VOLXXXII More Ik He Harp#! For. Looking Fo^^ard,^ Always alert to the interests of our patrons. First in the field with the LJW L AT EST AN^ B E S T VVe take OUR IDEAL ST7LEB IN 4MS& FOOTWEAR FOR LADIES & GENTLEMEN Is what every cuMomer u! ours FALL AND thinks he ha* received after making , Tr , lT 7l T-| purchase. We find that our cus-TTT T r pTp U tomers being convinced of means \\ 1 J-Jjji*- many more customer* for us. \ou get more than you bargain for when 11/ 17 A U you get a pair of our SHOES. \f JLjtjLXV. Ladies' twentieth century SHOES 25$ Cork sole* Goodvear welts. Ladies' Fine button shoes, Pat. tip 85c, fi.oo, $ 1. *5 Si.so. Heavy sole fair stitch at >2.00, $2.50 and 13.00. Goodyear welts are pert gems for the price. Ladies fine hand turns Dongola and cloth top lace and butto Try our Womens' and Childrens' Kid and Calf Shoes, Thev are the thing for School Shoes. They will resist water We have them in high cut, lace and button, at price that your pocket book will open quickly when you sec the goods. - r , Shoes for men in fine Invisible Cork SoleSp^j^^r,'. iaoo I 2 SO «i 00 and <4.00, Extension soles. Men's Heavy Shoes at 75c, l| °°- gSandli." Fine Shoes at 90c, |..co, 2 5 add H-50, both congress and la£ Our Kid and Veal boots, high and low insteps at $1.50, $2.00 12.50 and #3.00. Dn. lers Heavy Box Toe Shoes high cut. T he ne. Boys and You ths\b HOES-™ the Youngsters are here, grand styles for dress or the longest road to P^ 1 " tivelv will resist water at 75c, call early while the selection is large. turfm Jill 1 // W Repairing Done. /| / JOHN BICKEL, 128 SMaln Street, BUTLER, PA. Branch Store "5 N. nain st, SURPRISED 1 SURPRISED! When we advertise that we are the largest house, in our line, in the State, many who have never been here think we are "blowing" but when they come in the following are the expresaions:—"I am surprised! I read your advertisement but did not think you had a place line this. I knew you sold Wagons, Buggies and Carts, but did not know that you carried such a stock of everything. I did not know that you employed so many Harnesa makers. I did not know tliat you had so much machinery. That engine that runs y.>ur harness machines, is the slickest thing I ever saw. I did not know you sold Trunks, Buggy Tops, Wheels and Springs. Cushions and Lazy Backs separate from the buggy. Why you have more.money invested in 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 1 want about my Wagon, Buggy or Harness, from the very finest vehicle to an axle wsaher." The next customer will be equ illy as much surprised when he comes in. We will tell of him later. YOUKS ETC. S. B. MARTINCODBT & CO., S. B. MARTINCOURT. J. M. LEIOHNER. 128 E. Jefferson St., Butler Pa. —THE BUTLER CITIZEN. Weak and Weary Because of a depleted condition of the blood. The remedy la to be found in purified, enriched and vitalized blood, which will be given by Hood's Sarsapa rilla, the great blood purifier. It will tone the stomach, create an appetite and give renewed strength. Remember Hood's Sarsaparilla Is the only true blood purifier prominent- I ly in the public eye today. $1; six for $5. I 1~l _i j.. n:il_ cure Labituai conitlp*- HOOU S I lllSuon. rnce 25 ceoii HEINEMAN k SON, r* * ? SUM MKK \ 5 in 8 p|>' llHClj Hlf Mid U4 W ou'v til k-ep COu l« T i 10 ""J rt? Heineimm s *x nt * n __ m and if el * oti'pi* ' a n ■ j „ Hummock. 3 We bait" 1 ■ .<• OQ \ ann J Hummocks Q 0 eve' Irougb •> Hi. f # Wull Piiper Jg a d rs 2 5 f '.it. tbe 10 u»e 4- <1 P.— si PAPKKS W t . t n 2 f We « -11 i.«un e :»i- j , , # ne ehra rd # giRAMBLKK J? j 131CVCLH. | HEI NEMAN bON. %-y jSeliing; out J ? To Quit { j Busin ss.j T Wall Paper ' s thanj Jone-hall cOhi m a Fine papers at lie pruy iof comnio i einrji) om'.i. 4 # The largest stock of" \Y * Jpaper in liic coi i' v lob. . sso;il o-.t either V\ o a Sktia '. at — 4 JDOUQLASS' * I Near P. O.j i N. B. Wall Paprr I.J within 1 v ' Running Chances is the man who buys the cheap and J>oor ly made clothing simply because it is cheap. There are just as good bargins to be had in good grades of goods, such .or instance as our #25.00 Clay Diagonal Suits. Running Chances is the man who rushei from this "alteration sale" to that "closing out barga ins." The safe way is to patronize the firm that does busi ness on the same principles you do. You know that you have to deal with then. You get honest goods for honest prices, and don't save twenty-five cents nere to throw away seventy-five cents there. Chances are Not Running away from you, but you are running away from the chances for the best bargins of the year in Suits and Overcoats when you fail to look at our immense stock. Running Chances is the man who buys now when he can have us make him a fine Overcoat for if 22.00. COOPER I CO Cor. Diamond, Buller, Pa D. !UWer° 1 Wear I POINTS I Tfjorougfj protec^EOsj^! ?v5 cv no irritation j w IP'i'irfetrt fitting ' Rx a . cv P\o4vr&bs price? gv £S> AH 115 Jairoa Hyflcnlc^ §y • Ut)4irvft&r< All grade of rnderwear at verj low prices. Largest stock of hats an< furnishings for gei tleman in th country. An inspection will prov this to any ones satisfacture. Colbert 6c Dale. 242 S. Main St., Butler, Penn'a. lU7TLKR. PA.,TH O HSDAY, OC TOBER 10,1895. JAUSTW^.A V/XJ. * cowai&MT. 1895. ar TME AUTHOR. CHAPTER 111. About every second day I called on Murpurgo & Weissweiller in Frankfort anil talked over matters and easily saw that everything would go right. All that was necessary was to produce