VOLXXXII Mrs. J. E. Zimmerman, WUV are we o Will THRONG WHAT ATTRACTION? It is only the unusual bargains that don't go a begging Values and big ones a that alone possess the power to interest. We have the values, and a visit to our big irtore and inspection o/our immense stock of Dress Goods. Millinery Wraps. &c„ comparing our prices with prices asked elsewhere, will convince you that this store is full of big bargains. -HERE'S THE BARGAINS: 25c all-wool black and colored Serges, 36 inches wide, real value, 35c. _ 39c all-wool colored Serges, 3® inches wide, real value, 50. 50c all-wool black and colored Serges, 50 inches wide, real value, 75c. 50c all-wool black Mohair Novelty, 40 inches wide, real value, 75. 85c rll-wool black Mohair Novelty, 46 inch's wide, real value, SI.OO. 50c all-wool black and navy Storm Serges 46 inches wide, real value, 75c. 75c all-wool black and navy Boucle Cloth latest noveltv, real value, SI.OO. #3.98 latest style, Ladies' Jacket, Beaver Cloth, real value, $5.00. $5.50 latest style genuine Rothschild Jacket, real value, $8.50. SI.OO infant's Eider Down Cloaks, real value, {1.50. f1.25 infant's Angora Trimmed Elder Down Cloaks, real value, $2.00. SI.OO ladies' dark calico wrappers, lined, real value, 11.25. $1.25 ladies dark Flannelette wrappers, lined, real value, $1.50. 50c ladies' all-wool skirt patterns, real value, 75c. This is but few of the many good values we have at old prices. The dry goods market is steadily advancing. We fortunately bought our stock before the advance in prices and gladly share the profits with you. Don't forget that we are sole agents for the Rothschild Wraps. Djn't forget that we are sole agents for Standard Patterns. Don't forget that we have the largest, most fashionable, lowest priced stock or Millinery in the city of Butler. Don't forget that we have opened a fine Art Department. Mrs, Jennie E. ZimmermaN, Opposite Hoiel Lowry. Successor to Ritter & RalatoD Bring your friends along. fa Tiao Re bpri For. Looking Forward, #IN FOOTWEAR. Always alert to the interests of our LA T E STAN DVES T OUR IDEAL ST7LES IN FOOTWEAR FOR LADIES & GENTLEMEN Is what every customer ot ours 1J /\ I I /\ JV I 1 thinks he has received after making J- J~\- *-* ' J ~ a purchase. We find that our CUS ""Y"*"T"T "VTHT^ 13 tomers being convinced of means \A/ I I N K many more customers for us. You V f -J—* get more than you bargain for when . a i \ you get a pair of our SHOES. \\ /\ l\ Ladies' twentieth century SHOES HBS Cork soles Goodyear welts. Ladies* Fine button shoes, Pat. tipßsc, SI.OO, f i.2j am. 11.50. Heavy sole fair stitch at $2.00, $2.50 and fo.oo. Goodyear welts are perfect gems for the price. Ladies fine hand turns Dongola and cloth top lace and button Tiy our W omens' and Childrens' Kid and Calf Shoes. They 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 w hen you see the goods. . , w » | Shoes for men in fine Invisible Cork Soles^s^ssr: |i.oo, s2. so, #3.00 and $4.00, Extension soles. Men's Heavy Shoes at 75c. #I.OO. $1.25 and $ 1.50. Fine Shoes at 90c, SI.OO, fi.25 add f 1.50, both congress, and I.k e Our Kid and Veal boots, high and low insteps at $1.50, $2.00 #2.50 and $3.00. Dril lers Heavy Box Toe Shoes high cut. Boys' and Youths'SHOES#i£ the Youngsters are here,grand styles for dress or the longest road to school, posi tively will resist water at 75c, fi.oo 1.25 and 1.50. Manufacturers are asking 25 per cent advance on shoes. Ht7is£jL>TON will sell this winter at old prices, quaht\ maintained Wool Boots, Rubber Boots and Shoes. ® ee our new Rubber Boots with leather insoles, wont sweat the foot. We guaran tee our v )es t rubber boots 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, - Cfln GIVEN AWAY - - - J2U - - ABSOLUTELY EREE. To the lucky holder of the key which will open the cabinet now in our window. A key will be given with every purchase of goods to the amount of one dollar or more. BEmjET, SHOES t ™°AWSY Even at the low prices we here quote, the goods must be seen to be appreciated. Ladies' fine patent tip shoes at 85 cts Men's fine satin calf shoes at $1.25 Boys' "Iron Clad" school shoes at 90 cts Misses' Dongola Pat. tip shoes at 75 cts Children's " " " " " 50 cts Infants' fine kid shoes at 25 cts Ladies' fine cloth gaiters at 50 cts Ladies' slippers at 30 cts M en's slippers at 40 cts Sec our "SERVICE" line of shoes for men, women and children. They are WATER PROOF. Just the thing for the country. A. RUFF & SON, 114 S. Main Street, BUTLER, - PBNN'A. ' -|STILL ON DE:CK|- We are doing a larger busines than ever, as this is our busy season and people are pushing us a little, out still we are able to do more. Bring in those faded clothes and have them made like new at the reliable butler DYE works, 216 Centre Ave., R. FISHER, Prop'r 75c ladies' all-wool skirt patterns, extra size, real value, SI.OO. 22c per yard all-wool Country Flannel, sold everywhere at 25c per yard. 50c per pair heavy cotton blankets, real value, 75c. $3.00 per pair heavy all-wool country blankets, all colors, worth $4,00. 15c per pair Misses' and Children's black wool hose, real value, 25c. 15c per pair ladies' black wool hose, real value, 25c. 22c per pair ladies' fleeced cotton ribbed vests, real value, 25c. 69c ladies natural all-wool vests —pants, real value, SI.OO. 25c men's heavy underwear, grev mixed, real value, 40c. 50c men's heavy natural wool underwear, real value, 75c. 5c per yard good dark calico, real value , 5c heavy sheeting—with advance price, real value, ~c. $2.25 Chenille Portiers, real value •3.50. 50c, 26-inch fast colored Sateen umbrellas real value, 75c. THE BUTLER CITIZEN. Is Your Blood Pure If not, it is Important that you make It pure at once with the great blood purifier. Hood's Sarsaparilla Because with impure blood you are in constant danger of serious illness. 