Photography and Crime. A recent exhibition in Vienna, In stituted by a Berlin chemist, Dr. Paul Jeaerlch, who devotes most of his time to legal and criminal mat ters, has fairly astounded the press of that city by Its demonstration of the value of photography In the de tection of crime. Every large city now has Its rogue's gallery, and spreads broadcast photographs of suspects. The photographing of the scenes of crime' for the enlighten ment of juries Is still another devel opment with which the general pub- , 11c Is familiar. But few people real ize that In many other ways photog raphy has become of enormous value In the actual detection of criminals. To Illustrate this remarkable devel opment was the prime object of Dr. Jeserloh's display of the eighty en- larged prints which constitute his exhibition. The sun sees everything, however fallible the human eye. Even when reinforced by the microscope or the magnifying glass, the ordinary ob server is apt to overlook little things In themselves of great importance. Moreover, a detective, or an expert mployed by the police, might behold through a magnifier something which he would regard as evidence, but about which a Jury might fall to take his word. By means of the enlarge ment of a negative, proof of a crime may often be shown to a Jury which would otherwise be practically un available. This Is Dr. Jeserich's con tention, and his demonstration of It impressed observers as convincing. For instance, he exhibited two let ters which had originally contained money, and had been received with out their enclosures. To the eye, they had not been tampered with In any way, and there was nothing to show whether they had been sent without the money or whether they had been opened en route. An en larged photograph solved the mys tery. It showed plainly that one of the envelopes had two lines of mucil age, while an unevenness In the post office stamp on the flap showed that there had been a slight variation in the reseating. It was obvious that tills letter had been tampered with; the other proved .not to have been, (or the paper sheets enclosed in place of the money showed, when photo graphed, the imprint of the post office stamp which it had received through the envelope. The tell-tale blotting paper has figured in many a novel and play. Hitherto It has been read by means of a looking-glass. Dr. Jeserich won a divorce case by first photographing the blotter and then enlarging the print; the resulting evidence that the defendant was guilty by itself suf ficed to convince the court. A mur Berer was convicted by means of the .cord with which he strangled his victim; a piece of It was found in his pockets, but not until photog THE TRAMP riUXTEK. Passing of a Once Familiar Figure In Newspaper Ofllees. What has become of the old time printer, once so familiar before the Invasion of the linotype machine? He used to show up with the first frost. . You found him in the office arly some October morning, toasting his back, before the stove. His first request was, "Boss, may I look over the exchanges?" and he was soon pawing around among the papers on the editorial table. By H o'clock he had levied sufficient tribute upon the boys to get a shave and a drink, and after dinner he was picking up bre vier in a way to make an expert en vious. All winter he worked as Btead lly as a clock. Many were the stories he told around the back room fire on . Sunday afternoon. Though with out much education, his very wander ings had made hiu. an entertaining personage. In the spring, however, when the tiny bees buzzed lazily against the sunny window pane and the lilac bushes in the courthouse yard were putting forth their fragrant lavender plumes and the night air was pungent with the odor of burning brush piles and sweet with earthy exhaltlons of upturned sod and everywhere could be heard the laughter of children playing in the twilight, a change came over the spirit of the tramp printer. He felt the call of the road, with Its luxurious days of animal de light under the 'clear skies of spring, with its privilege of work when you wish and idle when you will. He wished to see the Doys again, to visit the fifty offices where he had friends. So one Monday morning in mid-April when you entered the office you miesed his form at the case, the months' familiar figure with one gal Ins down and a short oil stained cob pipe protruding from under a slightly luminous nose. Yet with all of his -vagrant impulses you felt kindly to ward your nomadic brother In the art preservative and were ever ready for him to come again. - Before it is too late some gifted pen shou'.'d tell the story of