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8entine Journal. Published Weekly. ?ICKWSj SOUTH CAROUNA. Ita no longer "grippe" In London.. lust "Filu. Nobody has been heard to complain of lack of variety In the weather. AvIators are still making new world "ecords, and yet the sport is in Its nfancy. Everything comes to him who Waits; another restaurant employe has Malen heir to a fortune. If the aeroplanes will .abolish a war the peace commission should at once subsidlie all it -can feach. Aviators as a class are going to be more careful this - year. Natural BID tion will eliminate reckless It took a postal card 36 years to go rom Connecticut to Indiana. Bet a oLaP he had it in his pocket all the In Cleveland- an engineer has been anade a present of a locomotive. This ia better than.a white elephant, as it consumes no hay. In New York they are Itrying to rem edy the evils of divorce by remedy Ing the evils of marriage. That seems a thoughtful method. Medicine Hat wants its name h..banged. We would be better pleased If it changed the brand of weather it sends down this way. We are glad to learn that "red shirts make hens lay," but what gar inent would Influence them to cut kheir present prices on eggs? They say that bad roads cost this country three million dollars a year. tWe could have a pretty good little war for that sum. Let us fix the roads. Without questioning for ione second the bravery of our own policemen, we would point out that the London bobby has to face all comers without a re volve;. Puccini, when he started back to - Italy, was kissed by 40 men who sing in grand opera. After having gone through that, sea-sickness will have no terrors for him. It Is no crime to steal an um brella on a rainy day in New Jersey. Wil all persons who indulge in that pastime please go to New Jersey to oblige the rest of us? A Canton (0.) man says that 60-cent bats are good. enough for any woman, but the' Canton man will no doubt ex perleue considerable difficulty get ting any woman to wear one. An Ohio doctor who dissected 100 cats reports that he found tubercu Sosis germs in every one of them. He -does not say what he did with the supply of germs thus secured. In trying to gets rid of corrupt po licemen Gotham seems to have leaped out of the frying pan into the fire. They are more honest than they used .to be, but they now write poetry. Following the hobble we are to have the bi-plane skirt. As It is to be a bifurcated garment man had bet ~ter look to his own. Plainly the trend --" of feminine fashions is toward the nannish; but thedxnore manlike wom en becomes tihe less womanly she Is. Now a,medical expert has cut out a 2nan's lungs to cure tuberculosis. The operation is'elmed to be a new one, bzt if successful will be followed up Iby the theory of curing diseases* gen orally by the simple process of re mnoving the organ affected so that a man with more than his average - s hare of trouble In the shape of' dis ease will find life but a hollow sort' of affair. The wife of a Pennsylvania farmer found a nugget of gold in the crop of a ghIcken she was dressing, and now there Is great excitement, the community having resolved Itself Into aprospecting party. But the chances ~--'are that there Is more gold in chick ens killed and prepared for market at present prices than in mines or - placers In the Keystone state. Official figures from annual reports show that the post office department has nearly reached the point where It -is self-sustaining. And there are sev eral changes which might yet be effec ted in the interest of economy and the saving of public money. It Is no~ function of the government to make a profit in carrying the people's malls. but everybody would share In the * benefit should the cost be so reduced as to permit lower ,postage rates. And now It -Is discovered that an epidemic of tuberculosis prevails among the rabbits of New York state. Another result, no doubt, of leading a fast life and ~going the pace that * kills. *A Nantucket fisherman hooked a large codfish, from whose stomach. when cut open, flew out a good-sized -duck, whose escaping flight was stopped by a sportman's bullet. Both Jonah and the champion fish story are surpassed, while even the Ananias .in.,I aspning with astonishment. rheI Boomei A TRUESTORY OF ' By COL. H. C. WI T NOT unfrequently hap pens 'that the trials of criminals develop unex pectedly scenes of inter est that would form nov el situations for the fin est dramatic and stage effect. Counterfeiters are a most difficult class of criminals to detect and convict. The peculiar nature of this crime, the temptation \to sudden and easy wealth, is a fatal fas cination that oftimes lays hold of per sons Possessed of wonderful Ingenuity in devising methods to escape punish ment. Almost at the beginning of our great Civil war, gold and silver went out of circulation and a vast volume of unfamiliar paper currency was tlysst suddenly upon the country Every note Issued by the government was followed so closely by the coun terfeits that the most expert money changers were often unable to tell the good from the bad. In some instances the counterfeit fractional currency was almost, If not quite, equal to the genuine. The Staunton head fifty cent issue was so cleverly imitated that it passed current for a long time before its base nature was discovered. Circulating principally among the poorer classes, It was doing incalculable damage and I was making a great effort to reach Its source, with little or no success up- to the time a chance discovery was made. One day a detective waiking leisure ly, along the sidewalk of an unfre quented street in New York city sud denly found himself face to