Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 July 1893 — Page 12

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TIIE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 5, -1893 -TWELVE PAGES.

BOY CRIMINALS OF PARIS,

TIIK TItAIMVG OF A PICKrOCKET lIKfiIVS WITH I FANCY. llnw Criaulnal Trade Are LfarnwlTIip I'rnrnl Frrnh .Method of Dealin tvlth Child C'riminnU and the Ileforiu That Are I'ropoied-Tlie Sjatem Xot tt Good One. Ia a cell of La Petlfc? Ronuette the Parts prison for children, which the new reforms are to sweep away a boy of eight years was found. Iiis quiek eye and mobile features already showed that peculiar expression vhich Is known to all frequenters of thieves' society. He was a young pickpocket who had been arrested while drunk on the street. At the police station he acknowledged that the money ft. und on his person was the produce of a theft wt,lch he had committed unknown to his "papa." This finally led to the anest of the entire family of professionals, in which the trade was handeJ (i'iwn to the child. The boy willingly tolA his story. "My father has taught me how to pick pockets, and I help him at work. I only do the ladi.'S because it i- easier. With men, I miarht toucji l le?j while putting my hand into the pocket r.nd they would turn on me; that wo.'d re no fun. But ladies' clothes are ciffernt, and they never feel my hand. -Papa and I used to go every day together to the omnibus ftand at the Palais Royal. The stand at the Rastile is no ffoot; the Madeleine is the best, but Mere a. does that and she won't let para, work there. Last week papa told me to wait lor him at the Palais Roval. He didn't come, and I was tired, so I worked my.jlf. I pot an old ladv's picket-bok. There were 60 francs in it. and as T-apa still did no! come. 1 went and drank, something. Then I was arrested." He was a?ked how hi learned hi3 trade. It was the old s-.ory. As soon as he couM walk and urn". erstand, he had ben set to picking th'.ns out of the pockets of a manikin huU' by a turning ring fn-.m the ceiling u his home. To the arms, the legs and under the clothes of this manikin littl belU were attached "fortv-foiir of them." faid the child, proudlv. A pocketbook. handkerchief or some light object was placed by the father in one or other cf the pxkets. It was the child's business to find this and withdraw it without ringing any of the bells. It is a training that needs time and patience, but children are apt pupils. By the time the boy could go about alone he was master of the art. A visitor aske.j him to take the handkerchief from his pocket before his departure. It was done so lishtly that he could not perceive the moment of the theft, and with the handkerchief the boy rushed out a forgotten penny, to his own great satisfaction. The Parisian child, thus trained to steal or otherwise to disregard the laws cf sixi-tv. is very much like his father and mother. He begins life with the Idea that those who have are to be relieved of their belongings by those who have not; and the jolice force is an awkward obstacle to his business, but nothing more. Conscience, morality, shame, he has never heard of them except that it is shameful to be caught. Even then It is honorabl? to bear the punishment without ilin-.hing and not to cease from future ambition. Such a criminal has. in a high degree, all the peculiarities of the French race. Rut with him nervous impatience and irritability do not limit themselves to voluble töngue-quarrels. He has a knife ready to enforce his arguments. He prows up accustomed to kick with his heavy shoes and to stab. A few days since a boy-of eleven plunged his knife into the breast of another of the same eg?, because a young girl of whom both were precocious admirers. In this, too, they imitated their elders, who, like all of their race, arcs immoderately given to women. It is doubtful if the speculations of physicians has been a help to dealing with these criminals from childhood. A boy of seventeen lately killed his mistress in a fit of jealousy, under circumstances of unusual trutality. An eminent 'criminalist" was commissioned to examine him. His report was short: "The boy is alcoholic, being the son of a victim of alcoholism; still, I think, he is morally responsible." It is hard to see what practical guidance for the judge can come from such theorizing. An entire education among scenes of crime, with a bad temper left unchecked from childhood, would seem explanation enough. No doubt the Influence of alcohol, as a drug rather than an Intoxicant, has much to do with the bad temper; yet grave scientific men doubt bow far this effect of alcohol can be inherited. Uke father, like son, is a plain reason why child criminals should be found wherever there is a settled criminal class in society; and this is the case In all great cities. In this Paris has no more than her ordinary lead of modern civilization. For fifty years different philanthropists, hv trade or from benevolence, have been trying to understand the details of uch a childhood. What they have learned gives a clearer understanding of the reality than all Dr. Imbroso's theories of the criminaloid. It is on the grounds of their exrerienee that the authorities are now basing their new and gigantic experiments in dealing with child criminals. Crime ia not to be treated as a disease; and its reform is to be a matter of education of the will and the emotions. ' And this must correspond with the present perfection of criminal education. After all Paris can no longer match Leger, the "man tisrer" of fifty years ago. rSiat famous criminal murdered a young gri in the neighborhood of Versailles and devoured her flesh: when asked why he drank the blood of his victim he answered coolly, "i was thirsty." At that time the youngest boy who was brought up for sentence was thrown Into the common prison along with other criminals of every age and degree of crime. These little creatures went by the pet name of "mrnnes." When they issued alive from the abuse .of the older prisoners they were completely trainoil in every form of revolting and bestial crime. It was only when numbers of them had fallen victims to a loathsome disease resembling leprosy that the government under King Louis Phillipe built for them the separate prison of La Roquette. This was In 1836; and it still holds its population of boy criminals from the under world of Paris. The Grande Roqu?tte, across the way, is for the grown-up prisoners who have received their f.nal condemnation. This neighborhood of the guillotine and the whole system of confinement in gloomy stone walls are now recognized to be behind the present progress of criminal science. These children who are rather born to crime than willful criminals are at last 1 1 be removed to the open country, far from the life of the city which pulses noisily about the walls and from all sight of the punishment of their elders. In this new experiment the authorities will not make the mistake of a few years since when they built up a penitentiary colony for young children close 'to a great prison of adults. Over their garden walls the children could see the great square clock tower of the real prison and they pointed to It with pride as they told their guards, "When we're old enough we'll get put in there under the four dials." It Dampened the Itobber'a Ardor. A brakeman on a Missouri railroad turned the hose on a train robber who boarded his train and told him to "hold up his hands." It proved an effective weapon, as it extinguished all desire on the part of the visitor to go through the train. Nobody should hereafter travel In the West without hose. Milwaukee Journal. Those who wish to practice economy should buy Carter's Little Liver Pills. Forty pills in a vial; only one pill a lje.

