THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA ii in Trials in Which Attempts Were Aade to Prove Alibis. CASE OF GORTON TWINS j Where Lives Have Depended Upon Accuracy or Inaccuracy of a j Clock Striking Resemblance Be- I tween Two Persons Criminals Favorite Defence. The alll)l has always been a favor ite defence with calculating crlm J:ials. It has, on the other hand, la . hundreds of cases, extracted the lnno- j cent from the meshes of a net of clr- j cumstantlal evidence which must otherwise have inevitably dragged them to unmerited doom. Clocks have-played au important! part in these del' aces. Lives have , depended on their accuracy or Inac- i curacy. In the case of a man named Hardy, who was accused of havin.j U.von part iu a murder with others, one of the murderers, after the rrlnw was committed, made his way homo as fast as possible. It was night and there was no one in his house but a servant Tutting the clock in the hall back two hours, the man went to bed, ; r.nd rising shortly afterward awoke j the servant and ordered her to go ; Sown stairs and see what was the ! time. The girl did so, and once mors j lt-ilred to her room, when the mur- : derer, stealing softly downstairs m i his bare feet, once more put the cloc't right. The unsuspecting girl's evi- j tlence that the prisoner was in bed at the tlmo when the crime was c:ir.v j niltted secured his acquittal on : trial. The truth sas made know;i oy a deathbed confession some yean later,- Witnesses who come forward ti Trove allliis by the clock sometimes j prove very unsatisfactory. In a mur- ' dor case at the Central Criminal i Court two witnesses swore most per- , sistently to the prisoner having been In their company at the hour when ' the prosecution contended he was en gaged In the crime. I "Are you quite certain of th.9 exact time?" asked the counsel for the pros ecution. I Certain," replied the first witness. "How are you so sure about It? ' hked the barrister. j "We were in the Hear public house, snd I saw the time by the clock In ' th- bar," replied the witness. "It was ?7 minutes past 9." i "You saw t' Et time yourself?" asked the counted. "Yes." One of the detectives engaged In the case here whispered something to 110 barrister, and ho turned to tin witness once more. "You see that clock," ho said, point ing to the clock In the court. "What is the time by it?" I The witness turned ghastly pale, ' scratched his head, ga?pe.l, and was silent. He could not tell the time, j The alibi bubble was burst. The pris oner was condemned. ' young girl who lived with her pa.ents in a lonely part of Klrkcud- ' bright was one day left alone in their , oottage while her father and mother -were harvesting. On their return th'j girl was found murdered. A surgical examination revealed the fact that tho Injuries Inflicted must have been the work of a left-handed man, and the police discovered In the soft ground around the cottage the Imprints of the boots of a running man. These lm presbions corresponded exactly with the boots of a young laborer named William Richardson, who was ac quainted with the dead girl, and who also was loft handed. Richardson, on being asked where he was on the day (if the crime, declared that he was employed the whole day in the work of his master, a farmer, some dis tance away. This fact was borno witness to by the farmer and Rich ardson's fellow servants, and the po lice were baffled. The alibi, In spite of all the other suspicious circumstances against the prisoner, appeared bo strong as to be unassailable. But the police perse vered, and at last one of the detec tives discovered that Richardson and hl3 fellow servants had that day been employed In driving their master's ' carts. These carts had been driven in a direction which took them close to the scene of the crime, and while hey had been passing through a wood Kicbardson had requested his com-1 rades to stop a few minutes while he . tan to a smith's shop and back. They did so, and one of the drivers remem bered that Richardson, when he re turned, had been absent half an hour ly his watch. This was amplo time for him to run to the cottage, commit, the murder and run back again. He had not been to the Bmlth's shop. The alibi thus broke down, Richardson was found guilty, and, before his exe cution, he confessed the Justice of hla sentence. An Ingenious system of proving an alibi was that of a man named Gor ton at least, that was one of his 20 names convicted of various clever frauds In the north of England. Ho had a twin brother, and while he was engaged in a robbery the twin kept himself In prominent evidence In another far removed place. When Gorton was arrested, the persona who had met the twin .trooped Into the wlt aes box. Their evidence was of course given. In all honest belief that it was per ffectly correct. The arrangemett broke down at last, however, through one rf those little oversights that even the most cunning rogues will fall inot. and the ingenious twlns'came to their Asserts. New York Sun. IMPURE FOOD IN NEW. YORK. Enough Destroyed Annually to Feed 6,000 Persons. The food condemned by the board of health and destroyed in this city in n jear, If accumulated In one spot, would make a pyramidal hill two hundred feet broad nt the base and three hundred feet high. In quantity it would be sullleieiil to teed 5.