Indianapolis Leader, Volume 3, Number 2, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 August 1881 — Page 1

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Cheapest and Best LINE OP Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry, Silverware, Clocks and Tableware, CO TO . CRAFT'S Jewel Palace, 24 East WasMnpton Street. The NEW YORK STORE (ESTABLISHED IN 1853.) New Styles and Shades of SILK, LISLE, BERLIN, LACE TOP. Etc.. FOS LADIES, HISSES AND CHILDBEH LACE MITTS IN BLACK, WHITE, MODE and OPERA SHADES. FOR, ana CIIILDHEN. LADIES LADIES' BLACK LISLE LACE TOP GLOVüS, At 50 Cents. A Bargain. LADIES' LACE TOP LISLE GLOVES. A Big Bargain at 25 Cents. ss-All Goods marked in PJaln Figur es.sa PETTIS, S H1DI1111P011S MM. General Grant has invested $90,000 in a house in .New York City. It is exDected that ex-Senator x Conklinir will be a deles ate to the (J - approaching Republican Convention in New York. Captain Howgate, of the U. S. Sig nal Service, lately 60 prominently connected with a social scandal at Washington, D. C, has been detected in stealing a large amount of money from the Government. Hon. J. S. Ilinton desires it dis tinctly understood that he isunequiv ocally in favor of the employment ol colored teachers in colored schools. lla onra tri hrt knows comnetent , 1 f in a colored leaunera can uv; iuuU).m they should be employed. A man in Jitnesville, O.. recently expressed a hope that l'resiüent Uar- . . field would not recover, captain n ,fMf, M th Int war. imVyUWrw, ivin" v j mPdiaVlv knocked him down, for meaia .Cl KnoCKeu mm uuwu 1U1 t),;.K wn finofl hv a Justice Ol niuvi j -j was the Peace. The Cincinnati Com tnercial immediately began to take a one cent subscription for Captain fW.k. which now amounts to over 5500. The assassin Giteau through some means obtained possession of a knife Wednesday, and when the guard en tered to disarm him the villain tried ..... .1. 110 CUt HIS Uiroai wm. u. uuC. Gill, the cruarü. urew nis pisioi, aim . a a 1 ,11 . x i 1..1 n wtK ctmrf. tllV7 tWU Vliiiviivu " " f- -" w " o gle the revolver was discharged, and Guiteau yelled "Murder," declaring that he was being assassinated. It .... 1. . Ur ia a ti iv ii e wreicn waa uuk cwtiti .. WOUnded. He COUld then have ttcd nf some of the pain lie has caused the President. In his "star chamber" meeting with a few colored men Fridey night, Aus. Brown stated that his object in ap pointing some white teachers in the colored schools, was to save places for the colored pupils now in the High School. This is the thinnest excuse ever given ior a vicious practice, and does not consist with the statements of Tarbell and Carey. They say that Tarbell has no confidence in the

ability of colored teachers, and hence desires to fill up the schools with white teachers. In every move of this jesuitical Committee and Super, intendent, the fact is disclosed that they have no regard for truth. Anything to gain their point. Are such men the right ones to be at the head of our school system? If the teachers were of the same kind of material as their superior officers, then indeed might we say, "God help the pupils." Happily, such is not the case. PRESS COWVEN1ION. We have received the following invitation to the Colored Press Association, together with an invitation to a complimentary banquet to be given by the Chicago Social Union. We shall endeavor to de present: OFFICK OF THE CONSERVATOR. 194 CLARK STREET, Chicago, August 16, 1881 Dear Sir: The President of the Colored Press Association haying announced tin coming Convention to be held in this City August 23d, we have made such prej arations as we deem were warranted. We have secured a hall for the session, arrangtd a Grand Banquet, planned an extensive drive through our City, called for a business reception. We have also made arrangements for the accommodation of visitors in firstclass style. Any information regarding the Convention or arrangements can be had by application at our office, where we shall be pleased to see you at your earliest convenience. Please prepare a short address for the Banquet as our people desire to hear from every visiting Editor. Earnestlv desiring the privilege of showing our usual hospitality and praying for the success of the Con

