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CLAMS CATCH SKA GULLS. Bright Canadian Nature Faker is There With the Details. A settler 011 one of the small islands near Vancouver, who was returning tn Masset by way of the north beach, which is a stretch of hard sand miles in extent, beheld to his surprise an unusually large flock of seagulls beating with their wings upon the sand, evidently in combat with some enemy which was under neath the heap, says the Vancouver (B. C.) Sun. Curiosity impelled the settler tc investigate the heap of flapping wings and screaming gulls. He was within a few paces of them when one gave the signal of the approach of a stranger, and all flew chattering toward the clouds. One of the birds, however, was left flapping upon the ground, and on investigation it was found a monster clam held the gull's beak in a viselike grip. The claim was toe heavy for the bird to fly away with, and for all its frantic struggles it could not loosen the tenacious grip cf the big shellfish, which measured probably eight inches across the flat of its shells. With his hunting knife the settler succeeded in prying open the shells. By this time the gull was all in and t could only stagger like a drunker sailor toward the water. It fnally flew away and very soon it returned in the van of a cloud of gulls come to inspect whateve it was had trapped one of their tribe. Apples at 40 Cents Each. Missouri apples were listed on the menu cards of two or three exclusive New Yory hotels the past Winter at 40 cents each, which was the cost of half a bushel of apples anywhere in the open market. The difference in cost represents, very largely, exclusiveness and profit, with a little additional expense for packing, writes A. A. Coult. When the early prospects of a large apple crop in all sections of Amer'ca became assured in midsummer, a grower at Lebanon, Missouri, with an orchard of one hundred acres, re alized that something unusual would nave to De aune iu gei. muic wau a living price for his crop. He went to New York to solicit orders. He had the idea that an exclusive offering would command high prices, and suggested to some of the commission men that they try a few individual boxed 'apples for the trade, in addition to their orders for several thousand barrels of apples for the general market. One New York commission man thereupon signed a contract for 6,000 apples for which he was to pay 15 cents each at Lebanpn, the number being limited to make them sufficiently exclusive. Each apple was perfectly sound, of high color and uniform shape, not less than three and one-half inches in diameter, nor more than a quarter of an inch larger. Each stem had at least two perfect leaves attached and each apple was packed in an attractive pasteboard box and the top sealed. i Young ladies cut the selected apples from the tree& with scissors, to protect the leaves on the stems. The apples were placed on a cloth-covered table for inspection, and those that passed muster were dipped, leaves and all, in a solution which closed the pores of the skin and leaves, causing the latter to retain their natural color, and conserving in the apple the original flavor. After the solution had dried, each apple was wrapped in a soft tissue paper to hold it firmly in its box in which it was immediately placed. The leaves were carefully arranged on top of the wrapping paper so that they would not be folded or crumbled, and the top was sealed. i-* ,,ia|| He Was Born That Way. Charles S. Whitman, the district attorney, presented to the grand jury investigating the police graft in New York a few days ago a flashily dressed negro, said to be the keeper of a gambling house in Harlem, from whom he hoped?in vain, as it afterward developed?to obtain evidence of police blackmail, says The Saturday Evening Post. "Do you know how to shoot craps?" asked a grand juryman after the negro had denied being a gambler, denied any connection with the police, and in fact all knowledge of official crookedness. "Oh, yas suh, I kin shoot craps," said the witness. "Where* did you learn?in Baltimore?" The negro had given Baltimore as his home before he came to New York. "No, suh, I didn't learn in Baltimo\" "In New York?" "No, suh, not in New York." "Well, where did you learn?" "I dian' learn nowhar?hit jes' come nach'ul to me, suh." A Rhode Island woman has been sentenced to jail for three months for killing her husband. Reno's population may now begin falling off. ANCIENT JAPANESE COFFIN i Made of Stone and Found in a Shrine Near Okushi. ' There is an Inari shrine in the town of Okushi, Ibaraki Prefecture, s in the compound of which some building operations are going on, i says a Tokio letter. The laborers en gaged in leveling the ground were : digging the other day when they ; unearthed a large stone coffin. The news was immediately com municated to the chief priest, who sent for the head man of the village. > In his presence the cover of the stone ; coffin was taken oft, and