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HMaBBaHHHHBaBBnMsaaBaasi EE PLAYED BURGLAR BUT HE DID IT INNOCENTLY AND DID IT ARTISTICALLY AS WELL. The Plausible Scheme by Which a , Safe Expert Was Fooled nnd Used ; by a Trio of Notorious Cracksmen to Get at Their Plunder. To the man whose shingle bears the Inscription "Safe Expert" and whose little shop, not far from the great dry goods district contains a full assortment of implements for the forcible opening of safes, the writer said, . "Would you be well qualified to play the burglar?' "Yes," said the little keen eyed man, running his fingers through his scant hair reflectively. "I once did Dlny burglar. In fact, I played the star role in a safe cracking enterprise. I was the innocent means by which a wholesale house was robbed of several thousand dollars which had been taken in too late in the day to be banked. "I was in business then in another city. I was sitting smoking at my shop door about 8 o'clock one evening J?' ? ??noma nrith fl fwaea ii uiewscxigci w,? ? note on the letter paper of a well i,' known house asking me to come at once with my tools to the office of the firm. "The office was lighted up, and a portly, prosperous looking man sat at a roll top desk, while two clerks, perched on stools, were working at some books. ' " 'I am Mr. / said the portly one, giving the name of the head of the firm. 'Something has gone wrong with the safe; and I want you to open it The combination is 6-27-45. but something must have broken inside, for it won't open, and we have got to get some books oat of the safe tonight/ "As I tried the combination which the man had given me he explained that he bad locked the safe when he went out to dinner and was unable to open it i when he came back."It was one of those 'alum' filled safes, and I suspected rust had done its work inside. " 'Nothing to do but drill it open,' said I. " 'Go ahead,' said the portly one, 'and don't keep me here any longer than you can help.' "With that he turned to his desk, and I worked away unsuspectingly. There was dead silence except when the man at the desk spoke to one or the other of the clerks about some account, and the tread of the policeman on that beat could be heard as he passed the office. "I did not realize until afterward that I was working out of view of the passing policeman, for the safe was behind the bookkeeper's desk, but the shade^ were up and the man at the roll top desk and thte bookkeepers could be plainly seen from the street. "I got out my bits, adjusted the brace, and soon steel was biting steel, but the sound of the ratchet was drowned bv the click of the typewriter, for the portly party began dictating to one of the clerks as soon as I began drilling the safe. When I thought it all over afterward, it occurred to me that this war to cover the sound of my opera tions. "In half an hour I had a hole in the front of the safe, and a little manipulation got the tumblers into place, and the door swung open. " 'Here you are. sir/ said I, and the portly man came around to the safe. "'Very neatly done,' he said. 'You'd make a good burglar.' " 'But the sound of the ratchet would bring the "cops," ' said I. " True.' remarked the man. and, drawing out a roll of bills, he handed me $20. *"Is that right? he asked. " 'Quite right' I replied. 'Shall I come in the morning to fix the safe? "'No,' said he, 'I will hove the makers of the safe attend to it' "As 1 gathered ud my tools the portly man directed one of the clerks to get out the books th8t were needed, and be went back to the desk. "1 trundled back to my shop, meeting the policeman at the corner, and while I'was stauding chatting with bira the trio came out of the office. "'You can come down an hour later than usual in the morning:.' saia iae portly man as he climbed into a hanBom that had rolled up to the office, and, shouting the name of a "well known dub to the driver, he pulled the doors to and was driven away. "Before noon the next day the policeman whom 1 had talked with and a detective came into my shop. ** 'That was a neat job you did last night.' said the policeman. " 'What?' I asked, the nature of the work 1 had done not yet dawning on me. M 'The looting of ?'s safe,' said the policeman. 'Come along.' "The portiy person who employed i me to open the safe was a well known burglar who had 'made up' to impersonate the head of the firm, and the two clerks were confederates, one of whom had got a place with the firm to get the lay of the land. "They had taken possession of the office after it was closed for the day, and, not daring to blow open the safe, because that would have made the po ... +V,rtTT 1,0^ lice SWOOp Clown yu iucuj, tuvj boldly sent for me to 'do the job,' neatJy possessed themselves of nearly $4,000 that was in the safe and were across the Canadian border before the robbery was discovered when the office was opened the next day. "I told my story to the magistrate and was released on bonds to appear as a witness when the trio were caught "The papers called me 'the innocent burglar.' the name stuck to me and hurt my business, and the police were rather attentive to me, so I came here some years ago."