the tramp printer. It Is one teeming with ro mance and the very best possibilities of good literary effort. True, to-day almost every office has the remorse less, speedy' and ever ailing machine, but no one can was either enthuslas- . tic or reminiscent over a mere ma chine. Shawnee (Okla.) Herald. The envelope was Invented In 1881 and was In disfavor for a long time. raphy was called In was the fatt Be yond dispute that both pieces of cord had originally been one. Another victim of a murderer clutched In his hand a mere scrap of a linen mask; a search of the rooms of the sus pected criminal revealed another piece of linen. When both were photographed, it was found that the weaving was identical; in each piece four dark threads were always fol lowed by fourteen light ones. A stolen wedding ring, when found on the thief, bore the number 12, 12, 93 C. 8. A magnifying glass re vealed nothing, but the camera brought out the original mark, S. 5. 2. 88. Faint traces of blood stains not otherwise discernible are also re vealed by the photographic plate. Not. even the most careful expert has as yet been able to re-photograph that picture of the murderer on the retina of the victim's eyes, which has betrayed the criminal in more than one novel. But Dr. Jeserich was able to capture one criminal who used part of an envelope bearing his address as an extra charge in loading his old-fashioned revolver. The pa per was apparently charred beyond hope, but the camera ended specu lation as to the Identity of the crim inal by furnishing his name and street number. In the same way, a photograph of a bullet that had end ed a life showed very faint mark ings, which could only come from a slight unevenness in the barrel of the revolver from which It was fired. The weapon of one suspect was used again and again, and each bullet fired showed the same faint lines. In the discovery of forgeries, hand writing experts have long resorted to the camera, and Dr. Jeserich ex hibited some startling examples of the ease with which the work of the cleverest forgers was revealed. All of this shows clearly that If new Inventions and the advances of science furnish new weapons to the criminal, they in turn make It harder fc- him to escape punishment.' Some day we may yet see men like Dr. Jeserich included In the detective staffs of our great cities; and not only photography, but all the other sciences, T7111 contribute to the de tection of wrongdoers. Not even In Scotland Yard have the police gone Into partnership with scientists to the extent possible. In this city our detectives, when not corrupt, are often Incompetent or wholly behind the times. When they have scored successes, It has generally been by good luck, by breaking down the prisoner's nerve through methods often indistinguishable from torture, or because of the stupidity of the criminal. Gen. Bingham has dreamed of the time when he could appoint civilians to his detective corps; but he has not yet asked for that alliance between science and de tection which modern developments make feasible. New York Post. NOISE NUISANCES. Some Early Efforts Toward Their Suppression. "It is so quiet uptown now that the patient listener may now and then catch some of the softer noisjs of the world," said a semi-invalid lawyer who spends most of the day sitting by the open window of his Harlem flat. "I have naturally taken a great deal of Interest in the present crusade against unnecessary noises, and have been reading up on sporadic attempts to suppress them," he continued. "The earliest casa that I have found was In the reigu of George III, when a circus band was silenced by injunc tion on the ground that its noise was a nuisance. In another old English la report it tells of a plaintiff recov ering damages because a flock of wild ducks was frightened by the persistent firing of a gun. The learned judge held that this consti tuted a public nuisance and was a prejudice to private rights. In Georgia 'gathering in a noisy way at a pigeon shooting' has been judi cially decided to be a nuisance. A North Carolina court held that the stamping horses in a livery stable near the plaintiff's dwelling was suf ficient annoyance to entitle him to damages. "Even the noise Incident to an or dinary business may be a nuisance. A gold-beater pelting a thin sheet of gold into shape, the hammering of the anvil in the blacksmith shop, the noise of a skating rink, and so on, have all been held to be abatable nuisances. "The test laid down in the booke is that any 'noise which constitutes an annoyance to a person of ordinary sensibility to sound so as materially to interfere with the ordfna-y com