THE OMAnA DAILY DEE; SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9, 190.
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STUDYING ME BLACK HILLS
Structure of the Great Plain Bevealed by
Mountain Bangei.
EXPLORATIONS OF HARVARD GEOLOGISTS
Mineral and Mysteries of the) Black
Hill Seenlo Wondin of the
Bl Horn Moantaln
v'lmf Eiperlencr.
A member of the Harvard geological ex
pedition, which pent the greater part of
tljee month exploring me Black Hill and
tho Big Horn mountain, write an inter
esting account of the experience and dla
covcrlea for the Boaton Transcript. He
aaya the Black Hllle preaent to the stu
dent of earth lore one of the moet lgnlfl
cant lesson which the American continent
haa to teach, and continue: A itrlklng
feature observable on all sides Is the series
of scale-like, overlapping strata forming
revetments or "hog-back" ridges. Ihcse
are crossed in regular succession on enter
ing the hill country and the order Is always
the same black coaly shales In the outer
flat land, then a hard, brown sandstone
ridge, then red clays which make a valley,
then colored sugary aandntor.es and mas
sive limestones, followed by brown beds,
alatea and granite which seems to have
been Uftd highest and to resist the wear
ing of the weather mcst successfully, for It
rornis mighty cutis ana pinnacles am.a 0001
glades and giant forests of birch and aspen,
pin and balsam. From the granlto, north,
aouth, east and west, the limestones and
sandstones slope 'away under the plains,
and these beds are bent up so sharply on
the rim of the ellipse as to resemble the
punctured point of torn paper where a
pencil haa been pushed up through a thick
newspaper. The V-ehaped depression be
tween the "points" are Invariably occupied
by stream In the Black Hills, and It is Im
possible to exaggerate the vividness with
which this atructure strike th casual trav
eler, so conspicuous is It, and so obvious
la the overlap of the successive beds. No
one can live In such a country without
wishing to know the meaning of It what
pushed up the granite in the center? Did
It actually punch a holer Wher did the
outside tilted bed come from?
Looking; Beneath the Surface.
It I the function of earth science to find
out what I beneath. For age erosion ha
been eating off. the outer shell of the up
lift and eating Into tho core, the brook
and river washing away to the sea the
worn oft rock In the form of sand and
mud.' There are other rocky mountain
ranges that are less worn away and some
that are more worn away; the geologist
maps them all and compares them, and so
grows up the science which teaches what
1 beneath. The rock of the outer ridges
contain oyster or at least oyster shell
hence were they ocean laid. The granite
breaks across the slates and is wholly mado
of crystalB hence was It fire made or mol
ten, or deposited from hot watera. The
pebble atone or pudding stone that makes
the bottom most bed of the outer series
contains waterworn pebble of the granite,
which were strewn on an ancient sea beach
with shells hence wa the granite a hard
rock before tho ocean sediments of th
upper scries were laid upon It. Bo th
reasoning goes on until atep by step It
makes a connected history which answers
most of the questions. And In the answers
which the roadlng of the rock-book of the
Black Hill give, there 1 an especial sig
nificance, because It records the history of
a very large portion of our continent the
whole of th great Interior plains, made up
of flat lying beds of and pld aea bottom.
Only here are they pushed up from below
and then planed off by erosion o that .we
can tell what lies beneath. It Is for this
reason that this "section" as geologist
call it has been chosen for the Harvard
chool, and the student are busily at work
asking all the questions they can think of
which would throw light on the history of
the wide flat land, and trying to read the
answer In the Black Hills, where the
flat land Is sawed off across a hump,, so
to speak, and the "grain of the wood" In
side a continent is shown.
Sylvan Lake,
. Th expedition to Sylvan lake a email
artificial pond 6,000 feet above the sea, near
Harney peak revealed much of interest
concerning what must lie beneath tho vast
ocean of shales which extends from Canada
to Mexico, over the whole of the great
plain district of North America. There
are several climates in the Black Hills, ac
cording to the elf vat ton, and each geological
one Is characterized by topographical, cli
matic, floral and faunal features of Its own.