TUB MOO AXD THE WEATHER.

Interesting Iteaulta of the Investigation of .Scottish Scientist. The very old-fashioned idea that the varying positions of the moon with respect to the sun and earth are causes of changes In the weather has ben pretty effect ualy "sat down upon" by the accepted leaders In meteorological science in recent years. The strong point Is made that the lunar changes of position have a well determined cycle of about nineteen years, and that if there were any Buch connection as claimed we should have a well-defined weather cycle with the same period, which, observation proves. Is not the case. It Is conceded to be rational to suppose that th.? moon causes tides in the atmosphere, as she is known to do in the oceans of water. Rut It is pointed out that the tidal movements In the water are limited to the surface, or ea.r it. and are not felt on the ocean floor. Analogy leads to the conclusion that aerial tides will, in like manner, be felt only far above the region in which storms originate and move, and do not reach down to the land surface. It Is fair to say in this connection that a CJerman meteorologist has recently broached the notion that at least some storms have an exterior origin, and this without reference to real or supposed planetary action on the atmosphere. It is now stated that a connection between the moon and the weather has been discovered by the well-known Scottish investigator, James Glaisher. It is not such a one as accords with what used to be a popular fancy, and has nothing to do with the position of the lunar horns, which can be computed for any stated time thousands of years in advance, while the weather cannot be predicted so accurately a few days ahead. He reports that his observations show the ninth day of the moon to be the most rainy of the whole twenty-nine or thirty which make up the synodical month, and that in the' first and last weeks of the moon's agethat is. when she is less than half full the rainfall is less than the average. This does not accord with the old theory that the full moon clears away the clouds. Futhermore, the sun would seem to have a great deal to do with the matter, since the records kept hy Mr. Glaisher indicate 4 o'clock In the aftrnrton as the most rainy hour of the entire day period. It may be observed that this closely follows the diurnal maximum of barometric pressure, and most ieople nowadays mentally associate rainfall with a low barometer. So we have here a contradiction of modern theory as well as of ancient fancy. So far as known, however, all this proves nothing except for the particular locality or localities for which the observations are made. There are places in the mountain regions of the United States at whkh storm conditions manifest themselves about the middle of the afternoon every day for weeks in succession during the hot weather, but this hardly would hold true for all other places, while certainly a different time maximum would appear to obtain In Chicago. For the other points named it should be comparatively easy to settle the question for the United States. During nearly twenty-three years past the rainfall has been recorded regularly for each of many stations in ths country, and the fact tabulated for preservation of the record at the Washington office of the weather bureau. It will be easy to compare these figures for the dark and light halves of each lunar month in the series, and doubtless this will be done now that attention has been called to the point by so eminent an authority as Mr. Glaisher. Hence it Is not improbable that the scientific world soon will have an explicit statement in regard to this particular, and not alone for the United States, but for other countries where the rainfall is measured systematically at each of numerous points. If the claim put forth be found to hold good for a considerable majority of the places concerned the result will be a revival of interest In the now neglected theory of moon influence on the weather. If otherwise, that theory will be "knocked flatter than ever" and generally relegated by those who think themselves weatherwise to the domain of old wives' fables. Chicago Tribune. To the Public. In opening the fifteenth regular season of the öurf house the proprietor desires to call especial attention to the following advantages: It is named after the surf of the sea and can be depended on as the genuine thing. It overlooks the ocean instead of being located fifteen or twenty miles back in the country on a site overlooking a cornfield. The ozone is a first-class article, secured without regard to expense, and we have contracted for the entire quantity manufactured for the season. The beach is the safest for bathers on the whole coast, we having a special arrangement regarding the tides, undertow, etc. Aside from bottles, corks, boots, fruit boxes, seaweed and other articles usually found on a first-class beach, this beach will be found strewn with shells at least two mornings in each week. We have engaged a first class strewer and 500 bushels of clam shells for that purpose. We have purchased and had towed to this beach three first-class old wrecks, and guests will have the privilege of feeling as sentimental as they choose, providing their bills are settled every Saturday. No matter from what direction the wind blows, the waves on this beach will moan and complain and strike a responsive chord in the heart of each and every gust paying $18 per week. This Is special arrangement, and we have the sole right for the season. Guests can have their preference of a lighthouse, a bellbuoy, a foghorn or a full moon each and every night in the season. This will Include children accompanied by their parents. Old and Toanx Clonda. Does it not seem rather singular to speak of the age of clouds, of old clouds and young clouds. Just as you would describe plants as being either young or old? Yet it really appears that such a distinction can be made and the discovery, as so frequently happens, was based upon a preceding mistake. Mr. John Alt ken reached the conclusion some years ago that the density of a cloud was proportional to the number of water particles It contained, the water particles in turn depending upon the particles of dust present. But more recently Mr. Altken has ascertained that his first conclusion was wrong and that in many clouds the density falls far short of proportionality with the number of water particles. Further investigation has satisfied him that the size of the water particles changes with the age of the cloud. The clouds upon which his observations were made a number of years ago must, he thinks, have been old clouds, and In them the water particles being comparatively large appeared to be proportional to the density. But the later observations were made upon newly formed or young clouds. In which the particles were small in size. Thus the law of growth and development, which obtains among living things, haa its expression also even in the cloud3 of heaven. Youth's Companion. An ignorant Coyv. "Look here." he said. Indignantly, to the man with the hungry cow. "don't you see that 'Keep Off the Grass' sign?" "Yes." "Well, yer cow's on the grass." "I know It, mister," was the placid answer. "I know jest as well as you do. You see. that Cow can't read." Washington Star. The Smt Fad. Hostess (to male guest at tea ttble) "Oh, by the way, Mr. Sniddle, do you take snuff?" Sniddle "Only sugar and cream, thank you. No snuff, if you please." Boston Transcript.