vention, V e remain 1 ours. A. F. Bradlet. 1 F. L. Barnett. PRESIDENT GAKFIKLD'S CONDITION. The President's condition for the past two weeks has not been encour aging at all. Ever since the last surgical operation upon him, to facili tate the flow ol pus, he has oeen in a very weaic condition, ine wouna has apparently been doing very well, but the President's stomach has become so very weak, that," for a few days, it would not retain food of any char acter, whatever. Life was sustained only through administering nutritive enema, by means of injection. The President suffered great nausea and vomiting, when any effort was made to give Jhim food in the natural way. The pulse was very high, and the feeling was almost universal, that the distinguished sufferer would die. On Weduesdav a chaniro for the better , J. r ... .j occur CQ, ana, at mis writing irriuay afternoon), the news is quite encouraging, and we are led to believe that the chances are yet in favor of the President's recovery. Professor Ward' Adventare In a New Zealand Volcauo. Utica Mornlnz Herald. Professor Henry A. Ward, formerly of the University of Rochester, N. Y., is writing letters touching his travel's in New Zealand, some of which detail singular experiences. In his last he says: "I came from Auckland by steamer south for 125 miles along the east coast to the town Tamanga. I hired a twenty-ton cutter and started to visit the sea volcano. We sailed all night, and at daybreak we had before us a great mountain of black scoria, 830 teet high, from the top or which, with much force, went white clouds of vapor to a heieht of fully 2,uw feet. Reaching the shore it was not easy traveling, for in places the black pebbles of the beach were all astir witn waier Douing un throutrh them water so hot that a misstep might scald the foot seriously. At . . .. i ; l this 1 center wall nas oeen orown down almost to the sea level and we could look into the ereat hollow island, The crater is circular, a full mile in diameter, and hemmed in by walls many I 1, i Ari fact nirn ann vprv iirpri 1 i 11 111. rw an uneven plain of volcame asn ana scor m, witn y - r?,es or Dw "üief.Vl"r"" ""u: 1I pnur TBpurS cailltS WUCWUifi uuv, nunc .vi j lew minutes there was beneath our feet a I aniart trembline and a low. dull, rolling rn The Emi.kR nf vanor beean to thicken I ' -" . 0 . 1 ii . w went, alone, and we soon found the cause. We were stopped short Dy a great lake of steaming water, quite filling this end of the crater, and being, as we could see when the clouds lifted, nearly ball a mile irom ithfr side. Tbe water was too not to comfortably bear the hand in it, and was, further. insuDoortable to either touch or taut hv a strong infusion of alum and sulPhuric acid, which bit painfully t any scratch or sore urxn our skin, un the iurther border of the lake, and half around its shore, was a row of the most violent solfataraa which I have ever seen. They have built for themselves little tillar-like cones, fr tpn rnthirtv fpt hitrh and a vard or rHn d ame er at its base, and through these ooen chimneys they were trumpeting - " . . ' . . steam and roaring sulphuric gases with a violence that was fnghtiui to contemplate and such demoniacal screetching and din as afflicted our eyes, vfn at the lone distance where we stood. We dragged the row-boat along the valcano s Hoor and launched it nnon the boiling lake. ii?" al,KX ial V41 M" " ... i tie water 01 me iaxe was 01 a iuukv uuub The water of the lake was of a milky opaque - : i....,..,i,ifiwKntn.r. th.tit . deep, Lines upon the shore showed mal n uawv rose aim ikh aiiguiiv wiiu iuc v vwv tv outside. In many spots the water was boiling furiously with so much irotn ana ioam, while still its heat was much below the boiling point of 212 Fahrenheit. Thee were daeerous places, the abundant air in the water diminished materially its buoyancy, and our boat sank alarmingly low in crossin ir them. We landed across the lake at one of th anlfatara.! nenre.tt to the beach and Droceeded to demolish it with our oars It was a chimney about two teenn uiaraeier, clay without, and within it waa lined with . . - m i 9 ! 1 crvstalsof aulnhurof a beautiful straw-yel low, splashed with vermilion spots. Pushing in the top of this chimney the fragments would first fall down his throat and then come flying out into the air with explosions that were amusingly like a proiongea sien tonan cough."