The arid "bad lands" In South Dakota are
waterless, deeply trenched, support a mea
gre growth of cactus and sagebrush, and a
population of rattlesnakes and gophers.
The foothills are grassy, the climate dry,
excopt for heavy thundershowers early In
July and snow In winter; the mining dis
trict of the northern hills Is sparsely tim
bered, the gulches frequently dry, the cli
mate in summer hot and close, and though
there are some high peaks, the general
level of the upland doe not exceed 4.600
feet. Th gulches are deep and the hills
hrubby and covered with slide-rock.
As the traveler goes south, however,
Along the Burlington railroad, which winds
In and out through the heart of the hill,
th forests become more extensive and bet
ter watered; granite ledges are more fre
quent, there are extensive bright green
meadows or park with many flowers and
th scrubby pines and aspens of the north
ern hills give place to tall, straight con
ifers and white birches, with .the denser
undergrowth which reminds on of the New
England woodland. The mountain tor
rent become more frequent, and are clear,
plashing streams which suggest trout
and trout are there, too.
Sylvan Lake In the Black Hills la un
known to eastern folk. But It la nor.s the
Iesa one of the garden spots of earth. The
hotel Is perfect, small, clean to a fault,
good table and pleasant company. It nest
le at the foot of rock walls, with weird
rocky pinnacle and lumps and heupa and
knob outlined against the sky all about,
relieved by the deep green of the pines ami
of the water. There are trails and climbs
without number, and one of the moat pic-
turcsiiue features of tho plnce I tho herd
of tiny burro with their tinkling bells and
speaking ears ready to transport the Inev
itable tourist to the summit of Harney
Peak.
Viewing an Old Sea Bottom.
The view from that summit to the men
of the Harvard school wa an' epitome of
all that they had examined in detail, and
something more It I a aurvey at once of
the wide old cretaceous sea bottom loft
high end dry to make the plains, and of
th cross-section of the bids laid down on
that ocean's floor. The observer sits on a
granite knoll and seas in th foreground
forest and granite needle, domes, pinna
cles. Beyond to' the west Is the plateau
where the mantle of heavy white lime
stones lie flat above the arched uplift
th edge of the "Limestone," for such is
the local came for that wide forested tract
marked by a succession of high level-topped
cliffs extending sway to the north, neurly
to the limits of the hills. North' Is the
rugaxd country of the mines, conical hills
and V-ahsprd gulches. All around the
astern side and far to the south are seen
the InUclug hogback of upturned sand
stone of many colors, crescentlo In shape
and falling away lower and lower out on
the hot plain, where the harder strata be
come flatter and their outcropping edge
farther and farther apart. The structure
la like the Imbricating plates on a turtle's
back. Far out acrom the plains occa
sional dim "buttes" turret forms left by
erosion of harder beds.
To the scientific Imagination there Is an
Impressive and almost romantic quality In
such a view, for w are looking at th
monumental record of 1,000,000 year, and
are seated not on an old aea bottom merely,
but on the bottom that underlies th old
American Mediterranean' bottom th bot
tom of all th sediment which were de
posited in that ocean. Each period In sue
slon from Cambrian to Tertiary Is within
our view each ledge has its fossils, shell
fish, crustaceans, reptiles, flsh, mammals
and the granite foreground 1 merely a
chance locality wher erosion has discov
ered for us the underlying crust. In Im
agination we can see the same succession
from the surface of the plains downward
anywhere from New Mexico to Montana,
and can picture that undiscovered land of
granite and slate that He from 5.000 to
10,000 feet down, with It untouched mineral
wealth. Already deep well are tapping
It for water at depths of J.000 feet or more,
for each stratum of the plains has its defi
nite water bearing character; not the least
remarkable fact about this wide arid area
of flat atrata la that It la everywhere un
derlaid by an ocean of fresh water which
would make a vast lake of considerable
depth were it spread out on the present
surface of the land. Such places as the
Black Hills keep the underground water
surfaces supplied; where the gulches of
the hills are said to "run dry" In the foot
hills, the waters really follow certain po
rous strata down thHr slope underground,
and thus the artesian wells are kept active,
for the hill country and mountain ranges
are places rf abundant rainfall.