fort of life and impair the reason able enjoyment of his habitation. Is a nuisance to him.' "It Is within taj bounds of possi bility that in great centres of popu lation a new class bf experts will arise to draw salaries from the muni cipality as noise specialists. Un usual noises long continued undoubt edly Induce deafness, aside-from irri tating nerves and murdering deep. At any rate, they destroy a discrim inating nicety in hearing, especially in those who have what Is calld a musical ear." From the New Toiic Times. Hamburg has more firemen In pro portion to her size thai any thtr -Itjr la the world. New York City. Much of the pop ularity extended to the house coats made on such a plan as this one is due to the ease with which they can be made and to the comfort that they provide. In the illustration elder down flannel Is the material and the trimming Is ribbon banding, but the. various lighter weight flannels are exceedingly beautiful this year and equally appropriate, while cashmere and ' henrletta cloth and fabrics of similar weight are preferred by many women, and the design suits them all equally" well." Again, if something still less expensive is wanted the pret ty flannelettes and cotton crepes may well be suggested as being especially well adapted to the purpose. If the closing of buttons with loops Is not liked the fronts can be finished with hems and the closing be made with buttons and buttonholes while the lower edge and the collar and the sleeves are finished In any way that may be liked. The coat Is made with fronts, backs and under-arm gores and is finished at the neck edge with a roll-over col lar. The sleeves are In two portions each. The quantity of material required for the medium size Is three and a half yards twenty-four or twenty seven, two yards forty-four or one and three-quarter ' yards forty-four inches wide with four and a half yards of ribbon. , Fashion for Pearl Earrings. It is interesting that the style in earrings has not changed. It Is as pronounced as ever. The largo ba roque pearls are worn against the ear, and all manner of senil-preclous stones are worn in pear-shaped drops that fall half way down the neck. Blue Popular.' In spite of Its long continued clgn In popular favor the forecast of col ors shows that blue is in the lead. The greenish blues and the bluish greens will be very fashionable. Pea cock blues, some light shades and some deep, are most attractive. And then come the cloudy uiues, the Slav ish blues and slaty blues, blues with i 8'iggestlon of lavender and those of the electric hue. The Gobelin blues are liked and the old navy Is never takn from the list. A i&9A rail rt i vvs f us Womandom Is Bnre Necked. Practically, In spite of the vogng for long sleeves, womandom la bare necked and bare armed. Only an un llned film of tulle or net covering these parts makes an apology for daytime decolletage. Tucked Mouse or Shirt Waist. - The plain, tailored shirt waist Is the one which Is sure to be In demand Just now. It suits the lnte summer season admirably well, and it always Is well , liked for between seasons' wear and the early fall. This one Is quite novel, the tucks being arranged to give an effect of wide box pleats In combination with groups of narrow tucks, and Is adapted to all season able walBtlngs. It Is just as appro priate for silk and for wash flannel and the like as It Is for linen, madras and many Inexpensive wash fabrics. It can be made with a collar to match or worn with a separate one, and It Is altogether to be commended both for the odd waist and for the shirt waist gown. The waist Is made with a lining, which can be used or omitted as liked, and consists of fronts and back. There 1b a wide box pleat at the cen tre front, and the tucks are arranged In groups that are turned some in ward, some outward to give a bo pleat effect at the centre back and at each side of the front. The sleeves are of the regulation sort finished with straight cuffs. The quantity of material required for the medium size Is three and a halt yards twenty-four, three and a quarter yards thirty-two or two and a half yards forty-four Inches wide. G rapes on Hats. On some of the smartest new hats grapes In silver and gold, vermilion or frosted greens are much used. The leaves are generally of the same tone as the grapes. A New Collar Idea. Quite a novelty In collars Is shown in cretonne and linen. The straight band which goes round the neck Is Iui b uue creiuuuo, woue lue rurae at the top and bottom Is of hemstitched i handkerchief linen. HOW THE JAPANESE DSED TO TELL TIME By UME TSUDA., Japan's progress, not only in her army and navy, but In her