inside were t found many gold rings and other l treasures, such as kaudatama, magai tama and other ancient vessels. Judg ing from the construction of the coffin is is 1,500 years old. News of ; the discovery was forwarded to the i local government office, and an offi cial was sent to examine the articles frmnri > The shrine itself is a very ancient , one and in it the Kuraine-tma-no-mi; koto is defied. It was for a while re> moved from the village by the com1 mand of Mitsukuni Tokugawa, Lord : of Mito, but in 1702 it was taken back to its former site. Some eartli ' was taken from the compound of the . great Inari shrine at Yamashiro, Kyi oto, and placed under the main buildi ing of this shrine with formal cere' mony. Since then it has been cus1 tomary for the Daimyo' of Mito to i bear the expense for'repairs to the shrine, and one of his retainers was always sent as a special messenger at festival times. ? . Verdict Given in Libel Suit. 4 Pninmiiio Mflmh 97 ?Thp iurv in vv/i U u; lyiw j AfXM* V/** ? ? ? w the case of E. 0. Black against The State company for libel brought in a verdict for $20,000 yesterday. Lyles & Lyles gave notice of a motion for a new trial. The suit was for $50,000 damages. There are two other cases, that of F'mgal C. Black and John Black, based on the same publications and these may be called next week. The case decided yesterday was based on editorial comment and the news publication concerning the opposition of Black brothers to C. C. Wilsoi* in the election for councilman just about three years ago and the alleged threat by a reporter for The State to "write them up." The defence was that the facts stated in these articles were true, that 'bey were also privileged and were made without malice and in the public interest; that there were no threats by the reporter and that if there were he was not an agent pos, sessed of any authority to carry out . tne tnrcais. An incident of the trial yesterday was when, in opening his speech, Geo. R. Rembert, attorney for the plaintiffs said he had been longing and even praying for this opportunity* to get the defendant before this jury for the purpose c f showing up its record in South Carolina politics. Win. H. Lvles objected to matter extraneous to this case being introduced and he was instantly sustained by the-judge, who announced very positively that, "This is a court of law, not a court of politics." Both Very Slow. The steamer was moving very slowly up the broad, swift rive^r. Several miles ahead, where there was a bend, a sharp point of land projected ? considerable distance into the stream. On the upper deck sat a young couple, engaged in earnest conversation. "Lucinda," he was saying, "we've known each a long time, haven't we?" "Yes," she answered. "Five or six years at least, isn*l it?" "1 believe so." "Don't you think a girl ought to know a fellow pretty sell by that time?" "Why, yes, of course." "You've never heard anything bad about me, have you?" "No." "And in five or six years a young man ought to "know a girl pretty well, oughtn't he?" "I suppose so." "We've been together a good deal, Lucinda." Then there was a long pause. "And of course you must have suspected?" Another protracted silence. "Anybody would naturally suspect?though I've never been in position until lately?and yet my mind has been made up all the time ?and I can't tell you how muchThen Lucinda spoke. "Henry," she said, "do you know you remind me of this steam-boat?" "Er-how?" "It takes you such a long time to reach | the point."?Presbyterian Witness. Accuse Governor of Slander. Jackson, Miss., March 31.?As the climax of a long and bitter controversy between Gov. Brewer, of Mississippi, and the board of trustees of the Sta-te penitentiary regarding the sale of cotton grown 011 State convict farms, suit was filed in the circuit ^ ? ^ * ' rtAnnfv tnHo v ViV tllP V.UU1 t 1 1JU11UJ I.UIIU I.J IUUU.J sj - members of the board against the Governor, charging libel and slander and asking damages of $300,000. The Governor is quoted in the bill ' of complaint as having said that methods of selling cotton employed by the board were "rotten." TEETH TEN FEET LONG. Difficult to Bring Down Elephants With Great Tusks. It is the ambition of most big game hunters to bag a good "tusker"?an elephant with exceptionally big "teeth," to use the sporting term? but that ambition is seldom realized nowadays, for eiepnanis, particularly those of record age and size, are becoming more rare every day, says London Tit-Bits. Indeed, it is stated that the African elephant, from whom the finest ivory is obtained, is doomed. It has practically vanished from South Africa, and is being slowly exterminated in other parts of the country. This extermination has been brought about by the great demand for ivory nowadays. Only a few years since a single large firm of billiard-table makers used in a month as many as 95 pairs of tusks. Thus to supply this single firm no fewer than 1,140 elephants suffered death annually. And