TUB OMAHA DAILY KODE : T1IU11SDAY , XOVEMJUfltt , 18 .
MERRY TALES OF THE WIRE
Funny Thinga that Hare Happened to Tele
graph Operators.
HOW ONE MAN GOT SOME TOBACCO
TITO Tlm | 011 the liner , n Trenclieroim
KliiNM ! , < , nnd Wliiit Occurred
\ ftcrunrdVlicii the
MIc Vrose.
i "Talking about wlro trouble , " remarked
an old telegraph operator to a Washington
Star man , ns half a dozen of the craft vvuu
taking a post midnight luncheon , "the
vvorpt case I over struck was vvhcn a longsuffering -
suffering corporation had to route about
2BOO miles of wires , not to gel a mcinago
x Etlft , but to stop ono that was going. It
was when 1 was working In the Oalvcaton
oIko ( ono night and Kid Uurrows Insisted
on working when ho was drunk enough to
lay off. Kill was pretty near aa much of a
tramp In the buslncus as t'eg Hudson or
1' . J. , Delaney , who IB known all over the
country as ' ! ' . J. , ' that being his wlro sis. ,
and half his acquaintances not knowing
his other name Kid was n pretty flno
operator as long as ho was sober enough
to BCO , but the reason ho never held ono
Job very long at a tlmo was that ho was
In the habit of getting blind drunk and not
knowing enough to lay off. Ho was working
the ono wlro we had nt the time from Gal-
' vcston down to the City at Mexico. He'd
only had the Job about a month when ho
came In ono night with a still Jag on.
Some of us saw him and wo tried to
inako him put on a sub and take a night
off. But ho know better , swore he was
sober an the night manager nnd Insisted
on going to work.
lion Thc > Itrolco Him OT. (
"Ho" went over and oponcd his wire all
right , nnd as he seemed to be running pretty
smooth wo didn't pay much attention to
him. Ho had n little bunch of commercial
messages In front of him nnd ho was send
ing rather Irregular , loaflng n bit and then
sprinting , for ho could send like chain
lightning when he got ready. So nobody
thought anything nbout him till n message
came In to the night chief , saying. 'M\ .
says break that man on your south wire '
'Mx. ' was Mexico's signature , so we went
over nnd took Block of the Kid. He was
sending all right , hut ho was still at work
on the llttlo ten-word mossngo he started
with , and It was time checked all over till
jou couldn't read It Rut the Kid evidently
had the wording of It hammered Into his
head nnd was sending It over nnd over nt
the rate of sixty words a minute and time
checking IL with his pencil hand every time
ho finished. His head was evidently para
lyzed drunk and his fingers were working
on an Independent circuit. Mexico nadn't
been able to make him break nnd ns there
was no other way clear to got Into our
ofllcti , they had to route n wlro up through
Hcrmostllo , Benson , Los Angeles nnd San
Krancisco to got back to our ofllce and call
the Kid off. "
"That wasn't much worse than a round
about message I got thti other day , " re
marked a press operator between mouthfuls
rf mince pie. "I was working ono of the
New York wires In the A. P. ofllce here
nnd Coney was working the other nt the
rrxt table. Pretty soon the man on my
wire In New York says , "Toll Conley to
tell Pole to send me a chew of tobacco.
You see , the two \vlres were right together
In the "Washington ofllcc , but they ended In
different rooms In the New York office.
The mnn on my wlro was too busy to gT
Into the next room and borrow a chow from
his pnrdncr , so he tells me In Washington ,
and I tells Conley , nnd Conley tells the
ether Nevv , York .man , that his pardner In
the next" room to him wan perishing for a
piece of plug , and that wlro not being fo
buoy as mine , the man on the New York
end had a chance to go in and lend my man
a chew. "
n. Wire Tip.
"It's nil very well to have a frlenn on
the other end of your wire , " remarked the
cx-nlght chief , "If ho don't think he knows
anything nbout horses , nut I've lost moro
money on sure things that the man on the
other end had an Inside tip on than I ever
expect to save uubblng for an ungrateful
corporation. Say , did you happen to get
caught In that General Jackson tip from
Chicago about ten years ago ? If you didn't
jou are nbout the only people In the busl-
aees who didn't. General Jackson was a
pretty good horse eomo tlmo before the
war , but he'd got Into the selling plater
clnss vvhilo I was O. S'lng for the rallroiulN.
