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THE SCRANTOX TBIBUXE SATURDAY MOBXIXGr, OCTOBEB 13, ISO 4.
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flbe SNipsky Goes
In for Detection
The Famous School Reformer Appears
in a Somewhat New Role.
RELATES DETECTIVE STORIES
Wherein Abraham Slupsky Figures a tbo
Bright Particular Star-Ho l)oc9 No
Dirty Work, but Is a Shrewd Inves
tigator of Crooked Practices.
The Illustrious Abe Slupsky of St.
Xxrals, who hat attained national fame ad
school reformer and all round philoso
pher, now appears before an amazed and
pdmlring publlo In a new role. It appears
that Colonel Slupsky Is In reality a detect
ive and Is described in the peculiar ver
naoular of the St. Louis press as "a guy
ing, joshing and very shrewd investigator
of crime or connivance of any sort."
: Colonel Slupsky has lived so long In St.
'Louis something like a quarter of a cen-
, BLECTH SIX? SET DISGUISED AS A PEDDLER.
tnry that he is a familiar figure on the
down town streets und in the political
clubs and ward meetings. But so many
persons know him who never saw him
that a brief description needs to be tacked
to this story. He is about as tall as an
ordinary boy of 16, and, though he is in
his thirty-sixth year, ho is often taken for
youngster. One of his favorite disguises
us a detective is to rig himself up as a
street arab and pass himself as a newsboy
or a bootblack.
When not disguised, he wears the most
stylish clothing the tailors can turn out
in compliance with his orders as to style,
etc., patent leather shoes, red neckties and
pink shirts. He fairly blazes with dia
monds. The stone In his finger ring is as
tig as a walnut, the headlight that Hushes
from his shirt front cost a fortune, and he
has diamonds in his cuffs, his wristbands
and at every opening of his shirt. His
eyes are like a ferret's. Ho has a strong
Hebraic face that he can twist into so
many varied expressions that it is possible
for him to assume numerous characters
without the use of false beards. His hair
Is bristling black, and he brushes it in a
peculiar way that makes it look like a
wig. Some folks say It is a wig.
His political career Is well known. Once
he was a candidate for school director. He
camo out with a bold declaration that ho
not only favored free schools, but free
books and free clothing for poor scholars.
This proved a popular platform, and Slup
sky might have been elected had not his
enemies got hold of the fact that he never
went to school a day in his life and used
it against him. Slupsky was born in Lon
don. His father dealt in secondhand
clothing, but died when Abe was learning
to walk, and the youngster had to go out
into the streets of London and hustle. He
got a job washing dishes on an ocean
steamer and worked his way to New Or
leans. In 1870 he came to St. Louis as a deck
weeper on a Mississippi flat boat, started on
his career as a peddler, bought old clothes
nd finally opened a furniture store. He
might have become a prosperous merchant
had not a Scotland Yard detective trailed
on English xnurdorer from London to St
Louis and lost tight of him in the second
hand quarters. The detective employed
fcjlupsky to help him locate the man. Slup
sky found him and followed him across
the continent. He was about to turn him
over to the police of San Francisco when
lie got a telegram to let the man go, the
real murderer having been captured in
London. Slupsky returned to St. Louis
tired with an ambition to become a de
tectlve. He sold out the furniture store
and ever since has been a sleuth.
The other day a bright young man of
The Post-Dispatch got hold of Colonel
Slupsky and induced him to unbosom
himself on the subject of detective work.
"I like it," he said. "It's so fascinating.
I am a first class detective. I do only po
litical work and hunt down criminals.
am not one of those rats who shadow wives
and husbands and get evidence for divoroe
suits. That is dirty work. I am high
toned in business. I ferret out mysterious
ABE AS A NEWSBOr.
crimes and never glvo up till my game is
aafo behind the bars. These rats of the
profession will do anything. If they can't
set evidence, they will manufacture It.
know of a case In this town where a rail
road president became infatuated with the
wlto of one of his subordinates. He hired
detective, a low rat, to get tho follow out
of the way. The detective took some of
the railroad company's property and so-
oreted It in the man'shouso. Itwas found
there, and the man was sent to the pent
tentlary. The railroad president then took
possession of tho wife."