(100 persons throughout the year, (supply ing them with meat, fish, game and poultry, vegetables, groceries, all va rieties of fruit and confectionery. There is a ceaseless vigilance in New York to insure pure food for its inhabitants. This does not mean that thousands of tons of adulterated and harmful foods are not eaten yearly fr the channels by which tu3y may rench the tables of rich and poor are niuny, and the carelessness of house keepers and cooks are responsible for n.uch. Hut at the gules of the city where food Is admitted by rail and by water, at the wholesale markets, at stores and among the push-cart ven ders of edibles the Inspectors of the health department are always at work. During the ripe-fruit season they are most active, and their work is the heaviest. Their authority is almost supremo, and they can order the destruction of a train load or a ship load of fruit or vegetables, or a hundred head of cattle infected with dltease, Involving a loss to the own ers of thousands of dollars. In the last twelve months 7,172,317 pounds of food stuffs were con demned, seized and destroyed. Some f this especially fruit brought in by ships went out to sea and wan dumped In the briny deep. The en tire shipload was a loss through n de layed voyage in hot weather, cau.- ing fermentation to set In among the Uhablo enrgo. Many a shipload of bananas have prone that Avay. Of the more than 7,0on,oi0 pounds of food destroyed In the last year, 4 G3!),0!I0 pounds were fruit. Meat cume next more than a million pounds having been deemed unfit to use. Vegetables were a close third, 771,100 pounds. In addition to this, solid food, the amount of milk destroyed in the year has been .11.000 quarts. This, seen at once in all Its bulk, is a lot ef milk. It in, however, but "a spoonful" out of the groat river of the liquid food that pours Into the metropolitan city. In a year 550,000,000 quarts of milk are consumed In New York, 1,500,000 quarts a day. The effort to protect the city from Impure or Innutritions milk has re suited through years of legislation and careful Inspection in making the dealers careful that tho milk they bring to the city meets the legal re quirements. These requirements in one way place a premium on poor milk while guarding the city from milk that is unhealthy or entirely worthless. The law calls for not less than 3 per cent of butter fats In all milk sold In New York. This is not a high stand ard, and many dealers avail them selves of the small percentage re quired to reduce the nutritive quality of their milk to this low standard. Many consumers of milk In New York pay dearly for milk that Is above the legal standard of purity and nu trltiousness. It will surprise some peoplo to know that milk not cream is sold in this city as high as 90 cuts a quart. A sworn statement ac companies this milk, as to its freeness from injurious qualities bacteria, etc. and as to its richness In butter fats. Tho cows from which this milk Is taken are selected registered Dur hams and Holsteins. The sanitary arrangements for the care of the cat tle and the milk are as perfect as ex penditure of money and scientific skill can make them. The milk is kept and delivered at a proper tempera ture. Milk left uncovered in tho living room of a tenement house for a few hours has been found to contain as many as 50,000,000 bacteria per cubic centimetre. The expensive milk served by the expert dairymen may contain less than 500 bacteria to the centimetre. This milk is bought chiefly for feeble and ailing children. Of the food condemned in this city by the health department but a small proportion is of adulterated food. Less than a hundred tons of grocerlee and confectionery have been Belzed in the last year because of harmful adulteration. In addition to this vast amount of food condemned and destroyed by or der of the city's health department the people of New York are notori ously wasteful in the food they throw away the refuse from dining rooms and kitchens that goes to the garbago barrels. This adds some hundred thousand tons to the condemned foods that find their way, in the iron tanks of the garbage boats, to Barren Isl and. There this huge mass is "trlod out," its oils extracted and its fertil izing elements reduced to powder and bold. In the year 1901 half a million tons of food stuffs from the kitchens of the city and of the foods condemned by the health department were fed to the busy machinery at Barren island. Bird Skins for Hats. A London dealer last year received from India the skins of 6,000 birds ot paradise to adorn the hats of the feather wearing British women and to meet the export need. At the same time he got about half a million hum ming bird skins, and an equal number tf those of various other tropical birds. There is an auction room In London where such things are sold, and Its recent record for a third of a year waa close to 1,000,000 skins, all told, coming mainly from the Bust and West Indies and Brazil, 111 BIS OH Mounted by Sort of a