IE Hill !IK;
instances of their Success in
Outwitting Detectives.
MISTAKES OF OFFICERS
Om-s of Mistaken Indcntit Two
Hn Who Served Seven, Years of
Life Term When Innocent
Ktmnge lUunilrr of tlie French
riHcc In the Case of le Tourvllle.
ll.my of the mistakes of detectives
f those of mistaken identity.
.' mm time ago a man belonging to
no of the bent known and wealthiest
jwiries In the co intry was greatly
lurprlaed and more Indignant when
tte was arrested by a detective who
tt!nght he had captured a criminal
who recently had escaped from prts
o. Profuse explanations on the
fiirt of the captured man were fol
lowed by equally profuse apologies
in the part of the detective, so that
the incident closed without 111 will
on either Bide.
A mistake with a more tragic re
salt occurred In England in 1ST 9.
Tto mistake arose In connection with
tktt famous lidllnghar.. burghiry,
two men were brought before
the Newcastle assizes charged with
the jobbing of the vicarage. It B
lor that when the vicar had inier
rujrfed his unwelcome visitors they
ia.-i shot at him, so that the charj"
of attempted murder was adJed ti
ilint of burglary. The two n:en.
Bnanflghan and Murphy, who were
cliiiginf with the crime, were con
victed' and sentenced to life impris
onment, as the evidence seemed to
be convincing beyond the shadow of
a rfonbt. They Berved seven yraia
of iheir term. Then two other men
cttufessed that they alone wu'e
gufSty of the robbery.
De Tourvllle, one of the most tor
ri'i'ff of the European criminals, es
cafttf punishment for a long time
because of the mistake of a detec
tive. The death of a woman at
Ssnrborough by what De Tourvllle
declared was the accidental dis
charge of a revolver was investigated
by a detective froia London, but bo
trunk and open appeared the con
duct of the great criminal and so
flourishing was his appearance that
tVi fficer was misled and reported
tkat he was convinced that the af
ffT was an accident.
'Vhen a few years later the death
' rfie wife of De Tourvllle was be-
; investigated he murdered her
, hurling her over a precipice In
;'? Aljis the body of the woman
j had died at Scarborough was ex
: trictf and examined. It was found
f.vtt, far from killing herself by ac
ckTvot, she had been murdered by
eoaw one who had shot her In the
so- that a slight examination
-wt?d have established the fact. The
rrric ake of the detective at the time
el llie Scarborough crime had terri
We results, for In the time De Tour
TiW was allowed to go free he com
muted two more murders.
Sherlock Holmes constantly ln
siJ that nothing in a room where
n -Time had been committed should
lf touched, and this appears to be
n good rule, judging by a mistake
ittie by an Intelligent police officer
in Ireland. The policeman was
jilrced in charge of a room in which
a murder had been committed to nee
tiat nothing was disturbed until hi?
wperior officers arrived. He found
Ifce time passed slowly amid sv.cli
melancholy surroundings and yro
ded to console himself wlih a
jr?'. He lit a candle which he found
ojt the mantelpiece and finding a
Kxanpled up piece of paper on the
Ciwr he used that for lighting 1:!.
JPCe. Xs he was afraid that his suprr
fks.ru would object to his smoking
ttle on duty, he opened the windo w
tr order to let out the smell of the
ltiacco and in order to tve them
wfcea they approached, so that he
iId put his pipe out in lime. It
ms discovered later that in indulg
wr la the innocent pleasure of a
ftps of "tobaecy" he destroyed three
rf the most Important clues.
The length of the candle which ho
lad lighted would have indicated
. time when the murder was com-.mrt-id,
the paper with which he had
JfgtueJ his pipe, judging from the
starred remains,, had been left there
trr the murderer himself and the po
Hreman had forgotten whether he
itad found the window locked or un
iocked when he opened it to let out
ite smell of smoke. Furthermore,
the keen nosed detective who wag
tnt on the case, smelled the odor
of the tobacco smoke, and not know
ing whence It originated, spent a
Jat of valuable time in tracing it
4knro.
Some years ago one of the most
cruel murderers ever known almost
cled because two policemen re
fmd' to investigate charges of whose
truth they were in doubt. A ma a
running along behind a cab came
rn.pi U two policemen and gasped out
(bat a murderer was riding In the
ah wllh the remains of his victim.