the bonds and they would hand over the cash. Giving them a list, they gave me a memorandum offer for the lot. I accept ed their offer and the next hour was a very bad 60 minutes for me. There was considerable delay, and my suspicions were fully aroused, and at owe time I thought they had made some discovery; but, as a fact, my suspicions were whol ly unfounded The bauker and clerks were simply hurrying around, anxious to oblige mo and have the money (Tut. of the bank be fore it closed At last the amounts were figure< lup and verified by myself. One of the partners hastemd off to the b;uik and in five minutes returned with a very pretty parcel of 175,000 gulden. Going to Rothschilds', in Rue La fitte, I bought exchange ou New York for SBO,OOO, and left the same night fur Loudon. Very many times I journeyed over that route in after years, but never With quite so light a heart. I was young and enthusiastic; all the glamour and poetry of life hung around me, while I was too inexperienced to notice whither I was drifting or to understand the pow erful current upon which I had em barked. In fact, I had sold myself to do the devil's work, and day by day the chain would tighten, while all the time I thought I could when I pleased stop short ou the downward grade and take the back track. More experience would have taught me that every one who for sook the path of honor not only thought the same, but had a purpose to even ev erything up some (lay and make restitu tion. And today there is not a criminal but who at the start looks fOl ward to the time when he will 110 longer war against society, but will go out and come iu at peace with all men. But, when one comes to think of it, what a fool's game is that of a man who fights against society! The criminal has but two arms; very short and weak they are, and of flesh too. He has but two eyes that cannot possibly see around the nearest corner, while society has a million arms of steel that can reach around the world, and a million eyes which are never closed, that can pierce the thickest gloom with sleepless vigilance. The poor, unhappy criminal by fortunate dexterity may es cape for a little, but at last society lays her iron grasp on him, and with giant force hurls him into a dungeon. As for the short lived, tempestuous success that some few criminals have, is there any sweetness in it? I say no; success won in honest fight is sweet, but I know from my own experience that the suc cess of crime brings no sweetness, 110 blessing with it, but leaves the mind a prey to a thousand haunting fears that make shipwreck of peace. I went down to Liverpool and em barked 011 tho good ship Java. Ten days later we sailed through the Narrows. During my last day iu London I went to Westminster abbey and spent three hours iu that Valhalla of the Anglo- Saxon race. It made a tremendous im pression upon my mind. 111 no other work of human hands do the spirits of so many departed heroes linger, certain ly in 110 other does tho dust of so many of the great dead rest, and as I read memorial upon memorial to departed greatness I realized that the path of houor and of truth was the only one for men to tread. All through the voyage the influences of the abbey wero upon me; I felt 1 wac treading on dangerous ground and re solved I would have 110 more of it. Would I had then resolved, when I met Irving & Co., to throw all the plundei In their faces and say, "I'll have none of it, and here we part. " I ft It that I ought to do that, but weakly said, I need the SIO,OOO, and I'll give the rogues their share and then see them no more. I had fully made up my mind to that, knowing Irving would bo 011 the wharf eager to meet 1110. In sailing through the Narrows and past Staten Island I was making up my mind as to the little speech I would make. We rapidly neared the wharf in Jersey City, and I quickly recognized Irving standing ou the edge of tho close ly packed crowd, watching tho steamer with a nervous look ou his face. He sprang 011 board, rushed to me with a beaming face, grasped my hand, and putting tho other on my shoulder led me toward the gangway. He h;ul not spoken yet, but as we were going down tho gangplank he said, "My boy, you have done splendidly," and then, putting his mouth close to my ear, whis pered, "We have got another job for you, and it's a beauty !" Going up tho wharf with Irving, I was 011 the point of telling him 1 want ed no more jobs, but weakly put it off, and by so doing, of course, made it more difficult. Ho told me Stanley and White were waiting at Taylor's hotel 011 Mont gomery street, a few doors up from the wharf. Wo soon were there, and they gave mo a warm and even enthusiastic recep tion, and, opening a box, I produced the 10 bills of exchange for $5,000 each, informing them they should have their cash in 00 minutes. It was curious to see these men handle the bills of ex change, passing them from one to an other, examining them with anxious care. But where were my good resolu tions and what had become of them? Why, they, under the effect of the wine and the magnetic influence of these three minds, had gone flying down the bay, and under a favoring gale were fast speeding seaward beyond the ken of mortal eye, not to be found by me again until years after, when, with the toils about me, I found myself in Newgate. Then tho fugitives all came back, this time to stay. My three graces who adorned the po lice department of New York were full of matter