THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURtt, I'A-
BfflK ROBBER 10
ill PARDON OEAD
George M. White, Long an Ex
pert Thief, Ends Days in Hon
esty at Keene, N. H.
ESCAPED FROM SINS SING PRISON
C-ined Freedom by Paying $30,000 to
Guards and Received Clemency by
Pestoripg Government Bond Plates j
-Faithful Wife Stood by Him.
Keene. N. H. George M. White,
otice notorious as a t nk robber, dio l
recently at the Elliot City Hospital.
In this city, at the age of seventy
two years.
White was a member of a good Nw
England family, and was brought u
In puritanical surroundings. He be
came one of the most expert bank
thieves In the country, and was sen
tenced to a long term of Imprison
ment In this State. He escaped from
Sing Sing, and then rendered Impor
tant services to the government by re
vealing the location of forged bo:. I
plates. At the special request rt
United States Attorney Central
George H. Williams he was pardon ;d
by Governor Dix of New York.
only Instance, It Is said, where a pa:--don
has been granted to an osca;:e I
convh t while stlil at larre and w'ii
an unexpired term to serve.
White went Into business and l;n l
the good will and respect of his tieis.i
bors and acquaintances. He did not at
tempt to conceal his history, and t'.i
New York Herald or March 11.
1006, printed a long Interview v.'.'.'n
him In which he declared that It hal
cost him $30,000 to get out of S'.ixa
Sing.
It was under the alias of George
Bliss that he began his operations
against banks. He was associated
with the most expert criminals of his
day. including Mark Shinburn, "Kairy"
McGuire, "Charlie" Bullard, "Davs"
Bartlett, "Ike" Marsh, "Big John '
Brady and "Sandy" McCormack. HU
Intelligence and Ingenuity made hi:n
the recognized leader.
With two others he was arrested '.n
March, 1871, charged with attempting
to rob a bank at Adams, X. Y. He was
convicted and was sentenced to ten
years in Auburn Prison. He had
plenty of money put away outside and
gotlations for escape were quick
begun. The first, step was to have
a transferred to Sing Sing. Thlj
$1,000.
r?a avoided hard work from the out-
t by paying a fee of $500 to the
i . Iron physician, who reported that
he was too delicate to stand hard la
bor. He became the physician's hos
tler and later went to work in the dis
pensary. His wife was permitted to visit him
frequently, and she invariably left a
Ave dollar bill in a book which she
handed to the man in charge of the
visiting room. The first arrangement
made was to have White escape by
means of a tug which would pass the
prison dock at a specified time. He
boarded tbe tug, and so did eight
other prisoners, with the result thai
all were caught
He finally escaped by hiding In a
wagon that was brought Into the
prison grounds. For this privilege h.
paid $15,000 in advance and $15,000 In
New York after his escape. He me:
the prison guards at Delmonlco's and
paid them the money. He continued
to reside In New York, going aboji
without concealment and attending n
various business interests.
Colonel Whitely, then chief of thi
Secret Service had instructions from
the Secretary of the Treasury to spai
neither time nor expense In recover
ing stolen Treasury note and b'nJ
plates . White put him in a poiiitij..
to get them and as a result he wa
pardoned In 1873.
JOHN D. TO FARMERS.
Tells Them His Forefathers Went
After Business in Haphazard Way.
Augusta, Ga. John D. Rockefeller
while the honor guest at a barbecue
dinner given by the Beach Islam!
farmers made a short speech In which
be said he was no farmer, but his peo
ple as tar back as be could renieui
ber were farmers. He said the farm
ers during his forefathers' time were
not Ilka those of to-day; they went
after business In a haphazard way.
"But after we get through with
farming or railroading or whatever
our task In life may be," be said, "we
will be asked the pertinent question
it will come to us after we have fin
ished our work and have banded it
down to our children What was the
fruit of our work? What was the real
fruitage t"
WHERE LIARS QO.
liiiii atrooKiyn uin Knew ana When
Asked She Told.
Brooklyn, N. Y. A little brown
eyed girl was called before Magistrate
Furious as a witness In the Gates
Avenue Court, Brooklyn, against
woman wno was accused by tiie
child's mother of calling her names
and using improper language In tiit
little one s presence,
"Now, little one, do you knov
, where little girls go who tell Ilea?'
( "Yes, sir; they go to Jail."
k "Well, where do they go wben tiiw
die?" the Judge aked.
"I know," said tbe child; "they to
to tne cemetery."
FLOWERS OF SPEECH.
An Englishman's Address at a Ladist'
Seminary In Siam.
Tbe Influential Englishman In Slam
flattered himself Hint be hnd a very
decent knowledge of the language and
was ready to do great things. He had
already ordered coffee from bis hotel
waiter with success and asked, the
boy to bring up his boots.