7, T, i-,. |. the after-dinner pi:: »2<" HOOCI S r IMS um:.i cituartic. Jic. HEINEMAN & SON, * * I SUMMER J t in Btiproßcbiror and J £ onlv whi to k>-Hp cool i* J ' to K'» t«> Ileineman s CL * Z R 4 and eet v< n--e 1 « ice f jij Hammocks J 3 t We have the I >»r \ CQ J and finpKt line of \ z J Hammocks jz 5 ever b outfiit to Bif cr Wall Taper Jo gf f tbe cheapeci to the J J finest of Preffted 2- I'AI'KRS. h w * ?r 0 We »(f*«» handle the f* M £5 celebraed RAMBLER i? | BICYCLE, j J J HEINEMAN & SON. 'Selling out J 5 To Quit \ I Business. J J Wall Par s thanj von c-half a Fine pan. s at the pr <4 iof t iimmo 1 <.! ii.in 01. ». # J The H ■ J \l'aucr in the lounlv to b< . >M)ld out cilh r Who!' sale oii at — m {DOUGLASS' Near P. O.J a N. B.—Wall Paper #sale within two n mths. f 4^%. Running Chances is the man who buys the cheap and poor ly made clothing simply because it i-» cheap. There are just as good bargins to iie had in good grades of goods, sucli ior instance as our 525.00 Clay Diagonal Suits. Running Chances is the man who rushei from this "alteration sale" to thai "closing out bargains." The safe w; _• is to patronize the firm that does busi ness on the same principles you do You know that you have to deal wit! then. You get honest goods for horn prices, and don't save twenty-five cent hereto throw away seventy-five cent there. Chances are Not Running away fron you, but you are running away from tli chances for the best bargins of the yea in Suits and Overcoats when you fail t< look at our immense stock. Running ( hances is the man who bn v now when he can have us make him i fine Overcoat for $22.00. COOPER & CO C3or Diamond, Butler, Pn C.-XD. Gmmwiimizmo |UWer= 1 |Wtar | | Points | bo 6 Tfyorouglj protection rv, rSj H® irritation — J & 1 & £N> Woi7-si)rto>K*M*/ cv> Perfect fitting I St Moderate prices All !j7 J&ros Hysicijic Uij4«rw«?ar. <%3 wmmrniwzmo All grade of rnderwear at vci low [rices. Largest stock of hats an furnishings for gentleman in tl country. An inspe tion will pro this to ; ny ones sacisfacture. Colbert & Dale. 24 2 S. Main St., Butler, Penn'a. lUTTLER. PA..THUESDAY. OCTOBER 17. 1895. iteisaaaj® fAUSTOp£L_JS? V&B7. » BfPWELL. 1\ COCTRiGHT. 1895. 8Y TiHE AUTMOR. CHAPTER IV. The Eastward Ho was a hint of a project we had frequently talked over as a possible speculation. Here we see how men are led on step by step from bad to worse when once they set out on the Primrose Way. We resolved to tell Irving in a gen eral way that we were going to Europe to make some money and would pay him and his two fellows their percent age. Then we could apparently work with impunity, for of course if we com mitted a forgery in Europe and were recognized as Americans —as probably we would be —the foreign police would report the case to the New York police —that is, to Irving. Edwin James and Brea had dropped ont of our lives for good, but as my readers will be curious to know of their fate in after times I will relate it in this chapter. The $.},000 we gave James eased up matters for a time. Practice he had none, but managed to hold on in the hope of realizing on the Brea will mat ter, but getting deeper and deeper in debt. Brea helped him all he could, as his presence was essential if the old lady departed and the forged will was pro duced. One night, four years later, Brea's mother-in-law had a more than usually furious outbreak of temper and fell to beating the three daughters still living with her. Before it was over she had attacked and seriously injured the ildest, and then flew to her room in a passion. Not appearing at breakfast the next morning her daughter went to her room, but she was not there and the bed was undisturbed. Going to the room that served for office and library, they found the door as usual locked. Bursting it open the poor old maids found their mother huddled in a corner of the room dead. Tbe genuine will was destroyed, and the family lawyer, James, immediately after the funeral produced and read "the last will and testament" of the dead woman. The four sisters and a host of poor relations were present at the reading. When Sarah, Brea's wife, heard her name read as chief heir of the vast estate, she was stunned, but if she was stunned the rest of the family were paralyzed. Legacies were left to many, small in amount, save in the case of the other three sisters, who were to have a certain tenement and land in Harlem and $3,000 a year for life out of the estate. None of those present thought for a moment of questioning either the genuineness of the will or the validity of the testaments save only a poor relation, a nephew, whose name was down for SSOO. He was indignant with the old lady and loudly declared that he would not put up with it. The next day he employed a briefless lawyer, one that had wit and brass enough and who had his way to make in the world and was determined to make it. Without waiting for the will to be probated or having legal authority to do so Brea and his wife, the very day after the funeral, moved into the house and t<xik possession. But before the week was out lie had persuaded the three old maids that they would be hap pier if away from the scene of their par ent's death, so he had them installed in their own house at Harlem, he remain ing in undisturbed possession, waiting only for the will to IKS probated in order to take possession of upward of $200,000 in cash and bonds still in the custody of the old lady's bank. He had full posses sion of the house, and with entire confi dence waited to be put in legal posses sion of all. But little did ho dream that at that moment there was one poor torn sheet of foolscap in the. library, casually thrust in a book, lying completely at his mercy to destroy if he could only have known it, which was going to tear all his wealth from his grasp and drive him forth a foiled plotter to become an adventurer and ultimately to perish a miserable outcast. Brea then attempted negotiations with the attorney. Cautious us he was, lie said enough to convince the lawyer that for some reason he did not want the case to come before the courts. Still tln> at torney was