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THE NATIONAL BIRK OF IDGDSTA J L. C. SAYNS, Pree't F. Q.FORD,Cashier. Capital, $250,000. UndivldcU Profits } ?110,000. Facilities of oar magnificent New Vault loontalning 410 Safety-Lock Boxes. Differ lent Sizes aro offered to our patrons and the public at $3.00 to f 10.00jer annum. THE PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK, AUGUSTA, GA. Fays Interest on Deposits. I Accounts Solicited. L. C. Hay ne, President. Chas, C. Howard, Cashier. VOL. LXVII. EDGEFIELD, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 3. 1902. Tie Gmt Lancaster Ci $ A Narrative of Truth ' tFict "It was ten millions or ten years. I We took the gambler's chance-ami lost." In these words William M. Jacobs, chief conspirator, epitomized the most gigantic counterfeiting plot ever un earthed by our government. Cn the day he uttered them he was a captive tel?n; only the day before he was * known to his fellow-townsmen in Lan - casterf> Pa., as a prosperous cigar manufacturer. His chief comrade in wrong doing was a neighbor, William L. Kendig, a manufacturer on a small er scale. Jacobs was the capitalist of the plot, but a man of meagre In ventive'"faculty and poor address; Ken dig was a born executive, a genius in resources, and had the gift of "soft approach," like a cat. During the Christmas holidays of 1897 a clerk from the sub-treasury at Philadelphia appeared in Washing ton with five $100 silver certif?calos bearing the vignette portrait of Pres ? ident Monroe.' The weak color of the red seal on their faces had aroused his suspicion. AU . the experts who scrutinized them, however, pronounced them perfect except as to the seal, and it had been about decided that they had been stolen from the government bureau of engraving, when one of the r.cte3 which had been steeped in hot water by Mr. Moran of tue secret ser vice split in two. Microscopic exam ination then showed that the green ink, soluble in acids, had been washed from the backs of two $1 notes; that their faces. being printed in a per manent black ink; had been shaved down or peeled off; and that the face and back d-ovices of a $100 certift / cate had been printed on the cleantd surf?ces, aud the thin pieces stuck to gether with rice paste. These excel lent notes were counterfeit. A circular of warning went at on*'.* to the banks, and every sub-treasury was ordered to ship- to Washington all the $100 Monroe-head certificat';.! it had on band. ?When these came in a number were found io bear the tell tale seal. The possible magnitude of the fraud gav.e the treasury a chill; end "Secretary Gage sent for John E. Wilkie of Chicago, a journalist who had done some shrewd detective work, appointed him- chief of the secret ser vice, and bade him win his spurs by running this affair to earth. That was in February. 189S; the last perron sentenced for connection with the crime went to prison a few days ago. The dtory of the four years* patient campaign I shall try to- give in out-, line. , proved that the .plates must haye been , made by .phot?-etching, helped out by hattd?work,':% "'process wl?ich experte* agreed could have taken not less than fciir.Tmonth?. The oldest'of'the Wi?-' terf?lts discovered'had been redeemed in June, 1897. Allowing a month ior their circulation before redemption, they must have been issued in May; and four months for their manufac ture would carry the date of begin ning them back to January. Armed with this logic, Mr. Wilkie took a trusted subordinate with him to Philadelphia, the chie^seat of the fine engraving industry in America, and the city where thc false notes had appeared in the greatest quantity. . They pretended to be about to open a high-class printing establishment, . where they woald . need engravers skilled in lathe work, and capable of copying vignette portraits for bonds and checks. This started gossip in the craft, and Mr. Wilkie soon heard of 18 or-20 men who were deemed com petent for such employment. Among them , were two partners, Arthur Tay lor and Baldwin 8. Bredel 1, who struck him as. being worth- knowing, for their friends had .laid wondering stress on the fact that, though young and only recently started in business for them selves, they had suddenly, in January, 1897, dropped out of their accustomed , haunts;;^Until April or thereabout, theirsshbp^had been closed-much of the time; but in spite of that both'after ward wore the air of prosperity, Bre den buying a fine diamond ring and Taylor taking a pleasure