Sr.. WJSi FW! - it- J "- v. Uncle Sam's jx j$ m x Secret Service Work of Government Detective Bureau, Which Is Bone of Contention Between Congress and the President. Sketch of John E. Wilkie, Chief of Sleuths. By JAMES A. EDGERTON. THERE is no Government depart ment concerning which less Is known than the secret service. At the same time there Is none nbout which there Is greater public curiosity, which Is Just now heighten ed by the row between the president and the congress. Tho secret service Is Uncle Sam's Sherlock Holmes. It catches counter feiters and now and then bags a con gressman or senator who has not been content with making laws, but has started to breaking them also, thus working both ends of the line. It was this feat of getting a few legislators Into Jail that caused all the trouble between Mr. Roosevelt and the present session. Congressmen do not like to be Imprisoned, for which wo can scnrcely blame them, considering the other Inflictions they have to bear, such as associating with each other find listening to each other's oratory. President Roosevelt charges In ef fect that It was because the secret service had exposed Senator Mitchell and an Oregon representative in the land fraud cases that congress cut down tho appropriation for the secret scrvlco and prohibited Us use outside of tho treasury department, whereat rertaln members of tho house, dignified senators and others not so dignified regard themselves as grossly insulted. Come to think of It, there Is something in the nature of a personal Insult In sending a man to Jail or even In Inti mating that he ought to be there, though most men do not base their objection to imprisonment on this ground. Now, the president did not say that nil members of congress should go to Jail, but only that the law they had passed helped nobody but criminals, and the chief argument l!i Its favor was that It keeps members of the two houses from being Investigated nyd prosecuted. He went further and Intimated thnt I All of these things and some others made .congress forbid tho further lend- lug out of Hnwksuaws. There nre stories and cartoons to thi effect that a governmental spy systoi has grown up in Washington. Tlih tho adminis tration denies, but nt any rate there will be nn investigation. I Wilkie Started as Reporter. The head of the secret service start , ed life as a reporter. Ho Is John E. . Wilkie of Chicago, son of a famous newspaper man In his day who was j Wilbur F. Storey's chief cdllorlol writ er on the Chicago Times. Young WI1 ! kle started as n lire and police report er mid was so Intensely In winiest in ' the role that ho bought n fireman's I helmet and outfit and wont to all tho fires to help out, receiving much chaff . Ing therefor both from tho real fire ' men and tho other reporters. Hp show j cd tho sumo spirit in Ills police report ! Ing nnd In at least ono Instance sue , cccded lh unearthing n sensational I crimp. A store burned In a manner to show thnt It was fired by Incendiaries. The proprietor was out of town nt the time, but came, lu on n train soon nft ' er. In rummaging about through the I ashes Wilkie came upon n charred I photograph, evidently taken of tho owner of tho store whet, n nui"h ' younger man, but on the back of 1 which was a Philadelphia, address and a name different from that by which the merchant -was then known. On being confronted with this witness from the past the man supposed the Jig was up, broke down and confessed , that ho had set flro to his own store, using a time fuse that would allow him to get out of town. This was not the only pleco of shorlockholmeslng dene by the young police reporter. Every available moment ho was loung ing around detective headquarters 1 picking up Ideas. I Some time later the older Wilkie was ' placed in charge of tho London bu- JOHN 13. WILKIE, HEAD OF NATIONAL SIIEIILOCK HOLMES BUREAU, AND WILLIAM J. BURNS (IN CORNER), FAMOUS UAWK-BHAW. If they did not want to be Investigated if they had records that would not bear Investigation, I presume he meant they might exempt themselves by u special provision, but should not crip- liln Mm wlinlrt ilntAnMra nrronnv nt iht. government, xuat is taiKing some, even for Roosevelt. Congress waited a few days, and then the senate passed some mild mannered resolutions, adopt ed amid oratory not so mild and ac companied by thoughts positively un speakable, directing