half inclined to join hands with Brea. In the meantime Ezra (this was the nair.o of the man of law) had acquired great power over the sisters, and they all looked to him both as champion and protector. He resolved to be protector to ono at least, paying as siduous court to Jane, the youngest. Al though past 80, and without education or accomplishments, she was warm hearted and extremely sentimental, and a thrill went through her tender heart when it became evident that Ezra's at tention pointed at her. She quickly made him a hero and invested the thin shanked, narrow chested, waspish at torney with a thousand tender attri butes, and when, after one month's ac quaintance, she found herself alone with him in tho poky little parlor, and he asking her to be his wife, her woman's heart overflowed, and telling him she had loved him from the first hour they met she threw herself into his arms, cry ing who was the happiest and most fa vored woman in the world. In the midst of the happy lovers' taJk she ran to the shelf, took down a book, and opening it revealed a soiled sheet of paper and ask ed her lover what it was. His love had given him a gift indeed. His trained eye recognized it at once as a draft of a new will in the handwriting of tho de ceased mother and dated the very night of her death. It was a rough draft, but across the bottom was drawn the bold, masculine signature of the old lady. There were no signatures of witnesses, but Ezra was lawyer enough to know it would stand, and that it revoked all previous wills. Calling in tho two older sisters, he read the will to their amazed earH, and then and there wrote out a full statement as to the circumstance under which it was found. All four at tached their signatures to the document, and when Ezra Kissed his love a tender good night and went home he hardly felt the paving stones under his feet, for he had carefully tucked away in tho inside ]>ooket of his vest, just over his heart, the little soiled piece of paper which told him in unmistakable terms that his fortune was made, and the wedding ceremony ouce over that it was beyond all chance of change. Before tho discovery of the new wi 11, while it was believed that Mrs. Urea was an heiress and her credit good, she and her husband had made use of the fact, and had incurred debts to a largo amount. Brea Rot his wife to indorse his note for $ 10,000, and he borrowed that sum from the bankers, but as soon as the true state of the case was known his creditors became clamorous and hail him arrested on civil suits. Unable to give bonds, he was locked up in Ludlow Street jail, and there he remained six months, until, acting upon Ezra's ad vice, the sisters agreed to pay all his debt# a'»i «»ve lum mjd h« wife SI,OOO each if they would live west of Chicago. This they were forced to accept and went to Montana. Brea opened a saloon at Butte City, but he never recovered his spirits again. He became his own best customer, and that of course meant ruin, but what, after all, killed him was the knowledge that he had been for more than a Fcore of davs in full posses sion of that old house and had spent scores of hours alone in the old library and yet had not discovered and destroy ed the new will lying there at his mercy. The sheriff soon sold out his saloon, while his wife eloped with his best friend. Ruined in pocket, health and character, poor old Brea was left bare to every storm that blew. One morning, as the sun was rising over the town, sur prising half a dozen belated gamblers in Ned Wright's saloon as they were get ting up to leave, they found lying across the threshold the body of a man, rag ged, emaciated, forlorn. It was Brea. As soon as James had read the will he insisted upon having so,ooo from Brea at once, and he got the money. But when that thunderbolt of the new will fell on the two men James sadly recognized that fortune and he would shake hands no more, so far as this world is concerned, and he resolved to chance returning to London before the whole of the $5,000 he had from Brea was gone. To London he went. He lived a few years in extreme poverty, driven to all manner of miserable shifts, and at last died. This man died who ought to have been buried in Westminster abbey, so adding one more brilliant name to the long line of illustrious lord chancellors from Thomas a Becket and Cardinal Wolsey down, but he, hating his own soul, took the first step in wrongdoing, and instead of resting in the mighty abbey and bequeathing bis dust as a precious legacy to succeeding genera tions perished forlorn and alone and was buried in a pauper's grave. Wo all landed in Liverpool in the highest spirits and at once took the train for London, enjoying the novelty of everything. Therefore, after completing certain preparations which required skill and considerable business knowledge, we departed to execute this new and of course last shuffle for fortune. After we saw George off to Paris on the train Mac and I walked up and down the platform outside of tho station, star gazing. Mac, with his brilliant scholarship, elegant speech, logical force and fiery enthusiasm, made a mast fas cinating companion. The study of mankind is man, the old proverb says; but, like Tnanv other prov erbs, there is a full measure of unreality in it. It takes a good amount of arro gance and conceit for one to fancy hf» is going to study and understand men. No man can understand himself, and by no amount of experience or study will he ever come to understand that subtle thing he calls his mind or understand the motives that sway him. I only wish one of those scientists who study the human mind could have sat in Mac's brain that night, have thought his thoughts and heard his speech, while remaining ignorant of our history and mission. Mac's mind was a storehouse of erudition, his memory a picturo gallery whose chambers were gilded and decorated with many a glow ing canvas. As a child he was familiar with tlm Bible, the Old Testament