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Down tbe centuries aline, row , . . .
Grandmothers, grandfathers, belle and bean,
Puritan, vaga bond; gjj my,' peer, "
Parefooted, rarle or cavalier -' .' ! u '
Bone of tbe mountains, blood of the, tea, -Reaching
down through tbe yenra to hie."
. Bravely fend Btiroly, as one kept Lis sword h.
.. . Unsheathed for the king .In Naseby flght, ,,
Stendfastly-purely, . one kept his word,
I A Puritan' word In a buttle for right ; ' "
' rnrltan courage nnd envnller pride -': 1
; ',. ,'v ' The nges have sifted their dust away;
J Dead are the ratines for which they died,
; ' Kt It's their lore t give thee, dear, to-day.
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It was dark on board the Canada. All
fights were out in the cabins and saloons,
, tbe deck and smoking rooms were empty,
and the, passengers were supposed to be
sleep. ' I had not yet tnrned in, but was
""bout to do" so, and' had taken off my
jat, opened . tie door of my cabin, and
3ras stepping across the threshold for a
wreath of cooler air (for it was a hot
Julynii;lit),"'Wbeii Uie pound of angry
oiccs ulrrarted my attention. ,
"Vdu curl"' exclsiraed some one in a
Bene of suppressed fury. "If you were a
aoan, you would have had it out with uie
iere and now !"
'"Let me pass!" returned a second voice,
nore ugitnfcd, loss insistent than the firnt.
"You've had my Inst word on the subject.
I was a fool to come here with you. Now
I'm done with you and with it, and I'm
g oinsS down to bed."
Hasty footsteps moved across the deck,
and t could hear the clatter, of shoes on
the metal which protected the stairs.
The brirf disturbance was over, nnd
was ptill for rt moment or two, save the
thro!j p,E,.tliu engines, and sound of . the
water against the Miles of the ship. The
kelliKemnrw- hsd - pone below, I thought,
as I -stood still in my cabin door, when
suddenly a man walked rapidly by, -his
face showing clearly for an instant In the
Tights from within. '
f' He was one of a party who had come
n board the day before, when we bad
ailed from New York, and I bad bnd a
few moments' chat with him in the morn-
Inc. He was a Canadian by the name of
BHK WOULD HAVE FAIXKN I1AD I WOT
j CAUGHT HEB ON MY ABM."
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livier,Mfircd a' stateroom with a Mr.
Trefusius, who was apparently engaged to
a very pretty girl a cousin of both tbe
young men on board with her mother
9!td a little sister. These were the only
aaevhhers of the party, though I bad hap
pened to olmerve 'soon after sailing that
a. good-looking young woman had bowed
4a Bevier and Trefusius as they were
placing chairs and rugs in position on
deck. I i . ! .
"Mr; Sevier 1 said, us be went past,
apparently without seeing me. He turned
short round.
"Captain Bruce, he exclaimed, still
with the suppressed quiver of concentrat
ed rage in his voice, "Is there any empty
stateroom on board that I can occupy
after this.'"
"Why? 1 there anything wrong with
No. 4!7"
"The only thing which is wrong is that
I can't jiossibly share it with Mr. Tre
fusius," he said. "We have had a very
cerious disagreement, and shall have no
further intercourse during the trip." '! -
"Won't you reconsider," I suggested,
"and let . me act, as mediator between
fnx't" . ' '
"If yen knew what had passed between
s. Captain," he returned grimly, "you'd
anderstand there could be uo chance of
that. Heaveut! It will be all I ran do
as it is, to keep my hands off him. '' The
n1y thing is, not to come in one another's'
way!" - '
"Vou'll feel differently to-morrow," I
Assured him.. . ' ,
He shrugged his shoulders.s Never! A
He shrugged his shoulders. ?Never! As
for to-nighl, 1 couldn't rest anywhere. I'll
simply walk up nnd dowu on deck. I aup
pose theie'd lie no objection in doing
thatV! - . , ...
I looked him in the eye. "Not If
you'll give me your word you'll da nothing
rab." I was sure he uuderstood what
I meant. .
"I'm- ready to mvear that," he Answer
ad, la a tone of relief ami evident sincer
ity. Then, suldeuly starting : "By Jove !"
ke added, "I forgot something down there
la the stateroom which I wou't leave with
him: 1 must have it out at once!"
He was off like a shot. A few minutes
I waited, expecting him back; but he did
ot con.e. rcrliaim, after all, the two
ax-friends had patched up their dispute.