CAUGHT BY A LOBSTER.

EXPERIENCE OF A DIVER OFF THE AEWFOIXDUXD COAST. WorUlnjf In n Sunken Ship A DeepSea Monster's Attack I'pon a Diver, Who Cnt Ont Its Eyes with Ills Sbeathknife Ilefnre He Escaped. The correspondent of the New York Advertiser at St. John. N. B.. writes: Sailors are said to be superstitious, and perhaps they are. yet who is the land-lubber who has ' not read Jules Verne or Victor Hugo's "Toilers of the Deep?" The monster described was identical with the octopus, or giant squid. Once in a while newspapers contain articles about sea monsters and their doings. So, too, Newfoundland men and men living on the coast of Maine report that living In the deep and silent caves of the sea is a huge lobster resembling the smaller fish in structure, but very voracious. It is said that he seldom comes near the shore, but that enormous lobster shells are sometimes found thrown upon land after a gale. All northern fishermen have heard of the monster, and I have seen them shiver in the cuddles of their fishing smacks as some one described the size and appearance of the lish. Never having seen it myself, I do not know how far the general impression Is correct, but I have no doubt that it exists, and I will relate the story as it was told me by a Newfoundland diver: "When the Anglo-Saxon, a ship laden with costly merchandise, as many will remember, ran into Chance cove, on the Newfoundland coast, stricking a reef and sinking, the government at once took steps to have all that the unfortunate vessel contained removed. There were over a hundred persons on board, but not a single one escaped. "As soon as possible divers were brought to the spot, but it was difficult to go down. The first day we got below we could do little but lay out the plan of operations. The ship was on her side, the stumps of her masts turned toward land. I had never gone down before In water so far north, and the place was so wild that I was timid, lines were attached to our bodies, and the ends fastened in the skin! above, so that if any diver pulled his line he was at once drawn to the surface. We walked around the bottom and around the ship with our feet weighted to keep us from rising. The water was a pale green, and I could notice objects quite plainly for many yards distant. There was a huge break in the bottom of the ship, while her stem was staved in and so was her stern. "One afternoon while my two men remained above repairing their diving apparatus I went down alone. We were now removing the bales from the after compartment by the break in the stern. The method of raising the goods was to lower down heavy hooks, which could be fastened into the bales after they were pushed outside. Some of these bales or cases would float and some would rest lightly on the bottom. I had selected a large case which I was about to move, when, happening to turn my eyes, 1 saw outfcide a huge creature moving toward the vessel. I had never seen anything like it before. Its body seemed to be several feet high and about eight feet long, and it had on each side an enormous arm. "There seemed to be an unlimited number of legs attached to the hideous beast. Its color was a dull brown, mottled over with dark spots. Two round, shining black horns, each resembling an enormous Mhip, likewise came out of its head. All this I noticed at one glance. A numbed terror seized me, and involuntarily I moved for the outlet of the ship. Rut, as if knowing what I intended, this brute, looking straight at ms with its frightful, motionless eyes, walked or rather crawled directly toward me. I hurried in the hope of being able to seize the hanging hook, now my only means of signaling the skiff, but I had hardly put my foot upon a gray rock outside when Ihe two writhing horns of the detestable monster were twining about me and again untwining. Then he would touch me with these and sweep them up and down as if feeling what kind of prey I was. "In my hand I held a crowbar, which I used to loosen the cargo. In my belt I carried a heavy sheath-knife. These were the only weapons I had. Suddenly and without any warning the monster threw out one of its arms and seized me below the shoulder. I felt as if my bones were being crushed. The more I resisted the more terrible was the pain. I still had the crowbar in my right hand, but it was of no use to me. iSo I let It drop. The monster's arm was terminated in a claw, which opened and shut convulsively. This horrible mouthshaped thing had two rows of shining white teeth as seen often on the inside of the two fingers of a lobster's claw. Several of these were piercing my arm almost to the bone. Some distance above the mouth-like hand I observed a Joint, and then I drew my knife. Rut alas! The heavy shell so overlapped the fleshy tissue that I could not injure my captor. "For the first time I saw those terrifying eyes move and turn upon me. The whip-like arms again began to move and curl about my body. His head was now only about a foot distant from my body, and. drawing my knife once more, I plunged it Into the eye near me, turning the blade round and round.. I saw that I had destroyed the eye, for an Inky fluid Issued ont of the socket, darkening the water about his head. This checked the aggressive movements of the animal, but it did not seem to hurt it. I waited until it turned its head so that he might be able to see his prey with his other eye. "This was what I wanted, and with a swift thrust I sent my knife into his other eye down to the hilt. The creature reeled and the grip on my arm slightly relaxed, but though totally blind my captor did not release his hold. "The agony of my arm soon grew unbearable. Then the light went out of my eyes and I remembered nothing more. "When I recovered my senses I was In the skiff and learned how the divers, alarmed at my long silence below, had come down. They saw my plight, and after a time succeeded In severing my arm from tha body of the fish, which they both declared was the awful deep sea lobster." ("bra Seek a Dead Mate. It is a comon belief in India that If a cobra Is killed and the remains are left in a bungalow others of the species will be attracted to the spot. A correspondent of the Pioneer Mail records an incident which appears to indicate, as he says, that there is some truth in this theory. About nine months ago Col. Ilderton killed a very large cobra in the compound of his bungalow at Dinapore, and had Its skin stuffed and set up by a native moehee. Since then the compound has been Infested with these snakes, and no less than eight full-grown cobras, measuring from four feet eight inches to five feet four inches, have been killed there, one of which was sitting up. with Its hood extended, contemplating the house where the remains of its preserved friend were. It is a curious fact that every snake when found was making In the direction of the bungalow, and most of them showed fight when tackled. The last two were within a few feet of each other when Col. Ilderton killed them with a stick, and were advancing upon the carriage drive together. No cobras have been seen in other part.? of the station. 11 it In; Cards. You can obtain a pack of best quality playing cards by sending fifteen cents in postage to P. S. EUSTIS, Grn'l PaS3. Agt., C. & Q. R. R., Chicago, Hi.