the committee on appropriations to Investigate the secret service, tho message and everything else with a handlo on that looked as if It could be used to cause trouble. Tho bouse merely asked him for the facts on which tho president based his state ments, evidently wanting him to show his band before it did any bluffing. Tho head-on collisions the house has had with Roosevelt on former occa sions have apparently taught It cau tion. Hunted Sown Land Frauds. The secret scrvlco proper belongs to the treasury department, and Its chief duty Is to catch counterfeiters. For twenty years, however, It has been tho habit of the chief of the service to lend bis men to other departments wherovor needed. Among those so borrowing Uncle Sam's sleuths was tho secretary of the Interior, who used them in bunting down land frauds, in which they gathered lu the United States senator and congressman before mentioned. It Is also whispered that the secretary of tho navy used ono of tho detectives In hunting -down nn ab sent naval offlclul, and tho place whero lie was found laid the basis for a dl vorco suit, That cnused another row. reau of the Chicago Times, and the son accompanied him, each of them sending several columns of cables and letters every week. Ono day Storey fired tho elder Wilkie by cable, aud tho son went to tho head of nn Ameri can commercial agency In London, where he remained almost two years. Returning to Chicago, ho re-entered the newspaper field and soon became city editor of the Tribune. Frank E. Vanderllp was financial editor of the paper at tho samo time, and tho two becniuo chums. When Lyman ,1. Gage was made secretary of (ho treasury ho took Vanderllp along as pffvaloKcc rotary nnd In a short time mado him nsslstunt secretary of the treasury Vanderllp remembered his friend Wll kle, tried him out on'some work for tho government nnd succeeded lu get ting him appointed chief of tho secret service. This Is tho story of John E. Wllkle's rise ns I have It from the- lips of a newspaper man who used to work with him as n police reporter. While much of It has seen tho light, I think It has never been printed before In all Its details. "Secret Service" True to Name. In office Mr. Wllklo Is ono of tne most democratic and easily accessible of nil government employees. There nro two rooms In tho treasury building with tho legend "Secret Servlco" over tho door. Anybody can walk right In and will usually find Chief Wllklo In his shirt sleeves going over reports or considering somo knotty case, In tho samo room Is his assistant, W. II. Mo ran, nnd In tho adjoining room nro a number of clerks. Nothing mysterious nbout all this, but the most prosaic nd matter "f fact routine of every day. Yet the vlultur v. I I i .Vie a mis take If he Jumps nt com lu Ions. Let him try to find out who are the detec tives employed by the bureau and he will begin to understand that tho word "secret" Is not n false label. Nobody outside of Wllklo, Moran and porjlhly ono or two others knows the names of these men, what they do or even how many of them there nro. 'Vy go about ns ordinary citizens, ut'or dis closing their connection with the de partment! except to police otflelnK dis trict nttorneys or others who may help them. As they nre shifted nrouiul the country nnd pnssed from department to department, the criminal clement Is thus left In the dark ns to the Identity of I ho men with whom they have to cope. There nre thirty-seven branch pecret service offices throughout the nation nnd probably n couple of hun dred men employed. Not only coun terfeiting cases, but violations of the Internal revenue laws, of the anti-trust laws, of the land laws, of tho postof flco regulations and of tho thousand and ono details of governmental rules, may cifmo In for Investigation nt their hands. Rather they might have done so before congress Interfered. Now tho service Is handicapped, and there Is Joy among the crooks In conse quence. The secret service man of fact nnd tho secret servlco mnn of fiction nre nbout ns much nllke ns n real estate ngent's description Is like the dirt he sells you. The detective of romance to wonderfully made, with a brnln like n machine aud a personality that to the average American boy looms big ger than that of the president. The real detective But why shatter an Ideal? I never knew anybody the worse for believing In Santa Clnus, and the popular