Now, Influential Englishmen In
Slam are not as common as cock
tnchM, nnd that afternoon the dls
Mnpulshed rlsltor was requested by
a friend to deliver an address on
"England" at tbe only ladies' sem
inary In the country. Confidently be
accepted.
1 He begnn famously. Every one ap
plauded and smiled. But gradually as
ne proceeded be noticed consternation
' OTPrKnrendlnff tha ranntnniAi tt tila
listeners.
1 .uuu.v
"What's the trouble r be whispered
In English anxiously to bis friend on
tbe platform.
"Trouble r exclaimed tbe friend hot
ly. "Why, tbe trouble la what you
ire saying."
"But," protested the epeeker, "I am
saying, 'I am delighted to see so many
young ladles rising to Intellectual
belgbts, with fine brains and large
appreciation. "
"Oh, no, you're not," corrected the
friend. "You're saying, 'I am pleased
to see so many small lionesses grow
ing large and fat, with big noses and
bnge feetr " London Tit-Bits.
WHEN YOU WEEP.
The Way That" Tsars Act Upon the
Human Organism.
Professor Waynbaum, M. D., of
Paris publishes some queer facts re
garding the nature and purpose of
teurs, coming to the conclusion that
tears act upon the human organism
like chloroform, ether or alcohol."
"When a human being gives way to
sorrow," says Dr. Waynbaum, "the
blood pressure in the brain decreases.
The tear helps in this process, which
benumbs the brain for the time being,
causing passlveness of the soul al
most approaching Indifference.
"Tears are blood, changing color by
their passage through the lachrymal
glands. One can drown bis sorrow In
tears as one can benumb his senses
by the use of alcohol or drugs. When
a person cries tbe facial muscles con
tract and t e appearance of tbe face
changes, wdch, action facilitates tbe
white blood letting, driving tbe blood
particles Into the lachrymal gland,
from which they Issue In tbe shape of
tears.
"Children whose nervous system Is
particularly tender derive great ben
efit from crying occasionally. The act
of crying relieves their brains. The
same may be said with respect to wo
men." Tbe professor likewise explains why
laughter sometimes produces tears,
but the explanation Is too technical
for reproduction.
The Only 8afe Way.
"No, I can't stay any longer,'
he
said, wlth'determlnatlon.
"What difference does an hour or so
make now?" asked a member of the
party. "Your wife will be In bed and
asleep, and If she wakes up she won't
know what time It Is." .
"Quite right, quite right," he re
turned. "I can fool my wife almost
any time as long as I get home before
breakfast Why, I've gone home when
the sun was up, kept tbe blinds shut,
lit the gas and made her think that It
was a little after 12. But, gentlemen,
I can't fool the baby. I can make the
room as dark as I please, but it won't
make the baby sleep a minute later
than usual, and wben she wakes up
hungry It comes pretty close to being
morning, and my wife knows it Gen
tlemen," he added as he bowed him
self out "I make It a rule to get home
before the baby wakes. It's tbe only
safe way."
A Dog 8tory.
At a farmhouse at which we have
been staying a terrier, Bough, shares
always his master's first breakfast,
the bread and cream accompanying a
cup of tea. Three corners he breaks
off and gives to Rough, who eats the
first two. Off the third he licks tbe
cream, then carries the crust to a
hen who each morning comes across
the field where the fowls are kept
and at the gate awaits her friend's ar
rival. Should others of the bens o
pear, Bough "barks them off" while
his favorite devours her portion,
London Spectator.
A Tremendous Task.
"So yon are going to study law?"
"Yes."
"Going to make a specialty of crimi
nal law?"
"No." 7
"Corporation law?"
"No. Both are too easy. What I
want Is to be accurately and reliably
hi formed as to what months la t i
year and days In the week It la per
mitted to sboot certain game In the
venous sections of the eountrv
Washington Star.
A Patrsn ef Art
"Bo you enjoy reading all the extrerr-
agant praise that is printed about that
opera singer?"
"Yes," answered Mr. Oamioz. -rt
kind of helps me to feel that maybe
those tickets were worth what I paid
ior -em.- wasnington Star.
Poor Jonesl
Missionary Can you give me any In
formation about Deacon Jones, who
labored among your people three years
igo? Cannibal-Well, tbe last I heard
bout him be had gone Into consump
tion. Judge.
Husbands to lj-n.
Tb rldcriy spinster In the rear o(
the drawlug roiun nr b;id tio more
thnn settled la her seat when her at
tention was nttr:ictel to n woman a
little farther front who was garbed
In the deepest iiion.-nlng. As Ml.
