Not Officially Reported
Bv EC CAR. WELTON COOLEY
Copyrght, !9M. by Doily Story Publishing Company
“A number of years ago, while trac
ing the movement of a registered pack
age that had been lost in the mails,"
said the old secret service man. "I
missed train connections and was
forced to lay over for several hours in
one of the cities in a certain southern
state. So, as the local postmaster was
a per. oral (riend of mine. I cai e.i upon
him.
"While we were conversing in his
private office a young man entered and
the postmaster presented him to me as
his chief clerk. I have reasons for not
revealing his identity, even at this late
date, so I will give him the incorrect
name of James Bradford.
"As a matter of course I prefer, at
all times, that my profession should
be hidden from the pub ic and especial
ly from government employes, but, un
thinkingly. my friend introduced me
on this occasion as a member of tbe
secret service.
"I was looking keenly into the young
man's eyes and noticed him start and
tremble. But lie Immediately regain
ed his composure and offered me his i
hand, which I clasped warmly.
“I knew at once that h s was a guilty
conscience. A thousand thoughts
flashed through my mind. I tried to, |
in some way, associate him with the
case upon which l was working, but
I could not do so since the missing
package could not ha\e passed through
his hands.
"At this moment the postmaster was
called from the room and I immediate
ly determined to test the young man's
nerve to the utmost. So I arose and
clcs d the door. Then I tu ned to him.
‘Sit down.’ I said. ‘I wish to talk with
you.'
“I watched his face closely. I saw
it grow suddenly scarlet, then pale,
und l noticed that he clasped the arms
of the chair so tightly that the nails
were forced Into the wood.
“But I was at a loss how to proceed.
That he was guilty of some criminal
act I felt assured from his agitation,
but I had absolutely no theory upon
which to work.
“Determined to unravel the mystery
upon which l had so accidentally
stumbled, I felt disposed to allow him
to nurse the evident fear that I was
In possession of certain facts regarding
the crime he had committed, whatever
it might be. Yet, so far as possible, I
desired to disabuse his mind of any
thought that I suspected his connec
tion with it. So, drawing a chair in
front of him, I laid my hand upon his
knee and said, in a confidential tone:
“ ‘Mr. Bradford, it is true that I am
an agent of the secret servlcp. But 1
beg that you will do me the kindness
to keep that fact to yourself. I am
here to Investigate certain irregular
ities in this office and. since you know
my mission, you may be of vast as
sistance to me.’
“He promised to do my bidding, but
while he seemed somewhat assured it
was plain to see he was ill at ease.
Then I dismissed him.
"When the postmaster returned we
continued our conversation. Present
ly I referred to the business of the of
fice and casually expressed a desire to
eee the last statement of the postof
flee inspector. My friend brought me
a copy, it was dated but ten days pre
viously and the accounts of the office
were certified to as being apparently
correct.
“ 'That is a good showing.’ said I.
‘Who handles the funds of the office?’
“ ‘Mr. Bradford,’ he replied.
“ ‘Is he married?'
“‘Yes. He has an estimable wife
and a beautiful baby boy.’
“ ‘Reliable man, I suppose?’ said I.
“ ‘Perfectly. There is not a dishon
orable hair in his head. He’s been em
ployed in the office six years.'
“The young man's reputation cer
tainly seemed good, but 1 determined
to shadow him. I did so. Without
arousing suspicion 1 watched his every
movement during the remainder of the
day. I learned that he was alone in
the office from six o’clock in the even
ing until it closed at nine, and that it
was ho who placed all the stamps and
cash in the vault before closing for the
night.
“While idly Inspecting the office dur
‘‘Sit down," I said.
lag the afternoon I discovered a knot
hole in the board celling. The second
floor of the building was divided into
office rooms, and I found that the par
tioular room, the floor of which con
tained the knot-hole, was empty. I
obtained the key under pretense or ex
amining iae room with a view to rent
lag.
“To my delight I found that I could
secure a good view at the post office by
looking through the hole. So I rented
the room, making a small payment.
“That evening, from six o'clock un
til nine, I lay on the floor with my eye
to the hole, watching Bradford.
