V OLXXXII iloic Ibio lis toijaiil For. -Looking Forward, IN FOOTWEAR. y Always alert to the in.crests ot ot r LATEST AND BEST | e take pleasure in oflering— OUR IDEAL STALES IN •I FOOTWEAR FOR LADIES & GENTLFMEN „ FALL AN I) thinks lu has i I.;.:. : niacin} 1 ) a pun has . We rin.l -lat «. r cus-\ I / I IV J I IjM./ tomers being convinced of means \\ 1 J_> I I'Jl *• many more customers for us. Von .- T .-. get more than you bargain for when VI/ L 1 /\ I J you get a pair of our SHOES. T ? J 1- * • Ladles' twentieth century SHOES EES:! Cork s'. sGoo-'.vear we'-s. Ladies' l ine button • :.<> s, !\it. tip.Sjc, f i .00, $1.25 an<- f1.50. I' avv sole fair stitch at $2.00, $2.50 and fv°°- Goodyear welts are pcrteci gems f< ~ie L- e* fine hand tarns Dongola and clo:!i top l.ice and button. j Tiy our Womens' and Childrens' Kid and Calf Shoes, Thev an : lie thing ior School Shoes. They will resist water. We have them in j high cut, lace and button, at price that your pocket book will open quickly when. vou see the goods. . _ * w • •it t C* 1 Shoes for men in fine Invisible Cork Soles^jj^^l S2OO *2 50 |", 00 and «j.oo. Intension soles. Men's Heavy Shoes at 75c, fi.oo, j |i.2s'and $ 1.50. Fine Shoes a; 90c, f 1.00, ft.25 add $1.50. both congress and lace. Our Kid and Veal boois, high and low insteps at |1.50, 52.00 $2.50 and fj.oo. Dru- j lers Heavy Box Toe Shoes high cut. I Boys' and Youths'sHOES™«tl the Youngsters are styles for dress or he st road to school, tive: v will water at - - ,j O 1.25 i-r.d 1.50. Ma.:u:actur isare asking 25 p* cent advance on shoes. HUfcE.LTO!N will sell this winter at oi<i prices, quaint} | maintained Wool Boots, Rubber Boots and Shoes. See our new Rubber Boots with leather insoles, wont sweat the foot. \\ e guaran tee our best rubber boots not to break. Save Money Save 1 ime Save Anno) ancea by buying ai #- 13. C, Huselton's, -# ICvery step you take in HUSKLTON'S Shoes is a treat to the f"c 102 N. Main Street, - An Enviable Lot. tllas 1 lie Shoe Admir- Dur Stock of Ladies' Shoes are the Admiration of Ladies & Gentlemen Alike. Anu ocr prices are also of a captivati » nature, an ytu raoy judge by Ladies' fine Pongola shoes, Land turns, now $2.50, were sy.so " " " welts, now $2 50, were $3 75. " IJk'cbcrett Shoes, now $1 75, were $2.50. " Bongola Button Shoes !>Uc to $1 . r >o. Children's School Shoes 50 c and upwards Men's heavy box toe shoes at $1 75 " " boots at $2 50. Men's working fboes at !»oc. Boy's boots from $1.25 to $2.00. Women's Waterproof shoes, button or lace at $1 00 Misses' Waterproof " " " 85c. Full stock of Men's. Both' and Ladies' Felt Hoots and warm lined Shoes. Complete line of Rubber Bout* aud Shoes At all times a large Btock of Leatner and Findings, including a stock of LACE LE ATHER which we just received. Sole Leather cut to any amount you may wish to purchase. Iron staudß with tour feet each reduced to 50 cents Our entire winter stock was bought at the old low price so I cau sell yon Boots and Shoes cheaper than ever before offered in Butler county. AH Summer Goods to be Closed Out Regardless of Cost _ Ladies' Low Cut Shoes, lower than ever. All Oxfords and Slip- S pers, including our entire lino of Tan Shoes to be sold regardless of cost— y '- nothing in summer goods will be k< pt. / , -•*) All will go at your own price A l\-o j ' ■" J 1000 pairs ( x j CHOICE SAMPLE BOOTS. SHOES vjtffi. . \ ' k m/mj-\ n a will go very cheap during this sale, so y \VV '4;!■ 'i'Ni call early while the selection is large. W'/a "Mi* liiplf t f M pw f Repairing Done. / " JOHN BICKEL, ILiJSHMiiiii Htreet, BUT ER, PA. Branch Store 12 5 N. nain st, SURPRISED ! SURPRISED! When we advertise that we are the largest house, in our line, in the State, many who have never lieen here think we are "blowing" but when they come in the tollowing :11c the ■ \pr< sions: "I atn surprised! I r< id your advertisement but did not think you had a place lite tliis. I knew you •sold Wagons, Buggies and Carts, but did not know that you earn. I such a stock of everything. I did not know that you employed so many Harness makers. I did not know that you had so much machinery. That engine that runs your harness machines, is the slickest thing I ever saw. I did not know you sold Trunks, Ituggy Tops, Wheels and Springs. Cushions and Lazy Barks separate from the buggy. Why you have mm money invested 111 Blankets and Robes alone than would buy my farm. No wonder you can sell cheap buying in such large quantities. YOUR ADVERTISEMENT IS NO LIE. I thought it was. lam glad that I came in and now I know where to get anything I want about my Wagon, Buggy or Harness, from the very finest vehicle to an axle washer." The next customer will be equally as much surprised when he comes in. We will tell of him later. YOI'RS KTC. s. B, MARTINCOURT & CO., S. B. MARTINCOURT. J. M. LEIGHNER. 128 E. Jefferson St., Butler Pa. THE BUTLER CITIZEN. Peculiar fn oombinctioa, proportion and Hood's Se-saparilla possesses peculiar curative powers unktu -.vn to any other preparation. This <3 by it has a rteord of cures r equalled • th? h'story of medicine. It acts din 'lv upon the I iood and by making it pre. rich and li a I thy j it cures disease and gh s good health. Hood's Sai sapairia Im the only trae blood ] nriterpromiMßt* Jj in the public «vet >▼. fl;sizfcr|s. 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'1 hal. is v» i \ Economical People ar<* otji b st 1 stumers. \Y 1C (iun'l how ih' < we can n .<i <• '•>' ■ -• '! is ta.-v !>ul h« \ 1,1 • c=tn make tlun to • you the b t valtie |> » - ible at the 1 a t pu .u e price. ALAND Tailor. C. D. SUMMER Good a are ID den y order to get the be < il . v <1 / f We provide ne il J ' u lin order to bo <■ ~.1 a ad miii ? fortable. \ Hats ind Pafsiibind for / 1 Me I H■ 1 H and ( eil li ■ S \ our ape< a •• a dw l on 1 aak y lan itispee'.ioti on • gooii-. 