face with Peter Delinsky, a skilled counter feiter who had been released from the Albany penitentiary about a year be fore. Delinsky had been caught by me In the act of printing a counter feit two dollar bill on 'the National Kinderhook bank. He gave some valuable information and his sentence had been cut down to three years. When the detective met him he had on a new suit of fashionable cut. Wearing yellow, kid gloves, and carry Ing a nobby' gold-headed cane, he was Entting quite a swell for an ex-con tlct. The detective was both curious and suspicious.. Where on earth did old Delinsky get that expensive out t? He was unable to guess. He knew the old man was broke when he got out of the penitentiary, as he had w'hen released called at the Secret Service branch office and taken up a subscription, besides, the old counter feiter had never been known to en gage in any legitimate work. For this reason the detective was quite sure he wras doing something crooked, so he just "pulled" the old fellow and es corted him to the office of the Secret Service division on Bleecker street. The government officers in that day rarely took out warrants for the ar rest of counterfeiters. The detective in- this case was well posted regarding to old Dellnsky, and It was only necessary to acquaint him With the fact that the chief was anx ious to see him on Important busi ness. When brought to my office he was badly frightened. I took him into a private room where I accused and questioned him, but he stoutly de nie'd that he was engaged in counter feiting. "Then what are you doing, and where did you get these fine clothes you are wearing?" I Inquired. The old fellow was unable to an swer this qpestion satisfactorily. Taking advantage of his hesitating tanner, I pressed him more closely and threatened to send him back to the penitentiary. He was a Russian and not alto gether familiar with the laws of this country. Hence I was able to frighten him. He held out for a long time but finally admitted that he was at work printing the fifty cent Staunton head for a fellow countryman, who, he said, was an engraver. The old printer had been detained at my office two days before he made his confession. The Russian engraver by whom he was employed became suspicious and threw- the hand press upon which the counterfeit notes were being printed into the East river. Delinsky was not aware of this when I released him upon his promise- to carry out my in structions and enable the government detectiv'a to seize the counterfeit plates and capture the engraver. When Delinsky returned to the room where the counterfeiting had been done he found the place empty. When he met, the Russian engraver he learn ed the particulars of what had hap pened, and accounted for his absence by explaining that he had been on a visit with some friends., The engraver was not altogether satisfied with the excuse, but be was willing to compromise the matter if Delinsky would buy another press to take the place of the one that had been destroyed. When Delinsky reported the situ ation to me I sent a detective out to buy a small plate printing press. He employed a wagon and took the press to the room where the printing was to be done. When Delinsky was again feady to begin work the engraver, as I -....a*------o z wper's -HE SECRET SERVICE FoLEY Frr C?% is usual in such cases, brought only the face of the plate. When a cer tain number of pieces were worked off on this. the engraver was expected to bring the plate for printing the back- and take away the face plate. Counterfeiters are always more or less suspicious of one another and have good reason to be. Nearly all of them are treacherous and liable to sell out to the detectives at any time. I was anxious to secure the counter feit plates and I did not think it wise to arrest the engraver until I could catch him with the plates complete. I told Delinsky to accidentally mar the face plate. He did this. When the engraver came to inspect the prints he saw the defect and it was agreed between him and the printer that he would go to his home and bring the back plate which Delinsky could be printing from while he hirg self was touching up the defect on the face. The news of this move was at once brought to me and three trusty off cers were dispatched to watch the house where the printing was being done. Delinsky had furnished a plan of the house, the hall and the stair way leading to the room. Everything necessary was known to the detect ives. At *what was thought to be the opportune moment the raid was-made. One of the detectives gained access through a basement window. He pulled off his boots, slipped softly up the stairs and unbarred the street door. The other officers, shod with gum shoes, now made their way care fully to the room occupied by the counterfeiters. The screws of the lock had been loosened by Delinsky ~110 NEI 1 /7/A'6 Q///T# SW6/L - /iw# gg fCgpwy/c and the door was easily crowded open. The printer was working away busily and the engraver was seated at a table with the counterfeit face plate before him. The graver with which he was tracing the lines was in his hand. When the detectives suddenly pounced into the room the Russian engraver came very near falling off his chair in his astonishmerit, but he was an old hand at the business and soon became cool and collected. He could speak English fluently and the work that he was engaged in was proof of his ability as a fine engraver. He had left his own country several years before and had -come to the United States to engage in his pro fession. He had not been entirely free from suspicion in his native home. Suspicious circumstances are dangerous over there and he was compelled