The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, January 02, 1902, Image 4
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WAYS OF HOLD-UP HEN.
POINTS REGARDING AN INDUSTRY
THAT THRIVES IN CHICAGO.
A Dark Alley is an Essential Part of a
Hold-Up ? The Highwayman Often as
Frightened as His Victim Is ?A Pretty
Sure and Safe Method of Protection.
The Chicago Trubune recently contained
the following article:
Most persons who have never met
a hold-up man while the later is plying
his vocation have a wrong conception
of him. To most men he represents
an angry, hungry beast preying
on society. The conventional
highwayman must De ugly ana nave
broad shoulders and curse horribly.
He must have a trusty weapon and
maybe two, one as trusty as the other.
He says "Stop, throw up your hands!"
as melodramatlcallly as any Jack
Sheppard or Claude Duval, and under
no circumstances must his demand for
money be denied. That is the good
old idea of him. It is romantic, and
r: no highwayman of that class could
work to advantage without a set of
footlights and freshly painted scenery,
and perhaps an orchestra to dole
out slow and creepy music.
But that is not the sort of hlgj^gffifea.
other winter
for that matter, is neither a chivalrous
Robin Hood nor a heartless
ruffian. More often he is the latter,
but the general rule is that he is
an experienced, thick-witted criminal,
trying to make a living cheaply. Of
-course, Red Sullivan, the short man
of the famous team of the long and
J short men, who terrorized the town
f-. four witners ago; Harry Featherstone,
Kid Murphy, and a few others of that
sort, the hierarchy erf their profession,
as it must not considered fair
~ examples of the hold-up man. They
nad more daring and more strength
than the men who will work this winter.
The successors to those criminals
are ordinary stock, and once
they are understood successful highvjC
way robberies will be less frequent
Much of their strength is ficticious.
The idea of an attack in the night
: T carries freight with it to many men,
and the appearance of the highwayman
is exaggerated in ferocity by
the previous impression of his kind.
Those hold-up men who are known to
tne police now are, with a few exceptions,
the cheapest sort of cheap criminals.
They are born usually in a
neighborhood, where honesty is
quoted at a considerably lower figure
than the ability to get away from the
police. Tley grow up on the streets,
and then fall into the all night saloon
habit. One saloon in the levee district
is the harbor of most hold-up
men who are, as the actors say, "at
liberty." A night scene in this
place is interesting. Boys just out of
otnVw ot Pnntit/> nnrnlAil
VI.U l^iviiuawvt; wv 4. v? 9 X"?.*
. convict8 and some men freed from
[ Joliet.. the amateurs who are going.
into lives of crime because they imagine
there is glory in them, and
some men and boys who get into the
place by mistake, are there to drink
and talk crime and criminals. The
police of the Harrison street station
let the place run because they believe
in the concentration of the habitues.
-j. ney never have to go far to look for
the men they may happen to wantx
Tne police have "stool pigeons," who
are hired spies, in the place and they
watch it closely. Hold-up men in embryo
are to be found there, and in a
lew other places of the sort. But they
are sadly lacking in the qualities that
appeal to the seeker after the picturesque
in criminals. They are not
the exceptions to the rule that holdup
men are cheap thugs. The excep
ttohs are safe in jail.
The common variety go armed, of
course, but the armament is as oldfashioned,
usually, as the custom of
mounting Quaker guns of wood. As
soon as one of them is arrested his
revolver is confiscated and a needle
is not found in a haystack'more seldom
than is a good weapon found on
a hold-up man. The guns are usually
' -cheap bull-dog revolvers that might
' have cost a dollar and a quarter. If
the industrious hold-up man paid m6rc
than" two dollars for his weapon he
^grossly swindled. Some of them
sacks filled with lead, and with
t^a^vjua niftuo m tuv uuiu w^vi
the operator must be classed
or bit of plugged leathHHuH^
more often than not connjpfflr^&t
borne and to suit
individual taste of the
man who is' to wield it. Many
times have hold-up men been arrested
with revolvers wfeich have not^jg&r'
joyed the completen^s^d goes with
a weapon which is Jftt'Tor shooting purposes.
Sometimes it is the cylinder*
that is missing. Sometimes there is
no hammer, and often the trigger,
that constant companion of a wellequipped
revolver, has been missing.
A handkerchief makes the best mask,
but most hold-up men do not mask at
all. They often forget to put on their
disguise when they hear their victim
approaching. Sometimes if they want
to mask, they would have to go all
the way home for a handkerchief.