Wyoming; Wonders.
From the Black . Hill to Sheridan, In
northern Wyoming, wa a Journey by rail.
Maco Tepee, or th Devil' Tower, I th
moat striking scenic feature of that ride,
but it la far away on the northwestern
flunk of the Black Hills range. It Is a
mass of isolated porphyry columns, 300 feet
across the base and COO feet high, one of
those remnants of erosion; that make con
spicuous "buttes." It has a grandeur all
Its own by reason of the fact that it stands
alone in a lonely land. Tourists rarely
visit It, for It Is very difficult of access.
It Is thirty miles from the railroad, but
plainly visible in clear weather,
carried the party to the east foot of the Big
Horn mountains, where canip was made on
Big Goose creek, a rushing mountain river.
Tho camp Is just at the entrance to a su
perb rocky gorge, hemmed In by great tri
angular Blab of rock which rest against
the flanks of the rango like huge shields
1,000 feot high, piled against the wall at
un angle of 46 degrees.. These are our old
friends the hogbacks, but on an enormously
greater scale and tilted up at a higher
angle. The Big Horns are like the Black
Hills, but bigger, steeper and simpler. It Ih
all granite inside the outer wall, and the
granite peaks are anowclud and roach 13,000
feet.
The outer wall is a perfect revetment,
and the red valley again makes the moat.
The wall rises 4,000 feet almost sheer
straight from the plains, and as one stands
at the outer foot of It, it Is seen to be
continuous series of steep down-sloping
scales of strata overlapping at high angles
as far as the eye can reach. The many
outflowing stream mak wonderful V por
tal In the outsloplng hard beds. The
whole series of strata Is crossed in a half a
mile of the canyon of Goon creek, nnd
there within ts the granite, its surface
under the bottomest sandstone sloping down
with the rest, and showing a sweeping
down-flexing curve. Farther In among the
high peak are fine cirques, amphitheaters
formerly occupied by mountain glaciers,
and their moralnal heap mak dreary
straight rldgea covered with burnt timber,
and separated by swamps and small ponds.
Examples of Western Varmlnar.
The Big Horn ranches are typical exam
ple of western farming. Near the Har.
vard camp was the great stock farm be
longing to the Messrs. Forbes of Boston;
on all sides ditches lie, straight as railways.
following the spur down the creeks, and
appearing to run up hill, so rapid and yet
Inconspicuous Is the fall of the stream
beds beneath them. These ditches carry
water from the canon many miles down tho
open valley, and they are tapped at regular
Interval by the farmer to keep fields
moist in a rainless land by the elaborute
art of irrigation. A fine art it Is, too, to
distribute the water evenly. Here and
there a badly irrigated field show green
growth In patches and barren, dry soil else.
where. Tho principal crops ore hay and
oats, but near Sheridan truck patches are
common, and nearly everything can be
made to grow with the Judicious appllca
tlon of the magic fluid. This science of
artificial rainfall is tho great problem of
the west today, and the government, rail
ruuu corporations ana individuals are
spending fabulous sum to store the water
uruer. ureai reservoirs are using con'
strueted by the federal government near
Belle Fourche, in South Dakota; near Cody,
in the Big Horn basin, and again in Ari
zona. Elaborate measurement have been
made of thousands of streams, and the
records of their discharge published in re
ports of the United States geological sur
vcy for ten -years or more. At the samo
time the underground waters have not es
caped the attention of, men of science, nnd
we are every year learning more of the
vast wealth of water which the forests, If
preserved, will hold back ns natural reser
voirs, and which the rocks. If measured
with care, will give up for the use of men
living in the so-called "desert."
Kot Guilty.
"W propose to how, gentlemen of the
jury," laid counsel for the defenae, "that
It la impossible 'for the defendant to have
committed this crime.
"In the first place, w'Wlll prove that the
defendant was nowhere near the scene of
the crlm at the time the crime was com
mitted. .
"Next, we will offer the Indisputable
testimony of person who aw defendant
on th spot, and who did not see the de
fendant commit the crime.
, "We will show that no poison wa found
In th body of the deceased.
