The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, July 03, 1895, Image 6
1HIICIT
WED
Tie Crime of k
RtoVpp'o (If
UiUliUl U Uli
.?BY
W. F. MOTT,
r . CHAPTER VX1?(Continued.)
He returned to the depot when*
ihad come, and the very next train
itied him hack to New York city.
! He thought of the exchange of
tcoats which he had made with his
eling acquaintance, and muttered:
'' "By Jupiter! I left the keys am
wax impressions in my coat pock*
(hope they will not be the means of
jting the young fellow -with whom i
-'changed coats into trouDie.
! When Stuart Harland alighted
the railway train the officers who
Ion the watch when the stranger v
-we have followed, leaped upon the
form, were still at their post,
t Harland had not taken five s
when a heavy hand fell upon his s'
der, and as the light of the policen
'lantern was reflected full in his
.the officer said, in a stern voice, ?
grasped the young man's arm:
t "l'ou are my prisoner! I arrest
,on the charge of being a fugitive
ijustice!^- ? ?-=ss-? .
> These two police officers were w<*
,lng for Stuart Harland, for to them
;lice Sergeant Smith had wired the y
man's description, aud when they f
ped the man who had taken Hark
' overcoat, they were on the alert fo
jlatier? ,
Sutart Harland's surprise was
.bounded, and he was indignant, as '
* "What is the meaning of this outi
there is certainly some mistake!" hi
claimed.
' In a few words the police officers
quainted him with the fact of John *
burn's murder, of which Sergeant Sm
dispatch had informed them.
; One of the officers added:
"My instructions are simply to ai
you and return you to New York Cil
oxice.
"I suppose I must 6ubmlt, but If
will only permit me to visit tie hous
a friend for a few moments, I sbal
under obligations to you," said Sti
1 "Impossible; the return train
leave in ten minutes,"replied the off
| Stuart groaned.
' "I have had my journey for nauj
lie muttered.
Then he thought of Marion Oak
and the singular circumstance that
was in the broker's office at midn
He recalled her frightened manner,
Ills mind was troubled.
The reflection as to how the public n
construe his sudden night depar
made him nervous and apprehensive
He was not skilled in the art of hi
his emotions, and they betrayed i
was passing in his mind.
! The officers who accompanied
watcnea mm closely, ana uiey saia
tween themselves:
"This business troubles him. He I
as though he were guilty."
Stuart never thought of exami
the stranger's overcoat, which had c
Into his possession as we have seen.
His surprise and consternation "w
therefore, quite gennine when the sfc
ton keys and wax impressions a
taken from his pocket when he
brought before the coroner.
In a few words after this discov
while the Coroner motioned to the ]
who had last entered the broker's o
to be silent, Stuart explained how
exchange of overcoats came about,
we have related it.
i But Stewart's story was greeted i
murmur of incredulity, and it was c
that it was not generally credited.
Harland observed this, and he tar
to the young clerk who had been on<
his co-laborers in the broker's of
^ndjsfrid: __ ?
^-r^T*aS*sure no one of you would ^
to impugn my veracity, and I ask yo
ay if you recognize this coat as m
If you do not see that it was never eg
for me-^that it is at least three sizes
large/
A-^Th^DroSer'1 s clerks replied affir
lively, and expressed their convic
that Stuart's word was not to
doubted. This was certainly a conflr
Won nf TTnrlnnH'c cfn^ofnpnf < ?> *
^ The Coroner cow addressed the ]
who had last entered.
That individual was Mr. Pratt, of
Urm of Pratt & Weeks, who had rui
Jason Garrison.
Pratt was a portly, gross-looking n
with a black goatee, which owed
color to dve, as did also his scanty i
Be was bald, but this evidence of
was partially concealed by a ski
arrangement of the remnants of
colored locks. His features were h(
and sensual, but he had a smooth
Blnuating manner, ana always drei
In the height of fashion. But he \
too much jewelry, and his garm
were inclined to be loud.
"You wish to offer some evidence, ?
said the coroner.
"Yes, sir; as I informed the office]
-the door, who thereupon immedia
proclaimed the fact, much to my
prise."
Pratt was sworn and he said:
"Having received the informatio]
my office that young Harland was ui
arrest, charged witri the muruer or J
Oakburn, I deemed it my duty to ap]
here to give ccrtain testimony, whi<
seems to ine will establish the fact,
lie was aciuarea oy a powenui mc
when he committed the crime,
murder, no doubt, was but an unforei
Incident of the robbery vf the safe."
He paused, and at this juncture
stately old gentleman who had left
office after hearing the banker's c
munication .about the marked, mo
re-entered, Dut he was unobserved
Pratt was now the central figure of
assemblage.