1 concluded. No se.-oml (iinrrel was going
n below, or I should have heard it, for
2 took tl.e precaution of moving to a place
where I o lid listen, and, so, after fifteen
r twenty minutes had gone by, I went
back Into my cabin and closed the door.
How Iohl; I had slept I did not know,
It might have been, so fur as I could tell,
two minutes or two hours.
"For heaven's sake. Captain Brace,
, pen tbe door," said a mu's voice, It
as Sevier back arain.
I jumped and Aung opsn the door,
filtering so'.no'iitis not particularly com
n. V$X ilnienisry.
J Vu,1!,t'a ,h 'ter
V S T Inquired impatiently.
now. Mr. Sevlerr
'"MnWa til II lftf tial ftnatarafl In
fttranft!. colU voi r. And in an iuitaut
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not only was I broad awake, but had
forgotten' mv; petty vexation in a( far dif
ferent 'emotion.' "- " ' ' "
''What do you . meaa?",. steruly
do-
msnrtea. -
"I mean that" Arthur Trefusius lias been
murdered. ; He's lying dead in our-r in his
stateroom."
"Come inside, Mr. Fevier," I said.
He did so;1 I closed the door and turn
ed on tho electric light. It flashed White
upon him, and V saw with horror that
there was blood upon his bands.
Aly first thought was that. I had been a
blind fool not to regard what, had pre
viously happened more serionsly-ra mad
man to hnve left this young fellow, , in
the beat of his anger, go down, to the
man whom he had, just virtually threat
ened. But the mischief, was done now,
nnd the only recourse remaining was to
be guilty of no further mistakes, no more
imprudences. . , . . . . .
"Do you fully understand the terrible
nature of the thing you have just said,
und the grave consequence' tills 'night's
work, nuiy.hftye for you?" J, asked, ,,
"I understand all," he answered quick
ly. ''I understand- what is In yonr mind'
at this instant, and heaven knows I can't
Mnme you for it.,. You' think I L killed,
hiiu.'V .' . i' .''
"If he is. dead," 1 returned, "appear
ances certainly seem nt present to be
ugainst you."
"They will be so to the end perhaps,"
he tittered desperately. "Murder may
have been in my heart, but now that I see
what it's like, I" he faltered for the first
time, end giving a groan, covered his pale
face with both blood-slained hands. "Your
evidence, and what you'll find below, will
be enough to convict me twice over. ,1
don't think I'd care, if it weren't for
Moyra. Heavens! She'll believe it and
loathe me L" (i
. I knew whom ho' ineaur.',' Tha pretty
cousin,, the. young lady whose name, was
down in the passenger list as Miss Moyra
Itansonie, and she was supposed to have
been engaged to Trefusis.
I started towards the door, and Sevier
followed, then stopped abruptly. I knew
his thought, and answered it. "I must
ask you to remain here," I said, "with
the ' first: (itGcer, for- whom-1 shall now
send, while I go below."
Within the space of three' or four" min
utes I bad Hamilton with. hint,, had given
a word or two of explanation and bad my
self" gone "In ' search of ' Berk my re, the
ship's doctor.
Together we went to stateroom No. 59.
It was illuminated by electric light, but
the door was closed, and we opened it, our
movements very. quiet, that none of the
passengers might be disturbed by a sud
den knowledge of the tragedy which had
happened in their midst.
Face downward in the lower berth Tre
fusis was lying. His coat and vest were
oft, and his collar, but otherwise he was
fully dressed.
One might have entered the stateroom,
I noticed, and not being prepared to find
anything wrong have merely supposed that
tbe young man had flung himself across
the berth and gone to sleep. His head
and shoulders were In tbe shadow of the
curtain, his feet trailing out upon the
floor, and only by pushing the drapery
aside wns it easy to see the stain of blood
in the center of the back.
Berk my re at once began his examina
tion, while I stood by. - The poor fellow
was quite dead, and must have been so
for nearly an hour. There could be no
question of suicide, as the blow had been
struck from behind, and with such sud
den force as in all probability to fling him
forward into Ins present position. He
had doubtless been stooping toward the
berth at the time tbe stroke had been de
livered 'with the-blade of a large sharp
knife. No such wespon rewarded our
search,' but a faint trail of blood was to
be seen on the port hole, and the manner
of its concealment became as evident aa
it had been effectual.