par ticularly, and, improbable as it seems, was still a diligent student of holy writ. His mind was completely saturated with Bible imagery, yet there we were with our pockets full of forged docu ments walking up «ind down that plat form star gazing, while he talked with intelligent enthusiasm of those silver flowers in the darkened sky, of stellar space, how in its infinity it proved the presence of Deity; that with him there was no great and no little; that a thought sweeping across the God given mind of an infant was as wonderful and as much an evidence of power as tho millioned arch of radiant suns in the milky way. While speeding through Belgium on our way to the Rhine he continued until the sun shone upon the horizon at times, talking like an in spired prophet of God's purposes to men and of tho destiny of our race. It was something to stir one's enthusiasm to see his sublime faith in the mighty des tiny of man, and to listen to him tell of the dignity and grace of every human soul and his sure faith that all would be garnered in the mighty plains of heav en, and he meant and felt it all. Yes, meant all he said, believed all lie said, believed that he himself was a potent far-tor in tho divine economy, and fur thermore believed it behooved every man to do all things, to bo all things good and true, yet on this Sunday morn ing we were fast speeding to the scene of our contemplated schemes, and with light hearts looked forward to a speedy return to London, fairly well laden with plunder. We talked the whole night through, or rather Mac talked and I listened, and it was a treat to be a listener, he being tho speaker. A period was put to his oration by tin train stopping at Luxembourg, we being summoned to breakfast. (in resuming our journey we took a nap, and when we awoke we found our selves Hearing the Rhine. About noon wo arrived at Cologne, and going to Uhlrich platz drank a bottle of tokay in a famous wine cellar there; then, hurry ing Ijack to the station, we traveled across the sandy plain that stretches from near the Prussian border to the capital. We arrived soon after divrk, and Mao "vent at once to the Hotel Lion de Paris and registered. I waited across the street in the f-hudow of the Empress palace. Mac soon came out, and we went to dine in a large cafe. We enjoy ed tho novelty of the scene and were never tired of marveling over the all predominant militarism soldiers ev erywhere, all with good lungs and loud voices. Wo si>ent the evening see ing the town. At midnight we parted to nieot and breakfast together at the cafe at 8. I then went to an obscure hotel and soon was in the land <>f dreams. In the morning I awoke with an anxious feeling ami found myself wishing it were night. At 8, the ap pointed time, I met Mac. He may pos sibly have felt some anxiety. If so, it was invisible. When an honest man makes a mis take, he has not only sympathy, but can always pick himself np again. With a rogue a mistake may easily be and al most always is fatal. So, too, with us. We feared tho unseen and tho unexpect ed. Above all, our imagination magni fied the danger, while torment'ng us with needless fears. In Germany the banks open at i» o'clock, and we knew • hey would receive so .n after the let ter we had deposited in the mail in London. We decided that it would lie Dest ior -uac to enter the iwuikert- at five ruinates after 9. We liad discovered the night before the location of the firm. During breakfast Mac went carefully through his pockets, taking oat every scrap of paper and turning everything over to me; then, taking out from among the others in oar 'nag the letters of credit and introduction, we made our last -scrutiny of them. So, with the documents in his pocket and giving me a smile, out he went, and I followed after, keeping him in sight, and very anxious I was. We were on Unter den Linden. Walking one square and turning to the left half a block away wera the bankers—Hebrew, by the way. I saw Mac saunter up the steps and disappear from view. Outside of America money transactions are car ried on with the utmost deliberation— to an American with exasperating slow ness. I thought it possible he might re main there for a whole half hour, and a long half hour it would be to me. In order to have my anxiety shortened by even a half minute we had arranged that when he came out if he had the money he was to stroke his beard as a signal If it was all right, but delayed, he was to put his handkerchief to his face, but if everything was wrong he was to clasp his hands across his breast for a moment. In that event I was to keep a lookout to see if he was followed. If so, I waf to give him a signal, when he would go straight to his hotel, in passing through would dispose of his tall hat and put on the soft hat he had in his pocket, then pass out the back entrance and hasten to a certain hatshop, where I would meet him, and take a cab to a little town six miles away, called Jnterbogk, where all trains going south, west and east stopped. While driving ont we would settle on some plan. But this emergency did not arise. I had station ed myself in a little shop across the street, and from that vantage ground was watching for Mac's reappearance, and just as I had settled myself for a weary watch out he came, smiling and stroking his beard. A moment's glance satisfied me he was not followed. I has tened after, and coming up with him as he turned the corner ho merely said £2,600 (|13,000). It seemed too good to be true, and I said, "I don't believe you." He replied, "It is all right, my boy; here it is," at tlio same time thrusting a big package of gulden notes into my hand. We instantly separated, I hasten ing to different but nearby brokers' of fices, buying for nearly the full amount French bank notes :uid gold. We went straight to the hatter's and bought one of those broad brimmed German student hats, which, when he had placed it on his head, put on a pair of spectacles and parted his