conception of the aver age sleuth not only delights the Ju venile heart nnd some hearts that are not Juvenile but possibly scares some would be criminals Into being decent. Sleuths' Strenuous Live3. Fnlry tnles oslde, there ore -spots In the lives of most secret service men thnt are sufficiently exciting for "mol lerdrammer." It Is n wise one among them who knows what his next as signment will be, whether to run down a gang of counterfeiters, look for moonshiners In the Carolina moun tains, trace land steals among tho cat tlemen or lumbermen of the west or break Into world politics by spying on a foreign government or shadowing tho sple3 of n foreign government hero. One of Chief Wllkle's notable achieve ments wns In breaking up the spy sys tem maintained by tho Spanish gov ernment In America during the Into war. No; the life of Uncle Sam's do- tcctlvcH Is not without adventure and movement. For example, one of their many duties Is to guard the president of tho United States and accompany him every time ho sets foot outside tho White House. With the cross country gallops aud tramps through blizzards and rainstorms Indulged in by tho present chief executive, this Is not the mildest of occupations. The strain on those detailed for the leg racking duty will probably ease down after March 4. Now their lives seem like one long dream of looping the loops and bumping the bumps. i In their ordinary work of detecting crime the secret service men are divid ed Into two classes, "shadows" and "ropers." A shadow follows a suspect in all his comings nnd goings. It H not nn easy task for tho reason that the shadowed one must never have the faintest hint that any one Is on hh trail. Roping Is still more difficult, nero tho detective becomes u boon companion of the criminals, learns their becrets and collects sufficient evi dence to convict them. In doing this he must have no scrap about bis per son thnt would reveal his identity. The old Idea of disguises has largely passed out. Indeed, It never had ex istence among real detectives outside the lids of novels. Change of garb nnd the perfection with which n de tective lives up to the character as sumed furnish all the disguise neces sary. That Is tho beauty of n service made up of members unknown to tho criminal element. Few of Chief Wll kle's men were originally detectives. Many of them came from the claims departments of railroads and express companies. They are from all walks of life Indeed, chosen after tho most rigid scrutiny Into their characters and fitness for the work. One of tho most famous of their number Is William J. Burns, concerned In the laud fraud Investigations and now In tho San Francisco graft inquiry. Burns Is not now In tho secret service, having re signed to help ncney fight Schmltz and Ruef. Vast, Complicated System. Mr. Wilkie nsslgns these men much ns he assigned reporters when on tho city desk of n newspnper. Tho prin ciple Is the same, although tho sys tem Is Infinitely more vast and com plicated. The mou work under tho di rect supervision of tho various depart ments to which they are assigned or uudcr the subordinate secret servlco bureau In whoso territory they hap pen to bo placed, although the Wash ington bureau keeps track of them all. In this way the head of tho system ban n more thorough Inside view of thvt workings of tho entire nation the any other ono man outsldo of tho prow Iclcut nnd his cabinet advisers. What will bo (ho upshot of tho pres et Investigation no man can tell. The most probnblo outcome, certnlnly the most seuslblo one, would Involve a consolidation of all tho detectlvo agen cies of tho government under the de partment of Justice, It would do away with tho fiction of shifting men from department to department, would savo llmo nnd avoid eonfuRlon nnd would make It Impossible in future to crip ple this- most Important governmental agency through congressional Interference. WOMAN AND FASHION A Simple Street Hat. The charm of this hat loses nothing from the fact that It is extremely sim ple. It Is a delft blue felt. Tho brim folds up on the left side to form a THE SUNDAY SCHOC Lesson II. First Quarter, f Jan. 10, 1909. 