Aineral Frankenstein. perpetualTjght plant Famous Discoverers of Wonderful Element So Permeated with Its Rays They Live In Constant State of Radiation Necessary to Build Another Laboratory. The eelebrnted chemists, M. and Mme. Currlc, aro suffering from an embarrassment of too much radium. The famous chemists of 1'arls, whose discovery of this wonderful clement plunged the scientists of the world into grave doubt as to the soundness of tho atomic theory, have become tie victims of this mineral Franken fctein and, having been driven from their laboratory, are now likely to bo driven from their home. M. Currie and his wife, who had aided him in every step in his re tearches, are suffering from what Mme. Currie characterizes as a "ra dium pest." Incidentally they havo developed the fact that with radium In use In sufficient quantities the extor tions of the gas trust would become a thing of the past and the establish ment of municipal ownership toe) sim ple' to require more than the impreg nation of all parts of tho city with radium rays. The laboratory of the Curries hart been turned Into a perpetual light inn p'.mt by the abundant use of metal in experiments, and even the room iu which they sleep has become so tnor i. uglily Impregnated that it has be come necessary to surround the bed at r.lght with hejavy black curtains oa the sides and across the top. There Is radium everywhere about he house and laboratory of the Cur r'es, and there Is but little hope of relief for many years jet to come, as they have estimated that the power of the light from the Impregnated walls will have diminished less than 50 per cent in forty years. The radium follows the two chem ists everywhere. There is no way of getting rid of it; no way of cleaning the pluce or their clothes of the mys terious light that clings to and fol lows thpm. Every piece of apparatus, inery article in use about the labora tory becomes in time a separate foun tain of light, giving off the weird and setting up a new point of brilliance, to remain such for decades. In discussing tho strange misfor tune that has overtaken her husband and herself, Mme. Currie said today: "We will have to build another la boratory in our garden. The old ono Is so Impregnated with radium as to render all our apparatus useless. The delicacy of all the old apparatus was destroyed by the Influence of th? radium, and if we put new apparatus In the radium Infected rooms It soon f.eteriorates. "The finest electroscopes it is pos sible to buy work less accurately In o room where radium has been exposed than the clumsy article consisting of a cork, tin foil and the mouthpiece of an old pipe. My husband and myself have found it impossible to work in a room where radium has been ex posed for any length of time. The rays Infect not only the room, but the whole building. It has become. In tact, a radium pest. Some of the apparatus that has b$en exposed, the new as well as the old, has acquired the property of throwing off radium rays and cannot be used. "The building will have to be torn down, for even If every particle of radium Is removed, the rays will keep on increasing in intensity for two or three years, and after that, although losing in intensity, will deteriorate loss than 50 per cent in 50 years. "What would occur if you exposed an article continuously to radium rays for any length of time?" was asked. "It would continue to give off rays for a hundred years, at least," was tho answer. New York Journal. Many Bibles 8old. Popular novelists will be surprised c hear that the most popular book is not a novel at all. In the course of a talk with a writer In the Book Month ly, Henry Froude of the Oxford Uni versity Press says: "So far as I can calculate, the whole output of English Bibles In the course cf a year Is about 2.000,000 copies. Moreover, the Bible differs from nov els In having a steadily increasing sale. Just thirty years ago the Oxford University Press alone sent out half a million copies. By 189G the sale had doubled." Big Pay for Judges. There are now no fewer than eight. ex-Judges in England In receipt of total pensions amounting to $121, 662.50 a year. A Judge who continues on the bench after completing fifteen .years' service really does his work for $7,299.75 a year, the difference be tween his salary and pension. The lord chancellor is entiled to a pension of $24,32.50 a year for life, however short the tenure of the chancellor ship. The business of college education Id one of the greatest businesses of the country. The 420 colleges and universities, in which are enrolled 175.000 students, represents an In vested capital of $250,000,000 and give employment to 25,000 persons as teachers and officers. At the present rate of crumbling England will have been swallowed up by the sea In the year 12184, accord ing to the calculations ot a corre spondent of the Frankfurter Zeltung. GREAT TEST OF ENGINEERING. Simplon Tunnel Twelve and a Half Miles Long Lives Lost In Work. The Joining of tho two ends ot Simplon tunnel marked the comple tion of ono ot the greatest engineer ing feats of the tlmo. Tho boring of a tunnel 1 2 V4 miles long is In itself a large undertaking, but