Then ho turned up with a class leg and
that finished him. Iko Henncssy had him
on his string In Chicago that year , but ho
never could get In trim to star over flvo
furlongs , and Hcnnessy decided to sell him.
"Thero was n follow reporting the races
for the old Herald then that thought Gen
eral Jackson had junl about ono moro race
In him If bo was treated right , nnd ho
broaches the subject to the sporting editor.
The sporting editor thought the earao way ,
so they bought In the old horse nt street
car prices when ho was sold and sent him
off to Uio country. They lot n veterinary
surgeon In on the scheme nnd ho tended old
Jackson's leg llko ho wns working to save
the mother of six fatherless children. About
the tlmo the fall meeting wns winding up
they thought they had General Jackson
fixed just about right , so they brought him
hack to Uio track and entered him , and
then , being real generous , they passed the
tip to u very few of their friends that
they had just the hottest thing that ever
burned the wings of a bookmaker , and to
get In on It quietly.
Tlio Trlek ( lint Fill ! < < ! .
* "There was a fool friend ot mlno taking
the night report In the Herald ofllco and
ho got onto the good thing nnd ho tipped
me , I being on the other end of a press
wlro in Milwaukee , I tipped a friend ot
mlno down In St. Louis and another man
that 1 owed a good turn In Kansas City ,
nnd then I got a night off nnd went out to
borrow money. I don't know what other
way that tip got circulated , but It circu
lated good and plenty. U wan a newspaper
nnd operator's tip almost together and It
went on the wire all over the country from
Milwaukee to New Orleans nnd from New
York to San Krancisco , These wlso guys
had got General Jackson Into a Hold where
ho could have broken n leg and won In his
earlier dn > g , nnd they had him nursed up
so ( hat It was a 100 to 1 ehot that he would
last the distance. The bookmakers figured
It out a 100 to 1 shot that ho wouldn't , and
that wan the odds In the over-night betting
Hut ho was pla > ed so heavily all over the
country that the odds commenced to slide
nnxt morning nnd I only got In nt 75 to 1 ,
nnd ho went to the post nt 10 to 1 , with the
pool rooms plajlng safety ,
"I spent the afternoon In n pool room
down on Ulark street , where I had offered
up my wad , and when the report of the race i
started It sure looked like 'Sec and pcr-
fcctos for the balance of the winter , It
wnn 'General Jackson at the quarter' and
'General Jnckson nt the half nnd 'General
Jnckson by two lengths nt the three-quar
ters , ' and then 'Silver King wins , Tam
bourine second , Cascnrcttn third. ' And that
blamed old glass leg of his played out on
him In the stretch and he walked In dead
lame , and all the operators I know of
nmoked pipes for the rest of the winter. "
A llnril ThriMT-Dnirn ,
"I don't think much of wire tlpfl , myself -
self , " nld the fltnto wire man , "and the
woret throw down I ever had I got this
spring from Philadelphia. I had n man I
knew there working on my wire , nnd he
sent me a me.ingc one night , 'Lilian K
la a good sure thing ; get In with both feet. ' I
had been thinking about Lillian 1C myself ,
so I went out and soaked my watch nnd
hunted up a Shylock nnd rounded up al
together abmH $ Tu. Then I lined out for n
pool room , The race was duo In nbout hall
an hour and Lillian K wns up In the entries
all right , but there wcro no odds against
her. '
"So 1 Rajs to the man at the desk ,
'What's the odds on Lillian K ? ' He look
ed nt mo like he was too tender-hearted to
rob n come-on and pitched me over a blank
ticket and savs careless like , 'Make out
jour own odds. I'll take 'cm any way you
fix It. '
"That was too much of a jolt for me , nnd
I told him to hold on to the ticket for n
minute while I went out to see n mnn. I
went out nnd took n drink and tried to
figure whether the mnn wns four-flushing
or whether I looked any greener than I
felt. Then I came back and tried to get
my roll out of my pocket , but It wouldn't
come , and finally I eat nround rttul watch
ed the report como In , nnd put me on
the black Hit If Lillian K didn't win nt 200
to 1 , and the only man on It wai n llttlo
humpbacked shoo pirate with his box un
der his arm and a dollar In dimes , nickels
and coppers.
iniiic TOO MUCH inr nrnmrii.