A dark alley is an essential part of
a hold-up. The pedestrian walks past
the mouth of the alley, and then the
hold-up man gets out of the shadow
with his request for money, payable
at sight. It follows that if pedestrians
do not walk close to the wall
or building line, if they seek the curbstone,
or, better still, the middle of
the road, they are comparatively
A black, soft bat of tbe sombrero
order is a means of hold-up prevention
that is often effective. The police patrol
sergeant, the lieutenant, the captain,
and the plain clothes men wear
soft hats when not in uniform. So,
if a citizen who is not on the police
force, can affect the regulation swagger,
and can afford a soft hat, not
many hold-up men will venture close
enough to ask for his money without
having to shout for it.
William Buchanan, a colored holdup
man, who, on account of the dexterity
with which he used to operate,
is now reposing in a penitentiary cell,
made a favorite stamping ground of
Washington park. Other lights that
are lesser by many candle power also
affect the parks, because at night
they are provided with so many obscure
paths. The trees and the shrubbery
make good alleys to escape, and
tt js never a safe plan to walk too
close to the outlines of a park.
Confessions of hold-up men show
^ that they are often as frightened as
the men they are holding up. They
nave their revolver under the nose of (
Ihe man from whom they are getting
Mch quick, and with the other hand j
Jhey are going through the pockets. j
Pome of them, believe in tackling some j
pockets, others believe in others. Not ,
/
one of them has time to go into their
victim's shoes for money, and the ribbon
of a hat is another safe hiding
place. Threats to shoot are often idle,
Dut the question of the hold-up man's
sincerity is such a delicate one that
it is best to believe that he will i
shoot if he says so, and then one is
on the safe side. But if there is a j
policeman in sight it is always safe,
the police say, to resist. No hold-up j
man win kill a policeman unless there
is absolutely no other chance of escape.
Everybody familiar with the
police department knows that when
an outlaw has killed an officer that i
outlaw will fall dead just as soon as a j
policeman gets his revolver in his
hand and the hold-up man within
range, it is a way the police have of
proving that they possess that which |
in other surroundings would be the ;
"spirit of the corps."
The best authorities agree that |
while the energy and ability of the !
average hold-up man is greatly exag- ;
gerated it is always befcer before be- j
ginning a dark journey home at night j
to leave the watch in some safe place j
down town and to secrete money in :
the shoe or an out of the way pocket. I
Then if the hold-up man is met all
that can pass between the honest citizen
and him is a greeting. As long as
Some of His Faculties Compared With
Those of Other Animals.
"Man is a vain sort of an animal j
at all times," observed a thoughtful j
citizen yesterday, "and in his process j
of naming and classifying things
around him he has attempted to leave j
reminders of himself in every possible ,
place, and he has generally succeeded,
for one's eyes may not escape falling
on something named after some of
his attributes. But when we come to i
think of it, when we come to look na- j
ture squarely in the face, man is not |
in? omy ining m me ianci v?ui
lay claim to highly developed senses. j
"Take the human eye. Unquestionably
the litile bundle of nerves in the
eye which make visualization possible
and which present the mind with
photographic refinements which'no art
has yet equalled, is one of the physiological
marvels, and opens up an end- I
less field for speculation in the realm
of psychology, thai unsolved riddle of
science in whose presence even the i
giants have cowered and skulked in
hopeless ignorance. Yet this eye, discerning
with so much delicacy when
the picture is no farther than the wall
of one's room?this eye with its circumscribed
limits would be looked upon
with dignified scorn by yon soaring
eagle if he only knew how much
farther he could see than a human being.
i
"Take the human ear. We may not
hear so well as the rats and mice that
burrow under the palaces in which we ;
live, or the squirrel that capers ^yonder
in the forest, and countless other
things cne might mention. We may
differentiate with greater accuracy
and trace refinements in sound which
these lower creatures may not trace;
but when it comes to the matter of
catching the sound at long range, i
their ears seem to have been more j
perfectly constructed.
"It is conceded that no human voice ;
has ever been heard which could equal J
in sweetness of tone the lays which
one may near in tne orcnara. i\o uuman
being ever sang more sweetly
than Patti, but she never sang so
sweetly as the meadowlark when he
pours his gurgling love song out on
the summer air, or oriole when he
shades his silvered octave from the
bending bough.