the engineers In charge of this work have had to contend with ninny extremely dlfll cult problems, among tho worst be ing tho springs of hot water, which finally beenmo so troublesome as to necessitate the abandonment of ono end e the work. Now tho tunnel Is complete; In a few months trains will be running through it, and a most im portant link furnished Iu the line of communication between Italy and Central Europe, The Simplon tunnel pierces Mont Leone, In the Alps, making a straight line from . Brig, In Swll.erland, to Isellc, In Italy. The boring was car ried on from both sides of the moun tain, the work beginning in August 1S98. The work consists of two tun nels, a main and an auxiliary, paral lel, with 60 feet from axis to axis, and ot ono point tho borings are one and a half miles below the surface, so that great heat had to be contended with. Tho tunnels are heavily arenet from end to end, to prevent the block ing of the way by fragments of rock, from the Swiss sldo the borings rise at a grade of one metre in 500, and irvm the Italian side 1 In 143. The summit Is 9.572 kilometres from the Swiss portal and 10.197 from the Ital ian end. By last November the main Swiss boring was carried over tht summit, and when it had reached a point about 300 yards from the Italian end It had to bo stopped because of the difficulty encountered In the springs of hot water. The Swiss boring was carried to tho Fumnilt without much trouble, as the grade naturally carired off tho nitration of water, which amounted to ever 700 gallons a minute. When tho turn was made the trouble began. In a distance of 1,000 yards between tho summit and the face of the boring, the inflow of water was 1,608 gallons per minute, and with the water brought In artificially for refrigerat ing, rock boring and other appliances i he inflow was 3,072 gallems a minute, which had, of course, to be carried of by pumps. Then, In the last 600 feet of the main Swiss bore, thirteen springs of hot water were encoun tered, varying in temperature from 108 degrees to 117. In the Italian heading there was a grade to carry away tho water and no hot spring were being encountered, though the men worked in waterproofs, knee deep in water, with cascades playing over them. The Swiss had a hard problem. The hot rock and water made tho temperature unbearable for the workers. It was necessary to cool tho water issuing from the hot springs by playing Jets of cold water Into them, and also to keep up a contin ual spraying of the hot rocks. This wnter had to be piped into tho tun nel a great distance to the workings, and to keep It cool the pipes had to be covered with broken charcoal and cared in sheet metal. As the face of tho heading was carried on, the prob lem of getting cold water nrcame more difficult, and naturally there came a time when the capacity of the boring became insufficient for the pip ing needed to carry on the work. Last May the engineers In the Swiss bor lf,p. opened two hot springs yielding 4:0 gallons a minute. At the same tlmo en Alpine storm and landslide cut off the water supply at the en trance. The Swiss boring was stopped sfter heavy iron gates had been erect ed at the lowest point of the work on tne Italian slope to confine the water and protect the tunnels approaching f-om Iselle. The Italian borings, having the ad vantage of gravitational drainage continued rapidly without special diffi culty until they reached last fall a point about 300 yards from the aban doned Swiss workings. Here the hot springs were encountered. The first of these discharged 960 gallons a minute and had a temperature of 114 degrees. The drainage problem was iiot so difficult as In the last part of the Swiss work, but the same system of cooling the rock, water and air had to be introduced, and, consequently, the boring proceeded very slowly. When a thin diaphragm of rock re mained between the two main tun nels, the great volume of hot water which had accumulated In the aban doned Swiss workings between the summit and the Italian headway was drained off and the mountain was pierced. The dispatches show that the last blast that Joined the two was followed by a rush of hot water in which several workmen lost their lives. New York Sun. Rivers as Factors In War. Aside from the siege operations at Port Arthur, a large part of the heav iest fighting has been along river banks at the Yalu, the AI, the Taltse, the Sha, the Hun or the Liao. The positions defended have been either parallel to rivers or upon sites which owed their strategic value to their proximity to rivers. The facts suggest In a striklng.way one of the reasons why the bounda ries of states and nations from the I earliest times have been determined so often by river courses, without re gard to other considerations. Tho rivers, by affording natural advan tages for defense, have fixed the limit not upon what conquering nations wanted to possess, but upon what they were able to take. Chicago News. Mexican mines turn out more silver money than those of any other coun try In the world. SI. HIGHS Solitary Confinement, Slow Hangings, Eye-Hole Torture. czar siiowTno MERCY Typical Horrors Perpetrated Within