VOLXXXII
Mrs. J. E. Zimmerman,
WUV ARE WE 0
nil I THRONG
n/nJT IS THE 0
II nil I 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 ihe values, And a \isit to our big
store and inspection of our immense stock of Dress Goods. Millinery \\ rap-, &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, 38 inches
wide, real value, 50.
50c all-wool black and colored Serges, 50
inches wide, real value, 75c.
50c all-wool black Mohair Novelty, 4°
inches wide, real value, 75.
85c all-wool black Mohair Novelty, 46
inches wide, real value, fi.oo.
50c all vool black and navy Storm Serges
46 i : lies wide, real value, 75c.
75c all-wool black and navy Boucle Cloth
latest novelty, real value, SI.OO.
13.9S 1; test style, Ladies' Jacket, Beaver
Cloth, real value, $5.00.
15 .50 latest style genuine Rothschild
Jacket, real value, $8.50.
SI.OO infant's Eider Down Cloaks, real
value, $1.50.
$1.25 infant's Angora Trimmed Eider
Down Cloaks, real value, fi.oo.
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.
Don't forget that we are sole agents tor Standard Patterns.
Don't forget that we have the largest, most fashionable, lowest priced stock of
Millinery in the city of Butler.
Don't forget that we have opened a fine Art Department.
Mrs, Jennie E. ZimmermaN,
Opposite Hotel Lowry. Successor to Ritter & Rttlfctr.D
Bring your friends along.
Ire Than He toipeil For. Looking Forward,
6£2 L IN FOOTWEAR.
Always alert to the interests of our
/dmk lw patrons. First in the field with th*-
4M LATEST AND BEST
Jflpl v IN SHOES.
! GPR IDEAL ST7LGS IN
WlllyL FOOTWEAR I'OR
• -rLADIES & GENTLEMEN
Is what every customer <jl ours U 7\ I I /\ [VI I 1
thinks he has receiver! after making JL JLA- * *- J
• purchase. We find that our
tomers being convinced of means \A/ I [VI I M K
many more customers for us. You V V JL iJ- -I—4 *- *■
get more than you bargain for when « * 7
you get a pair of our SHOES. VV
Ladies' twentieth century SHOES
Cork soles Goodyear welts. Ladies' Fine button shoes, Pat. tip 85c, JI.OO, $1.2., ani!
$1.50. Heavy sole fair stitch at $2.00, $2. 50 and fj.oo. Goodyear welts are perfect
gems for the price. Ladies fine hand turns Dongola and cloth top lace and button.
Try our Womens' 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 when
you see the goods.
v • • % % t Shoes for men in fine
Invisible Cork Soles-™;^
$2.00, (2.50, $3.00 and J54.00, Extension soles. Men's Heavy Shoes at 75c, Ji.oo,
f 1.25 and $1.50. Fine Shoes at 90c, Jti.oo, $1. 25 add $1.50, l»th congress and lace.
Our Kid and Veal boots, high and low insteps at f 1.50, 12.00 #2.50 and $3.00. Dril
lers Heavy Box Toe Shoes high cut.
Boys' and Youths'SHOESgH
the Youngsters are here,grand styles for dress or the longest road to school, posi
tively will resist water at 75c, |r.oo 1.25 and 1.50. Manufacturers are asking 25 per
cent advance on shoes. HUoELTON will sell this winter at old prices, quality
maintained
Wool Boots, Rubber Boots and Shoes.
our new Rubber Boots with leather insoles, wont sweat the foot. We guaran
our best 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, -
Read This ! =-.
—AND —
Vou will learn the low prices Bickel is asking for reliable foot
wear. Why does he sell shoes so cheap ? Well, I will tell you
Next spring he intends building a new store room to take the place
of the one he now occupies and has been disappointed in getting
a large room so he will have to do business during the time he
builds in a much smaller room than he now has and therefore will
ofiler greater bargains in all kinds of footwear than ever before offered
in Butler county.
Here are a few of the Bargains Offered.
©
Ladies Hand Welt Shoes at $2.25.
" Turn " $225.
Ladi.*s tine Dongola, patent tip sho"s at 90 cents.
Ladies heavy oil grain (waterproof) shoes at sl.lO.
" calf shoes in button and lace at SI.OO.
Ladies best kip shoes at SI.OO.
Misses school shoes at cent*.
Childrens shoes at 50 cents.
Infants fine shoes at 25 cents.
Mens buff shoes, all styles at SI.OO.
Mens fine calf shoes at $1.50.
Mens Winter Tans, extended soles at $2.25.
Mens working shoes at SI.OO.
Hoys fine dress shoes at SI.OO.
Call and see our stock of Leggins and overgaiters for 1 adits
M isse, and Children—the very kind to wear this t : me of the year.
Our stock of Rubber Roots and Shoes is large. Full stock of Mens.
Boys, Youths and Ladies Felt Boots and Warm Lined Shoes at Rock-
Bottom Prices. Full stocK of Leather and Findings, including a
large stock of Lace Leather. Sole Leather cut to any amount you
may wish to purchase. Iron Stands with four feet each at so cents.
Mail orders receive prompt attention.
"JOHN BICKEL,
128 SMuin Street,
.BUTLER, PA.
Branch Store |2 5 N. riain st,
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, grey mixed,
real value, 40c.
50c men's heavy natural wool underwear,
real value, 75c.
5c per yard good dark calico, real value
6'Xc'
5c heavy sheeting—with advance price,
real value, 7c.
$2.25 Chenille Portiers, real value
53.50.
50c, 26-inch fast colored Sateen umbrellas
real value, 75c.
XHE BUTLER CITIZEN.
Impure Blood
Manifests itself in hive#, pimples, bo:!a
and other eruptions which disfigure the
face and cause pain and annoyance. lly
purifying the blood Hood's Sarsaparilla
completely cures these trouhles and clears
the skin. "Rood's Sar-« par'lla overcomes
th«t tirod, drowsy feeling so general nt
this season and gives strength and vitfor.