HOW BABIES SUFFER VThn fbeir trader Pkina are literally O Fins wita lu-hin and llurniaa Eczema and other Itchlag, hesly, aud Ciotchy t-kia od -alp lieaiwa.

ritn lom of Hair, none but mother reali7e. To know tbat a sieg! ai'j'Uration of tbo CUTICURA Remedies will afford Imme, dlale reltcf, pencil ml and eleep, and point to a peedy and cono"icl cure, and n t . - . : y i t w ur.-r icein, is iu mil in jiiur duty, rarrat, ava your children yoara of D-cl-loa suffering frota to:tiirini and dUliicurini; erup. lions. 'cti-u:a P.fsedie are the greau-at siin cures, blood purifier, and humor remotiiea of modern tirsea. Hold everywhere. TOTTER Dct'O ASH 'IITMICAL CriRPflllATlf, Iineton. eT Uow to Cure fcUn Dices " mailed free. PSDV'C Winand Fct!p pnribVd and beautified UrtO I O ty CtTiciEA SoAr. Alf oluuly pura. cfVS PAINS AND WEAKNESSES J.:r i.y Heürved In one minute by tbtit new, jr- eleiraat, and Infallible Antidote to Pain, innammanrm. ana ertkn, toe i;uucur Anti-rain flatter. i ceraU. IX TIIE PITILESS TIDE Erie Svennan Stared Death In the Face for Seven Hoars. Seven hours clinging for life to the keel of an overturned boat, expecting to be swept from his frail support by the angry waves every moment. It was no wonder that Eric Svenson, a Sputh San Francisco fisherman, said: "Thank God for his mercy," when he was rescued from his perilous position about 4 o"clock yesterday morning'. lie was brcuRht safely back to town by Joseph Garcia, a crab-fisherman. Svenfon's boat was upset about 9 o'clock Friday night while he was setting his nets out in the bay, near Sha? rock, and he was almost drowned before he could free himself of his heavj' rubber boots and secure a hold on the keel of the boat. The tide was running strong and Svenson at once realized that his chance of being picked up was very slim, as there were very few people out on the bay at that late hour and his only hope was that he might be discovered by some of the vessels at anchor In the bay. There was a nasty sea on, and the stiff breeze soon chilled Svenson through and through, but in spite of the cold he clung with desperate energy to his frail surprt. A dozen time3 during the night he was almost torn off the boat's bottom by the heavy waves that beat over him, but with almost superhuman strength he hung on and prayed for deliverance. The phantom of the little cottage, with his young wife and two babes waiting for his return, wa.s constantly before his eyes and Svenson says that the thoughts of what would become of them if he failed to get back v as maddening and seemed to infuse new strength into his stiff, tired fingers that clung to the rugged keel. S enson did not expend his strength in useless shouting for aid when he knew It was unlikely any one would hear him. but when, as sometimes happened during the night, his boat drifted near some vessel at anchor In the bay, lie shouted lon and loud for help; but no answering cry came back r the wretched man over the dark, foam-flecked waters. As the boat driftf-d down past Ooat Island Svenson made deeperat efforts to paddle near enough to the rocks fo that he could swim ashore, but with nothing but his feet for paddles his efforts only succeeded in moving the heavy boat a few feet, and as the island faded away in the darkness he gave up to the hopeless task in despair. As the craft was carried farther and farther down the bay the hope of rescue diminished. When near Alcatraz Svenson shouted, almost screamed for help, hoping he would be heard by tome of the sentries on the island, but no help came. He still flung with what little strength he had left to the bottom of the boat and wondered how much longer he had to live, for he knew that once the boat drifted out past the heads the heavy swells would soon tear him from his last hold on life. Svenson says he saw the lights of several vessels after ho drifted past Alcatraz. but he did not go near them and he was too much exhausted to shout. He seemed in a trance as the whirling tiJe swept him out past the Golden Gate nnd toward the ocean and death, and as the lights of San Francisco faded away In the distance he sank Into Insensibility. "When he again opened his eyes he found himself being dragged into another boat and then began to realize that he was saved. Garcia made c.n effort to tow the upturned boat back to port, but was unable to do so and it was abandoned. Garcia was on his way In from Pilot boat cove when he caught right of the boat, and on going nearer found Svenson lying as if dead across her bottom. The sturdy fisherman realized that if the man was to be saved he had to work quick, as the limp form of the exhausted castaway was in imminent danger of being washed overboard. Garcia soon had the man safe ia hi3 own boat. A big drink of brandy soon put new life into the poor follow and he was landed at Harbor View at 7 o'clock yesterday morning not much the worse for his experience. The lost boat and fishing tackle Was valued at $225, but Svenson had not a regretful thought of that as he Jumped on a car ami started for his home. San Francisco Examiner. II EX NETT IS IX LICK. Finds a. III Gold Vein In His Sline In a Rich Country. Nelson Bennett isn't broke yet, not by a long shot. lie has a five-foot vein of gold in his mine in Montana, which has not yet been worked and which promises to make his mine one of the richest ever struck in that state. "It's good news to get just at this time and it makes me feel pretty good," said Mr. Bennett, as he showed the telegram to the reporter. "The mine is about nine miles north of Thilipsburg on what is known as Gold Creek mountain, at the divide between Gold Creek and Iloulder Creek, in Montana. Boulder Creek country, you know, was famed in the early days for Its rich placer mines. The old town of Pioneer Is up in that country. It was one of the richest mining towns In the West years ago. That is a very rich country up there and the find may be a very good one. "We have had the men working on the mine for some time past. The mine Is on the mountain and the vein that was struck yesterday was in what 13 known as the third tunnel. We have been working In three tunnels on the mine, the third one being in about 600 feet and about 2.600 feet down. The vein is only Ighteen Inches on the surfaee. but even -at that size it has been paying J2 per ton. You can figure out yourself what it may be worth." Tacoma New.