"Horses nro all right for a hoodoo on
the wire , " said the young operator , "but
they c'on't flnlsh 'one , two , three' with wo
men. It wns n woman made me quit n good
job down In Damascus last spring because
I didn't have the nerve to stay In the same
town with her. Damascus was n nice little
railroad town down In south Ohio , nnd I
had n nice soft six-day Job In the little jerk
water olllce there with ono other operator.
We were pretty hot things In society. One
night we floated In to see n nice family
we know up town , nnfl there we were In
troduced to a Miss Cillahnn from Cincin
nati. Well , she wasn't so old , but she was
fair half as ugly as any other six women
I ever saw. But after n while there was
some elnglng and she did a spiel at the
piano , and she could sing llko n bird. That
took my partner right off the bat and
aftrrw.ird , whllp we were sitting nround
thinning , he tticgraphs me from across the
room on the arm of his chair , 'Say , old
mnn , ain't oho n pcacherlon1 I was sit
ting with my chin In my hand nnd I taps
bick agnlnht my cheek , 'She's pretty clear
In the pipes , but that face would crack
.stove lidTho ) ! freckled-faced girl was
sitting with her hand resting out on the
table , nnd what do jou think. If she didn't
make a switch motion with her llttlo finger
like she wns opening a key and wlro back
at me In Phillips' code , 'If you think It
Why don't jou say It out loud ?
"Sho wns a slick woman operator from
the Cincinnati ofllce , come down to take
a vacancy In our shop. She went to work
the next week and I quit the week after.
I never have liked women opeprators since. "
Docked Mxtx-Mnc IlonrH.
"I haven't much use for women operators
myself , " said the pool room operator , "but
I sure did see one of 'era get oven with
herself while I was working in Kansas
Jlty just before the last strike. There
nns trouble brewing In the office then and
it didn't help matters any "when they
drought up a woman from Mown some
where In the swamp lands of Arkansas to
take the place of a man that got flred for
cussing the division superintendent over
the wire under the Impression ho n-nn n
qrccn office boy fooling with the key. Ev
erybody was sore on the woman , of course
and everybody was looking for her to make
a break counting her messages. There had
been a good deal of trouble in the offlco
over having messages checked wrong and
making a mistake thereafter would bo
docked an hour for each word that was
wrong.
"Well , this blamed woman was slower
than molasses In March , but she was dead
careful nnd she '
wouldn't make a mistake
in checking to please anybody. Finally
one day there was n message of about ten
words came In from
Omaha
, a notice of a
bank stockholders'
meeting or something of
the sort , n single message for sixty-nine
different addresses. Thte Arkansas swamp
angel happened to take It and she likewise
happened to make a mistake In counting
the words. And as the same mistake wns
naturally In all the messages ehe was docked
sixty-nine hours , and when I left there In
the fall she was still working It out.
When the .MIc I-rurp Ovt-r.
"Oh , you can always figure on getting
oven ono way or another , " remarked the
press operator. "I laid for the telegraph
editor of the morning paper down in Jack
sonville nearly a jear before I got him. I
was taking the A. P. report down there
nnd this bird with the blue pencil always
had some fault to find with It , whether
there was anything wrong or not. I stood
it till the night of the Slot of March , and
then I thought I'd try taking n fall out of
him. It was along toward 3 In the mornIng -
Ing before the report closed up for the
night so when I got ' 30' ( goodnight ) on
the report I composed n little telegraph
news m > Holf. I wrote about 200 words
from Alexandria , Egypt , with n 1st of April
date line on It , saying that the Nile wan
frozen over from Cairo to the. first cataract ,
and that there wns great suffering In the
surrounding countrjI throw In a llttlo
circumstantial detail about a Mansion house
relief fund being started In London and let
her go to the telegraph editor , Blamed If
ho didn't let It get past him In the hurry
of going to press and it appeared next morn
ing on the front page of the paper. The
managing editor caught It on the mall edi
tion , but by noon the next day the papers
that the office had not been able to call In
wcro selling for 10 cents a copy. The tele
graph editor came near getting fired and
BO did I. "
Alumni nut of Tour Hrnil
with headache. Why not euro quickly with
Wright's Paragon Headache Remedy.