Fortresses of St. Peter and it. Paul and the Schlucstalburg Books Nor Anything to Distract the Mind Allowed. A Fpeclal refinement of the Russian prison s.n stem In tho cas of political prisoners nnd suspects, who aro not given a short r.lilft on tho glacis or the gallows, is continued solitary cou llnctnent until, as in the case of that bplendiel intellectual reformer, Dmitri Z'lssareff, they can be reported us "harmless." Sumo prisoners here were relieved of their senses quite gently and almost politely. They were shut up in comfortable cells well lit with electric light, and for mental pabulum they w;ro supplied with only religious and technical works. When ltiSuuity or suicide supervened, tho appointed end had been secured. But the doom of others presents even greater features of horror. Im agine a dark, damp cell, measuring about 10 by 6, beneath tho level of the surrounding waters. In which tho chained man or woman Is condemned to lie In absolute idleness, studiously isolated from any intercourse with human beiivgs. There la no bed, no sort of pillow, nothing whatever to cover the body but. the prisoner' gray cloak. The amount allowed for food is five farthings a day, which provides bread and water, and three limes a week a small bowl of warm iioup. For ten minutes every second day the miserable wretch is allowed ti see the light and breathe the air in tho prison yard. For the rest, intolerable loneliness, absolute silence, occupation of not the bnmllest kind, no boeks, no writing materials, no instruments of manual labor. Madness comes to such grad ually with tho passing years, not as it came to an unhappy young lady, a rising painter, who received such tioatment at the hands of the brultlsh prison polico that she lost her reason instantly. In the majority of case3 the mind rots gradually In the enfee bling body. Suicide and madness are 1he two great weapons In which Rus sian autocracy puts Its trust. Frequently, says one who has been a prisoner in one of these Russian hells, some poor wretches will make a feeble attempt upon a warder In tne hope of at last being brought to trial. Shooting or hanging has been their let. The scenes of suffering wit nessed at a slow hanging, occupj-ing at least half an hour, have been terri ble. Within the courtyard of the prison Is a hand hoist for lowering ropes depending over a gallows. To these the victims are attachod and then slowly elevated into midair to struggle and gasp till death relieves them from their agony. Should tho governor or superior present be de sirous of getting through the business bpecdily a warder Is ordered to seize the suspended victim's feet and hang on. swinging backward and forward. On prevlems occasions when there has bffn a large number of political ofanders Insubordination has been de liberately manufactured to afford a pretext for Judicial murder. From a Polish nobleman, the husband of nn English lady now in London, 1 learned details of his experiences In such a case. "We never knew." 1. said. "I and those who had been taken at the same time, until after our morning parade in the prison yard who would return. alive to his cell or who would remain In the yard upon hi back on the stones. Every morn ing wo were subjected to the grim sport of a lottery. After being brought from our cell to the yards we were placed In line, and a certain number being drawn say five that number of men told off from the right. The doomed fifth was then marched with his back to the farther wall and a file of soldiers did the rest. I saw my own brother shot before my eyes one n orning. I was eventually exiled to Siberia, and from there I managed to etcape." Do you know what it Is to have your sentence of death commuted by the czar? A llttlo while ago Europe commented with satisfaction on the commutation by the czar of three death sentences out of flvo. These ' fortunate ones" were lmmurod In cells in the fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul. Not only were these dens dark for twenty-two hours out of tweuty-four, but the walls were run ning with damp and pools of water had gathered on the floor. Neither books nor anything that might dis tract the mind was allowed prisoner having been' found designing geometrical ngures with his bread had it removed by the Jailor, with the re mark that hard labor convicts "were not permlted to amuse themselves." Another calculated torture in these cells is the eyehole, at which a war der or soldier is posed to watch the prisoner. By this' means the quietest prisoner Is soon moved to frenzy, and the slightest Insubordination Is at once punished by merciless flogging, If not worse. "Thus it comes about that of the three men whose sen tences had been commuted, one, after a year of these horrors, became a con sumptive; another, a rotust and vlg crous workingman, went mad; the third, also a man of powerful phys ique, waa rotted with scurvy. Such Is the "mercy of the czar.". Now York Globe. To give money for a charitable ob Joct In Burma Is supposed to Imply that tho giver has been very wlckei ond wishes to show his penitence. ODD WAYS OF WALL STREET. Seme Lucky One Have Won In the "Street" Thousands Have Lost. "The