“During the entire time he appeared
nervous ar.d excited. In moments of
leisure he would stare absently at the
wall or at his desk, every feature of
his face marked with despair and
wretchedness.
“Finally the hour for clcsing arrive !.
I saw him lock the outside door; I saw
him place the stamps in the vault and
return with the money box. filled with
bills and coin: I saw him count the
small change that was in the money
drawer in the desk: I saw him make
a note of the amount and enter it in
a book.
“Then he glanced around the room,
apprehensively, frightened, a wild look
He gazed at it in silence.
in his eyes and perspiration on his
brow.
"Suddenly he set his jaws together j
determinedly and with feverish haste j
filled his pockets with the bills and j
silver. When he had emptied the box
he placed it back in the vault and j
closed and locked the door. Then he
advanced a few steps and paused.
"What thoughts must have passed
through his mind at that moment as
ho stood upon the threshold between
honor and disgrace! Never before nor
since have i seen such agony on a hu
man face as T saw then.
"Presently he staggered to his desk j
and picked up a baby’s photograph, j
For a few brief moments he gazed at it j
in silence. Then he pressed it to his
lips and, turning, reopened the vault, j
took the money from his pocket, placed i
it back in the box and locked the door.
On his face was a bright gleam as of a
great happiness and up from the
depths of my heart there surged a cry, j
'God bless him!’
"With a smile on his face he turned ;
out the light and I hurried from my
hiding place. I met him at the door.
He was startled when he recognized
me, but I held out my hand.
" ‘Bradford,’ said I, pressing his
hand in mine, 'you couldn’t do it, could
you?'
" ’No,’ he said, a tremor in his voice,
‘I couldn't do it; I couldn't break my
wife's heart and bring everlasting dis
grace upon my baby boy.’
" 'Now, my boy,' said I, kindly,
'don't turn back. Tell me the rest—
perhaps T can help you.’ ,
"He looked me in the eye a moment.
Then he said: j
i wm trust you, sir. 1 nave Been
too extravagant in my living and have
used about of the office funds. I
did not intend to steal; I expected to
make it good, but I do not see how I
can. I decided to run away, but I
can t do it, sir; I can't do it.’
“I rested my hand on his shoulder.
‘Bradford,’ said I, ‘I believe you are
honest at heart. It is not too late
to rectify your mistake. Go home now
and go to bed. In the morning I will
see what can be done.’
He looked at me with tears in his
eyes. ‘Thank you, sir,’ he said.
“Well," continued the old secret
service man, after a pause, "I told the
postmaster everything, but secured a
promise from him to give Bradford
another chance. Between us we made
up the deficit, taking Bradford's notes.
These notes were paid long since and
to-day Bradford is holding an import
ant government position and is entire
ly trustworthy. As I had not been de
tailed upon the case, I made no report
of it. but I have always been thankful
that 1 missed my train that morning.”
Front st . Nome.
It's a little zigzag street. Every
building was erected according to an
independent nation as to frontage and
rearage. The effect is startling, and
after negotiating a few blocks of it
you feel like "the crooked man who
walked the crooked mile.’’ On sun
shiny days the entire population sal
lies forth and occupies the sidewalk,
overflows into the street and down the
little byways onto the beach, with dogs
filling all the Intermediate space on
the ground floor. Seattle Times.
Sunday of Different Nation*.
Each day of the week is observed as
Sunday by some nation. The first day
of the week is our Christian Sunday;
Monday is the sacred day of the
Greeks; Tuesday is the holy day of the
Persians; Wednesday of the Assyr
ians; Thursday of the Egyptians: Fri
day of the Turks, and SaVirday of the
Jews.
PRIMATE OF ALL ENGLAND.
Nome Stories of the 1’reteJit Archbishop
of Canterbury.
Many are the stories of the courage
and wit shown by the present arch
bishop of Canterbury. I)r. Temple, in
combating the attacks of the extreme
high churchmen which followed the
publication of his “Essays and Re
views.” When he was nominated as
bishop of Exeter, a writer in one of
the Devon papers gave expression to
the view that "the Tories disliked Dr.
