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__ _ STORY OF A TRUST. THAT HAS MADE NOTED MAO NATES OF THREE MEN. ■tf OlMl Nlandaril Oil Coinimnr - RtohMt CorpJnllim In tha World. Ov«r Tan Million* of Dollar* Worth of l'*elam I.In** and T**k»|a f Special letter.) UK richest and best managed cor _ II poratlon In the I HI woild Is the 3tand Mk II ard Oil CompHnv, r] 11-11 the stock of which amounts to $l.r>0, 000,000 and during the last 30 jresrs » bos made Its hold ers all fabulously ; rich men. In view ■of the recent operations of these men to consolidate all the gas companies across the Kast river, New York, us they have already done those In Brooklyn, a movement which has driven up New York gas stock all the way from 40 points to 200 In three months—a study of the means by leh this corporation has grown In Its enormous power and wealth Is *ly und Interesting. Such a study given below. The history of the origin and growth tiie Standard furnishes material for •ne of f ho rarest romances of the cen tury, At the close of the civil war Samuel Andrews, a recently arrived [immigrant, was porter for a small produce bouse In Cleveland, O. An drews was of an Inventive turn of mind, and In his leisure hours devised a plan for the refinement of petroleum much more economical and effective than the ones then In vogue. One of m the partners of the firm which era ! ployed Andrews as porter was John D. * Roekafeller, then 26 years of age. Roekafeller kept the books and looked after the sales of the house. When , "Andrews told him about his Invention the bookkeeper looked Into It. and,con cluding that It promised well, Invested what money he had been able to save In pushing It. As a result of the combined efforts > of the two young men, and with the |yald of borrowed capital, a small re finery was built and put Into opera > tlon. The reflnery made money from the first, and in a year or so Ro< kafel | ler sold out his Interest In the produce house and gave his entire time to the new venture. He Induced his brother William to start a reflnery, which was soon consolidated with the one owned by him and Andrews. Then a ware house was opened In New York city for the sale of the manufactured prod uct of the two refineries. ^ The Rockefellers and Andrews saw millions within their grasp. AH that was needed was a little ready money, and this kindly fortune at the right moment threw In their way. Young Henry M. Flagler had married a rich man’s daughter, and his father-in-law had started him In the lumber business f in Michigan. Flagler, thought a bright fellow, was not Intended for a lumber man. In some way Roekafeller got the ear of Flagler's father-in-law and told him his plans, which even then contemplated the control of the entire ol! production of the country. The old man gave the matter careful con sideration. His son-in-law was not making money as a lumberman and Roekafeller's plan seemed on the lace a good one. In the end he gave Flag ler $60,000 and told him to go In with the RockafcHers and Andrews. Thus the Standard Oil Company watf formed with a capital stock of $100, 000, with John D. Roekafeller as Its president. It at once began to buy out and crush out rival refineries, and now Its pipe line system is something pro HKNItY M. FLAOMM. rilgioua a mounter aptdar'a wt»b cover lug Ihoueanda of mile*, One Im* 3tK> wll«a long runa from Oleau to Rail tile Hlvar, N. J., within eaay dlataac* uf tha iiietropolla. Another Una, >71 ntllea in length, runa from tttlagrova. McKean county, l*a.. lu Philadelphia A third runa front Midway, on the Meuneytvaata, to Malnmor*. W mllaa A fourth lina, too mi lea loug, ru ta Ifrum lillltarda. I‘a. to t'letelaud A fifth line, an mi lee in length, c«aue>ta I'arboa renter, Mutter county. N . with (‘meti ng and an .liter Una of about the cam* length runa from four Mil*. I'attarnugua county. N V to Mullah. Mura reeaally a line he* keen laid ha U***a 1.1me, Ohio, and t'hoago tha mile# AM thane linea art united and eon I rolled by the National Tranett thtm pam another naaae lor tha dtaadard Ml I'out pea* ehteh Ihoa ut... i, the MMttt f production with lie hta»< S^Blh regnertea lu the gteel mi., (t, Hj ll»< main llhea It uwaa iho. ||^Hb uf mllaa >tf emaller lit.ee tut. SI^P from !