1 C We know Li >-y u.e nit' » s C t-ory. 7 Colbert & Dale. Hotel Wiiliard. Reopened and now ready for tie com n ili'.io 10 ' tli:» 1, .r e iag pul.- ic. Kverything|iuTirut * lush ntyie. MHS. iAilTh H iiHlH ; j, Owifr Mll BKOOKS,' rk. YOU CAN FIND »S? s ilE'iliiul'OW EROS. *■ K * '■ t wi for u«l RTTTLTC R. PA.. TH U I ISDAY, SKI > TEM BER 2<), 1895. ' 'i=> fAUSTO -A- '*-> wfify. —»^BIPWELL. jS COPYRIGHT. 1895. BY THE AUTHOR. CHAPTER L One day in Newpite by sfinie extraor dinary chance I found a pin, and np in the darkest corner of the cell wall I scratched on the paint: L*t the stricken deer go weep Ami the hart uncalled play, For some jnu .t watch, while some must sleep. Thus runs the world away. Theso lines were there through all i the agony of my incarceration aud trial, but when the thunderbolt fell and I was walking back to that little room with the doom of "life" pronounced upon me what thought do yon suppose came rushing into my mind? was 1 walkinsr throueh the women came under that category; but. if any, then it must mean those who came around selling apples and > ranges. The reader will see that when once , away from the shelter of home, in j threading the world's devious ways, f would bo crossing the roaring torrent "on tlio perilous footing of a spear," j all but certain to fall into the flood he- ! neat h. During my last year at school and for a long time after leaving it my father and mother were never tired of talking about my good education. Possibly they were not very good judges, but I am confident that they, after all, did not realize the importance of a boy being well equipped in that regard. Their thoughts and minds were so bent on the other world and things unseen bulked so hugely on their mental vision that j there was small space left for things of this earth. They, good, simple souls, j wero made for and ought to have lived , in the golden age, when all men were bravo and all women true, where neigh- ! borly eyes reflected the love and faith within, but in our utilitarian days they ! were sadly out of place, and li tt lo won- j der if they had lc.it their way in this i world. In their intense longing for the lifo beyond the grave, their passionate de sire to walk tho streets of gold, they, by their actions, seemed to forget we were on this earth, and that we were here with many sharp reminders of the fact. Tlio same guilelessness was manifest ed in their choice of our home readings. 1 The books I was allowed access to in the house wero "Tho Life of King Da vid," "The History of Jerusalem," : "Baxter's Saints' Rest," "Tho Immor- j tal Dreamer's Pilgrim" and Fox's "Book of Martyrs." His first martyr is Stephen, and such was my gross igno rance of his story that I always supposed , Stephen had been martyred by the i Church of Rome. Here was mental food j for a boy who had his own way to make J in tho world. Craving other mental food than "The i Life of David," I used to club pennies with a chum and buy that delectable sheet, "Neil Buntline's Own," then in fear and trembling would creep to an upper room and read "The Haunted House" or "The Ghost of Castle Ivy" until my hair stood on end in a sort of bu.tt.Li. t."..—, »'■" r-mrrng naren tnres of "Jack the Rover" or "Pirate Chief" until my brain took fire aud a mighty impulse stirred every fiber, im pelling me to follow in their footsteps. I bad remained idly at home for some six months after my happy release from school, when one night my father re turned from New York and said, "My sou, I have found a situation for you. That was delightful news, and when I went to bed that night I was too excited to sloop. So now at 16 I was about to sail out of harbor, and how equipped! Absolutely without education, void of worldly wisdom anil in my boyish brain dividing the world into two sections. In one was King David slaying tho Philistines or dancing before the ark. In tho other were Jack the Rover and the Pirate Chief. How easy to guess the sequel! Yet I was not a bad boy—far from it. I only needed wise guidance anil good companionship, and as the ig norance and crudity of my character dropped off the innate virtue—mino by lawful heritage—would have been de veloped. But pitchforked into tho wild whirl of Wall street and its fast set of gilded youth, the gates of the Primrose Way to destruction were hold wide open to my eager feet. The situation my father hail obtained for mo was with a sugar broker of the name of Waterbury. He was a partner in a large refinery, his ollice being iu South Water street. He was a nice, con servative old mail and let things run on easily. His chief clerk, Mr. Ambler, was every inch a gentleman, who, quickly perceiving what an ignoramus I was, out of the goodness of his heart resolved to teach mo something. There were two sharp young men in our office. They liked 1110 well enough, but used to guy mo unmercifully for my simplicity and clumsiness. One of them, Harry by name, was something of a scapegrace, and soon acquired quite a power over me. I stood in much fear of his ridicule and frequently did things for which my conscience reproached ine rather than stand tho firo of his rail lory. The greatest harm he did me was in tiring my imagination with stories of Wall street, of the fortunes that wore and could be made in the goldroom or on 'change. He made tolerably clear the modus operandi of speculators, and I secretly resolved that some day I, too, would try my fortune. My friend Mr. Ambler's health was bad, and frequent attacks of illness caused him to bo