. Out of breath from hiB exertion
raff too excited for a connected story
tfie police officers were inclined to
ifcink the man either crazy or drunk,
4 therefore turned a deaf ear to
allegations. If the pursuer had
not persisted In following the cab
aatf had not met later on a less
jr.ptical officer the remains of the
wurdered person might have been
(.K;ed In a Bafo hiding place and the
murderer have gone undiscovered,
DISEASES ANOJHEIrt ODORS.
Curious Facts In Regard to the Xr..;
in Diagnosis.
The acuteness of the sense cf
smell is far greater In many cf the
lower animals dogs, for example
than In man, and they employ it l:i
guiding them to their food, iu warn
ing them of approaching danger and
for other purposes. The sphere cf
the susceptibility to various odors U
more uniform and extended In man,
and the sense of smell is capable of
great cultivation. Like the other
special senses, it may be cultivated
by attention and practice. Experts
can discriminate qualities of wines,
liquors, drugs, etc. Diseases have
their characteristic odors.
Persons who have visited many
different asylums for the insane rec
ognize the same familiar odor of ttu.
Insane. It Is not insane asylums
alone, but prisons, jails, workhouses,
armies in camp, churches, schools
and nearly every household, that
have characteristic odors. It is when
the insane, the prisoners and the sol
diers are aggregated In large groups
or battailous that their characteris
tic odor la recognized. Most diseases
have their characteristic odors, and
by the exercise of the sense of smell
they could be utilized in different
diagnoses.
For example, favus has a mousy
odor, rheumatism has a copious sour
smelling, acid sweat. A person af
flicted with pyaerflia has a sweet,
nauseating breath. The rank, un
bearable odor of pus from the middle
ear tells the tale of the decay of os
seous tissue. In scurvy the odor is
putrid, in chronic peritonitis musky,
in scrofula like stale beer, In inter
mittent fever like fresh-baked brown
bread, In fever ammonlacal, in hys
teria like violets or pineapple. Meas
les, diphtheria, typhoid fever, epilep
sy, phthisis, etc., have characteristic
odors.
The Foul-Strike Kule.
An attempt is being made to
modify the foul strike rule In the
major leagues. Ever since the rule
has been in existence it has caused
more dlseuslon than probably any
new rule Introduced in years. George
L. Moreland of Pittsburg worked
out a plan which has many com
mendablo features.
The plan suggested by Mr. More
land is to run two white linos paral
lel with the foul lines, starting from
first and third bases, respectively.
He sugests that any ball that Is hit
on a line in the space between the
old foul line and the proposed new
one be called a dead ball, neither a
strike nor a foul be called. The
suggestion is intended to assist the
heavy hitters. The umpire is ex
pected to detect whether a player at
tempts to bunt or not, and should
an atempt be made to bunt and the
ball go foul at any place the batter
should be charged with a strike, but
should a hard drive go within the
lines the baiter should be exempt
from being charged with a strike.
The proposed plan Is expected to give
all hard batters an even chance, pre
vent disputes, and do away with all
kicking over the foul strike rule be
ing a handicap on the batter.
la(ii:iu Medicine Men's Methods.
I'aquan medicine men are regard
ed with great respect by the natives.
Those I have met certainly seemed
energetic and hard working. They
sit close to the patient, massaging
the seat of palfr-wlth much vigor, and
while they are thus rubbing make a
noise with their lips rather like that
which a groom makes when rubbing
down a horse.
The process is a tiring one, and the
medicine man stops at intervals to
drink hot water in which t.aro has
been boiled. His object Is to extrutt
some mysterious foreign substance
from the sick man's body, and If he
succeeds in this he receives a fee,
otherwise he gets nothing. "Xo
cure, no pay," Is apparently the Pa
quau's motto.
Curious Wuy to Get a Hide.
"Stop!" shouted the man on the
country road, holding up a warning
hand. Muttering something about
rural cops, the automobilUt obeyed.
"Turn around and come back to town
witn me," said the stranger. "You
were going at least 35 miles an
hour.", "You're a constable I sup
pose," said the automoblllst, with a
covert sneer, when they had reached
the village. "Me?" replied the pas
senger. "No, I'm a farmer, and had
to come in to town when all the
teams were busy. Nice growing
weather? ThanKs. Good-by."