>• <aah ag «U > ut ... the *»l tafleia .al ope<a<ute ». I Idea of lha magnitude of II1I3 branch of Jta business can be obtained from the recent statement of a Standard magnate that 910.000,000 would not cover the coat of tbe lines aed tank age rendered useless during the last five years by the failure of the fields in which they sre located. The Standard, takes the oil of the producer as It comes from the ground, measures and pays for It. transports it to Its refineries, refines It, pipes It to market, and sells it. L'atll recently It hss never figured as a producer, but its complete and perfect system gives It absolute control of tbe oil trade. All this has grown since 1(66 from un original Investment of less than 975,000 made by four young men. who saw a grand opportunity for money makfng. and were brainful enough and shrewd enough to take advantage of It. The railroad companies were at the mercy of the great monopoly. The late President Hcott of the Pennsyl vania road acknowledged 00 the wit ness stand that bis company dare tran sport only the oil of the Standard, and Commodore Vanderbilt said a year or two before he died that there was only one man he would allow u> dictate to him, and that man was John l). Kockufellor. Absolute In Its command of the re fining trade, the Standard forced the railroads to do Its bidding until 1880. Then they rebelled and the Standard reduced their revenues and rendered it Impossible for them to llgure as a fac tor In the control of the oil trade by building pipe lines, and through them transporting to tide water Its oil, Irtttb crude and refined. It built and operated tls own add and glue works, and barrel factories, while Its enormous volume of business gave It a commanding Influence with the railroad companies. At one time the Pennsylvania road In seventeen WILLIAM ROCKAFELLEH. month* paid It over 910,000,000 as re bate* on the oil carried over It* line*. It I* Indeed a gigantic corporation. BRITISH CONSERVATISM. ■low to Accept the Convenience! o Civilization. "I aril pretty well acquainted In Ixm don, and 1 know of but three hotel* there where one can procure the help of a typewriter," said W. K. Sargent of New York, “and these three are ho* telrle* that are largely patronized by American*. For some reason our En glish brethren do not take to tlfe writ ing machine, and, though at some pe riod they will utilize it extensively, Its introduction will tie very gradual, a* compared with it* career in the United State*. I wa* in the Bank of England last winter, engaged In con versation with a leading official, and noticed that quite a corp* of clerks were employed, but not a typewriter in the lot. On remarking at the ab sence of these my bank friend said that the old-fashioned ideas of the men that controlled the great finan cial institution would not permit the innovation. Everything must be written out in orthodox longhand, ac cording to the custom of centuries. I thought this a notable illustration of the conservatism of the British char- ‘ acter." The riseo'i 1,1 History. Pigeons have been employed in car rying messages from very early times, though there are differences of opinion us to who first so utilized them. Pro bably the first on record who em ployed pigeons In this capacity was Joshua, who, when invading Palestine in the sixteenth century B. (’., used them as means of communication lie tween headquarters uud camps in lauds on the other side of the Jordan. The Chinese are said to have used pig eons to carry messages at even an ear lier date than this. The famous Ureek poet Anacreon, who lived about 5ut j years B. C„ mentions the use of pige ons as bearers of epistles. Pliny, the - Homan naturalist, speak* of commun ication* belug kept up between Hlr tlu* and Bectmus Brutus at the siege of Multna i Modena! by means of pig eons; and there la on record an In stance of their hat Ins been employed ( during th* cruaad* of Ml. I-outs. One j ( historian has ch*ualct*d th* us* oi plgwons to carry m******* to Mahm oud Malekal-Ad*l Nuur Eddin sultan | of Egypt, In th* tweitta c*ntury. liur- I Ing th* siege of Part*, tu com* down to our via day, IU.MN uitt isl me* , ( sages war* t-artled Into th* beten* ' ^ *o*t»d city by plgoua post i | ( aba** U******* , q Among tb* mineral preelections of , the earth nhigh ar* *hi#gy valuabla | because of tit* part they play In the ! , auannfa* tar* of metal* for ue* la th* , ■rt* I* maagnneee, whteh ks employed £ , In mskiag a et**t alt"* tber* are t mine* of maagasr— • round the Itts- S . ftea. ead sums in bnilb America hut. n*«aiding In recent consular report*, a i . guard sopptI of tbt* t*41 spans*SI* gut a tartal u is M funnd in th* southern a part of Cuba I he ln*urre*l ion la that Island baa, fas th# ps*a*at presented Aha da»»t*finssi af tba at than t FROM A LIVING TOMB. CONVICT WAS BURIED ALIVE FOR EIGHTEEN YEARS. frnlfiii'rd to l.lf* I mprUonmnit for Arson nt Mill* Vf»r» of Ag+ nod Turnnl Orrr to n Contractor - l*nr dound bf Ho*. Atlcluaou. YDEP Hilliard, a young negro, is a victim of Georgia's pernicious penal s y s t e in, w h Ich, happily tor the sakes of hundreds of miserable con victs, will soon go out of existence, | according to a re cent act of the leg- I stature. For ••ighteen years Hilliard never saw the light of the sun. In lhat time he never gazed on a human fare, except by the uncertain glare of i flickering lamp. He never heard the language of the soil, except from the lips of newcomers as Ignorant and miserable as himself. Hilliard was born In Atlanta 33 years ago. His par ents, Industrious colored people, kept » small grocery store. In 1873 the hoy, then only 9 years old, with some mis chievous companions, set Are to a building. Although hardly old enough to appreciate the gravity of his offense, be was Indicted for arson, found guilty »nd sentenced to Imprisonment for life. In Georgia there Is no peniten tiary. A prisoner convicted In a crim inal court Is sent to what Is called the ‘chain gang." In other words, he Is farmed out to come contractor by the Rate. Hilliard was sent to the coal mines In Dade county, In the extreme northwest corner of the state, near hat spur of the Hlue Ridge mountains which ends abruptly In the precipitous front of Lookout Mountain, towering tbove tj,e great crescent of the Tennes *ee river. Being only a boy, he was mable to perform manual labor, and for six years, according to his state ment, be was kept around the stock ide, doing chores and waiting on the men In charge. Finally he grew to he i lusty lad, and was put to work In he mines. He was 15 years old, black ind muscular, and his owners, under he law, saw In him a valuable posses don. One memorable day In the fall of 1879 be descended with the cage Into me of the mines. Never after that did be see the light of day until a week igo, after the lapse of eighteen years. Governor Atkinson, In looking over he prison record, noticed the name of Hilliard and the age at which he was mnvlcted, and observed that his rec ord was remarkably good. Twenty four years, thought the governor, was lurely sufficient punishment for a boy sonvlcted at the age of nine, and he nvestlgated at once. When he learn ed the remarkable circumstances at tending the case, he Issued a pardon 'ortbwlth. Hilliard’s friends, or, rath >r those who remembered him, for he bad no friends, were notified, and a few days ago they took him to At lanta. The negro Is a wreck. It Is with the greatest difficulty that be can >xpress himself In the English lan guage or understand It. He speaks an inlntelliglble gibberish that sounds diotlc. A few words he still retains, mt most of them are so corrupted as :o lie unrecognizable. Where he ob .alned the suggestions for the new ines he has coined Is a mystery. He ipeaks mostly In monosyllables, ills .■olee Is shrilled and cracked. His eye s dull, and he Is densely Ignorant. iVhen he heaiB a word that particular y strikes his .ntnd. he pauses and juries his head in his hands, as if en leavoring to recall It. To him It Is Ike a strain of music which one tries n vain to place. Hilliard hue already licked up a few words with which he was once familiar, and it is believed hat after he has had time to famil arize himself with the language and lls surroundings he will again be able o speak intelligently. Those who re nernber the case say that he was iright as a boy, and they see no reason vhy be should not be able to retrieve he past In part, In spite of the long rears through which body and brain f'i fTPC ii k. \ It Y Hit It HILUARD. alike been atuated In the bent