away from the office for weeks at a time, and that meant much loss to me. When Iliad been there about a year, lie resigned his position and went as manager for a factory in New Haven. But before leaving he in terested himself so fiir in my welfare as to secure me a position with a firm of brokers in New street at a salary of $lO a week. My employers were good fellows, lovers of pleasure and men of the world, not scrupling to talk freely with mo of their various adventures out of business hours. I had lost much of my awkwardness anil gauche manners, and under the $lO a week arrangement began to dress fairly v, i 11. My employ underground stone corridor leading from tho Old Bailey courtroom to my cell, doomed to lifelong imprisonment, and tho uppermost thought in my mind was of the lines I had scratched on that wall. I said to myself they were too gloomy aud depressing; that it was a cowardly thought and message to leave behind mo for some other unfortunate inmate, and I resolved, if it e-eapedtlie Philistines' paint pot, to leave a mes sage of hope or high resolve. When the next morning came—Thursday it was and the first of sentence —I scratched these lines: In the reproof of ehanco 1.1<4i the t rue proof of men. •An hour after I was insane. My mind 1 became a blank, and I know and ro ! membered no moro until tho following i Sunday, when I awoke like one out of a trance and found myself in a convict uniform in a cell, and there, with that brick arch over my head and the stone floor under uiy feet, for 20 years I lived and moved and had my being. We lived in South Brooklyn, near to old No. 13, the Degraw street public school. To that I was sent, and there got all the educa tion I was over fated to have at any school except the school of life and ex perience. I attended for some years, and even now I cannot recall without a smile the absurd inconqjetency of every one con nected with the institution and their utter ignorance of the art of imparting knowledge to children. At home I had picked up that grand art of reading and went to school to learn the other two R's, with any trifle that I might come across floating around promiscuously. I certainly hope our much landed public schools are conduct ed on better lines now than then; if not, they are frauds from the foundation. It was all very pitiful. My blood boils even now when 1 think of the traitors chosen and paid to see me fully equipped and armed to begin the battle of life who lef* mo with phantom weapons which would shiver into fragments at the first shock of conflict. I left Junior A of old No. 13, with its algebra, logic, philosophy (heaven save the word!) and advanced grammar, unable to write a grammatical sentence. Indeed I took it for granted that in the good old days Adam had invented the word such iis ho named the animals, and, of course, supposed that ho spoke good English. The knowledge of his tory I gained at No. 13 was strictly lim ited and exceedingly primitive. I knew the Jews in the old days were a bad lot; that Brutus had slain Oa>sar; that the Mayflower had landed our fathers on Plymouth Rock; that wick ed Ueorgo 111 was a tyrant, and that the boys in Boston had thrown a tea kettle at his head. I knew all about our George and the cherry tree, and there my historical knowledge ended. So hero I was launched out in the world a model scholar—stamped as pro ficient in grammar, history, logic, phi losophy and arithmetic, but yet in use ful knowledge a barbarian, unable to spell or even write a grammatical letter and unversed in the ways of tho world —a world, too, where I would be cast entirely upon my own resources. My homo lifo was happy. My father had lost his grip on the world, but his faith in the Unseen remained. My mother, caring little for this life, lived in and for tho spiritual. To her heaven was a place as much its the country vil lage where she was born. She was nev er tired of talking to us children about its golden streets and the rest there after the toils and pains of life. But, boy like, wo discounted all sho said and felt we wanted some of this world before we knocked at the gates of tho next. Every night of my lifo in those days she would to my ! ed to pray over me, ever saving us i-tucad me or clasped my hand, '' My son, rrmnmin if you were to pass your whole life here in poverty and hardship it would not much matter so long as you attain to tho heavenly rest. " This teaching would have been well had sho only taught mo some worldly wisdom with it, but that all essential knowledge was kept from me, I being left to learn the ways of man in that terrible school of experi ence, the consequence being that when after some months I was launched out in life I was a ripe and apt victim to bo caught in the world's huge snare. Ift fact, had my parents designed me to become a traveler in the Primrose Way they could not have educated mo to better purpose. Save when in tho school I had never been permitted to associate with other boys, bift was kept in the house, and up to my sixteenth year hardly dreamed there was evil in the world. I was told much about the "wicked," but thought that meant those who smoked tobacco or drank whisky. I hardly thought any ers did a brokerage business and specu lated as well on their own account. My duties xtere decidedly li(, r bt and pleasant and brought me into contact with some of the sharpest as well us tho most famous men in the street. Among them was a brilliant young man of my own age, who took a great fancy to me and frequently proposed that we should start for ourselves. Being doubt ful of my powers, I shrank from risking my scanty funds in any speculative ven ture. Much to my mother's concern