"What device for measuring water
pressure has man invented which
will compare with the nerves which j
string the sides of the fish? It is a
sense which is not represented in the !
human category. Man must resort to |
artiflcialties in order to learn the air i
pressure and the degree of heat or
cold. But it is different with the fish,
for he can always tell just what the
water pressure is, and he knows how
much he can stand, and he acts accordingly.
"Take the olfactory nerves. Man
is all right when It comes to attar
of roses, violet perfumeries, and this :
and that sort, but you may pick out
the measliest old hound in the swamps
of Mississippi, and if he knew how
much superior his sense of smell was
to man's, well he wouldn't want to be
caught in a man's company.
"No, I am not running my own creed
down. I am just relating a few thingswhich
ought to make u?, aH"Natural
lovers, for thejmaE^Piieserving beauties^j&al^werwot
not of in these hurrying
times, and among them may be
coiinted the things mentioned. Prove
it? Prove nothing. I am just telling
"you."?New Orleans Times-Democrat.
A Unique Advertiiin^ Docile.
A candy shop in Nassau street that
long enjoyed and nursed the distinction
of being the only store in the
world that made a practice of closing
up every Tuesday in the year, as well
as%every Sunday, has just abandoned
its custom and taken in its "Closed
every Tuesday in the year" sign. Asked
why this was, the shopkeeper smiled
a weary smile and said:
"Well, you see, as an advertising
dodge it had about performed its mission,
and as it was costing me $5000
a year at least to make this voluntary
sacrifice of one business day each week
for the purpose of making people talk
and wonder, I decided to take in the
sign and remain open Tuesdays.
"Every day a dozen or more persons
would stop in just to ask for an explanation
of this strange closing. I
told them that as I made a practice of
keeping open all day Saturday while
other stores around me closed at noon,
I thought it no more than right to
give my clerks a full rest day besides
Sunday. This seemed to satisfy them,
and so I got the name of being quite a
philanthropist in my way. I noticed,
too, that about eight persons in ten
who dropped in to make inquiry ap
peared pleased at the answer, and
stopped to buy some sweets."?NewYork
Post
A Dnck'a Suicide.
Sportsmen who hunt ducks on inland
streams and lakes have frequently
known them to dive when wounded
and fail to appear again.
A professional guide who has shot
ducks for many years along the upper
Hudson says he has solved the mystery.
He shot a wood duck that fell
wounded and dived in still water. It
did not reappear, and when he came
to look for it under water he could see
the bird hanging with its bill to a root
It. was quite dead, and considerable
force was necessary to loosen its hold.
The hunter firmly believes that the
duck committed suicide by drowning
to keep from falling into the hands of
its mortal enemy?man.?New York
Times,
SHE KNEW.
"Seems to me that the rising generation
is rising pretty fast," said the
bachelor, who expects soon to become
a benedict, after his friends had given
him up as hopeless. "I was out walking
with my intended the other day,
and her small niece, a girl not ever
seven years of age, accompauieu us.
Naturally the conversation, owing to
the near approach of our wedding day,
took a turn that was interesting to
two of us, but not to the third.
"Finally I turned to the young li*'y
who is soon to be my bride and said
with a smile:
" I suppose all this talk Is over the
little one's head?'
"Before she could reply the nose of
the 'little one' went up several degrees,
and she answered icily, her words
falling like so many hailstones on a
tin roof:
"'Oh, don't ?nind me' I know what
it Is! I've been in love myself!'
"T+ n nm 1 ?r>inntA^ Knf r.rcv T cno
it war> ti.u Aj^iiiiauo uciuic x
( ceded in catching my breath.?Detroit
Free Press.
* SILENTLY ASS
into a Stolid Inriiv in..
The Stolid Individual ignored the
Accusation. A Second Glance showed
the Nervous Pedestrian that he wa3
Right.?Los Angeles (Cal.) Herald.
Our t're-idonls' Danger.
All of the presidents of the United States
havo been in the habit of mingling freely with
the people, but the clanger of this procedure
was very emphatically pointed out in the tragedy
of a few months ago. It is also dangerous
to triile with unknown medicines for
indigestion, dyspepsia, l'atulency, constipation,
biiiousuess or malaria, fever and ague.
The safest medicine to take is Hostetter'a
Stomach Bitters. It will positively cure these
disease.?. Try it and see.
The hay harvested in the United States
in 1501 amounted to 51,000,000 tons.
Iting Worm Kouted.
'Send box of Tetterine. It's the on.y thing
that makes any impression on a stubborn
liiugWorm."?.Mrs. Katie Oldham, Montalba,
Anderson County, Texas. 50o. by mail from
J. T. ohuptrine, Sacannah, Ga., if your druggist
don't keep it.