my he could ha (old the atory of hla ana Imprlannm nl It la llhe n ;tege itra from the btatury of iha Hark |0Mk Tha conaku. ha any*, nra halnad tugathar In ganga of l& or 30 hay alaap on blanhata apraad on a i eh dour and IHa hy tha light of irrchan and lantarn* f'uud ta nerved >t them In tin pana. without forlu atvaa or epouna Keck convict la re utrad to Wing 13 Iona tad tun! a day howtd ha fall halow Ihta amount ha > turnad over to tha "whipping hove I night and it»ggod until ha howl* nth pain Than la hardly a form of rwatty which thaaa uafMrtwaata men ra not uni tad upon to endure Ta nil .lent* and pwrpuaaa they era atataa f tha weanaat order Hot altar day loath after month year aft#* yaut Ith no Wanna of rachxatwg time with n hnow ladgn of tha Nabhaih a* of hot lay* or tha «»ne. van with no ntga «f encouragement in hie ewra « onngar ta ntauaufu, tha had fallow of pain, with nothing but impenetrable blackness ahead of him. and only the memory of a few brief yearn of boy hood, he labored like a galley-slave scourged at night to his dungeon, stunted In mind, broken in spirit, hopeless, damned. Hilliard's parents are dead. The f«w friends that he had In his brief childhood have either mov ed away, died or forgotten. He cannot even locate the place where he oner lived, so sweeping have been the changes. There is no face to which he ran look for a smile, no lips from which he can exper t a kind word, nn heart to love him. In the march ol humanity he lias been left behind. He Is a derelict In the ocean of life. Ills career is anarchronlstlc, He is like a disembodied spirit that ha* surged for ward afier a lapse of years, lost in the whirl of the Incomprehensible. SHE DRESSES LIKE A MAN. - # Ml** llrllr Mr-lister Slim-lt* li(illsn» Society. People of Bedford, Ind., who have known Miss Belle Schafer for any length of time will readily understand why she has at last gained notoriety as the "boy tramp," since she has al ways had a decided preference fo masculine ways and association with the sterner sex. Even when a little girl she was a "tom Imy." Now with out any compunction whatever she dis regards all laws of society, and when ever opportunity ofTers masquerades In male attire anil seeks the company as well as the habiliments of men. She cannot ilo this at home people know her there, and, besides, It Is a violation of Indiana law*. Miss Schafer talks willingly of her adventures und seem willing to become nolorlous. She was not satlslled with local notoriety, am. last June she appropriated a suit of her brother's clothes anil went out In to the world a full-fledged tramp. Her peregrinations have covered most all ilEI.l.K SCHAFER. southern Indiana and a part of Illi nois. The first heard of her hy her parents was In a telgrara from the city marshal of Charleston, III., say ing Belle had been arrester] there and was held as a vagrant, also that she was clad In male attire. This was no surprise to Mr. Schafer, and be did not interest himself in his daughter's case. The Charleston authorities released the girl after having equipped her with a wardrobe more suitable to her sex. She left Charleston and was next heard from at Casey, III., where she had discarded her skirts and substitut ed men's clothing. From Casey Miss Schafer wandered eastward, carefully avoiding the towns, and escaped fur ther detection as a masquerader. She arrived In Bedford about a week ago, wearing a pair of blue jeans trousers, a red sweater, bicycle shoes and a Jaunty little cap. Belle Is a girl again now and may be seen In the streets almost every day. 8he is about 20 years old, but rough life has had Its effects upon her and she looks several years older. Her physique is effemi nate in every detail and in feminine apparel she is quite a handsome girl. She makes up well as a boy also, and for this purpose she has bad her dark wavy hair clipped close to the scalp. When asked if she had had enough ex perience in ways of men. she replied: "No, I won’t be a woman; I despise the house, X want to be outdoors. I want to travel and Hee the country. A woman can't do that like a man, and I'm going to be a man. I know I can’t do a man's work, but I can wear his dollies and lie a tramp. I came home because wiuter is coming on and I didn't want to travel