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Be Murdered Twenty Wooieo, Russian Bluebeard, Whose Crimes Excei the Awful Deeds of Grimm's Monster. Gets Off With a Sen tence of Fifteen Years. ? Russia's Bluebeard. Feodotoff, who ir.iurdered twenty woman in Verkhotu ?rye within the past five years and iburled their bodies in his forest her mitage, was recently convicted and sentenced to penal servitude for fifteen years. The sentence, admittedly a travesty upon justice, is said to have been made so light because Feodotoff had terror ized the judge with a threatened curse in case the latter condemned him to ?life imprisonment or to death. Not since the fabled times of Grimm's Bluebeard has such a monster been known In Russia or any other land. Under cover of a monk's gown Feodo toff lured to his fake shrine in the for est the fairest women in half of Permi r.fter outrage was perpetrated by the monk upon hi3 numerous victims. Woman after woman disappeared from Verkhoturye and was never seen again. These frightful crimes and orgies might have gone on years longer but that a young Cossack lieutenant, dis trusting his bride, followed her to the lonely hermitage one night broke into the chapel and there came upou Feo dotoff gloating over her dead body. Examination of the hermitage grounds showed the graves of eighteen other women buried there and thousands of dollars in jewels and money which the monk had induced them to bring him in penance for their confessed sins. The maddened inhabitants of Ver > FOLLOWED HER TO THE LONELY HERMITAGE ONE NIGHT. province. There he attacked them, stole their jewels and money and nnal ,ly murdered them, o.ie after another, until the cellar of his lone monastery iwas literally an overflowing graveyard. ; Feodotoff, a handsome man of thirty, 'suddenly appeared in the little Ural mountain village ten years ago and sat 'simself down In the hamlet inn, pre tending to be a priest' He offeVed the confiding townsfolk no account of him self or of his.religious order?he might 'have come " from No Man's Land?but he professed to heal the .sick and re ceive confessions. "Soon'he was the oracle of the village. A little later he 'had been established in a hermitage built for him by the people in the for est outside of the town! There, under promises of workings of cures, he lured oue after another of the village girls to his den. Outrage khoturye burned down the hermitage that night but none dared raise hand against the murderer, who threatened to curse any who approached him. j His trial was brought about with the greatest difficulty, for the terrorized judges of the province had not the courage to brave his threat that heav en would strike down with lightulug any who dared fii#] him guilty. Finally one ju&t was found who would try the lViuebeard upon the charge of stealing vessels from churches. The murders were passed 1 over in fear, but a conviction of the petty accusation was obtained and a sentence of fifteen years was Imposed. Feodotoff was taken at'once to a Si berian prison just across the moun tains. The village has gone into a year's observance of mourning for his murdered victims. Coffins Moved In Sealed Vault. The Unsolved Mystery of a "Haunted" Tomb In the PaNsh of Christchurch, Barbados. 1 A tale of the mysterious movement of coffins in a sealed vault in the par ish of Christchurch, Barbados, has long been told in that island. Fresh authentic evidence just brought to light and published in the West India committee circular confirms the story and renders it mysterious in the ex treme. I On successive occasions when the Chase family vault in the churchyard near Distin's 'Town was opened the coffins were found to be disarranged. A manuscript account by the Hon. Nathan Lucas, who witnessed the opening of the vault in 1S20, has been unearthed. The document states that the vault was opened several times for the in terment of bodies in the first decade! of the nineteenth century. Each time f the coffins were found in extraordi nary positions, and after a burial in 1819 the matter became a much talked of mystery. Mr. Lucas was discussing it with friends in 1S20. and they de cided then and there to open the vault and see if the coffins had moved again. They found the heavy slabs over the entrance untouched, and no marks of vlolerce were anywhere visible. But in the vault itself the six coffins were once again disarranged, lying on top of each other and at curious angles The vault was In such a position that water?of which there were no signs could not have flooded it There has been no earthquake to account for the mystery and no attempt to rob the corpses. Negroes' fear of the dead rendered it certain that they baa no baud in it and the theory of a practical joke was never entertained. "All I know," runs the document, "is that it happened and that I was an eyewitness of the fact." Subsequently relatives removed all the coffins from the haunted vault and buried them in ordinary graves. I. Girls Lose Jobs For Saying "Damn." I Mary Howland, Anna Gowdy, The resa Patterson and Florence Gilchrist all are copyists in the county