?New York Times. BBBnnsBBfiHnBQnnBMCsxEBanEBSHnnsEmnRiz HURRY UP7 Everywhere orie hears that expression "hurry up!" It is a genuine Americanism expressive of the tv "rush" in which we V live. Nothing is swift \ enough for us. We race against steam | and lightning and find ** them slow. We k V grudge the time given I to eating, and rush y-J 1 through meals as | though life depended J | upon our haste. Life does depend on i I ly?our haste, but not in j that sense. Look at j TT1--' tlie obituary columns ! ' 1 of tlie papers and j 11 see how many promi- i nent men are carried j CZ away by "stomach I r>CT trouble," "acute indi- i L1 gestion " and other re- j lated diseases. Their lives have in general j been sacrificed to the j j ?&?&. haste and rush or i jr$jpj7 business which overjoyI ' looked the fact that food can only nourish ?}$/ ? the body when digested and assimilated and that the digestive and assimilative processes can't be hurried. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, cures diseases of the stomach and the associated organs of digestion and nutrition, j TI..- source of all physical strength is food, } properly digested and perfectly assimilated, j By enabling the perfect digestion and assim- | ilationof food "Golden Medical Discovery" 1 increases- and enriches the blood supply i and sends new strength to every organ of | the body. ?I was at one time as I thought almost at | death's door." writes Mr. J. S. Bell, of Leando, i Van Buren Co., Iowa. "I was confined to my house and part of the time to my bed. I haci taken quantities of medicines but they only seemed to feed the disease ; but I must say that * Golden* Medical Discovery' has cured me, and to-day I am stouter than I "have been for twenty years. I am now forty-three years old." Free. ~ Dr. Pierce's Medical Adviser sent free to you on receipt of stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Send thirty-one one-cent stamps for cloth bound book or twentv-one stamps for paper covers to Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. WHY NOSES POINT EAST. A Theory "Which la Plausible, but Rather Rldlcnloas. Very few people's noses are set propperly upon their faces. Any observant person who will go along the street and take notice of the nasal organs of the passerby may easily convince himself on the subject. Not one individual in a hundred, whether man or woman, Is j aimvp criticism as to the arrangement j of his or her nose. One might think that nature is a little careless about this matter. When the nose turns off at an angle instead of assuming its just and proper attitude, it tends, at all events in extreme cases, to give a disordered effect to the features, as a v.*hole. but if nature really does not care -which way a nose j points there ought to be as many noses j turned one way as are turned the other. But is this the case? Not a bit of it ! As you walk down the street look at the people as they go by, and you will discover that the noses of ninety-nine out of every hundred turn to the right When once you have begun to notice ; this fact, it will constantly attract j your attention. In truth, the objection to starting in upon a study of this kind is that you cannot get away from it afterward. It haunts you steadily and persistently. Whenever you meet a friend you look at his nose to make sure whether it turns to the right or not Now, the phenomenon being as described, what is the reason behind it? Why should nearly everybody's nose turn to the right rather than to the left? There seems to be only one way to account for it and that is that al- i most everybody is right handed and j uses his handkerchief correspondingly; so from infancy to old age the nose in the process of being blown and wiped is persistently tweaked to the right; ! hence as the infant passes through ! childhood and later youth?when the i nasjil organ is flexible and in process ! of formation, so to speak?it is obliged gradually but surely to assume an in- I ciination eastward. If this theory be correct the noses of left handed persons ought to turn customarily to th? left. Such, in fact, ap- ; pears to be the case, but data on thi? interesting branch of the question are not sufficiently complete to afford a final conclusion. ? Saturday Evening Post. j I take great pleasure in giving the very highest testimonial to Dr. Baker's Blood and Liver Cure. I used it in 1895 Inflammatory Rheumatism. I was severely afflicted with the disease and tried my family physician, in addition to various remedies, without effect. I procured some of the above medicine, and before using a bottle of it I could walk without my crutches, and by the time I had used a bottle and a half, I felt entirely well, and have not suffered any since. I cheerfully recommend it, and believe it will do all its propietors claim for it. Respectfully, E. 0. Martin, Deputy Collector of "Wilkes County, N. C., Feb 22, 1898. For sale at the Bazzar. THE GOLDEN POPPY, Dazzling, Blazing: BIokkotus That Greeted the California Pioneers. Far out at sea gleaming sheets of dazzling gold arrested the gaze of the early explorers of California. Blazing along the Pacific coast, embroidering the green foothills of the snow capped Sierra Madres, transforming acres and acres of treeless plains into royal cloth of gold, millions of llowers of silky texture and color of gold fascinated