"The fact is, gentlemen, Stuart ]
land has been indulging in speculat
far beyond his means, and, a-; he
ceived us regarding his financial stt
he has become our debtor to the su
ten thousand dollars. We were It
Buppose he could control that amoui
the fortune which it is nuderstooi
will inherit. x.Ve hold Mr. h'arla
note for the amount of his indel
"""hit h is new several days o
Uue. Here Is the note, sir," eontir
;Pratt, as he placed the paper in
coroner's hands.
"The day preceding the murder,
Hb, the day before yesterday, we i
jhim a note, informing him that unles
eettled with us, we would apply to
tsrealtfey aunt, whose .heir he.is sai<
#
be.' He replied that If "Ve didlTo he was i
ruined; that his aunt was particularly i
opposed to stock speculating, and that
she had often warned him against it, 1
6aying that her money should never be
T risked in that way. In fact, Harland 1
stated that he feared his aunt would disI
inherit him ii ehe found him out. i
"It was my wish to rive the young i
. man time, for I pitied him, but my i
/ partner is a hard man and he was inex- 1
orable. Mr. Harland had mortally of- 1
fended him in some way, and he vowed he l
would have his money or he would make t
the exposure Harland dreaded. \
"Harland declared that he had no way
to cay the money, but he obtained my {
partner's promise not to move in tne
matter until to-day. Now, it seems to
me almost certain that his motive for the
murder and the robbery was to obtain
c the money to pay us, and thus save him[jPD
self from" the loss of his aunt's fortune,
iiUUi which might have resulted from an exposure.
"
Thus Pratt concluded.
Harland had listened in silence, but
his eyes flashed, and his rage was betrayed
in his face.
"You are a liar and a scoundrel, Dan
Pratt!" he exclaimed. "You are conspiring
to ruin me. You hold my note a
for a thousand dollars. If it purports to '
be for more, it has been tampered with. ?
ce he Moreover, the note I can meet to that car
amount, as I have the money on deposit 6
in bank and meant to send you a cheque c
over- to-day."
trav- "Poor young man. He is plunging 1
Into the depths ol falsehood and decep- T
d the tion," said Pratt, in a mournful tone. ?
it. I ' "We Jiave found out his motive. The ^
get- case is clear now," muttered the police
I ex- sergeant. v
from chapter viii. a
were The faces of the audience, who had v
rhom listened to Pratt's evidence, betrayed 6
plat- the impression he had made.
Stuart was regarded in such a manner 0
teps, that he was sure Pratt was believed by ^
boul- the majority. c
ian'8 True, none of the stolen money had
face, been found In Stuart Harland's posses- P
is he sion, but this could not be regarded as ?
an evidence of his innocence, since he
i you bad ample time to secrete the proceeds &
from of the robbery.
Thus reflected the jurors. a
itch- There was little further evidence to ?'
Po- hear, and presently the Coroner sub- "
oung mitted the matter to the jury, who a
stop- thereupon rendered a verdict without n
md's leaving their seats, that "John Oakburn
r the came to his death at the hands of some ?
person, whose positive identity was un- 01
un- .known, but that the evidence was such ^
well, .as to fasten a strong suspicion upon
age? Stuart Harland.".^*-- re
i ex- ThereupoE, ffie Coroner directed that d<
Stuart be held a prisoner to awuit fur- it
j ao- ther development. " ? ? ?, ti
3ak- Stuart retained his composure admir- 's:
ith's ably, as he listened to the verdict of \
thft pnrnnpr'H iurv. and heard the order I tt
which condemned him to detention in u]
rrest prison. tl
;y at The officers were about to conduct the tc
'unfortunate young man from the office,
yotI when Jason Garrison came forward and
?e of grasped his hand in a warm greeting. o1
LI be "You will tell Edna that I am falsely ni
lart. accused," said Stuart. m
"Yes, yes. She will never doubt you,*
icer. answered the broker. hi
Harland was moving to the door, be?ht
" *rw'ef!D tk? *w0 officers, when Marion m
' Oakburn gained his side, and said to him n<
fjurn In a tone of the most positive oonviction: tl
8jje " Take with you the assurance that you fc
Ight. be 6aved." b<
and Stuart was conducted to Ludlow street
Jail forthwith, and his mind was in a
tight condition of doubt and trouble most ^
lure harassing. So many circumstances of **
i. a surprising nature had crowded them- d<
ding selves into his life within the last few ol
vhat hours, that he was dazed and confused. w
In tie midst of the confusion in his
him mind, he saw constantly, however, like 6C
I be- a portrait which had been stamped in- Bc
delibly-upon the camera of memory, tho n<
ooks horror-stricken face of Marion Oakburn
as he had seen her when she left the
ning office in which her father had been mur- ttI
ame dered. Her face haunted him like a T
ghost that would not be laid, and as he ai
ere, reflected he thought: n<
:ele- "When she came out of the office her al
vere father must have been dead. Before I
was saw her steal out of that apartment the ^
murder had been done.