Colonel Slupsky told a lot of stories
bout rascally detectives, this one among
tnem:
"A woman fell In love with a rich cattle
dealer who promised to marry her If she
could got rid of her husband. She went
to a detective. The detective ouostloned
her closely, and on finding out that the
husband was a man of Irreproachable
cnaraoter ana aovotea to his wife he said
that It would be a difficult task to trap
mm, Due ne wouiu agree to do it for 1250,
Tho Woman paid $100 down, and the de
tective promised to nave the necessary evl
donoa to Insure a divorce within a week,
liofore the time elapsed he called one night
at tho woman's houso and told hertooome
jylpi him and be would show up the perfidy
of her husband. "He led her to a hotel on
Olive street, up two flights of stairs, and,
throwing himself against a door, burst it
in. There sat the husband in a big easy
obairwlth a little ourly haired woman
colled up In his lap. The sight Infuriated
the wife. She forgot that she wanted a
divorce and sprang at the little woman like
a tigress. She would have torn her to
pieces If sheoould, but the detective seized
hold of his client and dragged hor off,
shouting: 'Hold onl Don't hurt that
woman. Sho's my wife!'
"That's the sort of rats a good many of
these detectives are, ""continued Slupsky
after he had finished his story. 'They
wouldn't hesltato to drag their own moth
er into a case If they thought she could
help thera. Some of them would rob their
own trunk."
Colonel Slupsky then told how he elect
ed McKlnley governor of Ohio by travel
ing through the state and selling six tin
cups for a quarter. He also related a thrill
ing story of how he saved the Louisiana
lottery more than 11,000,000 by ferreting
out some rascals in Chicago who were
printing counterfeit tickets.
"A bey, tell the gentleman how you cap
tured the St. Paul fireflies," chirped Mrs.
Slupsky.
"The whatf"
"The St. Paul fireflies. You know,
them fellows that swindled the insurance
companies by burning up housos."
ou mean firebugs, my dear. Yes,
that was one of the best pieces of work I
over did. One winter a lot of stores and
houses wore burned in St. Paul. I was
sent for to work up those oases. I was set
at work by the board of underwriters to
Investigate. The last suspicious fire was
a house belonging to a man named Mi
chael. It was heavily Insured, and burned
one night when all of the family was away
from home. The firemen found that most
of the goods had been removed, and that
there was a lot of straw about the place
and everything was saturated with kero
sene. Disguised as a peddler, I went to
the house where the Michaels had moved
to and engaged board. You wouldn't have
known me had you seen me in my dis
guise I used to look in the glass and
laugh for I didn't even know myself.
Hero Is a picture I had taken. Well, I
staid at the bouse for about two months,
peddling ull day and spending my even-
ABB AS A SPOUT.
lngs with tho Michaels, even eating on
ions and garlic with them. All of my dia
monds I had stored away in a safe."
He soon gained their confidence, and
after two months of hard work he had tho
whole gang In jail.
' You should have seen them when I
appeared In court," said Abe. ''Of course
they did not recognize in the handsome
young fellow, with stylish clothes and ele
gant diamonds, the little old crooked ped
dler they bad known as Ben Flnkletseln,
and when I thtew up my hands and greet
ed them with tho old familiar 'Has du
gezchen' they got up and kicked them
selves." After relating a number of other enter
taining reminiscences, including n dia
mond robbery in Denver In which he
played the hero, Colonel Slupsky conde
scended to speak of tho financial aspects of
detective work. ''Sometimes I get big
fees," he f.lil, "but I do a good many jobs
for my friends and don't charge them. If
I have a friend in trouble whocan't afford
to pay me, I do the work for nothing, but
when a rich man wants my services I
bump his bead."
A Snake In Their Eden.
A young ludy was receiving her betroth
ed in the front parlor at Wethcrsfleld,
Conn., the other evening. The evening
was well advanced when there came a
noise of tho rattling of blinds. Both were
momentarily frightened, but the man re
alized his opportunity to prove his courage
and ability to protect and ventured out
side. Ho found no one on the premises.
He returned, and in a few minutes tie?
sound agnln disturbed them. This time
he went to tho window, and raising It a
striped snake jumped into tho room and
begun to glido across the carpet. The
young lady was pet i Hied with fright, but
tho young man grabbed the unwelcome-
visitor by tho tall, and going outsldo
quickly ended its life. The snako had
crawled up a bush near tho window, and
entering between tho slats of tho blinds
found difficulty in gutting bark to mother
oarth again. It is not every young couplo
who can tell of a veritable snake having
entered their blissful cdcnlo courtship.