trip to Flor ida, j . Here-was a lead,' surely. A watch was set upon this eccentric pair, and for more than one year thereafter no person entered or left their shop in Fil bert street, and no package was deliv ered there; without careful note being made in the reports sent nightly to Washington by the watchers . The shadowing was unremitting, and it soon became plain that the firm was perfecting a machine for paper-making In a small way. One d?y in June, 1898, Taylor left the building with a gripsack for the railway station. A detective followed close In his footsteps,, and when Tay lor bought a ticket for Lancaster his ? follower did likewise. They rode in the same .car, and at their destination the officer saw hi3 mau meet Jacobs as by appointment and hold a long private conference with him. What use .has .a respectable cigar manufacturer for a "crook" engraver? This question buzzed In Chief Wilkie's brain .for. some hours after reading that day's report. Then an idea oc curred to him. He wrote to an agent in Chicago to ascert ain what tobaccon ist there dealt in Jacobs' cigars, and to purchase a. few boxes for him. Ho put the revenue stamps under the mi croscope, and the connecting lick was there. . His agent, on his orders, in spected 200 boxes. There was not a genuine stamp in the lot! Another group of detectives were therefore sent to Lancaster at once to watch Jacobs. They soon noted his intimacy with Kendig. about whose factory there seemed a cloud of mys tery. . A watch was set upon' that building as minute as on the en gravers' room in Philadelphia. Ere long it was found that Bredell, on one of his trips to Snow Hill, shipped a parcel of apparatus to Lancaster, where Kendig receipted for it. Pres- ! ently both Taylor and Bredell came to ! Lancaster and made a stay of some I )iterfeii? Coisfacy. | That is Stranger Than fr ion. r w* w w w ww-^? length under assumed names. With Jacobs and Kendig they spent much time in an inner room in the K?ndig place-a hireling named Burns, an ex policeman, acting ?d their picket guard; A hitch Occurred at this stage, to Un derstand which we must go over for a little into the camp of the malefactors. The collector of internal revenue for .che Lancaster district had assigned his deputy, one Downey, to inspect the Jacobs and Kendig factories. Sus-, picion had been aroused by the tact that Jacobs, though apparently doing a larger business than ever, was buy ing fewer stamps. Suddenly the col lector, after a visit to Washington, called Downey off the scent, and bade him make his examination merely per functory. No explanations were given: but Downey, who was short of money and had borrowed $100 of Jacobs, proved Iiis gratitude for the loan by telling his benefactor of the strange incident. Jacobs and Kendig took fright at this, and did the worst thing possible for themselves by carrying all their inculpating material off to an unfrequented spot near the city and burying it; for two detectives followed them on bicycles and made careful note of the hiding-place. The more Jacobs pondered the hint given him by Downey, the more con vinced he became that the secret ser vice had got wind,of his operations. How to avert this peril was the ques tion-. The whole gang lay qu'et from September tii January. Then Kendig suggested that there was a lawyer in Philadelphia, one Harvey Newitt, who, having been United States district at torney tinder a previous administra tion, was probably well acquainted with the personnel and methods of the Secret Service. Why not retain him to fip.d out what w?s afoot, and hold the detectives in check if need be? To return to tho watchers in Phila delphia. They observed that the gang had Gtiuck up relation" with some one in the Franklin building, where sev eral lawyers had their offices. For some time it seemed impossible to discover whom they visited there, but one day the riddle solved itself. New itt, who, with his partner, Ellery Ing ham, ?v. as quartered in the Franklin building, chanced to meet William J. McManus, one of the watchers, with whom he had some previous acquaint ance. In the course of a short con versation the lawyer remarked, signifi cantly/ "There rs a man in my office who would give $1500 for a little in ..formation.. about the Secret Service." Negotiations thus opened, McManus -was soon in..the pay of the gajag, dol ing out information carefully shaped according to instructions of Chief Wil .ki,e,vto whom., he turned, oxer his ..bribe money as past as received.