Hood s Sarsaparilla
Is the only true Mo. .d purifier prominent
ly in the public eye tc;'.ay. $1; u:x for f5»
Hood's Pi liS tion. riieeSSi-eots.
HEINEMAN & SO.i,
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|J Hammock*
3 J ■ e have tt.e largest J
qqj and finest line of
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VN all Paper J 6
froitj ibe cheapest to the \~ l
<£ \ finest of Pressed \
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$ Business.#
r Wall Paper at less than#
Jone-half cost. 5
5 Fine papers at the pricei
•of commo i cheap ones. *
# The largest stock of Wall#
JPaper in the county to be\
Jsold out either Wholesale
ißetail, at— #
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#sale nithin two months. #
£/%.
Ruoaing Cninces
is the man who buys the cheap and poor
ly made clothing simply because it is
cheap. There are just as good bargins
to be had in good grades of goods, such
lor instance as our $25.00 Clay Diagonal
Suits.
Running Chances is the man who
rushes from this "alteration sale" to that
"closing outbargains." The safe way
is to patronize tile firm that does busi
ness 011 the same principles you do.
You know that you have to deal with
then. You get honest goods for honest
prices, and don't save twenty-five cents
here to throw away seventy-five cents
there.
Chances are Not Running away from
you, but vou are running away from the
chances for the best bargins of the year
in Suits and Overcoats w hen you fail to
look at our immense stock.
Running • hances is the man who buys
now when lie can have us make him a
fine Overcoat for *'22.00.
COOPERm
Cor Diamond, Butler, Pa
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All grade of underwear at very
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Largest stock of hats and
furnishings for tleman in the
country. An inspection will prove
this to any ones satisfacture.
Colbert & Dale.
S. Main St., Butler, Penn'a.
UTTLKR. PA..THUHBDAY. OCTOBER 31,1895.
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il P Wl4 LL . COPYRIGHT. 1895. BV THE AUTHOR.
CHAPTER VL
Although I had the very respectable
balance of fHo.OOO at the bank, I had
not as yet since my arrival in London
paid it a visit. This was in pursuance
of our plan. So far I had only done busi
ness with tho supernumeraries, and
none of the people at the top had ever
even heard of me. Bat wo determined
that they should not long remain in
ignorance of the great American con
tractor, F. A. Warren.
Three mouths had elapsed since our
departure from Loudon on our piratical
tour to the Spanish main. In all nearly
five months had passed since Green had
Introduced me to the old lady whose
impregnable vaults we had now at last
determined to loot. That in itself was
a favorable circumstance, as it would
give me a chance to flourish in a grand
ly indefinite way to the effect that I hail
for some time been a customer of the
bank, and none of the officials would
probably take tho trouble to ascertain
how very brief, in fact, my acquaintance
had been.
I left London by the night mail from
Victoria station for Paris, tho first of
many hurried trips I took to the con
tinent on the business wo had entered
upon. Truly we worked hard, spent
money lavishly, brought all our power
and genius to work—for what ? To have
the lightning fall and pitch us from our
earthly heaven into prison's hell.
Upon my arrival I drove at once to
the Hotel Bristol, Place Veudome, a
swell hotel, where none but tho great
sirs of the earth could afford to stop.
Here I registered as F. A. Warren,
London and at once sent off the follow
ing letter:
P. M. Francis, 11x4-. Manager Bulk of Eng
land, London:
DEAR SIR—I am a customer of th« bank.
Therefore I tak<■ tho liberty of troublin.r j a
in tho hope to have tho benefit of your advice.
Will you kindly inform nn; what good 4 per
cent «to;*k« are to IM. had in tho market; also
if the bank will transact tho busino»a for me?
I remain very truly yours,
F. A. WARREN.
By return mail came a letter wherein
I was advised t > invest in India -1 per
cents or London Gas. I wrote an im
mediate order to have the bank purchase
£IO,OOO of India stock and sent my
check for that amount, on his own bank,
payable to the order of the manager. I
received the stock, instantly sold it and
replaced the money to my credit, and
the next day sent off an order for £IO,OOO
Gas stock and repeated tho operation
until I had made the impression I want
ed to make on the mind of the manager,
so that, when I returned to London for
my decisive interview and sent in my
card he would at once recognize tho
name, F. A. Warren, i;s the multimil
lionaire American who had been send
ing him £IO,OOO checks from Paris.
After the events narrated in the last
chapter I returned to London. I arrived
early in the morning, .aid meeting my
companions we had a long tr-d r -ixious
talk over my near apj.- oach - .aid all
imjiortant interview with that great sir
of the London w .. Id, the manager of
tho Bank of England. Happy for ns if,
in that interview, the manager had ; k
ed for tho custon-ary references or had
used ord.nary busints.4 precaution and
investigated mo, or indeed had 'ted as
any ordinary business man would have
done under ordinary circumstances.
Our known conclusions were that the
fact that I was already a <!■ .-wir, to
gether with the impression made by the
letters and my £IO,OOO checks, would
put tho thing through. Yet wo of coursj
felt that a thousand things could arise
to block our way effectually. A look, a
word, a shadow or a smile in my face
might ruin all, but still, after providing
so far as possible for every contingency,
after planning what was to be said or left
unsaid at tho interview, after my com
panions filling me full of advice, we
felt, after all, that everything must bo
left to my discretion to say and to act
as I thought best.
This council of war was hold in my
room in tho Grosvenor. I had arrived
from Paris at (! o'clock Mac and I
breakfasted together at 8. George join
ed us at 9, and we talked until 10, and
then we set out together for tho bank.
Arriving thero, they remained outside
watching for mv reappearance. Enter
ing the bank, I sent in my card—F. A.