EX-SENATOR Register of the We present to the readers ot The Leader to-day the portrait of one of the most truly self-made men our country ha produced, ex-Senator Blanche K. Bruce, Register of the Treasury of the United States. Blanche K. Bruco wis born in Prince Edward county, Virginia, March 1, 1841and hence is just foity years of age, only entering the golden prime of life. His education wa3 acquired chiefly Ht Oberlin College, where he spent some years pursuing special studie. During his entire official life, however, he has been a great leader and a close student ot hiatorv, literaI ture and political science. Leaving Oberlin about the beginning of the reconstruction period, he chose Mississippi as a field, offering large possibilities for the new born citizen, in which Slate he became a planter in 1869. When the first reconstructed Legislature assembled, he was made Sergeant-at-arms of the Senate. On the adjournment of the Legislature, ne was appomiea -Assess r 01 Taxes tor the Jountv ot Uoiivar." by uovernor James L. Alcorn, to fill out an une xpired term. So satisfactorily did he discharge his duties that he waa subsequently elected Sheriff and tax collector of the county. At that Axniratinn of his first term hewasunani mnuslv reflected for a second, there beincr dlAAi thna shnwino- the holJ he had on the DoDular heart and the clean-handed manner in which he discharged the responsible trusts committed to his care. jir. uruce was also eiectea ounenn1 1 a 1 i anAan f la for hia mintv. & momWofthfl MiMisdnni Levee Board. and war m ade Levee Commissioner and Tax Collector for all the twards in his county, The position of Colonel of Militia was also rantprred nnon him. tkua civintr him the military title so essential to a"Soutnern gentipman " The aecrecrate bond of Colonel Bruce for the several positions held was $120,000, and it iu R fapt worthv' remark that, in a county in which nearly all the taxable nroDertv was owned by ex-rebels and Democrats. Colonel Bruce never had the slightest difficultv in making this large bond. t .u- f 1QT0 rr,iAi Tl Tn th Bummer of 1873 Colonel Bruce was urged to allow the use of his name for Republican nomination for Governor of Mississippi. He was very favorably mentionod. not onlvbv then?esa of his State.but the 6 ... . publican Convention assembled at Jackson, ho vai iindntihtArilv. thA flrnt rhmceot large number ot the delegates, but he declined to allow his name to go before the ' - . . ....1 Convention, it having been suggested to his friends that the nomination of Mr. Ames for Governor would leave a clear field for Colonel Bruce to the United States Senate, which afterward proved to le true. The colored people of Mississippi had a pardonable pride in desiring to see their State send to the United States Senate a representative man of their race. On tbe assembling or the legislature Colonel Bruce was with grest unanimity nominated for the long term to the Senate bv the Reoublican Legislative caucus, and on february 5, 1874, he was elected by the Legislatureof MyssippitotieUnitedStatej his seat in the Senate on the 5th Ol Jiarun 1875. During his entire term of service in the Senate he was treaty with i 7" ' llalS WITH IUI CUIUS L 1U IUB1&9 VI pisuufti kindness and courtesy. A warm personal ..va .ilt-n .iRr..,. ... ,. v:rL . 1 1 1 auu VyunKiimr. wmcu uas uwver uvvu uiu&cu,.

In token of his esteem the Senator's only wuo "Tt SP 11 -u.-.jv av .u. j:..: :vweek William Holbui-t is quite ill......