The Mexican Idea of Smallpox.
The ignorant class of Mexicans consider
an outbreak of smallpox In thuli miserable
hovels a visitation of divlno wrath for
some sin they havo committed. So sot are
thoy In this belief that they will do noth
Ing whatever to check the ravages of the
dlaeoso except, when it attacks tholr in
fants, to take the victims In tholr arms,
press them closely to tholr breasts and
pray dovoutly and continuously to Uod to
forgive them for their wickedness. Of
course the smallpox runB its courso after
awhile, though never before claiming sev
eral members of every family as victims,
but not until It does are the afflicted par
ents purged of their sins.
It can be proved by a simple calcnlatlon
that the number of people which have ex
isted on the globe during the past 0,000
years approximates the grand total of
00,000,000,000,000,000.
The effigy of John of England represents
him in a supertunio of crimson, golden
belt, under tunic of cloth of gold, red hose,
black shoes, spurs gilt, fastened with blue
straps.
The Greeks and Romans ate from a kind
of porringer, yet during a portion of the
middle ages slices of bread cut round took
the place of plutes. .
A SONNET.
Let who so will call half that is unclean.
And over men's backsliding sit and brood, I
Yet I have found rich colon In the mud I
And hints of beauty in the dreariest scene.
I have scant patience with that sober mood 1
That from the world impetuous youth would
weanj
Rather be bold, and learn what all things
mean,
Since scratches will but teach us hardihood.
Simple our knowledge Is, howe'er we plod;
It may be we should love what most we hate,
Since none has wisdom this tide of tho sod;
And he who Judges Is compassionate,
For in my dusty sool I found of late
the indubitable footprint! of the God.
P ercy Addleihaw la London Academy
Saved Tuto Lives
By a Light Latigh
Thrilling Reminiscences of the
Old
Mining Days on the Coast
OXE OP THEM SHE MURDERED
She Relates a Narrative of Mingled Mis
fortune and Depravity Which Is .
Almost Without a Parallel la
the Annals of Modem Crime.
Some IS years ago, when hydraulic min
ing was a greater Industry in the northern
part of California than now, all the big
mines had watchmen armed with shot
guns and navy revolvers. It was their
business not to ask tho thieves to surren
der and then to shoot them if they did
not, but to shoot them first and ttfg'te the
points of the case afterward. As an in
centive many mining superintendents of
fered their watchmen $50 for every Chi
nese robber killed.
Ten years ago, when I was an employee
of a hydraullo mining company, says a
San Francisco Chronicle writer, I was in
vited to spend a night with the regular
watchman and aocepted. It was a hazy
night. There was a quarter moon, but
the sky was covered by a stratum of misty
clouds. Wo crept into tho shadow of a
huge overhanging bowlder, and, our guns
beside us, began our long silent watch.
Stretching away for a hundred yards above
and below us was the sluice with its treas
ure laden riffles. All about us were piles
of bowlders, deep cuts and the irregular
surface of the bedrock.
It was nearly midnight when tho watch
man uttered a nerve thrilling "Sh!"
His trained car had caught a familiar
sound, and ho whispered to mo:
"Somebody's coming!"
A minute later we saw a shadowy form
stealing down the rough, dangerous path
that led into tho mine from the top of a
bank 60 feet high.
"A Chinaman," said lie watchman.
"By the Lord, there's another I"
Sure enough, tbcie wero two of them.
They were still too far away to be seen
plainly. They appeared to suspect noth
ing of our presence, for they camo on rath
er carelessly, and now and then we heard
thorn speak. Their foot crunched the dry
gravel. The watchman suld:
"I don't sabe this. They must be after
the sluices, but Bomehow they seem too
reckless. Lot's wait a bit, and they'll
come right up to us. Then wo can finish
'em off."
It was as ho said. Thoy camo very near
us, and we discovered that thoy wore not
Chinese. The discovery was mado just In
tho nick of time. Two shotguns, heavily
loaded with buckshot, wero lovoled upon
them, and a moment later tho triggers
would have been pressed, but just then
there camo to us a girl's light laughter and
a man's deeper chuckle. The guns wero
lowered.