4 "1 f lv THE INTERNATIONAL SERIZS. Text of the Lesson, Act II, 1-21 Mtr.v ory Verses, 2:4 Golden Text, John xlv, 16, 17 Commentary Prepared by Rev. D. M. Ctearns. OP DELFT BMH5 PELT. rovers. It droops In the back nnd op posite side. Self lono blue velvet nnd blue silk nro crushed around tho low crown. Two Inrgo wings of brownish grny nnd white dceornto the right side. Frocks For the Debutante. Charming evening frocks aro mado of painted ehlffon trimmed with ruch lugs of cream colored Valenciennes lace mado tvlth a soft laco edged fichu and high, tightly draped girdle, with Its long empire sash ends of Bilk cov ered with tiny ruchings of lace. The new printed and painted chiffons have backgrounds of a soft shade of pink or blue, over which tho flowers trail In delicate contrasts or blending of tones. Brussels net is a practical uncrush nble material and In white Is parties larly pretty for girls, made with slight ly fulled skirt, trimmed about tho edge In somo form of the Greek key pat tprn carried out in ruches of liberty or of the net. Tho bodice may have a bertha, with n smaller copy of the trimming fas tened nt tho bust by rosettes or bow of ribbon. There should nlso be a rib bon waistband with long sash ends. Wrist Bags of Cloth. Instead of n wrist bag the latest fan cy Is to have a bag of quaint form made of material to match the cos tume suspended from the corsage or the top edge of the skirt by wide rib lons; also the great muffs are utilized as a socle "Into which Is poured a vari ety of objects that once belonged In the wrist bag. Inside tho muffs nre pockets of nil sizes nnd shapes. Tho purse Is In one, tho cardcaso lu an other, nnd nil the useful vanity box belongings are separately stowed away. Old muffs belonging to last year, too small for this, are cut Into pieces and with tho help of wide ru bona and frills or bands of moussellno do solo are turned Into fascinating great muffs wholly up to date. A Practical Blouse. A smart aud practical blouse of dark red nun's veiling, seen In a shop re eently, was laid entirely In tucks from nrmholo to nrmholc nnd closed down Ihe front under n narrow box plait. The sleeves fitted tho arms smoothly to tho wrists and were tucked their entire length, graduating In size, the widest coming nt the top. Ruffles of black chiffon trimmed the wrists, and n high collar of dark red satin, folded, edged with a ruff of black chiffon lined with white, finished tho neck. narrow cravat tied In a bow in tho front, the ends weighted with gold tassels, completed a stylish waist. Child's Party Gown. Tho sketch shows a novel and at tractlvely arranged model for a little girl's frock. The underslip Is of mull DAINTY rnOCK 01" HULL AND LACE. nnd lace, Tho ovorsllp, an apron ar rangement, Is of pink mcssallno, laced nt sides with pink satin ribbon. Outside Sleeve Frill Gone. Tho little frill on tho outsldo of tho urmywhlch was a featuro of tho shirred long slccvo early In the scaeon Is no longer seen on tho smartest frocks, Imvlng had n tendoucy to thicken tho arm, whllo extromo length and ulen derncaa are things desired, A lino of umall buttons or other ornninouta set along tho outsldo seam Is liked, nnd on many of tho French frocks n plalu lino oftrlmmlng li set Into tho Bhlrred sleeve down I tho outer senm. Copyright, 1008, by American Press A?:orlatlon. J On that Inst night before Ills cruci fixion He said, "It Is expedient for you that t go away, for if I go not away the Comforter will not come unto you, but If I depart I will ho ml II Im unto you, and when He Is come He will convince the world of bIu and of right eousness and of Judgment" (John xvl, , 8). As IIo loft thoui on that ascen sion day IIo told them to tarry In Jeru salem until the Spirit came, ns lie said that IIo would; hence we find them In nn upper room In .Terusnlein, perhaps tue samo 0:10 whero He had kept tho Passover with thum, continuing lu 0:10 accord In prayer and supplication. Tho women are there, too, and Mary, Ills motiicr, and Ills own brethren (Acts I, J-I), who had evidently comp to the point of receiving their brother ns tho Messiah. Contrast John vll. 5. I think this Is Ihe last mention of Mary, Ills mother: How blessed to say farewell to her till we meet her In glory at a prayer meeting! "With one accord" Is a very Important phrase In this book. It Is used just seven times lu a good connection anil four times In a bad one (I, 14; II, 1, 4ti; lv, 21: v. 12; vill, 0; xv, 2.-, nnd vll. 57; xil, 20; xvlll. 