child bears the name of the distinguished ex-Senator from New York. Senator Bruce is the only colored man who ever presided over the U S. Senate, an honor which was frequently conferred upen him during his term. He was a member of the important oen ate Committees on Tensions, JKducation, and Labor, and was Chairman of the Com mittees on Mississippi Levees, and rreed men's Bank, occupying the latter position by the courtesy of the Democratic Senators, who constituted a majority of the Commit tee. When Senator Bruce's Committee took I . ce of the Freedmen's Bank affairs, they char found three Commissioners living off ol the lUIlUa Ul bUt3 UUlUlbUlinsO V t Lvr V a v j, r .... nn.;.n.. hij rotten concern, at salaries of $3,000 apiece. ' ....... 1 . These the Senator quickly displaced and put the business in charge of a man at $1,000 a year, thus, at one stroke, making a net savirr tn th crditor9 f 8 000 annuallv. -e . Un June 24. löö. senator uruce was married to Miss'josephine Willson, next to we emesi oi vne wur sccumpiiDueu uu5uhjb ui ul. uuocpu i i iiisun, u vcciauu, j. Tne happy couple sailed immediately from v.w vork ror Oueenstown. Thev traveled Ireland. England. Scotland. France. Italy. Germany, and, in fact, throughout . . 0 - - -- - . Continental Europe. The Senator was every where received and treated with dis tinguished consideration by the dignitaries of Europe. Throughout the length and Dreadtn I . w or the country, he xound nopiace in tne color of his skin subjected him to ibiected him to insult or the slightest inconvenience, save possibly, the manifest natural curiosity of many to seethe only representative of the Negro race in the United States Senate. Returning home in time for the regular session of Congress, the Senator and his

B. K. BRUCE, U. S. Treasury.

bride located permanently in an elegant residence on M street, in Washington, where they have since lived very happily. For months previous to the assembling of Congress, the question as to the social status of Mrs. Bruce, agitated the brains of the quid nuncs through out the country. Mrs. Bruce, however, being a lady of rare culture and most excellent good sense, solved the question or rather permitted it to solve itself, to the utter amazement of the prophets of evil. She simply moved along in society as any other cultured lady of htr uiunguisnea position wouia, receiving ana 4 1 J ? a T-1 J returning tne calls of the distinguished p "ople of Washington and elsewhere, who do not measure merit by complexion. The his wife were and Senator and are the recipients of the most courteous treatment from repre sentative people of both political parties, thus showing the decay of that foolish color prejudice, which still, in many localities, subjects colored ladies and gentlemen to insult and inconvenience Senator Bruce'a name was verv nromtnentIv mentioned as a canidate for Vice-President at the last National Republican Convention atUhieaero. lie had the d stineruuhed honor ef being called upon to preside over that convention. The Senator took an active part in the campaign for General Garfield throughout the North. After the election 'he colored press and people ot the country, JNorth and South, appealed to General Garneia to give the six tmllons of colored peopl a representative in his Cabinet, in the person of Senator Bruce. The history of the contest is known to alL Ibe President could not find it in hi heart to grant our request, but he took a let nn Tk ßlrruniiA aF m v AtfiAiia Uha 1 -fl rt t 1 b"cf " ""w ui ouv umwus xicbiucuu lie made the lion, blanche K Bruce register ol the lreasury ol tne United States, a position of great honor and respon sioiuty, and the most distinguished omce eyer conferred upon any colored man by " vuus oneny BKeiuueu iue uie 01 I th'3 remarkable man a true type of the eit made American, and a monument to the possibilities which this great country of ours oneis to the humblest boy in the land. y industry a. d irugaiity öenatcr ßruce acquired acompetency by which he has been enabled to "live luce a gentleman." By Dara 8oy and close ooservation, ne has ac quirea a weaitn 01 Knowledge, ana a Dreaatn of culture which makes him the peer of the m08t distinguished men of the land. A man of the people, in the prime of life, energetic, ambitious, large-hearted, in sym-Itft-lpathy with every noble aspiration of his I ..ii.' .1 Wi einving ior vneir aavancemeni, over - wjiibcmu anniuuaung coior-oreiuuice dv nki tlrt .1. . 