VOLXXXU
to Tliao He Bargained Fop, Looking Forward,
§ IN FOOTWEAR.
LATE|T T
OUR IDEAL ST7LES IN
FOOTWEAR FOR
LADIES & GENTLEMEN
Is what every cusiomei oT ours IJ /\ I I J\ J\l I J
thinks he has received after making _L 11. J 1 * ■
a purchase. We find that our cus—mr~r~r~ I - ~X~T r" I^ I")
tomers being convinced of means \A/ I IXI I W K
many more customers for us. You V V -i- ~ J—*
get more than you bargain for when \ -gj * |-*
you get a pair of our SHOES. yy
Ladies' twentieth century SHOES SS3S
Cork - !es Goodyear welts. Indies' Fine button shoes, I'at. tip 85c, #I.OO, $1.25 ai:
si.y Heavy sole fair stitch at $2.00, $2.50 and $3.00. Goodyear welts are perfect
gem , l</ the price. Ladies fine hand turns Dongola and cloth top lace and button.
Try our Womens' and Childrens' Kid and Calf Shoes,
The-. . the tiling for School Shoes. They will resist water. We have them i:
high cut, lace and button, at price that your pocket book will open quickly wlien
you see the goods.
I • • | | /~t \ | Shoes for men in fine
Invisible Cork Sol
$2.00, $2.! 50, 53.00 and ji-1.00, Extension soles. Men's Heavy Shoes at 75c, *I.OO,
$1.25 and >i.;■>. i'ine Shots at9oc, |r.oo, «i.25 add fi.so, both congress and lace.
Our ki'! and Vi al Ijoots, high and low insteps at <1.50, *2.00 >2.50 and fj.oo. Dril
lers Heavy Bo* Toe Shoes high cut.
Boys' and Youths'SHOES™!^
th" Youngsters are here,grand styles for dress or the longest road to school, posi
tively will resist water at 75c, fj.oo 1.25 and 1.50. Manufacturers are asking 25 per
cent advance on shoes. HUHELTON will sell this winter at old prices, cjualitj
maintained
Wool Boots, Rubber Boots and Shoes.
See our new Rubber Boots with leather insoles, wont sweat the foot. We guaran
tee our best rubber boets not to break. Save Money Save Tinie Save Annoy
ances by buying at
#- t3. C, Huselton's, -#
Every step you take in HUSELTON'S Shf>es is a treat to the f<:e
102 N. Main Street, -
THIS WEEK'S BARGAINS!
One lot fine felt hats at $2.78 —worth $5.00.
One lot felt hats at $1.79 —worth $3.00
One lot children's hats at 98c —worth $1.50.
Elegant assortment hats at $2, $6, $7 and $8 —woith
$lO to $1 5.
ODD SIZES in underwear , at half price.
GREAT BARGAINS in hosiery.
M. F. & M. MARKS,
113 to 117 S. Main St.
~~US4>T NOBODY
EVER MADE A
y By buying the
-Jr Elegant Dress
Shoes RUFF'S
are Selling lor
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TIPS . . FELT BOOTS
at the toes of childrens shoes!
protect where the most wear AND
comes.
TII>S • • , , Boston Overs
on children sshoes mean an econ-
ZVJ," P " °" smJ " $1.85 I'cr I'air.
TIPS . .
l'irst Quality Rubbers of
should be asked for by every a ][ kinds Cheaper than
wise mother. They are on our , , 1 ,
lines of children's shoes. they can be Bought
Elsewhere in the Coun
roE XJ"3T ty.
A. RUFF & SON,
Any good thing in Footwear,(we give you a tip,)can be
had at Ruflf's.
FAIR.
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\ \ \ I nature's cliaims. When decked with rings
j » and bracelets bright, these charms possess
■ ■ , ; ..11 a greater might to fascinate the beholder.
', J '■ j ' -<.• The finest jewelry in this and other lines
: C \ \ Jar to be found at prices that defy competition.
//J 1 \ vf 1 make a specialty of new and fine novel
\ bJXr ties in silver and cut glass.
* Atlcntion Given 10 Watch
'■ 'M ,^Repairing, Etc.
J. R. GRIERi
18 South Main Street, ... Butler, Pa
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The place to buy
GAS COOKING STOVES AND BURNERS. GAS LAMPS
FIXTURKS, IIOSK, WATER FILTERS. BATH TUB ENAMEL
etc, is at
VV. II .<VHrien «& .Son's
-THE BUT 1. EH CITIZEN.
A Good Appetite
indic&tea a h althy condition of the sys
tem and the lack of it shows tkst tho
dtoioaeh and digcetivo organs are weak
and debilitated. Hood's Harssparilla hatt
wonderful to tone and strengthen
til. at- orjfauj and to create an appetite,
liy Uoing this It restores the body to
health and prevents attacks of disease.
Hood's Sarsaparilia
la the- only true blood puritter prominent
ly in th« public eye today, fl; aix for |5.
Hood's Pills uvi. All druf£liU. 22c.
