Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 32, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 February 1897 — Page 6

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A FEMALE MEMBER.

EVERY GANG OF COUNTERFEITERS HAS CONTAINED A WOMAN.

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a Weakness of the Sex, and They Are Frequently Very Clever—Some of the Women Who Have Been Convicted of Making and Pawing "Queer" Money.

Women have a weakness for counterfeiting. The first person ever executed for that crime was a woman. She was an English woman named Barbara Spencer and was put to death in 1721 for mating false slrilliugs. fehe was strangled and burned at th^take. Curiously enough, her accomplices were acquitted.

Nancy Kidd was one of the most remarkable female counterfeiters ever known in this country. She belonged to a family of noted forgers. She carried on her nefarious trade for more than 80 years in Chicago, and was arrested there many times. On one of these occasions a lot of fiber .per was discovered on her person. The government officials were completely at a loss to know how she ha.l obtained this. Finally she confessed that a chemical solution had been used to v.visli the faces of the notes and make them perfectly clean. Thus she was in the habit of taking $1 bills and changing them into L-irger denomina tions. The frovermnent authorities released her in return for this valuable information and for telling them what the solution was. However, they had her shmlowed by detectives and finally caught her witli $17,000 worth of counterfeit money in a box. She was found guilty upon seven different indictments for coui.b rf

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eighty :iw i.i the state prison, where she fii died. One ,[' the cleverest-tricks ever played on Undo Sam was invented by a woman who liv'd in Philadelphia. Her plan was to take £10 and $20 goldpieces and with a small drill worked by steam power to l:ore out the insides and then refill them with some base metal, being very careful that they should weigh exactly tho rif.rht amount when she had finished. This she accomplished by drilling through tho milled edge of the coin, and then, after filling tho hole, cover it with a little of the extracted gold. In this way she mado $7.50 on every eagle and about $10 on every double eagle. The officials of tho secret service say that this is tho safest device over invented for cheating tho treasury.

Counterfeiting is very apt to run in families. This, of course, is natural, as a father firings up his son or daughter to follow his profession. Women who would ol herwiso bo good are often led into thi.iKorfc of crimo by marrying men who carry it on as a business. But sometimes it works tho other way—women teach tk ii- husbands how to make false money. This is what happenod when Ben Boyd lmirried Mary Ackerman of Indiana. Hor father was ono of tha most su-cessful counterfeiters of his day, and his daughter had a thorough acquaintance with tho art. Mrs. Boyd carefully taught her husband all tho secrets of tin"! trade, and ho became one of tho most- fatuous forgers of the age.

They curncd on tho business with r\ a high degivo of skill that they wero r.ipt-ured for years, and when nt last the m-ivt servieo Hawkshaws did run then down not a single counterfeit plate, or coin was found in their possess! i. When their houso was seareheu. s?s.000 in good money was found. This small amount was all tho had accumulated during all of crime. Of courso tho oftl1 not touch it Afterward suffl:ice was secured to convict

money their yt cers cou cicnt e\. them, They be. in state settled ontly li.

I they were sent to prison. claimed to bo converted while 1 on, and after their release

Chicago, where they apparan honest life. hat annoyed the secret service

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very mi' !i was that of a woman who employ* a clover dodge. She went to a lar sh and selected a valuable shawl. To pay i'r this she handed the clerk a United: ates treasury note for $1,000. he nionev and disappeared, not for several minutes. When he she asked him why he had waiting, and he confessed that '••iMt the bill to a bank near by that it was good. Sho pretended to 1h very angry and said that she wouM not buy the shawl on any account a" I walked out of the shop. A little la!or in the day she returned and said that as she could not find any other shawl t-l.at suited her as well in the other shops she had decided to take it in spite of the insult offered her. She gave him the $1,000 bill, and, getting the shawl and the change, left the shop. The owner of tho shop afterward discovered that the note he finally accepted was a counterfeit The first bill had been gtxni, but on her return sho gave him the false one, which was a wonderfully clever imitation. The secret service was much agitated about this and several others of the $1,000 bills which turned up, but they have since captured the plates.