VUniil Orttiinn All HI it lit.
Chicago Tribune ; "Can I see the mistress
of the house ? " asked the ourlst In reduced
circumstances who stood nt the kitchen door.
"You can if you have good use of your
ejcs , " coldly replied the woman confronting
him , "You are looking at her , "
"I can uec them well enough , madam , " he
responded , with much stiffness , "to see that
you are a purist , and not a philanthropist.
Wo have nothing In common , Good after
noon , madam. "
INFANTFOOD. Bcrdon'B Condensed MHft Co. , FJcv/Vorfr
GULCH BILL'S ' LAST HOLD-UP
Ran Dp Against an Engineer Who Zopt His
Wit About Him ,
SMOOTH JOB WITH HOT WATER COCKS
Jet of HcnlilliiKVntcr' Spoiled Uio
I.onUii of the ( lunril nml Per
formed n Siirwlcnl Oper
ation on Wllllnnt.
"Gulch Dill , the once notorious train rob
ber , had bocn raising Cain with the night
cxprcsa of the Air Line before 1 took the
run some jcars ago , " remarked Steve Wil
liams , a retired western engineer , to a New
York Sun correspondent , "but somehow nfter
I was put on the train his hold-upo ceased.
He had made cevcr.il attempts at the game ,
though , and had succeeded In taking the
nerve out of most of the engineers before he
stopped operations. None of them wanted
the train after Jake Leach got scared out ,
but I was joung nnd looking for excitement ,
eo 1 said I'd ' try my hand on her. After
Bill's last appearance the company gave the
crew of the train strict orders to go armed
and be on the alert alwajs , which had n sort
of n lock-the-barn-after-the-horse-ls-stolen
tw.ing to me. But oa everything went along
swimmingly and no train robbers appeared
for a month or so we began to fall back Into
the old rut of things and leave our ordnance
departments home.
"Tho night express was generally made up
of twelve or thirteen blind , or sealed , bag
gage and express cars with n couple of
coaches on the rear for the accommodation
of the crew and the few passengers the train
carried. All the crow had to do In times
of peace vvaa lo sleep , ns the train made only
a couple of stops on the division for water.
The way Gulch BUI and his pale usually
operated was to secrete themselves In porno
. . . n ttin linnrinnrl nt lhl > tnlltl at OttO Of
the water plugs and at nn out of the vvav
place they'd surprise the engineer nnd fire
man. cut off the head car , which usually was
the through San Francisco car , nnd make the
engineer haul It down to some obscure spot
where they would crack It open and tnko out
what express packages th"y thought valua
ble nnd make the engineer get the car back
to the train ns best ho could.
"After I had been on the run about sK
months and no robbers appeared , the older
men on the road began to get sorry at being
so chicken-hearted nnd made big kicks foi
the train , as It was a snap tow hours on
the road nnd big money. But the superin
tendent said that cs I had taken the train In
troublesome times when nil the rest were
afraid , I could stay on there , nnd ho'd stick
by me. One night ns we were leaving 'St.
Lee , ' Sam McCrncken , my fireman , sajs tome
mo :
"Kolt Kinder Sliiiltj. "
" 'It feels kinder like train robbers tome
mo tonight. Shouldn't wonder If we'd have
a visit from Gulch Bill somewhere on the
division. He must have blown In about all
the swag he got from his last haul by this
time. '
" 'Ah , gowan. ' I says , 'he's far out of
this country by this time. I heard the other
day that he'd been seen In Chicago'
" 'You Just mark my words , ' says Sam ,
'he's Jest layln' low to throw us off the
scent. He'll show up scon. ' "
"Sam's guess didn't come true that night ,
but a couple of nights later I felt a crawlv
feeling down my spine a few minutes nfter
we had pulled away from Stony Hollow
water plug , and turned to see three tough
looking customers drop over the coal boards
In the front end of the tank and cover Sam
and me qulckcr'n a wink.