HEINEMAN & SON,
I SUMMER
W is approaching and the J
J only way to keep cool is J
J to go to
Heineman's ?£
and get yourself a nice
"t Hammock* J2
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3 r We bave the largest J g
PQ J and finest line of J
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Q S ever brought to Butler d
Wall Paper jg
from the cheapest to the
<£ \ finest of Pressed \ l_,
PAPERS. >5
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HEINEMAN & SON.
Selling Out
Wall Paper!
It has been going quite
rapidly during the last
few weeks.
We arc selling our whole
stock at less than cost.
It will pay you to buy
your Spring paper now.
A FREK TICKET to the
Wilber Entertainment to
every $2 purchase—at
Park Theatre, Nov. 22.
DOUGLASS'
Near P. O.
It's All In The Making.
NTPF
whether clothes fit well or not. That is
where we excel. Whether we succeed or
not you can judge by the fact that the
best dressed men ill Butler almost with
out exception patronize us.
Poorly Made Clothes always look cheap
while those well made have an elegant
appearpuce. The clothes we make are
put together tlfcroughly. No slop shop
work is tolerated. Try us, and sec if we
do not answer this description.
Cutting Your Cloth to suit the size and
shape is a good thing to push along, also
the cutting of our prices to suit tne de
mands of the public. You'll be astonish
ed at the low prices at which we are mak
ing up our large and elegant stock of
Foreign and Domestic Woolens. Call
and examine our large stock.
COOPER & CO
Cor. Diamond, Butler, Pa
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All grade of rnderwear at very
low prices.
Largest stock of hats and
furnishings for gentleman in the
country. An inspection will prove
this to any ones satisfacture.
Colbert & Dale.
242 S. Main St., lhitler, Penn'a
Successful ftdvnrtiners use Remington's
County Seat Lists. They include the best
towns and best papers We can recom
mend them highly. Send to Remington
Brothers, Now York, for copy.
HUTLEH, PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28,1895.
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CHAPTER XI.
The day for the venturo came. I had
previously instructed my wife to send
word she was indisposed and to remain
at tho hotel. She had very bravely of
fered to bo on hand and with me up to
the moment I disappeared through the
door, but fearing that in the excitement
some of the soldiers might say or do
something insulting I forbade her being
on the scene. I had had an unusually
large number of visitors during the day.
I felt but little anxiety over the result,
save only on the side of Captain Cur- j
tin. I had a sort of suspicion or presen
timent that, once fairly outside of the
barracks I would run against him. The
day passed rapidly away, and (i o'clock
came, and all tho civil officials, with
the horde of hangers on, departed, leav
ing the usual evening solitude in the
barracks. Soon Nunn came with my !
supper and cautiously produced a re
volver and bolt I strapped the belt
around me under my vest and braces,
placing tho revolver under a of ;
clothing. Nnwi reported everything all j
right. He had seen Curtin that day as ;
usual around the hotel and apparently j
unsuspicious of anything unusual going I
on.
The window I wus to jump out of
opened on the public street, and the
street would be jammed full of people
at the hour I was going. Of course there
were a good many chances of failure,
chiefly so because all the police from
top to bottom knew mo by sight, and if
one of them happened to be one of the
half hundred witnesses of my jump lie
might have wit enough to seize me.
Nuu 11 and my friend were to bo un
der the window ready to act according
to circumstances, above all to be ready
to seize hold of any one who manifested
any intention to detain me. Nunn was
full of courage and hope. At 7 o'clock
ho went away, not to see me until we
met outside the barracks. I called the
guard and three or four idle soldiers |
into my room and served them out lib- i
eral doses of brandy. Unluckily enough, '
however, the one on duty would drink |
but lightly. Soon after 8 Consul Gen
eral Torbert came in to smoko a cigar
and have a chat. He remained until
nearly 10 and then departed. Then I
felt the hour had indeed come. I thrust
tho revolver inside my shirt and rolled
up a cap and put it in tho same place;
then, calling the sentry, I gave him a
drink and a cigar, and stepping out into
the hall I began my usual march around
through the upper rooms of the bar
racks. I was to go ont of tho window at
precisely 10. It wanted ten minutes of
that time. It was a long ten minutes to
me, but I marched around puffing my
cigar unconcernedly, with my eye on
the door I was to slip through. At the
hour I had my watch in my hand and
was in the room farthest from the dooi
of exit into the room opening on tho
stroct. I walked swiftly through tho
two intervening rooms, and so was for
a hriof four or fire *JUt Uf Klght
of the slow following sentinel. I reach
ed the door, opened it, stepped through
and instantly locked it. In a moment I
was through the open window into tho
little iron balcony outside. Ono swift
glance showod me the street thronged
with people, but hesitation meant fail
uro and death.
I climbed lightly over the railing and
hung suspended for an instant from the
bottom. The crowd below made a circle
from under, and I dropped easily to the
ground, bareheaded, of course. Nunn
was thero and instantly clapped a largo
straw hat on my head. The strange in
cident did not soom to attract tho least
notice, for in P. moment wo were lost in
tho crowd. I had my hand on my revolv
er and had so strong a belief I should
every second bo confronted by Curtin
that I was strangely surprised when I
saw no sign of tho gentleman. Li less
time than it takes to tell it I was down
into an open hallway and then into a
room. I and Nunn, who were smooth
faced, were given bushy whiskers and a
cloak. In the meantime I paid an agent
in waiting $ 10,000 in French and Span
ish notes. Then we hurried out of the
rear into a cab and were driven to the
station, arriving just in time to catch
the 10:30 train.