the demand for tusks may be gathered from the fact that about 300 tons are sold in London alone during the year. The consequence is that the chance of a big game hunter coming across such an elephant as that shot by Major Powell-Cotton in the Congo State eight years ago, whose tusks weighed 372 pounds,, is very remote. These were the finest pair of elephant's teeth ever secured by a white sportsman, although they are not the heaviest on record. The heaviest pair of tusks ever secured are to be seen in a museum in the United States. One of the tusks measures 10 feet 4 inches along the outer curve and scales 235 pounds, and the other, which is an inch or two less, weighs 225 pounds, giving a total of 4 60 pounds. The second of these tusks is eclipsed by one to be seen in the British t T+ mooonrno 1 A xMUSeUIIi UUiieCLiUIi. xi/ lucaoui vu xv <eet, 2 1-2 inches in circumference, and weighs 226 pounds. One of the longest tusks on record, was that in the possession of the late Mr. Rowland Ward at one time. It measured 11 feet 5 1-2 inches over the curve and scaled 150 pounds. Its fellow measured 11 feet in length and weighed 143 pounds. The pair now enrich the American National Collection. Sir Edmund Loder is the possessor of a very fine single tusk, which measures 9 feet, 5 inches, and weighs 184 pounds. In 1911 Mr. W. W. Greener, the Haymarket gunner, had in his window a wonderfully even pair of teeth, which scaled just over 184 pounds apiece, an& a widest circumference of 25 inches and in extreme length of 8 feet. They made a very fine second to Major PowellCotton's splendid pair. A remarkable tusk 4n the possession of Mr. Graham Pownall, which came from Uganda, measures 8 feet, 5 inches, has a circumference of 23 inches and scales 175 pounds. These instances will give some idea of the magnificent ivory produced by the elephant in Equatorial Africa. It might be mentioned that the average weight of elephant tusks is about 50 tn/m, vv /I p? nniana puuuua a.yntLt. Some New Dances. Advices from the erudite metropolis are to the effect that the popular dances this year will not be the "turkey-trot" and the "bunny-hug," as they have gone out of the style. This year's dances are the "chicken-flop." the "kangaroo fit," and the "camel cramp." * We have gone to the trouble of inventing a few dances, which we recommend to the Dancing Master's association, and which we undertake to demonstrate to anybody who wishes to see them. Some of the most prominent dances invented by us and recommended for the smart set of polite society are the following: The angleworm glide. The spinal meningitis schottische. The wildcat whirl. The hippopotamus hitch. The delirium tremens twit-step. The tarantula twist. The St. Vitus slide. The Salome slide. rne Diny goai uumy. There is everything in these dances which is calculated to offend the tastes of the most fastidious, so we have every reason to believe that they will become very popular. The Cautious Scot. A Scotchman went to a solicitor, laid before him a question, and asked him if he could undertake the case, reports the Birmingham Weekly Post. "Certainiy," replied the solicitor. "I will readily undertake the case. We're sure to win." "So ye really think it's a good case?" "Most decidedly, my dear sir. I am prepared to- guarantee that you will receive a favorable verdict." "Ah, weel. I'm much obliged tae ye. but I danna think I'll go tae law this time, for you see, the case I've laid before ye is my opponent's." Nice line of sample box papers at Herald Book Store. GAZE OF THE CRIMINAL. Confirmed Crooks Can Easily Look Honest Men in the Eyes. It is a popular belief that a man v/ho cannot look'you in the eye steadily and squarely, is dishonest. For many generations the writers of fiction have drawn their dishonest clmmrters as men for women") with "shifty" glances. "He could not look me in the eye and I knew he was the guilty person," 01 words to that effect have frequently been included in fiction until every one, almost, has come to believe it. But this is by no means true. Ask any veteran police official, especially such police officials as have had a part in trying the "third degree" on prisoners, and they will tell you that the worst crooks they ever met had the faculty of outstaring them. "I have known the worst thug, gunman and burglar to look me steadily in the eye until he actually tired my optical nerves, so that I could stare at him no longer," an old Dolice official recently stated. And on the other hand, many an honest man has been unable to look his accusers squarely in the eye. Long experience on the #art of police officials, prison officials and other experts, who have made a study of such things, has shown that it is far more frequently the crook who can stare you steadily in the eye than the honest man. And the reason for this, according to medical men, is a form of nervousness, or fright, or both. The crook is always living in the fear that he will some time be caught, and he has