Warren—by a liveried flunky and was
immediately ushered into tho manager's
parlor. He has long since gone over to
tho majority, so here I will not so much
as name or describe him. Sufficient, to
say that as soon as 1 set eyes upon him
I thought that wo would have no partic
ular difficulty in carrying out our plan .
Tho manager, who had been told that
I was a railroad contractor, expressed
himself highly gratified to have me do
my business through tho bank and said
they would do all in their power to ac
commodate me. I told him that of course
I was financing largo sums and would
require more or less discounts before the
year was out. Then I came away, and
meeting my two friends outside of the
bank in answer to their eager inquiries
as to what had transpired I told them
that so far as tho bank officials were con
corned our way to the vaults of tho bank
was wide open.
So ended tho last scene of act 1.
Tho next day I went to tho Continental
bank in Lombard street and bought
sight exchange on Paris for 200,000
francs, paying for it by a check on the
Bank of England. I was given a note
of identification to the Paris agent of
tho bauk.
That night I left Victoria station for
Paris. At 10 tho next morning I had my
money, and going to the Placo do la
Bourse, near the exchange, 1 commis
sioned a broker, who was a memlier of
the exchange, to purchase bills in Lon
don for £B,OOO. I cautioned him to buy
bills drawn only on well known bank
ing houses. About- IS o'clock lio had tho
bills ready, i paid him the amount,
along with his commission, and examin
ing the paper found be had purchased for
mo about what I wanted.
I will explain, for tho benefit of any
reader not conversant with financial
transactions, that if John Russell, cot
ton broker in Savannah, ships a thou
sand bales of cotton to a firm in Man
chester, tho firm in Manchester author
izes him to draw a bill of exchange on
their firm, payable at some London bank
at three or six months' time, for tho
valuo of the cotton. We will say the
price is £IO,OOO. Russell draws ten bills
for £I,OOO each, say, payable at the
Union bank of London. He gives theso
bills to a rnonoy broker in Savannah,
who sells them on the exchange and
gets for them whatever tho rate of ex
change may then be on London. The
president of tho Georgia Central railroad
may have ordered a thousand tons of
steel rails in England for his road, and
to pay for them he orders a broker to
buy for him bills on London to tho
amount of the cost of tho rails. Ho pur
chases the Russell bills, and these bills
of exchange ho sends in payment to the
steel rail munufacturerttin England; so,
as a matter of fact, the president of tho
Georgia Central pays Russell for his
thousand bales of cotton, but jhaa tho
bills of exchange. So, in place of £lO,-
000 in gold being freighted twice across
the ocean, tho ten pieces of paper cross
only once. These ten bills for £I,OOO
each, drawn on the Uuion bank of Lou
don at six months, in duo time are pre
sented at that bank and are duly ac
cepted. '
Instead of commercial notes or bills
they are now known as acceptances and
are just as good as a bank note. There
fore if the owner, no matter who ho is,
wants tho money at once any bank will
discount all or either for the face value,
less the interest. In every commercial
center of tho world these accepted bills
are being discounted by banks and
moneyed corporations for enormous
sums, but by no bank in the world in
such huge amounts as by the Bank of
England. Its daily discounts run into
the millions.
What our plan was will bo made clear
later.
The evening of tho day of my arrival
in Paris found me on the express speed
ing to Calais. Two hours past midnight
1 was on the miserable littlo passenger
steamer that plies across tho chopping
channel and which I suppose has seen
more of human misery than all the
fleets that sail the Atlantic, for tho
cliannel has strong countercurrents, and
wind, tide and currents seem ever to be
in violent opposition, and here
E'er aeross the main doth float
A sad and solemn swell,
Tho wild, fantastic, fitful note
Of Triton's breathing shell.
And Triton (old Neptune's other
name) makes all passers over this part
of his realm pay ample tribute for "his
fantastic, fitful note."
The Paris night express lands one at
early dawn in London, nearly always
weak on the legs, however. I breakfast
ed with Mao, and after that took the
bills to the various banks on which they
were drawn, and leaving them for ac
ceptance I called again the next day and
received them back, bearing across the
face the magic words:
LONDON, AUK. 14. 1872.
Accepted for tho Union bank of London.
E. BARCLAY, Manager.
J. WAYLANI>, Assistant Manager.
Then I hurried to the Grosvenor, and
we all looked at them with curiosity,
for it was upon the imitation of just
such acceptances that our whole plan
was based.
Of course tho success or failure of our
whole plan turned upon this point. Is
it tho custom of the Bank of England
(in 1878) to send acceptances offered for
discount to tho acceptors for verification
yf signatures?
This is always dono in America, and
had this very requisite precaution been
used by the Bank of England our plan
would have been fruitless.
Taking my deposit book and the gen
uine bills, I went to tho bank and left
tho bills for discount. This was at once
done, and the amount placed to my
credit. I drew £IO,OOO, and that night
found me once more one of 500 unfor
tunates paying tribute to Neptune. This
time I landed at Ostend and took the
train for Amsterdam. There I repeated
tho Paris ojieration, securing £IO,OOO in
genuine bills I returned to London and
as before left them for acceptance Then
my companion manufactured a lot of
imitations and put them away with
those previously manufactured to be all
ready when the day came to use them.
The genuine bills were then discounted.
All the details of events leading
through tho long summer and autumn
days of 1872 up to the hour when the
golden shower began to full on us aro of
intense, even dramatic, interest. I will
not, however, lengthen the narrative by
giving here any further account of them,
but will merely relate tho story of the
last five days before the actual presenta
tion of our home brewed acceptances.