the Spanish discoverers. An eminent botanist, Eschscboltz, at once classified the plant, and his followers conferred his name upon this the only native American pa paver. Drvamlikein beauty, fascinating from WW?fcawa?. sheer loveliness, spreading m son undulations over the land, the California poppy bloomed above the richest views and arteries of gold the world has ever known, all unsuspected. A Circe, with powers to please, dazzle and charm by its enchantments, while it allures, lulls and mystifies, this fiower of sleep seemed to draw by some occult process from the earth the elixir of gold, unfolding its blooms of gold as beacons proclaiming, "We are blooming above rich mines of gold." There is ever a mystery about the poppy. It is a weird fiower. It is almost sentient, with a life unknown to human kind. "While glory guards with solemn trend the bivouac of the dead" stealthily a sea of gore creeps over the old battlefields. P.iood red. the poppies in waves and billows hold high carnival above the soil that covers the slain. Lord Maeaulay says of the battlefield of Xeerwinden: "The summer after the battle the soil, fertilized by 20.000 dead, broke forth into millions of blood red ?? * - i? cii. poppies. 'lne traveler iroiu 01. nyiiu to Tirlemont who saw that vast field of rich scarlet stretching from Harden to Neerwinden could hardly help fancying that the figurative description of the Hebrew prophet was literally accomplished: that "the earth was disclosing her blood and refusing to cover her slain." Bayard Taylor in "The Lands of the Saracen" says he contemplated with feelings he could not deScribe "the old battlefields of Syria, densely covered with blood rod poppies, blooming in barbaric splendor, gloating on the gore of soldiers slain." However interesting the poppy may be to men of science and to lovers of the beautiful, it is yet more so to th* people of California. This beautiful, weird, gold colored flower of gossamer texture belongs to California" alone. Nowhere else in the world has it ever made its habitat There it is naturally so profuse that it is related as a fact that coming on a turn full face upon ? flnM nf roDntp nnnnioc r\rti a uivuuiin^ uuiu \jl. t?vuvff v.MM zling in the sunshine, horses have been put to flight as from flames of tire.? Home and Flowers. Solds Up A Congressman. "At the eDd of the campaign" writes Champ Clark, Miosouri's brilliant congressman, "from overwork, nervous tension, loss of sleep and constant speaking I had about utterly collapsed. It seemed that all the organs in my body were out of order, but three bottles of Electric Bitters made me all right. It's the best allaround medicine ever sold over a druggist's counter." Over worked, run-down men and weak, sickly women gain splendid health and vitality from Electric Bitters. Try them. Only 50c. Guaranteed by J. E. Kaufmann. Foods find Appetite. In some, good advice given in print bv a physician the theory held by faddists in special foods, wamuired to perform marvels of health and restoration, is exploded. "Don't," says this writer, "imagine that you can grow strong on foods that you dislike. Better fried ham and chocolate cake with a good appetite than a health cereal with milk and disgust." One would hesitate, perhaps, to follow strictly the fried ham and chocolate cake dictum to the letter, but it is undoubtedly true that at the moment many persons almost starve themselvea I because they have no appetite for the various so called health foods, which alone they fancy they can eat Above and beyond the choice of food is moderation in partaking of it and relish for what is eaten.?New York Post The East and the West. A man from the west whog was recently visiting Maine fell into conversation with a quiet old farmer on a train. He was full of the greatness of the west and talked about the big ^arms and big crops of his particular section and wound up by saying. "I [ suppose you do manage to pick a I living on these little Maine farms. The old Maine farmer smiled sadly and replied: "Yes, and a few years ago some of us invested money in your sec! tion. and it is there yet. It was a per j manent investment I guess." The western man changed the conversation.?New York Tribune. A Poison Without an Antidote. Some persons are advocating a substitute for death by electricity and hanging. They have advocated poisoning, j Well, nothing could be more effective ! or painless that execution by means of j a capsule filled with hydrocyanic acid. I It might be served without the knowlj edge of the convict, and death would ! be so sudden and so certain that there | could be no resurrection. A single drop placed ou the tongue of a big dog causes instant death. 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Portsmouth, Va. i Money to Loan. TTJE ARE PREPARED TO NEGOTIV? ate loans promptly on improved in I.e-vinotrin ennntv at 7 per cent, interest. No commissions. Borrower pays actual expenses of preparation of papers. THOMAS & GIBBES. Attorneys at Law, Columbia, S. C, November 13. (Jmos. Money to Loan ON FARMING LANDS. LONG TIME, Easy payment. No com mission. Borrower pays actual cost of peri.^eting Loan. E. K. PALMER, Central National Bank Building. COLUMBIA, S, C COL. G. T. GRAHAM, Lexington, S. C. July 18?ly. \ 4