The cab ride and train rido that night
wero happy rides. I had boon a captive
and now was free. Tho sights and sounds
all around me took on a deeper purpose
and a more significant meaning than
they had ever borne before.
I struck tho road leading to the beach
and marched westward, but it was an un
known land, and I was in constant fear
of running against some military post
or patrol, being thus constantly delayed
by long halts to watch some suspicious
object or by making long detours to
avoid them. Once I had a fright. Two
mon on horseback riding on the sandy
road wero almost on me before I saw or
beard them, and I only had tirno to sink
into the shadow as they passed almost
within reach of my hand. Both wero
smoking tho ovorlasting cigarette and
wero engaged in earnest talk. Daylight
came and found me not more than eight
or ten miles farther on my journey, but
I was very well content as I pitched my
camp for the day. I had a royal feast,
then, after a cigar, lay down to sleep in
another fairy bower and slept until noon
and awoko to find myself wondering
how matters wero going with Captain
Curtin in Havana, rather amused over
tho state of chagrin I know he must bo
in. I thought of a possible futuro meet
ing some years ahead when, all danger
over, I would seo and chaff him over
tho bottle of Cliquot and the if .">O,OOO lie
wouldn't have, and how I went all tho
same and saved tho money.
I realized I must be frugal or my pro
visions would never hold out, so after a
light lunch I began to make my way
slowly to tho beach through tho tangled
mazo of trees and vines. Coming in
sight of tho blue waters, I lay down to
sleep again and awoko when the stars
were out. Tho moon would not go down
till late, but as thero was a deep, broad
shadow cast I walked iu it.
Good fowl and tho long day of rest
restored my strength. All my confidence
returned, and I made good progress.
At last tho inoon went down, and then
I pressed rapidly forward, always with
revolver in hand ready for instant ac
tion. I think I mado fnlly 25 miles this
night, but as tho coast was indented my
progress in a straight direction was not
more than half that distance. Just as it
began to grow gray in tho east I came
out on a wide inlet. It ran deep into the
land. I recognized it from my map ;is
Puerto del Gato, and then I knew I was
in the province of Pinar del Rio and
almost out of danger.
I went into the bush again and pitch
ed camp, waiting for daylight to come
and reveal my surroundings. Pitching
camp consisted in scraping a few leaves
together and lying down, but this morn
ing I was too excited to sleep. I felt
that I was near my goal after having
safely gone through many dangers.
unoc across the Puerto del Gato two
night.i cf travel would place me omside
of the farthest Spanish pickets and bring
mo nmong friends, far beyond chance of
pursuit, and I also knew that the mere
knowledge of my presence in the rebel
camp would cause all thought of pursuit
to be dropped
When daylight came, I stood and
looked around- Across the inlet, 20
miles away, I could see only dark muM
of green with no sign of lifa To the
north tho land was hilly, with houses
here and there in the distance ami signs
of animal life. I cautiously searched the
shore for a mile in the hope of finding
a boat to cross to the other shore of the
inlet, but none was in sight.
About 0 o'clock I saw smoke off at
sea, and soon I made out a small Sp;m
ish gunboat eoming rapidly up. Drop
ping anchor a!>out a mile up the inlet,
she sent a boat ashore. I was feeling
sleepy, and going into the woods again
I took a light lunch, and emptying one
• bottle of water lay down to sleep, re
solved to make my plans when I awoke.
I did not like the appearance of this
gunboat. It seemed to promise the pres
ence of the enemy in force around me,
besides being a visible manifestation of
the power of that enemy.
When I awoke from my nap, I started
on a cautious spying out of tho land,
making my way toward the head of the
inlet, but keeping always under tho pro
tection of the woods. While going cau
tiously along I was startled by tho notes
of a bugle ringing out some military
call not far away, and a moment later
the gunboat replied with a gun, then
steamed out to sea. Continuing my
progress through the woods, I came to
the road, and hiding securely in a
thicket where I could see unseen I
watched. Soon I heard the sound of
voices, and then a detail of armed men
passed, going leisurely east, escorting
an empty wagon drawn by four mules.
It meant much, these armed escorts,
showing they were in the face of the
enemy. Several others p:u*ed during
the hour of my watch; then, with many
cautious glances up and down the road,
I slipped quietly across and crept for
two hours through the jungle. Making
my way to the side of the bay, I sow I
had left the military post behind ma
Thero were white barracks and a wharf
with people walking on it, and here the
road and beach were one. This much
discovered, I went a safe distance into
the jungle and lay down to have a good
sleep, feeling I would need all my
energy and strength for the coming
pight, as it promised to be a critical
one, especially as I could not afford to
wait for the moon to go down and
would not have the shelter of darkness,
for the moonlight was so powerful that
ono could easily read print by it.
