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,
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#sale within two n mths. f
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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
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All !j7 J&ros Hysicijic
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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.
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» 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.—
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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.