, Between the moment of Trefusis' leav
ing tha deck' and Sevier's sudden depart
ure in the same direction, not more than
ten minutes could have elapsed. Besides
all this, feevier was known, in tbe heat
of hia resentment, to have desired the
other's death, while so far as I knew, Tre
fusis was on the most friendly terms with
the remaining (nnd feminine) members
of his own small party. Altogether ap
pearances were very black against .Sevier,
When everything had been done in the
stateroom, we locked the door on tiie out
side and we went back to my cabin, where
Uie suspected man sat, with his head be
tween his hands, silently protesting
against his virtual imprisonment.
He started up at our entrance. "Tre-
usis is uju J, 1 suppose .' i here s no
doubt of that?" be excluiuied, his eyes on
the doctor.
"lie is dead," answered Berkniyre.
Sevier sighed a long-drawn sigh, that
was almost a groan, yet the emotion
which prompted it was quite cletir.
might have been sorrow, It might bav
been relief.
"Tell me exactly what happened after
you went below, Mr. Revier," I demanded
"Nothing happened," he answered, after
a moment's pause, "except that I went to
the stateroom, found the door closed, and
walked in without knocking. I wasn't ex
aotly in the mood for ceremony. There
was a light in the room, and I saw Tre
fusis lying on his berth with moat of his
clothes on. He didn t move or look up,
and I didn't speak lo him, for it seemed
that after the talk we had just had to
gether there waa really nothing left to
say.
"It waa not until I discovered that the
thing that I had gone Into tha stateroom
to get wasn't to b fopnd that I tpoke o
him. I waa angry because I faadsd ha
had taken it, either because be wanted It,
or to annr.y me, -and I addressed blm
rather roughly. " -'.;' '
"Still ha wns silent, nnd then I pulled
tha cnrtalns of the berth aside to look in,
and touched him on the back. What I
saw I don't need to tell yon. I fell
against tbe door In a sort of dsse.'. I
hardly knew what to do at first. I could
see I would bt suspected, that evidenca
would be strong agalnat tue, and 1 wanted
to decide on the wisest course. But my
brain wouldn't work quickly, so great had
been the shock of surprise, and it might
have been ten minutes that I stood there
before. I ran up to tell, you what had
happened." . .
: "Have yon any theory," I inquired, "as
to the murder?"
Hia face etpressed some emotion which
I could not read. " . .
"I can't say I have," he said present!.
- "Will you tell ins what wns the object
which yon went to the stateroom to re
claim?" ... - -,
"No," he' said, flushing. "I won't toll
you or say one that. I deny your Tight
to ask tbe. question."' v ' .
-- "1 have the right of a magistrate." I
returned- w,"Kvery captain' of a ship s a
magistrate as well, and I 'assure yon It
will be, greatly 'to .your' advnntsgc, to an
swer , question and , have ss-niiieh light
thrown npon the' mat terras possible.'!
"I have told yon nil . f can,'', be 'replied
obstinately, "Ton must iow do whatever
you like with me."
What I had to do, not what I likrd. was
to have him handcuffed (lest he should
attempt to lut " end to hia 1'fc, and
If would have beeA a pleasant thing to
be able to keep the fact that murder had
been- committed from the ears of the pas
sengers, but that, of course, was impos
sible.. Questions had to be asked of those
whose staterooms were In the "neighbor
hood of No. 4S, as to whether a cry or
noise of other kind had been heard by
them in the night; and. Indeed, in nnv
event the truth would hnve to come out.
I 'had to be the one to break the news
of what had happened to Mrs. Itnnsoiue
and her daughter before they should have
time to bear It in some even more start
ling way,
While I was arranging for the unfortu
nate Trefusis' burial a knock came nt my
cabin door. I was alone at my writing
it
.T'irrvJb''jt-rl
"WHAT I HAW 1 PON T NKED TO TKLI YOU.
table, and I' Was hot surprised when the
door opened, to see Miss Bausumn.'
'Tony Sevier isn't guilty," she said. "I
have come to try and make you . believe
that." , .
"Can you give me any' reasons for be
lieving it?" I gravely asked.
i "One thing I can tell you. she said,
after a moment's reflect ion ; "indeed, two
things. ; The first one is, thnt there was
a knife in Arthur and Tony's stateroom
w;hlch might have been used by the mur
derer. It was. mine a sort, of a dirk
which I carried in a case hanging from
silver and leather belt given me by a
friend who has a big salmon fishing near
us in t annda. ' It was presented to me in
honor of a huge fish I caught last year.