1 A J 13 auiiibv, uuiburo auu ifiraiifc iuu ners, and by the influence of an upright life, we confidently predict that hiener honors and nobler works are yet in store for uiancne jx. xruce. C0RKESP0NDENCE. I Correspondent! will nleisa mak their noun nnlcationa as brief and concise at poaalbla. Owing to oar limited space, we are frequently compelled to lea r out matter that we would like to Dublieh.bat can not for want of apace. All letters outside of Indiauapolig should reach ns Thuridar. Ill commanications written on both aides of the aper will be reiosea.j Grcciieaslie. Mrs. Sally Crocket is I TT , . T .r r 1 UKiiuruiiii ii r u a in n ri i a n a rj 1 j r. tin n H r .r "-"'v--j ...... Mrs. Sally Herring of Crawfordsville is - J .J fflK visiting her brother Henry Miles ...... Hinton one week Shepperd Hooks left for Terre , c , . -,- . r Tir:i C SgJy ?ighVv"Mx7'1 ffifci lanapolis is visiting Mrs. MartinM.Robert I Warden takes the biscuit W. HJones , ., ... 1 quite .ider Hammond will omciate at the camp meeting ...... Miss Hannah Thomas and Miss Lizzie La Force sojourn in Louisville this week...... Rev. A. A. Burleigh reads the Leader and recommends it to his people. Ilinton Chappel Literary Society is in full bloom Drew Dickens is the champion debater Robert Lipscomb is rusticating in Denver Colorado The Leader is making better time in our city than Maud b. made at I'niladelphia. 1 Kuk. (Jrbana. O. After an absence of more thaa iwo weeks from the city, your corresponaeni resumes his task of reporting the lew ' I r o - ----- incidents transDinnf in hia bailiwick" We are under obligations to Mr. A. Tolliver I f a J : . : t a 1 a. TT. for standing in our shoes while absent, lie ha managed the affairs of The Leader to our enure saueiaction Messrs. u. uowies ni.: . . . a.i wi u, 1B,I-,UK meir Drotner -oeiwuu, n this week The former is principal of the ..w u u m... . ... u.vuuS utvuuii - London. They are well pleased with the Meauer anu win no QOUDt lend HSia...... Mr. A. Tolliver spent last Sunday in Hills--ii . .r .-. I managing iae nnancea oi me compof the meeting mere in progress. Me reports a - successiui meeting, about three thousand preaem ..... .u-issea juattie 1. iiarn, ana I Carrie L. Boyd, spent last week in Spring-" oi ucw u?Mug iu me nospiianues ana pieasof the Champion City Kev. P. Tolliver and wife are absent visiting friends and relatives in Cincinnati and Hamilton ...... Prof. "VV. A. Manns represents Gold an Square Lodge, No. 23, F. and Ai M. in the session of the grand Lodge in Hamilton, O. ......The writer desires to express his grati-

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named articles, and hImo Fr Alm'-lon to th onrrt, where the above articles named are to b nutrlbnte! h ih Ticket Holders mj Decile. PARTIES NOT PRESENT AT THE CONCERT ARE ENTITLED TO SAME PRIVILEGE AS IP PRESENT.

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tudeto the following named gentlemen who accompanied him on his recent trip to Cleveland, and while seriously indisposed, were unremitting in their kind attentions. thus enabling him to endure the fatigue of traveling and bis labors in the convention. They are Odd Fellows who comprehend the duties to a brother as enjoined by friendship. love and truth. God bless tbem: Messrs. J. H. Anderson, J. Slaughter, AV. C. Logan, S. Tuck and A. Boyd Wednesday even ing Mr. A. Boyd, D. L, with his assistants organized a Household of Ruth. There were fourteen ladies and two gentlemen initiated. Our better half wa? among the number and she now has the smiling di? ease Benj. Lodge, 1 tl. G. U. U. ol U. P. " preparing to celebrate on the 221. of oepiemoer. one never uoea any luing ov halves, and a grand time may be expected. Hon. G. B Hamlet and M. V. r.. Thos. II . Jackson, State