"Not only that, but we will prov that It
wa put there by the prosecution In this
esse.
"We will furthermore how that th de
ceased committed suicide.
"And last, but not least, we will prove,
beyond th shadow of a doubt, that the
deceased I not dead.
"In vlsw of all of which corroborative
facts, gentlemen of the Jury, we 'respect
fully ask for an acquittal." Chicago Reo-ord-Herald.
,
Cosily Drags for Dogs.
"Must b money in dug mt jl lne," ald a
druggist.' "Her' a little box of sulphur
tablet for dog;). Cost you id cent. Yet
you can get enough sulphur tablet lor
yourself to last a week for IS cents. Di
gestive pills fur little Flda are half a dol
lar, but If you ask over two bit for a vial
of pepsin pallet fur little Mary th cus
tomer will think he I being robbed. Folk
dun't kiyk when they buy dog dope. We'vo
ovor even brand of, dug soap. Mostly 20
caAl a bar. W have an English dog
oap that retail at Hi cents. I suppos th
cracker people will be putting puppy cake
in an airtight box next and tying It with
pale blue ribbon. They could gut a good
piioe If Uiejr did, Nw Turk Bun.
EVIL TENDENCIES CUT OUT
Surgery as t Cure for Crime Come In for
t Boost,
BAD TEMPERS YAMS.i UNDER THE KNIFE
Trifles That Brlnic On ' World of
Trouble May Be Remedied by tho
Deft Hand sad Genlns of
the Surgeon.
Medical science ha tightened Its belt pre
paratory to entering a new field of achieve
ment. A scalpel rampant heralds the dawn
of an era when the disease of crime, like
the useless vermiform appendix, will be
snatched bald-headed and cut from suffer
lng mankind.
The coalition of surgery and science as a
cure for crime received quite a boot th
other day at Indianapolis when an incor
rigible boy with an ungovernable temper
was transformed Into a sweet-tempered
youngster by a surgical operation on his
skull. Some years ago be sustained an
Injury to his Bkull. This was remedied
by tho surgeons and the youngster restored
to his normal condition.
The case is not unusual In surgical prac
tlce, but la exploited by the profession in
the east as an Illustration of the posslblll
tie of the surgeon' knife as a curatlv
agent when applied to people with criminal
tendencies or habits. The New York Herald
devotes much space to the subject and
prints an Interview with Dr. Edward Wal
lace Lee, formerly of Omaha, now a rest
dent of New Tork City. Discussing crlm
and Its causes and cure, Dr. Lee said:
"I believe that the community In general
I too much Inclined to treat crime a our
ancestors usod to treat Insanity. In those
day an Insane person was thought to bo
bewitched, possessed of a devil, and tho
manner of treatment was cruel In the ex
treme. Flagellation and whipping were
resorted to In order to drive out the evil
spirit.
"As the subject was studied scientifically
however, It became evident that Insanity
was a disease and It was cared for prop
crly, and often cured, without resort to
dungeon and chains, various forms of bar
barium and often death to the victim. Mind
may be defined physiologically a a general
term denoting the sum total of those func
tlons of tho brain which are known a
thought, feeling and will. By disorder of
mind Is meant disorder of those functions.
"From that ctondpolnt we argue that
with an anatomically defective brain you
cannot get a normal mentality. Further
more, the brain Is affected by disease or In-
Jury not only to itself, but to remote parts
of the body which are connected with It
through the nervous system. Only a few
years ago the New York Medical Journal
published reports from Institutions of the
state showing that examination of crimi
nal serving term revealed injuries to
their brains.
"Photographs were offered clearly prov
ing that these men were of the most pro
nounced criminal type. Then, after thor
ough examination and proper diagnosis,
surgical operations were performed and
other photographs were produced showing
that they had been restored to normal
physical and moral neutrality.
Bnllet Made Preacher Vlclon.
"I knew a Baptist minister once," con
tinued Dr. Lee, "who was educated and
ta'ented. At times he would deliver the
most beautiful and learned sermons, and
often before reaching the end he would fly
into a passion and use the most obscene
and profane language. Then he would go
homo, Indulge In excessive , drink," abuse
his family and really endanger the live
of all who came In contact with him.