I was very proud of it, und generally wore
the bolt from- which it was hung. I only
hint it to Tony,. yesterday,, to use as a
paper knife, and then, when Arthur was
cross because he saw him with it, I said
(half out of spite) that he might keep
it But he hadn t it on his person, I
know. At dinner -Jnst' Evening he hap
pened to mention he had left it in the
stateroom, but said he valued it so much
he would carry it about with him in fu
ture in , the case which I had detached
from my belt. So you see it wns lying
about in the stateroom, a person who
came in with wicked Intent would see it.
and naturally pick it up."
In an instant I guessed what was the
article for which Sevier bad gone to the
stateroom. But I had not the heart to
tell the poor child how she had added an
other link in the chain of evidence against
the man she loved.
"The second thing I can tell you," she
went on, when I made no comment, "is
that whatever was the quarrel you con
fexsej that you bad overheard between
those two, I am sure it was not about me,
It was at my request that Tony sailed
with us. We were to remain friends for
olwoys, since I had sacrificed myself unc
abandoned the hope of anything dearer.
and this was the proof I had exacted. lie
had sworn that he would have no hard
feelings toward Arthur becausef me, and
would always be loyal to us both. Nolo
ing, I am sure, bad occurred to make bim
break his promise, and the quarrel must
have arisen from some totally different
cniise. Perhaps more may binge on that
than what we think."
- Late in the afternoon I went to the
stateroom where the murdered roan lay
and shut myself in. Ixcking tho door, I
turned on the electric light, which illuinin
afd every corner of the room. I sent
my thoughts back to the night before, try
ing to put myself in tbe position of Tre
fusis. when be had come down Into the
stateroom. He had bung up his coat and
vest, and had taken off his collar, which
be had laid on the ledge beneath the niir
ror. He had then probably wound bis
watch, had stooped to place it under hi:
nillow. and the blow hud come. Hither
some one had opened the duor and suf
ih nly sprung forward and dalt It, or else
hail been hidden behind the various things
which bung on the wall Two bath gowns
were there, Inrge and voluminous, which
might temporarily have concealed a hu
man form, if the occupant of the state
room were unobservant and utterly on
sii-picious. Probably Trefusis would have
heen both.
"Now," I said to myself, "if Sevier
really didn't have that knife about hi
person, but had left It lying in the state
loom (granting it was with that the
murder wus done), there's hope for him
yet. He could hardly have entered the
room, found the weajion, and stabbed Tre.
fusis with it, before trefusis had time to
turn around; for, after what bail just
passed between them, he certainly woul
have turned round rather quickly after
the door opened. The only way in which
Sevier could have stabbed Trefusis in th
back, after their quarrel, would have been
by rushing iu on bim unawares.
I satisfied myself with this theory, as
far as it weul, by uieptal recapitulation,
Then I went on with mv arguments.
"Supposing it to be a tact that some
oua waa concealed in the stateroom bslort
Trefusis cam down, Sevier la avontrat-
4 altogether, aa I would be lb a position
to prove, knowing as I 4o that h waa oft
deck for at least ten minutes after Tre
fusis left It. There la ao milch to the
good. But who besides Savler and Miss
Bsnnoraa had aa reason ta wish, for Tre
fusis' death r -
Aa I questioned myself, I lifted the batk
ibea with ta other clothing on th
Wall, and put myself behind them. At
uca a faint but agraeabl perfume was
perceptible to my nostrila. I
Slowly I tank ' down th garment
which seemed more atrongly saturated
with the pertum than the other, and
then snddealy I gave vent to a slight
exclamation. A hairpin was sticking in
th loosely woven meshes of the Turkish
toweling of which tbe robe was made, n
though it bad. In rloae contact, beeu drag
ged from a woman's hair.
1 nut th pin to mv nostrils. The sweet
s eut that clung to the 'garment in tin
place where it lind been caught, also Im
pregnated the peculiarly fashioned, ailk
wound bit of metal. . ,
Fine silken , thread of reddish-brown
color entirely covered the hairpin, in ole
dience to some new fancy for matching
the hue of the--weartr'a tresses. v
We: carried two stewardesses on the
Canada, and I lost no time," on leaving
the" room of the dead,' lnvgolng first to
on, and then to the Other. ' "-"When you
make your rnnnd In the ataterooms this
evening," I saui to each-(it Is ncsdlcss
o explain without giving any clue to my
reason), "bring me a hairpin from every
one ' occupied by ladies alone, or by a
husband and wife. Mark each one with
tbe number of th room; ftghtly written
in pencil, stick the hairpins on paper.
and put th numbers under them as well."
