Part 2. MAGAZINE SECTION. The € ntre RI BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1006. mocrat. Farm Notes, Chorce Fiction, Current Toprcs. THE PRIVATE DETECTIVES. THEIR NAME IS LEGION, AND THEY WATCH ALL CLASSES OF BUSINESS EMPLOYEES. Some Clever Schemes for Swindling Firms and Corporations—Sharps Who Make a Regular Business of Getting Damages. In no other country in the world, are 80 many private detectives employed as in the United States, Every great corporation has its staff of “secret service” men, many of them recruited from the detective forces of European countries. The chief occupation of these com- mercial detectives is to protect the various institutions they represent from the depredations of professional swindlers of all kinds. These ‘“‘crooks,” are a formidable army. Groups of them travel from city to city, concocting and carrying out frauds of all kinds, aided in their ne- farious plans by “shady” lawyers, phy- sicians, and even, at times, by tne em- ployés of the corporations which they seek to victimize. Insurance companies are the favorite prey of this robber bands. Of one audacious swindler, who was recently brought to justice, it is stated that, assisted by his confederates, he defrauded seven different accident in- surance companies of sums aggregat ing some $13,000. Had he varied his method, it is quite likely this particular “crook” would still be reaping a golden harvest. But he repeated his device too often. His trick consisted in slipping on a plece of soap while taking a bath, mand sustaining “severe internal In. juries.” He always had a doctor (of course, a confederate) testify to the serious nature of his accident; but, although the trick in itself was diffi. cult of detection, a constant repetition of it naturally awakened suspicion, and led to the downfall of the swindler. Some of the sharps pose as mechan fes, and prey upon employers of labor, their method being to pretend to sus. tain some injury in the course of their work. Aided by shyster doctors and lawyers they bring actions for dam- ages. Sometimes by taking out accl dent insurance policies, they contrive to gain a double share of plunder. Rallway companies are victimized fn much the same fashion-—that Is to say, by bogus claims for injuries and accidents. In these cases the frauds are generally more elaborate, involving mot only the services of dishonest doctors and lawyers, but the testimony of witnesses paid to perjure them- selves, Of one group of rallway sharpers, the ringleaders of which were brought to justice, it came out in the evidence that they made more than $5000 a to gear by their practices A real railway accident, especially one of any magnitude, is a perfect wind. #all to some of these rogues, if they are anywhere In the vicinity Taking advantage of the confusion —_— MOTHER OF Mrs. Magdalene Dick is one of the few mothers In Washington who can wisit the United States Senate cham- ber and look down upon a son who fs» a member of the most powerful legislative body on earth. That son is the Hon, Charles William Frederick Dick, senator from Ohlo, who succeed: od the lamented Mark Hanna There Is especial swelling of pride in the breast of Mrs, Dick as she looks down from the Benate Gallery upon her boy, for the reason that she knows better than any one else how many were the struggles and how rough the paths that led to his present honor. Both parents of Senator Dick were born in Germany but they met and married here, settling in Akron Ohlo, where the father was an humble arth san, He was careful and frugal after the German fashion but was not very successful in business. The little fam- fly knew what It was to work hard for the necessities of life, The future senator knew what It was too, to be born gf the traditional poor but honest Jaren His schooling was limited, he had to begin work when able to earn even a little bit, First he was a messenger boy in a bank, then clerk in a hat store and a FR O00 ix SENATOR DICK OF OHIO. and excitement, they make their ap pearance among the injured. Thelr “Injuries” are generally, of course, of an internal nature, and, uttering heartrending groans, they are carried off‘ to be attended, if possible, by some medical accomplice, Now and again the conductors of trains are in league with the sharpers, which,, of course, greatly facilitates the frauds. Indeed, it is sald that railway accidents such as small collisions, have been deliberately brought about by conspiracies of this kind. One particular “crook” made large sums by conspiring with conductors to push him off the train when it was in motion! In thi: way he acquired a profitable crop of “permanent injuries to the spine,” for which the railway companies had to pay smartly. So numerous and so astute have the American detectives become of late years, however, that such frauds have become increasingly difficult, The suppression of malpractices of ! this kind is, as stated, the principal work of the great army of commercial detectives, many of whom are appar ently ordinary citizens, or even work- ers—known as “plain clothes men.” Among thelr