"Well," gasped the watchman, "that
was a little near."
We sat very still. Tho man and his
sweetheart walked near us and sat down
upon another big rock. Wo recognized
them both. Tho man was a schoolteacher,
and tho girl was well, she was his sweet
heart. They sat there for an hour with their
arms about each other and talked. Ho told
her that old story In the old way, and she
dropped hor head ovor against his shoulder
as she listened. Her lips were temptingly
upturned, and he kissed her now and then
just to punctuate his sentences. He strok
ed her hair and asked her If she was sure
sho had always loved him. She said she
had
And wo we sat there listening. The
watchman's face was white, and his hands
kept fondling his gun. I did not liko
eavesdropping, and I wb
pored to him to
that effect, but he only
took his liead.
So wo sat and heard It al(
My companion
was the regular watch r
,n. It was his
duty to be there.
Presently tho schoolti
pier said somo
thing I did not catch, but tho girl's an
swer was plain enough,
"Fred." she cried, with a lough, "Fred!
Oh, you goose! You know I was only
playing with Fred. The great fool! by,
I was just using him for a poodle. You
pat him on tho head, and he'd have a fit.
You dear old muggln! How could you
imagine I was soft on red tho idiot!
Sho wus talking of my companion, the
watchman. I looked at his face, which
gleamed pale In the moonlight, at his
grimly set Hps and then at the hammers of
his gun drawn back to full cock. Tito look
of bitterness and hate passed quickly Into
one of scorn. Tho watchman, who had
been tho girl's "poodle," actually smiled.
Quick as I was, be was quicker. There
was a burst of llamo, a deafening double
TI1KT BAT TUEIllt AXD TALKED.
report, and two big louds of buskshot sped
harmlessly up into the moonlight.
Thero was a shriek, and, looking back
ward, I saw the teacher flying away as
fast as his legs would take him. Ills
sweetheart was running after him, crying
out to him to save her. Fred saw, too,
and be laughed. We both laughed. It
was suoh an unexpected falling of the cur
tain upon a little comedy that might have
been a tragedy.
The rest of that night passed quickly to
us. Fred, putting aside his "business re
serve," told me all about it how he had
loved that girl and hated the teacher; how
she bad promised only a day or two before
to bo his wife; how he had married and
built his castles In tho air; but ho reckoned
that this termination of his love affair bad
been best for him, after all.
Impromptu Speeches.
James Russell Lowell Is recorded as say
ing thut he always liked to prepare his im
promptu speeches. At a dinner given to
Mr. Longfellow during a visit to London,
it was agreed that no sat speeches should
be made.
After the fruit and coffee had been dis
cussed, Admiral Farragut arose and pro
tested that thoy could not dream of part
ing without hearing from Mr. Gladstone.
Sir. Gladstone began by assuring the
company that he was of the mind of Lord
Palmerston, who said, "Better a dinner of
herbs where no speaking is than white
bait and oratory therewith."
His "remarks" developed Into an elo
quent oration. He had read the works of
the American poev, and quoted passages
from several of his poems, and concluded
by paying a splendid tribute to Mr. Long
fellow's attainments. '
The subject of this superb panegyric was
deeply touched, and replied without rising
In a few happily chosen phrases, preface!
with the remark that in his case the pen
was mightier thau the tongue, and that he
could not make an extempore speech.
Youth's Companion.
Uses of Wire.
A few figures may be cited to illustrate
how important a part wire plays in our
leading industries and manufactures. Tue
output of coal in Great Britain alone,
which may be token at fully 200,000,009
tons per annum, is mainly raised by the
agency of wire ropes. The importance of
carding wire may be appreciated lrom the
fact that Great Britain's woolen export
trade is worth 27,000,000 per annum. The
consumption of wire netting is enormous,
and the annual output in America and
Europe of the one item of barbed wire for
fencing a comparatively new adaptation
is estimated to exceed 100,000 tons.
The world wide use of wire for tele-
graphio and other electrical purposes is
too well known to need comment, one
company in America owning no fewer than
043,000 miles in their own system. Cham
bers' Journal
COLONEL BOWIE'S BLADE.
Be Wielded Deadly Weapon That Hade
Bis Kama Immortal.
Two states claim the birthplace of Colo
nel James Bowie Tonncssee and Mary
landand the question has tievor been
definitely settled, but ho gave the name to
a weapon as deadly as uuy that has ever
been forged from steel.