trained himself as to just what he will 'do. He knows that a steady, unflinching eye has long been accepted as a sign of honesty, that a steady glance will frequently disarm suspicion, and so, when he is caught he instantly resorts to this method as an aid. He will look at the police or whoever his accusers nay be quite steadily, calmly and with a brave assumption of innocence. He is not shocked by his arrest. He hac UvpH a rrnnkeH life. He has been living liable to arrest for many years, and so there is no shock except that of chargrin and anger at being caught. But with the honest man this is all different. He sees no reason why he should be accused. He has been honest, and to be arrested or accused cf wrong-doing comes as a terrible shock to him. He never deserved it, he knows that and consequently it seems all the worse. He is frightened, with the fright of an animal that has innocently walked into a trap. When the police or others glare at him all the honest man can think of is the shame and disgrace of even being accused of wrong, and his nervousness makes him fairly distracted, so that he looks down at the iioor or out of the window in his distress. And there are other reasons for this. .The wrongdoer is frequently a sort of degenerate, who really hasn't the quality of brain to enable him to understand that wrong is wrong. All he may know of wrong is that he has to be careful and not get found out or he is punished; he does not feel within himself that he has been doing wrong, that he has sinned against his brother man or the community. Naturally, such a man has no reason to be shifty-eyed. He can look his accusers in the eye, for he does not appreciate any sinfulness in wrong. To him "wrong" is something that the government punishes people for. The honest man knows why wrong is wrong. He knows that to steal is wrong, because he is taking from an innocent party; that to kill is wrong because he takes a life he can never restore, and to be accused of such things jars his sense of honor and confuses him until he is on the verge of nervous prostration. Experts in criminal bureaus no longer place much weight upon the fact that a suspect cannot look them in the eye. In the olden days they were inclined to think the crook innocent who was unflinching in his - - - i stare, and the honest man a crooK micause he could not return a steady look, but this is different now. These experts know that most crooks have steady eyes, and the bigger the crook the longer and harder he can stare back at them, while a great many honest men, or wrongly accused men, cannot do this, and so other methods have to be adopted.?New York American. Mangled Under Ice Car. ? ^ 1 T71 ATn 07 _ St. retersuurg ritt .tiaitu t. ?.?. W. H. Flagg, a prominent tourist from Battle Creek, Mich, was instantly killed here this afternoon, and several others were forced to jump overboard, when an ice car, operated under sail on the railroad wharf, got away from the negro laborers and bore down on them. All escaped but Mr. FJagg, who was horrobly mangled under the wheels. We WiD Ret TL* 117, J. 11115 TlCCK | New Ribbons in garian Colors, th in Ladies' Neck .New York facto dozen of the M Hemp and Chip new colors. Come to see them, we wi' ing them to you, as well in trimmed hats that our ir 25 Herald votes give worth of goods purcha Mrs. A. McB. Bamber; mA Safe Cq jig In the Banking business is i ^ ods, shrewd judgment and the fact that our deposits ai rficient proof that our custo ||| that this combination is oui I We shal1 be pleased to nt customers. We pay 4 per c< PEOPLES BANK - RICHES FROM BIAS WHEEL. How the Famous Jaggers Won $100,000 at Monte Carlo. In the history of Monte Carlo, Jaggers has become almost legendary. He was an Englishman, whose photograph is a cherished possession in the hands of the one person now left at Monte Carlo who seems to have known him. He was an intelligent mechanic or engineer from the north of England. He was not a gambler, but he had heard of Monte Carlo, and of the wonderful roulette wheels so ingeniously made that no one could beat them. Curiosity took him there when he had put together a little money and earned a holiday. He did not intend to play. It was the wheels themselves that he wished to see. When he found that he was not supposed to keep a seat at the table and watch tne game ior any i .length of time without playing, in order to study it in peace and in his scientific way he began to venture a few five-franc pieces. He had a favorite table where he happened to feel more at home than any other; and while laboriously taking down numbers in order to make a record, he hit upon an astonishing discovery. Some of the numbers appeared more often in a day's play of about 500 coups than they had a right to do mathematically, according to the laws of chance. Jaggers continued his tests for several days, until he was satisfied that the particular roulette wheel under observation had some mechanical defect?that it was not truly