Oat Photographers,
A young womau looking for rugs
told a New York salesman that she
wanted a shade to match her cat.
Speaking of cats, there are photo-
BruyueiB m me cuy wno make a
BueclaHy of posing cats for pictures.
A studio in Harlem has specified
I hours for poslngs.
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THE COLUMBIAN.
BIGGEST FARM ON EARTH.
Said to Be David Rankin's In Missouri
He Guesses It'e True.
Nearly forty years ago an Illinois
farmer discovered that land on one side
of a State line was selling for $20 an
acre while he might buy any amount
on the other side of the Imaginary
dividing mark for less than a third
that amount. Real estate men told
the farmer that no railroad would
ever go near the Missouri lands, but
he sold his farm in Illinois and
bought all he could of the land at $0
an acre.
Not long ago David Rankin, who 's
the man that bought the cheap acre
age, took an Inventory of his posses
sions in the neighborhood of Tarklo,
Mo. The inventory showed 25,640
acres, 12,000 fattening hogs, 9,000 cat
tle, 810 horses, more than 100 cot
tages, In which the employees of the
big farm were housed, great quanti
ties of farm machinery and the like.
The total figures up to something
like $4,000,000 In value, Bays Hamp
ton's Magazine. That didn't Include
the 1.000,000 bushels of corn produced
annually or the 1"0 miles of tiling
and ditches, some of which had been
draining the marsh lands of forty
years ago.
"They, say I'm the biggest farmer
in the world," Rankin says, "and I
guess it's true. Lots of men have
more land than I, but they use it for
cattle ranges only. Mine Is a farm."
Rankin never raises cattle or fur
nishes range. He buys the raw steers
from the plains and fattens them un
til worth twice what ho pays for the
"feeders," as they are called. He nev.
er sells com because by feeding it to
cattle, according to a minute calcula
tion of his own, he gets more ample
returns. It is forty miles from the
nearest to the most distant of his
farms.
Mr. Rankin is Scotch-Irish. He was
born In Indiana in rural poverty. Ho
made his start trading a colt for
salves and raising the latter into
steers. To-day he owns an implement
factory, a municipal water system, a
telephone company, a bank and other
enterprises in addition to his farm.
When the notion takes him he adds
$."0,000 or so to the endowment of
Tarkio College, a Presbyterian school
in his home toi which has known his
generosity to the extent of $250,000.
Electricity from Straw.
While electricity has frequently
been recommended to the farmer as a
convenient means for ploughing, oper
ating machinery, pumping water, etc.,
yet in practice he has been rarely able
to avail himself of such assistance,
since farms cannot be located in
mountainous country where water
power is abundant, while coal and
gasoline for engiues to drive the dyna
mos cannot be procured with sufficient
cheapness to make the undertaking a
practical success. Recently in France
some Interesting experiments ' have
been carried on where various waste
vegetable products, such as straw,
leaves, reeds unserviceable hay and '
similar substances have been used as j
fuel In gas generators. It has been
found that from such materials a low
carbon gas can be evolved la vertical '
gi'.s generators, and by means of a
gas motor and dynamo electricity can I
be developed. This can be done much j
cheaper than by burning coal or petro
leum products, and when a number !
of farmers unite to maintain a plant !
that will furnish about lifty or seven-ty-tlve
horse-power it is believed that i
electricity could be distributed about 1
the neighborhood with considerable j
economy. Tlie method employed was I
to collect tlie material, chopping the
straw and like substances, and then
after it Is dried, pressing it into bales
weighing about 1,500 pounds per cubic
yard. As it has taken the farmers of
the western United States to develop
the co-operative telephone line, using,
in some cases, fence wires aa conduc
tors, so it muy be possible that French
agriculturists will succeed in generat
ing electricity so economically that It
can be used not only for scientific,
but also for practical farming.
They Didn't Get By, Anyway.
Wlllam Hodge in "The Man from
Home" was riding in the smoking tar
on a little one-track road in the north
ern part of the State some time ago,
and in the Beat In front of him sat a
Jewelry drummer. He was one of
those wide-awake, never-let-any-one-get
the-best of-him style of men. Pres
ently the train stopped to take on
water, and the conductor neglected to
send back a flagman. A limited ex
press running at the rate of ten miles
an hour came along and bumped the :
rear end of the first train. The drum-'
uier was lifted from his seat and !
pucnea nead first against the seat
ahead. His silk hat was Jammed clear
down over his ears. He picked him
self up and settled back in hiB Beat.