Winning Ways of Wall Street." This Is a subject which has bothered men in generations past, Is. now a potent source of worry and bids fair to affect master minds of future generations seriously. Much more easily might ono write about the losing ways eif Wall street. Many people have como to realize tho lin t that the stock exchange Is not bi'ilt for charity; that it is a business proposition, and somo even go so fur as to say It Is a game of chunco. Few men In their lives have not been tempted to contribute a few dol lars In order to either "bull" or "boar" the market. It la safe to say that a majority of these have been bitten. A man who, probably tolling early und late, has managed to accumulate a few dollars, thinks perhaps there is a chanco for him to become rich. He takes his money, goes down to a broker's office, and In 99 cases out or one hundred he finds that his money has been swallowed through manipu lation of the market, or maybe t.irough a legitimate rise or fall In stock values. But the man has a chanco with bis few dollars. He has a tip, probably, that his stock Is go ing up, and, perchance, he may put his dollars on some particular stock that he has some Information about. He buys because the stock has jumped lo points and Is in a fair way to go higher. "With n small sum of money the Lest way to do Is to play the 'pyra mid game,' " said a well known broker to a News reporter. This In horse racing circles is similar to "par laying a bet," ho explained. "Pyramiding" on tho stock ex change, just lilce "parlaying" at the race tracks, would mean to tho busi ness mun the Investing of money at cunnound Interest. Tho reader will understand that it In a case where both money nnd winnings are rein vested in a new venture. There was a case Just recently wh?ro a tip was received from Chi cago that a certuln stock would go to 13, nnd it might be well to buy. Late tho same afternoon an ordor was received nnd tho one man who took advantage of the cue walkod away with a small fortune, and the traders are now expecting to see him appear as ono of the leaders on the exchange. This man was of the small Investor class and had pooled a ten dollar bill with friends, who could risk. but simi lar amounts. He won. He had been led along by the "Winning Ways of Wall Street," but, unlike? many other "little plungers,"he walked away with gold backs. There Is no authentic record of the disgrace or unhappiness, the wealth and happiness brought to thousands who have "taken a chance" with Dame Fortune with small amounts, either to end their careers as great financiers, criminals or suicides. For years bankers hove employed private detectives to watch their em ployes, not especially doubting their honesty, but to prevent their becom ing Inoculated with the Wall street "get-rlch-qulck" disease. From a telegraph operator the writer learned that $14,000 had been taken by a small speculator on a sin gle deal. This happened within six months, when the Investor put $10 on on stock. Ho permlted the surplus to grow an.-T flnn..y Invested in another stock. This went from 18 to 32. He was ad vlted to close out at that point, but suggested that It might bo well to let 11 go to 35. He finally took tho ad vice of those to whom he had en trusted his mcney and thereby saved the whole amount. From this one deal" a "tipster earned $4,500. - The "tipster" Is one of the requisites in dealing on the 'change. He is as common as Is his counterpart, the tout, at the race track, although at times it happens that even the "tipster" may be wrong. He, is no oracle. He simply follows the market as does the race track tout and gives expression to his opin ions, which are generally subsidized. Though the path of the "small In vestor" Is besot by such obstacles as the unscrupulous "tipster" acting la league with Irresponsible brokers, it d"es not follow that the small Invest or Is wholly wlthont blame. The quick accumulation of wealth Is the ambition of so many that there must necessarily be a "meith and flame" rtory often. "Small speculators," said tho old timer on the street, do not compre hend the conditions of the market In most cases, "hey buy without study ing the previous status of their stock, and they cannot understand why It should drop when It started to rise, nnd they care nothing for national or b'.ate legislation affecting quasl-publlo corporations, which Is a vitally im- ' portant factor in the stock market. "There are secure and insecure stocks," he continued, "nnd I must ray that our small Investor Is more apt to place his money on 'wildcat' schemes promising big and quick re turns than In stable Investments, which give slow but sure results. "Oh." sighed the old-timer, "as he walked away, "I've been watching this game for thirty years; I'm nearly through, but I'm not rich yet., "And I've Bent some ten-dollar bills to the had at that," he added, as he passed Into the Broad Exchange. Chinese newspapers, owing to the cheap quality of paper used and to the low price of labor, both literary and mechauical, are issued at an ex tremely small figure. The price of tho ordinary Shanghai Journal la four cash, or about one-fifth of a cent