of a new enterprise which by my co-operation was to make the for tunes of us aIL But they were too evi dently anxious, too eagerly desirous to handle the greenbacks my bills of ex change represented to fix their minds ujxin anything else, so by a unanimous vote we adjourned to the other side of tho river, appointing a wineroom on Broadway, a few doors below Exchange place, for our place of meeting at 1 o'clock. Stanley and White went away together, but first each ouce more told me privately that he depended upon me to put in his own hands his share, show ing how these rogues suspected each otlier ami indeed wero full of suspi cious of everyone and everything. Irv ing crossed the ferry with me, but 011 tho New York side ho dropped behind, and, although I paid no more attention to him, no doubt he followed me. The excitement of success and of being at home again banished any pi>ssiblo re grets or fears over the cyurso I had eu- tered, and with a light heart and buoy ant step I quickly made my way to a friend of mine, a well known broker in New street, shook hands with him. and, telling him, very much to his surprise, that I had jnst returned from Europe, asked him to step around the corner to the office of the bankers arid identify me. In a minute we were there. Indorsing the drafts, I told them to make it iu five hundreds. They sent out to the bank for them, and I was speedily ou my way to our rendezvous with ICO $.",00 greenbacks in a roll, and meeting the three at the wineroom I made their eyes grow big when I flashed the roll on their delighted orbs. The division was speedily made, I retaining SIO,OOO for my share, but I was dissatisfied with my share and told them so, when each promptly threw out SI,OOO, and we shook hands all around Here were four conspirators of us, and it was comical to see how anxious we all were to get away so that each could stow his plunder in a safe place. Fur my part I went home, but I shall say nothing of the meeting with the memberr of my family. I told them 1 had made a lot of money in a specula tion, and not knowing the inside his tory or suspecting anything they re joiced with me and were proud and happy for their boy. I spent about $ 1,000 making things comfortable for them, but to their grief I told them that cir cumstances required me to take up my former quarters at the St. Nicholas. It would bo interesting to tell of my reception among my acquaintances 011 Wall street and other parts of the city. Rumor magnified my resources, and it was reported I had cleared f 100,000 in some fortunate deal. It was strange to see the new found deference all around, from my Aimicr employers down to my old waiter at down town Delmonico's, where I dined, but I will jjass over all these matters and proceed with my his tory of the Primrose Way. In 1805 there lived in London a fa mous queen's counsel, Edwin James. Fame and fortune were his. A bora ora tor, a talented scholar, he rapidly pushed his way from the very bottom of the le gal profession to all but its topmost height. At 40 he found himself facile princeps of the English bar, and public opinion, that potent factor in popular government, had already singled him out for the high position of attorney general. That secured, only one step re mained to place him in the seat of the lord chancellor—truly an imperial po sition, one that satisfied the proud am bition of a Wolsey and fitted the genius of a Thomas a Becket. It carries with it the position of keeper of the conscience of her majesty, giving the jxissessor precedence in all official functions over the English aristocracy, next to royalty itself. But about this time dark whispers began to fly about through tho clubs of London. Soon it became known that Edwin James, tho lord chancellor to be, was in the toils, and it shortly tran spired that, in spite of the fact that his income from his profession was ne.ire r £20,000 than £IO,OOO per annum, it hail proved insufficient, and he was heavily in debt and worse. It would seem he was keeping tip what in the polite language of society is known as dual houses. A woman of brilliant beauty presided over one, and the marvelous beauty of its mistress was only equaled by her extravagance. He also had a fondness for associating with younger men than himself and had got into a particularly fast set of young lords and army men. At his club he had lost large sums at baccarat and 100, and, in au unhappy hour for himself and his, he stooped from his high position and —miserable to think of—committed a crime, this iu the expectation that he would relieve himself from some of the more crushing obligations he ltad heaped upon himself, either through the extrav agant vagaries of his imperious mis tress or by his own rashness in trying his luck among a lot of titled sharpers. He had among his clients one fast, even madly extravagant youth, heir of a historic name and of a lordly estate. To supply his extravagance "my lord" had applied to the money lenders—those sharks that in London, a? elsewhere, fat ten 011 such game. Thoie gentry were eager to lend the young blood money upon what are known in English law as post obits, which loans in this par ticular case carrii-d tho triflinjr interest of about 100 per cent per annum. James was cognizant of his friend's excursions among the money lenders, and 110 diMbt ho thought the young spendthrift, when he came into his fortune, would never know within a good many thousands how much 110 had