Spinster adjusted her nose grabber
glasses for a better lasp t tlon of the
oue In widow's Weids t.h- wnv the
coiulin tr lean over nnd converse with
her enrnestly for several minutes.
When the conductor got bark to her
sent tnklng the passenger's tickets
Miss Spinster was consumed with cu
riosity about the womnn In mourning.
"Conductor," she asked In her sweet
est tones, "what's the trouble with the
Indy up there In widow's weeds?"
"Oh, that's Mrs. OettemT' replied
the obliging conductor. "She's just
Uer miru uusoanu out 10 a
crematory.
"Oh, bow dreadful !" exclaimed Miss
Spinster. And then In a faraway voice
she added:
"And Just think of It! Here I am
past fifty nnd never had a husband In
my life, while that woman up there
bas them to burn T' New York Times.
Strong Monosyllables.
Instructors In the art of literary
composition usually condemn a string ;
iJVMItmj 1IUU.VB, UUl IU IUP Weil
known hymn "Lead, Kindly Light."
written by a master of the English
language, you mny count thirty con
secutive words of one syllable only.
They offend neither the eye nor the ;
CHr. j
Milton often uses a series of mono
syllables. In the second book of "Par- '
ndlse Lost" we have: s j
Tho fiend
O'er boK or steep, throurh strait, rough, j
donso or rare.
With head, hands, wings or feat pursues
his way
And swims or sinks or wades or creeps
or flics.
Such lines are not uncommon In the
book:
Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens and
shades of death.
And again:
Of neither sea nor shore nor air nor fire.
-London Notes and Queries.
Courtship In Ireland.
An Irish boy marries when he has n
rid house and an Irish girl Just when
she pleases. Sometimes she so pleases i
while yet her yenrs are few; at other
times she is content to wait upon wis- '
dom. In the latter case, of course, she
makes a wise choice, but In the for
mer almost always a lucky one, for
luck is the gunrdlan angel of the Irish.
"You're too young to marry yet.
Mary," the mother snld when Mary
plended that she should grant Lnu-
renee O'Mahony a particular boon.
"If you only have patience, mother, j
I'll cure meself of that fault," was
Mary's renly.
"And she's never been used to work,
Laurence." the mother said to the
suitor dlseouraglngly.
"If you only have patience, ma'am,"
was Laurence's reply to this, "I'll cure
her of that fault." And he did too.
Seurans MacManus In Upplncott's.
The Nervous Mother.
An Atchison woman who Is very
nervous and Inclined to worry Is the
mother of a boy. She recently rend
of a boy who was killed while roller
skating and Immediately put her son's
roller skates In the fire. Another
newspaper told of a boy who was Wil
ed riding the street cars, and as boys
are frequently killed while walking by
street cars running over them she
chained her boy to the front door.
Then she rend of a boy who died of !
blood poisoning caused by his shoe
rubbing his heel, and her bojrti shoes
and stockings came off. The story of
a boy who bit off a button on his
waist and choked to death resulted In
her taking off her boy's clothes. He
had left only a flannel shirt, and she
Is reading now that wearing flannel
shirts is the cause of great mortality
and Is thinking of removing that
Atchison Globe.
The Bloom en the Egg.
"I know these eggs at least are
fresh," said the young housewife. "As
I took them from tbe basket a white
bloom, like tbe down of a peach, came
off on my hands."
Her husband, a food expert, gave a
sneering laugh.
"In that case," he said, "111 forego
my usual morning omelette. Tbat
bloom, my dear, proves your eggs to
be a year or so old maybe four or
five years old.
"The bloom, as you so poetically call
It Is lime dust. It shows that the
eggs are pickled. Lime dust which
rubs off like flour, Is the surest test
we have for pickled eggs a not un
wholesome article, but not to be com
pared with the new laid sort" New
Orleans Times-Democrat
The Riddle,
Here Is a strange riddle which we
have never met before. It Is sent us
by a friend from Jhansl, India:
Divide ISO by o. Add two-thirds of
10. So ends the riddle.
Here Is the answer: OoLONSO.
C 100.
L 60.
EN two-thirds of TEN.
SO ends the riddle. London Scraps.
Changeable Nantes,
Tom Belle Is a strange gtrl. She
doesn't know the names of some of her
best friends. Maud That's nothing.
Why, I ont even know what my own
will be a year from now. Boston
Transcript
The Preeeee.
"You ate a pretty sharp boy, Tom
ray."
"Well, I ought to be. Pa takes me
eut In tbe wood. shed, and straps ins
three or four times a week." nar
pert Weekly.
THE WORD "WINTER."
Said to 'Have Originally Indicated
Wetness, Not Coldnass.