These spells would pass and ho would
again become normal.
"I asked him once why this was so, and
he told me that he had a bullet In his
heart, received during his service in the
civil war. Of course, I did not believe him
and repeated examinations by myself and
other physicians failed to detect any sign
of such a condition. That wa before the
day of the X-ray.
"One day this man died after a fit of
anger. A post-mortem examination was
held and a mlnle ball was found in the
muscles of his heart. . The who'.e case was
published in detail at the time In the
Journal of the American Modlcal asso
ciation. "I have known of cases where so remote
an Irritant as an ingrowing toenail has
produced epileptiform fits which would be
preceded and followed by a change In the
temperament and character of the Indi
vidual, and which were entirely relieved
by surgery. I have known wax In the ar
to produce suicidal and homicidal tenden
cies, and many case where a buzzing In
the eur, caused by catarrh,1 has resulted In
suicide.
"Among the lower class there Is a
common condition of microcephalic chil
dren thnt is, children born with small,
hard heads. In ome Instances, surgery
has relieved this by removing portions of
the Kkull and permitting tho brain to de
velop. Many euch attempts, however, havo
been unsuccessful; but is It not better to
risk death than to allow the child to grow
up Into an Idiot or criminal?
"Of course, the whole question resolve
Itself Into that mysterious vital spark, of
which neither science nor religion has the
faintest comprehension. The physical con
ditions that produce criminals may be
traced to heredity In many caeca. How are
they to be prevented? By atopping tho
birth of criminals? To mak a model man,
b om on hns said, we must begin on
his great grandfather; or, aa somebody else
has put It, It takes three generations te
mako a gentleman.
' Education Hot n Panacea.
"Th celebrated Dr. Mauds'ey says 4hat
so much In human development being due
to education, It Is evident that the train
ing which a" person undergoes must have
a great influence on tne growtn of his
intellect and th formation of his char
acter. What he shall he and what he shall
do will be determined in great measure by
what has been done to bring Into full ac
tivity the capabilities of his nature.
"But grcut aa Is th power of education,
It la yet a clearly limited power limited
by the capacity of the Individual nature
and can only work within this larger or
mailer circle of necessity.
"Kducatlon can plainly ..act only, first.
within th conditions Imposed by the
species, and secondly within the conditions
Imposed by th Individual organisation;
cannot, for example, ever teach a man to
fly like a bird, see like an eagle, or run
lilt an antelope; cannot make a Socrates
or a Bhakespeare of every being born Into
tho world.
'Not until comparatively lately has much
attention been given to the way In which
criminals are produced. It was with ttu-m
much as It was at one time with lunatics;
to say of the former that they were wicked
nnd of the latter that they were mad waa
thought to render any further explanation
unnecessary and any further inquiry super
fluous. It I certain, however, that crim
inal and lunatic ar as much manufac
tured articles aa are steam engines and
calico printing presaea, only th processes
of the organic manufactory are so complex
that we ar not abl to follow them..
All persons who hav made criminals
their tudy recognii a distinct criminal
class of beings who herd together In our
luige cities In a thieves' quarter, giving
themselves up to Intemperance, rioting in
debauchery, without regard to man-lag U
or th bonds of consanguinity and propa
gating a criminal population of degenerate
beings. It Is furthermore a matter of ob
servation that this criminal cla consti
tutes a degenerate or morbid variety of
mankind marked by teoullar low physical
and mental characteristic.
"They are. It ho been said, a distinctly
marked off from the honest and well bred
operatives as 'black faced aheep' are from
other breeds, so that an experienced de
tective or prison official could pick them
out from any promiscuous assembly at
church or market. Their family likeness
betray them a fellow.' They are oMen
deformed, with Ill-shaped, angular head;
stupid, sullen, sluggish, deficient In vital
energy and sometime afflicted with epi
lepsy. "Crime 1 a sort of outlet In which their
unsound tendencies sre discharged. They
woulj go mad If they were not ortmlnals,
and they do cot go mad because they ar
criminals.