minor functions is the watching of suspected employés especially those of banks and great financial houses. Any tendency to extravagant habits or irregular living on the part of em- ployes 13 moted and reported upon by these unsuspected watchers. Others there are who, in the guise of clerks and laborers, secretly note any ten- dencies to disloyalty or discontent. In this way approaching strikes are de tected, and, oftentimes, nipped in the bud, a Studied by the Artist. “One of the greatest difMculties In art,” remarked a critic, *' is to get one's facts right, and for this you have to go not to art, but to the people who understand the things represented. “I received my first lesson in this direction when, as a youth, I painted a coast scene with a ship In the fore ground. It was highly praised by all who saw it, with the exception of an old seaman, who, when he examined the rigging, politely turned aside to conceal his amusement, No ship, he explained, could possibly have gone to sea with the ropes and tackle arranged as in my picture. So I had to humble myself to learn to draw reeving blocks, shrouds, yards, and other por tions of a ship's rigging as they really are, “But it is not always possible to be true to fact, “Take, for instance, a typical picture which represents a herd of self-deny- ing cattle grazing in a meadow where the herbage is of the scantiest, while near at hand are unprotected fields of grain into which they could walk at will. Why did not the painter include in his picture the fences which ac tually surrounded the corn flelds? Simply because they would have spoilt! the composition, and consequently reality had to be sacrificed to the de mands of art” he was very proud when he acquired a half interest In a feed and machinery establishment, All this time however, he kept studying at night to gain an education, and to achieve something better than an anxious Interest in the market price of oats, The good mother who looks down upon him in the Sen. ate ean recall with much pride the strugeles of the son to better his place in the world and she did her part to help him. He went into politics and | was elected county auditor before he was 30. This is always the best office in any courthouse and gave the young man a start not only in polities but in business. His activity and shrewd. ness in local elections led to his se lection In 1802 as chairman of the state executive committees, He won the election by such a small majority that there was no glory In it, but the following year he managed the second election of McKinley as Governor with splendid results. later he went to Congress from the old Oarfield dis triet and when Hanna died, came to the senate by unanimous vole Mra. Dick is of fine appearance, not yet 70 and remains calmly complacent over the romantic career of her son who may yet achieve still higher | models brought home by a tailor who FIED IN OUTWITTING AND BEATING GOVERNMENT. Foreign Dealers Know the American Mania tor Private Smuggling and Sel Accordingly=Many Disappoint- ments in Results, If the arrivals on one of the big has a shop just off Fifth Avemie were sent Into the workroom to be resewn before they could be placed in the show cases. Style is what the French tailor alms at. Chie, beautiful, a gown must be. If it falls to pieces the first time it Is worn—so much the better for the businecss—madame needs another gown. A woman who had ordered a single dress from one of the big French houses complained of the ship. ders: “One dress, why should we bother J liners were drawn up in rows on the pler and searched, it 18 doubtful if] five per cent of them would escape the charge of smuggling. The women are sald to break the law in greater num- bers than the men, although the latter | cheat the Government of larger Jnounts. The majority of women don't understand the customs laws. Said a nervous little lady on the! promenade of the Deutschland as the tugs were pushing the big steamer into e dock: “I've got two china salt cel- lars under my hat. Do you suppose | they'll hear them click together? They cost 5 cents aplece at tne palais Royals, but they're so cute.” “Why you dear old goose,” said a business-like person near her, ‘I guess you'd jump over- board if you had my trunks to wriggle through the examination, Just listen. You know you're allowed to replenish your wardrobe if you're gone a year. When 1 decided to go over twelve months ago, I just took all the old trunks in the house, I had eleven in all, and I filled most of them up with the stuff you usually send to the Salvation Army. Thought some of them would g0 to pieces on the trip. I got rid of more than half in London, and bought beautiful English leather trunks to take their places. And the things I've brought back in my replenished ward- robe!” “But the foreign names on sO many dresses?” gasped the nervous one. “I've ripped them out and sewed in the names that were in my oid dresses.” She was even cleverer than the white. haired gentleman who confided to his neighbor at table that he had brought back some lace gowns worth at least 30,000 francs ($6000) a