He too!, returns came ba kept he he had to be su

Practically every gang of counterfeiters ever arrested has had women associates. In the office of the secret service in Washington there is a large frame, 4 feet square, filled with the photographs of women who have either made or passed false money. Men almost always employ their wives or daughters fear the purpose of 'shoving'' their counterfeits. —Washington Post.

Sot Out In the Spring.

Spring i* a better time to set trees than fall, because at that season trees are beginning to grow and will, therefore, be in a condition to respond more readily to treatment, while in fall they are unlikely to establish themselves before ©old weather sets in. Preserve the roots to the fullest possible extent and do not disturb the tree until after it has ripened and has shed its foliage- If the roots are cut away, as they almost invariably are in spring planting, be sore to cut back the top proportionately.—Eben & Rexford in Ladies' Home Journal.

Hunting the Ballad.

In no field of literature have the forger and the manipulator worked with greater vigor and success. From Percy's day to our own it has been thought an innocent device to publish a bit of one's own versifying now and then as an "old ballad or an "ancient song." Often, too, a late stall copy of a ballad, getting into oral circulation, has been innocently furnished to collectors as traditional matter. Mere learning will not guide an editor through these perplexities. What is needed is, in addition, a complete understanding of the "popular" genius, a sympathetic recognition of the traits that characterize oral literature wherever and in whatever degree they exist. This faculty, which even the folk has not retained, and which collectors living in ballad singing and tale telling times have often failed to acquire, was vouchsafed by nature herself to the late Professor Child. In reality a kind of instinct, it had been so cultivated by long and loving study of the traditional literature of all nations that it had become wonderfully swift in its operations and almost infallible. No forged or retouched piece could deceive him for a moment. He detected the slightest jar in the genuine ballad tone. He speaks in one place of certain writers "who would have been all the better historians for a little reading of romancea He was himself the better interpreter of the poetry of art for this keen sympathy with the poetry of nature.—Atlantic.

American Women and Royalty.

"During the Prince of Wales' tour through Canada I had attributed the strange conduct of the ladies to an excess of loyalty. As soon as the prince had left a hotel they would rush into his rooms, seize all sorts of articles, from a furniture button to a soiled towel, as souvenirs, and even bottle up the water with which he had just washed his face," writes Stephen Fiske in Tho Ladies' Home Journal. "But in the United States the women were equally curious and sycophantic. The luggage of the royal party was carried in small leather trunks—a trunk for every suit of clothes—and whenever the train stopped the crowds would beg that some of these trunks might be handed out, and women would fondle and kiss them. I need not say that the trainmen were never too particular as to whose lnggage was subjected to this adoration, and I have had the pleasure of seeing my own portmanteau kissed by mistake. Before the prinoe arrived at Richmond his room at the Ballard House was entered by the ladies, and the pillowslips and white coverlet were so soiled by the pressure of hundreds of fingers that they had to be twice changed by the chambermaids. When he attended church on Sunday, the whole congregation rose as he departed and climbed upon the seats to get a better view of him."

Monotonous.

A well known physician once told a patient, who he suspected was receiving too many calls from solicitous friends, to mako a stroke with a pencil on a pieco of paper every time he was asked, "How are you today?"

The result for one day was just 24 strokes, and the physician immediately gave strict orders that no visitor should bo permitted to enter the sickroom until further notice, remarking to the nurse that if his patient must be worried to death there was at least no reason why it should be done in such an unscientific manner.

Only those who have suffered serious illness know how trying it is to be required to answer again and again the same question, asked by one well meaning individual after another. It would matter less if visitors contented themsolves with asking just the one question, but they do not, and the minute details of one's ailments become peculiarly depressing after a few repetitions.

Many people forget that rest and quiet are often invaluable agents in securing restoration to health.—Philadelphia Ledger.

Effectual Prayer.