ery, "Where was she when the awful crime 61
man was consummated?" uj
ffice There was a horrible doubt in Stuart
the Harland's mind then. to
, as "But, no, no; such a thing is so en- T
tirely inconsistent with Marion's char- <*i
irith acter that the monstrous thought that 115
le&r 6hemaybe implicated in the murder of
her own father cannot find a lodgment Cl
ned in my mind. And yet what was she do- tl
e of ing in the office at that hour, and why
fice, was she in such a state of terror when
she left it?" cr
vi"=h Jbese unanswerable questions naturf,tfl
ally suggested themselves to Stuart'a d<
ine" ?; ? lJj
tade Then he recollected huw he had been 0
too awakened by the lond noise, which he
could not account for, and he thought 1
ma- ppw must have been the detonation
tiofl of the" pistol fcnd. killed p
be John Oakburn thai he cadheard, "1"?n*' :
ma- He did not know that Paxton advanced ?
- the theory t^at the assassin's weapon P
nan was an air-pistol. But he had caught .
enough of the police sergeant's mutterthe
ings to learn that the time of the murIned
der had been fixed at twenty minutes of
one, and so he knew that John Oakburn
ian, must have been dead when Marion left P?
its tiio office. Jr
iair. Despite all his suspicions and conjec- ?
age tures, Harland had not mentioned the
llful incident of his having seen Marion leav- j?
his ing the office, for he had always enter,'avy
tained the most exalted opinions of her jVj
, in- character, and he had reasoned:
ssed "There is mystery inexplicable in
pore Marion Oakburu's conduct, but I canents
not believe her guilty. There is some Pl
explanation which will yet be made that j"
wr' win clear up alt this aarK anair, ana i 6hall
not regret my silence." a?
r at The ignoble thought that he might ditely
rect suspicion from himself by revealing m
sur- his knowledge of Marlon's secret visit ?r
to the office never entered his mind.
"Who can be the guilty one?" Stuart ~
a at asked himself, and although there was ~
ider no clue to guide his suspicions, by 6ome _
ohn mental process which he could scarcely ^
pear have explained himself, his thoughts re- "
;h it verted to Levi Kredge, the janitor. 61
that Perhaps the vague suspicions of this
>tive man, which entered his mind unbidden, ?J
The were prompted by an opinion which he 01
seen had recently formed that Levi lirodge ai
was a spy and a sneak. m
the Stuart had twice caught the fellow
, the with his ear at the key-hole of Jason
om- Garrison's private office when confiden- 01
ney, tial transactions were taking place there. m
t for The socond time Stuart's anger gained
the ^e ascendency, and he kicked liredge Pj
out of the office. ^
pjnr. The young man had not forgotten that
. * Krodfffi liafl flashed unon him a look of 01
(j0_ ferocious hate as he slunk away without ^
t * resenting the assault.
"1 The fellow had not uttered a word, m
t but Stuart had read murder in the fiereo
' t j burning light of his eyes, and from that Bt
j ,l(J moment he knew that the seemingly inj.c
offensive and servile cripple was a dant
1! gerous man.
' " The thought now cecurrod to Stuart
' * that it might have been the fellow's pur- tc
l"? pose in listening at key-holes and in spy- ??
tt)e ing about the office to obtain knowledge
. which would enable him to commit a rob- *
that when there was money in the safe.
5e? So deeply impressed did Stuart be- of
s . come with the idea that Kredge was et
A18 concerned in the murder that ho d?ter- m
uL to | **
mined To mennon the matter" to~Mr. Garrison,
to whom he had never mentioned
Kredge's eavesdropping, simply beoausa
ie despised anything like tale-bearing.
As for himself, Stuart was sustained
Dy the consciousness of innocence.
Meanwhile, when Daniel Pratt was
naking his statement before the coroner's
jury, the elegant old gentleman
vho had entered the office just behind
lim seemed 6trangely excited. His
iandB were clinched, his lips comjressed
themselves into a rigid line, and
lis ber.utiful, luminous dark eyes blazed
with a dangerous light.
Despite this evidence of his more than
mssing interest in the proceedings beore
the coroner's jury, be was, as wa
iave stated, an entire stranger to all
>resent.
Did he hold some secret knowledge of
he actors in this life-drama which
;aused his emotion?
When he hastily left the office after
le overheard the banker inform the
:oroner regarding the mark on the
noney which had been 6tolen from
rason Garrison's safe, he hurried dieotly
to the office of Messrs. Pratt and
IVeeks.
The office of this firm of brokers was
irranged something after the manner of
t bank, and at the moment when the
itately old gentleman entered it Mr.,
Veeks, Pratt's partner, was behind the
creen-mountea counter engaged In
ounting a package of money.