The bank had been discounting for
weeks comparatively largo sums for me
of the genuine article, and our imita
tion was a close copy. Many thousand
pounds of the genuine article discounted
for me had matured and had been paid,
and more thousands were still in the
vaults awaiting maturity aud would fall
due while our home manufactured bills
wonld bo laid away in tho vaults, thero
to remain for four or five months until
due. Of course a full month or two
months beforo that we could pack our
baggago and bo on tho other side of the
world.
But, as the sequel will show, the
reality took on a different complexion
from the ideal.
My credit at the bank was solid as a
rock. That means I had gono through
tho reil tape routine. It only behooved
us to uso circumspection enough to avoid
making mistakes in our papers, and
fortune was ours. I knew everything
was all right, but George, being a thor
ough business man himself, could not
comprehend that it could bo quite right,
and ho insisted upon one supreme test.
Any single bill of exchange is seldom
drawn for tnoro than £I,OOO, rarely for
£2,000, and one of £<i,ooo is almost un
heard of. But George had made up his
mind that, as a test, and to make an im
pression upon the bank manager, 1
should go to Paris and get a bill on Lon
don from Rothschilds drawn to the or
der of F. A. Warren direct. Could this
be done it would of course make it ap
pear that I had intimate relations with
tho Rothschilds, and as a minor consid
eration wo could use the Rothschilds' ac
ceptance—a pretty nervy thing to do, as
Sir Anthony do Rothschild, the head of
tho Loudon house, whose name we pro
posed to offer, was a director of the
Batik of England and would have to
pass his own paper for discount—that
is, paper bearing his name, manufac
tured by ourselves.
We tried to talk George out of this
notion, which Mac and I regarded as a
freak unnecessary in the first place and
impossible anyhow. But ho was persist
ent, and I had to start out and try. At
Calais I took my place in what the
French call a coupe—that is, the end
compartment on a car, which, by pay
ing 10 francs extra, you can occupy
alono. I had fallen into a sound sleep
before tho train started and was aroused
from it to find myself hurled about the
compartment much as a stout boy would
shako a mViso in a cage aud quite as
helpless.
Our train was off the track. My car
riage was near the engine, and the mo
mentum of tho long train forced the car
in tho real- of mine up on end, and it
appeared as if it would fall over and
crush me. I thought my hour had come,
and I cried out, "At last!" There was
no fear or terror in it, but merely tho
thought that after many months of al
most incessant travel, and necessarily of
peril, "at last" my fate had come. It
had not. How good heaven could have
been if it had sent me to my doom then
and there.
Tho accident had occurred at Mar
quise, a small town lti Calais
and four from Boulogne, tho first stop
ping place of the express. Two were
killed ami half of the remaining passen
gers injured. My own injuries were
slight and consisted of trifling cuts on
tho face and hands from flying glass.
But. far worse than that. I li:id received
a nervous shock which took sume weeks
to wear off, and during the rest of my
journey to Paris and return to Londou I
was as nervous as a timid woman. I
staid at Marquise until noon, when the
express passing at that hour made a spe
cial stop to pick me up.
The read from Paris to Calais is
known as tho Cliemin de Fer du Nord,
and Baron Alehouse de Rothschild, head
of the Pars Roth ch'.ids, is the president
of the road. This fact occurred to me
within a few minutes of the accident,
and I thought I might make use of the
affair as a means to help me in my busi
ness at Paris. I arrived about dark,
went to the Grand hotel, registered as
C. J. Horton, London, and went to bed
at once. My nerves were so shaken that
I was timid even when in the elevator,
but I slt'pt well and awoke at daylight
feeling better.
At 10 o'clock, limping badly and
leaning on a cane, I entered a carriage
and drove to the Maison Rothschild, Rue
Lafitte. The banking house might well
be called a palace. The various offices
open upon a courtyard, while the whole
architecture of tho building would sug-
residence of an officer of state
or nobleman rather than a building de
voted to finance. But the currents which
center there are potent and farreaching
and come richly laden with tribute from
the four quarters of the world. To win
that tribute slaves toil, and, toiling, die
in Brazilian diamond mines, and thou
sands of coolies entrapped by agents in
China and India enter into perfidious
contracts which commit tnem to hope
less slavery and send them to wear out
their lives in despairing toil amid the
pungent and murderous ammoniacal
fumes of the guano islands of Chile and
Peru. The Rothschilds, too, own tho
Almaden quicksilver mine and others.
Controlling the quicksilver industries
of the world, and to swell their abnor
mal hoard, portentous in its vastness,
other poor wretches, condemned under
form of law, are doomed to days of
wearing toil, and, their bones rotting
from quicksilver absorption, to nights
of racking pains. So, too, far Siberia
contributes its quota of human misery
that the golden stream of interest on
century old loans may have no inter
ruption, but pour on unceasingly into
the vaults of tho Rothschilds.
Alighting from the carriage and
mounting the steps with difficulty, I en
tered the English department, and seat
ing myself awaited the manager's pres
ence. He came, and expressing great
concern when he learned I was a vict.ai
uf tho Marquise disaster asked what he
could do for me. I replied I wanted to
see the baron. He disappeared into a
range of offices, and no doubt told Baron
Alphonse I was some important person
age, doubly important because injured
on his road.
Soou a slight, sallow man of about
43 appeared, wearing an old fashioned
stovepipe hat and a shabby snit of snuff
colored garments. The look of the at
tendants testified that the deity was be
fore me. Taking off his antiquated
ohapean, ho began a profuse apology for
the accident, explaining that accidents
were most unusual events in France;
that he would order his own physician
to attend me; that I should have every
attention without the slightest charge
or oxjieuse to myself, etc.. and ended bv
saying 1 was to command him if he
could serve mo. In return I told him
since ho was so distressed over the ac
cident and my plight I should say no
more about either, but as I was too
badly shaken to complete the business
on which I had come to Paris I should
request him to instruct his subordinates
to aid mo in transmitting the funds
I had brought from London back again.