borrowed nor even the number of post obits he had given. I will just explain that a post obit is a form of note or due bill given by the heir of an estate (usually of an entailed estate), which matures the moment the drawer of the document enters into that estate. That is to say, the tender heart ed son discounts his father's death to provide fuel to feed his flame. So Ed win James, driven to his own destruc tion, stooped from his imperial position into what one might call anklo depth of crime. He made out two post obits for £5,000, wroto his client's name at the bottom of each, gave them to the money lend ers, who, never doubting that the prodi gal son had signed and given them to his counsel, had made no question, but gave James the money for them at once. But James had reckoned without his host, for this nineteenth century prodi gal was made of keener metal than ho of the first. Strange to say, and utterly unexjiected as it was to all who knew him and had looked upon his riotous living, he kept his books straight and knew to a single guinea how much and to whom he was owing. His discovery of the forgery was ac celerated by tho sudden and most unex pected death of his father, bis return home and stepping into his estate. The various post obits wero presented and placed before him. He instantly pronounced tho two for £5,000 each to l>o forgeries, and tho crime was easily laid at the door of the quoen's counsel. The heir indignantly refused to condone the offense, and revealing the fatal se cret to a few within a month it was known in every clubroom in London. From there it got into the newspapers, and they, under a thinly ditguised alias of a "distinguishedmember of the bar," gave more or less accurate details of the damning truth. His former client even tually said he would not prosecute the forgery if the criminal left England; if not, he would immediately go liefore the grand jury, procure an indictment and have t his man, who had moved a prince among men, arraigned in the dock at the Old Bailey, there to plead and stand trial like.aiiy common criminal. Anil lie fled. Of course, like all fugi tives from justice throughout the old world, he looked to America for a city ol refuge, and here lie came. Not to keep myrttfulers too long from the main narrative, it will suffice to say that soon after his arrival he applied for admis sion to the bar of New York, bnt tirsr he won to his cause the high sonled Richard O'Groriiiau, theu a leader of his profession. It was for Edwin James a lucky stroke, for ar this time O'Gorman was in the full possession of his magnificent powers. Few could resist his magic. His great heart was stirred, and he took np the cause of his friend as if he had been his brother. The English lawyer's repu tation was known to every member of the bar of New York, and there had been and still was a bitter opposition to his admission, but when it liecame known that their eloquent leader w;is his champion many began to feel that perhaps after all "the poor fellow ought to be given another chance," and when at the next meeting of the Bar associa tion O'Gorman in a set oration brought all his splendid eloquence into play the cause was won. Great hearted O'Gorman had helped this lame dog over the stile, but the dog's heart was not in the right place, and, as my reader will see in the se quel. he soon went lame again. In the rear room of a somewhat lux urious range of offices in a building on Broadway facing the city hall four men were engaged in discussing what was evidently an exciting topic. The door of the main office bore the sign, "Edwin James, Counselor at Law and Register In Bankruptcy. " He was one of the four. He had failed lamentably iu his efforts to secure a practice. The effects of O'Gorman's eloquence had iu the gray light of commonplace day faded away, the more so when the ideal his magic had created in the minds of men was iu hourly coutrast with the man himadf and his history. His profession al brethren looked upon him with sus picion, and there was a general impres sion abroad that his escapades were not over yet Brea, with a keen eye to business, hail married the disciirded daughter of a wealthy hut not overrespeetable New York family, and he had, unsuspected, pullt d the wires so that Janies had been employed as the family lawyer, and in that capacity had drawn the will of the mother. She was an imperious, hot tem pered body, one who when aroused was accustomed to use language more vigor ous than polite, and who not infre quently went to fisticuffs with her daughters. The husb ind and father, the creator of the fortune, was dead, and the vast family property, in securities, stocks and lands, was vested absolutely in the mother. In the old lady's will Brea's wife, tho second daughter of the house (there were 110 sons), was down in the very first paragraph for the mag nificent sum of "$l lawful currency," and her name nowhere else appeared in the lengthy document. The old lady was such a termagant and so implacable in her hatred that it was a moral cer tainty she would never relent Tind change her purpose toward her daughter. But James had also drawn up a second will of his own and Brea's concoction, and a precious piece of villainy it was, iu which the wife was down for lega cies amounting to $750,000. The genu ine will James kept in his own posses sion, ready to destroy the very moment word came that the old lady was an im mortal, while the spurious will