12; clx, 20). This Is suggestive also, for seven Is tho greatest number denoting perfec tion, while four Is tho worldwide num ber, nnd we know that the whole world llclh In tho wicked ono (I John v. 1!), R. V.). Seven h also n three nnd n four, tho Trinity and tho resurrection, on behalf of tho whole world, if any do not see nlgnlflcnnco In numbers, let ihem be teachable and patient with those who do. If believers could only be of 0110 accord, what great things might be scon In answer to prayer nnd patient waiting upon God! Whether the election of Matthias was of God or only of Fetor and tho others, wo may perhaps not be ublo to decldo till wo know ns wo nre known. We shall surely know when we see tho twelve thrones occupied of which Jesus spake. Ten days having passed since IIo left them, which, ndded to tho forty days between resurrection nnd ascension, completed tho fifty of Lev. xxlll, 12-10, they being with ono nccord In one place, the Holy Spirit camo ns pro:n Ised, accompanied by n sound from heaven as of a rushing, mighty wind, which filled all the house whero they wore sitting. Thcro appeared unto them cloven tongues, like as of lire, aud It sat upon each of them, and they were nil filled with tho Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance (verses 2-1). Thus wns His word bo foro Ills ascension fulfilled, "Yo shall bo baptized with tho Holy Ghost not many day.s hence" (I, C). Tho women present must have been filled as well as the men. This filling was not suffi cient for all future time, for we find somo of tho samo peoplo filled from lime to time, again and again (lv, 8, 31). In chapter x, 1-1, 40, wo read that the Spirit fell on those to whom Peter was speaking, even as he preached the word to them, and they also spako with tongues aud magnified God. When tongues were given thcro was always a reason why. In our lesson story there were gathered at Jerusalem devout men out of every nation under heaven (5), and lu their own native tongue they heard these men speak the wonderful words of God (11). In tho Bnbel story of rebellion against God, all peoplo being of one language, they were caused by God to speak many, to their own confusion (Gen, si), but hero at Pentecost peoplo of one language were enabled to speak many languages, to the glory of God. There seeni3 to bo somewhat of the gift of tongues granted by God again In these days (100S). but it is to be feared that there Is much that Is not of God, much delusion by the wicked one. There Is great need to study closely I Cor. xlv, with special attention to verses G, 0, 19. A greater test of tho Spirit's presence and power and working than any other gift Is that of tho love described In I Cor. xlll. Tho lovo that exalteth tho Lord nlone, that unites believers In 0110 great desire to magnify Him regardless of all sects or divisions of tho church and to give the glorious gospel to nil tho world as quickly as possible this Is tho filling of tho Spirit to be greatly desired. At Pentecost many mockingly said,, "These men ore full of now wine" (verso 111), but Peter became tho mouthpiece of tho Holy Spirit to call their attention to tho prephcey of Joel (and other ficrlpturos to be considered In our next lesson) and that this was a fulfillment of that prophecy concern In:,' thi outpouring of tho Holy Spirit. It was said by a man of God that prophecy has many a gcrmlnant and springing accomplishment throughout tho ages, whllo the complcto fulfill ment may bo for somo future period. That tho complete fulfillment of Joel's prophecy will bo In connection with tho return of Christ In power and glory Is evident from our Lord's own words In Matt xxlv, 20. SO. Joel HI, 1. 2, (Ohows that It will bo in connection with tho resurrection of Israel and tho Judgment of nations which precede tho millennium of Christ's personal reign to subdue all things unto Him self. Tho special word for ovcry bo flovor now In Epb. v, 18-21. REPORT OP TUB dONDlTiDNI KONESDALE NATIONAL At HONESDALE. WAYNE COUNTY At the close of business, Nov, 27', ItEBOltRCKS. Loans nnd Discounts I 218J Overdrafts. secured nnd miMH-iiroil U. S. llondsto secure circulation. 65.0 I'remlums on u. H. Honds 2.H II 1 n ..1,1.... ... ., . T' J uanking-nousc, lurmturcaml tlx- tu res 40 1 Due from National Hanks (not iicmtyo akuihs; 3f I'UU 1IOI11 CIUIU 1JUI1KS nnu iinuK' ers Due from iiiniroved reserve nKeiits uij LliecKs nun oilier cash Items ... 2.4 I'rnrnonni paper currency, nick els nnd pi'tirs ... 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