Temple's politics, and pretended that
it was his religion they objected to.”
Mr. Gladstone and the queen were un
moved. Pretests against the conse
cration were sent in by the bishops
of Gloucester, Hereford. Lichfield and
Lincoln. When the ceremony had been
dtily_ performed, in spite of the vehe
ment opposition of high churchmen
and Tories in all parts of the country,
one church newspaper said in an edi
torial jeremiad “And so, on that
darkest day in the whole year, was per
petrated the darkest crime ever com
mitted in the English church!” Such
a sentence as this shows to what a
height the animosity had run. Dr.
Benson, the most intimate of all Tem
ple's frieuds. thus described his bear
ing during that memorable incident in
Westminster Abbey: “Dear Temple's
face was white as ashes, and his jet
black hair and whiskers and the white
and black of his robes made him look
in his stillness a sad plight for a
friend's oye to test upon. I [is licaithy
bronze was quite gone, but he looked
a true man.” Dr. Temple's temperance
agitation exposed him to criticism
from another source. He enjoys tell
ing this story: In the west of England
he one afternoon spoke at an agricul
tural society's meeting—a kind of oc
casion at which he was eminently at
home from his knowledge of farming.
Btn he could not miss the opportunity
of giving some temperance hints and
advice. He remarked, with his accus
tomed grim humor, that “he himself
had never been drunk in his life.”
On his way home he heard the boys
in the street with the papers shout
ing "Remarkable statement of the
bishop of Exeter." The headline w'as
certainly a startling one. The bishop
with some curiosity opened the paper
to see what he had said, and found
his phrase used as a special heading:
“Never been drunk in his life!"—Wil
liam Durban in London Outlook.
SYSTEM IS STILL YOUNG.
Electric Light* Were FI rut Seen at the
Centennial Exposition.
The electric light is new and yet Is
so old that perhaps we do not appre
ciate its marvelous achievement. If
we will but recall the conditions lie
fore it came we shall see what a won
derful advance it has been in the field
of applied science. Its use in theaters,
in stores, in show windows, in street j
illuminations, in private as well as in
public, its application for lighting in
all sorts of out-of-the-way corners, its
divisibility into various degrees of
power, its absolute safetv so long as
the wires are properly guarded, its per
fect sanitary qualities, the practical
absence of heat and the entire absence j
of odor are things that make one fee! ;
that in the way of lighting we have |
come perhaps to the last discovery. Yet \
this light was shown in this country
for the first time at the centennial ex- 1
hibitlon—twenty-five years ago. And
it is needless to say that those who
saw it were skeptical of its praetka!
use. Arc lighting was produced on a
commercial basis in 1877. but the real
beginning of eleetrie lighting in its
modern aspects was with the opening
of the Pearl street station of New York
by Kdison in September. 1882. where
the Edison incandescent lamp was
used. In the nineteen years since then,
according to a earefu! tabulation made
by the Electrical Review, the invest
ment in electric lighting plants in this
country alone has reached the sum of
$700,000,000. This wonderful industry
has been established in this short time
and we must now remember in the face
of the organized and long-established
competition of gas illumination, a pow
erful and rich interest which until the
adoption of electric light occupied the
whole field for the best kind of light
ing. —Indianapolis News.
To Serve an Oyster Cock I nil.
Charles Ranhofer, the celebrated
chef of Delmonico's, declared until the
last days of his life that there was
nothing, aosolutely nothing, new in
the culinary art; that no new dishes
had been invented in fifty years; that
the so-called new dishes were only old
ones revived. Although the oyster
cocktail was introduced in the chop
houses of New York about two years
before Mr. Ranhofer’s death he never
included it in his list of dishes, and
as his book was published before oys
ters were served in this way, he does
not mention the cocktail. Really, it Is
only the fact of serving the oysters in
a glass which gives the name to a cer
tain way of seasoning raw oysters
known for years among oysler deal
ers along the Chesapeake shore and
oven at the stalls in the New York
oyster market. This is the way to
prepare an oyster cocktail: Put seven
medium-sized, freshly opened oysters
in a tall, slender glass. Mix in a bowl
three teaspoonfuls of tomato catsup, a
teaspoonful of horse radish in white
vinegar, four dashes of Tobasco sauce,
a tablespoonful of Worcestershire
sauce and a saltspoonful of salt. When
those ingredients are well stirred to
gether pour the mixture in the glass
over the oysters and serve.—New York
Press.