I had begun attending the theater, and one night on my friend Weed's invita tion I went with him to Niblo's. After tho performance we went to supper at Delmouico's, and I was perfectly fas cinated by tho company and surround ings, going home long past midnight a different man than I had last left it. The next day Ed came to the office and invited mo to lunch, where, after mak ing some disparaging remarks alxmt the country cut of my garments, he offered to introduce mo to his tailor, who was never in a hurry for his money. After business that day we walked up town together, and, prompted by Eil, 1 order ed $l5O worth of garments, then went to his outfitter and ordered nearly an equal amount in shirts, ties, gloves, etc. One amusing result was that when, a few days later, I walked down to our office, com me il faut in garb, my em ployers raised my salary to s•!<> a week, but. this left mo poorer than when I had husbanded my poor little $lO. Soon after, piloted by Ed, I ventured SSO on a margin in gold. Unluckily I won, in vested again and again, within I t days was sl'B4 ahead. 1 paid my tailor and outfitter's bill, bought a SIOO watch on credit and gave a wine supper on borrowed money. Soon after th • I went to board at the St. Nicholas, the then fashionable hoteL From that time I began to drift more and more away from home influences. Soon after the wino supper episode I threw up my position, aud Ed and I started on our own account under the name of E. Weed &t'< >. My partner s parents were wealthy, and his father hail bcon well known in the street, which fact gave us standing. Tho years I speak of wero fortunate ones for Wall strut, stocks of every kind on the boom, the general wi.ilth of the country massing up by leaps and bounds, and every kind of speculative enterprise being launched. Our firm history was the usual one of broker firms in that tumultuousareua —t he Wall street of those days—commissions in plenty, greenbacks in plenty, but one's bank account never growing, for what was made by day in the wild excitement of shifting values was thrown away amid wilder scenes at night. Those, too, were indeed the flush times for tho professional gambler, for men were not content unless they burned tls t can die at l«oth ends. Day faro banks w ere open nvoryw here around the exchange, and enormous sums were nightly nuked in the up town games. These were ev erywhere, all protected, and the propri etors invested their money for rent, fix tures, etc., with as much confidence and kept their doors open as freely as if embarked in a legitimate speculation. Hundreds who spent the business hours of the day in the mad excitement of the exchange flocked around the green cloth at night, devoting the same intensity of thought and brain to the turning of a card which earlier in the day they had given to the market reports of the world. Small wonder that death cut such wide swaths in the army of brokers. Statis tics show that it was more fatal to be long to that army than to an army in the field. We had latterly somewhat neglected business, our real business being at night, when we made the pursuit of pleasure hard work. Soon the finances of our firm not only run low, but were on three several occasions exhausted, so that we not only had recourse to bor rowing, but were barely saved from bankruptcy by liberal donations from Ed's parents. His father was a fine, jol ly old gentleman and took it quite as a matter of course that it was his duty to help ns ot? the rocks when we ran on them. My partner took everything easy, but I, having no indulgent parent be hind mo ever ready to draw a check, began to be uneasy over the financial situation. Strangely enough, however, it never occurred to me to cut down my personal expenses, and I continued liv ing at the same extravagant rate as when money was plenty, dining and wining and being dined and wined. Just here an important character, one destined to have an influence for evil on my future life, came upon the scene, and I will halt for a moment in my nar rative to give some account of him. This man was James Irving, popular ly known as Jimmy Irving, chief of the New York detective force, and a bad hearted, worthless scamp he was. I was with several friends in the Fifth Avenue hotel one cold January night when he came in and one of our party, knowing him. introduced us. He was a man of medium height, rather heavy set. blond mustache, pleasant eyes, but with a weak mouth and chin and a flushed face, telling a tale of dissipation. It was when Boss Tweed ruled supreme in New York, and the vhole administra tion was honeycombed with corruption. Except under similar political condi tions could such a man attain to so re sponsible on office in a great city as that of chief of the detective force—a position which at that time invested him with all but autocratic power, an old rounder and barroom loafer, without one attribute of true manliness and not possessed of any quality which would point him out as a fit man for the place. Nevertheless, when the position became vacant his political pull caused his se lection. From being a mere detective on the staff he became chief. And truly this meant something in those days. The great civil war had but lately end ed, and tlio country was still reeling from the mighty conflict. The flush times resnltant from the enormous money issue of the government kept everything booming. The foundations of societv v . .e shaken, and vice no lon- ger hid itself in tho dark caves and dens of tho great city. But to return to my friend. Captain Jim Irving, who, before our party had separated, had opened tlisco bottles of wine. Before leaving 1 had asked him to