Jersey's Blind Heiress

One of thé rnüst interest ng woinen imaginable is Miss Alice A. Holmes, the heiress. Miss Holmes has just come into $500,000 or more, but there is no di'ng-er oí her inarrying any young and ardent lover, ior she is now in her seventy-fifth year, says Pennsjlvania Grit. Then the old vvoman is blind and has been blind ever sinee hhe was 14. Eecently her brother died in California and left lier a fortune, vvhich she purposes to spend in the amelioration oí the sufferings of her feilow-afflictcd kind. Miss Holmes lives in a quiet and pretty street in Jersey City, and for 25 years she has struggled through a decent povorty. Her brother in California has always looked after her wants, but Miss Holmes' pride would not allow him to support lier, and she has earned her own living well through the years of her golitude. Early in life fhc eonceived a love for music, and although deprived of her sight she roanaged to inaster that diffieult art. Once that she became proficient she desired to teach. And, strange to say, she was quite as proficient as a teacher as she was as a performer. She found she could succeed with pupils who had their eyes as well as with pupils who had not. And in that way she supported herself, if not in elegance, at least in comfort. Now that Miss Holmes has been rendered independent, she will devote her money to the education of her f ellows who are affiicted with blindness. A number of years ago Miss Holmes published a volume of verses that have the true ring of poetry in them .