The coming man often has a bill to colect.
FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervousncseaftcr
first day's use oT Dr. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free
Dr. R. h. Kline, Ltd., SSI Arch St., Phila. Pa.
The revolver may not be a sociable
weapon, but it never goes off by itself.
Mrs. Window's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, soften the gums, reduces inflammation,
allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle.
The chap who built obelisks must have
been paid by the column.
I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption
has an equal for coughs and colds.?Johs
F. Botes, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15,1900.
When a tramn asks for a meal he makes
a sort of after-ainner speech.
\Hair Falls J
% "I tried Ayer's Hair Vigor to 1
I stop my hair from falling. One- |
J half a bottle cured me." ?
i J. C. Baxter, Braidwood, 111. ?
IAyer's Hair Vigor is I
certainly the most eco- S
nomical preparation of its I
kind nn the market. A I
little of it goes a long way. ?
It doesn't take much of |
i | it to stop falling of the 3
j hair, make the hair grow, |
g and restore color to gray B
5 hair. $1.00 a bottle. All dnjjlats. g
g If your druggist cannot supply you, 8
I send us one douar and we will express g
6 you a bottlo. Ce suro and give the name
6 of your nearest express office. Address, g
J. C. AYER CO., Lowell, Mass. 8
^UNION MADE.^^'
? Notice increase of sales in tulle belcnu .*
i 1338= 148,790 Pnlre.
! 1899 = 898,182 Pairs,
!
Business More Than Doubled In Four Years.
THE REASONS:
\V. L. Douglas makes and sells more men's
j 8.1.00 and ?3.50 shoes than an v other two manufacturers
in the world.
W. L. Douglas $3.00 and $3.50 shoes placed
: side by side with $.">.00 and $G.C0 shoes of
other makes, aro found to be just as good.
They will outwear two pairs of ordinary
$3.00 and $3.50 shoes.
Made of the best leathers, Including Patent
Corona Kid. Corona Colt, and National Kangaroo.
KsU Color KjeltU and A!w?r* Rlark llooka t'ted.
W. D. Douglas $4.00 "Gilt Edge Dine"
cannot be ecualled at any price.
Shoot by mall 25c.cxlra. Ciitnlotd e.
L. lkouglat. Brockton. Matt. 1
! -
I- The life of a tire, ease of repair and
its lasting qualities determine its worth.
El G & J Tires arc made from the best
B quality of rubber. They arc light enough
to be resilient, strong enough to be durable,
and easy riding, which insures com!
fort and safety,
j Catalogue at our Agent's or by mail.
G & J TIRE COMPANY,
Indianapolis, Ind.
i III Hill I
~ JBL, _ , Ji,
i ByS3BEE^3!I33CEEBB5
m CURES WHERt ALL ELSE FAILS. "[2
bra Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use ^
gg ia time. Sold by druggists. ___gi
HDADCV NEW D1SCOVEKY; g?v0
! L# lx W <?# I oaicls relief and oares wors;
caseb- hooa ol testimonials r.nd 10 day*' treatment
Fri e- Dr. H. H. GRKEH'SSONS. Eox B. Atlanta. Ob
Gold Uledal at Buffalo Expoattlon.
! McILHENNY'S TABASCO
I Mention this
; Themp?on'$EyeWat?r
A Happy Hay.
Two little girls, in gowns of blue; li
Two little boys, with blouses new; c
I Four little spades, to dig the sand ;
One little pail, for each right hand.
! Now if you put all these together, c
| And add blue skies and sunny weather,
I The yellow sand and the rippling sea,
j What do tbev make? Pray tell to me.
| Ah,, you need not count. That's not the way ^
: To find out the sum of a happy day. t
?E. M. Norrls, in Youth's Companion.
s
A Fancy College Crow. 8
There is a gentleman who is beyond s
his school days who is interested in r
i chickens. Recently he learned that c
there was an institution of learning "?j
j where a cours*.?&f instruction was givj
cn in chickenology and duckology, or "
in those branches designated by scien- E
Kr '*yTWit' hp .
