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Tile' l>rulned Land.
Land that is tile drained before win
ter will not be covered with water
next spring and will stand plowing
several weeks earlier than undrained
land. As the water falls below the
warmth and air follow.
Decline in llrftieli Agriculture.
The aggregate area of corn crops,
which comprise wheat, barley, oats,
rye, beans and peas, amounts to
8,470,892 acres, which represents a de
cline on the year of 230,710 acres.
hThis contraction of the corn acreage
follows, moreover, a similar decline
of 96,208 acres last year, and 13.157
acres in 1899. A generation ago, say
in 1871, the United Kingdom returned
W 11,833,243 acres as under corn crops;
' this year the area is 3,350,351 acres
less. In other words, an area not far
short of three and one-lialf million
acres has been withdrawn from corn
croppings during the last 30 years.
Jfhe wheat crop alone has incurred
just over 2,000,000 acres of this loss.
This year's area of corn crops is made
up of 4,112,365 acres of oats, 2,140,-
875 acres of barley, 1,746,141 acres of
wheat, 2j54,093 acres of beans, 155,665
acres of peas, and 67,753 acres of rye.
It appears, then, that nearly one-half
of the entire corn area of the British
Isles is seeded to oats, whilst if we
eliminato the pulse corn crops, and
have regard only to the cereal corn,
the oats acreage represents more than
half the total.
A Hue for llie Potato IIooU.
Cool fall weather is an ideal time
to gather stones from the meadows
and tillable pastures. Their room has
% much value, and It will not pay to let
< i torn cumber the ground. To avoid
backache and sore lingers, a potato
hook may be used to gather the stonC3
on a boat, and, if any are partly im
bedded in the earth, the tines will
more readily pass under them than
one's fingers. The large stones will
have to be handled in the old way. It
is useless to expect an ideal meadow
with many stones on the surface, even
if they are quite small.
That all changes are not improve
ments is shown by the following: A
hardware dealer advertised something
new in potato hooks, and I sent by a
neighbor for one. The improved
tool had tines of uniform size the
whole length, and flat on the ends.
The blindness Is to prevent marring
the tubers, but when one is scratched
it makes a larger wound than would
a sharp tine. If a potato becomes im
paled upon a blunt tine it is not easily
jarred off, and the potato is likely to
be split open. In hard ground the tool
i is quite useless. Such changes arc
not the kind to stimulate trade.—New
York Tribune.
lVaya of Storing Cabbape.
There are several ways. One that
i have found to suit very well, says a
writer in American Gardening, is to
select the best drained positions in tlio
garden. Then with the plow or
spade open a trench running east and
west about eight or ten inches in
depth and 15 inches broad; across the
trench we place strips of wood about
four feet apart—these act as supports
for fence rails, or any pieces of wood
laid over and parallel with the trench
about two inches apart—on the wood
we put two rows of cabbage, head
down, finishing with a third row on top
and along the centre of the others;
over tile hole put a coat of dry straw,
and this is covered up with about six
inches of soil, adding more as the
weather becomes cold. Except during
very cold or very mild weather both
w ends of the trench arc alio' ,"6(1 to
stand open to carry on a circulation of
' air.
Before pitting the plants should be
dry and turned downward for a time,
to allow the water to drain out of the
axils of the leaves. See that there
is a drain or fall from the pits to al
low rain water to pass away.
Another successful method is to
open a trench east and west, throwing
the soil to the sou.h; then packing the
heads closely together with the roots
in the ground, covering up tlio roots
and stalks up to the heads with earth.
A covering of leaves or straw, etc.,
must be put on the top to protect from
the cold. This can be removed in mild
weather, giving them the benefit of
air and light. This plan is especially
advantageous to immature heads, as
they keep on growing when the
weather is not too severe.
1 Winter Work In I'ench Orchard!.
A v We have the worst drouth in 20
years in our immediate vicinity. Still
peaches made a moderately fair crop
of elegant fruit where orchards were
well cultivated, which is the rule here.
The yellows prevailed here to a rath
er unusual extent, although I think
It has been more noticeable on ac
count of an usually rigid enforcement
of the law regarding its destruction.