Shortly after Louisiana became a state
the old Spanish and French records created
a great deal of troublo. It frequently hap
pened that a planter who had taken up a
large tract of land and fairly opened It out
as a plantation would learn that It was
claimed by some ono under an old colonial
grant. James Bowlo was a very frequent
claimant under these old laws, says a Chi
cago Times writer. Several capitalists of
the time had sent him to Havana, where
tho old papers of the Spanish colony of
Louisiana were kept, and caused careful
transcripts of them to be mado. They ap
pointed as their agent to put tbom in pos
session of these properties James Bowie.
In those early days It did not at any tlmo
take much provocation to bring on "a per
sonal encounter," as a fight to the death
was euphoniously entitled. A man who
had been to tho troublo of opening up an
estate only to find It claimed by a lot of
people ho did not know was generally
pretty ready to fight for it, whether a fight
would settle the question or not.
The consequence of this state of things
was that James Bowie and his two broth
ers, Stephen and Kezln Bowlo, had on
hand almost constantly soinosortof ''diffi
culty" that had to bo fought out with
deadly weapons. Tills was before tho duys
When tho percussion cap was In general
uso, and tho smaller pistols of tho porlod
wero flintlocks, inconvenient to carry and
not very reliable. So tho knife had to bo
used when one wanted a really trusted
weapon. Mr. Bowlo worked out with a
pockotknifo , and shlnglo his idea of a
weapon that would bo about the proper
thing for tho business he had in linnd, and
it was mado by tho local blacksmith at
Shreveport, La., after this model, which
he carried for several yours.
About 1830, however, ho heard of a New
Orleans cutler, a Spaniard named Pedro,
who was making somo knives of a won
derful kind and tempor. Thoy could bo
driven through a silver dollar without
damngo to point or edgo. Mr. Bowlo nt
onco availed himself of tho professional
services of tills artist, who mado him a
knlfo which was a marvel of temper and
COLONEL HOWIE PfiESRVES OHPEIl.
benuty. The blade was 9 Inches long, and
bludo and handle together measured IS
Inches. Ho used this wenpon in 19 en
counters, and it was In his stiffening hand
when, with six dead Mexicans ivbout him,
showing tho evidence of lib fatal ukill, he
was found dead nt tho Alamo.
Bowie's method of using the knife was
ono peculiar to himself. He did not hold
It In his hand with the long point down
ward, but grasped the handle us a swords
man would grasp the hilt of his sword.
He always struck at the neck of his man
and aimed for tho jugular and seldom
missed his coup. In the most famous of
his battles tho one fought on Natchez is
land, an island in the Mississippi river
nlmost oppoKlto the city of Natchez he
cut two men's heads nlmost off, giving
each only a single sweeping blow.
Bowlo only weighed 140 pounds when
at his prlmo. Ho wus a quiet, soft voiced
man, who never drunk nor dissipated in
any way. Ho possessed enormous physical
strength for his size and was as quick and
lithe as a wildcat and as gamo. Ho was
a terror to nil tho "hard cases" from Louis
villo to Now Orleans.
In 1830 the MothodlRts about Church
Hill, Miss., wero holding their annual
meeting. They had been a good deal dis
turbed by tho crews of rough llutboatuion,
a lorgo number of whoso boats were lying
in tho river below the towu. One morn
ing after service was ended a number of
the mon held a meeting todecldo upon the
measures to abate this trouble. Among
them tho parson, who was a newcomer,
noticed a small man whoso only peculiar
ity was a pair of steely, blue ringed eyos
eyes liko a cat. "I will attend the services
tonight, gentlemen," ho said In a low,
gentle voloe, "and will help you to settlo
any difficulty that may occur." This
seemed very satisfactory to those present,
but tho clergyman somehow forgot to ask
wlo he was.
The cvoning service bad begun. Just as
tho preacher was about giving out tho sec
ond hymn a big Kentucky flotboatman
staggered up In front of the pulpit and
gave a Choctaw warwhoop. In a second
the little man had him by tho collar with
his left hand, and in his right had a knlfo,
with its point against tho boatman's
brawny throat. "It you say another word
or make the slightest noise, by G , I'll
drive this knife through your neck from
ear to ear!" The big man trembled liko a
leaf and silently took a seat, while the
other, putting his knlfo out of sight,
joined with groat fervor In the singing of
the hymn. There was never a quieter
meeting held than that was thereafter.