" 'Whoa , there , Leach , or I'll make you
look like the top of jour mother' ? ! pepper
box. ' said a not unpleasant voice that 1 knew
right away belonged to Gulch Bill.
" 'Don't happen to be Leach , ' I said ,
sparring for time with him.
" 'Makes no difference. You just choke
off that steam and stop. I've been appointed
chaperone of this train. Halt , I say1'
"Thcro was nothing to do but halt , so I
brought her to gradually , and whllo doing
so Bill continued talking.
" 'Now , Hank , ' ho said to ono of hli pals ,
'you just cover this gent here nnd his pard ,
so they don't run away with us. and Gin
and I'll go cut the swag car off. Now look
here , young feller , ' addressing me , 'don't
jou try any fummydlddle- business or your
[ amlly will bo pricing funeral layouts to
morrow. When you get the word to go
ahead you just tetor right down to Hanklns
cwamp and stop there. Hank , If ho don't
obey orders or goes throwing any hot milk
into you , you just get your thlrtcen-pounder
into action. See ? ' With that ho and his
other chum dropped off the running board.
Tnuclipil Off Iho AVntcrcocU.
"All the while ho had been shooting off his
mouth I had boon forming a plan of battle.
In these days the engines weren't fitted up
with the modern vv-aterglnss to let the engi
neer know how much water he carried In
ils boiler. Instead they -wern equipped with
vater guagcs. These had four little stop
cocks In a vertical line on the back of the
boiler. When you wanted to see how much
vatcr you had In the boiler you just turned
one of thwo stopcocks. When there w.ic
enough water In the boiler the two lower
stopcocks would throw hot water and tha
two upper ones steam.
"I figured out of the tall of my eye that
Dill's partner , Hank , stood just so that a
stream ofwater from the lower stopcock
vould catch him between the eyes. I could
get my hand on the stopcock without Hank' *
seeing mo as I leaned up against the holler.
Sp , when I thought I had given Bill about
Imo enough to reach the end of the first
express car I turned the lower stopcock on
full tilt and Hank caught It between the
eyes. At the same time I pulled the throttle
wide open and the train gave a lurch and
icgan to move.
"Tho hot water striking Hank so suddenly
n the face keeled him right over out of
range of the jot of hot water and with a
ump I landed on top of htm. Then I heard
a screech like the cry of a dying man fol
lowed by a couple of pistol shots and some
cursing. We were moving quite rapidly now
and Sam and I bound Hank with some bell-
rope after taking his pistols a-'ay from him.
When we got to the end of the division and
the galvanlzers were looking the train over
they found a man's leg and a lot of blood on
the front truck of the second express car
and the first train In nfter daylight brought
the rest of the man'e body , which was Iden
tified aa that of Gulch Dill. My plan bad
worked better than I expected , for evidently
I had pulled the throttle and started the
train just ac Gulch BUI was crawling under
to cut off the head car , cutting him In two
and putting him out of business forever.
Hank got a long sentence , but the third
man escaped. "
AHMY OK IMCICI'OriCnTS.
Ail OliMcrtimt I'ollet'iiiuii
Their Hunk mid Mi-tlmclx ,
Some men operate on the "single-handed
basis ; they travel alone , arrange their own
"frame-ups" ( personally corner their vic
tims ) nnd keep all the profits , says a writer
In the Independent. There are a few well
known successful pickpockets of this order ,
and they are rated high among tholr fellows ,
but the more general custom Is tor what Is
called n "mob" of men to travel together , j
ono known as the "tool" doing the
actual picking and the others attending to
the "dialling. "
A stall Is the confederate ot ( he pickpocket
who burara up ngulnt people or arranges
them In such u way that the pickpocket can
get at their pockets. Practically any one who
will take n short course of Instruction can
learn how to stall , but there are naturally
some who arc more expert than others. A
tool who hires hie stalls and makes no di
vision ot spoils with them will sometime *
have to pay as much aa J5 n day for skilled
men. When he divides what he gets each
man In the mob may get an equal oharo or
not , according to n prearranged agreement ,
but the tool Is the man who docw the
most work ,
Of first-class tools , men who are known to
be successful , there are probably not moro
than 1,500 In the United States , Practically
every professional offender has a "go" at
pocket-picking some tlmo In his career , but
there arc comparatively few who make a suc
cess of It as actual pick-pockets ; the stalls
nro numberless. Among the 1,500 there are
some women , and a fair proportion of voting
boys , but the majority are men anyw hero
from 20 to 60 years old. The total number
of the successful and unsuccessful Is 30,000 ,
40.000 or 50,000 , as one likes. All that Is
actually known Is tint there Is an army ot
them , nnd one can only make guesses aa to
their real strength.