around during the cold weather. In the spring I ex pect to go away again, hut I won't be caught next time. There are several reasons why 1 prefer men's clothing. It is not such clumsy toggery us skirts In getting on and ofT trains, and be sides is a protection from rude men.'' Woman Cat In Tan. A trolley car on the Point llreexe di vision of the City Suburban Traction line In Baltimore, Md,, ran down a wagon on the Mount Carmel road two m I lea from Baltimore the ether after noon and Immediately killed Mrs Frederick Helm. Jr., and severely In jured her two boye. Mre. Helm wee on the rear seat of the covered wagon when the car ran into It. aud becom ing entangled In the wreehage. was Ihrowa under the car and cut com pletely |n twain Her huehand aud the two children on the from a*| were thrown Jo feet, hut eeraped with se ver* bruleee and Contusions The ruin iluctor and motor man were arrested. UsetM Uiti«l Isvaiet Although i*o arreate have been made fur the uurder of Mre Kanos fsst and her daughter Mre- Sarah M straw. al Cam lea. N J , the myetery remains uneolved The sue pads ate l**aaert«aala railroad employee whe Sate heea uu a druah Chrome Pattern Ituetwy, what da tow i«■•*,>t«i vat worst trouble * hit it- >*e Mr friend, us he eatirely baah. the cure! ten a Me there te ahawt tew la that M tehee law toag a time in eotleet a hUI from raw" < hwage I rthoaw | THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. {LESSON VIII. NOVEMBER 21 — EPH. 8 ; 10-21. Holden Tell: "He Mtrong In Ihe Lord, nnd In the Tower or Hie Might*'— Kpli* « lo The Clirisllau Armor anil How to Wear II. The Kplx.le lo the Kphealana lx ihe first In order of I hone written from Home. Paul's tint visit to Kphesns Is recorded ■n Acts 19. 19-21. It wits very short, and ‘its work was carried on hy Apollox and ny Aipilla and Trlxelllu. After visiting Jerusalem and Asia Minor he returned thither (Aets Id, 1), and remained three yearx (Acts 20. 31). On hi* last visit lo Jerusalem he nailed hy Kphesns (Acts 20. 17) Home lime later he left Timothy at Kphesns (l Tim I. .7). The object of the epistle |s general, Ihe only *|iecl*l circum stance alluded to being u mission of Tyehlctia, and Ida own Imprisonment (prohatdy at Home, about A. I). *2). Content* of the Kplstle.—The Kplalle to Ihe Kphealana has two great divisions: I. Chapters I, 2, 3, doctrinal; 2. chapters ♦, 9, t, practical The object of the form er purl la set forth Ihe foundation, growth, purpose and destiny of ihe L'hrlslluu Church; the latter deals with the mo mentous responsibilities ami consequences resulting therefrom. It Is, perhaps, Ihe moat sublime of all the epistles of Paul. The Apostle—To give this remarkable passage Its full force we must try to pic ture Paul's situation when he wrote It. lie Is a prisoner at Horne, some time dur ing the "two years” of Acts 29, 30; not (as afterward) In the dungeons of the Mamcrtlne prison; hut III "hi* own hired house," probably quarter* In Ihe barracks uttuched to the l'rctorlum (the "palace'' of Phil. 1, 13), on the Palatine Mount, which, u* a "Homan dtksen," he wan per mitted to have separately. He was In what was technically called "military cus tody," which was not confinement In u common Jull las ut Philippi). In this "military custody" he hud heel) ever slnco Hiat day at Jerusalem when Lysias and Ids soldiers rescued lilm from Ihe Jewish crowd. Now, although considerable lib erty was ullowid in a prisoner of Hits kind of which we have several Instances lu Paul's case, for example Ads 24. 23; 27. 3 there was one hard thing seldom or never dispensed wllli. The prisoner wa* kept chained hy Ids right hand to the ! left build of a soldier, who was responsible tor tun surety, and incurred death If he escaped. Again and again do we llnd al lusion* lo this, liolti In the Ada and In I’aul'M own letters during the period; «ee, parllciilarly, Artu 2*. 19, "Buffered to dwell hy hliriHelf with a xoldler that kept him," al»0 Act# 24, 27; 29. 14, 29. 29; Kph. 2. 1; I’hll. I. 7. Col. 4. Id; Phllcm, I(l, where the worda "bond" and "hound" refer to Ihla chained condition. In Acta 29. 