There Is a prevailing Impression that
there Is something In the word "win
ter" that signifies cold, ami the sea
son Is usually associated with the Idea
of low temperature, but where tbe
word originated there wns little of
winter as wo understand It, while
there wns a greut denl of moisture at
tbe time the earth was nenrcst to tbe
sun, so that It Is not tbe temperature
but tbe atmospheric condition that has
given us tbe word.
The word "winter," as we use It le
found with but slight modifications In
all tbe branches of tbo Aryan lan-
oniaffls. fnP tha Mnfl rt trotnnaa nig.k
', elated with the season wos given to It
before the Aryan family was divided.
If we go to tbe root of the word we
find "wad," with the signification of to
well, to wash out to moisten or make
wet Our Aryan ancestors used that
root to apply to all conditions of
moisture, and many words besides
winter have grown out of it wet and
water being among them.
This root "wad" Is in the 8anskrlta
"udan," water. Anglo-Saxon bas "wae
ter," and In Latin we have "unda."
ware, from which we get our "inuti-
date.'
Our Danish and Swedish cousins
changed the "w" into a "v" aud have
"vlntcr." In Icelandic It U "vetlr,"
and the old high German has "w Io
ta r," and it Is "winter" la German.
These four words are all from tbe
Teutonic base "wata," which means
wet So It has been moisture thnt has
been Indicated from tbe birth of the
root on which all of the different words
In a dozen languages have grown.
New York Herald.
CURIOUS FLORIDA HERB.
Red Plant Which Feeds Upon Ants
and Other Insects.
Almost everybody knows there are
such things as Insectivorous or carniv
orous plants, but it Is doubtful If many
know we have any such plants grow
ing right here In southern Florida.
Nevertheless there Is a plant, or, rath
er, herb, growing here which Is really
Insectivorous.
It Is likely that on account of its be
lng extremely small It has escaDod
attention. In fact It seems to have
been overlooked by tbe botanists also,
as wo are unable to find It classed
among the sensitive plants.
This is an annual herb, and tbe en
tiro plant, Including tho flowers, Is of
a deep rich red color. It rarely reacb-
jed a height of more than three Inches
atfd Is never so broad. The leaves nro
spatulnte when undisturbed nnd pre-
sent many small flbrlUae and secrete
at their tips a tenacious fluid which is
capable of holding the very small in
sects, such as ants and the like, upon
which It feeds. When any of these get
lodged In tho fluid and disturb these
flbrlUae the leaves slowly acquire a
deep cut shape and sometimes curl
completely up over their victim. When
they have absorbed the Insect they
slowly recover their original shape,
leaving only the skeleton of the insect
remaining.
These plants grow on the very low,
flat, poor nnd sandy lands. They ap
pear in tbe late winter and early
spring months. Punt a Gorda (Fla.)
Ilerald.
The Human Temperature.
Put to the test of the thermometer,
it nppears that th normal tempera-
of tbo l00 ,s almost Invariable,
regnruiess or latitude or season. Put-
ting the bulb of the thermometer un
der tbo tongue of an Eskimo at tbo
frozen north or of a man under" the
blazing sun of tbe tropics, we find that
in each case, the body being in a state
of health, the temperature is about the
same, tbe difference not amounting to
a degree. We may soy absolutely that
tne average normal temperature of
a human being Is about 08.5 degrees
just as we may say that at sea
level water bolls at 212 degrees P.
New York American.
Put In More Words.
"Now, Peters," said the teacher.
"what Is It makes the water of the sea
so salty r'
"Salt," said Peters.
"Next!" said the teacher. "What is
It makes the water of the sea so
salty r
"The salty quality of the sea water."
answered "Next" "Is due to the ad
mixture of a sufficient Quantity of
chloride of sodium to Impart to the
aqueous fluid with which It commin
gles a saline flavor, which is readily
recognised by the organs of taster
"Right, Next" said the teacher. "Go
up oner
Mutton Birds.
During six weeks every autumn the
400 Inhabitants of the Australian Fur-
neaux Islands make enough money to
support themselves In Idleness the rest
of the year. They do this by catching
ine very rat young "mutton birds,"
which are hatched there In such num
bers that tbe flocks when they mi
grate extend for miles. They furnish
food and oil, which Is used for lubri
cating purposes and also as a substi
tute for cod liver olL
' Making Sure.
Country Cousin Are vou sura T am
tn the right train? Town Relative
(who has had about enough of ft)
Well, I have asked seventeen porters
and thirty-two passengers, and they
ell say "Yes," so I think you'd better
risk It London Telegraph.
If thou contlnuest to take delight In
We argumentation thou mayest be
qualified to combat with the sophists,
text never know how so love with men.
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