call on me at the St. Nicnoh's. The next day ho came and invited me to take a drive with him to Fordham the following Sunday. On Sunday he ap peared behind a fast trotting horse and in every respect an elegant turnom. <j . .... imtTTnrnc Tve rr-t ti: It- O .T.J. hotel, and after dinner, lighting our ci gars, we started for police headquar ters. There he attended to some routine business, having first introduced me to two of his chief detectives. Many who read this will recognize the men, but in this narrative they will be known as Stanley and White. I will not further describe them now, but as they will ap pear in tho story from time to time the reader will IKS able to judge what man ner of men they were. For the next, eight weeks my life went on much the same as usual. In our business wo made some money, but by one unfortunate investment lost our entire capital, and, what proved worse for me, my partner's health began to fail. Dissipation, late and heavy din ners anil irregular hours began to break a not overstrung constitution; conse quently one Saturday he abruptly an nounced his intention of withdrawing from the partnership to take a trip to Europe. There was nothing to divide save the furniture in our office, which ho presented to me. Tho following Wednesday he sailed with two members of liis family. I saw him off. bidding him what proved to lie a last farewell. I left the wharf feeling very lonely and miserable. It may bo well to remark here that he died a year later in Italy, one more victim of a fast life, while I was spared, but took no warning from his fate. In truth, I was in the Prim rose Way, which is over found a most tormenting and unhappy thoroughfare. Meeting Irving from time to time, he was most flattering in his attentions, while I was young enough and silly enough to bo pleased with his notice. One evening about this tinio I met him while coming out of Walhiek's theater. Shaking hands warmly, he invited me to supper at what was then known as upper Delmouico's. After supper, walk ing to the St. Denis hotel at Broadway and Eleventh street, we found Detect ives Stanley and White. Hero wino was ordered, and long after midnight we parted, they first having exacted a promise to dine with them the follow ing night at Delmouico's, at the same time stating that they wished to make mo a business proposition. At 111 arrived and entered tlio res taurant, was at once recognized by a waiter, evidently oil tho lookout, and ushered into a private room up stairs. Only White had arrived, but soon b"v ing and Stanley came, and supper was ordered. With such gentry as these wine is always in order. Then they became confidential, and the conversation turned to the subject of making money. Very skillfully they extracted the confession that I had none. When excited by the talk and the wine I cried out, "By heaven, I want money!" Stanley grasped my hand and said, "Of course you do; a man's a fool without it. " Irving in terjected, "Are you game to do us a favor and intike SIO,OOO for yourself?" "But how?" I gasped. "Go to Europe and negotiate some stolon bonds we have, will your" For SIO,OOO to become accessory to a crime! It was an appalling proposition, and I shrank from it with an aversion 1 could not conceal any more than ho and his confederates could conceal their chagrin over tho way I took it aud over tho fact that their secret had been im parteci to anotner. .More wine was o dered, and before we parted I had prom ised not only secrecy; but, worse still, I had also promised to consider tho prop osition aud g» .o my answer the follow ing night. As my evil genius would have it, that very morning I had a visit in my oflice from the agent of my landlord request ing arrears of rent and from a trades man whom I was owing demanding im mediate payment of an overdue bill. Pressed for money as I was, the $lO,- 000 seemed a large sum and offered an eimy way out of my difficulties. I shall never forgot that day nor how its slow minutes dragged during th» mental struggle. Time after time Isaid, "What conld I not do with $10,000?" now vast the possibilities before me with that sum at my command ! Then, after all, had not the owner of the.-e b ; d lost them forever, and why should ii -t I have a share instead of letting t!. villain detectives keep all: And through all I kept saying t if: "Tlr. .of course is only specula;i .i. I will never do this thing." At last the stars came out, and I started for a long walk alone up Broad W:sy t > Fifth avenne and into the park. Since that park was formed few men have ever passed i;- - H:s in wbost bosoms raged such a tumult i: 1 mine. I was young, in love with pleasure, :.n<; poverty seemed a feiu-fnl tiling. I kip' saying, "I cannot- do this thing," ami then I would add, "How am I to keej cp appearances and how am I to p.;y my debts?'' Unhappily I h;ul taken "Arc you quint lo tin us a hirnr (in make f IO,OOO for youi miff' enemy into the citadel. In the misery of the struggle I drank heavily. In my excitement I exaggerated my poverty until it seemed impersonated and assumed the guise of an enemy threatening to enslave me. From 8 o'clock to 11 I paced that mall, and tbeu left it to keep my appointment with Irving <Sr Co., with one thought surging through my brain, and that was that I dared not be poor, the result being that before wo parted, to their renewed qn< s tion, "Will you do this for us?" "Of course I will!" I cried, and my feet had slipped a g<>od many steps farther down the Primrose Way to death. The present generation has become tolerably familiar wit* defalcations and robberies involving enormous sums. Previous to 18(51 they were compara tively unknown, the reason