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, <I.OO 1.25 and 1.50. Manufacturers are asking 23 pei
Cent axTvance on Thoes. HUSELTON will sell this winter at old prices, quafity
maintained
Wool Boots, Rubber Boots and Shoes.
See our new Rubber Boots with leather insoles, wont sweat the foot. We guaran
te«f best nibbertoots not to break. Save Money—Save Time —Save Annoy
ances by buying at
#- B. C, Huselton's,
Every step you take in HUSELTON'S Shoes is a treat to the fee
102 N- Main Street, - j-^_J3pposite^
An Enviable Lot.
tHas the Shoe Admir-
Our Stock of Ladies' Shoes
are the Admiration of Ladies
& Gentlemen Alike.
Ana oar prices are also of a captivatii r
nature, aa you may judge by
Ladies' fin* Dongola shoes, band turns, now $2 50, were $3.50
•' " " wells, now $2 50. were $315.
" Blccherett Shoes, now $1 75, were $2.50.
" Bongola Button Shoes 90c to $1 50.
Children's School Shoes 50 c and upwards
Men's heavy box toe shoes at $1 75
" " boots at $2 50.
lien's working hoes at 90c.
Boy's boots from $1 25 to $2.00.
Women's Waterproof shoes, button or lace at $1 Ou
Mioses' Waterproof " " " 85c.
Fall stock of Men's. HOTS' and Ladies' Felt Boots and warns lin«-o
Shoes. Complete line of Rubber Boots and Bbocs At ali times a
•lock of Leather and Findiogs, includiog a stock of LACK LEATHER
which we just received. Sole Lestber cat to any smoun*. you may wisb to
purchase. Iron standa with tour feet each reduced to 50 cents
Oar entire winter stock was bought at the old low price so I can sell
70a Boots and Shoes cheeper tbsn ever before offered in Butler county
All Summer Goods to IK Closed Out Regardless of Cost
Ladies' Lov Gut Shoes,
low.r tbaa ever. All Oxford* sod Slip. V .
•era, including our entire line of Tan Jo* l '
Bhoes to be sold regardless of cost— -
nothing in rummer gocds will fce k«pt. |
All will go at your own price Aho /' i
1000 pairs y
CIIOICE SAMPLE BOOTS. 6HOEB tjtt i ft K
WmjmW %, 4? 1\
will go very cheap during this «ale. so f iwß'! Wlt 'HiU>
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
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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
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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
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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 <lll the Chem
ical bank and was, in fact, similar to
those always given between bankers 011
bond transactions.
Brea had drawn his own check for
(.240, and had it. in his hatband along
with the $210,000 dummy check. Tho
plan is palpable enough. When the mes
senger brought the bonds, Brea, or New
man, was going to say: "All right, I
have the check here. Bring the bonds,
and we will go to the Chemical bank
and get them to certify my check."
Then when at the bank lie would take
out both checks, letting the messenger
only get a glimpse of one, and that one
would be the small s'i4o one, which
Brea would pass iu tlirough the window
with request to have it certified. This
would be done, and when handed out of
course Brea was to change it and hand
the messenger the big one of home man
ufacture.
The night before the expected coup
we met James for a filial full dress re
hearsal for the morrow, and after every
thing was settled adjourned to the up
town Delmonico's for supper. It so hap
pened that Detective George Elder was
there. He had some acquaintance with
me, but the rest of the party were
strangers. I did not see him at the time,
but it would seem 110 was curious, even
suspicious, from some scraps of conver
sation he overheard However, neither
his curiosity nor suspicion would have
been of any consequence or concern to
us had it not been that in going out
Brea left on the table with some papers
the memorandum or pro forma bill of
the bonds given him the day before by
the bankers. Stra »ge ly enough, the t«>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]x<d out on the footboard,
and as the conductor made a motion to
catch hold of the bell cord the man shook
his head. Taking hold «>f 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.