TO.VS OP (501,1) COIXI5I ) .
tinPrruluiiH Metal In llniulliMl
l > v the Ton ,
Ordinarily people speak of gold bullion ,
when quantities are mentioned , as eo many
ounces except In Sen Francisco , where thu
receipts of gold bullion nt the United States
branch mint are referred to as so many
tons for certain dnjs. It sounds like nn
enormous boast , bordering on the fabulous ,
yet It U true , reports the Son Trnnclsco
Chronicle. The mint books show It ; the
bullion was received , coined and turned
over to Its owners. Ono day In August last
four tons of the precious metal were re
ceived nt the mint for coinage , while In
October , 1897 , the receipts for one day
were six tons. That exceeds the receipts of
any other mint , as far ns known and so docs
the total coinage of the San Tranclsco
branch mint exceed that of any ether of
recent years and It Is still on the Increase.
The coinage of the last fieal jear , ended
June 30 , 1899 , according to the report Just
completed , was the largest In the history
of this mint. It consisted ot 13,873,375
pieces , valued at ? U3s a,275. That coinage
has been exceeded only In amount In the
coinage history of the government on two
occasions. At the mint In Philadelphia
In the year 1861 , some ? 70,000,000 was coined
and again In the same place In 1SS1 , sonic-
thing over $76,000,000 was coined. Since
then California has pushed forward and
now holds the front rank for amount * .
The largest amount heretofore coined In
the San Francisco mint during any calendar
year was In 1S78 ? 50,1SC00. This jear was
colnago Is expected to at least approximate
that of 1808. Prior to 1897 , and for fifteen
> ears preceding , the coinage of the San
Francisco mint averaged about $25,000,000
a year. In that year the amount took a
sudden leap and went up to $40,084,291.
The largest number of deposits for one
month In the history of the mint was In
August. 1819. They reached 1,353 , nggrc-
itatlng nearly 700,000 ounces , valued at about j
$12,500,000. For the three jearo prior to
that time deposits averaged from 500 to 700
a month , which was considered very good
business. The hcivlest deposits for one day
In that month aggregated four tons of gold. (
A large consignment of English sovereigns ,
arrived that dav from Australia and were
sent to the mint to be rccolncd ; a largo lot (
of dust and nuggets were landed from the
Klondike , while some gold came from Pacific
coart mines and Mexico. |
This was only exceeded once , ns far as i
the records show nnd that was one day In
October , 1897. The denoslts for the month
were 055 and the colnago $1,000.000 , But
six tons of gold came In one dav , valued
nt about $3,000,000 , rating a ton at $500.000.
which is the accepted valuation. This de
posit consisted largely of British sovereigns
there was considerable
eigns from Australia , though
received 'hat day.
siderable Klondike gotd , _
MEASURING OCEVX DHPTIIS.
An in.trnmont Hint" Cnn Determine
the neiitli IliMientli Shin * .