lecturer, are among tbe speakers. Selwoh. Spriiicrficld, O. Daughters of Jeru salem convened here Wednesday. Miss Mattie E. Guv, has returned from visiting relatives at Zanesville, O...... Colored teach ers association commenced on the 17. ihe fespions were held in the central school building Miss Clinton of Zanesville, is visiting the city the guest of Mrs. J no Ha gans of Clark street Vi via;; id onco more himself again Mr. O. S. Fox of New Richmond, formerly of this place, wa3 married to a charming belle of that city, in the person of Miss Nanie King, la?t Tpursday a. m 6 o'clock. Long lifa and much happiness is the wish of all to Mr. and Mrs Fox. They are spending the honev-moon in Wyoming We are having 'Wraign" this week, a welcome visitor. J arils. TEURE HAUTE. Miss Emma Gillespie and Mis Alice Dixson are visiting Mr. William Clark The camp meeting is a success at the Fair Grounds Mrs. J. H. Lott is visiting friends in Illinois Mr. J. H. Walker and wife are visiting in Wisconein Mr. Willie Ferry will teach school in Lost Creek settlement this year Some of our nice young men are going back on

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I -w . .v l. 1 leader nopes inose wno owe ior me paper i will settle a. once ...... .airs, inorwn uiwi in Lost Creek last Tuesday ...... Some one got into Mrs. Chavis's house last week and tried to choke her daughter Miss Carrie Mr. John Sims is in the city and expects to attend the Normal this term....- Mr. Prince Lytle has gone out of the city on business Miss Emma W hue arrived home irom Faris last week Rev. W. II. Anderson is in Kansas on business Mrs. Sim3 of Kentland will mafce Terre Haute her homo Mr. William Chavis will teach school in the country this year again Mr. Chas. Brown has fallen in love with Terre Haute and says he can't leave it. T. and J. IN MEMORIAM. Composed, aod dedicated tj Clara Howard, by 8. w Biewari, jerre nauio xuu.i Farewell, dear one, thoa bat left us here I r mnnrn nd Vfn for thee. m. v w. r f Tes. on the rraTe we'll drop a tear, For thy sweet race we no mure snau see. As we followed thy form to the cold, lonely grave, And looked on tby face for the laat. We recalled oar plaant childhood days, And sighed, Tbey belong to the pant." Thou hast left as, dear Clara, we'll see thee no more, At thy home there is one vacant chir But thy brother and aisier, tby parents and friends Can meet thee agaiu, 'oTer there." . 3be Smelled It. MMv dear, don't vou hear the baby? (Jet up. please, and get it some water ''said Mrs Cobb as she woke up Mr. Cobb in the "dead waste and middle of the night.' Mr. Cobb wondered to himself what kind of a reservoir the child was that it could hold the amount of milk and water it drank. He said nothing, however, but got up, fell over the dog, discovered that there were neither matches nor water in the house, went to the pump, brought back a glassful of water and handed it to Mrs. Cobb. "Thank vou, my iovr," said Mrs. Cobb, you are very great heavens, what have you aone nowr xvnoci.eu verjuing ou line oureaui o. 1 micuv uave kuvwu mai. - r w You never do anything right always makI . amnaKini rhin nra T Uriah I incr a fuss and smashing things. I wish bad got up myself. You just did it to ag era suffering" Ireland, what a smell 1 knew you would do it nothing would satis fy you till you d knocked the lamp down, i know the keroeene is all over the carpet, and O. Lord help mel my dress is .ruined I'm sure. There's no matches in the house and T do wish I was dead. The smell of that kerosene is enough to drive the people out of every house on the block. I never want vou to do anything for me again, I'd rather do it myself. Phew 1 What a smell." And then Mrs. Cobb Bobbed, and coiled herself ud in the corner or the bed and loitered for death or a divorce, while Mr, Cobb went serenely to sleep with his fee projecting through a hole in the mosquito bar. When the morning sun shone into Mr Cobb's bedroom it disclosed to view the lamp intact on the bureau, an empty beer bottle lvincr broken , in a child s bath tub, and Mrs. Cobb cazine : on the scene and again wishing that she was dead.