There is an awful amount of so called prayer that is only from the throat outward it begins nowhere and ends in nothing. Such pointless repetitions of stereotyped phrases must be as wearisome to God as they are unprofitable to the utterers. There must be pith, point and purpose as well as faith in every effectual prayer. At an evangelistic meeting for "roughs" over in New York, when the leader called on some one to pray, a hard looking character in the crowd arose and said: "OLord, forgive me for being a bad man, and please excuse me, Lord, from saying any more now. Amen." He did not need to say any more. He had told God just what he wanted.—Rev. Dr. Cuyler in Central Presbyterian.

Botany.

Botany was scientifically discussed by Aristotle about 847 B. C. He is acknowledged to be the father of the science. Works on botany appeared in several European languages about the close of the fifteenth century, general attention being at that time directed toward the study of this science. The first encyclopedia of plants appeared in 1829.

Not Legal Tender.

"What's the matter, chum?" asked the college student of his roommate, who was making the air a dark blue. "Matter! I wrote the governor to send me some money for textbooks, and here he's sent me the books. I can never pay my bills at this rate."—Detroit Free Press.

The unity of earthly creatures is their power and their peace, not like the dead and cold peace of undisturbed stones and solitary mountains, but the living peace of trust and the living power of support, of hands that bold each other and are stilL—Ruakin.

The traveler from New York reach Sydney in 31 days.

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GRANT AT WEST POINT.

A Good Record as a Student and a High Record as a Man.

He was brevetted second lieutenant of the Fourth infantry and ordered to report to his command at Jefferson barracks, St Louis, after a short vacation.

The entire army of the United States at that time numbered less than 8,000 men, and the supply of officers was embarrassingly large. It was the custom, therefore, to brevet graduates second lieutenant

He graduated twenty-first in a roll of 89, with a fair reoord in all things—a good record in mathematics and engineering and a remarkable record as horseman.

More than 100 had entered with him, but one by one they had dropped out till only 39 remained.

Apparently Grant remained markedly unmilitary throughout the four years' course. He served as a private throughout the first two years. During the third year he was made sergeant, but was dropped (promotions at that time were made for soldierly qualities and had no exact relation to excellence in studies), and during the fourth year he served again as private.

The first year he took up French and mathematics, and though the course was severe, including algebra, geometry, trigonometry, application of algebra to geometry, etc., he stood fifteenth in a class of 60 in mathematices and fortyninth in French and twenty-seventh in order of general merit. The second year he climbed three joints in general merit and stood twenty-fourth in a class of 58. He stood tenth in mathematics, twenty-third in drawing, but was below the middle in ethics and French. In his thifd year he rose in his drawing to 19, and was twenty-second in chemistry and fifteenth in philosophy, which was a very good standing indeed. He rose to 20 in general merit, 16 in engineering, 17 in mineralogy and geology, but was a little below the average in ethics, artillery and infantry practice.

In general, it may be said that he left the academy with a good average record as a student and a very high record as a man.—Hamlin Garland in McClure's.

TESTING A WATCH.

How English Timepieces Are Tried as to Their Regularity.

There has been watchmaking at Coventry as long as there has beon a watch trade in England, which is for the last 200 years or thereabout. There used to be three centers of the English trade, these being Liverpool, Coventry mid London. Now there are practically but two—Coventry and Birmingham. The test of a good watch is that it should obtain a Kew certificate, and of the watches that go to Kew 75 per cent are from Coventry.

At Kew no watch has yet succeeded in getting the 100 marks which signify perfection, but Coventry has come nearest, with 92. mid is always well to the front The Kew test is no light one. The watch is tested in every position and its rate registered, not only per day, but per hour. It is hung by its pendant, hung upside down, hung on each side, placed dial down and back down and at any number of angles, and to finish up with is baked in an oven and frozen in an ice pail. No wonder that a watch with a Kew certificate is a comfort to its owner.

When it is considered that it makes 18,000 vibrations an hour and must not vary a second a week, while a quarter turn of its two time screws, meaning the millionth of an inch, will make a difference of 20 seconds a day, the delicacy of its adjustment will be appreciated, as will also the risk of intrusting its repair to any but skillful hands.— Jewelers' Review.

Fishing For Tuna, Santa Clara.