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Edition's Littest. Mr. Edson has Invented a toy for g-orwn-up folks, but it promises to be a very interesting toy. By an application of an old principal familiar in the nursery a series of Instantaneous photographs cf a person singing or dancing are pawed rapidly before the eye, creating the effect of an actually singing and dancing figure. Meanwhile a phonographic attachment furnishes the word and music of the song. Mr. Edson intends to provide these Instruments not with single figures, but with whole opera companies on the stage, so that one may sit at home and both see and hear "Alda" or "Lohengrin" at will without hearing1 also the impertinent chatter of those who go to the opera to be seen and whose disregard of the right and comfort' of others is the leading characteristic of their excessively bad manners. N. Y. World. Is your blood pure?. Take Beecham's ruis.

THE SWINDLERS WORSTED.

THEY ARE CLEVERLY CAl'CHT AT THEIH OWX GAME. Ther Drop fl.SOO, but After an ExcitingChnae from a Hotel Into the Street Make Good Their Eeie The. Officers of Xew York Tuking n Hand in the Affair. It sometimes happens in the lives of the most skilled of swindlers that they mistake their men. Such a thing happenned in a "spider and fly" game attempted at the American house Friday afternoon about 5 o'clock. At that hour the people in the hotel lobby were startled by two men running down the stairs and out into the street, one In rapid pursuit of the other. It was an uncommon occurrence for this quiet hotel, and thereby hangs a tale. Not very long ago a farmer living near Brooklyn village corresponded with a "green goodö" man of New York City. The latter came to Cleveland and the farmer paid him J500 for what he supposed was $1,500 counterfeit money. The swindle is an ol 1 one. The "green goods" man counted out $1,500 in good new bank notes, which the farmer supposed were the counterfeits that would defy detection. The money was then put in a box, the attention of the farmer was diverted and a simple trick substituted a box containing a wad of green paper for the precious bank notes. When the farmer reached home and examined the package he of course discovered the swindle. Owing to the fact that he attempted t buy counterfeit money he and his frifvis are studiously concealing his name. The farmer was enraged and resolved to be revenged. He told his friends, and two men who heard of It Edward Gates and a Mr. Ord of Brooklyn villageplanned to trap the "green goods" sharpers. They entered into correspondence with the "green goods" agent, and It was arranged that they would meet him at the American house on Friday. With the "green goods" agent came a bunco companion and one of them registered at the hotel as William Jackson. Gates and Ord met the men at the hotel. One of the agents remained on the sidewalk in front of the hotel with Ord to prevent him from engaging in conversation with any one, and the other accompanied Gates to a room in the hotel. As they started up stairs the bunco man asked Gates: "Have you got your jr?" Gates said yer, and showed the agent a roll of bills which he held in his hand. "Here's the $1,500, too," replied the agent, and he let Gates peep into a box that he carried". The two men entered the room and Cites received his instructions. The counterfeit money would bo left In the b:; and taken to a place of safety, from whr-re, at a safe and convenient hour, Gates could get it. "You had better count the money here on tile table," said Gates. The agr-nt counted out $1.503 of as good money as the eyes of man ever rested upon. As the last bill was stretched on the tempting pile Gates suddenly drew a revolver from his hip poeket, levelled It at the head of the "green goods" apent, and, grasping him with his hft hand, exclaimed: "I am a U. S. detective, and you ars my prisoner." There was a wild stare In the eyes of the swindler. Then, with a suddenness and force that almost threw Gatea off his ft, the asrent Jerked himself loose and dashed out of the door, leaving his $1.500 lying on the table. Gates went in pursuit, and the two men tore through