20 the alronger word "chain" llaelf la uaed; and ao, In Ihe Greek, It la In our prcaenl paa eage, for verae 20 la literally, "I am an nmhaaaador In a chain." The Homan Soldier,—Aa wi have aeen. for three or four yeura Ihe apoi'ln had never been alone. A rough Roman boI* dler waa alwuya cloan to him. Not the name aoldler, of COUrae. Day after day the guurda Iri the Pretorlum would he changed. They were the emperor'* own guarda; ao that a man might he employed In the morning In executing one of Nero’* friend* (perhapa hla wife Octavla!) and In the evening In keeping hold of Paul'a chain. We aee at once how the faithful apoatle would uae Much an opporlunity, and how the Gospel apread "In all the palace" filial la, Pretorlum) (Phil. I. 12). Hut aa the weary daya and week* paaaed away Paul'a active mind waa charging Itaelf with "the care of all the churchea." Meaacngera went and came to and from Aala, Macedonia, Greece, better* were dictated and algned with the chained hand—»ee that touching ver*e. Col. 4. 12: "The aaluiatlon by the hand of me, Paul. 'Remember my borida.” And aa he thought and thought of the trlala and tempta tion* of hi* convert*, and of the aore con flict* many of them were maintaining, he looked at the familiar armor of hla aol dlcr-companlon, and aaw what beautiful tlluatratlon* It auggeated of the aplrltuai arm# he would like Chrlat’a aoldlera to bear. That Roman legionary hlmaelf, too, how llrm, resolute, Invincible! O. If the Kphcalan* and Coloaalana and Philippian* and Theaaalonlaria would atand in the aplrltuai battle like that! And then ho penned our paaaage of to-day. The Chrlatlun'* ICnemle*.—We have a wily and powerful enemy. Thai enemy doe* not, indeed, llnd It easy to overcome you now that you have to *ome extent auhdued the tleah, which la the trullor within that opena the city gatea to Ihe foe; hut there he la, neverthelea*. aa hit ler and subtle an adveraary aa ever; and he hrlnga new weapon* and new englnex of temptation, whleh he doe* not need to reaorl to with the unconverted man, to near upon the cnrlallan. It la not to swearing and HuDhuth-breaklng that he Invite* you now—that would be like tiring a platol at an Ironclad—but It la to ambi tion and vanity In religion, to alothfulm at III the spiritual life, to contempt of other* making lea* profession, to i arty spirit, to uaing religion aa a lever for the at tainment of aelllah ends. How many a true Christian falls Into slna like these In ubaolule lineonaclouHneaa! Ilow few are really on their guard against them! Now, Paul knew all thi*. In 2 Cor. 2 11 ho speaks of Satan getting "an advantage over ii*,” and says, "We are not Ignorant of Ida devices.” A* he look* at the atern soldier hy hla side, who had, perhapa. fought with bartiariana on the Rhine or the Danube, he thinks of the more ardu oua conflict that chriat'a aoldlera must wage. "We wrestle not with tlesh and blood, hut with” and here follows a mys terious Hat of adversaries, tlie full mean ing of which our limited knowledge of Ihe Ml* inline **«;ii«i IU| tilMDIt* IJM (O fathom, but whbli give* ui n ilgrlllng MlImpHc of Ike uiieren power* that nre nl work for our ruin. Ix'ikuii llymn Soldier* of rhrlat, arlae. And put your armor on. Strong in the ilreng'h which <kx| iup pile* Through hla eternal Mon, Strong in the lord of hoala. And In hla mighty power. Who In Ike alrenpth of Jeaua truaia la man than comjueror. l-rava no unguarded place. No weakneaa of the aoult Take every virtu*, every grace. And for tify the whole; Indtaaolubly mined. To balll* all proceed Hut arm youreelvea with all th* mind Thai wa* In t'brtat, your Head. —Che I lea Weekly OIM» OS THOUGHT. What in amblltoa? Tta • g lor low* rhaat W lllla r«f. llva how wa • ««. dl* we tuml Mhakaapeara lla livaa lung that livaa wall, a«4 tlata mtaepaai la uut lived, but luet... I ?wlWr Vow Will Sad II late away la uproot ' fauna. *baa to .huh* them by galaiug ) finuaa Huekla Ib*at tbou love IHo* Thaw 4u sal \ ewwawdar lime for that |g tb* etuff : Ufa ta mad* uI rraabila !