"To , return to the question of surgery,
however," continued Dr. Lee; "It Is a fact
that the vicious habits of children, due to
physical defects, may b and have been
relieved by surgical operations, whereas if
these had not been performed they would
havo, s ha been clearly shown, drifted
Into live of depredation, cauaed by weak
ened will power.
"Of coure, the llttl bit of skull prey
ing down upon the brain may proiuca
varloua effect In varlou men, althojgh
it U a mot Invariably a form of d sease
Generally, It develops criminals, but Botn
tlme It brings forth geniuses. Napoleon,
one of the world's greatest men, was an
jjleptlo. p"nce hi ccentrlolty. Dr.
Johnson was a victim of scrofula, and
henoe his melancholy. There are countle!
Instances.
"To my mind, the only effective manner
In which to prevent crime la to have a
system of thorough examination of the
criminal classes, so far as they can be
discovered; and by this I mean In every
way, mentally, physically, chemically and
bacterlologlcally. Surgery and medicine
will do the rest.
"No fear of the practical 111 consequences
to society need deter us from looking on
criminals as the unfortunate victims of a
vicious or defective organization and a
bad education. But what In this ago it
would soem right that we should do Is to
get rid of the angry feeling of retaliation
which may be at the bottom of any Judi
cial punishment, and of all penal measures
that may be Inspired by such feeling. So
ciety having manufactured its criminals
has scarcely the right, even if it were wise
for Its own Bake, to treat them in an
angry spirit of vengeance."
QUAINT FEATl'llKS OF LIFE.
Hiram S. Downer, a Cincinnati elec
trician, was truck by lightning In th
shape of 11.000 volts of electric motive force
and live to tell the tale, according to a
damage euit he filed In the common pleas
court against the General Electric com
pany, a New York corporation doing busi
ness in Cincinnati. In 1901 Downers was
employed at a substation of the company
at Schenectady, N. Y., where he came In
contact with a wire, defectively insulated,
he claims, that was carrying 11.000 volts.
He was knocked unconscious, but revived
In ten minutes. ' His right hand and left
foot wore burned to a crisp, however, and
he haa been permanently Injured. He .aska
Jlfi.000 from the electric company.
That a child ahould swallow two papers
of needles seems almost unbelievable, but
that supposition Is the only reasonable one
advanced to account for the Intermittent
appearance during the last seventeen,
months of fifty-one needles from the bod
of Miss Mabel Murray, a 17-year-old girl,
whose home Is in Warren, O. The greater
part of the needles were rem6ved by Mis
Murray or her mother. A new pain meant
another needle blindly seeking Its way out
of the body in which It had been Impris
oned and In which It had traveled about for
bo many years. Though tho operation was
exceedingly painful, by persistent effort
Miss Murray would work the needle to th
surface and then pull It out with a little
pair of pincer her mother had bought for
the purpose.
Paralysed from neck to heel, his body
spotted like that of a leopard, Thomas
Winter, a negro of Philadelphia, is sinking
Into death so slowly that physicians who
are attending him regard the case a a re- j
markable one. Winter was brought Into
the Medico-Chlrurglcal hospital July 13.
suffering from a fracture of the seventh
cervical. This Is the most prominent bone
of the spinal column, and Is Just above the
shoulders. Its fracture usually Is followed
Immediately by death. In Winters case
there appear to hove been conditions which
operate for partial protection of the spinal
fluid and cord. Joined with this is a con
stitution of unusual robustness. Physicians
who have studied his case closely nay ho
has no chance for recovery. When brought
Into the hospital Winter was a coal black
negro. He is now yeuow in paicnes ana
the lighter color is spreading rapidly.
A man recently took a house upon a
lease in a certain crescent in London witn-
out examining the terms of his agreement
as closely as he should. After a time the
landlord called upon him and pointed out
that he was bound to do all the outside
painting at certain Intervals. He protested
but It was "so nominated in the bond,"
and there was no help for him, After n,
good deal of thought he hired the painters
and directed them to paint the, whole of
the front of the house red, white and blue
In stripes. When It was finished the
neighborhood It waa rather a fahlonible
part waa up In arms and the landlord was
frantic. Th tenant politely explained to
him that thore was nothing In th agree.
ment about the color and that red, white
and blue, in stripes, was hla favorite com
blnatlon, but he thought he might, per
haps, be better pleased with th painting
of the back, which he proposed to color
green, with yellow spots. The . landlord,
who well knew that not another house
could be let In the crescent If he carried
out his throat, nsarly had a fit at the Idea,
nnd within a week the tenant had a new
lease. In which the landlord undertook to
do all the outside painting himself.