He called the manager and told him to
accommodate mo in anything; then,
shaking hands and with many expres
sions of regret, he withdrew.
I told the manager I wanted a three
months' bill on London for £<>,ooo. Ho
informed mo that the house of Roths
child was not issuing time bills, but
since the baron's order suspended the
rule in my case he would procure mo
six bills for £I,OOO each. These really
were just as good for our purpose as one
bill for £6,000, but I bad come to Paris
on my brother's demand that I should
procure one bill for this unusual
amount, so perforce I had to say "No,"
that I wanted one bill only.
The manager began to remonstrate,
say lIIK it was unur-ual and wanted to
explain the natnro of bill of exchange,
but I cut hi:n short, bidding him recall
the b:iron al once. The thought of re
calling that Jupiter to repeat an order
was enough to send a thrill through the
entire staff, and he instantly said, "Oh,
sir, if you wish tho £6,000 in one bill
you shall have it, but it will involve
some delay. " So paying him 150,000
francs on account I ordered the bill sent
to me nt 2 o'clock precisely at the Grand
hotel and drove off to tho Louvre, where
I spent two hours in tho picture galler-
Taking off hi* antirpKiti <1 chapcnu he hi -
ij'tn a prul unc nimloijy.
ies. At 2 o'clock 1 was at the hotel, and
an attendant came with the bill, and
pointing to a signature on it informed
mo it was that of a cabinet minister,
equivalent to our secretary of the treas
ury, certifying that the tax due the
government on tho bill was paid. Ho
explained the revenue stamp required
upon a bill of exchange was one-eighth
of 1 peroentof tho face of the bill, mak
ing the tax ou mysinglobill 187 fi.mcs,
or about $:!7. All bills aro stamped in
a registering machine, which presses tho
stamp into the paper, but there were no
registering machines for a stamp of so
high a denomination as 187 francs either
in the branch revenue office in tho
Rothschild hank or at the treasury, so
the baron had taken tho bill to the
treasury himself and got the cabinet
minister to put his autograph on it—
probably the first and only time in his
tory that such a thing had been done.
I wanted very much indeed to keep that
bill as a curiosity, but theu the necessity
of the time was on ui» antiN wan not
theu a collector of curios.
What diligence and strict attention to
business do men exhibit when they start
out to wreck their own lives and break
the hearts of tin >so near to them ! In a
play by a modern writer one scene pre
sents satan flying at midnight over one
of our cities, while the drunken songs
and joyous shouts of some gilded revel
ers rise in the JThja mprry tonga
and lannhtfr are tniudc to tbi- earn or
Lncifer. He pauses in bis flight to lis
t« n. and as the songs and shouts in
crease in volume ho l«xiks down, and
with a bitter sneer solil.viuizes thus of
them:
Ye are my bondsmen nml my thrn!U.
Your UTN I fill with hitter pain.
And that turns it up pretty well, but
we must look straight away from the
entrance of the Primrose Way to the
exit.
Well, I had successfully played my
trump card on the Rothschilds, and not
the end thought I had wen. and
cleve» , • —> b.-fore sitting down to
dinner 1 wc-ui ~ • ' "rnph cilice and
telcprraphed to my
"The Egyptians nil pus Mxi ilie
Red sea, but tho Hebrews are drowned
therein."
Thinking this rather witty, I went to
dinner well satisfied.
There was a friend, a very old friend
of mine, residing in Hartford, Edwin
Isoyes by name.
He arrived ten days later, and at a
little dinner given in his honor we told
him our plot.
On several occasions I had pone to
Jay Cooke & Co., in Lombard street,
and purchased bonds under the name of
F. A. Warren-, and giving checks in pay
ment upon the Bank of England. Soono
day I went there with Noyes and pur
chased SOO.OOO in bonds, giving my
check for tliem. I then introduc«<l Noyes
as my clerk, directing them to deliver
any bonds I bought to him at auy time.
The next day he called, and they gave
him the bonds which I had given my
check for the day before, so there was
no necessity any longer for mo to come
in person to make purchases. Noyes
could appear there any day, give an
order for bonds, secure a bill for them,
and in half an hour bring a Warren
cheek for the amount of the bill, pre
tending, of course, that he had got it
from me, but really getting it from
Mac, leaving the check for collection
and to call the next day for tho bonds.
The samo day that I introduced him
to Jay Cooke & Co. I took him to the
Bank of England at a busy time of day,
and while drawing £2,000 I casually in
troduced him to the paying teller as my
clerk, requesting the teller to pay him
any checks I sent. Then for the next few
days I had Noyes take checks to the
bank and had him order two or three
small lots of bends from Jay Cooko &
Co., so that they became familiarized
with seeing him come on my business.
Tho plan was completo at last. Ev
erything was ready to carry out our
scheme in perfect safety to all. and as
related in the beginning of tho chap
ter I was now on my way to the bank
for my last visit with tho Rothschild
bill in my hand. Many accounts were
given of this famous interview in the
English press just after the discovery of
the fraud and prior to my arrest; also
when the details transpired at the trial.
Tho facta were simply these:
I presented myself at the bank, and
sending my card to tho manager was
ushered at once into his parlor. After a
few remarks upon the money and stock
market I produced the bill, remarking
that I had a curiosity to show him which
had been sent me by a correspondent in
Paris. It was certainly a curiosity. It
was a thing entirely unknown fn the
history of the bank to have a bill of ex
change bearing the signature of a cabi
net minister certifying that the internal
revenue tax had been paid on it. This,
alonK w;'h tho circumstance that the
bill was made payable to myself, evi
dently made considerable impression on
the manager and confirmed him in his
good opinion of his customer. The un
usual features of this bill of exchange led
him to rolato some of the inner events
of tho bank's history, during which I
asked him what precaution the bank
took against forgery. He told me a for
gery on the bank was impossible.