was kept in tho vaults of tho Safety Deposit company, there to remain until tho death of the testatrix, Wien, of course, it would in due time be produced. But money must be had at once, for Brea and Janies were in sore straits, particularly James, who had been threatened with arrest and was so far involved that he always entered and left his house at night in order to escape im portunate creditors. This was James' second interview with tho men and the first time he had been alone with them. He saw at once that he had to do with able, clear headed men, took them into his confidence and in order to excite their hopes and bind them to him as well he confided to them the plot of the forged will, producing the genuine for their inspection. He assured them that it was a sure and speedy fortune, as tho lady was old and frail iu health, and he also prom ised they should share between them ♦ 100,000, provided they would stand by to give a hand in tho somewhat im probable event of the other heirs disput ing tho will, but above all if they would devise some means to furnish him at ouce SIO,OOO, or at least $5,000. Money he must have, and he could no longer do without it. Tho result of our conference in James' office was that tho very next day iui office down town was engaged under a fictitious namo and a simple, unsuspi cious fellow hired as porter and messen ger. After some little negotiation lie ob tained particulars of parties banking with the then great firm of Jay Cooke & Co., corner of Wall and Nassau streets. Briefly told, the result was that four days later a messenger walked into their banking house with a check for $20,000, purporting to be signed by an other firm, who banked with them. Along with the check went a letter bear ing a signature well known to tho cash ier, asking him to pay the check to bear er, tho result of all being that five minutes thereafter we were walking un concernedly up Broadway, and sending a message to James to meet us at Del monico's, corner Broadway and Cham bers street, we sat down awaiting his arrival. He had anxiously been looking for news, and almost before we had seated ourselves lie.entered, eager and anxious looking, but when he glanced at our faces a happy expression came over his own anil without a word he put out his hand. After a warm greet ing I produced the roll, and, to his de light, I handed over to James teu five hundreds. 011 tho morrow I went to tin* office, and paying my messenger a week's wages, besides making a small gift, told him he need not come any more. With this $20,000 coup we fondly thought all our troubles and all our un lawful acts wero ended We now had a few thousands, sufficient to last until tho $5,000 we had invested in tho will case should bring iu a dividend that would mean a fortune for us all. So wo took things easy about town, and alto gether thought ourselves pretty good fellows and this world a very good sort of place to be in. Thus tho winter passed by and tho summer was at hand. Our thousands of tho year lieforo had dwindled to hun dreds, and tho old lady whose heirs we had constituted • mrsel ves seemed to have renewed her youth and threatened to outlive us all. Besides this there had grown np a repugnance in our minds to the busi ness, and when one day my friend Mao remarked it was a scoundrelly business to rob the heirs of an estate, and they women, George and I heartily acqui esced, and we vowed wo would tako no part in the matter and then and there resolved we would throw both James anil Brea over, but first to use Brea and James for our own purposes. Once more we found ourselves planning a coup in Wall street. Talking tho matter over, we three soon had a plan, and being dowered with intense energy it prom ised a successful determination. Auda ciously enough we determined the light uing should strike once more in the Fame place—that is, to make Jay Cooke & Co. again the victims. Irving and his honest fellows were to co-operate by watching everything, and if any arrest threatened to be 011 hand to make it themselves and then let the prisoner vs- cape. Must important of all, when the bankers drove up in hot haste to police headquarters togive information, Janw-s. honest James, would l>e ou hand to re ceive him. would call in hi- two trusties to get with him full particulars of the robbery and a description of the men. Theu "the banker would be sent away with the assurance that "we know the men and will have them," but at the same time warning him to keep the mat ter a secret in order better to euable them to catch the villains. If successful, the detectives were to receive 25 per cent between thein. Our plan required Janies lu pi. r impor tant part, and although 110 ci nfeuei ..