I slept until dark and awoke refresh
ed, then lunched and nearly finished my
last bottle of water. I bad only sufficient
food for two ipore light meals. After
lunch I smoked for an hrm*. *>*«—
and philosophizing. At it o'clock, emerg
ing into the road, I started cautiously
out, walking in tho shadow of tho jun-
I cUmhad Uijhtly over the ralltnQ.
gle as much as possible. I thought the
head of the inlet was about ten miles
away and expected to find a military
post or at least a picket stationed there.
Daylight once more. But it found me
happy and content, for tho difficulties of
the passage of tho wide inlet which had
confronted mo tho night before had all
been surmounted. I was now in a dense
ly wooded point on tho western side of
tho bay. Between mo and San Diego lay
a wild no man's land of 50 miles. That
meant only two nights more of peril and
uncertainty, and it was all straight go
ing. So far as tho coast lino was con
cerned, I was outeido of tho Spanish
lines. Tired out and very well content
ed, Just as tho sun rose fiery red above
tho horizon I lay down and was at once
iu dreamland. At noon, hungry and
with only a few ounces of food to satis
fy my hunger, I woke. Finishing my
last bit of ham and bread, I lit a cigar
and set about planning. Pulling out my
littlo map, I began to scan it for tho
thousandth time. About six miles to
the north was tho little town of San
Miguel. Between me and San Diego lay
50 miles of wild country, swept by fire
and sword, without an inhabitant and
without food. Hungry as I already was,
I felt it would not do to undertake a two
days' journey through that wilderness
without eating. Of course I made a
mistake. I was clear of tho toils, and I
ought to have taken every and any
chance rather than enter the enemy's
lines again.
I rosolved soon as ni- 'it came to set
out for San Miguel, watt -i my chance to
enter a shop and purchase food, then
boating a hasty retreat strike out across
tho country straight for San Diego, thero
to find myself among friends.
I set out and without any particular
adventure arrived about 9 o'clock at
San Miguel. It proved to be a hamlet
with tho houses ranged close together
on opposite sides of tho streets. Tho
moonlight cast a deep shadow on one
side, while the opposite side was almost
like day. I stood in tho deep shadow
watching. The first building was evi
dently a police or military barrack. The
door was wide open, but bo one was visi
ble inside. About five doors off was a
shop, but the door was closed, and from
where I stood there appeared no sign of
life within. I waited about ten minutes,
and rashly concluding that there was no
one save the proprietor there I stepped
out of the shadow into tho moonlight,
and hurrying across the btreet put iuy
hand on tho door, opened it and step
ping within found myself in the pres
ence of 20 soldiers, all gossiping, smok
ing or gambling. Bolts and csu'tridge
burets alung with bayonets decorated the
walls or were lying about on boxe« and
barrels.
All eyes wore turned on me. I saw
myself in a fearful trap and nothing but
consummate coolness could keep them
from questioning me. My heart beat
fast, but with an affectation of indiffer
ence I saluted and said, "Bueuas
noehes, senoree." They all returned my
salutation, but looked at each other
eagerly, each waiting for the other to
qnestion me.
I stepped to the counter and asked for
brt ad. Two loaves were given me. 1
picked up some cakes and paid for
them. From the door I turned, and put
uijg my dignity into a bow 1 said good
Uight. They all seemed held by a spell,
but they looked and were dangerous as
death. I closed the door, fully realizing
my peril, feeling the storm would break
the instant I was out of sight. Fortu
nately there waa no one near, and I ran
swiftly across the 6treet into the pro
tecting shadow and crouched down in
a dark space between two houses. The
cactuslike weeds grew there and pricked
me, but I heeded them not, for that in
stant the soldiers poured ont of the shop,
an angry and wxcited mob, buckling on
their belts, cartridge boxes and bayonets
as they ran. Some had their muskets,
others hastened to get them, and all save
two stragglers rushed out of the town
in the direction from which I had en
tered. I wondered at this, but soon dis
covered the reason. Some few women,
hearing the tumult., came into the street,
but seeing nothing went in again. The
stragglers all disappeared, and the street
was quiet
I came out of my corner and hurried
in the shadow down the road in the op
posite direction to the course followed
by my pursuers. Arriving at the last
house at the foot of the street, 1 found
myself confronted by a small river,
quiet and apparently deep, with all the
space from the last house to the river
one impassable barrier of giant cactus.
I had either to swim the river or turn
back, and I ought to have plunged in
as I was, revolver and all, the distance
over being short, and as I am an expert
swimmer I could easily have got across,
loaded down as I was. 13ut a contempt
ible trifle had weight enough to cause
me to adopt the suicidal course of turn
ing back.
I was very hungry and longed for the
cake*) and bread I carried, and I thought
If I swam the stream,, they would be
soaked and probably lost, for I had them
loose in my arms. Besides I was over
confident of my ability to escape my pur
suers. They had marched by the road
that led behind the village to the bridge
crossing the river some distance up.
Evidently not seeing me, they took it
for granted I knew of the bridge and
had gone that way.
In a fatal moment I retraced my steps.