( Just as like as not we will ail wear i .
goose quills in our hats and have a j ^
I college yell something like this: j j
: 'Quack, quack, quack! Cock-a-doodle- j
| do! Roasters, broilers, 1902!*"?Albaj
ny Journal. ,
A Mother'* SHcrlflop. ^
Martha Russell, aged 40, died last
j night from starvation. The woman i
j was assisted by the township for
; more than two years, and six months t
! ago was threatened with being sep- j I
j arated' from her four small children s
I and sent to the poor farm if she called *
! for assistance again. 5
She never called and nothing was c
heard from her until last night, when ?
the county doctor was called. She *
weis removed to the hospital, but was T
beyond all medical aid. A post-mortem
examination was made this morn- r
i ing and it was revealed that starva- s
tion was the cause of her death, 1
The children are all in good condi- s
tion. One of the little ones said that c
their mother would work all day and 1
then spend the money for something
to eat, which she would give to them t
and go without herself.?Anderson 1
(Tnd). Correspondence, Chicago Rec- ?
ord-Herald.
4
Snake Swallowing Young. j
Forest and Stream contains
an article in which one of a c
party of Missouri sports tells a snake
story, in which he says he saw 99 j
little cottonmouth snakes run from the
mouth of an old one he had killed, j
Now, I take it that this is meant for a
joke, but I can tell a true snake story
in which this kind of thing did actuary
occur. During my boyhood days
I attended school at the old Cranford
schoolhouse, near my home, on the
fnrlr'nf White rive- noftr where
Brentwood now is on the St. Lcuis & *
San Francisco railroad. One day I was *
going down a hill to the creek, when
some 30 feet from the water's edge 1
I 3aw lying in the sun on a ledge of ^
large rocks a snake, and around it *
were quite a number of small or.es. I
picked up a stone and threw it at the i
large snake, when, to my utter aston- i
ishment, the small snakes began to
run into the mouth of the largo one,
and soon were all gone. I called some
other boys, and we killed the large t
snake and cut it into two pieces, when c
the small ones, 17 In number, rolled ^
out on the ground, and we killed them, t
They were about six inches long, of a ]
dark brown color, the same as the c
large one, which was a rusty black or j
brown, and between four and five feet j
long. s
My father once killed a rattlesnake j
in a log near the same place, and c
found it filled with small snakes, which c
were as lively as they could be; but j
he did not see them enter* the snake, c
But I saw the- ones I killed craw 1 into c
the mouth of the large snake and killed j
them all. I have told this to a number j
i of people, who looked at me in the (
most incredulous manner, and refused r
to believe my snake story, but It is r
-r ... i A
true in every particular.?cuuk^uuu- (
ence in Forest and Stream. ^
t
After the Children Left.
Every one had gone to bed and the
lights were out. A few dying coals,
the remains of the cheerful sitting
room fire still glowed in the grate and
threw dark shadows of the furniture
into cofners. Philip's little rocking
chair lay where he had thrown it,
face down, on the rug in front of the
fire, for mamma had a fancy that
Philip would pick it up in the morning.
But presently the little rocking chair
rolled over and regained its upright r
position. (
"Hullo there!" it called to mam- <
ma's sewing chair, which stood by the i
table. "Don't you think it's a shame t
for a little fellow to be treated so?" i
The rocking chair gave a gentle i
little rocking motion and said indul- <
gently:
"Oh, well, you have good fun with
Philip sometimes and. he ran off in a
hurry." <
"We do have sport, that's a fact,"
chuckled the small chair. "Sometimes <
I I'm a horse and I have to ge.llop just ]
like this, he rocked furiously, and
sometimes I'm a locomotive and I go
ahead of a whole train of chairs. And
sometimes I'm a cradle and Daisy
rocks her doll to sleep in me. But she's
a nice little girl so I don't mind itvery
much. I prefer being a horse,
though."
"The children have funny fancies,"
said the sewing chair, rocking gently.
"Of course I often help to rock the
baby to sleep. But that's a pleasure.
He's a dear little chap." And 1
papa's big rocking chair shook his big '
arms and rocked solemnly back and
forth as if he thought so, too.
"But Philip is a careless boy," put
in the little rocking chair, for he
thought they had been sentimental
long enough. "He leaves his toys 1
all over the floor. And he knocks me
around the room until every joint I
have cracks. I shall certainly break
some day.' <
"He is careless," sighed the little 1
sewing chair, "but he will be better i
by and by. I
The little chair perked himself up <
and down in his efforts to see into the (
corners of the rooms. "I know those 1
wooden soldiers are all over the 1
floor. He ran out of tBe room before 1
h<5 picked them up." 1
"It would serve him right of some 1
ol' them were stepped on," said the <
big chair, sternly. He rocked himself 1
severely back and forth, and knocked 1
over a little table which stood just be- *
hind him. ]
"There you go! It's done now!" ex- i
claimed the little chair excitedly, as 1
a rattling and crumbling noice fol- J
lowed. i 1
"What has happened?" asked the
ewirig chair, trying to see into the
ack of the room.