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the eHNoii, and the erut ad van taue :my time previous at this season TUE PROFESSIONAL. DETECTIVE. Who lie Is, Uow Be Work and What He Oeta for It. Robert II. Pinkerton in tbe New York Sao. "I want to know about detectives as they are, not a9 they should be. Who are they? How do they work?" "As to the first question, that's not so easy to answer. Detectives are well, they are detectives. They may have been clerks, salesmen, students, newspaper men, anybody. Amu in any business does, perhap?, a bit of detective worK as an amateur, becomes fond of it, and, if he really 'baa it in him,' eventually gets to be a master of the art. Oh, yes, there's an art in it. A great many boys and young menareoften anxious to become detec-ives. They get their ideas ot the work and the lite from the dime novels and flash illustrated newspapers. They think that a detective is a mysterious per.-onage, wno always goes aisguisea ana rennred to assume any character at a mo ment's notice, who is a walking arsenal, and who has the happy faculty of turning up at u-t the right moment, clapping a big pistol to the villain's head and rescuing youth and beauty. We have had a great many appli cations from these deluded persons, ana once we tried one of these lads. Iiis father. a wealthy man in Chicago, came to us and said that his boy was crazy to be a detective, and asked us to take him and give him some work that would disenchant him. He was a right, smart young fellow, full of the dime novel idea. We set him to watching a house in a lonelv part of the city. He had explicit instructions not to lose sight of the door from dusk in the evening until daylight next morning. It was winter. The boy stood it one night and reported all right next morning. The second morning he did net report. He never has reported. Ihe father, however, did report that his boy was ready to go to school, and he was very much obliged to us. Ycu ask me who detectives are. I can tell vou who they are not. They are not ex-thieves. In the first place, it ii not save to trust ex-thieves. While, perhaps, they might have information that would be invaluable to a detective, they are not temptation-proof. They will take advantage of their position to put up jobs in crime that they never could accomplish were they not employed as detectives. The experiment has been tried ; it will not work as a rule. Ul course we sometimes get information from thieves, not because they are thieves but because they have the information. But we have to use tno greatest care in vemying meir information "You ask, how do they work?' and that is another difficult question to answer. To begin with, I'll say that detectives are divided into three general classes: snadows, investigators, and ropers. When a max begins the business he is put at shadowing, it is an excellent way to try him and see what stuff there is in him. If he will watch a house night after night, in all sort3 of weather(or a man, day after day without exciting suspicion, it is pretty safe to employ him regularly. A good shadow is an important part of a detective force. In a great many cases of crime there is no clue to the criminal, but only a suspicion. The shadow is told to watch such a man and see what he does, what sort of company he keeps , where he re sorts; or he is told to watch a house, see who goes in and out, what the character or thy inmates is, what hours they keep. Now, in order to do this, a man must have tact, intelligence, perseverence. He must not only not excite the suspicions of the suspected parties,but he must not excite the suspicions of tbe police, it is very awkward tor a de tective to have to eive an account of himself to a policeman. "While the police man may be the most honest and faithful in the world it endangers the case if he knows a detective is around, and mentions it cas ually to a brother policeman. You can see that to do his work well a shadow must be a man whose appearance will not provoke comment or attract attention. You'd not make a crood shadow. You're too tall. A very short man won't do. In fact, a thor ouzhlv commonplace looking man is the verv best. He should bb youne and active. "We ha' e had office boys who developed considerable talent for that sort of work. Sometimes a boy can be used where a man can not. lie can nang around a house, make the acquaintance of other boys in the neighborhood, and the criminal who may be watching from inside the house for a chance to steal out unobserved, taay think the coast clear when heees that there is no one around except two or three boys play ing marbles on the sidewalk. "We bad a case of this kind in Baltimore at the time of the robbery of the Third National Bank there. "We wanted to watch a house on Perry street, and we couldn't do it with any of our regular snadows. So we put a boy there. He was playing marbles when the man came out, and then gave the signal that resulted in his c&Dture. But boys, as a rule, are not . safe. They are likely to become too important in their own estimation, and they may talk. Some great criminals have been captured by means of, shadows. The Northampton liank robbers were shadowed months before Scott and Dunlap were I arrested. Billy Conners was shadowed two months,- and lied Leary, before his last ar