But I asked: "Why impassible? Oth
er banks get hit sometimes and why
not the Bank of England?" To that
question he gave a long reply, ending
with the assertion that "our wise fore
fathers have bequeathed us a system
which is perfect." "Do you wish mo to
understand you have not changed your
system since your forefathers' time?" I
said To which he emphatically replied,
"Not in tho slightest particular for a
hundred years." In conclusion I told
him I should be fully occupied looking
after my different business interests, but
would give him a call if I found time.
I also said I would liavo the bill dis
counted and take the cash away with
mo instead of having it placed to my
credit. Ho called an attendant, gave the
necessary order, and tho cash was hand
ed mo. Bidding the manager goodby, I
repaired to our meeting place and show
ed the notes for tho discounted bill.
Even George was satisfied that my credit
at the bank was good for any amount of
discounts on any sort of paper.
Everything now was ready for my de
parture from England. For some weeks
my partners had been busy preparing for
Iho completion of the operation.
The first lot of bogus bills were ready
to go into the mail at Birmingham as
soon as I was out of the way, it having
been decided that I should then be out
of the country. So one Monday late in
November I packed my baggage, and
after many warm handshakings I bade
my friends adieu. We had had many
talks about the happy future. Wo had
planned pleasant things and spoken con
fidently of our four-in-htuids, our sum
mer cottages at Saratoga and Newport,
of our town house, fine suppers and onr
boxes at tho opera. After that I saw
them for a brief hour on the coast of
France and once more said adieu. When
we mot again, it was in Newgate. I
need hardly say that for the next 20
years we had no boxes at tho grand
opera, no four-in-hands, nor yet any fine
suppers, but all that which was merely
external passed away, consumed in that
fierce flame, but all that was manly and
true remained—that is, onr devotion and
courage and our high resolve to conquer
fate and live for better things.
[TO BE CONTIXUED.]
Why He Worried.
"I wouldn't worry so much about
that boy of yours at college," said the
friend of tho family. "He's not a poker
player.''
"I know he isn't," replied the father
ruefully, "but from the size of his ex
pense accounts I'm afraid he thinks he
is. "—Chicago Post.
The Major*" Change of Mind.
The Throckmorton story, while an old
and often told one, may not be known
to some readers. It goes that the major
and three or four others wero engaged
in a gamo of cards in this city. Among
the players was a man who, though a
stranger, appeared to be a gent lonian.
Appearances were deceptive, however,
for he was soon detected in and charged
with cheating. As the players arose to
their feet the crook asked one of them :
"Do you believe I was cheating, sir?"
"I do," was tho answer.
Whereupon ho was promptly knocked
down by the gambler, who was an ath
letic giant.
'lpo you believe I was cheating?" he
aske® of auothcr of tho party.
"I am bound to say I do," was the
reply, and down ho went also.
Then, turning to Major Throckmor
tou, tho pugilistic sharp put the same
question to him.
"Well," answered tho major, "I did
think so, but I've had a of a
change of opinion!"— Louisville Cou
rier-Journal.
MET A REAL INJUN
Bat Hi* SUtrmpQt WM Promptly !»Unu«
fd bj the Other Hoy.
"I ran away wunst t' fiyht Injrjs u
kill boars,'' remarked the rc !::e
bey as he spat out a straw 1 L..1 L». li
chewing.
"How'<l ye git back?" a.-k'-d the Vv.
who had a rag tiid around one ui l>.
toes.
"Pap," said the redheaded boy li
ccnically. " Juevor do it t"
"ff'hm! Wnnst."
" 'Bout how long ago?"
"Lass summer. Didn't want no b>--
ill mine—jest Injuns, Seems 11. • \
ye read about it it don't take i~. R.i t'
kill Injuns. Jest th' least lit! >« .p, u
over they goes, 'u th' hero, ho .«i. <1 uy
'u says, 'I am avenged!' They're 1 tfui
fierce, though, real ones is."
"Shucks!" said the* redheado' boy.
"I kin read all that myself. Ttil about
bow ye run away."
"Me father he licked me 'bout re;;d"n
Injun stories, 'N I Ugun that day SJY.:I
part o' me vittals t' take away. N I
watched when me mother wasn't look n
'n swiped me winter overcoat out o' th'
press where th' moth balls is. When th'
clock struck 12, I sneaked out o' th'
bouse 'n made ont's fast's ever I could."
"Lonesome, wasn't it?"
"Kind o', but I went on. I had me
father's old revolver 'n I calculated I'd
find a knife on th' first Injun I killed."
"Where'd ye go first? I was mos't'
Indiana when pop"—
"I went out t' Sixty-third street—ye
remember that vacant lot where we
uster play?"
"Shucks, that ain't far. Why, when
I run away, I was goin"—
"Huh, so was L Ye lissen. I found
some wood 'n made a match lire. I
wasn't goin t' be surprised by any In
juns"—
"Ain't no Injuns on Sixty-third
street."
"That's all ye know. Ye'd 1»'ter
tie yer ears round yer head—ye 1 1. 1
laid down in th' shadder 'u presently
I heard stealthy footsteps."
The redheaded boy looked apprehen
sively behind him, but seeing nothrtig
began to whistle the "Bowery Girl. "
"I rolled over 'n put me hand on my
trusty weepin 'n"— He stopped myste
riously.
"Huh. Don't believe it was"—
'"N I 6een a real Injun all in war
paint, 'n with two pistols 'n knives 'n
a lot of fresh scalps in his belt, '11"
"Hully gee!" breathed the redheaded
boy, moving closer.
"I—l jest remembered how bad me
mother'd feel t' have me killed 'n—'n
I got out fer home's fast's I could."
"Had they missed ye?"
"Naw. Ye ain't goin t' tell."
"Say, he was 'bout 6 feet tall, 'n he
looked husky. He"— -
The redheaded boy suddenly got up
and turned a handspring.