After dinner the stewardesses came to
me in my cabin.' There was a long array
of ' hairpins arranged according to my
order, but comparatively few bottles.
I could hardly control my ' exciteuent
as my eyes lighted upon the mate to the
hnirpin I had concealed in my pocket. I
drew, it from the paper, It, ton, was
scented. '
'No. fit," I read aloud from tl.e card
underneath.
In a moment I was alone. . In another I
had found Uie name of . tho, woman who
occupied No. 51. It was the next stnte-
room but one to that In which (lie mur
der had been committed, and the name of
Its Inmate was Mrs. Rochester, of Quebec.
Tho Itansomes, Trefusis.' nnd Sevier had
all come frOrn Montreal, nnd handsome.
nulmrn-hnired Mrs. Boebcster in her
widow's weeds wns the woman who had I
bowed to Trefusis , on deck the first day i
out. . , . ... ,
A daring plan entered my head. I bail ,
no right td execute it, nnd in doing so I '
might be Insulting, deeply Injuring an in- f
noccnt woman, but nevertheless I deter-;!
mined upon, the venture. ... .. , ;
I weut.out on deck. .1 Imd seen Airs.
Rochester there several times, though nev
er, save for the tirst scarcely answered
bow, had I observed any Intercourse be
tween her nnd any member of the Ilnnr
some party. i
I hud tha good luck to find her alone,
leaning over nnd gazing through the deep
ening twilight into the depths of the great
malachite waves. '- '
She started and looked around as I ap
proached and took up a position beside
her. -.'. .i
;"Will you allow me to offer a penny
for your thoughts?" I inquired.
"They are worth more than that, she
answered in a low voice.
"You are right, Mrs. ' Bochester," " I
said ; "but I believe I can guess that you
are thinking of last-night t living over
again the time when, you stole into state
room 4!), picking up a knifo - which lay
there, hid behind the clothing hanging on
the wall, waited for Mr. Arthur Trefusis
to come in, and then, when yon saw him
at your mercy, strut
"For heaven'a sake !" sh uttered thick
ly. "For heaven'a sake !"
Her vole broke, she reeled, and would
have fallen In a dead, faint bad I not
caught ber across my arm.
1 Mtmr T hmA ell Dm truth from her anil
from Anthony Sevier, who would not hnve
spoken out his suspicions (had she not
been detected) for fear of screening him-
self by wronging tbe Innocent. , I
Trefusis bad known ber in Quebec, I
wrecked her life and married happiness,
and promised to marry her If ber hus
band should die. She had heard of his ap
proaching union With his cousin, and had
followed him on board the ( nnann. He
had coldly and completely ignored her. ,
As for Miss Moya Kansome and bevier,
1 have just had a letter with the an
nouncement of their marriage. Thos. Mc-
Kail in New York Post.
Glpay Trade.
Nothing lndentlfles a Gipsy with cer
tainty except his language. The true
(iipsy speaks Romany, and nobody but
a Oipsy ever speaks It. Hut there are
other matters of grent moment, de
clares A. T. Sinclair In the Journnl
f the Gipsy Lore Society; for instance,
their occupations.
In the Orient alevo-mnklng for coun
try farmer Is entirely lu the band of
the Gipsies, and they make wooden
spoons, bowls, and such line utenstts.
All the common people In Syria, Egypt
nnd parts of Persia are tattooed. Tho
Gipsies are the experts, and do moat of
It, even among the Redoulns.
The Gipsies are the showmen of the
East, where there are no circuses, the
aters nor concert balls. The Glpslea All
their plnce. If people wish to buy wild
nnlmnls or makes In Egypt, they go to
tho Glpales, who cither have or catch
them. ,
Arab Gipsies from Syria and Egypt
are frequently Been all over Europe.
They' are easily recognized by their
shows, music and tattoo mark. They
ire found nil over the United States
nnd Canada, even In Winnipeg. Dr.
William T. Ilornnday, director of the
Zoological Park, New York, writes that
he has seen these Arab Gipsies, with
their light yellow Syrian bear, which
has a mime of stiff hairs between tho
shoulders, and sometimes a white ring
round tbe neck, In many part of tho
United States, one camp he struck as
far west ns Salt Itke City, and he
has Always recognized them as Gipsies.