-. The information which Newitt's client was willing to buy so freely must have had a most reassuring ef fect, for the whole gang wore beaming faces thereafter. The engravers went again into retirement. One day a camera was carried into their rooms, and the next a photographic printing frame was sunning itself on a fire-es cape outside of their windows. Simul taneously, the material buried near Lancaster was dug up and carried back to Kendig's shop, where work was apparently resumed. Taylor and Bredell went to luncheon as usual on April 18, 1899. When they returned two Secret Service men. who had been lying in wait, entered their rooms with them. The two counter feiters were quietly warned that they must make no disturbance, and that their wisest policy would be to confess in full and surrender the plates on which they were then ;tt work. They yielded gracefully, and the party fin ished plates of a fine $50 note passed into the hands of thc government. That evening Chief Wilkie and a handful of men ran over to Lancaster on a late train. Going directly to Ken dig's shop.-they let themselves in with a duplicate key; and s;it '.down in an inner room to wait for L.ornjng. About 7 .o'clock Burns came, and was hand cuffed before he realized what had happened. Twenty minutes later the door opened and the proprietor stood in their presence. "Good-morning, Mr. Kendig," was his greeting, in chorus: . He was too dumbfounded to re spond, but bowed to acknowledge that the jig was up. Cm receiving the same warning as the engravers, he surrendered his plates, his press, and nine tons of paper - for bogus stamp printing. The party then went after Jacobs, and captured him without trou ble, confiscating his factory and stock, levying upon his balance, in bank, and generally' providing for the recoup ment of the government's Ipsses from his frauds. Meanwhile, by instructions .of the chief, McManur had proceeded to the office of Newitt !n Philadelphia, and taken him into custody on a charge of attempting to bribe a government offi cer. Everything had been to timed that no one of the conspirators had had a chance to warn any of the oth ers, and it was supposed now that th? last depth of the plot had been sound ed. Newitt, in his negotiations with McManus, had made a special point of keeping all knowledge of what was going on from his partner, whom he represented as a man pf extreme pro bity. But Jacobs and Kendig, in the first flush of candid confession, in formed Chief Wilkie that all. their dealings in the bribery matter had been with Ingham, and that they had never given any money to Newitt. So a detective descended in due course upon Ingham, and th? .virtuous and the wicked partners were lodged to gether in jail. It was thought best also to lock up Deputy Collector Donney. The two engravers engaged for their counsel ex-Goverrlcr Pattison and John S. Semple. They attempted to gain partial immunity by hinting that they had made and buried the plates for a dangerous $10 note, which <. '.her par ties would use if they wen punished. But Mr. Pattison advised them not to trifle with justice, and through his in tervention the plates were dug up and put out Of harm's way. While in jail, however, they resolved to make an other effort to blackmail the govern ment. The necessary materials were smuggled in to them, and they rigged up a tent of blankets, beneath which they could work at night by the light of a taper without being seen by the guard in the corridor. Under these tiy?ng conditions they produced plates for printing a very clever counterfeit bf the $20 note bearing thc portrait of Hamilton: Bredell lured his father into helping him by a pretence that he had invented a mechanism for Iron ing cuffs in a laundry, and needed a small model to accompany his appli cation for a patent. The son fur nished the drawings, and the father made the machine, which was actually a press for printing false notes, and so small that it could bo packed in an ordinary cigar-box, with space to spare. With this apparatus Bredell and Taylor ran off a few bills, provid ing the paper in the same way as for the $100 note first discovered. Tay lor's brother Harry was taken into the secret, and the plan was. after a few of the counterfeits had been circulat ed, to send one to the treasury for judgment on its genuineness. It was then expected that the government, discovering so dangerous a counterfeit at large, would be ready to make al most any terms with its authors to have it suppressed. This scheme