being that the currency of the country was strictly limited. There were absolutely no gov ernment bonds of currency, while tlio few bonds issued by corporations were not usually made payable to bearer and tliereforo were not negotiable and were of no use to the robber. But in 1861, to meet the expenses of tho war, the stato banks were taxed out of existeuce and our present national currency system came into being. In addition to the enormous issue of greenbacks, bonds payable to bearer amounting to hun dreds of millions were issued by the general government, by the individual states, counties, towns and cities, all becoming popular investments. The business of the express companies of the United States took a new phase, and for tho first time in their history they b< "an to bo the carriers of vast sums from city to city. Then it was that thor.e gentle men who work without the pale of the law discovered new prospects of wealth and realized that even to crack a safe or vault of a private firm would be reward cd by a find of bonds that might amply repay all risks of robbery under police nrfitnciiun. whill) to CiIXUtC a snocesr-t'ill raid on a car or even an express (TnTT 7- ery wagon rm rw strrr-i rum hi i... wealth. To burglarize the vaults of a bank meant, if undetected, anything from opening a magnificent bar or hotel in New York to a steam yacht and win - ter cruises in tho tropics and summer nights on the Mediterranean. Tho first coup in this line, which at once became famous, was startling in its ease and magnitude. It was known and still is as "tho Lord bond robbery. " Lord was .. very wealthy man, who had inherited his millions. His oflice was in Broad street, where he managed his estates. He had invested f 1,900,000 in 7-30 bonds, all payable to bearer. For the thief, if ho had any knowledge of finance and knew how to negotiate them, such a sum iis this in bonds was better than the same amount in gold. This was really the first of many great bond robberies, and it struck the popular fancy, but it stirred Wall street greatly. Who shall describo the frenzy of excitement that broke out at 300 Mulberry street —police headquarters— when tho first vague rumors of a gigan tic robbery were fully confirmed and it became known that Hod Ennis and his gang had a million and more of plun der? All rings anil pulls and gangs were smashed, combined and recombined again, while each and all were in an agony of fear lost the booty should bo returned to tlio owner, minus a i>er ceutage divided between the gang and tho ring, or sold to some clever fence, who would plant the bonds away safely and sell them in Europe from time to time, keeping all for himself and they to have no share. What visions of diamond pins, of eight or twelve carats, all Bra zilian stones, of swift, high stepping horses, of the heaven of Harlem Jane on Sunday afternoons, with a bottle or two under tho vest, hi tinted the sleep of till tho detective force. What a look of relief and triumph swept over the faces of Irving, Stanley and White when I gave my consent to their proposal to take tho stolen bonds to Europe and negotiate them there. They told me many amusing lies as to how tlio seeunith's came into their possession and as to who were tl*i right ful owners. The truth was, as I after ward learned, they were a part of the Lord bond robbery. The next morning, Tuesday, Irving met mo uear the exchange and with some trepidation drew from an inner pocket an envelope containing the thou sand dollar bond. Without waiting to examine it I walked off, saying, "I'll be back in ten minutes." Ho was evident ly alarmed, and, like all rogues, suspi cious of every one. He probably had some wild idea that I was laying a trap for him. In his ignorance of money methods ho thought it would bo a long, perhaps difficult, negotiation to borrow money on the bond, but of course I made short work of it, and Jimmy was more than delighted when within the ten minutes I walked in with ten one hundreds in my hand. A trifle like this mado a great impression nixin Irving, and from that time cm I had his entire confidence. Tuesday evening I said good by to my mother, merely remarking explanation of my journey that 1 had commission given me to execute in Eu rope. Leaving her, I went to our rendez vous, near Broadway and Astor place, where I found Irving, who handed mo over his "boodle," as ho termed it, re marking confidentially that I was to give him on my return his share into his own hands, and, singularly enough, each of the others did precisely the same thing. About 11 o'clock the othor two came ill, and after some parley White handed over his bonds, and Stanley in formed mo he would givo me his on board before tho steamer sailed the next morning. I had already paid my bill and sent my baggage ovor to Jersey City, so übont midnight I sot out, they accompanying mo as far an tho ferry, and there, after shaking hands a half dozen times, we said goodby. Having bought mv ticket and engaged gay cabin, j nfiit direct to the steamer aim \ nt to bed. In the morning Stanley apjn ..