balanced, but had a bias aiq whioh caused the m UU^/ Ull VVVAVU - - ^ ball to fall more often in one quarter of the cylinder than in others. Not a word had the silent man of the north spoken to any one of his first suspicions ot final discovery. . On the fault, not of roulette in general as a game, but of this roulette wheel in particular, did Jaggers then and there find his unscientific but amazingly successful "system." He decided to risk in the venture all the i money he had, knowing that, though ' he must fail occasionally, he ought to win far oftener than he lost. i At first he played quietly, with < small stakes. Then he increased them until soon he was playing with maximums on the wheel's favorite numbers and winning immense sums of money. Feeling sure of his ground, Jaggers now engaged a staff of men to play for him, t king their turns : at the table as the croupiers do, and his wins continued until the Casino : authorities became seriously alarmed, i Never had the Casino, in the whole 1 history of gambling at Monte Carlo s (then comparatively short) suffered ' so severely in its hitherto impreg- ] nable pockets. Seeing that Jaggers always played at the same table, the management removed the cylinder 1 from that table at night and trans- j ferred it to another. Jaggers, however, was not a hard- 1 headed Yorkshirem-an for nothing. L< He had expected every morning to j find that luck had suddenly deserted 11 him because his wheel of fortune was < lost to him forever among a wilderness of other wheels useless for his j "system." His eyes'were sharpened < by the knowledge that a pin's point i of difference was life or death to his < / :eive t . Plain and Bui le Latest Things 1 : Wear from a >ry, and several lost Up-to-date Hats in all the 4 . II take pleasure in show- J as the artistic creations 1 lilliner is producing daily. t| : 'V./ n for every dollar's ised from us for cash Speaks & Co. s> S C. ;, Transporting Gold Bullion. ' It would be natural to suppose that shipments of gold bullion back and : v forth across the Atlantic on the big v^liners would be attended by considerable precaution, requiring the vigilance of many men, but this is not the case. There is probably no other place in the world where the trans-. : port of great wealth is carried on with such simplicity. As a case in point, one of the great ! /?'? ' ..*$ liners has two strong rooms, the >. $. smaller being in close proximity to ' the captain's quarters, while the other is next to the provision depart- '"' N ment. The small strong room has its walls, floor and ceiling lined with two inch steel plate, ancl contains nothing in the way of furnishing other than shelves. , This has more than once contained enough gold to ' " buy the liner many times over. The locks, which are of the double variety, are rendered still more secure s.-f " ' by covering the keyholes' with steel hasps, which are themselves locked in place with massive padlocks. This # ". jf strong room, being located in the most frequented portion of the ship, is being passed by persons at all hours ' { of the day and night, which, after all, is the great protection. The strong room located near the provision department is 12 feet long by 4 feet wide, and it often happens that both these rooms are filled to capacity with gold bullion. On one occasion the two rooms contained .j. , $50,000,000 in gold bullion, packed in small kegs bound with steel hoops. ?Popular Mechanics. An asbestos lined vest pocket in which a lighted cigar can be carried safely has been invented by a Philalelphia tailor. ? ?^ i See those wire wall baskets at The A * Herald Book Store. ' ' interests, and he had observed on his cylinder a tiny white speck by ^ which he could identify it among many others apparently alike. Each morning, on arriving at the table he glanced at the wheel and made sure 1' of the white speck .before beginning "work," and on the day after the secret exchange hovering inspectors y saw the terrible Jaggers reducing his great stakes to a few paltry five' r? ~ Drooont 1V ViO 1*AfiA t A ll ctllC plCCCO. X X VOViiWi; * ww^ WW try the same small game at another table and so on until his eyes lighted upon the blessed speck. Then he and his staff of clerks began to plunge again. |l The "system" began to seem super- < 1 natural, and in a few months Jag- ' gers had taken from the Casino the unprecedented sum of $600,000. The authorities began to suspect that all the cylinders were imperfect. The maker v/as sent for and each wheel was subjected to a rigid scrutiny. The faulty one was discovered and Laken away and next morning Jag- " ^ gers' tide of fortune turned. For a few days he went on playing and lost ^ * O A A A AAA back to tbe uasmo some Df his enormous winnings. Then he ?yas wise enough to see that he was beaten. He discharged his staff-, ceased play and retired with the comfortable sum of $400,000 intact. NTever did he appear again at Monte Carlo, but his memory has lived ther?^*ince as a classic one.?Mc