failed, however, through an accident not. necessary t? describe here. Harry Taylor, who had undertaken the handling of the notes outside, and a poor creature named Hayes, whom he had employed as his. tool, were arrested within five days of their beginning operations. This last defeat seemed to break the spirit of the engravers, who a ?a in confessed their guilt, but charged their junior counsel with having advised their course; and on the 'strength of their representations Semple was arrested, but after two trials he was discharged on a verdict of "not guilty." The trial of Newitt and Ingham re sulted in their conviction, but an at tempt to corrupt the jury was discov ered, and two more men, named Fair banks and O'Dea, were arrested for the offence. In all, 13 persons have been brought to the bar of justice In this remarkable case, and 12 con victed. Between the counterfeit stamps, which Jacobs had already used on mil lions of cigars before his capture, and the false silver certificates, the male factors might today have been rolling in wealth, and government and public proportionately poorer, but for thc miscarriage of the first $100 note. How came the defective seal on a piece of work otherwise so admirable? Poor human nature! The engravers had been originally mero employes of Jacobs, who was to pay them - $25 apiece; weekly, till theT)iofits' of the* scheme reached a certain figure. The i disproportion between their salaries and their ambitions stirred their im patience, till they decided one day to test the plates already made by print ing a few notes and trying them on a bank. The right kind of carmine ink was too expensive for their purpose, and. as this was a strictly secret side speculation, they could not borrow any money of their richer partner. So they bought some inferior ink, which was bright enough while fresh, but soon faded. The success of the ex periment was immediate and com plete, and they put out note after note. Their greed, as we have seen, was their undoing.-Harper's Weekly. GUAINT AND CURIOUS. The lantern of the Lundy Island lighthouse is 540 feet above high water, and can be seen 31 miles. The Cape Clear light is 450 feet above the sea. In only two cases have baronetcies been conferred on women in England. Once was in 1G86 on the mother of General Cornelius Speelman. The other, was Dame Maria Bolles, made so by Charles I. Most pf the railway stations in Rus sia ? are . about two miles from the towns which they respectively serve. This is a precaution against fire, as many of the Russian dwellings are thatched with straw. , The oldest steam engine now at work is believed to be a Newcomen winding engine at Farme colliery, Rutherglen, hear Glasgow. It was built in 1809, and has worked con tinuously to the present time. Tattooed on the body of a man who lost his life in the South Wost India Docks were a crucifix, elephant, tomb stone, dog, eagle, figures of Punch and Judy, cross-flags, and the word "Love" in large letters. A peculiar snow observed on Mont Malet In the Alps has bern reported by M. A. Brun. It is called "Cauca sian snow," and is very porous, with grains reaching an eighth of an inch in size. The slight adhesion of these grains gives great liability to aval anches. The difference of color between green tea and black tea depends on the fact that the first is obtained from leaves dried as soon as they are gath ered, while in the raso of thc black tea, the leaves are allowed to fer ment before drying. Rlark tra. there fore, contains much less tannin than green. A unique specimen of ocean lifo has been raptured at Honolulu.for the United States fishing vessel Albatross, now cruising in that vicinity. It is a small fish which has four foot. They are webbed like tho feet of a frog, and are apparently tho link between foot and fin. Tho.specimen is said to be one of a few .such fish found in the world. Hntort TtlvnU. Karper--Well, I'd -ike to know what's the difference between a "shop ghi" and a "saleslady," anyway. Harper-I give it up but lue differ ence between salesladies ore some? times fierce.-Philadelphia Press, THIS BALE OF PANAMAS One would hardly think that the valu 400. Yet such ls the fact, for it contains ?100 apiece. The bale is shown just as it Chimborazo, Ecuador. What appears a s making a gross in each bale. The hats a shape on maleback, and are blocked an( can cities. TRAPS FOR Ingenious Devices of the Cunning Troops in the Philippines. 