The fish ranged from 4 to 6 feet in length and from 75 to 800 pounds in weight, judging from their size. Like wolves they had rushed in from tho deep sea and were moving down the coast, stampeding a school of smelts and flying fish and driving them out of the water, snapping at them and following them up into the air. Moving on, we found the school of unfortunates, a brownish patch of solid fish in tho water, into which the tunas were charging.

I have fished in the haunts of the tarpon and taken almost every game fish to be found in American waters, but from this exhibition of the velocity and wonderful power of the tuna I did not believe it could be captured with a 24 ounce rod or a tarpon outfit. We baited with large smelt and began trolling through the school. I soon had a strike, and, Aftiile not unused to surprises, I lost 300 feet of lino and the tip of my rod so quickly that I hardly realized what had happened. My companion had his fine rod jerked from his hands, and I believe the fish was of the largest size, which nothing could stop. —Sportsman's Magazine.

Snake Dreams.

A well known authority on dreams and dream books says: 'To dream you see snakes or serpents shows that you will be imprisoned and encounter many dangers. If you are in love, your sweetheart will be false. To dream you kill a snake shows you will overcome difficulties and enemies and be successful in love, trade or farming, but unsuccessful at sea."

The Proposal of the Future.

She—Perfectly lovely club, isn't it? He—Are you a member? She—No. Only married women. are eligible.

He—Ah, would you allow me to— make you eligible to membership?— London Fun.

There is nothing purer than honesty, nothing sweeter than charity, nothing warmer than love, nothing richer than wisdom, nothing brighter than virtue and nothing more steadfast than faith.

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SHE HAS TALENT.

Young Woman of St. Iouis Who Will Win a Place In the Field of Art.

Miss Myrtle McGrew is one of the prettiest and most charming of St Louis' new crop of artists. She is the daughter of a well known merchant, and is possessed of remarkable talent She has been abroad for more than a year and is now studying in Paris. She will

aot return until a year hence, and will then be introduced to society by her mother, who is with her during her stay in Paris. Her efforts with the brush have, found great favor among the artists of the French capital, and, encouraged by their praise, Miss McGrew hopes to be able to let the world know of her existence. Miss McGrew has shown such ~apid development in her studies that the roseate hopes of her friends can by no means be said to be extravagant. It is said that her technique is remarkable for so young a student. Her efforts in black and white are really meritorious, especially her pen drawings, some of which show unmistakable signs of a talent full of possibilities. Miss McGrew inherits her beauty from her mother, who was aMiss Donaldson of Lexington, Mo., and whose beauty of person and character form a rare combination in womankind.

"Books In the Running Brooks I"

There is no knowing where the Bodleian library at Oxford will leave off. At present it is literally overflowing with the literature, if not the learning, of the age. It has, like the library of the British museum, to be supplied with a copy of every work published, and naturally the strain put upon its limited resources has been too great for it.

A long time ago the library itself could hold no more books, and the Radcliffe camera was called into the service of the librarian. That got full, and then the basement of the Sheldonian theater was obtained. This is also full now, and the basement of the Ashmolean museum is now a home for what would otherwise be homeless books.

At the present rate it is not improbable that the library will spread and spread until it completely overflows and swamps the whole university town itself. That, however, is not likely to be just yet, in spite of the activity of the "lady novelist."—Pearson's Weekly.

A Grandfather's Clock.

Baron Ferdinand Roths-child possesses an old "grandfather's clock" that originally cost over £30,000. The mechanism records the day of the week, month of the year, the phases of tho moon and strikes each hour. The quarters are chimed with a different bell, and (a rare thing with these clocks) it has a second hand. The case was made by Wertheimer and stands 14 feet high. It was originally the property of Louis XVI.

Poisonous Serpents.

All poisonous serpents have movablo fangs, wiiich are found in the upper jaw, and when not in use close up like the blade of a penknife. The fang is provided with a duet leading to the poison sac, mid the virus is ejected through this duct by pressure. At the base of every poison iang there are numerous germs of others, and the fang broken or lost is replaced in a few weeks by the growth of another.

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