- *<l and gave me his boncls. len miu. later the hawsers were east off. and wo tan ataaoriag tow* A* bonis later Fire islaut! -■■ .': 1- - ' horizon, and we were aKme ou tho f (TO HE OOSTIXCED.] MARRIAGE IN COREA. Souif IVmlUr Kf»turf« of the .MntrU monlal Orruiony. Corean girls, after enjoying freedom until they are eight years old, are con signed to the women's quarters, where they live in seclusion till they are mar ried, at sixteen or seventeen years After marriage, says Popular bci ence Monthly, the w oman is ailo\* '>l to see no man hut her husband. The boys, on the other hand, are taught that it is undignified f. >r them to enter the women's part of the house. T1 ey never see their brides till the wedding day, all having been arranged ior them, often when both bride and groom are infants. The bride and bridegroom invite their most iutimi.te friends to assist them in dressing their hair in the manner befitting their ni-w estate. Then the bridegroom mounts a white pony, which is led by two servants, while two others on either side support the rider in his saddle. Thus he proceeds to the bride's her. e, in which the bride and her relatives are awaiting their arrival. A go* ,r (the Corean symbol of fidelity), win -h the bridegroom brings with him, is theu produced. The bride (who has to cover her face with her long sleeves) and the bridegroom theu bow to er h qther until their heads almost touch the ground. This they do tlirw* k four times, and are then man a:.d wli'e. A loving cup is passed around, and then the bride is taken off to tho women's apartments of her luisbar.d's home, where she is looked after by her mother and mother-in-law, while the groom entertains his friends. The husband must maintain his wife prop erly and treat her with respect. Mar riage is the great event in a Corean'; life, for he then attains man's estat > Before marriage, no matter how old lie may be. he is treated as a boy, and fcas to maintain a deferential attitude toward the married men, even though they be only half his age. NO SMOKING IN PUBLIC. la Some German Towua the Went Is luMtisl on the St reel*. The consumption of tobacco of >1 kinds in France, according to recent r compiled statistics, i'- nearly one hun dred and twenty-live million poui .9 per jfar. An analysis of the tigu t shows that the people of norths :i France use nearly four times as mu< h per capita as those in the .southern provinces. Almost every other count v of Europe, however, consumes mc e smoking tobacco iu projiortion to i i population than does France. This is especially the ease with Gt • many. In many small German towns smoking iu the streets is forbiddc i. Less than fifty years ago if a m: l ventured on the streets of Merlin wi i a cigar in his mouth he would be lial to arrest. The same provision existi I until IS4S at Vienna, though the la v was uot observed by the populace. Tho town of Broock, in Holland, which is said to be the cleanest city in t) • j world, has long forbidden the peopie within its walls to smoke after sunset in the streets unless with a covered pipe, "in order that the cinders mar? not be blown out." Smoking with an uncovered pipe in German or Austrian forests is an offense that is rigorously countries. TUSSLE WITH A DEER. Tho Deipfratr Fitfhl of a Hunter with » DyiiiK lliick. The literature of hunting is full of anecdotes which show the danger of a too hasty assumption that a wounded animal is dead or past the power of de fending himself. A new illustration is furnished by Mr. Roosevelt in bin "Ranch Life aud the Hunting Trail." Not only will a big, black-tail buck beat off a dog or a wolf eoming at liini, in front, but he is an awkward foe foi* a man. One of them nearly killed JI cowboy in my employ. The buck, mortally wounded, had fallen to the shot, and the man rushed up to kill him. Then the buck revived for a moment, struck down the niau, and endeavored to gore him, but et>ul< not, because of the despairing gri>> with which the man held on to fcw horns. Nevertheless, the man, bruised t»*>l cut by the sharp hoofs, was fast becom ing too weak to keep his hold, when In the struggle the two eame to the edg« of a washout and fell into it some twelve or fifteen feet. This separated them. The dying buck was too weak to renew the attack, and the man crawled oft; but it was months before he got over the effects of the encounter. Fitiitilon for F»rm«*rft. A western farm paper, humorously inclined, gives the following "hints t • farmers in regard to their attire:" Don't wear a kid glove when teaching a calf to suck the finger. Don't wear a silk hat when plow in; corn. Don't wear diamonds while breaking a colt. Don't wear a starched shirt while mowing away hay. Don't wear a spring overcoat will diagonal stripes while killing potato bugs. Don't wear a white vest while curry ing the horses. Don't wear u tight collar while dis cussing the currency question. Don't appear in evening dress when you are called upon to meet a note. Don't wear any clothes on any occa nion that you don't feel that you have honestly earned. Fragrant Orrln Knot. French women are so passionately fond of the sweet, clean fragrance ol orris that some of the more fastidious among them have a bit of orris root put in the water in which their clothes are washed. It is related of one French woman, that ui»on being reprimanded by her father confessor for her extrav agance in this particular, she said thul she was sure that if she went to perdi tion on its account, Satan would find the smell of orris much pleasanter to his nostrils than sulphur. An Active Woman. Husband (breathlessly)—l must rush off on very short notice, for an extend ed trip, and I can take you along ft you can get ready. Oo you thiuk you can do it in two hours and a qnerter? Wife —Easily. I can pack the trunk in five minutes, and that will leave ma two hours and ten minutes to dress. — N. Y. Weekly. No r. Mrs. Smyth®—There's our Johnnie, now, without a single thing t<i do; the devUwill surely find work for liis Idle hands! Binyt.be Don't you worry! Even the devil "couldn't get a hustle on that boy. —Truth. Hlio \\»» I'irtltalar. "Let us goto the beach and bathe," said Mrs. Wiffells to Mrs. Taddells. "Thank you, but I prefer not. I think it is unsanitary under present conditions. When Individual oceans are provided for bathers I will j;o in." — Judge. TsTo 30 LARGE FRUIT CROPS. To Pp Secured b) (living Tree* <;oo<i < Ui tht* Fall. The way to secure a large crop f fruit next year i- to get the trees a vine into condition this fall. T larger share of work with fruit is do early In the oriu for then the spra\ must be used frequently and mi: i ti.ne is nec* devoted to the tie struction .