Most of them Hcalc a little German,
Italian and French. This Indicates that
they hnve spent some time In those
countries on tlur wuy here. Their
wanderings are world-wide, but every
where It Is the same race, aud the lan
guage Is tho same.
On th Hocks.
"la my win getthg well grounded In
the classlc8?"asked the auxious niUltoo
alre. ,
"I wonld put ft even stronger than
that," replied the private tutor. MI
may nay that be Is actually stranded
on them." Detroit News-Tribune.
We often wonder If Solomon
all hi wive with True love.
wo
i u - t Aioi r ms 7 ikai iiitii'it i tin in i ii ii v -s
Opinions of
sfr4.fc
1 1
A GUOWINQ COMPETITOR.
BdKNTINA is making rapid progress aa a
competitor In the world's wheat market.
Its wheat exports ao fur th,is yenr hnve
xceeiled 129,IXX).!00 bushels, which la an
ItierciiNo over the same period of last year
of nbout R3,(KX),(X0 bushels. , A few yenr
Hgo tbe United States annually exported
A
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2oO,000,0(iO busbi'ls of wheat, but recently the foreign de
ninnd hns fallen olT, although la 1!M)7 It took UO.700.000
bushels, that bring hlgh-wulcr tnnrk ' for home, y ran
back. Argentina 1ms overtaken ttuil passed this country
In supplying foreign markets with wheat and will doubt
less maintain this lead, us it lias h very large undeveloped
area of wheat land.: ,,. ,' . . , ..
The tlma la not very remote when nil the wheat that
ran be grown In the I Milted States -will lie heeded to feed
our own iteoplp. F.xports liuve said thnt within the next
twenty-flre years It will be necessary to import wheat to
aupply the homo demand. So the competition of .Argen
tina need cause our w heat growers no apprehension.
1 With a steadily increasing population and a large pro-1
portion of cur .wheat lnnd already tinder cultivation, it
la altogether probable that lu a comparatively abort tlm
there will be no surplus wheat for exjHirt. Chicago
Journal.
SLAUGHTER BY FIRE AND AX.
T la of little uso to discuss plans for the
conservation of our forests ' through more
scientific cutting and the like until some
effective measures can be tnkeu for putting
a stop to tho whoicsulo destruction of tbe
wiwllnr.ils each year by tire. It Is hardly
too much to any that wc should have little
or no forestry, problem if public authority could subt
tantlully eliminate the fire evil nnd nt the name time
would relieve the growing woodlands from the severity
of the burden of taxation. Tli owner of growing trees
will turn them into money nt the earliest, opportunity so
long us he bus to pay a tax each year, on their vafue,
nnd must iesldis constantly rnu the very lnrge risk' of
complete loss by fire.; If the State or public authority
could attend to these things In bchilf of the individual
It la prolinble that the mounting price ot lumber would
bo u BuDlclent Inducement for men to raise wood,1 nnd
thnt we should then have little of 'a,
Doston Transcript. '
WORK VS. CRIME. , . t ...
F all tho known agencies designed to stop
criminal activity none has lieen discovered
'equal to Unit' which turns tho criminal
force into honest Industrial activity. So
ciologists declare thnt of all those engaged
, In criminal occupations, particularly rob
lery, at least 75 per cent have never been
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taught any useful trade and have turned to crime be
cause they had no means or Incentive toward earning an
honest living.
1 ' Yeur by ycSr society at large Is coming to regard Its
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A DISUUISEI) DETECTIVE CATCH
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In the detective service, us lu every
thing else, they still cling to tbe the
atrical lu France. Disguises of vari
ous type are used on every occasion,
greatly to the amusement of foreign
er who hnve anything to do with the
police department. Make-ups of this
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PkTECTIVl: ENTtRINU CAB WITH D1S
UUIHB IN UAH. .
character liuvo so long been put aside
. by the best authorities elsewhere that
it la somewhat surprising to see tliciu
still lu us lu France, though It must
be acknowledged that the French
school of detective service litis beeu re
markably successlul in teaching tho
art of criminal catching.
The Illustrations above show aome
thing of the workings of the Hjstem
and aro tnUen from actual -photographs.
One cannot help believe, for
nil the Mui-ccss of French detectives,
that any Intelligent thief in America
would le nble to penetrate tho disguise
In tin InstHiit, and certainly nny per
son not u thief .would not have to look
twice to detect the imposition.