the hallways, down the stairs, into the lobby below and out on the street. The hdy guests were frightened, and the gentlemen stood looking on In amazement and wonder. The bunco agent made good his escape, and Gates returned to the hotel. In the meantime the companion of the agent had disappeared But later in the evening a man giving the name of Mnthew Nicholson was arrested at the hotel on the charge of being a suspkious person. It is thought possible that NieholsoYt is the man who registered as William Jackson. The $1,500 in money was locked up in the hotel safe, and will probably remain there for some time. Patrolman Bleasdale arrested Nicholson. The tuTicer refused to give any information. Gates and Ord are highly respited gentlemen, and their only object was to thwart the swindlers. XO CHAXC'C TO KILL FOLKS. Here's a. Xew Electric Motor Xot In League with Death. Down In "the Gut" in Coney island there Is a new kind of electric motor running on 1.200 feet of track. Yesterday afternoon there was a trial of it and K. T. Duck. Julien Myers, R. L. Keen, William if. Safford, W. Howard Gilder, a well-known railroad man; J. S. Badger, the expert for the General electric company; George P. Platt, W. H. Jasper and J. C. Savery of Des Moines went down to look at it. The live wires on this sample road are run in a slot between the tracks l.ike a cable road. They are Insulated and" covered with lead pipe, so the current can't get away. There Is a wire on each side of the sloi. Every three and one-half feet on one side or the other is a contact arm, which touches a long, slim canoeshaped arrangement called a shoe, rigged to the bottom of the car. There is an elastic trass strip on each side of the shoe and three of these arms touch these brass strips at a time. The shoe connects with the motor under the car and there Is a continuous current of electricity. As the shoe comes past each arm a circuit i made and after it passes the arm is dead. It transmits electricity only after it touches the shoe. The contact arms are fastened on paraffined wooden boxes, which inclose the w!res and are filled with solid parafflne and parafüne oil. Two copper lugs, bolted to the live wire, stand up In the midst of a flooring of parafflne. Between these lugs is a copper brush, which Is surrounded by parafflne oil, the best Insulator known. When the contact arm is pushed against by the shoe the brush strikes one of the copper lugs and the circuit Is made. As the shoe passes by a spring throws the arm out again and breaks the circuit. It is said that this is the most perfect insulation obtainable, and It Is asserted that 1.000 volts can be used with this system, whereas 500 volts is the most the ordinary trolley dare use. Thus a wire one-fourth the gauge used by the overhead trolley can be used, which would mean a big saving In copper. The motor went around the sharp curve without trouble. Elbert Stetson declared that a curve of twenty-four foot radius would make no trouble. Mr. Stetson, who has been superintending the operation of the new system, said it could be operated on the Broadway ctblc road without interfering with the rope. lie says that the conduit for the electric road could be built for $20,000 a mile, whereas It costs between $10,000 and $50.000 for the cable conduit. "Some electricians will tell you," said Mr. Stetson, "that they can put on the axle 75 per cent, but honestly. In an ordinary trolley road, between 35 and 40 per cent, gets to the axle. We can do from 10 to 15 per cent, better, because our leakage Is practically nothing. There is no danger of live wires falling on people, killing horses or burning out telephone boxes; It doesn't disfigure the streets, it doesn't make the racket, and It is cheaper to operate by 15 per cent. "Four men have had to do with the invention of this system. The man who Invented the shoe Is John J. Green. C. S. Van Nuls has some Ideas In It; so has John II. Dale and O. T. Woods, a colored man. but Green did the most." "Tell the truth." said R. L.. Keen. "Stetson did the most of it." New York World.

THE ZITHER, A Blind Girl History of Ita Development from Ancient Daya.