clerk's office at Denver. Chief Clerk William iLail, a hardworking member of the Y. M. C. A., declares that he has found many mistakes In the work of the girls, which resulted in a tangle in the office Lail remonstrated rather sharp ly with one of them, and the only an swer he received was "that she did not give a damn" whether the work was right or not More grieved than anger ed, Lail went to the others and says he received the same answer. He dis missed them all. The girls vehement ly deny using anything stronger than "darn." They Tried to Chloroform a Cat. cat was caught and chloroform admin istered, but the animal struggled to get free. The chloroform waj spilled, and Miss '"'arr, Mrs. Carr and Miss Her bert were overcome. A physician aft er several hours' work managed to re suscitate all three. The cat escaped. In an endeavor to dispose of a cat In humane fashion Miss Grace Carr, her sister-in-law. Mrs. Carr, and her cousin, Miss Herbert, all of Lexiugton, Ky., came nearer to death than the cat It was a thieving cat and the family Imposed the death penalty. The The finest Coffee Substitute ever Dr. Shoop of Racine, Wis. You don't have to boil It twenty or thirty min utes. "Made in a minute" says the doctor. "Health Coffee" is really tie closest Coffee Imitation ever yet pro duced. Not a grain of real Coffee in it either. Health Coffee Imitation Is made from purs toasted cereals or .;rah with malt nut?,: etc, Really ft wo') . fo?l an experi ?were he to u: vi .ly drink it or Coffee. A, j Orlno Laxative Fruit Syrup, the j new Laxative, stimulates, but does j not irritate. It is the best Laxative. , Guaranteed or your money back. A. C. Dukes. Trial Catarrh treatments are be ing mailed out, free, on request, by Dr. Shoop. Racine, Wis. These tests are proving to the people?without a penny's cost?the great value of this scientific prescri tiou known to druggists everywhe-"' as !?r Shoop's Catarrh Remedy. S i by L>r. J. G. Wannamaker Mfg. C >. Real Jean Valjean Freed. Bank Robber. Who Had Escaped, Married and Led an Upright Life Was Rearrested. John H. Allison. Michigan's Jean Valjean. walked out of Jackson prison. In Michigan, the other day a free man. At the prison gate his wife and baby met him. aud he gathered them both Into his arms, murmuring tenderest words of endearment and gratitude gratitude for the faithfulness of the little- woman who has stood by him so plucklly and whose constant appeals In his behalf at last brought him his con ditional pardon. The first ecstatic moments passed, Al lison's wife led him to the home, just a block away from the prison walls, where she established herself soon after he was returned to prison and where she has remained all these weary months of his incarceration. When an Interviewer came In shortly after Allison was silting in the cozy little room, his face radiating happi ness. On his lap sat his daughter Lau ra, two years old. her chubby arms around his neck, pressing kisses on his face every moment. Near them sat Mrs. Allison, the napplest woman In Michigan. "Haveu't I got the grandest little wife In the world?" he said. "If it bad not been for her John Allison would still be doing time. I owe her more than I can ever repay." He declared he intended to go to work at once and show himself the man he has been represented to be. He said that before his release his fellow prisoners made up a purse of $30 for him from money they had earned, a few cents a days, working in prison. Allison was arrested seven years ago for bank robbery and sent to Jackson prison. He escaped three years ago. When he was rearrested eight months ago In MoHne. 111., he was married, had a baby and was living an upright, hon orable life. He was put back In prison. His wife moved to Jackson that she might be near her husband and work for his release. Forced to Listen to Confidences of Two Women Who Didn't Know He Was There, His Modesty Compelled Him to Come Out and Surrender. Somewhere in Philadelphia there is a burglar who oil one of his expedi tions dropped in on a pink tea in the home ?f Dr. Ralph Doming of 312 South Fifteenth street. Being natural ly of a modest nature, the burglar didn't come in by way of the front door, but climbed In through a side window. He didn't know it was Mrs. Deming's afternoon to receive ber friends, and in ordinary circumstances he would have left the place as hur riedly as possible. As he looked about the back parlor In whicii he stood he saw so many souvenirs he felt he would like to take with him that he decided to help him self. He was packing up many of Mrs. Deming's belongings when the sound of footsteps caused him to dodge hastily under a writing desk. Up to this point the actions of the burglar were like those of the ordinary housebreaker, nor were his experiences it no longer, and, crawling from under the desk, he sat on the tloor and faced the women. They were so astonished at seeing him that they forgot to scream. The intruder looked almost sorrowfully into their faces and said: "I came here to lift what 1 could. I'm a burglar. I've heard lots of things said to me; but, say, I couldn't