As I passed a house three women came
out They spoke to me, and in my ex
citement, instead of saying "Good even
ing" in Spanish (Buenas noches), I said
"Good morning" (Buenasdias). They of
course saw I was a stranger.
Just then four soldiers came hurried
ly into the street from the road, and I
was forced to leave the women and
crouch down in my former hiding place.
Then they did what women seldom do
—betrayed the fugitive. Calling to the
soldiers, they pointed out the place I
was in. All four came running, and in
a moment were almost on top of me. I
presented my revolver and snapped the
trigger twice without exploding the
cartridges. They were too close or too
excited to use their muskets, but all
four grappled with mo and naturally
used me pretty roughly.
Thoxo TI4IS U tCUL&mc li ullnt?c»lo«> 111
response to their cries their comrades
camo running in. By the time they had
hustled me across the street into the
shop thero was a mob of half a hundred
around me. Soon the commander, a
captain, appeared. I wish I could say
he was a gentleman, but he was not
Ho was a little, peppery young fellow,
apparently with negro blood in his veins
and dictatoral and insulting in manner.
Surely I was an object—a tramp in
appearance—but with a diamond ring
on my finger, which I had taken from
my pocket and slipped on, a revolvei
strapped to my waist and a splendid
chronometer in my pocket. Stich an ob
ject bad never before loomed on theii
horizon. Was not one glance enough tc
show that I must be a notable rebel 1
And there was but one doom for such.
My desperate situation cast out all
fear, and I was cold and haughty. Flour
ishing my police passport, I informed
him that I was Stanley W. Parish oi
New York, a correspondent of the New
York Herald, and he had better look out
what he was about.
But it was evident that police pass
ports made out in Havana had no cur
rency in the faco of the enemy, but at
any rate it proved that whatever my in
tentions might be I had at least hailed
last from Havana,and this would prevent
my peppory captain from enjoying th€
pleasure of standing me up in the morn
ing to be fusilladed, such being the law
for captives in the savage contest.
Down my gentleman sat on a barrel,
pompous and important, and ordered me
to be eaarchod. All this time a dozen
hands wore holding me fast. I told my
officer ho was a fool and a down, but
my captors began to go through my
pockots, and speedily there was a heap
of gold and paper money on tho barrel,
and my littlo friend fingered it with a
oovotous eye. I had my SIO,OOO in bond*
pinned iu tho sleeve of my undershirt
This they missed, but found all else I
oarriod. In the meantime there was an
eager audience looking on, absorlted in
the interest of the scene.
Thero was a collection indeed oil that
barrel. Besides my ring, there were fivo
other valuable diamonds, and my chro
nometer, with its regular beat and
stem winding arrangement, was a groat
curiosity. Then the heap of money was
a loadstone for all their hungry eyes.
The captain was making out an inven
tory and statement, while I stood white
with rage to seo the half breeds, blacks,
browns and yellows haudle my property
so freely. I was especially in a rage
with tho impudent captain, who had the
nerve to put my watch in his pocket.
Absorbed by the interest of the scene,
my captors had insensibly loosened their
hold, and I determined to have some
satisfaction out of the captain. Sudden
ly seizing one of the revolvers before I
could bo stopped, I gave him a stinging
blow with it and sprung on him. We
rolled on the floor, and there was a
scene. I was dragg<«d off by 50 hands,
every ono trying to soizo me if only by
one hand. The captain got up with the
blood running down his face, and rush
ing to a peg he seized a sat>er bayonet
and flew at me like a mad bull. I shout
ed at him in Spanish, calling him a
cur and coward, bidding him to come
on. He was not unwilling while my
captors held me firmly exposed to his
assault. Another second would have
ended my life, when a woman spectator,
who stood near nursing a child, threw
her arms around him. This, joined to
my indifference, for I continued my
jeers and taunts, changed his purpose,
to my disappointment, for I preferred
death to going back to Havana
Ten days after I soiled once more into
Havana, this time a prisoner. Two
days after my capture, by order of the
captain general of Cuba, I was put on
board the little gunboat Santa Rita, a
wretched little tub that steamed four
miles an hour and took eight days going
from Puerto Novo on the south to Ha
vana
I wan taken by a guard of soldiers to
the common
corridor was cleared ot its inmates to
mak.t roum for me and my guards. Cap
tain llnkt-rtou was thetirst man ucu 1L
Be of oours# was delighted to so me.
While giving me credit for my <scape,
ho told me he did not purpot. to have
cio leave him again, und, Laving i* r
misiionfroin the authorities, lie or nve
•f his men intended to k< vp me • u
pany night and day. Of course I fe
spected Curt in for his honest determina
tion to do his duty. He really was ;in
altogether good fellow and showed me
courtesy and consideration.
In iocL, i " --t visit he brought me
a letter from i~„. 1 i:g with a box
of cigars and a >~n his
own account.
One of his men, of the name of Perry,
used to sleep in my little room with me,
and every morning Curtin would relieve
him, remaining until dinner time. We
had many long talks on all sorts of sub
jects, and he gave me many inside his
tories of famous criminal cases which
he had been engaged in. In time we be
came very good friends, ami I am happy
to state that Captain John Curtin is to
day well and hearty, a prosperous man
and very generally respited by the citi
zens of San Francisco, where lie lives.