Only that some of the soldiers
ive Aanen oil the table, and ne's
ocking all over them!" called out the
ttle chair. "Now Philip will catch
t for leaving them on the floor.
The big chair still rocked sedately. !
"Well, it will serve Philip right," he j
aid, presently.
"But what about us," asked the
ttle voice from under the rocking j
hair.
It came su suddenly that the big '
hair gave a jump which nearly |
aused him to fall over.
"What?what is it?" he gasped. At i
rhich the little chair giggled and
he sewing chair smiled a quiet liule
mile to itself, while it kept up its
entle rocking. Evidently the little
ewing chair was so in the habit of j
ocking the baby to sleep that it kept j
m rocking even when there was no j
iaby there.
"You see," went on the little voice,
you ve rocKea over me auu uiuiveu uu j
ay legs, and you've rocked, over ray j
irother. and broken off his head. How !
.re we going to get mended, I want to
;now? Philip didn't do it, you did!"
>ersisted the little voice, indignantv.
.
The big chair was still so astounded
hat he did not sneak at once. Then
ie repeated monotonously, "Philip
eft you on the floor. It serves him
ight!" And he went on. rocking
terly. "But my legs are broken and
can't stand up to hold my gun!"
mailed the little voice.
"Never mind," put in the little sewng
chair, anxious to make peace.
The mother bought a bottle of glue
oday. I saw her put it on the mantel>iece.
When she rocks the baby to
,leep tomorrow I'll whisper to her
hat it would be a good plan to glue
rour legs on. And your brother's head
an be stuck on, too. You will be as
jood as ever. The little sewing chair
>camed with kindness on the little
vooden soldier.
"That's so," called out the little
ocking chair cheerfully; "Philip
:hall make up tomorrow for all the
nischief he caused tonight. He shall
itand mc up straight and pick up his
oys and mend the soldiers that were
woken."
"And I think we'll suggest to him
o mend the babv's woollv doe that
le dropped down stairs last week,"
;aid the sewing chair.
'."Yes, indeed," cried the small chair.
'Philip's a pretty good fellow after
ill. A little careless sometimes?"
"But he'll grow," put in the sewing
:hair.
"And he bangs me and makes me do
ots of things I don't l.Ke."
"He's a very lively boy certainly,"
nterrupted the big chair.
"But he don't mean to do wrong,and
vitil our advice?"
"And a little glue," addea the big
:hair.
"He'll fix things all right tomorrow."
"Certainy he will." said the gentle
sewing chair. "He's a pretty good
ellow, after all."
The little soldier said nothing. He
vas relieved to notice that his legs
ay near enough so Philip could find
hem easily.
And just then the last coal died out
ind that's all I know about it.?Maron
Brower, in the Brooklyn Eagle.
Abdul Bainid's Treiisury.
Turkey may be poor and oppressed,
>ut the sultan has in his treasury a
lollection which even at a forced sale
vould pay the entire debt o;' the coun
ry. The treasury consists of three
arge halls, full of all sorts of prelious
articles, but, unfortunately, the
ight. is so bad that a close inspection
s almost Impossible. At the entrance
l splendid throne, captured from the
Persians, is the first object seen. It is
>ne mass of pearls and studded all
>ver with precious stone^The first
iall is filled with a vast collection of
jold and silver cups and plates, anient
stones, jewelled daggers, swords,
cnives and suits of armor. From the
op of a second throne hangs a huge
;merald, which looks too large to be
eal. Cases round the room contain
lecklaces, brooches and rings by hunl;reds.
A dressing table covered with
rearls is exceedingly beautiful. Among
his mass of treasures it is rather surmising
to find such articles as modern
tilver mounted dressing bags, telcicopes,
photographic cameras, and even
* case of razors. The next hall is
given up to gold and silver ornaments
ind blue china, and lovely sets of
?offee cup holders worked in gold and
silver and precious stones, with a maglificent
collection of enamelled copier
bowls. Among the ornaments were
n.inv tovs made out of the most pre
lious material. The body of one little
loll was formed out a single pearl.
The third ha.ll contains quantities of
:oins. No attempt has been made to
classify them, but 1hey are beautifully
irranged in large cases. No one in
:he treasury, not even the guardians,
3cems to know anything about the
ilstory of the articles confided to their
:are.