To tell the exact depth ot water beneath
given time at a moment's
a vessel at any
ot an Instrument recently
notice I" the object
cently perfected , known ns the fathom
"The fathom meter Is cliculnr In form , reports - j j
and in the
York Herald ,
the New
ports '
set'
cener is a suspended circle , which Is
cf an ordinary
the fashion
In gimbals , after
sea compos. This circle ha , , a frame
nary half decrees
graduated Into
and is
of glass
out
crees and fathoms , which are pointed
to an indicator. In the center , and run-
. Connected
nng clear across. Is a small magnet.
nected with the instrument to a primary cell , ,
bo oil-
sulHclent current can
from which a
talked desired to energize tie
when It is
The earth being also n awgnetlU
Is obtained , and when
sin , or zero ,
C adjusted and the
ins rument Is properly
taken from
circuit observation
1" closed an
moving ship shows Immediately
beard of a
R on
diately the difference ot the earth's magnet-
'
' pHndprupon which' the inventor
worked was that , as the earth Is a magnet.
smaller magnet In the Instrument - I
another
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twcen
? depth of water under
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joKlstoi-H littI'd llko a watch case tin1
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tons of haul eonl burned In a Favorlto
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ytlll bo a Kood tlmo. to look up the stovn
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meter In the captain's roam nnd there lie
was shut In with It At Intervals during
the trip the captain Instrtictcil nn officer to
throw the lead ami tnko the deplli of water ,
and ns soon ns the officer made the report
the captain went to the Inventor nnd cekcd
him"Well , what depth nro v > c In now ! "
! The answer on each occasion was prompt
1 nnd correct , the Indicator pointing unor-
i rlngly to the number of fathoms beneath
the vessel. '
Any one who knows lie the depth ot .
water Is at present trtkcn on heard ship
will tco that nn I net rum nit like this , it ,
further tests hear out the claims of the InI I
\entor , Is bound to prove useful With the
lend It Is next to Impossible to obtain ab
solutely correct measurement' , for the
(
reason that while the measurement Is being
tnkcn the vessel la moving nnj the lead' '
I * conauimtitly Inclined. Iloforo the lead Is1
thrown the vcesi'l slackens up n llttlo , but
It still keeps moving onward Now by ;
means of the fathom meter the exact depth '
can bo ascertained , no matter nt what speed
the vessel Is running , nnd hence Itlll be
scon that a great deal of tlmo ciui be saved
and no allowance need bo made for the In
clination of the lead.
The entire apparatus does net occupy
more space than an ordinary tjpewrlter
It regard to submerged wrecks and similar
dangers the Imentor tlnlms that his Instru
ment bj Indicating the depth of water nt a
moment's notice will nlvc timely earnings
of such dangers and will enable captains to
nvold them
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Urllluli Co in in n iiiler Snlil teA
A curious story Is current In London ,
which would seem to Indicate that Sir Hcd-
vers Duller , now commandcr-ln-chlcf In
South Africa , Is possessed of thu strange
gift ot second eight a singularly valuable
gift , It must bo confessed , for a general ,
It seems that ho was nt Cape Town at the
time of Sir George Colley's disastrous rout
at the battle of Mnjuba Hill , relates the
Washington I'ost. On the day of the bat
tle , although he was many hundreds of
miles away , he saw vividly before him the
f > ccno of Colley's defeat nnd death. So
strong was the Impression which this spe
cies of vision created upon his mind that
he Immediately rode out as fast as he could
to the suburban residence of the Capo pre
mier , Sir James Slbew right , Imparting to
him his fears and entreating him to get
nt once In telegraphic communication with
the British base nt Mount Prospect.
Sir Jnmro compiled with his wishes and
while Duller and the premier were sitting
together reassuring replies were received
and the major ( ns Duller was then ) was
bantered by Sir James on the subject ot
his apprehensions. Yet before evening had
arrived the news of General Colley's de
feat and death on Majuba Hill was flashed
across the wires and It was then seen that
the disaster to Drltlsh arms had already
taken place at the tlmo when Duller called
upon the Cape premier , although nothing
was known about It then at Mount Prospect ,
the British base of operations against the
Boere
It Is likewise recalled in military cir
cles In London that Sir Iledvers seemed to
be aware of the death of the Trench prince
Imperial nnd of the fall ot Khartoum , as
also of the death ot Gordon , at the very
moment when these things occurred and
long before news of the events arrived.
Duller Is such a strange , silent , saturnine
looking man , so repellent In his manner
, and so uninviting , as far ns familiar con
versation and discussion are concerned , that
no one has ever been known to question him
about these matters , yet the fact Is on record
that ho has on at least three occasions given
marvelous demonstrations ot the posses
sion of a second sight which enables htm
to know and to see Important events that
are In progress hundreds nnd even thou
sands of miles away from home.