knowledge of science and commerce and West ern artB, dates from the opening of the country to the world, the revolu tion which restored the Emperor to his power, and the establishment of the present government, all of which has taken place within fifty years. Now the gun booms out the noon hour in Tokyo from the Imperial Observatory, and every one takes out his watch to look at the time. Even the students have watches, many of them of American make, and clocks are found in all the vil lages, even way up In mountain dis tricts. Yet less than forty years ago time was told In a very curious way. No one owned anything like a watch, and the clocks they had were very odd ones. Nor was time divided up Into twelve hours and these Into minutes. The length of the hour changed all the time, according to the season of the year. The rising and the setting of the sun were the two fixed points of time, and the periods from one to the other were divided Into six hours of time, so that an hour in the winter day was short, Just as it was correspond ingly long in summer; but the short winter hours of the day were mado up by the long hours of the night. One could work at an hour's Job on winter days and cheat time out of thirty minutes or more, but tt had to be made up in the summer, for an hour then was about our present two hours and a half. Only in September and In March did the hours get even with themselves, and the sun rose as It should at six and set at six, and each Japanese hour was two ot the present hours. This Is the way It was counted: 12 a. m. was called the 9th hour of the morning; 2 a. m. was called the 8th hour; 4 a. m. was called the 7th hour; 6 a. m. was called the sixth hour; 8 a. m. was called the 5th hour; 10 a m. was called the 4th hour; 12 p. m. was called the 9th hour of the afternoon. And bo on again, beginning again at the ninth hour, and going down to the fourth hour. Sunset and sun rise were always the sixth hour. Now notice how odd It seems to have the hours run backward just as they Bay everything is done op posite In Japan. I asked an old gentleman why the hours went from nine backward, In stead ot from some number onward, and he said that the lessening of the hours showed that the hours of the day were getting fewer, and we should be more likely to use what remained in a better way. I also asked him why there was no first, second and third hour, and the an swer was that the time was always made known to the people by the striking of bells. To strike one or two might not be heard or noticed, so they used only the higher number from four to nine. Of course there were no clocks which would regulate themselves In this way, lengthening the day hour and shortening the night ones in summer, and acting vice versa In win ter. Such wonderful clocks could not be made, and common people only listened for the bells which rang out In the castle grounds of the noblemen, where were clustered the homes ot the retainers, or In the big city of Yedo (now Tokyo); and in the country there were fixed places where the timekeepers rang out the hour so that it Was heard throughout all the streets. These watchmen pos sessed the only clocks that existed. In a.shallow box, full ot ashes, was packed In long and narrow coils a substance called makko, which looks quite like fine sawdust, and is made from cedar-wood and the dried leaves ot a plant. It burns with a fine fragrance like Incense. This powder like substance has the quality of burning very slowly and evenly. If lighted at one end ot the long coll. It would slowly burn all day like a fuse, and would always take the same length of time to burn a certain length. The timekeeper had a measure which told him how long the day must be at each season, and the length of the coll, and he would di vide the whole length ot makko Into six divisions for the six hours from sunrise to sunset. A different length was used for the night hours. Although the sun changes each day, the measure was not changed dally, but only once In fifteen days, which was quite near enough to keep up with the real sunset and sunrise time for ordinary purposes. In some places water Clocks were used, formed by the dripping of drops of water into a vessel. When the water got to a certain height It marked the hour; but, as In the case of the fire clock, the measure for summer and winter and for day and night differed. There was, however, another way to tell time, in which time was divided up from noon till midnight into one hundred equal parts, each part being about seven of our minutes, and these again subdivided into ten. And by this method exact time could be really kept, but It was