-- = "OREATER] The Pathetic. Devotion of the Wardwells That Defied Dread Lepro When an unpretentious was lowered into the grave at Tom laws Ariz., the other day it was t Med 1 Persians are the sign of the departure from health of the knightliest souls that ever adorn was that he planned his ed the annals of history Upon the coffin plat words, "Gen. David K A., Retired," with the and 'death. The li who lay to be 1n of the gulations coft flight at the de prisoner rranged the details the fe stor a grim walls hali-Jarkened | hight her room. He whistled softly, cHiFtain was moved aside. ge] veteran ap a story of cor ld of the wa within votion seldom ecqualed- written That was Pathos, tragedy and undying love fund the make up the story of the closing day He placed a ladder bencath the win- of General Wardwell's life. It was al gy I holding it figmlys white-she story that had been scantily told 4 ou n ha her ped in \ the news despatches, a story of i ted dng. | husband who spirited l A Qrridge was away from a hospital i i icouple sped to and fled with her into ¢kets had been Arizona, that he cot within an the afflicted one without i Wav to the supervision of health autl - As long as he lived this ran of tw : x wars, burdened with poverty vd { 7 y niuson th _t more weight of eighty-odd 3 authorities ful to his marriage ared Health his last thoughts were there search unconscious in an adjoin : contr of the little desert cabin that had | ; ITIVE only home. Later she w turned to | xr. wa Sar a the Los Angeles hospital =a hospital rom window sh me mid 'ray VOW We us will again "Greater love Hrathy d) Such would be t epits aph that could be eral Wardwell's sim; Mrs, Wardwell had time. Her skin wa Her flesh was chalky covered with scales RI. pers ' ; She arrived at Le igeles one \ 1 ing the Mexican border this summer. Whil t ple turned back and sought se street she 'grew f near Jombste ne unconselotss Wa ell's broth police geons diagno 1 ranch d a small shack far leprosy For th ke f the l r I'ombstone ca safety she was l 1 r jutant of the Soldiers' detention Gen isolated, s ver band g l a for General Wardwell, g al I t nstitution. The the Soldiers' Hor tel tinu hope. He | leprosy, but was d her side until death stances, department ¢ better than : » go their way provide the health endanger; of sur s letter would n ward parat sec a cabin among will sce us anc HENRI JULIEN. A welldknown Artist who dropped dead on a street in Montreal. in | Iwo days | A ------e | | | | | | will be made to part } wl vhiere no attempt | us Down at Sawtelle where | lived before the | to the hospital, {of the love the his young wife, junior, Mrs. the couple woman was committed they tell tender aged general bore some forty years his Wardwell was a beautiful | woman until disease wasted her body, sprinkled her hair with gray and drew lines of pain in her face. General Wardwell was suspect that his wife had I Sprosy knew she had once nursed | suffering from the. disease, | when he married her it was ith the thought that some day the disease would fasten itself upon her and bear or away to the grave | When her condition became Mrs. Wardwell realized that almost be stories the first to i lative ang even worse, vond qugstion of doubt she was stricken | { with a fatal malady, a malady that | would drive her from home and fri and make her a wanderer on the of the earth. But she feared mos { she would be' separated from her band. She confided this fear and in full knowledge of w mean he took a vow never t wife, but to live and die with her suggested that. she give herself the authorities for an examinati Rather this, she said, than that should be suspected of being arrested secretly, examined, and off to die in leper asylum General Wardwell protested, but the day she fainted in Los Angeles Jdrelieved she was on the way to g herself up Early in the morning that day he left the vine-covered c« tage in Sawtelle to go to Los Angeles. The great mental strain under Ww she labored caused her faint when within a block of the police station, and she was carried into the receiving hos pital. It was there that Police Surgeon Wright proved beyond doubt that she was a victim of leprosy. There followed the commitment the hospital, the long sorrowing vigil the bereaved husband and the flig Mexico The story of how General Wardw a grizzled veteran of two wars, wo {and wan the beautiful Isabel ( is { told and retold by the pioneer i residents of Cananea, Mexico, sit about their doorsteps in the twilight. I It was cighteen vears ago that Gen- ieral. Wardwell, then only a lieutenant colonel, first met Miss C She had heard frequently of gallantry, his dashing bravery that he was a that he had been rewar displayed at 1 when, witl the very to h up some } i to to ell, red 1 American as they fading She hero of ad when wou uff uff and sol- dierly, quiet, unassuming, ge whose least desire was to self or his reputed bravery They fell in love almost at first and his suit was looked on with favor by all--but there was a taint, a shadowy menace blackening the xX future, v was f him the Id : | brother j diss ise, | for | | With le | |} | severity, | leprosy do | length of life. Wie oodar Raper Cady Wich 7s, and this she must tell him.