"Who was the gentleman vt so speedily
settlod the difficulty tonlghtr- asked, the
minister when the service was ended.
"Don't you knowf" his frlond replied.
"That was James Bowie."
She Held Colonel Bowie's Head.
Senora Candolarla, who Is said to be 109
years old, is tbo last survivor of the Ala
mo. She was In the fort during the 13
days from Feb. 2D to March 0, 1880, when
177 Texas Americans held it against 8,000
Mexicans. Senora Candelarla asserts that
be was supporting the head of Colonel
Bowie, who lay 111 In the fort, when the
Mexicans rushed in and killed him and
wounded hor. Her life was begun under
the dominion of Spain, and the has seen
five flags float over Texas. Her home la
near Ban Antonio,
Rather a Lively
Record of Crime
Has Had Sli Husbands and Is Yet
Open for Engagement.
TRAGEDY TURNED TO COMEDY
The Finger of a Girl's Scorned and Re
jected Lover Pressed tho Trigger
of Ills Gun and in a Moment
Would Hove Fired.
Everybody remembers the sensation
when Divorce Lawyer Orson A. House of
New York city was shot dead by his wife
Irene. It was a poetically just affair at
least some novelists thought so for House
had narrowly escaped the penitentiary by
reason of his crooked work in procuring
divorces and tad procured one for the
woman who killed him.
Well, Irene Van Zandt Houso who was,
Mrs. Redmond-or Mrs. Carson who is, is
once more In prison, this tlmo in Trenton,
and on a bewildering variety of charges.
She has borne tho nuuiestpf six men, is 60
years old, almost as prettas ever and has
a most Innocent and childish looking face,
with soft, appealing blue eyes and a lavish
wealth of soft light hair. And her lifo
record runs thus: Ruin at 14, marriage,
MRS. IRENE CARSON.
divorce, marriage, murdor, insanity, mar
rlago, divorce, insanity, and so on to big
amy. iSho has three married sisters in Tren
ton, all highly respectable, who stand by
her in her troubles. To a reporter who re
cently visited her in jail she said: "I sup
pose I was pretty, as every ono suid so, but
I had no moral nature or force. My moth
er was responsible for that. She know
nothing of tho ways of tho world and con
sequently taught me nothing of them.
"I wus not married when my first child
was born. I wus only 11, yet I had slipped
from virtue. It was easy enough.
"I never boro any real marital relation
to Charles A. Anderson, though perhaps
ho would have married me had I insisted.
It must nppenr strango to you. My father
was a successful merchant, the winner of
an independence, and my parents were
people of unquestioned respectubility, yet
1 did as I pleased. I was born on Broad
street, not mora than a block away from
this prison, in 1 84-1.
" I'oor Anderson ! Ho went to the war,
and we saw little of each other. Ho Is a
wreck now, focblo und almost blind from
disease. I hnd him on my farm lost sum
mer for three days, but he was so disgust
ing that I wits forced to send him away. I
helped him to seoure a pension, provided
hiin with mcdlelno and clothing mid ar
ranged for him to go to the Soldiers'
home. The last I heard of him he was In
Jersey City."
She supported herself as a bookkeeper
and then married ono James W. Denver,
but she says she found ho had a wife and
two children living and left him. Thus
she mot with Arson A. House. He had a
lino farm in Pennsylvania, with a palatial
residence on It, and the pair lived there in
summer with a great retinue of servants.
Tho tragedy sho tells thus:
"Mr. House was devoted to mo, but he
became afflicted with paresis and abused
me und my boy Willie. On Juno 30, 1870,
ho was about to strike my child, whon I
shot and killed him. I was tried and ex
onerated on the pica of self defense, but
was scut to the state lunatio asylum."
Frank Parker, once famous as a base
ball catcher, was her next, and ho got a
divorce from her. Sho next married Paul
K. Redmond "becauso he professed to
bo n Christian and I wished to do better
and thought ho would make a good inaa
for my farm."
But he didn't. Ho would have been a
good man to spend her money, but she
was too smart to let him have it. Sho is
wortli at least $50,000, and Redmond still
holds possession of hor farm. Then sho
married Harry G. Carson, and a little the
queerest event In her queer career followed.