< y could be fixed 011 him. yet he would hardly escape questioning and a very considerable degree of suspicion, so much so that it probably would put ;m end to any lingering remnants of char acter he had on hand or in stock. But he was tired of America and determined to go to Paris with his share of the plunder. Our visits to James had always been in his private office, and his clerks had never seen either of us or Brea. Our plan was ro make use of James' office in a way that will appear later. As related, he was suspected by his pro fession, but the general public thought him a very great mail. He had appear ed as (volunteer) counsel in two or three murder cases and had delivered power ful addresses which had attrai ted con siderable notice in the papers. One day, soon after our plan vas matured, Brea went to Philadelphia, and by a mixture of audaSty and finesse procured from Jay Cooke himself (the parent house of the New York firm of Jay Cooke & Co. was in Philadelphia) a let ter of introduction to the manager of the New York firm. He wanted the let ter osteusibly iu order to consult the manager about certain investments which lie, as executor of an estate, de sired to make for his wards. As the transaction was one of consid erable magnitude there would be large commissions paid, and with the grand send off of a letter from Jay Cooke to his subordinate in New York the specu lation opened well—so well that we at once decided what we would do with the money when we got it—a case in point for the old proverb. We had ascer tained the name of a Newark manu facturer who had recently failed in busi ness. I will call him Newman. Ou the moruing after his return from Philadel phia Brea presented himself at James' office, it being arranged that James should be out, so Brea told the clerk that his name was Newman; that he had lately failed in business and Intend ed to employ Mr. James to put him through the bankruptcy court. The clerk told him to come again at 12 and he would find Mr. James in. At 12 he came. The clerk introduced him. J;mies kept the clerk conveniently near that he could hear the conversa tion. Brea, as Newman, told James he had used in his business $840,000 be longing to his wife and her mother, and that in scheduling his assets he proposed to use enough to make those amounts good, intending to conceal the fact from his creditors. He de termined to invest the amount in bonds—so ran his story—and was going to deposit the money in the batik that very afternoon, at the same time produc ing his letter of introduction from Jay Cooke, all of this, of course, being for the eye and ear of the clerk, who might be required as a witness of his employ er's good faith. Brea Newman also paid James in presenco of the clerk a retaining fee of $250, which was privately returned. Janies banked in Jersey City, and when Newman said, "Introduce me at your bank, as I want a small credit handy," James said, "My bank is in Jersey City." The clerk's brother was paying teller at the Chemical bank, and, as was ex pected, 110 at once spoke up, saying, "Let me introduce Mr. Newman in the Chemical bank." So down went New man and the clerk, luid in. ten minutes our man had tho Chemical bank check book in his pocket and $5,000 to his credit in the bank. The same afternoon ho presented his letter of introduction at Jay Cooke & Co. 's and was cordially re ceived. He of course tedd a totally dif ferent story there. In fcis case a rela tive lately deceased had left him an es tate of great value. Ho wa«, he said, realizing on his real estate and buying bonds as fast as his money came in, and ho wanted to invest a million in various railway bonds. At present he had $210,- 000 ou hand, which he wanted to invest in government bonds. Ho theu left for tho time being, leaving a good impres sion, which his refined maimer and ap pearance confirmed So far all was well—that is, all was well from our point of view. The next two or throe days Brea paid several vis its to the Chemical bank, getting small checks for SSOO and SI,OOO certified, and now had his account drawn down to sl,- 000. Tho day before he had called ou Jay Cooke & Co. and told them he would take $240,000 in seven thirties, "Bearer'' bonds, and that he would call the next day and pay for them. At the same time he got them to give him a pro forma bill for them. The eventful day had come, and James, to get his head clerk out of the way, sent him to tho admiralty court to take notes of tho evidence in a case going 011 there. At 10 o'clock Brea sent a messenger with a note to tho bankers, requesting them to send tho bonds to Edwin James' office, and he would pay for them 011 do livery. Ho could not come himself, as ho was in consultation with the execu tors of tho estate. In tho meantime a check for the full valuo of the bonds, $240,000, had been made out. It was drawn dy of the bill alone was intact. Tho head ing liearing the name of the firm and purchaser had been torn off and de stroyed. Elder picked it up, and having some vsifrne suspicions ot a plot wmiewi.cr * «r determined to go around among the hundred or more bankers aid broken in and around Wall strp«*t and investi gate qnietlv, without making any re port to his superior*, his immediate su perior being of course our honest friend, the worthy chief of the detective force, who was anxiously looking for bis per centage of the deaL The whole force was split up into cliques', each intensely jealous'of every other, each with ifs own stamping grounds, and each strictly pro tecting his own preserves. At 9:30 the nest morning Elder start ed around, carrying the fragment of the memorandum he had picked up from hank to bank and from one broker to the other. He had spent over an hour making inquiries and walked into Jay Cooke & (Jo. 