The late Senator Vest of Missouri ueert
to tell a story of good luck and hard luck
without n counterpart. One dayi while be
was a momber of the confederate congress,
he lost a month's pay somewhere on th
Htrects of Richmond. JuM as the woman
Irl scripture who lost a piece of silver
called together her friends and neighbors
and sought diligently until she found It,
he called' his friend and went with them
on what seemed a hopeless search through
the fnow-covered, dlmly-Ilghted streets of
Richmond. 'The chances were a thousand
to one against suecoss. "We hadn't been
out fifteen minutes when a young lieuten
ant In our party stooped down and picked
up my loat roll. I waa In high glee, and
wanted to treat. We were piloted to a
cafe, which, pending aome repairs, had n
ladder rf about a dozen rung instead of
rulrs. We nil climbed up, considering it
a great lark, all the while tilklng about
what a lucky fellow th young lioutenant
was, nnd predicting great things for him
A w climbed down again the young lieu,
tenant fell from the laddor and broke hla
neck."
Mnnanleom fir Hanna Family,
CLKVEI.AND. Ovt. s.-Mr. Augusta
Haium, Kidowf the late Senator Hanna
today con'irmed ll.e report thnt a magnifi
cent ii.nusoleiun will b erected In Lke
viow cemetery here, wherein th bodlea
of th senator nd other member of th
family will be Interred. Tho mausoleum
will cost I10C.OCO and will be oompleted in
about a year.
ALL HINDS OF MEN ARE EASY
Amateur Get-Bich-Quicien Are Eeadilj
Plucked by the Professional.
TAKING CHANCES AND PAYING FOR THEM
Difflcaltles tho Law Officers Ksesaster
In Chasing; "Sore Things" Crop
of lacker Undiminished
y Publicity.
"If It were not that th desire to get
aomethlng for nothing la so strong in
people of all kinds snd classes there would
be no room In the world for the get-rlch-
qulck concern," said a police official. "But
the gambling instinct Is so strong In man
and woman that whenever the chance ap
parently la offered to make money without
working there are always plenty of them
ready and anxious to risk their hard-earred
coin In the care of get-rlch-qulck swindler
and their Ilk. It matters not what kind of
a proposition a man may have, whether It
Is a fictitious gold mln In Alaska or a
three wire sure thing at New Orleanj, If
It la put before the public with the proper
wording and an oak finished office to back
It the dear public, from th preacher to
barkeep, will come a-runnlng to help the
get-rlch-qulck man lay by enough to mako
Ma big getaway when the police break
down the doore with evidence to convict.
The aupply of the easily 'done' In the land
Is unbelievable to the layman."
What with the, activity and effectiveness
of .the police and the publicity and nrtortety
given to their machinations by the press of
the country it would teem that the get-rlch-qulck
swindler would hardly find vic
tims enough among the publlo of a great
city to warrant him exposing himself .o
arrest and a subsequent term In the penitentiary-
'But, according to the detectives
and policemen who have worked on the
"swindling detail" In the city for the" Inst
few years, the Inevitably "sucker" Is still
to be found In undiminished au.intttlc
throughout the country. How this can be
in th face of the fact that each day there
Is circulated In the public press accounts of
arrests of bands of swindlers, and often an
outline of the method of their operations
Is a mystery to the public themselves, but
the harsh fact remains, nevertheless.
Victims from All Classes.