No Chicken.
Trust a messenger boy to be up on
expressive slang. The particular one
who had a message to deliver yesterday
morning at the office of the general
passenger agent of the Pennsylvania
railroad was as tough a looking specimen
as you could find in a day's journey.
His cap was placed at a perilous
angle on his frowsy head, tobacco
stains lurked about the corners of his
mouth, and he was puffing a cigarette
stump. The dignified clerk who took
the message scowled.
"Sign dat," demanded the boy, holding
out his slip, and expectorating copiously
on the floor.
"I'll have you put out of here if you
don't know how to behave," said the
clerk, severely.
A look of scorn passed over the
boy's grimy features. "Aw, don't git
icy wid me, or I'll slide all over
youse!" he exclaimed. Then he sauntered
out whistling "Go Away Back
and Sit Down."?Philadelphia Record.
Itellc* of the Pnst.
One of the most precious possessions
jf the Reims library is an evangelis:ary
in the Slav language. This work
s in two volumes, the first dating
sack to the 11th century and the secsnd
to the end of the 14th. It has
snly been the property of the Reims
library since the revolution, having
previously belonged to the cathedral
:o which Cardinal de Lorraine had
presented it. The first volume is writ:en
in the Cyrillan character, the secsnd
in the Glagolitic. According to
:he legend, it was on this book that
;he kings of France took the oath at
:heir coronation ceremony. The library
also possesses a manuscript datng
from the year 1049, describing the
carriage of Henry I. of France with
\nne of Russia, which was celebrated
it Reims.?Notes and Queries.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY".
Incandescent alcohol lamps have
been under investigation by the Prussian
railway officials in competition
with acetylene lamps. It is asserted
that the unpleasant odor emitted by
them is practically prohibitive of
their use.
The introduction of telephones in
coal mines has been suggested. In
cases of accidents the imprisoned
miners could communicate at once
with friends at the surface, state the
nature of the peril, and perhaps suggest
modes of immediate relief.
Flywheel accidents can be provided
for by insurance policies covering all
damages to persons and property
caused by the breaking of
the flywheels. The wheels are inspected
before the policy is issued
and at regular intervals thereafter.
A TT/NWTT fllmnU k.?4 IVt AO T> 3
xx vcij Dimpie, uut cucuiuai, wcftug
of keeping telegraph poles frbm rotting
has been devised and put into
use in France. The bottom of the
pole up to and a little above the surface
of the ground, is encased in nr,
earthenware pipe, and the space "between
the pipe and the pole is filled
with a mixture of sand and resin,
which solidfles and becomes waterproof.
offered for sharpening scissors is deScribed
by one of the hardware journels,
whose editorial department
vouches for its efficiency. It consists of
a small glass rod with bulb ends convenient
for holding. To sharpen the
scissors it is only necessary to draw
the rod backward and forward a few
times between the blades. When tested,
says this journal, on the dullest
pair of scissors in the office, it was
found to act in quite a magical manner.
The depth of the atmosphere is still
a matter of great uncertainty. The
Belgian Royal Meteorological Observ'
atory has been seeking to throw light
on the problem, ancl has collected
these widely varying estimates by distinguished
authorities: Biot, 40 miles;
Bravais, 70; Mann, 81; Callandran,
100: SchiaDarelli. 125: Marie Davy.
187; Ritter, 216.- Early in the last
century British physicists generally
assume the depth of be 47 miles.
Meteors, which become incandescent
through friction with the air, afford
a means of roughly testing these estiL
mates, and Sir Robert Ball shows
Ritter's figures to be nearest, by stating
that meteors have been observed
at a height of more than 200 miles.
The use of acetylene for lighting
railway cars has made considerable
progress in the last year or two, and
a. number of Continental lines are
so illuminated. It is a good deal of
an innovation, however, to extend this
kind of lighting to street omnibuses.
Such is the case, nevertheless, and according
to a reliable London paper, it
seems probable that before long all
the omnibuses in the metropolis will
be so lighted. One of the largest
omnibus lines haxe been driven to
system of lighting for six months,
and so satisfactory has the illumination
proved that it has been decided
to apply it to the whole of the rolling
stock. It is intimated that the various
omnibus lines have been driven to
adoDt radical innovations on account
of the keen competition of the underground
electric lines.
l'uzzled by a Queer Fluli.