Producing, a one-hundred-dollar note
rom his pocketbook, the old gentleman
?hom we have followed strode forward,
.nd presenting the note at a little wicket
a the screen, he asked:
"Will you please accommodate me
rith change?"
"In one moment, sir," replied Weeks,'
nd he continued counting the money,
rkiln fK/s annflnman rnmfllnnH
IUUU UUO ViU ^VUW^UJUU AVAUUUlWVt
tanding beside the open-work screen.
From this position he obtained an exellent
view of the money with which
Peeks was engaged, and he made a disovery.
j
He plainly saw that each note In the
ackage of money which "Weeks was
ounting was marked distinctly with a
V" in the upper left-hand corner of the
ack of the same.
It seems that the stranger must have
cted upon previously acquired knowldge
when he hurried straight to the of-'
ce of Pratt & Weeks, the moment he
cquired the knowledge that the Btolen
loney was all privately marked.
"It is the money John Oakburn's murerer
stole from Jason Garrison's safe,"
lid the aged stranger mentally, and he
lought:,
"Now, if he only gives me the marked
toney in change, I shall have the evi-'
ence that the stolen money has found
8 way into the possession of these vul-'
ires. Are these birds of prey the as>
l$biD b uuuujLipiiuco: j
In a moment' o?so weeks had counted
le marked money, and then he picked
p the one hundred dollar note which
re stranger had placed upon the counir.
"How will you have it?" he aijked.
"In two fifties, please," replied the
iher, who had seen notes of thatde-'
omination in the package of marked:
loney.
The stranger repressed the excitement;
b felt at this moment of suspense, as
reeks turned to the package of marked,
loney. That he meant to give him two!
otes from that package in exchange for
ie one hundred dollar note was plain,;'
>r he began to run over the notes in i
jarch of the denominations required. I
In a moment he found them.
With the two marked fifty dollar notes1
L his hand, he was coming totl^e wicket
) hand tKem" to the stranger, Wlien the'
jor of the private department of the
fice, which was behind the counter,'
as dashed open and Pratt rushed in. <
Springing to his partner's side, he
sized his arm, and hissed in a whisper
>me communication which he did not
;ax.
Weeks uttered an oath and dropped
ie two marked fifty dollar notes back
nong the balance of the marked money,
hen he unlocked the money drawer,
id, taking out two other unmarked
3tes, he spitefully threw them at the
;ed stranger.
The latter secured them and turned to
ie door.
Glancing back over his shoulder, he
iw Pratt and Weeks hastily gathering
) the marked money.
"Pratt was just in time to foil my plan
i obtain some of the marked money,
hey know the secret now. That scoun el
Kredge must have brought them the
formation," muttered the stranger.
There was a telegraphic "stock monitor"
near the door, an<l the aged geneman
paused to consult the '"tape."
ge rend " C. A. ?00; ?25 3^60.1 ?
"Ah! Fouf biundred shares*of the Chiigo
and Alton Kailroad stock it two
mdred and twenty-five dollars to be
ilivered at the seller's option, at any
me within sixty days," muttered the
d gentleman; and the readiness with
hich he translated the legend on the
ndicator take" told that he was no
jvice in the stock market.
Leaving the establishment of Messrs.
ratt <k Weeks, he returned to the
lice, where the inquest was still in
ogress!"
As he passed along the side of the
ill^ing occupied by the firm of Pratt &
reeks he saw Levi Kredge emerge from
te private entrance to the office.
He thereforo possessed the positive
irtltude that the janitor had brought
e scheming brokers the news that the
olen money was marked.
"This affair is growing more and more
ysterious. Kredge must have known
at the stolen money was In the posission
of Pratt and Weeks. Ee is
elr spy, that is clear," he thought.
When he arrived at Garrison's office,
jain, ho did not immediately enter the
lilding, and while he stood before it,
s saw Pratt approach and gain entrance
the office. He then entered himself,
\ stated.
At the conclusion of tho Inquest, the
ysterious olrt gentleman, who was seetly
Interesting himself in the case of
)hn Oakburn's murder, walked to
roadway and took the omnibus to the
stor House, for at this date Jacob
stor had Dot made his successful innoition,
and there were no horse cars on
ie great business thoroughfare of the
eat city.
Some weeks previous to the occurrence
' the incidents thus far recorded, the
d gentleman had arrived at the hotel,
3d registered the name, "Richard Stanore."
Mr. Stanmore seemed to be a stran;r
in the city, but to have a great deal
business with Wall street business
en.
Particularly intimate were his comercial
relations with the firm of Messrs.
arks & Buck, accommodation loan
okers, who had established themselves
1 Wall street a year previous. Also
ith Judson, Kirk & Son, another "Wall
rect nrm largely iniere?u:u m >uriuu?
ining and railway speculations.
There was another firm, not on Wall
reet, with whom Mr. Stanmore was
idently on the best of business terms.