Never before has n commander of a big
army embarked upon a campaign thus
mentally equipped and much curiosity pre
vails as to the services which his second
sight Is llkoly to render to Sir Redvers In
the war against the Boers. It may be added
that Immediately on learning the offlclal
news of Colley's defeat and death Duller
went to his chief nt Cape Town , Sir Lei
cester Smith , the general officer then In
command , and entreated him to proceed
at once to Natal by boat to assume rom-
mand ot the army In the field and to re
trieve the disaster at Mnjubi Hill , before
the Doers had tlmo to follow up tholr ad
vantage Had Sir Leicester done eo It Is
generally believed that the Doers would
have been defeated , the unfortunate con
vention agreed to by Gladstone as premier
avoided and the present war averted.
Sir Leicester first refused to comply with
Dullcr's suggestion , then agreed to It , and
even left Cape Town for the purpose of
proceeding to Natal , but changed his mind
before reaching his destination nnd returned
to the Cape , thus leaving open the way for
Mr Gladstone to give the Boers their Inde
pendence on the strength of their victory
over the Drltlsh nt Majuba Hill. After the
lapse of nearly twenty years Duller , now
a general , a privy councillor of the queen
nnd a Knight Grand Cress of the Bath , Is
sent out at the head of the biggest army
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that hns left English shores since the dnys
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TWO
Toil In fJooil I'nlUi III n CIiili Where
All Hoiiiniiclnit IN llnrrcd. .
H was the secretary's turn to tell a varn
to his fellow members of the Coincidence
club , reports the Chicago Inter-Ocean. The
Coincidence club , by the way , has no cum
bersome machinery. It has members nnd
oniccra , meets once n week to tell queer
stories along the line suggested by Its mime ,
niul everything but the strict truth Is
barred.
"I've got two stories , much alike , to toll.
There's nothing dramatic or sensational
about them. They struck mo as queer ,
though. You know I'm a law > or. One day .1
man named Dodge brought In a letter of In
troduction to mo from n friend out wst.
Ho had n simple * sort of n case , and 1 asked
Mm to conic back at 3 o'clock that after
noon. Then I went over to the criminal court
on business that kept mo till within a few
minutes of , " > o'clock. As I entered my olllco
there wab a man sitting in the shallow.
Without really looking at him , and with my
mind full of the appointment , 1 said as I
wont to my private olllco'
" 'How arc jou , Mr. Dodge ? I'll sec jou
In a minute. '
"Pretty soon I rang and told the office
boy to show In Mr. Dodge. The man came In
and he wasn't niy Mr. Dodge at all. Imagine |
my surprise when ho said :
" 'How did > ou know my name ? ' I
"At the same time ho handed me a letter
of Introduction from a friend In down cast.
His : iamo wfis Dodge , all right , and he had
n case. I gasped over the oddity of the situ
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itor , and even showed him the other letter ]
of Introduction. Bui the man did not believe i
me. He evidently thought I wns a liar , and
left "without putting his caio in my hands.
A few minutes later In came the first Mr. ,
Dodge and we had a good laugh over it. '
"Tho other coincidence was this. I got
lotleis from two friends one west of Chicago
cage and one south , asking mo to collect
claims against a big Chicago firm and a big
Insurance company with nn agency In CW-
cngo. I telephoned nnd niado appointment
w Ith representatives of each ot the concerns
ono at 12 and the other at 12 30 o'clock.
I went out oil nn errand nnd was delayed till
12 30 o'clock. When I came In both men
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One was original ! } ft cm Rhode Island nnd
the other from Connecticut As far as they
could figure out tho\ were not related. I'vu
used false names , but otherwise the stories
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dence that will pur-a muster In a court of
law. "
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"It's because of the letter sou sent her , "
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"Why , there wns nothing In that to offend
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her dearest friend. "You addressed It to
MlfS Mary Smith. ' "
"Well , Isn't that her name ? "
"It used to bo , but now It's Miirc Smith "
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