Th victims of the get-rlch man do not
come from any one class of people, nor ar
they all to be counted among the weak
minded and Imbecile. The country cousin
does not excel the city man In number or
gullibility. If a list of the names found In
a recently raided Doarborn street concern
were published with this article It would
cause consternation among circles where
the name and reputations of men are sup
posed to be guarantees for sound business
sense and acumen. Merchants and their
clerks, street car conductors and the super
intendent of the line, doctom, lawyers and
even ministers of the gospel were among
those who had listened to the siren song of
the 200 per cent man and had contributed
liberally that the financier might go to
Europe In the first cabin and hide himself
in Paris until the noise of the scheme's ex
plosion subsided.
The schemes of the get-rlch swindler and
the Ingenuity and originality with which
he foists them on the publlo are appar
ently without end or cleverness. His mone
tary capital Is money enough to rent and
furnish an office, hire a stenographer and
hav ' quantities of stationery printed and
lithographed with thi most Imposing of
Arm titles. His stock in trade ia Nerve,
with a big N, and a particularly ripe
knowledge of certain phases of human na
ture. HI method vary a widely as do
men, but the shallowness of his scheme la
apparent to all when once the veneer of
the "frost" is taken off y the polioe. Hi
victims' contributions to hi coffer vary
from the- $1 of the widow and orphan to
the hundreds of the prosperous profea
slonal or business man.
Racing; Game Catches Many.
The turf Investment scheme Is the one
that gets the largest variety of victim.
Everybody like to place his or her money
where they know for certain that It will be
returned to them In a day or two multiplied
by a hundredfold. The simple, childish
faith with which merchants and clerks,
sinners and saints, the sophisticated and
tho verdant, climb to th office of the turf
Investment "bureau" with their money In
their hands nnd beg th "investor" to take
the Rama, should silence the carping tongue
of the cynic who declare that human na
ture is growing cold and suspicious. The
turf specialist takes the money and pay
a dividend the first week that delight th
heurt of the victim, and the second week,
or possibly the third, he removes his lares
and penates, and the kind people's money,
to another and easier sphere of activity.
"Investment Company" Prospers.
The "Investment company" comes after
the turf scheme In tho number of dollar
garnered from the public. This In conducted
on a more magnificent scale than th petty
get-rlch-qulck affair and yiolds a propor
tionately larger rate of Income. The class
of people thnt come to the net of these men
ar a moro thrifty- sort than are attracted
to smaller concern. The "Investment com
pany" goes after th "client" who has
from K0 to $300 to Invest and gets him,
too. An investment In the Ragged Shirt
silver properties In Nevada which is abso
lutely guaranteed to net a return of over
100 per cent within six months appeals to
the man who would ahun the turf invest
ment as a fake, and h goes Into It with
unlimited faith and an open pockethook.
When some flno morning he goes to the
office of the company and finds It vacant,
with th police aortlng over the mail for
further evldenco, he eulTera a shock that
effectively seal his Hp. Few of tho In.
vestment company's victims have It in their
heert to disclose their names or tho
amounta to which they suffered. It Is th
little loser alone who squeals, and this fact
render the capture and conviction of tha
swindler all the harder.
Th Investment company dallies also Ju
stocks and market repnrls and "operate"
on th Board of Trade. Thl helps to bring
the wealthy agriculturist Into the reach of
th swindler and furnishes a lucrative and
easy source of revenue. The furmcr In.
vests much more on an avers pre than do
the city man and when he get nipped la
even willing to bribe In orde.r to keep his
nam a secret. "I wouldn't let the folk
at home know of thl for a thousand," euld
one. and thin is th general sentiment
among the rural "aucker." Chicago Trl-
bun.
Chocolats for n Tramp.
On of Uncle SiVi's foresters, named Glf
ford Plncbot, left Va camp In the Rockies
lately for a stroll. J! wandered two day
and two night though the forest, and
evidently waa wlthojl his gun, for h had '
during that time not king to eat except a
email cake of chocolaa. ,
Nevertheless, when I managed to find
hla way to camp at tht end of th forty.
eight hour of tramphbr and of aleeplng
on the ground in that aWtlslng mountain
air. he waa In very fair ordltlon. thanks
to tt at bit of confectioner. Ha la duubt
Uss confirmed In hla oplnfcn that choco
late, the "ambroala" of dii-ernlna Brian.
tlat. Is as nutritious as It palatabl.
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