999' SERVING as au enlisted man through the Philippine War, I came across many odd trenches, barricades and block ades erected by the ingenious Filipinos, who always calculate these fortifica tions with a view of retreating from them in the event of being pushed by the American troops. But I never saw\ trenches and barricades of the order of those utilized by the cunning Moros. The writer accompanied the first large expedition against the Moros, id' April, and had an opportunity to ob,; serve the entrenching customs of the Moro soldier. There is on the Island of Mandauao what is known as .he lake tribes, and these tribes, or part of them, are the tribes engaged in war with the Americans. The coast and river tribes are friendly, and many of the members of these tribes were hirgd by the American troops to carry ratioiL? and ammunition on all expeditions ?the interior;*ivfrere'the. ?alfe3 are"^W cated. The lakes are Arie stretches of water, about thirty-five miles from Malahang. We find barricades of all kinds across the roads to obstruct thc progress of the troops. Trenches of varied styles are seen. The sketch here, a cross section of one of those trenches, shows thc device employed-a light bamboo covering. Earth is placed on the covering, and the passing troops are supposed to break through the top and tumble upon the sharpened bamboo points below. If the troops fell in upon these points serious results might follow, but care is used, and, as a rule, places of this kind are avoided. Wc found many trenches arranged so that the occupants could keep up a con tinuous retreat and still remain under cover. A drawing of this scheme is presented. These trenches are made alongside the roads or trails, and, in addition, there are stone barricades piled at proper angles. Thc enemy is stationed at (d), for example, and main tains its fire upon the oncoming troops from this point until the proper time conies for making a retreat. Then the occupants retreat back to (c), and open fire; then back to (fj, and so on as long as the trenches continue. In this sketch the reader may observe a plan of a barricade which is built with the intention of giving a recep tion of bamboo points to any one jump lug the same. It is frequently neces sary to rush the trenches of the enemy, and thc Moros know this, so that they prepare the back of the barricades with the sharpened points as indicated. The points do not show from the front, nnd the chargers are often unaware of the pricking points until they strike upon them. We found many barri cades made entirely with the thorny undergrowth of the jungle. This sub stance possesses wirelike poiuts, which tear the clothes and the skin. It is very difficult to force a passage through these obstructions, and thc columns are delayed. We had the artillery with us, and barricades'built of ordinary stone could be shattered freely with these pieces. But the ingenious Moro linds a kind of sandstone.in the hills with which he builds his barricade. This stone is just spongy enough to let a shell pene trate without breaking the material. The natives secure a sort of limelike product from the mountains with which they make a cementing material to erect the masonry. The Moros arc as ingenious as the Filipinos in the cous t tuet lou of trenches aud barriwdes of thc abujj'fjout barn IS VALUED AT $14,400. e qt this "bale" of "Panamas" ls $14. 1 no less than 144 hats, which means : drrived from a Tillage near Mount Ingle hat Is really a parcel of four, reptransported over the Andes In this 1 prepared for the market In Amcri 1 [#!oros For the Destruction of OOo of the country. Bamboo posh age placed in the earth at intervals, ?ion the necessary cross pieces of th( pme stock of smaller diameter arc mt through tlie uprights, and these Hioss pieces are interwoven with thc ?vided or split bamboo. Then nnothei gtrtitiou is put lip about three foe: ?lek and the space between packer, th earth, sod, brush etc., resulting in substantial barricade through which ot, as a rule, cannot pass. All along tho line of march to thc ces one would see a man. every now d then, fall straight forward, full Ijngth, throwing his rifle ahead of him. n examination of the path would ow the trap (I), consisting of a single Ieee of thin bamboo, adjusted on little tegs, and set just high enough from 5}e surface to trip anyone who was ssing. I never was in n country where the erny displaj-ed so much ingenuity . the setting of traps. I served as a ldier in Cuba, and have been at lt ree or four years in these islands, bul ot until I took the Moro