About ten days after my arrival he
brought mo a New York Herald con
taining these dispatcher:
[Special to New York Herald.]
MAPHID, April 1-, 1873.
Tho American embassador, General Sickles,
has formally notified Senor Cavtelar that the
American government will consent U> the cur
render to the Britiah government of Austin
Bid well, now under arrtst in Havana upon
charge of being concerned in the Bank of Eng
land forgery.
[Special to New York Herald.]
LONDON, April 12, 1873.
To the great gratification of the authorities
here official ronflnnation is given to the ru
mor that tho Spanish government has con
elnded to grant the extradition of Austin Bid
well, now under arrest in Havana. There
seems to be no doubt that Bidwell is the mys
terious Frederick Albert Warren, and there is
a very general curiosity to see him. Many
conflicting stories have b*-en published of his
extraordinary escape and equally extraor
dinary capture. The Times' report had it that
he was mortally wounded and that he had on
his person when captured diamonds to an
enormous value, which had disappeared soon
after. Sergeants Haydcn and Green of the
Bow Htreet force and Mr. Good of the Bank of
England sail on the Java tomorrow to escort
Bidwell to London.
So tho web was closing in on me. Of
my daily sad interviews with my wife
I will say nothing here. In due time
Green, Hayden and Good arrived and
were introduced to me. I did not give
in, but made, by the aid of my frirtids,
a hard fight to persuade the captain gen
eral to suspend the order for my deliv
ery and succeeded for a time.
At last, after many delays and many
plans, early one May morning I was
taken to the mouth of the harbor. There
the boat of tho English warship Vul
ture was in waiting, and I was formally
transferred to the English government,
and Pinkerton, Curtin, Perry, Hayden
and Green went on board with me.
Soon after she steamed out of the har
bor. Later in the day the Moselle, the
regular passenger steamer to Plymouth
and Southampton, came out, and about
ten miles out at sea was met by the Vul
ture's boat, and I and my five guardian;;
were transferred to her.
At last I was off for England, and it
looked very much as if justice would
weigh me in her balance after all, the
more certainly because I found my wife
on tho Moselle. I had secretly resolved
never to bo taken back, but intended the
first night out of Havana to jump over
board, possibly with a cork jacket or
something to help keep me afloat. The
waters of the gulf were warm, there
were many passing ships, and I would
tako my chance of surviving tho niirht
ana being picked up. But very cleverly
Curtin decided to scud my wife with
mo and treat me like any other cabin
passenger, rightly divining J. would not
kill her by committing suicide or going
over tho side on chances.
I was well treated all the way over,
but every night my prayer was that we
Sight run on an iceberg or go down, so
at my wife might bo spared long
years of agony, and I tho misery and
degradation of prison lifo.
I had obtained a position in Havana
for ono of my servants, but Nnnn was
returning with me, feeling very bad
and most unhappy over tho sure pros
pect of my future misery. I was pleased
to think ho had hold on to the money I
had given him. Altogether he was quite
,000 ahead, and I wanted to make-it
,000. He certainly deserved it for his
constancy and affection.
Ono lovely June day wo sailed into
Plymouth, there to land the mail and
such passengers as wanted to take the
express to London. I instructed my wife
to go to Southampton, while I went
ashore with my gnardians.
From the London Times, June 10,
ifrtß:
"Among tho passengers who lauded
at Plymouth yesterday morning from
tho royal mail steamer Moselle was
Austin Bidwell, otherwise F. A. War
ren, in charge of Detective Sergeants
Michael Hayden and William Green, ac
companied by Captain John Curtin and
Walter Porry of Mr. Pinkerton's staff.
They were joined by Inspector Wallace
and Detective Sergeant William Moss of
iho city police, who had comedown from
London tho previous night to meet tho
steamer.
"It being known that Bidwell was
oxpocted from Havana in the Moselle,
an enormous crowd assembled iu Milbay
pier to await the return of tho steam
tender with tho mail in order to get a
sight of the prisoner, and so great was
tho crowd that it was with some diffi
culty that Bidwell and his escort man
aged to reach cabs and were driven to
tho Duke of Cornwall hotel ml joining
tho railway station. They left by the
12 :43 train for London. A crowd of 20,-
000 persons were present to see them off
•nd cheered Bidwell heartily.
"Bidwell will bo taken before the
lord mayor in tho justice r Kim at the
Mansion House thin morning.''
Accompanied by my escort of six, I
arrived in London one bright morning
Just ae tho mighty masses of that great
Babylon were thronging in their thou
sands toward Epsom Downs, where on
that day tho Derby, that pivotal event
in the English year, wvi to be mil. All
London was astir and had put on holi
day attire, while I, now a poor weed
drifting to rot on Lethe's wharf, was
on my way to Newgate.
Newgate! Then it had come to this!
Tho Primrose Way wherein I had walk
ed and lived delicately at the expense of
honor ended hero.
"Whatsoevera mansoweth, that shall
ho also reap," was written by one Paul.