In giving the history of the zither, from its remote ancestors down to its present state of perfection, I find great pleasure in describing my favorite instrument and also feel justified by the fact that, though we have numerous accounts of the homes and histories of nearly all the musical instruments the zither Is hardly mentioned among them even In descriptions of its near relations, the modern guitar and the oldfashioned flute. The zither Is proba bly of Asiatic origin; the word being derived from the Persian Seh, meaning three, and tar. a string. We might expect to find the zither mentioned with the harp and psaltery of biblical times, but as much in thoe early days con-, sisted merely In producing loud tones, the softer notes of the zither did not (we may suppose) figure very generally In those ancient orchestras, but, when this instrument had found its way to the more enlightened land of Greece, where it became a klthera with five and later with eight strings it was far better known and appreciated. We can now imagine the fond lover choosing a kithera to serenade his lady fair, first with soft, caressive tones, but by and by as fervent devotion increased, the volume of sound was also augmented by the use of a plectrum or quill. This instrument was first a triangular shape and afterward that of a half moon, but its course Is not traceable beyond this period, until about A. D. 900, when one existed in the monastery of St. Blasius in the Bla k Forest. Germany. This Instrument was destroyed In the monastery fire of 1T6S, but a tracing. indicating its rudimentary character has been preserved. It consisted of a long, narrow sounding board containing nine strings. It was curved slightly at the back or part where the strings are longest, while the front or fingerboard side was straight, having also a small, straight handle protruding from the left side. Five centuries later the cithern, as It was called, was known in Venice, the south of France and parts of England, but was much better appreciated in Austria and the Tyrolean Alps a century or two later. A person standing in a wide stretch of land and calling to some one at a considerable distance will use for the first syllable a low, and for the second a much higher tone. Now, from this twonote call the wild, fascinating Alpine music has been developed. The zither, with its power of sustaining notes, can render these jodies with an added charm. It was natural that the zither should find a home in the hearts of these simple peasant folk, one of whom, Petzmeyer (born In 1810). with natural musical ability, did much to make this instrument more widely known throughout Europe, by playing his native laendlers or country dances in most of its principal cities. At this time the zithef possessed twenty-eight and later thirtythree strings. Tfce finger-board, or part which contains frets, formerly possessed three strings and a whole tone to each fret: but now it is enlarged to five strings in length and two semi-tuiu-s in breadth. Finally, in the commencement cf 1KP'3 J. Gerbel, a zither teacher of New York City, conceived an Idea of constructing an instrument of maplewood, with a spruce sour.din-j board. This has given the instrument an added fullness of tone without detracting from its former sweetness, and it alt-o makes It grow more melodkus with agt. It i.. therefore, my hope that this charming little instrument may become more and more used, as it can render equally well the melodies, both gay and sad. of many nations, and it thus speaks a language which is understood by all. Louise M. Lee in the Brooklyn Eagle. MOLES 0 TIIK FACE. Why They Are Seldom Removed Electricity Dispones of Theui. "I cannot tell you why so many people wear moles on their faces." said a physician. "If has always been a mystery to me. They are certainly very disfiguring. One often sees a woman, otherwise good-looking, with an unsightly excrescence on her chin or lip, perhaps with a tuft of hairs growing out of it. Now, why should that be? "There is certainly no reason for putting up with such a disfigurement nowadays. It can easily be removed by wellknown surgical processes. If It were necessary to resort to the knifs the slight scar left would be Infinitely less ugly. Fuch an operation is almost painless, the mole being cut In two down the middle and extirpated in a moment. Incidentally, the hairs are removed permanently by the destruction of the follicles from which they grow. "But there is a simpler and better method than thnt which can usually be applied. A needle connected with one pole of an electric battery ia thrust gently down into the center of the excrescence. Then the current is turned on for a brief instant, heating the needle white hot, and It destroys the root of the mole. There is very little pain involved, and It Is all over In a moment. Moles, like warts, are abnormal developments of the skin. The root being destroyed, the growth is atrophia! and quickly disappears, never to return. "Sometimes you will see a mole in an advanced stage of development, which is attached to the skin only ;y a very narrow neck. To dispose of it is the simplest matter in the world. Here Is a little instrument, which, as you will observe, consists of nothing more than a tube main. The only way to extirpate them is by the electric needle, which Is thrust down Into the bottom of each follicle, a slight current destroying the root. I have known women to go to great expense to have excessive growths of hairs removed from their arms in order that they might wear evening dress. Brunettes are mucn more apt to be troubled In that way than blondes." Washington Star. AS IF HE WEI1E DEAD. Lon;; Conllnned Strngrffle and Tortures of a Man In a. Trance. "You have undoubtedly read now and again In the daily newspaper accounts of persons lying in a trance." said Frank Grainger to a reporter of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. "I am one of those persons. It is very harrowing to me to read accounts of people lying In this condition and being put in a coffin and even stored In a vault before they come to. I have even read of where a few weeks after some necessity caused disinterment and then the body was found turned face down as though there had been a struggle for freedom. "My experience went no further than fifteen hours, I am certain, but that was enough, thank you. The fact is, I awoke one morning in my room, feeling quite rested. I know that I had spent a pleasant night in sleep, and I lay speculating without moving or caring to open my eye. Then I thought of getting up. I felt rather chilly, I thought, but still comfortable. When I wanted , to open my eyes I couldn't. When I tred to put my hands to them I didn't move. Then I struggled to stir at all. but it waa only a mental struggle.' I then devoted my entire faculties to myself. I tried to call, but couldn't My mind actually seemed to be ready to burst with rushing blood and confused thought. Then a relapse came, and I felt stuplfled. I didn't care whether I moved or not. "Then came alternate periods of mental struggle and stupor. In the afternoon I was discovered by my landlady, who came to look after the room. It seemed astounding to me to think that I should be compelled to lay there and appear as one dead. 1 heard everything that went on; hear her cans, but could not answer. She called others of the family and a doctor. lurnlng my fingers and feathering my nose didn't disturb me. I coulaa't feel it. I came around about 10 o'clock that night. When I did I came with a bound, and I was nervous for a week after. The tfcought of that probably coming again t a conntant nonrc of worrv to ma '