trail to thc takes with the American expedition bf April did I see arrows set to shoot put across the path, near one when bc tripped the raw hide or hempen cord. The Filipino had devices of this kind, but they did not always work, and the soldiers would play with the contriv ances. But no one plays with the Moro path-shooting arrow gun,t arranged as represented in the sketch. Here the arrow lays In the hollowed section or tube of bamboo, close to the surface, and this tube is fixed with a bow, as shown. The bowstring is hauled back, and connected* to a trip clutch. This clutch is connected with a cord, which extends across the trail to a peg. As a man passes over the trail his toe catches the cord, the bow is let loose nnd the arrow liles.-From the Field, Isle de Mindanao, Philippine Islands. -New York Times. Tho Lint 1818 Pensioner. In the town of Ava, Oneida County, New York, there is still living Hiram Cronk, the last, surviving pensioner of the War of 1812. He was boru in the town of Frankfort, Herkimer County, April 29, 1800, and spent his early years in Wright Settlement, near the present city of Rome. Hiram enlisted in the army when but fifteen years of HIKA5I cnONK. age, and served about a hundred days at, Sacketts Harbor. He was not in any conflict, however. Iiis falber and two brothers, Jeptha and John, also saw service in the second war with Great Britain. After the war Hiram took .up the trade of itinerant shoe maker, traveling about the country. That and farming have made up his life work. He is a Democrat and a Methodist. Physicians In Komnn Time?. Every person of voting ago owns a physician, if we are to judge by the cqmmon use of the personal objective pronoun, "My doctor!" This remarka ble claiiniii" of possession was handed down to us from the Romans, who had no physicians for 500 years. When people got sick they died. The small number of great physicians introduced Into Rome were only slaves, and a phy sician among the patricians was a spe cies of luxury, like a cook. Every rich man had his perfumers, his bathers, his harpers ami his physician. Musa, the celebrated physician of Augustus, was a slave. He was freed and made a Roman knight, after which physi cians became persons of consideration. -New York Press. Kiither Poor Singing. ' An Indiana lover who sang "Good Morning, Carrie," beneath his sweet heart's window, was shot by an irate neighbor, who claims that he thought it was a tom cat.-Memphis Commer cial-Appeal. Absence may make the heart grow fonder, but so do presents. 5QGOG03GGGGGGGGGGGQCCGGQCO |TBE FALLEN C?MP?NILEI o - o 0 Best Vantage Point For Gain i n cr J? g Bird's-Eye Vtcw of Venlco. ? ? O 30GGG0GCGGGGGGGGG GGGGCOGGG There was no better way of getting a Just idea of Venice in a bird's-eye view than by nuking the ascent of the campanile. How many will recall the ground and water plan of the city as lt lay beneath one 300 feet below, and regret the fall of that aerial perch. The campanile had no steps, but a winding, inclined plane of thirty-eight bends led easily to the top. The lagooous, the hundred islands, as many canals crossed by nearly four THE CAMPANILE AND C hundred bridges, the details of St. Mark's exterior, all stood out with peculiar distinctness beneath tho spec tator. To the east- the open son. with the mainland and the Alps and the mountains of Vinceuza on the horizon. Thc campanile, a massive square tower of brick, rose to a height of 325 feet, and was forty-two feet square. It was founded about DOO by Doge Pietro Tribuno, but not finished until 1131, or soon after. The upper part was an open lantern, with a pyramidal roof added in thc sixteenth century. On the apex stood a tine colossal figure of an angel formed of plates of gilt bronze on a woooden cone, this being fifteenth century work. The tower rested, on a stone base, and was simply decorated with slight pilasters The Bridge of Sighs and the Library of St. Marks were said to be similarly threatened with collapse. Venice rests for the most part on a bed of clay, alienating with sand, with a depth of several hundred feet. The builders of the campanile dug down some ten to sixteen feet to this stiff clay, and over the whole area of the footings of the tower drove in piles cf white poplar, from ten to eleven indies in diameter, nearly touching ono another. On the top of these a level platform was formed by the lay ing crosswise of oak trees, each rough ly squared, and on the wooden plat form massive footings were laid, con sisting of five courses