flowing beard in the middle, made such a transformation in his ap Thcy found li/lnn acrons the threshold the boa a of a man. pearanco that I myself would have pass ed him unrecognized. In the meantime I had picked out a cab driver, a stupid looking, conservative appearing old fel low, and engaged him to drive "mich und meinen fround nach Juterbogk." So we entered the cab, an open one horse affair, and started for that town. Our next objective point was Munich, but as the train did not leave until noon we preferred to spend the time in a pleasant drive and at the same time make assur ance doubly sure. Around Berlin the country is fiat and uninteresting. Our driver was a crabbed old fellow, but we managed to extract some amusement out of him. What pleased us greatly was to see him from time to time take oat from under his seat a loaf of black, dry bread and cut off a slice for himself and one for his horse, and then, seeing we were in no hurry, he would get down, and walking beside tho horse would feed him and himself at the same time. When we arrived at Juterbogk, wo had an hour to spare, so we drove to an inn, and ordering a bottle of Hochheimer for ourselves and beer and pretzels for our ilriver we passed tho time pleasantly. In the meantime wo had touched a match to the letter of credit, and at traintime we went by separate routes to the depot. Each purchased his own tick et. To Nuremberg mine was, his to some nearby city, and at 12:30 we boarded tho train and were off for Munich and thero on the morrow. Tuesday morning at 7 we met at a restaurant, as agreed, and soon had over again our Berlin experience, but tho amount we obtained here was only 12,- 000 gulden (4'1,000). Mac, thinking it best to ask for a round sum, feared, Munich not being much of a commer cial city, to ask for too much. In cash ing his credit, although tho amount was in gulden, the bank paid him in New Saxon thalers, the thaler being 70 cents. We did not like the new thaler notes and wanted to change them there, but there was no time if we were to catch tho 10 o'ekx-k train. I hail Mao's derby hat in a box, and in three minutes ho had tho hat and spectacles on, and with his beard again parted the transforma tion was complete, and lie, a perfect picture of tUe dreamy German student, sauntered down to the depot and bought his ticket for Leipsio. I followed him, carrving all the cash and documents in my bag. We arrived at Leipsio soon aft er dinner. Times were brisk, with plen ty of bustle there, for the great fair was in full blast. Hero was an op portunity missed. We ought to have had three or four letters to as many banks. The place was thronged, and the banks were paying out and receiving money in thousands. On the train I had sat apart from Mae, but in tho same compart ment, which van filled. Arriving at Leipsio ho left the train, and walking np tho street entered a wineroom, where I joined him. He Keratinized his letters carefully, and placing them in his pocket in five minutes was in tho bank. SecitiK the bank was full of cus tomers, instead of remaining ouside to watch, I entered and stood among tho crowd, anxious, of course, but letting nothing escape. Instead of waiting or trying to trans act liis business with a subordinate, Mac demanded to see the head of the firm. He was received at once, and upon tho production of his letters was treated with the utmost consideration. He ask ed for f.0,000 gulden (£20,000), which was given him at once. Soon after 5 o'clock we were on the train, but for some reason which I now forget we did not arrive until 10 o'clock tho next day at Frankfort —Frankfort, the homo and still tho fortress of tho Rothschilds. In Frankfort tho boerso opens at 10 a. m. and closes at 2. During those hours the bankers are to be found on the exchange only, and not at their offices. Many of tho offices aro then deserted and fast locked. Soon a« we arrived we went to a cafe, and leaving Mac there and all trie mon ey and papers in the bag I hastened to the bankers, hoping to find them open. But when I arrived I found the doors locked. lat once returned to Mac and said: "We are through. Let us catch the train for Cologne at once.'' And tak ing ont all the letters and every scrap of paper we destroyed everything. This decision of course brought a great relief, for the strain had been greater than either of as had been will ing to confess to the other. So, easy in mind, we ordered lunch. Of course we would have no news of George until we met in Loud n. We had no anxiety about him. We ft It c rtain he would come out all right. While w::i tinsr for the train we discussed the future and took it for granted that George would secure as much as we had done. We counted ourselves possessors of $90,000. Of this fully $ 10,000 would go to our three honest detectives in New York; we would spend about another f 10,000. leaving us about $23,000 each. Making this calculation, we sat down, and with the cash safe in our hands we were planning for the future. Did we fay, "Now we have a sum of money ample to start us in an honest business, and we will quit?" Nothing of the sort. We were blind to the promises made to call a halt when funds were got. Now we seemed poor and said, " What fools we would be to quit; we will make it #IOO,OOO each first," and already were planning new schemes. Soon after the noon hour the train started, and we left Cologne all right, and at the first station out I alighted and joined him. We had a pleasant all night journey, arriving very early the next morning at Osten-i. How lovely the sea looked, with the morning sun shining on its restless waves! Wo got to Dover without accident, and two hours after the express landed us in London, and we drove at once to our appointed rendezvous, the Terminns hotel, London bridge. We had no news of George, but that evening, opening the door in response to a loud knock, he walked in, receiving a boisterous wel come. The nest morning we all drove to Hampton