Mackay 'a early life, published anonymously in London papers. It was said that Mrs. Muckay had been a washerwoman and her father a ttarber. and not an officer in the United States army as allegvd. In an interview in a ^ew York pa- per, Mr. lionynge. remarked of one of these attacks tbat " it was not a libel." Mr. Bonynge passed from New York to Pan Francisco, and there, after read- ing the last attack. Mr. Mackay sought him. Mr. Mackay found Mr. Ronynge in the office of President He'lman, of the Nevada Bank. With all tbe ener- gy of an Irishman and a former miner be sprang at Bonynge and knocked him down. A rough-and-tumble fight followed in which the two rolled ail over the floor of tbe President's office, Bonynge had the worst of it. Mr. Mackay brought a suit against the Galtgnttni Mesenger. of Paris, for lilwling Mrs. Mackay and won it. He brought a similar suit againat tbe Manchester Examiner. This was settled out of court. SHOT BY A MADMAN. On Feb. -21. 1X93. Mr. Mackay wan shot by Wesley C. Rippey, an old man made insane by losses in stock gamb- ling. Rippey shot Mr. Mackay in the back while be was walking in tbe street. The bullet entered between the sixth and seventh ribs and passed danger- ously near the spinal column and tbe kidneys. Eventually it proved not to I* serious. It was a month before Mr. Mackay was able to go out. On the day that he did this for tbe first time be was taken with a sharp pain, which later developed into appendicitis. lie had partaken of a dish of peas recent- ly and one of the latter had lodged in his vermiform appendix. The attack threatened his life, and he was remov- ed to New York, where Drs. McBarney and Townshend operated on him and removed t he dangerous and unnecessary appendage. SOME OF HIS LAWSUITS. In 1890 Mr. Mackay tried to rex-over Hi'io.uno from Leon Alfaasa. of Paris. It was alleged that he had loaned tbe money to Alfassa, who wan a son-in-law of a broker associated with Mr. Mackay in speculation in Parts. He lost thin act ion Tbe action which Edward S. Stoke* has just won against Mr. Mackay was first filed in Iroi Icfore Justice Ing- rabam of tbe Supreme Court. Stokes sued for 975.000 with interest from 1884. claiming that amount to be due on a contract sinned by Hector de Castro on liebalf of Mr Mackay and ratified by Mr. Mackav. by which Siokns wae to receive 9106.000. and be and C H. Reed were to be relieved of all obliga- tion* to Mr. Mackay. Another suit against Mr. Mackay waa brought by COUTH Dillon, who claimed 9'i<M> for helping to establish the Commercial Cable Company. The Count lost. These are some of the business trou- bles of the millionaire. A much greater one occurred about a week ago. w hen his eldest .ion. John W. Mackay. Jr.. waa thrown from his horse and killed in France. ^ oung Mackay was a di- rector of the Poatal Telegraph Com- pany and the Commercial Cable Com- pany. and had evidently been trained to succeed his father in these corpora- t ions. Near Enough The excitement of lion-shooting may be appreciated fn in a bit of experience reported by Captain Melliaa. He was in S .inaliland. Two lionesses had been found, and tbe Captain had fired at on* of them, but she had started away. leaving him uncertain whether be had hit her. He hurried in pursuit, and just when he was thoroughly out of breath, be came upon her sitting on bei haunches and looking very angry. 1 walke.l |.-l\ toward her. trying U recover my wind, and when withii about fifty yar.ls 1 fired. Without ap {tearing to feel the <li.it. she charged at once across the open ground that lay between us. I stood up and waited for her. keep- ing the muxxles pointed below hr mouth as well aa I could I had time to i.otiee that she seemed somewhat disabled in the hind quarters; also that my second gun was nowhere near. I let her come within a dozen yard*. snd then fired. The smoke hid every- thing for a moment. "Has she got met" was the thought that flashed I'irough me a.* I stepped aside No ! There six- waa. staggering back on her haunches, with jaws wide open. not many paces away. Stepping back I reloaded, and an- other bullet knocked her over dead. A Religious Maniac. Louis Hirschlwnrer, a German, aged 40 years, living at 100 Clare street. Buf- fsl >. sit-iupt'-il t>> k II bus five children the other morning. The man has for some time past Iwen afflicted with re- ligious mania, but he was thought li.irnile.Hs and was not arrested. Sa- turday nisbt be told his neighlrs that bo hid eaten meat the dav In-fore and for this crime againat the c-anona of the Church he had Ixvn niminanited by i be Lord to svifiee t ho lives) of his five children. Sstur.liy morning he took a board and cut five circles in it to fit the n-cks of h'n cl'.ildn-n. and with this improvised tniillotine b- went into the house and nrag:rrd thv children rut of U-.l lie w^s just fitting their necks inio the l>ird when his wife came out and rescued them At noon he re- newed hi* attempt. He overpowered, the children and one 1.1 >n> trot their heads into the hoar.l. ami with a big axe was in the very act of cnitiiif; off their hendf. wn.Mi neigblmrs. called to the SWIM- by I h- children'- rrie-.. mer- nowered t h<- nnniar and rescued the ii Me ones. Hiis>-hlrger was then ar- rested. One Thing" v eedftii Jons* IVadheat Cull, ain't this hat a mile too big r Casper Corker- That's right .lonas Deadbeat (meditatively) Lawks if I hud ill? pricv 1 c'u'd fit my v id to de bat by mo'nin.