of large blocks of trachyte and other granite or por phyritic rocks from the Eugancan hills. Above these there are six courses of similar stone arranged in step-like ef fects, forming the base or plinth of the brick superstructure. I? 1SS? these foundations were roughly examined, and both the oak and poplar beams, which nt the time when they wore laid were taken from the adjacent shores, where these trees still grow lu abundance, were found to be perfectly sound. Queen Bena's Bill of Fare. Dinner was a substantial affair In the reign of the maiden queen, who was by no means indifferent to the pleasures of tile table. The first course on great occasions would probably be wheaten flummery, stewed broth, spinach broth, gruel or hotch-potch. The second con sisted of tish, among which we may note lampreys, stockfish and sturgeon, with side dishes of porpoise. The third course comprised quaking puddings, bag pudding, black puddings, white puddings and marrow puddings. Theu came veal, beef, capons, humble pie, muttou, marrow pasties, Scotch col lops, wild fowl and game. In the fifth course all kinds of sweets, creams in all their varieties, custards, cheese cakes, jellies, warden pies, junkets, syllabubs, and so on, to bc followed perhaps by white cheese and tansy cake.-St. James's Gazette. UNCLE SAM'S GREATEST PERIL Uncle Sam-Talk a ??otu trusts am this question.-From the New York 'J A Valise For Soldier*. Every one of our fighting mer, rn the Philippines is to have a valise. The article will "weigh ouly a few ounces, but will hold a lot. and will bo so strong that a man can jump upon it when lt is empty without hurting it a particle. These bags, which are rec tangular in shape, are now being turned out for the War Department by thousands, being intended to take the place of the old-style box lockers as receptacles for soldiers' necessaries. The box lockers were beary and inconvenient, and on transports they were usually stowed in the hold, with freight on top of thom, so that if the troops left before the vessel was un loaded the boys in khaki we:c likely not to see their goods and chattels ij| agc "V:f"' . f HURCH OF ST. MARK. VENICE. <f for months. The new valises may be shoved under the bunks on board ship. They are of uniform size, easily packed in a wagon, and of just thc VALISE F01? SOLDIEBS IN THE PHLLII PINE 3. right capacity to contain the soldiers outfit-Philadelphia Record. Fruit Jar Wrench. Among thc newest kitchen utensils is a wrench designed for the purpose of removing the caps of preserving jars. The device is quite simple in FRUIT JAR WRENCH. its construction, and is, therefore. In I expensive. It is made of three parts j as shown in the accompanying cut, and | the circular portion is fitted over th? : cap of the jar and grips it tightly j The harder the cap sticks thc tightei ! the grip, and as the pressure is dis I tributed over almost the entire outside | surface of the metal top there is nc j possibility of damaging either the cai: I or the glass jar. The device is just us j available for putting the caps on se-? curdy as it is for removing them. During the Roman occupation ol Great Britain there were five'Species of dogs on the islands. They were the house dog, greyhound, bulldog, ter rier and slowhound. Connecticut has 3,000,000 peach trees; Massachusetts, 300,000; Rhode Island, 100,000. and Southern New Hampshire, 50,000. While some men mount upward" tc the pinnacle of fame others reach the height of folly. -THE SERVANT GIRL PROBLEM. I i he tariff! They are infants "lougs'df rimes WHO KILLS THE BIRDS* Who kills tho birds? "I," said tho WomriD, "although 'tis inhu* man, I must have dead birds." Who sees them-die? " I," said tho MBD, " whenever I can, For my sport they must die." Who tolls the bell? "I," said tho Boy, "HOTO to destroy, I toll the bell." Who digs th?ir graves? "I," snid tho Girl, "tor a feather's neat curl "Fd dip nil their graves." -Oakfield Eagle. HUMOROUS. Nell-Mrs. Highflyer's complexion is wonderfully clear. Belle-Oh, I can see through that." Harduppc-Here comes a fel'ow with money to burn. Borrowell Well, I'm a match for him. Blobbs-Harduppe is a pretty slick proirjsition, isn't he? Slobbs-Slick Why, I've seen him borrow money from a bill collector. Muggins-Would you consider $13 an unlucky amount? Buggins-That' would depend entirely upon whether I was lending it or borrowing iL Wiggs-My old uncle has been mar ried four times. He doesn't seem to think marriage is a lottery. Wagg No, it's more of a habit