stand this talk of yours no longer." The women didu't reply, aud the bur glar went on: "Go on; call the cops. Have me pinched. Me for the cooler, but no more breaking Into pink teas." "Did you hear what we were talking about?" asked Mrs. Demlng in alarm. "Did I hear?" the man replied. "You bet I heard every word of It I was on the point a couple of times of get ting up and telling you there was a man present I've got a wife and four smull children, and I was afraid they'd suffer if I got locked up. so I tried to HE SAT ON THE FLOOR AND FACED THE WOMEN. unusual. What followed, however, will linger long in the memory of the man. The incident was kept secret by Mrs. Doming and by Miss Minnie Taylor, who accompanied the wife of the phy sician into the rear parlor a moment or two after the burglar had found a hid ing place under the desk, until Miss Taylor told of her experience. The two women had left the other friends of Mrs. Deining so as to have a quiet little chat by themselves. They sat on either side of the desk under which the burglar was stretched aud exchanged confidences. They spoke of many things dear to women's hearts and meant only for their ears. The burglar was growing uneasy, but the two women didn't know it. Being un aware of his presence, they continued their little chat. Being entirely unused to hearing the private conversations of women of re finement and also being possessed with anxiety to finish his business In the house as quickly as possible, the bur glar tried to remain patient while the women conversed. Finally he could bear stay where I was ami hear it through." Seeing that the story of the wife and four children appealed to the women, the burglar described their poverty and remarked they would starve to death if he were "sent up." "This is my first offense," he plead ed, "and I think I got punished enough." In describing what followed the ap peal of the burglar Miss Taylor said: "He was such a nice young man lie couldn't have been more than twen ty-three years old, aud we felt sorry for him, so we just stood him up iu a corner and gave him a lecture. He listened respectfully and promised to lead an honest life and never again become a thief. Auer he made the promise we walked with him down to the front door and let him out" "What were you and Mrs. Demlng talking about when you were enter taining unconsciously the hidden vis itor?" Miss Taylor was asked. "We were talking of things," she re plied, "that he hadn't any right to hear." Fell into Baptismal Font. H. D. Brandreth of Liverpool. Eng land, who was asked to address the congregation of the Baptist church In Kirk wood, Mo., fell Into the baptismal font while walking through the church to the pulpit Mr. Brandreth is the father of Mrs. C. Hart McLea of Kirk wood. II? went to the church Sunday evening prepared to speak. In pnss'np the baptismal pool, which Is sunk lu the floor, he failed to notice that it was open. He fell with a splash int< the water and was drenched from head to foot The congregation helped bin out. and a carriage was called to taki him to his daughter's home. The Times and Democrat IS NOW PUBLISHED Twice--Wee /Oil 1.50 Per Innte '? Bescencent oi Confucius. Here Is a little sketch of Confuci us' seventy-sixth lineal uescendant, who lives in a Yaman of China: Duke K'ung received us in his official robes, and was most kind and affable. He Is a toll, strongly made man of 35 years of age. The Duke speaks no English. His Highness, does not of_ ten leave his home, and has only twice visited Peking. The large num ber of members of his establishment who crowded into the hall to listen to the audience caused me to ask the Duke if he kept a large establish ment, and he Informed that it con sisted of fully 400 souls. His revenue is derived from the villages o!.' the neighborhood for many miles around, one village as far away from Ciufou as 400 li (140 miles) paying an- an nual sum. His Highness expressed friendly sentiments toward foreign ers, whom he alleges he is always glad to receive when they visit Chu_ fou. He expressed the opinion .that English' was practically the official language of China." Provision ior oeit-Aus/eruaemisnt. Authorities who have in charge some of England's' ancient treasures try to discourage the habit of carving initials on these relics. A fine of $15 was recently imposed on a man who had chipped his name in letters six inches high on one of the stones in the "Druids' Circle" near Keswick. Close to the giant stone globe at Swanage a special slab is provided for the harmless reception of the nmcs of all who are addicted to this self-advertisement On popular Al pine summits names aro left on cards in emptied wine bottles. THREE CURES OF SEVERE ECZEMA Michigan Woman Tells of Her Broth er's Terrible Suffering with the Disease?Grandchild and Another Baby also Permanently Cured. CUTICURAREMEDIES PROVED INVALUABLE "My brother had eczema three dif ferent summers. About the same time each Stimmer it came out between his shoulders and down his back, and he said his suffering was terrible. 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