No bones had been broken. Then he
DUlled Off his llHt Hrour n lono- l.vuoth I
and, straightening up, said: "Hully
gee! well, they didn't get by us. any
way!" Hardly Encouraging.
John D. Rockefeller, conversing
umisb'y with a reporter, drove home
r. re -.iark ou inefficiency with a golf
story.
"There was a man," he said, "who
hud no success at golf at all. Xhe
more he played, it seemed, the poorer
he became. One day his work was
particularly bad.
" 'Dear, dear,' he said to hl caddy
as he looked ruefully at a deep holu
in the turf that he had Just made with
his Itoo, 'dear, dear, there can't be
worse players tnan myself.'
"'Well,' said the eaddy, reflective
ly, 'maybe ther's worse players, but
they duo't play.' "
BLOOMSBURG, VA,
EiSllFElOliiDlEVEr
Rich Young Parisian Fulfils Promise
of "Surprise" by Shooting Him
self at Monte Carlo.
Paris, France. Fernand Ravenez,
n wealthy young Parisian, committed
suicide under remarkable circum
stances. He gave a supper to a number of
his friends, at which the fun was fast
nnu furious. Several times during the
evening Ravetiez cried: "This Is
nothing; n big surprise Is awaiting
you at the end."
At dawn, when the party was
breaking up, Ravenez shouted: "Now
for the great surprise."
He arose abruptly and walked to
ward the Gypsy orchestra, which was
playing a Hungarian rhapsody. His
friends, who were expecting some
practical Joke, were stupefied to Bee
him suddenly place a pistol to his
temple and fire. He fell dead.
Ine only reason for his act Is Bald
to be "sheer boredom." Ravenez was
only twenty years old, but he had be
come a familiar figure on the Paris
boulevards, where his liking for
"loud" dress attracted attention.
i nree years ago tne young man.
figured In a sensational duel. Ho
challenged a professional swords
man as a result of a cafe quarrel, but
the swordsman refused to fU'ht on
the ground that Ravenez had not
reached his majority.
Undaunted, Ravenez Issued a chal
lenge dated the day he was eighteen
years old, and ho devoted the Inter
vening time to rigorous training.
When he finally did meet his ad
versary the contest was of the fiercest
character and It ended by Ravenez
plunging his sword into his oppo
nent's bod.
j HOW HIGH SHOULD A LADY
KAHifc. HER SKI RTS7
Milwaukee Judge Undertakes to De
cide the Delicate Question In Court.
Milwaukee. Wis. How high can a
woman hold her skirt on a damp night
anu eUll remain a lady?
It was up to Judge Neelen In Dis
trict Court to decide it, ana he made
Here's the Limit of Propriety In Rais
ing a Skirt.
a ruling In which he fined Miss May
Walters $5 for getting past the "lady"
stage.
Patrolman Becker was the etiquette
expert and he said that when a wom
an's skirt was up fourteen Inches In
tne rear and nine in front and had a
waist attached which was more or
less peekaboo, the limit had been
reached.
The Court agreed with Becker that
a dress could be held too high, and
he approved of the arrest of Miss
V, alters.
The patrolman udded that he had
looked sharply and had Been no fluffy
ruffle stuff under tlie outer skirt, and
that was one reason why he though:
the gown was deficient.
ATE 4 POUNDS OF LIMBURGEK.
Winners at Lemp Club's Contest Still
Lives.
St. Louis, Mo. Two hundred guests
of the Leiiip Hunting and Fishing
Club at Alton went through a trying
ordeal when they attended the clubs
limburger cheese eating contest.
The difference between this contom
ar.d the Salome dance Is that one
doesn't have to have cne's eyes open
to witness it.
Joseph Uhle won by consuming four
pounds of the frHgrant fromage and
Ed Trumble finished a bad Becond
with two pounds to his credit. The
prize was a case of beer.
Uhle is as well as could be expected,
and it Is thought that fumigation will
save the clubhouse for future Sunday
afternoon (unctions.
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