with him. First Boy-Dat kid finks he knows a lot about baseball." Second Boy Aw, he don't know de difference be tween a score card an' an injunction. . "That's the hardest work I know," remarked Graphtcr. "What is?" In quired the casual acquaintance. "Find ing somebody that's easy to work." "Life is not all sunshine," remarked the pessimistic individual. "No!" ex claimed the man who was examining the thermometer; "and that's where we're lucky." "He isn't a?5 great a success as a chauffeur as he was a horse trainer, is ho?" "No; you see, he seems to think an automobile is like a horse-no good until it's broken." "Is Pcnner making any progress in thc literary wciid?" "Yes, indeed. He has just discovered two or three mag azines that will return contributions whether stamps are inclosed or noL" "I notice," complained Mrs. Hen peck, "that you never call me'dear' any more." "No," replied Henpeck; "I couldn't, consistently." "Indeed? and why not?" "Because 'talk is cheap.' " Tom-What did she say about my poem?' Dick-She.said it was the most perfect lullaby she ever read. Tom Lullaby! Why, it was a sonnet. Dick -Well, she said she went to sleep read ing it. Hook-Andrew Carnegie said the* other day that it is easier to make money than to spend it. Nye-Yes; but you should remember he was ad dressing a convention of plumbers at the-time." "John," said the wife, determinedly, "I want some money. I don't want to go by that millinery store tomorrow -" "Huh!" John interrupted; "I should hope not. It's bad enough to go buy one hat." "The time will come," said the Wise Guy, "when words wili be superfluous. We shall know instinctively just what people think of us." "I should think^ you would find that quite embarra*^ ing," murmured the Simple Mug. "You say the jury first stood two for 'guilty' and ten for 'not guilty.' How on earth did they arrive at a verdict of 'guilty' so quickly, then?" "Because thc two men were golf fiends, and they talked continually about the game/' CUNNING OF BR'ER FOX. An Incident Tlint Show- lteyn.inl's Tow er Of Ki'IlHO Tl I II ?-. A well authenticated story comes - from North Carolina which seems to rove that foxes, if they have not eual reasoning powers with the human race, are at least endowed with an excellent imitation. The story is vouched for by John B. Evans, chairman of tho Republican state committee; J. C. L. Harris, secretary of that committee; R. W. Logan, the United States com missioner, and J. D. Miller. One morning recently they were fox hunt ing. The weather was cool and crisp and there was just enough dampness on the leaves and grass to give the dogs good scent. A fox was soon un earthed and kept running in a circle about three milos in extent. A knoll in the center overlooked the entire course and after tho hunt had con tinued for some considerable time the Tox made for a giant and venera ble chestunt tree which had fallen across a ravine. Into thc hollow tree dashed thc fox, the dogs behind about 150 yards behind. Reynard was seen to emerge from the other end of the log and soon made off through the forest. The dogs were thrown off the scent at the hollow log, but soon caught it again across thc ravine and kept up the chase for about half an hour or more. Then the fox once more disappeared in the holow log to emerge as before. The dogs again trailed on, but in about another thir ty minutes the fox for the third time entered the log and still again disap peared in the forest across the ravine. The dogs were about used up by this time, though the fox appeared to be quite fresh after the third trip through the log. The hunters noticed this un, accountable circumstances and began to suspect something. They securely closed up one end of the log and when Reynard for the fourth time entered they closed up the other end. Then they procured axes and cut into the tree. Their reward came in the shape of three foxes, which had evidently been racing the dogs by turns. Freo Doctors in Oermftnjr. Under an insurance law enacted in Germany several years ago 30,000,000 people receive in return for a nomi nal sam free medical attendance. The theory was that suffering humanity would receive cheap and effective re lief from its bodily ills, but in prac tice there arc many drawbacks. The doctors hired by the state hold that they are expected to do too much for the pay they geL In Munich (hey get only about $75 per annum. In order to ke?p down expenses the doctors are incline to impress upon tne patients that nothing is the trouble with them.