Her son William Anderson, her only child,
born when sho was 14, hnd her put in a
lunatic asylum. Her lawyer secured her
release, sho and Carson went west, re
turned and had n "scrap" with Redmond,
and so sho is in jail onco more.
Of course sho claims to havo hud a legal
separation from Mr. Redmond somo
whore. Just tho same, ho holds onto the
farm, but when he culled on Ireno and her
Mr. Carson in Trenton they, according to
his story, assaulted him most grluvoualy;
hence this last Incarceration.
IIow a Kentucky Gentleman Drinks.
Grasping the lower part of the bottlo In
tho right hand and tipping It over till the
neck rested on tho index finger of his left
hand, Colonel William Duko lot the whis
ky trickle out with a musical gurglo into
the glass, tbo bottom of which was stained
with mint juice. The colonel had crushed
tho julco out himself by pressing hatd
with ills spoon on the leaves tho bartender
had dropped in tho glass. Having done
this, he removed the leaves and was ready
for the whisky. When the glass was filled
about hnif with tho red liquor that had
the lazy sparkle of oil, ho slowly stirred
the decoction to get tho mint julco well
mixed with tho whisky. All this time he
poko not a word, but kept his eyo closely
riveted on the half filled glass. Aftor stir
ring the whisky and mint juice slowly and
deliberately for about a mlnuto he care
fully remuved the spoon, placed the rim of
the glass between his lips, and closing his
eyes and tossing back his head he drank
the mixture with as much enjoyment as If
It wore the nectar of the gods. A loud
smack of the lips and a shake of the hoad
told that the colonel had recovered from
his reveries.
Bow 'Uljah Jenkins Did.
"I wish r had a smaller scrowdrlver, fa
ther," grumbled Juko Babson. "I can't
make this work; it's too big for the
screws."
"Jake," said Mr. Babson solemnly,
"I'm terrible afraid you haven't got much
fae'lty. If you had you could make that
screwdriver do, -or else you'd find some
other way to get them screws out without
raisin such a catouse. Have I ever told
you 'bout old 'Bijah Jenkins, the tiukerer f"
"No, sir, I cun't rec'llect anything 'bout
klm," replied Jake after a moment'! re
flection. "Well," said Mr. Babson with a sigh of
regret, "there was a man that had what
yon might be safeto call fae'lty. He could
right a clock an set her to goin again In no
time; he could fix up a door lock or a hinge
that was out ' kilter qulcker'n a wink; he
could Pry things open an he could make
'em fast,
tiukerer.
was?"
lie was a fust class all round
Au what d'you s'pose his tools
"Why said Jake glibly, "a hammer,
and a chisel, and a screwdriver, and a gim
let, and an awl, and"
"You can stop right where you be," in
terrupted bis father. "You wouldn't have
ketched 'Bijah Jenkins burdenln himself
with such a mess o' things as that. Folks
where he went gen'rally had a hammer, I
calc'late. If they didn't he could make
out with a stono. All he carried was a
broken clothespin an an old fork a stout
ono 'twas an a hen's feather, an a bottle o'
glue that he made himself."
"Well, I swaney !" remarked Jake, whose
amazement incapacitated him for further
utterance.
"Yes, that was every namable thing he
carried," repeated Mr. Bubsou. "He could
screw an ouscrew with the clothespin, an
use it for a number o' other purposes. He
could pry with the fork, an he could jab
with it, an bore a fa'r sized hole. He could
lie with the hen's feather, un he could
glue with it an kind o' smooth things up
gen'rally. I tell you, Jake, he had fue'lty.
"Now, let's Bee if you cun't make out to
get along with that screwdriver, such as
'tis," concluded Mr. Babson.
And Jake, not to lie utterly routed by
the posthumous fame of the old tiukerer,
did. Youth's Companion.
About the Jumbo Fever.
Mr. Guylord, who was with Barnum
when Jumbo was bought, has been giving
Borne curious details in an interview at
Hong-Kong. Anxious to get up a sensa
tion, Barnuut (according to this account)
gave 1,000 to raise an action to endeavor
to interdict the departure of Jumbo. No
Booner was this done than the whole of the
representatives of the American papers in
London began to cable columns of news
about Jumbo. The Jumbo fever soon
caught on. Jumbo's keeper, Scott, was
secured for 000 a year. The preparations
for the shipment were drawn out as much
as possible, and a big demonstration over
his departure was arranged. Scott had n
quiet sign which the elephant knew to
mean "he down."