A shipyard at Omlnbto, Japan, still
In operation, was established 1900
[ years ago.
OUR. NAVY, AS COMPARED
WITH THAT OF GERMANY
CERMAN C1RST-CLASS BATTLESHIP KAISER FRIEDRICH III.
Displacement. 11,130 tons: speed, IS
knots; armor belt. llr* inches; arma
ment. four 9.4 inch rapid tires. IS
5.9-inch rapid flrers, 12 3.3 inch, 20
smaller; complement, 700 men. To
this class belong the Kaiser Barbar
ossa, Kaiser Wilhelm II. Kaiser Wil
helm der Giosse and Kaiser Karl der
Gio-se. The four ships of the Wit
telsbach class are TOO tons larger,
have the same armament, 19-knot
speed, and improved armor. The new
ships H and .1 will be of 13,000 tons,
with heavier battery.
Up to the present the United States
and Germany have run almost neck
and neck in their race to increase their
navies. Germany has a definite pro
gram, already appropriated for, pro
viding an enormous increase in ships
and men.
She has a navy league of 5*56,141
members, which spent last year $223,
541 in agitation for still further naval
increase. It has branches In Cuba.
Porto Rico. Brazil, Mexico and Chile,
beside seventeen other foreign coun
tries. It gave 3.000 lectures last year,
as one of a score of methods of arous
ing interest. The United States has
no organized navy league.
The columns given below show the
two navies as fairly as they can be
compared, fighting ship for ship,
without long statistical arguments
giving reasons for the conclusions
reached. In the first-class battleships
ihose of similar periods are fair
matches for one another; but two of
either first period would have hard
work to defeat one ot tne fourth.
Germany's ships are in magnificent
’ondition. Not over half a dozen of
ier older vessels named below are
unfit to so into a brittle. New engines,
new guns and new armor have reju
venated several which were built
twenty years or more ago. The bat
tery power of all the later ships is
enormous.
I’lasr > i.as> r.ATri vswrs.
OKUMANY
First tVrlod.
(In Service.)
P.randeaburg
Kurftirst Friedrich
Wilhelm
Weissenburg
Woerth
Second Period.
(In Service.)
Kaiser Friedrich 111
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Kaiser Wilhelm der
<j rosso
Kaiser Harbarossa (Ai
Kaiser Karl der Orosse
(H)
Third Period
(First ready, others
completing, a 1 I
launched i
Wittelsbach (C)
Wettln (D.l
Zaehrlngen (B)
Mecklenburg (F)
Schwaben (0)
Fourth Period.
(Begun.)
H.
J.
(Proposed )
Sixteen more will be;
completed 191tj. i
FIRST -CLASS ARMORF.D CRFISKR8.
UNITED STATUS.
First Period,
tin Service.)
Indiana
Massachusetts
Oregon
Iowa
Second Period.
(la Service.)
Kearsargc
Kentucky
A labamu
Illinois
Wisconsin
Third Period.
(Completing.)
Maine
Missouri
Ohio
Fourth Period.
(Begun.)
New Jersey
Georgia
Virginia
Nebraska
Rhode island
(Proposed.)
Sec. Long urges Con
gress to appropriate
for three more.
Second Period.
(One completed, tv
launched I
Fuerst Bismarck
Prtnz Heinrich (A)
Prina Adalbert (li)
C.
(Proposed.)
Fifteen more will )
completed by lDlti.
First Period,
i (In Service.)
New York
Brooklyn
Second Period.
(Begun.)
California
Colorado
■ Maryland
Pennsylvania
South Dakota
West Virginia
< narleston
Milwaukee
St. Louis
(Proposed.)
Two more Xq pj3un
Sec. Long.
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TIIIHI)-CLASS IIATTT.KSIIIPJI.