's office just an the mes senger was leaving with the bonds for James' office. Fifteen minutes move, and the game was ours. Elder produced the memorandum, and they at once rec ognized it as their own. Elder asked them if they knew their man and were sure it was all right. They said it was perfectly right, that Mr. "Newman" had been introdrtced by the bead of the firm in Philadelphia and was also a client of Edwin James, but then it was strange the bill should be mutilated. Elder averred his belief that a fraud was intended and suggest* d that he iuid the manager should accompany the messenger with the bonds. This alarmed the manager, and he directed Elder and the messenger to await bis return. Seizing his hat, he started for James' office to investigate. James was "I suppose i/on will pay currency for t\c bondsf" there, and Brea, the pseudo Newman, was in the private offico with two che. ',;s ready, anxiously awaiting the arrival of the messenger with the bonds. Myself and all the other members of our party were near by, watching and awaiting developments. The manager, considerably perturbed, entered the office, and James saw Tit once the busi ness was a failure, for he knew of course that any suspicion as to good faith would be fatal to the success of the plot. Brea, hearing the voices and supi»osing it was the messenger with the bonds, opened the door of the private office and was vexed to see the manager, who, shaking him by the hand, told him the bonds would arrive soon, at the same time saying, "I suppose yon will pay currency for the bonds?" To which Brea replied, "I will go to my bank with yon now and get my check certified for the amount and give it to yon, or leave it until the messenger comes with the bonds." This offer, along with Brea's cool ness, apparently disarmed all suspicions, and ho said: "Ob, all right. The mes senger will go to the bank with yon." He left tlio office, but stopped in the hall for a moment, then turned and hastily re-entering said, "By the way, Mr. Newman, please draw the currency from the bank and pay tho notes to the messenger upon delivery of the bonds." So tho grand coup had failed, igno miniously failed, and through what ap peared a trivial accident, but this was fate. More such "accidents" at critical periods will appear before the history is done that changed the whole course of our lives. The dummy chock was still in enr hands, and was at once destroyed. so, with nothing to fear, we coolly walked tip Broadway. [TO BE CONTINUED. ] It Wan Very I'laiu to Klliu. "No; I will never"— Drawing herself tip as imperiously as alio possibly could, she threw in a few withering glances to emphasize her words. —"marry yon. Do I make myself quite plain?" He carelessly hut very ungallantly placed his hat on the back of his head. "That would be"— Moving over close to tho main en trance to her house, he continued : —"entirely superfluous, since nature has forestalled you." Long after the door had slammed vio lently she stood there alone, gazing into vacancy.—New York World. A Kurt* Specimen. Mrs. Donovan—Michael, wud ye Ink at that lovely goat? Be the powers, if we had that big divvel in the front yard, we'd be the invy av the whole neighborhood. Mr. Donovan—Qo an wit' you an your ignorance! Can't ye see be thesijm on the birdcage that he's wan o' them Oryx Licorices? Mrs. I).—Arrah, thin av coorse it is that same, an I might av knowed had I noticed his beautiful licorice horns.— Truth. Jant Like Meliraii Man. Chinese are f?reat imitators. Oil a Ninth street electric car, coming down town, was seated one of these childlike and bland celestials, with a jiensive, faraway look on his face, but the sad expression would give way occasionally as tho motormau turned on more elec tricity, and an expansive grin wander over iiis features as the ear leajß'd for ward its though conscious of the admi ration of pedestrians, and the laundry man remarked to the passenger seated on his left: "We just zippe linht along. " Between 11 and 1 streets one of the passengers step]xf the side bar. he swung out with his face toward tho forward enil of the car. dropped oft lightly and walked away. . Down between (1 and H streets the Chinaman stepped out on the footboard, and again the conductor pat his hand to the boll cord. "Don't ling! Don't ling!" said the grinning Celestial. "I jumpee iff just likee other man." Taking an extra reef in his blouse with b<>th hands, he hopped off at a right angle to the car, lauded lirst on both feet and thou on his left shoulder and ear, and as the car bowled along i. the darkness the passengers could heal j in a high falsetto wail from the gutter: "Alice saxuev daw fwlwl" —Wash- TnTo 38 -—1 ENGLISH OF "HE ENGLISH PEOPLE. Sob* PacnllariiThat Struck a liccpnt Aiuet .ran Visitor. One of the f::»t sermons the spectatoi heard on landing in England was pre >-h --ed in Westminster abbey. The iin press iveDess of the ai-bey service is, by the way, somewhi-.t marred by the m;:i::icr in which the crowd "crowds" the mon uments, the w.mien sitting on the ped estals and the men hanging their !!:.!.■< on the arms or any other projections in sight. The pie:icber that evening was the Very Rev. !>••..u of Ely. He gave an excellent sern. n on certain problems of modern thougl.', but all the way through he pronounced « v.-lotion "e"-volut ion. The next evening the spectator wa.» the guest of a known London jon nalist, a graduate of Cambridge, who also used the word evolution, pronounc ing it also "e" v« lut;c:i. So odd a pro nunciation might be set- down, in the case of a Chuivli of England clergyman, as i..no of those pulpit peculiari' of affeetatious—at least so they s., ~i-which which those unaccustomed to the: not escape noiu ug. This tl;eo: • :.i L.'