However, Paris tlms not olyk nt it
that way. n writer recently saying:
The Purls iiollre have bi-en notable
from time to time for sonic very smart
captures, uud sevcrul of I heir detect
ives have gained notoriety through
their smart work In impersonating va
rious French tyis-s In tbe course of
trucking delinquents. The task of as
suming an effective disguise lu broad
daylight Is much more difllcult than
the actor' task before the footlights.
! In tho latter case the lighting aids the
actor while sunlight shows up every
possible defect In the detective's inuke-
Iup. Pari would be Burprlsnd If It
were aware of tho number of clever
actor whom It possesses among It do
1 tectlve force aud who are dally carry
I lug on strange little comedie In va
Great Papers on I moor-ton
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trip- to the North Pole will be a welcome alleviation Of
the healed term. I ,
A the speed which Mr. Edison 1 reported to predict
for airship I double that of the most savage hurrl-.
cane, It I expected that the aviation of tbe future will
outfly the winds. Also, a this 1 to be achieve not by
aeroplane of the Wright brothers typet nor by diri
gible balloons, such as Zeppelin guides, but by auto
matic action of principle yet to be discovered. It I evl
dent that tbe progress of Invention must anticipate the
Bwlftues of the thing to be invented.; ..,,, '
All of which will be interesting and delightful when.
Mr.; Edison' sanguine prophecies are realized. Never- ,
theless, It occur to the disinterested observer that Mr.
Edison cannot permit revolutionary change to fully
eventuate before he complete one ' long-ndvcrtlsed ' '
change. ;Tbe 200-inlle-n-hour flyer should not dm w off
bis attention from the introduction to tho public 6f that '0 m"'
,mut:U-promlsed atorage battery Which hi , to . Dliico i tjie
8iupkc)esa and deodorlr.ed automobile within tue uieaua.N0 t,,
of alt ordinary people. Pittsburg pispatoh. '(JJ.,vj ,j
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forestry problem,-
1NU SHARPERS AT A PARIS TEIt-
riety of attires. The name of Rossi gnol
Is well knowu In tho French detective
force us belonging to n man of extra
ordinary skill I11 Impersonation. Ros
slgnol'a methods allowed the detective
to get upon the track of a bunted crim
inal without arousing the slightest sus
picion that he waB being followed.
Wives of detective bnve often been
deceived by their husbniid a a pre
liminary nnd satisfactory test that
their disguise Is effective.
A special artful class of thieves Is
thnt which waits atstatiops for tbe ar
rival of countrymen fresh to town. Dla
gulHcd each time lu a different manuer
11 detective succeeded In catching four
of these sharpers ,ln one week. Tho
favorite trick played Is that of the
wutch. , A person cornea up to the coun
tryman saying, "Excune uie, I am In
great trouble. My mother Is 111 In the
country and I must go to see her, but
I have no money to buy a ticket. I
have a gold watch hcre a family heir
loom that I greatly prize and tf you
will buy It I will let you have It very
cheap." While the mun la examining
tbe watch a friend come up, always
bareheaded, and praising the watch be
gins to bargain for It. ' The owner re-
DfcTEi'TIVE 1J5AV1.VU C'AQ IN
SMOCK.
fuse, and tho newcomer whisper in
tbe peasant's ear, "I am the Jeweler
opposite; buy It for CO francs. If you
do not want It I will purchase It from'
you for 70 francs." The cotiutrymau
concedes the bargain Immediately ami
goea direct to the shop Indicated. The
man, who has never lot t his shop, nt
once sees thnt the watch Is only glided
silver aud worth ten francs.
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We have reached au age when we
admit that a man may have an oplnlou
different from ours, and not be either
t fool or a tcouudrel.
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duty toward the criminal classes as grave and rpspon . -
Bible, and every effort that la made to turn men toward '
an honest life la lure of aympathetlc bearing and a ,
generous measure of support from tbe pnbllc. One of .
the latest and ene which promise to be moat efficient 'J
of these la a National Society for the Promotion of In-' ,
dustrlal Idncation. Carroll D. Wright, formerly United .