Court, the creation of Wolsey, aud when tired we went to the Star and Garter. Tkero wo talked over matters and came to the conclusion we must have SIOO,OOO apiece before we could afford to settle down at home. We resolved to send off the "percent age" to Irving & Co., and to pay all debts we were owing at home. This matter settled, we determined to have a little recreation by taking a tour in Italy. After studying guide books and routes we resolved to take a steamer from Southampton to Naples, spend a few days there in seeing the town and visiting Pompeii, etc., then north to Rome. We had made considerable preparation for our tour, when a circumstance arose that not only changed our plans, but in the sequel changed our lives as well. We had been paying another visit to Hampton Court, .aid in place of dining at the Star and Garter we returned by boat on the Thames and dined at the Cannon Street hotel. Before going to the hotel we took a stroll down Lom bard street, and, arriving at the inter section of streets opposite the Bank of England, we came to a halt. While watching the human whirlpool in that center of throbbing life I turned to my friends, and, pointing to the Bank of England, said, '' Boys, you may depend upon it, there is the softest spot in the world, and we could hit the bank for a million as easy as rolling off a log." No response was made at the time, and the lasual remark was apparently for gotten. Well for us if it had been ! The next day wo went for a drive to Windsor and were to dine at a famous old roadside inn. On arriving we of course visited tho cast le, and while viewing the decorations in the stately throneroom Mac stopped George and mo with the remark that something I had said the day before had been stick ing in his mind. He went on to say that we wanted SIOO,OOO apiece in or der to return home in good shape, that the Bank of England had plenty to spare, and it was well for tho lightning to strike where the balances were heavy. Tho bank would never miss the money, and he firmly believed tho whole direct orate of tho fossil institution was per meated with the dry rot of centuries. The managers were convinced that their banking system was impregnable, and, as a consequence, it would fall an easy victim, provided, as we suspected, tho bank had really lieen managed by hered itary asses. Hero was a picture indeed—threo American adventurers, two of them barely past their majority, standing in tho throneroom of Windsor castle and plotting to striko a blow at the money bags of tho Bank of England! The idea grew on us rapidly. After dinner we sat in the tw ; < f that old inn and disenssed Lady < f Tlireadneedle street from a point of view from which she had probably never be> n discussed before. I can imagine with what scorn tho puffed and liepuffed magnates of tho hank would have re garded us had they known of our dis cussion. They boasted to me, and had boasted for a century, that t heir system was per fect, and as a proof that it was so they widely proclaimed they had not changed it in 100 years. They had proclaimed so loudly and so long its absolute invul nerability that they not only believed it themselves, but all the world had come to believe it as well. "Safe as the bank" was a proverb everywhere an derlying tho English tongue. In our discussion we speedily came to the conclusion that any system of finance unchanged in detail for a cen tury, belief in the perfection of which was an article of faith not alone with the officials charged with its manage ment, but with the people of England at large, must, in the very nature of the case, lie wide open to the attack of any man bold enough to doulit its impreg nability and resolute to attack. What a figment of the imagination this boasted impregnability of the Bank of England was tho sequel will show. And as for those masters of finance, those earthly Joves of the financial world, who sat serene above the clouds, "tho governor and company of tho Bank of England," they soon had tho whole money world shaking with laughter when they stood revealed the Simple Si mons they proved to IK-. Wo wanted $ 100,000 apiece now and had resolved to got it from the Bank of England. Such was our confidence that we never thought failure possible. Tru ly if there ever was a plan laid in igno rant enthusiasm this was one. Hero we were, absolutely without any knowl edge of the inner workings of the insti tution, strangers in London, being un der assumed names, without business of any kind, and not only unablo to give any references, bnt unable to stand any investigation. In conference it was determined an account should bo opened with tho bank anyway; after that was done we could decido what uso to put it to. As I had not yet shown tip in tho pre vious transactions I volunteered to K" to the front in this, so I told my two friends to go to the continent—ltaly, if they liked—l would remain in London anil manage to get tho account started. They took me at my word, and a day or two after sailed from Liverpool to Lis bon, and passed through it to Spain, visiting tho chief cities of that country. I was left %lone in London and begau prospecting at once, setting all my wits at work to see how I could manage to got aii introduction to the bank. Of course one is supposed to give reference, even if introduced. Although 1 had no acquaintance with this bank's methods, yet I was confident that all those Ht the top must be a stupid lot of red tape sticklers, and I resolved to do my busi ness with them alone. I was pretty sure that the routine of an introduction once well over, so us to give me access to the officials, they could be easily satisfied and made t > help 011 the fraud in place of being obstacles. The result proved my surmise correct, for such a lot of self sufficient barnacles no institution in the world was ever burdened with, the manager reassuring me that their system was so perfect no change liad been made in its methods for a century. I finally