Baden Texas
Haleru
8 admen
Wuertemburg
Deutschland
Kaiser
Oldenburg
Koenig Wilhelm
COAST
Beowulf
Fntbjof
Hagen
Helmdall
Hildebrand
Siegfried
Aegir
Odin
Preussen
Friedrich der U
riKST-CI.ASS
DEFENSE SIMPS.
Amphltrits
Mtantonomob
Monudnock
Terror
Monterey
Puritan
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Arkansas
Nevada
rosse Florida
Wyoming
PROTECTED CRUISER
I.
Kalsorla Augusta
SECOND ( I.
(lotion
Irene
Prinzess Wilhelm
Kreya
Hansa
Hertha
Victoria Luise
Vineta
Columbia
! Minneapolis
ASS ('REISERS.
iChicngo
iNewark
'San Francisco
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Ctnelnnati
Raleigh
Albany
New Orleans
Olympia
Denver
I I lea Moines
Chattanooga
(lalvestou
Tacoma
Cleveland
Buffalo
Dixie
Prairie
Yankee
TniRll-CI.ASS CHITSERS.
Eight of 16 knots Nine of 16 knots
Two of 23 knots Three of IS1* knot!
Seven of 21 knots Two of 15 knots
(Begun.)
Three of 21 knots
(Proposed.)
Thirty-five will be fin
ished by 1916.
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it's a mean advantage to take of th*
dog.
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IT the plans of a New York inventor
ire carried out. as forecasted in the
■scientific American, from which pub
lication the above picture is repro
duced. the fast trains in their flight
across the country will take on and
unload passengers without even a j
rheck in their speed, much as they do <
mail bag - at rural stations.
The characteristic feature of the in
i vention resides in the employment of
! a number of "saddle cars," which are
| successively taken up and dropped j
from the moving train and through the
medium of which passengers may en
ter or leave a train without interrupt
ing its movement.
The railway cars employed are of the
usual construction. Each car is pro
j vidc-d on its roof with two rails, and
the cars run on standard rails com
monly employed. The rails on the
-oof of the cars have their ends pro
iectod beyond the ends of the cars and
grooved latterly, so that the continu
ty of the traik formed on the roof
jf thp cars will not be broken on a
nirve. These roof rails serve the pur
pose of receiving the saddle car.
Alongside of the rails upon which the
;assenger cur runs are arranged two
“ails which receive lower Hanged
vheels on the saddle car. These aux
liary track rails do not extend con
inuously throughout the length of the
•ailroad track, hut are located only at
he stations at which it is desired to
oad and unload passengers. The aux
.liary track rails are each provided i
jvith raised portions adjacent to the
:nds toward which the car is moved
ind the ends of these auxiliary rails
ire tapered.
As the illustration shows, the roof
ails on the front of the car are ta
tered downward, so that they will
eadily engage under the broad-faced
vheels. One of the saddle cars is to
>e placed at eai h station on the road.
Vs the train approaches the station
he tapered ends of the roof rails will
■un under the broad-faced upper
vheels of the saddle car, and the sud
lle car will be lifted ofT the auxiliary
;raok rails and carried away with the
train. The saddle ear will ride along
the top of the train, and by the time
it has got. to the last ear will have as
sumed the momentum of the train. The
saddle car and train will be locked
together, and then the passengers can
pass from one to the other.
As the train approaches the next sta
tion the lower wheels of the saddle
car will engage the raised part of the
auxiliary rails and the saddle car will
be lifted off the train, thus permitting
the train to pass on and leave the sad
dle car at the station. When the sad
dle car is thus dropped the train im
mediately runs into a second saddle
car placed on the other pnd portions of
the auxiliary truck rails and takes the
second saddle car up with its passen
gers. This operation is repeated at
each station, one saddle car being left
at each station and one saddle ear be
ing taken up. By this arrangement
the train may move without stop
through the length of the road. The
saddle ears, of course, are provided
with brakes to arrest their movement
at the desired point.
Thera are in Boston 04,228 houses in ^
addition to 100 hotels and 558 familv
hotels.