You ask regarding inummy fruit and
dead twigs. In my orchard, where
careful pruning and spraying are
practiced, I do not have them, but if
I did, I would certainly remove them
in the fall. The only fall work I do
in my orchard is to get broken limbs,
if any, out of the orchard and get my
cover crop of oats well started. I leave
all pruning until early spring, then
rush it through before the buds start.
It has happened here that a large per
centage of buds have been killed dur
j ing a severe winter; then in order to
W save a crop the pruning must be light
'* and this cannot be determined until
after March 15. We wait until that
date before pruning at all.
If I was working in a southern on
chard I feel sure I would change the
plan and finish all my pruning and fer
tilizing during the winter months, but
I would not, under any circumstances,
practice what I have seen in some
southern orchards, that is, winter
plowing or cultivate n. I am fully con.
vinced of two things in peach culture.
First, any dlsturbar.ee of soil or roots
while a tree is dormant or in a rest
ing stage is injurious; and second,
any pruning or cutting of the peach
during its active or growing period is
very injurious. I am aware that the
inclination to do things out of season,
as a matter of convenience, is some
times almost irresistable. But in my
experience I have always paid a penal
ty when I violated these laws of na
ture. Roland Morrill, in Orange Judd
Farmer.
Making Ilii*li Grade litiller.
No one can make good butter with
bad odors around the creamery. Tire
vats, churn, worker, utensils and em
ployes must be absolutely clean and
sweet. In running a creamery where
the mill; is drawn to the creamery and
there separated, is much better than
a gathered cream plant where only the
cream is brought. Farmers will not
take care of cream properly and the
greater part of it comes sour. In run
ning a factory with a separator, I
should separate my milk at 80 degrees
Fahrenheit, letting the cream stand
over night and cool down to churning
temperature about 62 degrees in win
ter and 58 in summer. I always want
my churn stopped when the butter is
in granular form, about the size of
wheat kernels. The buttermilk will
then draw off freely and can be
worked very easily. ! always work
my butter twice and sometimes in
third water, the water being 10 de
grees colder than churning tempera
ture.
I salt it to suit my trade, using
mostly one ounce to the pound. I
have never used the combined churn
and worker, for I think the butter has
a better grain with the churn separ
ate. In packing I want my packages
as clean as possible on the outside as
well as inside. In packing in tubs I
have them lining up and fold over the
edge of butter one inch, then the top
circular is put on top and tucked down
betwen tub and lining. I have had
men tell me that my butter took well,
because when they took a cover off<
the butter was smooth and nice. In
putting up prints the same care should
be taken to have full weight and a
neat package. In making butter from
gathered cream It requires more care.
I am selling all I make in pound
prints, at two cents above highest
market price, having the same regular
trade for 12 years. 1 always take my
prize butter right out of the qhurn
with all the rest and do not follow any
different methods.—F. S. Mallory in
American Agriculturist.
Fall Treatment of Innectn.
One cannot do better on the farm
late in the fall and winter than to
make a thorough search in the orchard
and garden lor insect pests and their
p"" or la""-ie. We know 1 enn"gh
about the insect world now to under
siami ihal me best way to des.roy
these is to prevent their millions rf
eggs from hatching. Many of these
are laid on the twigs and in the bark
of the orchard trees. The tree borers
and grubs bury themselves at the base
of the trees and inside of the bark,
and there hibernate. The flies and in
sects glue their eggs to twigs and
bushes, or bore pinholes in the trees
and deposit them there. Millions of
these eggs are laid for another sea
son's crop of insect pests. The old
insects of many species die in the fall,
and leave the future of their race to
the eggs thus laid. By destroying
these eggs we get ahead of the pests
and greatly limit their ravages.
One should go carefully over the
orchard trees and vines, and examine
twigs, branches, roots and trunks.