so difficult that It was known only to the learned men who kept the almanac and stud led astrology and astronomy. The other way was the common one for ordinary people. From Youth's Companion. The Dominion ol Canada crtUe. nearly 3,746, 000 square miles. BUSINDSfl CMRDB, HEFF JUSTICE OF TBI PXAOJE, Pension Attorney and Real'.Eetat Agent. RAYMOND E. BROWN, attorney at law, Brookvillb, Pa. m. Mcdonald, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Real estate agent, patents secured, ool ledums made promptly. Ollloe In Syndicate building, Keynoldsvllle, Pa. pill M. MoCHElGHT, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Notary public and real estate agent. Oat tactions will rece ve prompt attention. O files &the Keynoldsvllle Hardware Oo. building, ain street Heynoldsvllle, Pa, DR. B. E. HOOVER, ' DENTIST, Resident dentist. In the Hoover building Main street. Uentleness In operating. )R. L. L. MEANS, DENTIST; Office on eecond floor ot the Fire National bank building, Main street. R. DbVERE KINO, DENTIST, office on second floor of the Syndicate bnlU Tig, Main street, Keynoldsvllle, Pa. JJENHY PUIESTEH UNDERTAKER. Black and white funeral can. Hala street. Keynoldsvllle, Pa. MARKETS. PITTSBURG. Wheat No. t red.... 85 Rye No. 3 Corn No. 2 yellow, ear 99 No. 8 yel low, shelled 87 Mixed ear , 77 Oats No. I white 64 No. S white 6 Flour Winter patent 8 80 Faney straight winters Bay No. 1 Timothy 1800 Clover No. 1 11 50 Feed No. 1 white mid. ton 29 60 Brown middlings 2001 Bran, hulk 24 00 Straw Wheat - 7 00 Oat... 7 00 Dairy Product!. Butter Blgtn creamery I 60 Ohio oreamery 24 Fancy country roll 19 Cheese Ohio, new , 14 New York, new 14 Poultry, Etc. Bens per lb f 14 Chickens dressed a... 18 Kggs Pa. and Ohio, fresh 16 Fruits and Vegetables. Potatoes Fancy white per bo.... go Cabbage per ton 1 8-1 Onions per barrel.'. goo 78 DO H S M 14 00 160 80 00 (7 01 24 90 8 00 n . 9 BALTIMORE. Flour Winter Patent I s 70 (SO Wheat No. 8 red IN Corn MUed 71 78 Bgg 17 18 Butter Ohio oreamery 88 at PHILADELPHIA. Flour Winter Patent I 5 60 Wheat No. red Corn No. 2 mixed 86 Oats No. S white At Butter Creamery 80 Bggs Pennsylvania firsts St i 76 NEW YORK. Flour Patente S 60 IN Wheat No. 8 red I'M Corn No. 8 W Oats No. 8 white 64 66 Butter-Creamery 80 S Kggs State and Pennsylvania.... 87 S3 LIVE 8TOCK. Union Stock Yards, Pittsburg. CATTC.B Extra, 1460 to 1600 pounds 01 4 85 Prime, 1W)0 to 1J0 pounds 6 76 (a (00 Hood, 12(10 to 1H) pounds 5 60 (4 6 7 Tidy, 11150 to 1160 pounds 4 76 6 40 Fair, m to Um pounds 40il (4 4 M Common, 700 to 800 pounds 8 51 (4 8 90 Hulls 8 00 (4.8 50 Oows 1600 600 HOM Prime, heavy 6 00 (4 8 20 Prime, medium weight 6 0 14 6 80 Best heavy Yorkers 6 89 (4 5 AO Light Yorkers. 6 15 (4 6 M Pigs 4 76 (45 Ot Houghs 5 ii (4 5 75 Stags 401(44 76 Prime wethers 4 10 .4 4 18 Good mixed 866(4 406 Fair mixed ewes and wethers 8 0O 60 Culls and common 1 50 (4 8 50 Poring lambs , 400 (46 80 Veal calves 5 00 (4771 Heavy to thin oalves 8 00 (4 4 6 PROJITXEXT FEOPLKi. Richard Croker decided to leavej Ireland for a visit to the United States. President C. W. Eliot, ot Harvard, resigned, and his resignation, to take effect May 19, 1909, was accepted. Howard Gould won the honors for chrysanthemums at the first day ot the National Flower Show In Chicago. Seth Low succeeds James R. Morse In the presidency of the American Asiatic Association, now eleven years old. Dr. Sven Hedln, the Swedish ex plorer, says that he has discovered the true sources of the Bramaputra and Indus. . DeLancey Nicoll, attorney, of New York City, said that Howard Gould' Income had been cut down $300,000 and was now only $400,000. One of the best known mining men In the country, Walter Fitch, has re signed as superintendent ot the Cal umet and Hecla properties. Duchess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswlg-Holstein was married in Berlin to Prince August William of Prussia, fourth son of the Emperor. R. W. Gilder, of the Century, said that the Kaiser article was not with drawn because ot anything In tt likely to cause International complications. Kenyon Cox, the painter, Is also an accomplished writer. He is a son of General Jacob D. Cox, Secretary of the Interior In President Grant's first Cabinet Amid great ceremony the Czar of Bulgaria convened the National As sembly for the first time since claim ing regal dignity, and was enthusias tically cheered by the people. ' Henry P. Davidson, vice-president ef the First National Bank of New York, and Professor A. P. Andrews, nembers ot the National Monetary Commission, have returned from an afficlal trip to Europe.
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