State Commissioner of Labor, ,1s pre sidejit. '. . It ebject t
Is provide for every youth In the land such t maa '
tire of Industrial education a shall enable blm to earn
money at i'nsefnl und honorable trade, ' , V,, ' '
It Is argtied thki the, criminal Instinct Is' hardly ever
tbe dominant one that if a youth were given hia choicw V
between earning a littng at a trade ot ateallng, he would
choose the honest path-Washington Herald. ,,,,u,,,,;'j ,
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iiTJTSoinsi atowmo rophect. ., :C , ,... .
ntL THOMAS A. EDISON'S forecast of the-
future of aerial navigation lacks nothing
la tbe quality of optimism." Within' five'1 '
years, according to Mr. Edison, we will be
sbl to get Into the 0 p. m, Cyer In New'1'
York and arrive In Pari for a lata Iunc.lt
the next afternoon. Also n forty-four-hour :
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MOB C03T3 nr ILLINOIS.",'.'.
AVIXG.bad or permitted a mob dance, the , '
tnxpaylng citizen of, Sprlugliuld, , HI.,, wlll
jtext be compelled to pay the piper,,,, The .,'
law of tho State permits property owner!
to recover from the city or county .three-,
fourths of the -alue of any, prope.rty.de,.,,.'.
stroyed by a mob, and the dependent hoira y .
of anyone killed by a mob may recovor ?o,u()0 from tuo,
same source. Following criminal prosecutions of, mob
leaders will come civil suit for dumnge to- life and
property, rnd bey will aggregate a large aum Naver-, -,
theless, they will not represent anything like tha whole-. c",
material loss and expense resulting to the locality from- ,
the Indulgence In riot, murder aud arson, Springfield
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MONSTEB OREGON ELK. ?;'
Hu Led Mmuf Hauler Wild Cbstav
la th IteeaaUmra Maaaiaina. (
Jamea Heckman, who 1 Just In from
a timber cruise in tbe Necanlcnm moon- ...
tains, is able to verify the legend of n
monster elk, which baa led many bant-"
era on a wild chase through the moun
tains of the Upper Necanlcura, aaya the
Portland Oregonlan. Vi'j.;
For year It ha btfctf" reported that,,
an elk larger than any horse la "Seaside, ;
with a hoof that ' made a ' track L over , ,
seven Inches In diameter, roarnedi i thei, .
woods near the headwaters of the)J
caniutu and the North Nt-balem. ,. lie .
was too wary for the most experienced :,
hunters, who tried, lu vain to stalk, hlao. ,
Jim , took a stroll while they , were. .
nooning and within a. half, mUe from,
camp came to an open glade containing,
about eighty acres. - Standing - within
the edge of the timber he counted six
teen elk feeling leisurely In the open
ing. He noticed three bucks, good large
fellows, but he almost had the ago '
when he saw the monarch ot the herd,
willed do avers. Is n monster. -' '
Being to leeward of the bond and
within eighty, yarda of them, "Jim had '
a splendid chance to observe the elk.
The big' fellow had, a magnificent pair
of antlers, twelve point on one and)
eleven ou the other, In the velvet. .The
other bucks wore large, but they looked
like pigmies by tbe Bide of the big. fel
low. KOREAN ETIQTJETTH.
Attatlve's New Year' Call Voa aa,
, American Lady. "
The native Koreans, who have be
come familiar with foreigners and their '
ways, take very readily to tbe custom
of calling end eating on New Tear'
day, and one American lady hady
very peculiar experience wrth a native
official In Seoul on New Year's day. '
She was keeping epen house and had!
made preparation for receiving her
guests In the proper manuer.
Among other things she had mnde a
very excellent and rather large cake
which she expected to distribute In
email allce to her caller. A party of
native gentlemen arrived, and, linvtng
glven one of them a cup of ten, she
placed this fine cake before him, with
an Invitation to help himself. ,
She then went with the others to an
other room and wits gone some tlmev
When she returned she paw, to- her
horror, that ber cake had nil but dla- ;
appeared. The uatlve, according; to
his Ideas of etiquette, had dors hi
best not to leave nny of the eatables
set before him.
The lady's vexation wns bat lshed by
a feeling of pity for tbe pr feM-vw,
who was quite sick fruu overfeeding.
It Is said that this call wrs Ms .first
nnd Inst that day. He deel ired to hi
friends that foreigners must he "all
stomach" If they could go frm bnns
to house and "eat that much every
time." London Mall.
It Grew t'aaa Her.
"What a scornful expression Mis
Pnrvinoo alwaya hns.
'Yea; 'tis quite natural, though, 8he
resided the greater portion of her lift
near a glue factory." Philadelphia .
Press.
A a rule, we are afraid of woi
who wear flo&ao.
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