- - 13th. A Boy's Suit, worth..... 14'h. A Child's Kilt Suit, worth 15th, One set Solid SllverJeeve Batto us, worth ....... . 16th, One of Over' Victor Wheat Drills, worth. . Also, a number of articles, cottslstiiig of Scarts, Tits, tsiifc aod Linen Handkerchiefs. British Half Hose, Linen Calls, and Collars, Hille Hut-psnders, Valines, Shirts and Gents' Underwear, etc.. 15 00 10 00 10 00 25 00 amounting 10 ........ 100 00 store, which entitles him to a share In the above we bouctit them, we Meli at less of the 3 exr. 9 Street. rest, was shadowed nine weeks by three different detectives. "The investigator," continued Mr.Pinkerton, ''is tb e man who, after a crime is committed, makes a preliminary investigation. He usually works with the local officers. He seldom pretends to work in secret. He looks the ground over, mingles with civilians, talks with every one, and forms his conclusions. He must be a man of greater intelligence than is necessary to make a good shadow. He reports the results of his investigations, and on his report is decided the course to be pursued. Perhaps one result of his report will be that a thadow put on a certain man. and an effort is made in that way to reach the truth in the matter. The preliminary investigator, in short, opens the way for private investigation. 'The roper must, to speak plainly, 'rope' men in. He comes nearest to the dime novel detective of any in tbe list, but he is a great way off from that romantic hero. The roper is simply a gentlemanly person, oocial, of good address, able to frame excuses for anything he may do or say, and able to turn the conversation in any way he pleases. He must have traveled, must have a good knowledge of men, must bo an easy talker, but a better listener. "As to the question of pay?" "Well, the pay runs all the way from $15 and $20 a week to $3,500 a year. The man that goes on a dangerous mission doesn' necessarily get the highest wages. In fact, he does not get them. He works for so much, and does what he is ordered to do. But at the same time a man is not asked to do a dangerous piece of work against his will. If he hesitates, he need not go. To fcucceed, a man must go willingly. Of course the fact that a man succeeds in a dangerous piece ot work is often the means of an increase of his salary. "Why, it's like any other business exactly. Every man has his value. It won't do to work for reward. Human nature is numan nature, and when a man sees a big pile of money coming as the result of fixing crime on some man welL it's oftn dangerous for that man, guilty or innocent. Tne work should be done for so much, whatever the result." 'What is the average life of a detective?" "Well, I don't know as to that. I think, though, they stick to the work on an aver age, 6ay fifteen years. Then they get tired. of traveling and want to settle down. They get situations in banks, hotels and other in stitutions." "Are female detectives much employed or depended upon?'' "It is difficult to get a respectable woman to do detective work. There are lots them that claim to be detectives, but they must be employed with caution. They are occasionally aseful to work up a case against a wo man. In such cases we usually employ a female relative of some one of our men a woman who knows what detective work is, and who is respectable. But we hive to be very careful always in employing women. "As a rule detectives are jealous of each other. It's human nature. I suppose, especi ally where a reward is offered. A reward stirs up every man that thinks he is detec tive. The Charley Boss case is a striking example. "We had a turn at it and we had a very curious experience. AV e thought surely we were on the track of a woman with the boy. "We followed her to Montreal, then to Quebec, then across the Atlantic to England, then to Aberdeen, Scotland, then back through London and Liverpool, and back again to Quebec; and when at last we caught up with her, we found that she was a woman who was trying to get her boy away from her husband. It is very frequently the case that in working up one crime we run across the porpetrators of another. This is natural, since all classes of professional criminals work in gangs. Each gang usually bears the name of the leader. You would be surprised to know how exclusively each class attends to its own line of work. There are the 'iron men,' who do nothing but safe burglary. There are the store burglars, who devote . their entire attention to silks, kid gloves and laas. There are tha houe robbers, who begm in the fall and work through the winter. They are also known as 'gecond-story men,' or climbers.' They spent their summers robbing hotels. Then there are the higher class, the counterfeiters and forgers. Some of them make plenty of money, but it goes as fast as it comes, and none of them dies rich. There is one exception that comes to my mind as I t-paak. Max Shiubourn. He whs the best safe burglar that ever operated, and he mde some tremendous hauls. He went into the safes of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company in "Whitehaven, Pa., three times; twice as preliminary steps, just looking over the g ound, you know. The last time he found $47,000, and then he took it. He robbed the Wa-tmoreland Bank, in Maryland, and he broke the Oc an Baak in this city. He and George Miles educated the best class of back burglars. Shinbourn took $500,000 out of this country, and to-day it said to be a successful business man in Belgium, employing 500 men." 'Do detectivei marry?" "Sometimes. But a man with a family can not in the nature of the case bo as good a detective,as darin g,as ready to go anywhere at 1 a moment's notica,as an unmarried man.