"Say," he yelled, "they's a man
what's a actor as lives right next that
vacant lot. I seen 'im once at th' tliay
ter 'n he was doin a Injun eoug 'n
dance in warpaint, ho was. Smart
ain't ye!"
"Ye're a liar!" said the boy with a
rag tied ar ,and one of bis toes. He spat
on his hands as he said it. And tiiey
fought until a big policeman came
around the corner on bis way to dinner.
—Chicago Times-Herald.
Wit observe with «ati*fnctlci that tfce
protectionist journals of the entire country
combine to defend the national policy of
encouragement to home industries with
ability aad success. Their arguin"'iUi an*
up to date. and deal with new phases of
the question. The welfare of the whom
country, and especially of the wage earn
ers, is an inspiring theme and merits th.
ability with which the subject is di»cu>ae.
in connection with tho tariff.
THE gold beaters of Chicago, New York
and Philadelphia are unable to see where
the Democratic tariff has helped them.
Wheu it went into effect they were getlinp:
sl3 a week or $0.50 a beating of 500 leave.-
on piece work. Since then wages have de
clined to $7.50 a week and fct .50 a l>ealii)g.
Now they are on strike for $lO a week and
si> a beating, and will think themselves
lucky if they win. These gold boaters are
not tho only artisans beaten by the I)oiuo
cratic tariff.
THK wool growers of Montana propose
to go to congress next winter and demand
a protective tariff on wool. As the hou»
will l>o Republican they will he heard, an.
if the Republican party controlled th.
White House they would get what th>
wanted. Hut it is strange that tho-,,-
M< 111 tana wool growers don't know tl.
own interests. The Democratic statesn
have been telling them that free wool «-
the li it thin. 7 In the world for them, .
yet they ean't see it. If they are not <
ful the Democratic sheets will bo culli'i.
Hit 111 political wool growers.
THE campaign of loc<tl candidates f.-
the county oflioes this year is very mil >
as other year- Tho Democrats have adop
ed a new scheme, however, and It. is one
that they have been very cleverly culti
vating in every district of tho county. II
Is to admit tho overwhelming Republican
majority, and that they have no show of
electing anyone on tho ticket. Therefore,
upon personal grounds—as the case may
lie—they ask this Republican or that Re
publican simply for a complimentary voUi.
If Republicans yield to this mode of cut
ting candidates on their own ticket, they
may greatly endanger its success, and that
is all there is in It for tho Democratic
ticket. If it results in tho election of any
one of the Democratic candidates they will
only laugh In their sleeves at you for being
so foolish .as to cast your vote as a compli
ment. No good Republican will be caught
by this scheme. Vote tho straight ticket
and there will lie 110 chance for exultation
at your expense.
Tli# tofnl lt#pnbl!ran vol# In Ponnsyl
vnnlii In «>iT rears ■brink* on in a?«re|«
of 30 P'T cent. This si onld not b«. I>o
your (luiy n* a good ctlz*n. Oo out and
▼of# ou #'#rt lon «ta.r nn I do yoar shar#
toward rcmrxljlns (Ula coudltlon of tblaga.
Coantwrfrltlng by ••Tn*t#r«.* #
CLEVKI..VNO, Oct. 11.—Joseph Druyer wm#
brought lieri* Inst by a deputy United
States maivj.il from Stark county ftnd
oharg<-d with counterfeiting. Dreyer tried
to i>uss n dollar bill which hud been llxe.l
with pits tors to represent $lO. In hla pos
session was found iv la bill raised to a S9O
In the sniuo way. lie also had pasters for
*SO bills. He told the officers that he
bought tii« pasters from a Pittsburg man,
whi> supplied them by mail. This is lb*
second arrest for a similar offense In that
vicinity within u short time, and It Is be
lieved counterfeiters are systematically at
work.
A Titled i'rracliar.
NEwnrito, X. y., Oct. 14.—Rev. W. H.
Evans, who supplied the pulpit of Christ
church, in Warwick, Orange county, dur
ing tho past summer, has since fallen helf
to au Immense estate in Ireland, and he
also gets the title of Lord Garbury. It U
stated that the estate will net him an in
come of about $40,000 per annum. Mr*.
Evans will lie known as tho Countess Tar
bury.
Fatally Mint Mi* Sw»*tlirart.
KA TON, O.,Oct. 14. —John Monroe Smith,
aged 17, oiicortod home his sweetheart,
Gurtrudc Ijilly, quarreled with her on tho
way. aud arriving at the house shot and
fatally wounded her In the presence of her
mother. He than surrendered to the
eotajty sheriff. i
"No 41
DO YOUR DUTY.
lt*pnt>ll<vani of tl>« Variooe ConaMas
SUonl.l Not be ApAllatie.
Republicans of the several district* of
the county should be preparing to poll as
large a vote as possible. Over confidence
1* the danger in this campaign It is only
aquwtion of majority In Pennsylvania.
The Republican tide is strong, and the
people are anxiously awaiting Republican
success both this year and next. But in
order to emphasize this fact it Is necessary
fur those who believe in Republican prin
ciples and policies to go to the polls and
express their sentiment*. It must be re
membered that this Is an off year. Ordi
narily wo would have but a state treas
urer to elect. and In only a few counties
an- t!i.*re county ticket* to eleet.
This year the importance of the state
e'o-tton Is Increased by the fact that we
hav • to elect seven judges who shall con
stiTu.'j onr superior court. It Is seldom
1 n- K n ve an opportunity of excrcie
iug S'i much power at one time as In the
coming election. On Nov. 7. they will
choose an utlre appeilant judicial tri
bunal whi.-h ' hall exercise jurisdiction in
a -tv l»r r. . ia**s of Important cases. The
1. . . libit: y of the gentlemen composing
th •> li. p. Ibl ic.tn ticket htut never l>een
H - >t: i.ti. They are men of high stand
• i in the several communities In which
they r.-s'de. nud will honor the party and
th? st.it < In the administration of th*
Jiidictul office—Butler Eagle
Don't fail to Tote thU <Mr.