The firm in question was that of Ben.mln
4 Co., a Jewish money-lending
juse which negotiated largo loans, and
) them in secret many a "Wall street
jerator had been glad to come forfinanal
aid wben the market took a long run
ho wrong way."
Almost every evening a representative
' each of the firms mentioned was closed
with Mr. Stanmore in his apartentsin
the hotels
' "Surprising as It may seem7how(
in view of the fact we have mentlo
Mr. Stanmore was entirely unkn
personally on Wall street, and he n
visited the offices of the business f
we have mentioned.
All of this smacked of mystery,
there was much more Ln the doingi
Mr. Stanmore that seemed to be ii
plicable.
Very much to Mr. Garrison's surp:
the day following the night of the r
der and robbery drew to a close, ant
one from Pratt <fc Weeks called upon
to demand the money he owed them.
In view of the fact that Mr. Pratt
insisted that the $78,000 must positf
be paid that morning at an early h
if the debtor wished to avoid unpleai
consequences, Mr. Garrison thoug'
was remarkable that he had not hi
from him.
Pratt had hurried away from
broker's office without exchanginj
word with Mr. Garrison.
Edna had been informed by her fai
of Stuart's imprisonment, and the
voted girl received the evil news brav
for she was sustained by the belief 1
innocence would triumph.
Jason Garrison was in a state of
tense nervous excitement and ala
He 6hut himself up in his library, an
every unusual 60und he started apj
hensively, as though he was in mom
tary expectation of the occurrence
some terrible calamity.
At nignnau, as ne was loomng c
the evening paper, he suddenly lea
to his feet, and exclaimed, excitedly
"Can this be true! Can this be tn
[to be continued. 1
j TEMPERANCE.
/
' the cup that katttee ftli4,
Praise tho cup that nature QUI
Brimming to the brink;
Giving health and curing ills.
Blessed, precious drink.
Sing against the fiery bowl
Potent to destroy
Health and homo, and heart on(5Mr
Every earthly joy.
?Edward Carswc
sated fbom lo'acy.
Mr. William Tallack, of tho Howard J
elation, says, in a letter in the Loi
Times on "Prisons and Sentences:"
visiting prisons I have again and again
assured that coming to jail prevents n
offenders from going mad; for it is the d
that chiefly makes them insane. Hero
get no alcohol, and hence Uiany are si
from lunacy. Certainly they get bette
jail rather than worse; and there is no da
whatever of cellular separation for s
terms injuring prisoners' trends."
a judge's testijiontt.
In an address before tho Ministers' Un
'at Clevelnnd, Judse Logue, of that city,
his tostimony to the relation of drink
crime. Ho had been Judge of the Pc
Court for four years, and during that 1
40,000 cases had come before him. "
year," ho said, "of tho cases brought be
mo 4297 were cases of intoxication,
smallest number for any year during
term of T>fHco. The ye;j.r before there \
4950 and previous to that 533d. Four-fl
of all the cases brought into court were
result of intoxication. While the charg
which the offense was examined may 1
been other than intoxication, the ovidi
brought out the fact that the use of liqui
responsible for all but a small percent, ol
crime that is com^tM."
FBANCE AND THE DMNK rBOBLZM.
In France, as in every other country,
drink curse is demanding the increased
tention of the thoughtful. A noticeable
turo of the French press is the discussio
temperance and allied questions. The (
mos, perhaps the ablest scientific jounu
France, says: "The question of alcohol
is still the order of the day." To show
evil results of the liquor traffic in one pi
alone, it says: "In the insane asylum the
tellectual decadence of sixteen per cent
the inmates is attributable to drunkenn
the number several years ago was but ele
per cent." Dr. Legrain, head physicia
the Ville-Evrard Asylum, in an address
fore the Congress of the French Public 1
ality League, recently hold in Lyons, sp
strongly on what he called collective a
holism; that is, the action of intempsra
on all social and political life. As pro\
that, he referred to tho fast that in pu
houses (saloons), public meetings were h
and alcohol seemed to be a necessary
junct of all discussion. It was the publi
(saloon-keeper-), who played an inauspici
part in elections, and thus interfered \
the duty of French citizens. His influe
w;is also found in the strikes which occui
and fhus drink held in check not only ii
viduals, but also the Government. '
same is true in America. M. H. do Rershr
who spoke for the press, said that "it (a:
hoi) is in a fair way of brutaling the Fre
race, and which will finish by annihilal
it^f measures of public safety be not ta
against it." Tho same is true of Amer
and the remedy it prescribes for France is
only remedy for America?to kill it, to ]
bid its manufacture and traffic."
WILL XOT WED YOUNG MEN WHO DEINE.
There is a merry war on in Danbt
Conn., where tho young women member
St. Peter's Terrperanco Society have forn
ly annouueed that they agreed not to ma
drunkards or men likely to become dru
ards, or any young man who partakes
spirituous or malt liquors, wine o;- cider.