R. R. R. RADWAH

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Tbo Cheapet nnd L-t lez:c:m rr Family Ue tu llio V. or 1.1. Fers Thront, Coldt, Couehi, Pneumonia, Croo eh i til, Infltnimation. Conct:oir. loSaeoM, Diäicult Ur&iLiuK curstl a4 prrnK4 by RADWAY'S READY RELIEF lsf!sransUs of th KUuer. Xa!Uu'aU st tlw ii;ldr, IufliiiU u t th it-tU, 1 '- Uam ol thm i.un, i'aiinuitioa of ui II met. ilrat -r-). Croup. I'ibiiiärr:, Cv.srrii. la.1ei. Clt, ttUU. AM CttiU, Cliilbiniii, r'rotl-bile, Krr (MM, Ili".JmaaM. TV ppiuMLUaa ( Uta HEVDT ß Cil &.T t part or rti wlivrs ttv Jiftigjllf uf tmu frol rnrl -e n I ernlort. Oitl est :a ue tiiat io iiutMllf Up la- il is lam.tr rcl.avo mud mjju cur. Rheumatism. Neuralgia, hciatit-a. Toolh;u liti, Illf'.lUlUlAlioo, Ant liuia, 1 ii tt nMizj. Lulttcult Hrenthinx, Lumbago, Swelling of the J .La. Palna 1 Xiadwar iCaly Kelu-r la u t r for V.wwf i'uin, !?p.-ain, Hru;rs. It Wo tUa .first and ia tiio Only PALN REMEDY That lnttaoMf tta azeruaiataf -a. allafa latiaaniaiioB. an. I car CtMixontia. vuulUor ol laa Langt, Slouaoll, fcala er olUar (ianda r raat. Pr. BaJway : I b ro uaad your KaaJ- it lif TlUa ad erapari.llaa 1'awoWaul. and tti.nK tint lutf tri Iba standard raaiatüaa ol Uis worUL TaaraaM Vtten all othara iaii. Aa. 1. lL FRED VL McCüEEDY. tstSMJUU, til. Dr. BaJaaf: I hara aaad yaar uivdioMt lartl yaara, aod haa aural U d-aaaM I aar rar traatad. I hava aurad ea.ai ata dar doclr bat giTea ap aa hopalaa. I toara loa fraat auoaaaa IUI loflaruaiatorf rbauaaaUaaa, March 8, 11. -Mai 3. 8. SCHEU 1NTEKSALLY. a ba'.f to a eMiMMil ia I tumbier at vai-r will, ia a l-a? aaaoutaa, eara t raiapa, pama. to ixt Hurnah. Naaaaa. Vomittig, liaarlburn, HarrisiaaM. ,aar!ajnwai, ÖWk iiai ch, Durihat, CjIio, Uulc7. bA iuv boraai 1 ainc Mularia in It Various Form Cured and l'rere-ntevl. Tbara is not a raaaadial agaat ia aba world t'aat will cura ietr aod au and all oiber waHrtotM, tUUiuf. and other f?vr. ailed hr KKt)iXY I PUA. soquiokir aa HDVTAY'3 UEA.LY KtUfc.1T. A -.r Cr- Jr -v.r mm BiUWAVS KtAbY ttlXlEr i a atr cara well as a pravaulif ol 'aBr aal Aaa. litra if a remoilr ior iioiuU that wdl aur tula dlaaa utdf, and euaoki parsoai tu ia ia tta ar district, iraa from attacks. TaU Mfjruiiiai lajioc of ajua eura. qtilaia, ctiJ-ogof loa, a;a, U taacarad löouaaud. Twsak dMM m " tul. ia a a-laaa of wavar, uits ths tirsl tolo m Unj oat of bod la ba morula, will yrn lb if tm trow attacks. 0a Si-ctnt btüa wUl jra a act:r family . aad Lava oaitmia lof wUp ail lall o: tain thai n; truubla yoa, iiuar irota aaaiiaat or diseaa. 50c per Bottle. Sol J by Drvgghta. u Sarsapariliian Resolvent. 5CSBg Th a Oroat ni.d lariflr. For the Cow of Chronic Disem CUronia Bba isal iia. Sor.f ula, Haou-is x-"? Wotoair doaa tba bar.afaxulaliaw.raul aiaal a.l remedial aKaate la lb- Cat I Curonio, aara. . CauUtltoual aod daia ihiaca, I" U pcail t cun fr KIDNEY AND BLADES. COMPLAINTS Graral. D.aoetea, Lro,.r, Siosw l Wfaiar. laooiiUua. oao! Unue, B .fa laa Alb . 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Sick Hradach-, Foul Stomach, EKioune, wilt ba aToidnl. aa tba fool ttut ii eatan roatrtbutaa lta aouriahir j prooerttea for tba support of tba natural wa.ta of tue body. avaTObsarta tba followiag ayraptomi raaaltiaf (root diaaatt ol lbd.guira organs: CuaiUpaUoa, toward pilaa. lallaea ul blood ia tha haad, aaidity ot tba atotaeeb), irnot, beartbura. daaet el tooA, lalinars or woiut ol tba aiomaaaaur eructattaaa, inking or fluttering of. tlia hart, ohokin ortafoailng aeanaliwoa waeo la a lyi i postura, diaaaait of vision, dots or waOs lefora tba eiabt, favar sal dull paia ia tba haJ, deAoieucy perapiratioa, yadowneea ol tha skia aad a rat, paia ia th alia, haul, I tabs aad aud Jea Baabes o( beat, burauvc la tbr tlaab A l. w doaasof KADWAY S PILLS will frsa tba .trui ol alt tba a oor uaia ! dixordara. l'rice 20c per Box. Hold by all Druggist. 1K RAILWAY A CO.. Nob 32 Warren at., Naw" Vork, a Hi mail boo ot Advicaoa application, 11 8u rat to Jt "Itadw'.'