- She had nursed her brother for fwo years--her who had: died of some strange | which, she whispered, some had was leprosy. Grizzled David Wardwell laughed at In the light of his first could the black shadow of ? "Why," he told her, "if you had the leprosy now I would marry you. Without you I care not to live you I am ready to face anything the fulure may bring forth." And so the veteran of two wars and the beautiful girl were wed. They lived in Cananea for a few years and fortune 1 rosy her love fears what | seemed to smile on the happy pair. ars passed and.iliness came fo No pronounced symp- Six y the young wife. toms, and weariness. Both fe Ried, but neither would speak of the shadow that was impending. They I to go to Cali- forma, thinking the balmy air of the st region 'would prove of benefit to invalid I'hey moved to Sawtelle eight ago I'he wife grew worse, and the train of nung her sapped the veteran's More misfortunes came. money dwindled away, d at they were but little removed from absolute want A small growth appeared above ome Wardwell's eyes. He almost hoped » had contracted the dread disease which ne he felt assured, had seized wife "Bat such was not to be his The growth was diagnosed as not necessarily fatal, but tor- and blinding. Wardwell's ailment increased in and now it had become all but impossible to prevent discovery by the neighbors that the woman was in reality a leper. Wardwell prayed for death rather than detection, for the latter would mean separation . worse than death. When he saw that secrecy could be maintained but little longer; Wardwell began to make inquiries regarding lepers, their treatment and probable He was. told usual custom was to send such afflicted ones Honolulu, whence they were veved to-Molokai,r He read of the miserable existence led there by the sufferers, and he determined, come what might, he would Keep the secret of his wife's disease, or, failing in this, would fly with her to Mexico. "When Mrs, Wardwell fainted, on the sty 1d her condition became known her husband proposed 1 Black Watch The Chon EN dao . / times cer, turous, Mrs the to to take to just a general feeling of languor | years | con- refused. soon they in the f Mexico.'| His But love lent: him were housed in a lonely | desert of Arizona. When the wife's affection was recog- jized as leprosy, a friend said to Gen- eral Wardwell: "Why don't you get a nurse tor your wifi It must be ter- Irible to be at her beck and call Jay and | might." The response as he replied: "She didn't marry married a husband. She did that when she was young and pretty and could have married most any one she wanted to. She trusted me then, and you bet she wasn't fooled either." So old David Wardwell, hero of many battles in which men's blood was shed, chose the path of loving devotion and duty. While he lived, he cared request was aid and hut that the old fighter gave.in, of utter amazement, look was one a nurse. She died was for- After his burial, there was to care for her, she was removed from the Arizona cab- and returned county hospital Los Angeles. How can the love that, endears be ex- pressed better than by the devotion this old warrior gave his heart's companion who, as his bride, was to be always his bride ? When he ous derness. tunately, she unconsc no as one to the Nothing To Do. Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker recently sent in a petition the Denver city council and neglected to name her oc- cupation. A man was sent to supply the deficiency. "What is your busi- ness?" he asked. "Housekeeper," an- swered Mrs. Decker. "That ain't no business," declared the man. "Well, I collect my rents, pay all my own bills, am father and mother to my child, and take care of all my 'business! Mrs. Decker added. "Do you have an office downtown >" asked the man. "No, I do all my business from this desk," Mrs. Decker explained. "Well, that don't ' he informed her. After Mrs. Decker expmined that she was the president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, composed of 000 women, was on all sorts of national | commiittees--in fact, one 'of