Father Lynch, rector of St. Peter's Chui
who is urging this crusade on, kept it m
ing by preaching another sermon on the s
ject of "Marriage and Tempcrance," S
day night, says a New York dispatch. 1
afternoon the young, women were gi
moral strength by the announced deter
nation of the Rosary 8ociety to stand by
girls. Most of theso were married, but Fa
er Lynch told them that they were in d
ner of becoming widows at any mom<
The widows were more outspoken than m
ried women.
The business men of tho town are almo:
unit in oiiDosinir Father Lvnch's movemt
becauso it will not stop until it makes D
bury ft prohibition town. At the last el
tion license were carried by a majority
little more than a hundred. Father Lyi
says it is impossblo for a Danbury youtt
strike the golden mean. He must be a tc
abstainer or become a drunkard.
Miss Maggio Drum, President of the
ciety, believes that before loug, if the mo
ment spreads, all tho women of this cour
will strike against marrying drunkards,
will bo a grand lockout," sho said; "
father will not have drunkards as fathers
their children."
TEarTEHASCE SEWS AST) XOTE8.
New York's reform Folice Commissioi
declare that "'saloons are not proper pit
to frequent."
Thirty-two Irish members of tho Hous<
Commons are directly and indirectly in
ested in tho liquor traffic.
In one year over one million dollars' wc
of property was destroyed by the failure
beer drinking engineers and switchmen.
Miss Katti Lundon has organized Womn
Christian Temperance Unions of Scandi
vian women in Brooklyn and New York.
Vital force, heat force, motor force, m
force and muscular force are ail impaired
tho iullucucc of doses of alcohol.?Dr. N,
Davis.
Expert bartenders estimate sixty-th
drinks to the gallon. On this estimate tb
were 5,004,002,891 drinks of whisky mad<
this country last year.?VV. C. T. U. Bulle
At a recent important public ceremony
which the Duke and Duchess of Teck w
the central ilguros, three ladies of the a
tocracy drank her Majesty's health in c
water.
On the cornerstone of the London T(
| pcrance Hospital, laid by Sir Wilfrid Laws
is this inscription: "In hum Wo ilepemie
on Almighty God for euro in tho treatm
of disease.
The report on temperance of the Gene
Assembly of tho Presbyterian Church e
tained a declaration that tho "uufermei
fruit of tho viuo fulfills every condition
observing tho sacrament." Also a ree<
mendation that everything be done to. k
drinkers out of Government, State
municipal ofliccs, and a resolution deslai
that "The tinu: has now como to make
iufluenco lelt directly and with power, i
voters arc urged to vote against the grant
of licenses/' .
i
'Z: TREASURE VAULTS.
own
ever
Inns WHERE UNCLE SAM KEEPS HIS
GOLD AND SILVER.
and
8 of
Qez_ Ad Enormous Quantity of Bullion
and Coins In the Treasury Build rise,
ins?Odd Figures as to the
nur- Bulk of the Sliver.
1 no
him
"T" N the National Capital there is no
had I spot more attractive to strangers
vely I than the big vaults of the Treasour?
ury Department. These vast rebttt
positorics of gold and silver are
sard the curiosities of the town.
They rank in interest with the Waehth?
ington Monument, the Dead Letter
g & Office and the echo stones of the Capitol.
Every day, between the hours of
ther io and 12, swarmsof strangers descend
<*?" the damp, dark staircase in the big
Treasury building to the realms of the
precious metals. A guide accompanies
> in_ them, and as the visitors peer through
jtd. the iron grating at the steel safes
d at holding gold, or the wooden boxe6
pre- containing silver, the guide delivers
'6?- for their benefit a most entertaining
' ?' lecture. He tells them how much of
each kind of money in each vault, the
nature of the precautions adopted
T?3i^
X ?KK&itZ&tw?4 w=^ill
,v!- M
wK
the '" i i
my GREAT SILVER VAULT IN THI
ver?? the
against sneak thievery, tunneling and
0 od - ether forms of burglary.
lave The most interesting part of the
show is the big silver vault. There
t the are in all seven vaults in the Treasury,
and the total amount of gold, silver,
notes and bonds in them is nearly
the ?800,000,000. But it is "the big sil1
at- ver vault" that all the visitors -want to
see. They have heard of it and its di20a.
meiisions, and they are curious to bell
in hold it with their own eyes.