•! ::isect.. instead of to t ■ cultivation of trees and plants. The; Is but littl, n rk given fruit trees a vi :s dr.rir a ' e summer and fall, j . m ch cau b; done that would rend r spring w< k less laborious. In t obliterate i of grape rot success li partially attended the spring applie - t ns of solutions for that purpose, b the sprayer can do better service uu: the crop is harvested than in sprii as the sp -re i w ill be easier destroy* After fie v. rs are clear of graj work cau be performed in tho endeav to rid the ground of the spores by ti free use of lime and the several rec< - nized mixtures for that purpose. VYL , such matters are deferred until wint the delay p>-t;;iiits of the flrmar estr - li .au.ent of the spores and their dist. br 1 ion by ra ns and winds. It require a large amount of wat to dissolve t. >rne fertilizers, especial phosphates in the form of bone, n or Carolina rock that has not ccidulat*d. The fall is an exc.- lXu!-> .to apply 1 ach. and ap; tion is beuOi.teial to trees and v which are believed to store up cer pubstances that arc utiliz >d for i - formation of fruit during the sprin ; bearing sca«>n. Experimenters wi ftra-.vb«rrie» have found summer a. fcr" jijdicaM of fertilizers to th iWnt» sistance in in<JVeasi vi yield nn 1 quality of berries t fellow hag spring, and on a plat wh produced at the rate of nearly S,< quarts per acre this season the heavi application of fertilizers was made t previous sum- -K»r. The practice <■ abandoning the fruit iields until t. growing season again arrives is to le 1 mc, for wet Is and grass tajee away J irge portion of the plant food of 1 soil, and the exhausted trees and vi; have but a partial supply of plant fo v«i.'h which to recover from their U-< ri of fruit production. A large crop takes from the so. nearly ail the elements of growth. A stated, un application of phosphai will be of advantage in the summ \ bnt a little later there should be giv.. a slight dressing of potash. Early > the spring more potash should be : ■-lied, fellowt d later by some nitr. cnousfertilizer. By this method tli be less loss during winter I vains, and the plant food will be givt r.t the most appropriate periods. I . an orchard a i ass crop may be grow occasionally, when fertilizers are us liberally, but the sod should be tnr; e under and tho 'and also well lim it is the weeds that do the damn nnd cspt ~lhlly t> the small fruits, i . r> ! protiti Me t > postpone eultivat until spring. ®r the most damage 1 ;ho frnit crop is iu the fall. —Philad pain Record. WATERING THE GARDEN. A Kill.*** .ll:»n Ti» ? i flow It Ih Done 1 . ii a YVixttlmill. Usually a garden is irrigated by r.. nlng tho wat -r between every oth - or every third row. This necessita long rows, or Liie water will reach t end before the ground is thoroug wet. To obv';vto this trouble, C. i'erry, of Clark county, writes in t. Kauras agricultural report that I garden la>t year was made as she n the accon j.auylng illustration ; described below. "Selecting ap i of ground by tip fei-t. I nseertrii. way the beds lay, or what were t! shapes. I made them wide enough two rows, of vegetables, with sun jMitiis between, 'i lie path ran aro one end of the first bed and t. around the opposite end of the secon • and BO on until the entire plat w laid out. Now when a stream of wat RI.ASC rou IRIUOATINO. 2 or 3 Inches deep is turned into t path at the highest point of the ;* d ■ TI, it will follow the path to the i of the first bed, go round it and d the next path, etc. Three inche h ad and the alight fall the water • ng around the ends of the beds > carry it back and forth to the bot of the garden, where perhaps the i b< l is 2or 3 feet lower than the I : Hy this time caoli bed is wet from to si.ic. An 8-foot windmill, wii small pond <>r n v oden tank hoi ] :•) barrels, will enable every fasni. raise more vegetables and small fr than it needs." To Oct i; 1 i>f Stump*. To destroy Mumps bore a hole on two inches in diameter, accordin, s '.i) of tree, and eighteen inches ». l'ut in otic and on. -half ounces of j.Liter, l'ill wit i water, and plu; closely In si* months put in i • h >lb half a gill of kerosene and then light The stuiup smolder without blazing, < U i\vn to every j.;.rt of the roots, I Ing nothing bat ashes. lii:Dl>!NG fruit in lime is said to 1 gTod way to preserve it. It is e ■•«. tried. Aw.nltlnjf Development*. Johnny li; 1 been out in tJi play 'ng with liis ball, and *>u' eame in and sat down to read. His father looked up. and, that Johun'e had liis Sunday book in his hand, thought it I question him "What did yon do with the bal: "It went over the wall in: Brown's yard." "14d you go after it?" "No, pa." "Why not?" "Because it went through tli tlow."—Pearson's. Tlii, - trret Car Ad*. Time w»*. when trutU» thoy wished al heed Were written «> that "lie who run, tai But now we very nensitily decldo To jiui lUrui uuuro one who re»>!. tnu —L A. \V Bli Too Soon. "Dm- the widow refuse to 1 foiled?" "Oh, I f;iney she hasn't lit < chance yet!"— l'uck. Not u huocetf. Wife— What do you think of Hi cooking? Husband 1 think if she tried water she d burn it. Truth. galt« Naturally. Mil; W'uaL parts ilo you t > this new murine drama? Hills C)li, divers roles. —N. Y W< I
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