.rdiy l.e stre'.ched to apply to ; i.:y nian. and a newspaper man at that, ai d ■o the spectator asked bis be f if "e"-volution was the ordinary E: ;• sii pronunciation. The latter replied thjit he had never heaid any other. The spectator thought that he had discovered a new Americanism. Con salting various dictionaries on bis le turn, the specumr changed his mind. Not one of them gave "e"-volutiu:i as even a possible or alternate pronuncia tion, not the Century, nor the Stand ard, nor even Stornionth. Indeed, the last authority went so far the other way as to give ev-i he as the proper pionun o.iation of evolve. Tho spectator \«w thus driven to tho conclusion that- tbe English are more independent of dic tionaries than the Americans, are not constantly "looking up words, "as we are here, and accept the ordinary usage of the people with whom they associate as authoritative, which would lie a typical British way of settling almost any question. A:i amusing bit of art slang came to the spectator's attention—was, in fact, thrust him—at this yew's exhibi tion of the Royal academy. The one comment, whether of admiration or sur prise. wag the invariable phrase, "How very extr'ord'n'ry!" This was applied indiscriminate ly to any and every pic ture, from alt (f realistic flesh paint ing—usually, in Paris and London •like, the back of K'Uie reclining woman with the reddest hair, which must be the latest fad with the realists—to one of Sargent's portraits, or a wonderful setting of many figures, snch as Alma- Tadema's "Spring- " It was extraordi nary how tiresome the constant repe tition of that phrase became after a sin - gle day at the academy. But it was at the Royal mews, the stables of Buckingham palace, tlmt the spectator had impressed upon him how much importance attaches to a proper discrimination in tho use of English. The groom in attendance was a most impseasive persou, so very impressive from his cockade to his boots as to satis fy completely one's ideal of stateliness in even a humbler royal tiunky. And ho "lived up to" his livery. His man ner was dignity itself. Referring to tie parade at Hyde park the day before, at which the spectator had been present, he asked the groom whether any royalties had been "out riding" there that after noon. "Oh, no, sir," replied that func tionary, with free zing sarcasm. "Their royal highnesses and the ladies and gen tlemen of the court 'ride' in the mim ing. They 'drive' in the afternoon." There may have been previous occasions in the spectator's experience when he waji equally crashed by the sense of hav ing used tho v. 11 nifj word in the presence of a critical authority, but lie failed to recall them then and he has failed to recall thorn since.—Outlook. Kir Ilitmi'tiry IUTJ'I Strange Light. Sir Humphry was alone in his room one evtnrtig attired in a dressing gown and a nightcap, constructed 011 the ancient comical pattern, with a tassel for the apex, of which I suppose hardly a specimen could lie found in these de generate duys. Suddenly he saw a mys terious light on the ceiling of his room for which be could not account in any way. His scientilic zeal was aroused at once to discover the cause. It must be a reflected light, perhaps from some celes tial phenomenon in the sky. He rushed to the window and looked out, but all was as annul in the darkened heavens. He extinguished the lamp, thinking that its flame might have become sin gularly polarized on the ceiling, but there was no change in thecircular light over his head except that it seemed growing brighter. He tried every plan he could think of to explain it, but in vain. The gr» at man was completely puzzled—he stix d gazing upward open mouthed, while his acute brain was in tent on the mystery. Presently, how ever, ho liecaiue aware that the recep tacle in vli ch the wise brain was in closed hud a sensation of unpleasant warmth, while an odor, apparently due to the frizeliug of hair, was making it selt strong.y felt. Involuntarily he snatched off his nightcap, and then dis covew d that lie had set lire to the tassel thereof In bending ever the lamp while engaged in uu experiment, ami the strange circle of light was at once ex plaiia'd, to liis no small indignation.— Blackwood's Magazine. Tl»r«v Utile Word*. Don't forget three little words—"lf yon please. " Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, of which smiles and kindness und small obligations, given habitually, ore what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort. —Humphry Davy. "Yon don't come to church very often now," said Rev. Dr. Thirdly in a tone of reproof to Mr. L! loom fie Id. "No, doctor. The fact is, your ser mons are too short. " "That's an odd complaint. I never heard rt before. "Well, you sen, I hardly get t 0 sleep comfortably before I urn awakened by the singing of the next hymn."—Pitts burg Chronicle-Telegraph. Taking llor at ller Word. Tho Siinpkinses have a kid who will be president home day if he is not hanged first. "1 don't want to go to Hunday ecbool in vacation time, said he. "The devil never takes vacations," said his mother sternly. | "That's riglx," replied the hopeful youth, "and you always said I must than tho devil u;id all his ways. "—Al bany Argus. Tti«» (ir«t«r Peril. Blobbs—Why is everybody running? blobbs—There's a mad dog down the street. Blobbs—l don't see why that should make people run. Slobbs —But there's a policeman shooting at it,—Philadelphia Record. Ttiey All Do IU Passenger—That fellow back there is raising i» great row because he has to stand. Conductor —Yes. He's riding on » pass!— Chicago Record.