*»•»•» hi am >o«uu*riwg iMt ra i lumaaea but la Hag bald upww Uud • . wtiiiagueaa Phillip* llruwha Th* aahl—aaa at 111* d*p**Aa a* it* «t——I at pwfpmw, — and .aaa*ire* aw*rg) Nuahtw. NOTED FORGER IS CAUGHT. I. M. Morris flared Under Arraat at Shalbyvllla, Mo. J. H. Morris, wanted In Chicago and several other cities on charges of for gery, kidnapping, and breaking Jail, was arrested recently by the police of Hhelbyvllle, Mo. For the last four months officers have been searching for Morris and Miss Fanny Ruther ford of Minneapolis, who, it la lalmcd, was kidnapped from her homn »nd kept In concealment by the al leged forger. Jailer John L. Whit man of Chlrago has also been on the lookout for Morris, he having ew a|icd from the county Jail over a year ago. The pollre received a tip last May from Miss Rutherford's mother that Morris and her daughter were In Chi cago and had been seen here by per sons acquainted with the young wom an. Ofili'er Allen Ames of the (fol iage Grove avenue police spent a month running down Mrs. Ruther ford's clews, and learned that the •ouple had loft Chicago and were somewhere In the West. Circulars containing the pictures of Morris and Miss Rutherford and offer ing a reward for their apprehension were sent broadcast all over the West, and the arrest of the couple In Hhel byvlllc resulted. Morris will not be brought to Chicago, hut will be taken lo Memphis, Tenn., where he will have lo face a dozen charges of forgery. While an Inmate of the Memphis Jail Morris escaped, and a large reward was offered by the Memphis author! lies for his apprehension. Miss Rtitb srford was with him at the time of bis arrest and was detained In Shelby vllle to await the arrival of an officer from Minneapolis, who will return her lo her home. Miss Rutherford was the daughter >f Captain Georg* !lutherfor<, who re •ently died, und comes from one of the leading families of that city. She is hi heiress. The young woman is broken down in health. She tells a long story of her wanderings with Morris, but denies that she was kid napped. She first met him last win ter on a river steamer while she and her mother were spending the sea son in the South. Morris represented himself as a wealthy planter, and last April he appeared in Minneapolis, and induced her to go to Geneva Lake, WIs., with him. She soon learned the true character of the man, but feared to run away from him. From Geneva l.ake the couple came to Chicago and stayed for two months. Morris learned that the police were searching for him and with Miss Rutherford fled to San Francisco. They staid In San Fran cisco until a cousin of Miss Ruther ford's met her on the street with Mor ris and notified the Minneapolis po lice. It was then learned l>y the po lice that the couple had left for Kan sas City. The Chicago police circu lars were sent all over Missouri, and from them the Shelbyvtlle police rec ognized Morris and arrested him and' Miss Rutherford. Morris had half a dozen aliases. He was known In Chi cago as Morse, Thurman and Tuttle. While imprisoned In the Cook county Jail he impersonated an attorney and escaped. He had been an inmate of the Jail several times, and at the time of his escape was under a dozen in dictments for forgery. Kal»t)f»r» Ills Haul. The home of Francis H. Scott, pres ident of the Century Magazine com pany. in Orange, N. J.. was entered by thieves the other night and articles of wearing apparel and household goods amounting to $10,000 in value were carried off. The police arrested three persons In connection with the crime, and have recovered most of the prop erty. One of them Is a woriutn, Mary Rogers, ultas “Chicago May,” and when the detcetlvea broke Into her room two revolvers were lying on the l>ed. She tried to pass them to the men. but was overpowered before she could cause any bloodshed. One of the men Is Cyrus Hyland, a Westerner, and reputed husband of "Chicago May." The third person is George 1 ten nett, atlas “the New York Kid,” an associate of two criminals who are now In the Indiana state prison for robbing la the house uf General liar rlsoa. • •■Ml laved la a Km, In the rear end of a damp cellar In New Yurh a few days ago an I* F C A ■®< er found Mrs Motile New berg amt tier iwo child rea. aged I a ad I year* fhe cellar waa their home and a big Iry good* Ux waa iheir bedruum UM caper aad rag* roast noted ibe mat ir*w» aad n pteee uf old carpet served is a bed guilt, Mrs Nawbarg* hoa mad eloped with another woman far rears ami. and la auw living with her a Huhuhea •«atp«a* no* aw %s«a **«•»• ■> Fuoipade la 1‘hoagu tax gnadat warning held op Fraah Hruun*t>- «. t newspaper earner M yarn* aid, end • •ter struggling with him l> e few