A HEAVY REDUCTION" : THE
REPUBLICAN MAJORITY 1 PENN
SYLVANIA. FOLLOWJ G I*l • \ THK
RESULT IN INDIANAPOLIS. WOULD
BE HERALDED BROADCAST AS AN
EVIDENCE OF REPUBLICAN WEAK
NESS AND DISINTEGRATION.
Don't fall to vote thU year.
A DEFICIT PARfv.
Holding Hack Expenditures to Mislead
the Public.
As was to have been expected, the ad
ministration is beginning to hold back ex
penditures In the closing days September,
In order to be able to send out to tho coun
try H fnlse and misleading report of the
government's financial operations for the
hr*t quart «r of the fiscal year. Democratic
organs aie commencing their regular
monthly luetics of proclaiming that "afc
last" 1 h-» income of the treasury under the
Wilson Gorman tariff is equaling the
o-.ts" B~ th* first of October we will see
A concert .1 attempt on the pari of apol-
of incompetency to persuade the peo
ple that there LJ re*lly no need of tariff re*
Tislan.
This effort will he based, if the past reo>
ord of the Cleveland administration
co.ints for anything, on dishonest treasury
statistics which will bo "doctored" tar
the purpose of showing a surplus of two or
three millions for September. The presi
dent and his advisers realize the danger of
allowing tlioir party to go before the coun
try In November as the crenture of a tariff
that, is piling up a deficit at the rote of
more than $50,000,000 a year. But, how
ever loudly the administration defender*
ma v shout. It will be perfectly sasy for Re
publican journals to oonvict them of false
hood by publishing detailed accounts of
the revenue and expenditure for the whol*
period since July I.—New York Commer
cial Advertiser.
Don't fail to Tuto this ymar.
THE TOTAL REPUBLICAN VOTI
IN PENNSYLVANIA IN OFF YEARS
HAS USUALLY SHRUNK 80 PER
CENT THIS SHOULD NOT BE PER
MITTED THIS YEAR. IT WILL NOT
OCCUR IK EVERY REPUBLICAN
DOES HIS DUTY.
Don't fall to rote this y»ar,
THE OFFICIAL BALLOTS.
They Are Now B«!nt Mallod to th« Oonity
( on»ni'*-»toners.
"TT \!ii:is«uno. Oct. 83 —The Official bal
lot* HIO now h-ing mailed from the state
department to the commissioners of th*
various counties. With the exception of
the counties of Greene, Huntingdon aad
Mi fill 11. the t .allot will contain six ool
ti'iiu. In Huntingdon and Mifflin tb*
ballot has two extra columns by reason of
th ■ cutest i: that Judiolal district, whleb
has lesulted in Williamson and Culberson
?oing ou as candidates by nomination
papers. In Greene county the ballot will
have seven columns, owing to Ingraham
.V'in? on as the candidate of th* "Trn*
Deiuocratie" party forjudge.
On the regular ballot the Republican,
Democratic and Prohibition parti** hav*
full state tickets. But the People'* party
ha* only candidates for state treasureraod
three juilges of the superior court.
The Social ist-ljalior party has a candi
date for state treasurer only.
Next year the state department will have
its hands full, iuasrauch as there will b*
an election for presidential electors, thirty
two congressmen, twenty-five senators, SO*
members of assembly and several judges.
Don't fall to wot» (his ysar.
THE STAY AT HOME VOTE IB SUF
FICIENT TO DESTROY ANY PARTY.
IF EVERY REPUBLICAN DEPENDED
UPON HIS NEIGHBOR TO ELECT
THE TICKET THE DEMOCRACY
ViOL'LD CARRY THK STATE.
Don", fail tn Tote this yoar.
Ru>sian « ounpstltlon Coming.
A number of manufacturers at St.
Petersburg have approached M. Witt*
with the reqiK-at that special facilities
shall IH> granted for the export of certain
Russian product* to Hamburg, whonce
they are destined to enter the markets of
tho continent. The wares chiefly affected
ar> tot w 11. woolen and silk goods of Huf
sinn mannfucture, porcelain, soap and
ooiu.s,uouivy.—Ryliuid's Iron Trade Clr
oular.
Don't fall la voto this year.
DON'T PERMIT YOURSELF TO BE
DECEIVED BY THE SIZE OF THK
MAJORITY IN PENNSYLVANIA.
YOl'R VOTE IS NEEDED. CAST IT
EARLY IN THE DAY.
Don't fall to Tote this year.
Take Time to Tote.
Every Republican should take the time
to vote on the fifth of November. It will
mean a great deal te the party, not only
In Pennsylvania, but in the nation.
Don't fall to Tote this joar.
NO MAN CAN CONSIDER HIMSELF
A GOOD REPUBLICAN WHO DOK«
NOT CAST HIS BALLOT ON TH*
ITFTH OF NOVEMBER.
Don't tall to Tote this jr*ar.
When It Waa.
Physician (to government clerk)—
Well, what do you complain of?
"Sleeplessness, doctor."
"At what time do yon go to bed?"
"Oh! I don't mean at night, but dur
ing oilice honti."—Tit-Bits.
A Warning to Knickerbocker Oirlt.
Th»re V7as » fire at the seaside hotel
The local fire brigade responded valiant
ly. One lady, who was in cycliDg cct
tume, at the cry of alarm leaped from
her chair and went to the window.
"Savo me! Ob, navemel" she shrieked.
But tbe bravo fireman ou the ladder
paused not. '' Lad tee first,'' be said and
paMed on to the ohomber above, wbw#
0* fcuii