Tho wisdom of many was hero and con
densed in tho wit of one, and one with
shrewdest insight into things and a
practical knowledge of human history.
I was a prisoner in Newgate. Tho
very name casts a chill; so, too, does a
sight of that granite fortress rising there
in the heart of mighty London. Amid
all tho throbbing life of that great Baby
lon it stands—chill and grim—and lias
stood a prison fortress for 500 years.
Through all those linked centuries how
many thousands of the miserable and
heartbroken of every generation have
boen garnered within its cold embrace!
What sights and sounds thosigild walls
have seen and heard! As I paced its
gloomy corridors that first night pictures
of its past rose before me so grim and
terrible that I turned shuddering from
them only to remember that I, too, had
joined the long unending procession ever
flowing through its gates which had
heaped its walls to tho top with one
inky sea of misery.
In tho cruel days of old many a sav
age frojm_the lipf of
niercilt - judges, but none more terrible
than the oue which was to fall on us
from l!. lij«r:«-f their ferocious imitator.
Justice Arch: 1 dd.
I found luy tlu»»> friends already pris
oners there, and a party we were.
When vv said g >odby that night uu the
wharf at Calais, where we sat star gaz
iug and phi] -'pliizjug. we little- antici
pate»l this reunion.
What a rude surprise it was to find
how thinKS were conducted in this same
Newgate! 1 t• >k it f< r grante<l—since
the law regarded us as innocent until
we were tried and convicted—that we
could have any re as. liable favor granted
us there which was consistent with <>ur
safekeeping. But, no. The system of the
convict prison was enforced here and
with the same iron rig>T. Strict silence
was the rule, along with the ,iU- l..te
exclusion of newspapers and all news of
the outside world. The rules forbid any
delicacy or books being furnished by
one's friends from the outside. This
iron system is ;is cruel as unpliilosoph
ical, for, pending trial, the inmates are
more or less living in a perfect agony
of mind, which drives many into insau
itv or to the verge of insanity, as if di<'
me. How, then, can one find oblivion
or raze out the written troubles of the
brain save in absorption iu books?
If I had the pen of Victor Hugo, what
a picture I would draw of a mind con
sciously going down into the fearful
abyss of insanity and making mighty
struggles against it, yet looking on the
cold walls shutting one in and weighing
down the spirit, feeling that the strug
gle is ineffectual, the fight all in vain,
for the dead, blank walls are staring
coldly on you without giving one reflex
message, bearing on their gray surface
no thought, no response of mind, for
they have been looked over with anxious
care to discover if any other mind had
recorded there some thought which
would awake thought in one's own and
help to shake off the fearful burden
pressing one to earth. As a fivct, a man
so situated does—aye, must—make an
effort to leave some visible impress of
his mind as a message to his kind. It is
a natural law, and tne instinct is part of
one's being. It is a passion of mind, a
longing to be united to the spiritual
mass of minds from which the isolated
one is suffering an unnatural divorce by
hideous material walls.
It is t' ' i law which makes tho savage
place hi .otem on the rocks, and it is,
thanks to the same instinct, that this
very (Jay our savants ore finding beneath
the foundations of the temples and pal
I was dragged off.
wo, wsncxi uu\\> atvKoU tno niCPBICIBD
plain the baked tablets which tell us tho
family histories no loss than the story of
tho empires of those days. When the iin-
Sress was made on the soft clay to be
ro hardened, each writer felt or hoped
in the long ages in the faroff unknown,
When time ts oUI and buth forgot ifetelf.
When water drops have worn the streets of
Troy,
And blind oblivion swallowed cities up,
And mighty states, characterless, are grated
To dusty nothing,
then some thought, some message
from their minds, there impressed on
the senseless clay, would bo communi
cated to somo other mind and wake a re
sponse thera
Many a time, with a brain reeling in
agony, did I turn and stare blankly at
those walls, and in a sort of dumb stu
por search them over in hope to find
some word, some message impressed
there,some scratch of pen or finger nail—
it might be a message of misery, some
outcry from a wounded spirit, some ex
pression of despair.
Had thero been one such—lmd there
been! Every one of my predecessors had
left a message on that smooth painted
wall, but the red tape official rogues—
the stultified images sans reason sans
all imagination—had, after the depar
ture of each one, carefully painted over
all euch legacies.
The hideous cruelty of it all! My
blood boils even now when I think of
it. Even in tho days of Eliz-abeth the
keepers of the Tower of London had
enough human feeling to leave untouch
«d the inscriptions made by llaleigli and
Others, and there they are today, ami
today wake a response In the heart of
every visitor that looks on them.
[TO BE CONTINUED.]
THE TELEGRAPHIC "THIRTY."
Bow the Cipher, Which la Now Universal,
Had 1U Origin.
I attended a funeral the other day
where there was a lovely flower pieco
with the figures "80" in the center.
The deceased had beeu familiar all his
life with that signal, having been con
nected with telegraph or newspaper
business for nearly 30 years, and yet I
doubt if ever he or any ono who con
tributed to tho flower piece knew or
dreamed how 80 came to mean any
thing, especially finis, or the end.