made up my mind to find some old established shopkeeper who kept an account at the bank and secure au introduction through him. I determined to carry out the plan at once. The thing was first of all to find my man, so at a o'clock that afternoon I stationed myself near the bank to watch depositors coming cut and then follow them. Four out of five deposit ors when they take money to the bar.it como out examining their passbooks. That afternoon I followed several. Of these I selected three. One was an opti cian and electrician, ail old established firm, doing a large business. Another w;is an East India importing houses Tho third was Green & Son. tailors. The next day I went to the optician and purchased an expensive opera g'ass, and had him engrave on it, "To Lady Mary, From Her Friend," and paid him for it with a £IOO note. Then I went to the East India firm and bought a costly white silk shawl and a lap robe fit for a prince, and looked at a camel's hair shawl at 100 guineas. I had brought from America with me a western hat. and as I had resolved to play the silver king I wore it when go ing around among the tradesmen. The English had and still have absurd ideas concerning that desirable article, "the American silver king." The stage ar ticle they take for the genuine and de voutly believe that the pavements ;ire thick with them in America, all march ing around with rolls of if 1,000 bills in their pockets, which they tlirow out to bootblacks and bartenders. Therefore I resolved to play this role. After my purchase of the shawl and robe I drove in my brougham up to Green & Sons and entered, smoking a cigar, and with my big hat pulled well down over my eyes. Soon as I saw the elder Green I felt I had my man. Cer tainly I had hit well, for the firm (fa thers and sons) had been depositors in the B;uik of England for nearly a century, and had considerable wealth, but, Eng lish fashion, stuck steadily to business. This is a firm of ultra fashionable tai lors that, like the historic Poole next door, charge for their reputation more than for the fit of their garments. One of the firm and an attendant flew to wait upon me, but paying no atten tion to them I started on a slow march around the establishment, examining the array of cloths, they following at my heels. I went down one side and re turned on the other to the door. Arriv ing there I halted, and, pointing first at ono roll of cloth and then another, said: "One suit from this, three suits from that, two from that, a topcoat from that, another from that, another suit from that, one from that. Now show mo some dressing gowns. " The first ehown was 20 guineas. I instantly said that would do. One may bo certain the tailor nml his assistant flew around, one to me;isure and the other to write the measurements of this American sheep that Providence had led astray into their shop. When asked my name and address I gave F. A. Warren, Golden Cross ho tel, and then, for fear I might fo - f my name, I made a memorandum of it and placed it in my vest pocket. They bowed me out, evidently greatly impressed with my taciturnity, and es pecially my big hat, confident also that they had hooked a fortune in a genuine American silver kin*;. I entered the brougham and drove directly to the Golden Cross hotel, Charing Cross, and there registering "F. A. Warren" and securing u room I left for my hotel. This room at the Golden Cross I kept for a whole year, but never slept there. It was the only address the Bank of England ever had of their distinguished customer, Mr. Frederic Albert Warren. I did not trouble any more about the other two store people, but looked about the town amusing myself. In due time I called and tried tho garments on, and, when ready to deliver, I left the cash with the hotel people with orders to pay tho bill, which was dona There tho matter rested for ten days, when I drove up again, and, remaining in my car riage, the head of the firm came out to me, and I remarked, "I must have more garments; duplicate that order," and drove off. A week after I called to have tlx ni tried on, and then remarked that as I was going to Ireland for a few duj'.i shooting with Lord Clancarty I would send down a portmanteau for the gar ments and call for it on my way from the hotel to the station. So. I Isiught the most expensive trunk I 'could find and tent it to the tailor. When the day camo for mo to call I provided myself with five £SOO bank notes, five £IOO and about 50 £5 notes to go on the bottom of the roll. Before leaving my hotel i had a large trunk put on the cab, :ind then, taking inside of it all the dressing bags, rugs, silk umbrellas and canes in the whole party, I drove to tho tailor's, paid my bill with a £SOO note and had tho portmanteau put on the cab. I turned to go; but, halting at the door, I remarked quite in acasual manner, "By the way, Mr. Green, I have more money than I care to carry loose in my vest pocket to Ireland; I think I will leave it with you. " He replied, "Certainly, sir," and as I was pulling the roll out of my vest pocket he said, "How much is it, sir?" "Only £1,000; it may be £5,000," to which he replied, "Oh, sir, I would be afraid to take charge of so much; let me introduce you to my hank.'' He ran for his hat, accompanied me to the Bank of England, and, calling one of the submanagers, introduced me as an American gentleman, Mr. F. A. Warren, who desired to open an account. A check and a passbook were brought and the signature book laid before me for my autograph, and I was requested to sign my name in full, so I christened myself Frederic Albert. I drove to the North Eastern station and telegraph, d the boys at Barcelona that the thing v t done and they could, if they liked, < t'.r tail their excursion and return to Lug land at once. [TO BE CONTINUED.] Th« Death I'eualty In Ohio. A movement is on foot to dispense with the prayer at executions hereafter at the state penitentiary. Deputies Daw son and Stackhouse both favor the change on the ground that in the time occupied t>y the prayer prisoners often lose their nerve who otherwise would go through the trap perfectly cool. Tho change contemplates having the religious service ii the death cell just before the execution. Another and more important change, for which there is more agita tion at present, is as to the method of inflicting the death penalty. Secretary of State Taylor, Harry Miner of tho board of pardons and others advocate tho adoption of electrocution in place of ' hanging, and a bill embodying the pro posed change will be introduced in the legialuture U» Uto cowing wuitei.