Naturalists are at a loss to classify
a strange fish recently caught near
Chenier Island, La. In a way it resembles
a dozen different species, but,
on the whole, it is strongly unlike
any of them. It is now in the collec.
tion of Charles Schmidt.
Mr. Schmidt has 'sent detailed descriptions
and photographs of the fish
to all of the prominent naturalists'
societies, but no one has yet been
able to Identify it. The fishermen
who frequent the waters in which it
was caught declare they never saw
anything like it before. He was pulled
in by a luggerman and brought to the
city the next day. Mr. Schmidt says
the fish probably belongs to the
teteradon class, but states at the same
time he can give no conclusive
reasons for such a classification.
The curious fish is about twenty
inches in length and weighs about
twenty-five pounds. It has the mouth
j of a parrot and well-developed lips,
j which are like unto those of the hui
man being. The under part of his
j body is covered with projections
I oJi-nUof fr> tVinco r>f a nnrriirvnp fish
OlUillUl VW V44V?/V V* % mmmrmmp
with the difference that the quills are
shorter. It has no gills, but breathed
through its nostrils and spouted water
like a porpoise.?New Orleans Times*
; Democrat.
Venezuelan Fearl*.
When the Spanish discovered Venezuela
they found the natives wearing
pearls for ornament and the fishery
is still flourishing today. More than
400 boats are employed in the work,
each one paying about $3 per year to
the government. The pearls are of
; fine quality, usually white or yellow
S and rarely black. Only recently a
i white pearl valued at $2000 was found.
| The shell of the pearl oyster of Venei
zuela is small and of poor quality. The
! oysters themselves are short lived?
! eight years or so. A French company
| has lately been formed to exploit the
fisheries by means of divers, who take
only the mature shells and leave the
smaller sorts, so that the beds will not
be exhausted. The annual output of
j these fisheries is about $600,000 and it
i is said that most of the pearls are sold
j in Paris.
A High RhIIoou Aacenslon.
j MM. Siering and Person of the meI
teorological institute of Berlin have
lately ascended in a balloon of 8000
cubic metres capacity to the great
| height of 10,300 metres (33.S00 feet).
: Success was possible only because the
aeronauts began to breathe pure oxyo*
on olovatinn nf nhrmf ?00fl me
gen u-u "V. V.N..?N
: tres. The scientific results of this ascension
are now in process of calculation
and will shortly be published.
Animal* in the United Stale*
The department of agriculture has
recently published an estimate of the
ammal population of the country on
| Jan. 1, 1900. It comprised 13,537,524
horses, about 2,000,000 mules, about
28,000,000 cattle, 16,292,360 milch cows,
i 81,883,065 sheep. As automobile tracj
tion is introduced the number of
i horses and mules will gradually diminish,
and the effect is already evident.
The waves left in sand by tidal curj
rent have been found by Dr. Vaughan
j Cornish to measure 31-2 to 54 feet
; from ridge to ridge. The commca
j length being 12 to 24 feet
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Fasting and Loss of Weight
During a prolonged fast the loss of
freight is unusually rapid at first, and
decreases as time goes on; death ensues
when a certain percentage of the
loss has been reached, and this percentage
varies according to the original
weight. Fat animals may lose half
their weight, thinner ones perhaps
two-fifths; a man or woman of rather
spare build, weighing 143 pounds,
might therefore lose about fifty-five
pounds before succumbing. > Children
die after a fast of from three to five
days, during which they have lost a
quarter of their weight. Healthy
adults, however, have fasted fifty days
when water has been taken. A German
physician reports the case of a
woman, aged 47 years, who fasted for
forty-three days, taking water freely.
She lost forty-four pounds out of 143
pounds, and died from exhaustion.
Each package of Pctxam Fadeless Bte
colors more goods than any other dye and
colors them better too. Sold by all druggists.
The trouble' with most men who once
do good deeds is that they waste the rest
of their lives admiring them.
Deafness Cannot be Cared
by local applications as they cannot reach the
diseasod portion of the ear. There is only one
way to euro deafness, and that is by constitutional
remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed
oondition of the mucous lining of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed
you hare a rumbling sound orimnerfecthearing,
and when it is entirely cloaea Deafness is
the result, and unless the inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to its normal
condition, hearing will be destroyed forever.
Nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh,
which is nothing but an inflamed condition of
the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness (caused by catarrh), that cannot
be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Circulars
sent free. F. J. Chzzzy A Co., Toledo, 0.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
"This is uncalled for," remarked the
facetious postmaster, as he put the letter
in the unclaimed box.
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