piece that were entered in a sworn invoice at 6,000 francs each “But,” sald the little maid at his elbow, “won't the ap- praisers know the real value?” The ven. erable ginner stroked his white beard complacently: “Why should they sus. pect the invoices approved by the Am- erican Consul at... ? Ah “they are my very good friends at the con- sulate.” he purred Real Syrian Rugs. Even the There was a commotion on the immi- grant deck of a French liner one morn. ing. Several hundred Syrians were westward bound. One of them had stolen a roll of bedding from another. The officer to whom complaint was made was not deeply Interested. Hadn't the immigrant a good berth in the steerage? Why so much fracas for a bundle of dirty rags that should have been stowed in the hold? The ocom- plainant waxed desperate: “Mother of tl was of Syrian rugs, the best a dozen sent by a merchant of Damascus to his brother merchant in duty on Syrian rugs is heavy- would think to find 11 iG 4 u but who em in the dirty ng of an immigrant! A glove buyer for one of the big Am- erican houses used to bring back on each semi-annual trip, for his own pur. poses, twelve dozen pairs of gloves care fully hidden in many pockets of his coat and overcoat. Almost every tourist who can afford it buys a diamond ring while abroad A feather boa is al- most the first purchase of the American woman arriving in London, and what customs official can prove that she did not carry it out of her own country with her. : How seldom do those first purchases in London and Paris outlast the evan- escent charm of novelty, Flimsily built of fragile material, they drop to pleces before the owner has had time to weary of them, If they do last for any length of time, it is only to become a source of anger and disgust. The silk petti coat bought at the Bon Marche, Paris, for which you pald $8—~what a bargain it was until one day you felt myster fous prickings at your ankles and rtooped to find that the nalf inch wide st ribbon which gave such a chie set to the bottom, had broken’ loose from the dust rufMe and slashed the silk to bits, and your stockings to tat. ters. To comfort you, every depart ment store In New York and Chicago is showing you identically the same skirt, without the steel stiffening, for $5. Sometimes, remembering these things, the high prices that assailed you in London and Paris, you may won- der how the French women of moderate means manage to dress so well, Americans Charged Doubie. The answer is that Americans are abominably overcharged. A raw clerk in the Louvre once told an American customer that the house would make her up a ponges suit for 150 francs. He was sharply contradicted by an older employe who explained that the sult would cost 300 frances, As the lady moved away without ordering the gown, she heard the novice remon- strate. “You told me 150 » “For Frenchwomen, yes” a the old hand, “but that was an American.” The biggest lace house In Vienna (and Vienna is the cheapest place In the world to buy lace) purposely puts up the prices to allow a good margin for bargaining. Experienced Amer lean buyers for fashionable New York tallors who go yearly to Paris for models, take with them on thelr shop ping excursions, a French friend with whose assistance they secure materials and models for about half the quoted v t) be steerage has its smugglers. | 1 Prophet, his bed—of dirty rags! It! New York.” The at all for that!” Most expensive French lingerie is frequently finished with rough seams, lace 18 sewed to unhemmed edges; threads in hand embroidery are left oose—the garment simply fallsto pieces even in the most careful laundry. No words can expres | made an tastes, bn attempt to t the Engli ception of the short sl monstrosity escaping front and t meet American h tallor's irt is a tweed the shoe to} con. SAVE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. outside dependency of the nation. That the commercial interests of the cast, If not its statesmen, are Lo | the desirability of promoting the settle 101 * allve PLAN PRESENTED TO CONGRESS ment and Infernal improvement of the DEFICITS COULD BE AVOIDED. During the Past Five workman. | The manager shrugged his shoul | passage BY WHICH MANY Years the west, is shown by tix action taken very comprehen recently by the Na tional Board of Trade in Washington a powerful association, composed o representatives from most of the great sive Government Has Lost Over a Hun- | commercial bodies of the United States. dred Million Worth of Timber ~The 1 Remedy. Every now and then there is in Congress the of the ETress Is ©] | we horror of! it English tailoring. In London they have! Atlantic a reality at Fast still ¢ arms and the rathe separate » em to Wes prominent thir country t i iN in fact men of Con West’ that and a part of the United States and | a sharp between some the not in ititled to the same consideration that } $ State cu ed the othe or own Coa An of Col the Mis t or the instance wa issippl of r day when tho hind, while a straight row of stitch. ing is beyond the modest capability of the English workshog . | Many a woman who {month abroad materially her letter of credit, has come home | wish for the trim smartness of Broad | way. The frills beloved of the English woman, and the skin tight little jacks of the Freachwoman quickly lose their | fascination for the American woman { whose aim in dress is unusually a seem ing simplicity that has cost her tal hours of nice calculation and hers a great deal of trouble and not a little money. After all, the exp rienced American traveller buys few things outside of his own country. Considering quality and manufacture, nearly all articles ordinary wear are cheaper in the Uni ted States than elsewhere, The law allows only $100 worth of foreign ap parel to be brought in duty free, and if this is conscientiously lived up to the saving is small on imported goods A few gloves, ostrich plumes or small pleces of jeweliy, are about the only things the sensible tourist will bother with on his return —_— Doings in New York. The wife of a Wall street millionaire whose name in New York is almost a household word, as the police declare unwittingly furnished the password to {a magnificently furnished poolroom for | fashionable women at an uptown ad- | dress the other day and the place was | raided by the police. In it were twenty | women, whose finely appointed equip- ages awaited them in the street. { The appeals of the women, members | of some of New York's wealthiest fami. lies, when the detectives and officers gained entrance to the drawing room and revealed themselves, formed a thrilling tableau, Several women went on their knees to the detectives, They offered their rings, watches—anything they possessed-rather than face the ex- posure of arrest or even the chance of their identities becoming known, One woman clasped the detective sergeant by the knees as she knelt, leading for her liberty. Another tore Ber rings from her fingers, and offered them all to him, saying: re my name is known there will be murder or sui- cide in my for hushand will either kill me or 1 shall kill myself” Tolstol Hard on Ibsen. Count Tolstol was one discussing Tose with a friend. Sa" he latter “1 have scen a great many 5 plays, but 1 cannot say that I stand them. Do ” * Tolstoi smiled, and replied: “Thsen doesn’t understand them himself. He just writes them, and sits down waits. Afigr awhile his e and explainers come and tell him pre- her first diminishe in n ta wr ’ oO y AM workmanship 1s Inferior. The cisely what he meant.” ft was IN THE NEW YORK CUSTOMS HOUSE the irrigat been given as a the first place, sl paid back to the government that reclamation service had! bounty to the oney nee simply 1H New this dre en Valley, ntim in The land O0~ Eng kind Benator Tel- ing the ations tion with t Wes hor 4 Twenty Years Age a Desert. other section. In fa ot In is all stated The organization represents a combined capital of billions of dollars employing several hundred thousand workers; it has been. a fa in urging legislation on various Important in ternal worl it was the first great to advocate irr trong tor commercial 5 of the | the passage of the and a committee nas fore And 11 it on | of the year is most intere follows : 14 FRY J — of the ion : | rigation matters which ha sistently urged by the National "Peaiia hos : Bas Sy " been con Board 1to AW. of ena In the matter of National branches he Bureau ment of Ag ted into law at t session of Congress. The National Board stood against the practice of exchang- ing worthless “scrip” land in the national forest reserves for valuable public lands outs of the reserves and has repeatedly reco the | repeal of the law permitting this prac. | tice, is law was repealed at the last Ld of Trade has le ended Ti session of Congress At the last meeting of the National Board, opp m was expressed to what was known as the 640 Acre Home stead bills—in sing homestead entry in parts of South Colo rado and ana fro: } acres to 640 acre defeated at the | Much The Nat 3 great public. domain real homemaker as against the land and timber grabber and the speculator, ar merce will increase as population ir . and our National d poli be administered to preserve our aining balf billion acres of publi s for those who will build homes em. As laws which i the Na ntinuously, since y, 1902, urged the Tr and Stone Act, e of the Home rt Land Act, In ary 1 ommena tie ‘ the Dakota, in Mont e all ress to be done. rade has con- ing of the ». use of the tently for 1} : i Trade A onn MR an upon ti tend to overcome this policy tional Board has ts meeting in Janu oC and the Degas ordance with “Lucky” Baldwin's Irrigated Ranch— loan, and further he contended that the irrigation law was of as much Import ance to the east as to the west, that it was national in character, and that it would benefit, not only the section where it was applied, but reflexly every the west was somewhat tired of this idea which|®d bY the President, consisting of W. A. seemed to obtain among some eastern Richards, Comn.issioner of the General statesmen, of being considered as an Wp of the President in his annual Mes sages to Congress. 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