It was arranged that when he was to be
taken from the gnrdens Scott should make
this signal and the people would believe
thut Jumbo was unwilling to leave Alice,
"The thing worked beautifully. Tho
Btreets of London were crowded with thou
sands of people. As had been arranged,
jumuo jay down and refused to budire,
All the while the wires were flashing the
news to America, where the people wero
simply being manipulated in the hands of
Mr. Itanium. All the papers had head
lines, 'Jumbo RefuBes to Leave Alice,' and
a lot of rot of the same kind.
"When the farco had gone on long
enough, Jumbo was taken on board the
car as quietly as a lamb. When Jumbo
landed the attendance rose to 70,000, and
for the two weeks following the attendance
was over 70,000. The net profits the year
before they got Jumbo were 80,000; in the
year they got him they rose to 100,000."
St. Jauies Budget.
The Persevering Eel.
Young eels in passing up a river show
the most extraordinary perseverance in
overcoming ull obstructions. The large
flood gates sometimes fifteen feet in height
on the Thames might be supposed suffi
cient to bar the progress of a fish the size
of a darning needle. But youtig eels have
a wholesome idea that nothing can stop
them, and in consequence nothing does.
Speaking of the way in which they ascend
flood gates and other barriers, one writer
says: "Those which die stick to the post;
others, which get a little higher, meet with
the same fate, until at last a layer of them
is formed which enables the rest to over
come the difficulty of the passage.
"The mortality resulting from such 'for
lorn hopes' greatly helps to account for
the difference in the number of young eels
on their upward migration, and that of
those which return down stream in the
autumn. In some places these baby eels
are much sought after, and are formed in
to cakes, which are eaten fried." Rod and
Gun.
THE EXECUTIONER OF PARIS.
Th Discharge of Ills Duties Does
Not
Make Illm a Popular Favorite.
Delbler, tho Parisian hangman, or
"Monsieur do Paris," as he Is often called,
is naturally unpopular among his country'
mon, although on ono occasion ho was re
ceived courteously and welcomed by the
citizens of tho place where he was about to
show his expert ability us an executioner.
This wus nt Rouen, whero ho went to
guillotine a man named Gumelln, who had
brutally murdered a little girl. Tho feol
lug against tho scoundrel wus so strong
that Delbler was respectfully saluted by
tho populuco tis ho went from his hotel to
tho plnce of execution. "Monsieur do
Paris" is a thorough master of his grew-
Nt. DEIItl.ER.
somo calling and snys ho never felt at all
nervous on tho scaffold except when tak
ing part In the execution of Ravachol, tho
anarchist. After this notod criminal had
been bound ho was put into the hoarse to
bo conveyed to tho placo of execution,
somo distanco in tho town. Though per
fectly livid, ho began howling a vllo song
and kept It up till the guillotine was
reached. Ho endeavored to address tho
enormous crowds assembled, but tho assist
ant executioners forced him on the bag
oulo. Tho howls and Imprecations of tho
anarchist continued with such fury thut
Delbler for a few moments became un
nerved, but he speedily recovered himself.
Ho released tho knife, and as it whizzed
down tho groove the crowd hoard tho an
archist shout, "Vive la repu" .
Tho official standing by tho guillotine
affirmed that as tho head dropped into the
basket tho lips distinctly omitted tho con
cluding syllnblo "bllque." Tho assertion
gavo rise to a good deal of controversy
among tho French savants, but It was gen
erally conceded that tho guillotine severs
the head with such torrlflosuddonnosathat
it was posslblo tho sound which the fellow
was uttering was emitted after the knlfo
had actually performed its deadly work.
"Monsieur de Paris" also officiated nt the
execution of the anarchists Vatllant,
Henry and Cesarlo. The medical mon who
examined Honry's body declared that he
dlod before the knife was released, his
vital spark having been extinguished by
general muscular contraction, induced by
hie supreme effort to shout the anarchist
war cry and dlo game.
M. Delbler has a fortune of about $30,
000 and receives for his work as execu
tioner (800 per month. Ho lives quietly
and generally bolloved to be saving over
one-half bis slary.
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