As a part in telegraph history I will
explain how this signal, which has
some to mean so much, had its origin.
Like a great many other expressions, it
was started accidentally, an it were. In
the infancy of the telegraph business
dispatches were sent paid or collect,
many of them abbreviated in telegraph
ing, and all newspaper dispatches were
not only abbreviated, but sent collect.
There were no news agencies then, as
now, and papers had friends in all tho
towns, who were authorized to send
them dispatches to bo called for.
Every beginner in the art of teleg
raphy was given a book of abbrevia
tion! and signals, which ho had to com
mit to memory and practice till he be
came expert in their use. Among those
signals that of 30 was found, and it
meant "collect pay at the other end.
Whether a news dispatch or common
business message, if not prepaid, the
signal 30 was attached. As all press
dispatches were paid for where received,
they all had 80 at the end. So when
news agencies began their work tlio sig
nal was retained, for they were still
paid for where received.
This signal has come in thrse days tc
be a universal finis to all press dis
patches, private, special and general,
and a secondary meaning, or perhaps,
better, a legendary meaning attache*
itself as "the end" and is a proper and
beautiful expression of the finis of s
telegraph operator or any other person.
It well may bo a signal to the spirit
ual dispatch of a human soul to the
great center of rewards and as a noticf
to estimat»> its value when received ami
"collect pay at tbe othor end."—St.
Louis Post Dispatch.
:sro4r>
PURITANICAL LAWS.
How They Round rp DflSnqucnt Ikbtori
In Cultured Rostou.
"Just wait till I catch him iu iJos
t«jn. Then I'll make kim come to the
center," remarked -ui aiigry m:iu the
other day while roasting a theatrical
manager who owed him a fow hundred
dollars for ,-ervices rendered i tol.l him
that I supposed he would then < lap the
debtor into the Chuile9 Street jail.
"That's just what I will do if lever
cateh him there, you bet" And then
the mad actor explained how <.asy it
was to get even with people of that sort
in the Hub. No matter what the debt,
nor where or how it was contracted, all
one has to do is to enter a complaint
and that settles it. If one who owes is
averse to notoriety, he'll hardly take
the poor debtor's oath, which releases
bim for a certain number cf years, but
does not wipe out his obligations, but
will linger in the bastile until he caa
interest his friends or realize on liis col
lateral and settle,
I know several New Yorkers who
have run against creditors in the bean
burg and havo suffered. Some joke
about their incarceration and the ques
tions put to them during the process of
administering the poor debt ' oath,
but most all agree that the I u law
is a puritanical provisio' ib >uld
be materially amended. Bc.-"oi who
are dodging process servers a
ing a change that will i rr.iit .cm to
pay up on tbe installment plsiu .1: stead
of being forced to cash in the full
amount or remain a guest of the Charles
6treet hotel. If such a law was on the
New York statute books and was en
forced here—well, the Tombs or some
other prison would be holding hundreds
who now look as if they owned the town
instead of merely owing the townspeople.
—New York Letter in Pittsburg Dip
patch.
Poisoning by Tinned Food.
Some light is thrown by The Lancet
upon the mysterious cases of poisoning
by tinned food which from time to time
are reported. They are believed to be
due to neglect of the caution against
eatiug tinned foods that have been ex
posed to the air for some time after bo
ing opened. The exact manner in which
poisonous substances, technically known
as "ptomaines," are generated so rapid
ly is not known with certainty, but tho
fact that they are produced in sufficient
quantity to cause very gravo symptoms
of poisoning have been brought out in a
multitude of instances. In one well
known caso the first half of the contents
of a tin of lobster was consumed with
no ill effect, but the rest a few days aft
erward proved extremely poisonous. It
is suggested that as a safeguard manu
facturers might label the tins with some
such notice as "Tho contents of this tin
are perfectly wholesome when eaten
fresh from the tin and afford good
food, s ut tho public is advised not to
exposi, tho contents for any length of
time to the injurious influences of the
atmosphere." The Lancet writer even
goes so far as to suggest that somo such
warning might be insisted on by the
legislature.—London News.
Whero We Are Going.
I find the great thing in this world
is not so much where we stand as in
what direction we are moving. To reach
the port of heaven we must sail some
times with tho wind and sometimes
against it, but we must sail and not
drift, nor lie at anchor.—Oliver Wen
dell Holmes.
Hla Money All In Stocks.
"There's money in stocks," said tho
man who is young and enthusiastic.
"Yes," replied his seasoned friend,
"I'm sure there is. I have been put
ting half my salary there for the last
four years, and it's all thero yet."—
Washington Star.
Very SlmplA
L
Talk nbout hunting ostriches; wo do It
very simply nowadays. I (ako a inxm*
ber of ostrich eggs and fill them with
an explosive chemical.
n.
In the evening tho ostriches approach
and sit on the eggs to hatch.
TIL
—Truth.
A Soliloquy.
Generous Dealer (examining ring)—
ye asks twenty. Ho thinks he'll g' ■
eighteen. It's worth sixteen. I'Ugivg
fvtouvii. He I'U Qflsfr'