Itsm "Great .Tehosophat!" exclaimed a
lase stranger, with bulging eves, as he
, in- stood at the door to this vault; "can't
. of be possible all that stuff in there is
.053; ailver? Why, it is as big as a meetHat
ing-house."
be- "Yes, it's all eilver," replied the acr
1i 3 A .11* X * * -
iur* commoaaiing sua iniemgeui ^umc.
g! "This big vault occupies all the space
nca under the northern courtyard of the
ing Treasury building. Its exact measureb.^c
ment is eighty-nine feet long, fiftyad!
one feet wide, and twelve feet high,
can Behind the iron grating you see
ous wooden boxes, 'ihey are all full of
silver?32000 in each box. The boxes
Ted are piled all around the edges, and in
idi- the middle are bags of silver piled in
The a great heap. We have lots of trouble
lUt,
iconch
'
:ing
THE GOLI
iors '
ices with this silver. The boxes burst and
the bags get rotten, and then when a
? of new Administration comes in we have
tcr" to we ?h it all. It takes us .ibout
.. three month to do the job, and it's j
s 0f dreadful hard work."
"Does this vault contain all of :
tn's Uncle Sam's silver?" naked the !
na* stranger.
"Oh, no, bless you, no," responded I
the guide. "Here we have ouly 8103,- |
, s. 249,000 in coined dollars. That is ;
lees than a fifth of all the silver the j
reo Government owns. In vault Nc. 2? j
era von pft39eti that on your way in?we !
tijj" have $18,000,000. In smaller vaults j
( of we have a few millions more. We
'ere never could find space tor all Uncle
Lam's silver here. We are frightfully
01 crowded as it is. In all we have
hero 160,000,000 or 170,000,000 of
ion, silver dollars. The remainder of the
nm. 37H nnn niO nf eninpd dollars owned
ieut by theGovernmeiit is iu ths sub-treas,
uries at New York, Chicago ami other
;ral ... ??
on- Cltiesited
"You sny Uncle Sara has more than <
500,000,000 of silver dollars on hand?'' ;
wu- "Yes, sir. Standard dollars, 370,aml
000,000, and silver bullion enough to
ins make 178,000,000 more; grand total,
our $548,000,000." <
"But there must be a lot of 6ilver
dollars in circulation?" asked the
atranger.
'Not at many as you would think,1
replied the guide. "We have coine<
422,000,000 of these dollars, and th<
number in circulation is now only 53,
000,000. The people don't seem t<
want 'em. We've done everything w<
could to induce the people to take th<
standard dollar. Congress has appro
priated money nearly every year t<
enable the Secretary of the Treasur
to send out silver dollars in exchang
for other money without expense t
rtannlo Vm f if H AAflTl 'f. flAATTI 1
make any difference. They don't go
Why, the number of standard dollar
in circulation now is much smalle
than it was a few years ago. Insteai
of inducing the people to take mor
of the dollars, they have actually beei
sending them back to us."
"Do you know how much the Gov
ernment has paid out for silver?'
asked the stranger.
"To a cent," replied the guide, con
suiting a little notebook whioh he
drew from his pocket. "We hav<
bought 503,003,811 fine ounces, fo
which we have paid 3516,623,011
That is an awful lot of money."
By this time every man and womei
in the crowd was listening intently t
what the guide had to say.
"Now, if you have seventeen c
these silver dollars," he went on, "yo
- /7l_
'mm\
Mmm
\^~ ^ $&&/&?>(-1 >*
iP^
J UNITED 8TATES TREASURY.
can easily hold them in your hand.
They weigh just about a pound. But
if you have u thousand dollars you will
have about all you could carry, or
sixty pounds weight. Now supposo in
stead of a thousand silver dollars yon
have a million. That means thirty tons
of silver. To haul it through the
smooth streets of Washington in onr
big Treasury wagons would take twelve
or fifteen wagons, ftow, do you grasp
what a million means? And then remember
that Uncle Sam has 548,000,000
of silver.
"Let ns look at it in another way.
Take eight silver dollars and place
them in a row on the table, flat, rim
to rim. They will reach just a foot
If you have a thousand dollars placed
in the same way they will reach 125
feet. Bat suppose you have a million.
Then they will make a white streak
more than twenty-three and one-half
miles long.
"Having now secured a better appreciation
of the magnitude of a million,"
the gnide continued, "let me
give you some figures I have made at
odd momeots about the 518,000,000
1 11 TT_ a 1.? ^
Sliver aouars uaoie oam u?a m iucao
and his other vaults.
i
=3f?
*
j??o 3 I H r??
> VAULT.
"If all of these dollars were placed
rim to rim, flat, they would reach
nearly 13,000 miles.
"They would cover all the space between
the rails on a railway line clear
across the State of Iowa, a distauce or'
350 miles.
"Tbe weight of all Uncle Sam's silver
is 16,410 tons. If it were loaded
into railroad car?, -10,000 pounds to
the car, we should bave 822 car loa-.ls.
This would make twenty trains of
forty-one cars eacb, and these trains,
with their locomotives, would have an
aggregate length of six miles.