to flee to a country where he was unknown and where the laws are less severely administered. The Staunton head plate engraved by him tested the judgment of skilled experts beyond any similar issue that had been put out by the counterfeiters. The plate was a masterpiece. Old Peter Delinsky was well known among the counterfeiters as a plate printer. When first approached by the Russian engraver he declined the offer -made and said he had once been In difficulty in a similar job and did not care to risk his liberty the see ond time. This made the engraver more anxious to secure his services. As a general thing it Is difficult for persons who have served terms in the penitentiary to secure employment in legitimate lines, hence they mors readily engage in crooked work. Coun terfeiters are ingenious in laying plans to prevent discovery. Every conceivable artifice is resorted to t~ detectives to capture them and gift possession of the counterfeit platei. The engraver in this case was a clew Jer man at his business. For this r so t was naeessr in mnlov a seemingly on the verge of an unlaw ful transaction to entrap him. When he was brought to my office he was wise enough to realize that the chances for his escape were very small. When questioned he confessed everything and promised to plead guilty. When his case came up in the United States court ex-Judge Stuart was his counsel. He was a criminal lawyer of considerable ability, about seventy-five years of age. He had been practising law in New York city for many years and was the trusted friend and adviser of many of the most notorious criminals of that day. Tall, raw-boned, solemn faced and deeply sentimental, he could shed croc odile tears copieusly while making a plea for his client. I have often been filled with wonderment at the effect produced - upon the minds - of jurors by this great actor. His .tragic voice. his long gray locks and tearful eyes, had an astonishing effect and fre quently brought tears evsn to the eyes of the judge and the stony hearted lawyers engaged in the prose cution, who were sometimes seen to turn their heads during the dramatic scenes enacted by the old hypocrite while engaged in defending his client. The evidence tntroduced in the Russian engraver's case was so strong and ovqrwhelming that anything like a successful defense upon legal grounds appeared quite impossible. Stuart had been at my office and made an effort to secure the Russian's re lease on his promise to assist in cap turing other counterfeiters. But I turned the proposition down and his counsel had said that his client would plead guilty -and throw himself upon the mercy of the court. When the case was brought to , trial Judge Stuart informed me that his client had changed his mind and had con cluded to stand trial. He said the Russian had disregarded him advice and he did not think there was any chance of saving him. When the case was called and the jury was organized, I saw they were a choice selection of philanthropists. The testimony produced on the trial was more than sufficient to convict; there did not seem to be even a shadow of a chance for the prisoner's 7/D /M/NKR M NOTifM1 if' </9,?4 2~ f -91147 M - - T -.//CT//JFD///M acquittal. There was no dispute about the guilt of- the prisoner. His attorney did not introduce any wit nesses and the government attorney seemed to think he had everything his own way. When Judge Stuart's turn came to speak, he arose. His face wore an ex pression of great solemnity as he mildly said he had been retained to say a few words In behalf of the un fortunate man on trial. "The prisoner is a stranger in a '-~range land. He canot understand uor speak a word of English. He is wholly unacquainted with the laws of Agrees to Fau So She Wilt Be Hungry Enough to Make -Out Good Menus for the Coming Week. The methodical family needed a housekeeper. One of the first quos tions put to her was: "Are you wili ing to do without luncheon on Mon. days?" The elimination of her noonday meal being a form of abstinence that she had never practiced, the house keeper replied that she would have to think about It. "Why can't I eat then?" she added. "Because If you do you will not get hungry enough to make out menus for the coming week," said the employer. "It is a rule in this house to write the family bil of fare on Monday for the coming woek. To study out really appetizing meals for seven days ahead a pei'ln must be ravenously hungry. Tha ordinary interval between meals is #ct long enough to develop a Gargattuan ap petite, so on -Monday we inefer our ~ousekeeper to skip a ma'tl. The i'~er she gets the more actlive her -ion becomes and along In this country. It is true he performed the act charged against him. He is guilty of no crime because he was led to belicve by that old counterfeiter Delinsky that the work he was doing was for the government. He did not know that the plate was counterfeit. He is the innocent victim of a plot planned and carried out by the gov ernment detectives." Shaking his finger as he pointed towards the detectives, he declared in a tragic voice that they could not deny the charge he made. He said the chief had acknowledged furnish ing the money for the purpose of buy ing the printing press, the paper and the ink upon which the counterfeit currency was printed. The jury appeared dazed. Wbile the charge against the Russian was not for printing counterfeiting cur rency, but for engraving plates for that purpose, the muddled jury did not seem to understand the diffefence. The old lawyer saw that he had made a point and he now rested his strangely fascinating eyes upon the jurymen. Raising his long arms above his head he roared with a voice