— TSTo 39 |p PERSONAL GOSSIP. Mr- .!ui A. Logan will spend the wintes broad, it is said. Joe' • bcudler Harris wus a journey- Han 1 : in early life. Tin i!;..nd rin chief of the suit*-.!! iif MJ: .< /J- army is a Scotsman, by Lame i id McLain. Uni <! St :?es Embassador Bayard has promi ito !eliver the annual addre s in tin -.'.ui-iU to the Edinburgh Philo sophic iociety. Mr. ):::lstone bas written such a vast numb . , i letters during his life thu; his at. graphs bring only sixpence in the E' ash market. Jos. . Manuel, 98 years of age. and his w Sarah, i>6, have just celebrate ! their .njoiid v eddmg iu Kenm bunk port, > • They both enjc.y good health. Hei • Ouuant, the founder of the Ge neva i I Cross society, is now, at (!?, in git : poverty and nearly starving. Hi S; .tall ho had in promoting li.s idea. The Right Hon. C. P. Villic P., v. .is 83 years old, can be;. ' the c:. k whist players in the L 1 clubs. He was a schoolmate of i. .. I Byro:t. Se:. ' IT Nelson of Minnesota ha«; :;no farm 1 nearly 400 acres under the Ik t syste- f cultivation. He bas lived on it sir IS7I. This year he has large crops r sale. Th l)uke of Cambridge received the notice f his being superseded by Lo;d WolS' y with such disappointment that it is J red by his friends that his lil'e will 1. .:nt short. W: im M. Evarts, in his retirement at \Y -or, Vt., is said to take a keeu and 1 ly interest in public affairs. He reads . id writes with difficulty, but en joys j -d health and spirits. Hi Kin is the first Chinaman to be orda:u< '1 us a Christian minister in the eastci u part of the United States. He is a Pi. l ytcrian and has lived in New York -:: cc he came to this country, 20 yearb ..,0. Eix.'ivs&idor Bayard's family have been ! Ming office continually under the Unit..'l :tates government for 100 years, Jami. Jayard, the embassador's grand father . having been elected a delegate to the f- ii( ral congress in 1796. Lord DnfferuTs son, the Earl of Ava, who * uveled through this country last seasi , is soon to bo married in Loudon. The J'tung lady is said to be clever and charr; i'g and an heiress to a peerage as well us to a fortune. Ycung ladies who wish to poasess titles are informed that there are still six m riageablo dukes in England— namely: Grafton, age 81; Richmond, age 77; Norfolk, age 88; Marlborough age i 4; Roxburghe, age 19; Manches ter, 18. W. 8. Stratton, who owns the Inde pendence mine of Cripple Creek, Colo., is a c : iienter by trade. Three years ago he walked from Colorado Springs to Crip; Creek, a distance of SO miles, in oit.vi- to save the fare, which amount ed t.i $4. Now he has an income of $1,2 .COO a year. It *: ts something to have an emperor for a i end. The recent visit of Kaiser Will, a to Lord Lonsdale cust, it is said, -00,000. This is not quite as bad as v ; the case in which the Duke of Buc!. >:gham had Queen Victoria us his gue. c : .! Stowe. The costliness of her rect, ii >ii was so great as to bankrupt him. TURF TOPICS. A.: >?e can beat 'em all from A to Z. William Penn will change hands this fall. G. . Ma-wot and Flying Jib are on a "Lti, f--at." Benzetta ni-iy not be seen any more on i uirf this season. A li'-'.v source of revenue to track mat v.< —fine the drivers. K: i ith is gaited forward not un like • iilack gelding Guy, 2:09 :, 4 . C'.- ruia has produced mor< than one :•* d "plow horse," but only one Azi C V,\ Williams calculates ho must hav t about $40,000 on his big Gal •:s meetiug. Fi :.i ii mutuals in France pay n tax to i • ate, and consequently a record oft'. !» Mings is kept. Last year Paris bet' - 00,000 in this form alone on hor rices. F. Dwyer looks none the worse for 1: !■ English campaign and is at the rao d:. ly. Mr Dwyer says that in his opi:..! u the English horses average bet ter ;l>an ouis. In Philadelphia recently Joel P. Bailey drovo his black and gray road tea-.'i. carrying with him Colonel A. Lot i.'U Suowden, who weighs 223 poi.: . , a milo over tho Belmont track, without a skip or jump, in 2 :41?4- W:>s Lucy B. Griffin, an elocutionist, ere. id quite a stir in Albia, la., recent ly 1 v apjtearing in full knickerbockers, fclu idered a saddle horse and rode asi; :<'<« to ihe houses of several women frit d>. oomo of them fled from her in dismay, »ud none would go to the pave ment to greet her.—Horseman. GEMS OF THOUGHT. A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity I I a d< ;eof arsenic to life.—J. G- Holland. Labor rids us of three groat evils— irksoiucness, vice and poverty.—Vol taire. Live as long as you may, the first 20 years are the longest half of your life. —Sout hey. When the fight begins within him self, a man's worth something. The •oul wakes and grows.—Browning. When It Was. Physician (to government clerk) — Well, what do you complain of? ".Sieeplessnesß, doctor." "At what time do you go to bed?" "Oh ! 1 don't mean at night, but dur ing t :.)ue hours."—Tit-Bits. A Warning to Knickerbocker tilrW. r T. . o \va« a tire at the seaside hotel. T1 . brigade responded valiant ly . »••• In !y, who was in cycling cos tui i the cry of alarm leaped from hi -KIT and went to the window. • 'it! Oh, save me!" she shrieked. Hi i • I r.i>e fireman on the ladder pa 'e>t. "Ladies first," ho said and pa n to tu« chamber above, where th< ; 1* \vor«* i kirts.—London Wonder.
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