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IN FOOTWEAR.
y Always alert to the in.crests ot ot r
LATEST AND BEST
| e take pleasure in oflering—
OUR IDEAL STALES IN
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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RTTTLTC R. PA.. TH U I ISDAY, SKI > TEM BER 2<), 1895.
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—»^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.
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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