resembling distant thunder. "My God! Gentlemen of the jury, Is this poor, ignorant man to be de prived of his liberty upon the unsup ported testimony of these hirelings?" This as he again shook his long bony forefiner and pointed towards the detectives. Turning partly around he placed his hand tenderly upon the head of the Russian and bade him arise and stand where twelve honest men could look him in the face. Stuart declared he had been employed by the broken-hearted wife of the poor man to .say a 'few words in his behalf. "For this service I have received no fee, and - I wouldn't accept one. This poor man could not tell his own story. For the first time in his life he has been arrebted. He does not know a good piece of money from a bad one. He has a wife and family to support." At this moment a poorly clad wo' man with tears running down her cheeks stepped aorward. Four half frightened children were hanging to her skirts.' The old lawyer took the woman by t -e hand and turned to the jury as he said: "This is the wife and children of the unfortunate prisoner. May God help them. If their father is con victed these children will be left to starve and the wife will be compelled to endure the sneers of all who know her. These cunning detectives have pursued this innocent man to the very verge of destruction and it rests with you gentlemen of the jury to save him." When the old lawyer sat down sev eral of the jurors had their handker chiefs in their hand and were wiping away their tears. There was silence in the court room when the govern ment attorney arose. He blinked a lit tle as he briefly reviewed the evi dence. The judge made his charge and the jury retired to a side room. After deliberating about five min utes they came back and rendered a verdict of acquittaL. The government attorney 'and 'detectives were as tounded. As soon as the prisoner was discharged he threw his arms around his attorney and kissed him on the cheek. He then shook hands with each of the jurymen, and had they permitted it he would have kissed them. He next embraced his wife and kissed her, and taking up one of the children in his arms the family went out of the court room. Several days after the trial Judge' Stuart came to my office. He was considerably excited when he told me tihat it ha' een discovered that the wife and children brought into court as the family of the Russian engraver were not his at all. They were the family of another Russian and had been borrowed for the occasion. The judge put his hand into the inner pocket of his vest and drew out a roll of bills. "Here," said he, "is the stuff that d--d scoundrel paid me for defend ing him." I saw at a glance that the stuff pulled out by the judge consisted of counterfeit' bills on the National Shoe and Leather bank, and I learned that the old lawyer came very near being arrested for passing some of* this bogus money. He said he wanted me to catch the rascal and give him fif teen years in the penitentiary. It was too late-the Russian had fled to Canada. Copyright by W. G. Chaprnan.) t on Mondays compose some very attractive menus. Hasn't that been your experience. too?" The housekeeper confessed that it had, so she agreed to fast on Mon day. A Thrifty Pensioner. William A. Munson, notary public and pension agent, of Providence, R. I., drew 19 pensions regularly for years. The government paid him about $20. 000. Munson usually kept the pension certificatets of his clients in the office, and executed quarterly vouchers for the pensioners. One by one the pen sioners died. Munson continued, to ex ecute the vouchers, forging the name of the pen'aioner, and usually that of the identifying witnesses. He kept up the practice until checks for 16 dead pensioners were regularly coming .to him, besides checks for three pension ers who had remarried and ceased to e entitled to them. Among the ben eficiaries was Munson's aunt. She drew her pension until'1879. 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When the officer .had re covered from the shock occasioned by this unseamanlike answer: he looked over the rail in the direction indicat ed by the reserve's finger, and then he had another fit. "What's -the - matter with you?" growled the officer. when you see it?" "'Moon! moon!"~ stammered the embryo sea dog. "'I beg your pardon, sir!" Then he shouted, as if making amends for his error, "Moon ahoy!" .Digging Spruce Gum. There will be a crusade in spruce gum digging in the Maine woods this winter. About twenty men will leave Skowhegan within a short time tpo be"' gin gum digging operations 'near Jack man. Gum has grown scarce in the last few years and the demand Is so great that It has become a business to many Maine men. Last year James Carey, Frank Croning and Jo1 Cass dug 1,300 pounds and sold it all in Maine. It Is estimated that from 50. 000 to 100,000 pounds will be dug this season.-Kennebec (Me.) Journal. .Where He Made It. "Hullo, Binks!" said Wobbles. "I hear you've been in the chicken busi ness." "Yep," said Binks. "Made anything out of it?" asked Wobbles. "Yep," said Binks. "Ten thousand dollars." "Ten thousand dolars in the chick en business?" demanded Wobbles. "Nope. Out of It," said Binks. Harper's Weekly. What a deal of grief, and care, and. other harmful excitement does a. healthy dullness and cheerful insensi bility avod-Thackeray. If You Knew How Good are the sweet, crisp bits of Post Toasties you would, at least, try 'em. The food is made of per fectly ripe white corn, cooked, sweetened, rolled and toasted. It is served direct from the package witl4 cream or milk, and sugar if desied *A breakfast favorite I "The Memory Lingers" PoSTUM CEREAL Co.. Ltd.,. Battle Creek, Mich.