the busiest | | women in the country, he said, "I'll put vou down as s not doing nothing." t to Bound. To Be Celebrity. York Times. Lyman Beecher Stowe, grandson. oi Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe and grand- nephew of Lyman Beecher, tells rthis story on himself: When he first came to "New York his | room nate was a young man who had {just been taken on one of the evening i papers as a reporter. After he had been there a short time the editor mformed him that his job was to consist mn get: ting a short daily interview with "some 4 celebrity." That* sounded pretty good. to the { young man. So the first day he sallied tiorth and had no difficulty in landing, | John Kendrick Bangs.. Afterwards he {waylaid Cyrus Townsend Brady. In short, for.a week or so the daily cele- brity interview went on swimmingly, and the editor was delighted. But soon the work began fo get mor New {got home that night, {pass me off as a celebrity?" for his leper wife with the utmost ten- | graceless reporter, Trower? ipa 7o Jewcy difficult. Celebrities either were tbo coy or weren't at home. He got several re- proofs at the office for failing to hunt them down, so he grew desperate. On one of his most desperate days he entered his room, found his room mate, Mr. Stowe, there, and smiled mysteriously to himself. Then he be- gan asking Mr. Stowe questions--what were his views on municipal politics ?-- on _the business situation? Puzzled but unsuspecting, Mr. Stowe gave his views at some length. The next day the evening paper above mentioned came out with this: "Our Daily Interview with a Celebrity. Ly- man Beecher Stowe on Politics and the § Business Situation." "Well, you've got nerve!" Stowe in- formed his room mate when the lattér "How dared you Stowe," said the "do you stippose that would think "Lyman Beecher anybody seeing yotir hame you were anything else?" Rough On The Metropolis. Success Magazine. A New Yorker died and went to his "eternal "home." This man walked around growling, as most New Yorkers do, finding fault with everything, and saying that he couldn't see that heaven wds\.much bet- ter than New York. "Why, say," he observed to'a shade who happéned to be neds, "this place 'is all undermined with dys New York, and whe blown up you are. in some sulphurous: don't see the use anyway." Fy I "Excuse me, my dear shade to whom he was have made a slight' mistake, not heaven." y JO! his is NOVA SCOTIA ROBERT RAIKES Opened Seven Years Before One in England. It may interest readers to know that the first Sunday-school in Nova Scotia was established at 'Lyons Brook," Pictou Nova Scotia, some seven of eight years before the Ra move- ment in England--which began if 1780. The Robert Raikes of Nova Scotia was James Davidson, who came out from Edinburgh to Picton in 1772 Soon after his arrival he commenced a day school at Lyons Brook, about three miles from the ple. where the town of Pictou now st then a wilder- ness). In order to meet the religions wants of the people he collected the children on Sunday. for religious in- struction. Bi " A newspaper pubitshedan. Pieton fifty years later paid t lowing tribute to the work of James Davidson: "Here this worthy man t t school seven days of the week, and, to our shame be it spoken, the Sabbath was more sanctified then, when' there was no place «of worship except the school- house where James Davidson taught and prayed than it is mow when church es are in abundance even at otir doors." Navigable Sewers, Describing the new St. Louis sewer in its October number, Popular Ma chanics says: The main section is 20 ft. in diamet- er, with main sections ranging from 7 to 18 ft. in diameter. The main sec- tion 'and its two branghes extend over 4 miles and will "drain more than 6,000 acres of land. Thete are many longer sewers than this one, and there #re image Sy< tems, not sewers, which drain much larger tracts of land; but there is no sewer in the world that combines such great size with extent of area Jdmained A Mississippi river -tug-boat gould eas- ily steam through it lustrated. S Onward And Upward. Pick-Me-Up They were on. their honeymoon and were climbing the Schaupfelgapfenspit- zen peak, and she stood above him some twenty feet "What ho!" "What you see?" "Far, far below," she cried, "I sce a long white streak, stretching like a paper ribbon back almost to our hotel" "Ha, ba!" he ejaculated. "I'll bet it's that blessed hotel hill overtaking us!" And they proceeded onward and up- ward. he do gasped. Talk with your doctor about Ayer's non-alcoholic Sarsaparilla. Ask him if delicate ghildren, be. prescribes it for pale, Ask him. if he reco, The iafficle is iberio i i rq!