"Tbe coined dollars aro packed in
boxes continuing $2000 each. It is
about all a man cnu do to carry off one
of these boxes. Suppose we want to
move all of Uncle Sam's silver by man
power tit the same time, we should
need at this rate 271,000 men. Givaiw?1?
mon tiTTA nf rnnm thnv I
woulil make a single procession more
than '250 miles.
"If the Government wcro forccd to
carry all the silver across couutry in
wagons probably 2900 pounds would
be a fair load to each two-horse team,
taiiiug good roads or bed roads. Sixteen
thousand teams would bo required,
and when on the road close
together, one after another, they
would make a caravan considerably
more than a hundred miles long.
.
" "If these teams were lined up sicUl
1 by side in solid phalanx, as the wagons
e of settlers were on the borders of the
- Oklahoma strip, they weald make a
3 column thirty miles long.
9 "Suppose all this silver was coined
a and stored away loose, so you could'
- get at it easily, and you were set count-.
^ ing it, dollar by dollar. How long do : N
7 you suppose it would take you to
e count it all? Veil, if you ran the '
o dollars through your fingers at the
o rate of 100 a minute and worked ten .
' hours a day, excepting Sun days, it m
s would take you about thirty years to 1
r finish the job. It is now 12 o'clock, /
i ladies and gentlemen, and the vaults
e will have to be closed, under the rules
^ of the Department."?Chicago TimesHerald.
Dou't Fail to Twirl Tour Thumbs.
A physician in charge of a well- "*>[
- known asylum for the care of the in- m
) sane recently said: "There is one inb
fallible test either for the approach or
r the presence of lunacy. If the per.
son whose case is being examined is
seen to make no use of his thumb, if
: he lets it stand out at right angles
o from the hand, and employs it neither
in salutation, writing, nor any other
if manual exercise, you may set it down
a as a fact that that person's mental r;
balance is gone. He or she may converse
intelligibly,, may in every respect
be guarding the seoret of a mind
diseased with the utmost care and
cunning, but the telltale thumb will y . 3
infallibly betray the lurking madness ).
which is concealed behind a plausible ;f*
demeanor.?The Scotsman.
Iiowr to Make a Novel Moose Trap. ; $
Mice are very knowing little ani- .
mals and are often too shrewd to be y-wh
caught by even the best steel traps. Jj
To make a very effective mouse trap : I
tftlro a lurcrft iftr?kind Tlfipd for
jam and preserves?and tie over the
top a piece of stiff brown paper. Ia 'M
the center of this cat a oross. Set the \
jar in a closet and suspend by a string ^
a piecfl of toasted cheese or bacon M
rind over the centre. If the mice
cannot easily reach the top of the jar 't?
a runway may be constructed by plao- ijfHj
ing one end of a board on the edge of
the jar'and allowing the other end to .
rest on the floor. If there are any
mice about the bait will attract
them. Just as soon as the first mouse *3$,
reaches the centre of the paper he #
will drop through into the jar, and the
paper will fly back ready for the next
comer.
The same kind of a trap may De ; /
used for catching rats, only a barrel :v!;
must be substituted for the jar. A.
rat will soon gnaw out of such a trap >. iS&j
if not prevented. The best way to ' a
avoid this is to fill the barrel partly figs
with water. This trap is a great fa- L
vorite with country people. They lay Jjj
^
THE HOME-MADE MOUSE TP A P. * V$
a good-sized stone or briok in the bottom
of the barrel, and pour in just
enough water to come level with tho ' i
top ot this. The first rat that turn*
bles in, of course, climbs on the brick *?
to get out of the water. As soon as
another victim arrives there is a fight j
for possession of the only dry spot. j
The noise attraots other rodents, so
by morning a dozen or more may be ^
swimming and squealing and fighting ?
for dear life. \
The Tarantula. j
The tarantula is a giant spider,
sometimes measuring foar inches in
length. It is fawn-colored above, with |
white sides, marked with whitish j J
lines. j
It has four oairs of well-developed f I
legs, in addition to the mandibles or i
jaws, which contain the poison apparatus.
These are grooved, and the poie- I
onous secretion, which is similar in
composition to the venom of snake?, *<
is contained in a eland at the base of
the mandibles and is forced through,
the grooves when the spider is angry
and grasps its victim. The body and
legs are thiokly covered with hair.
Although the bite of the tarantula
can hardly be classed as deadly, it i?
always extremely painful, and haft j
probably m some cases caused death.
The tarantula is remarkable both >./;
for its fierceness and its extraordinary
swiftness. By the use of eight 4a*
long and vigorous legs it dashes over "
the ground, and as these legs are sharp
and prehensile, it can run up a perpendicular
surface with great ease.
i Mr 1
THIS IS A TARANTULA. it
No one need therefore be surprised to
see a tarantula run up from the ground fl
to his chin. -m
The tarantula catches small birds, |
mice and insects. It is able to use its |
poison with greater relative effect on I
these than on man and other large ani- I
mais. I