Wherever there is any suspicion of
eggs glued in masses to the bark or
sawdust to indicate the presence of a
hole full of eggs, the owner should
scrape the bark carefully and run a
little thin wire in the hole. Great
quantities of eggs can be gathered
from the bark of twigs and trunks in
this way, and if immediately burned
thousands of insects will be prevented
from coming into the world. The
worms and grubs that bore in the
trunks of trees to hibernate must be
hunted for diligently, and with a piece
of wire they can easily be killed. Even
the leaves under the orchard trees
should be raked up and burned. If it
were generally known how many in
sect pests these leaves harbor In win
ter they would not be saved for bed
ding or anything else. Many a pest
crawls under the leaves and goes to
sleep lor the winter or deposits eggs
there to hatch in the spring. The only
sure way to prevent tills is to rake
up the leaves after they have all fall
en and burn them. It will pay in the
end good interest on the work and in
vestment. Not even spraying will do
so much good in keeping down the
insects, as this searching investiga
tion of the trees in fall and winter. Re
peated every year, the orchard will
soon become so free from noxious in
sects that the foliage and branches
and fruit will take on quite a different
appearance. Many twigs on affected
trees will be found honeycombed with
small pinholes. These should be
pruned off and burned. They repre
sent colonies of insect eggs that may
bring forth millions of pests next
spring.—Professor James S. Doty, in
American Cultivator.
The greenfinch is the earliest riser
of the bird family. It sometimes be
gins to pipe at 1 o'clock on a sum
mer morning. The blackcap comes
next and then tHe blackbird.
. To Muko Clothe* Lat.
Never in home dressmaking cut any
kind of woolen goods until it ha 3
been sponged, as cheap material is
often not dampened before it is sold.
To do this properly at home get an
ironing board or table the width of
the good's, and cover with tightly
stretched calico. Spread your cloth
wrong side up cover with a linen cloth
that has been well rung out in water,
and then press with a hot Iron the
lengthwise of the goods. Never let
the iron be atill, and while pressing
allow the goods to fall evonly onto a
clean cloth placed on the floor.
Not NerejuHi'lly Expensive.
It is not necessary to pay so much
for a Gainsborough hat. It is of all
hats the most reasonable. While it
will accept a great deal, it will also
uo without much and will look well
on a little, when any other hat would
look skimp. The Gainsborough must
-e large and or good shape. Its crown
must be of moderate height and its
brim broad and inclined to be undu
lating, that is, it must be a brim that
can be bent or molded, turned or
twisted. But when once the hat is
secured, the worst is over. The rest
is comparatively simple, for the Gains
oorougli can be trimmed with odds
and ends that would look out of plaec
upon another hat.
New Sliirt Waist*.
The new shirt waists are nearly all
In light colors and in white, many
showing a printed floral design and all
bearing lace in one way or another.
The large square lace trimmed collar
is still popular, the sailor knot be
neath showing lace incrust, while the
tucked sleeves form a puff at the
wrist. The new woolen muslin is
an excellent material for the pretty
new blouse, which is an essential
feature of milady's wardrobe, and
this comes in plain and printed, show
ing the most delicate combinations of
color. A in pale yellow
Tuscan silk had the finely tucked col
lar and sleeves of material, trimmed
with lace of the same shade In ap
plique, while the tiny vest of finely
tucked white muslin was crossed with
narrow bands of pale yellow velvet
fastened on the left with small
buckles.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
A Western Equentrienue.
Mrs. Minnie Austen, a typical wom
an of the plains, lias recently been
giving exhibitions of equestrianism at
Portland, Ore., and has astonished
many, even among the experienced
plainsmen, by her daring feats. She
Is an absolutely fearless horsewoman,
who delights in feats that seem haz
ardous and in risks that appear dan
gerous. The crowd of cowboys who
were performing at the carnival dur
ing the horse show were so confi
dent of Mrs. Austen's ability that they
were willing to back her to the ex
tent of SIOO to ride any four-footed
animal sent to the grounds. During
the week Mrs. Austen has been nightly
doing a tandem hurdle act that has
proved Immensely popular with the
carnival visitors. With two spirited
horses going at file utmost speed
that vigorous whip-lashing could get
out of them, she went tearing around
the track, taking the three hurdles
as clean as ever any famous hunter
cleared a brush or fence. —St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Woman Ceil mi a Tiiker.
It was through the death of her hus
band that Mrs. Daniel A. Button of
Fontlac, Mich., became the first wom
an census enumerator a number of
years ago. She had been in the habit
of arranging and copying the work of
her husband, who was one of the
deputies appointed for census pur
poses. When left alone Mrs. Button
applied for her husband's position,
in due time receiving the appointment.
It was decided by the government
after receiving her reports that the
Manufacturing statistics should bo
compiled for the first time in the his
tory of the census, and this work was
placed in her hands. Mrs. Button
found it a difficult task, as she had
to visit personally every manufactory,
large or small, in the district, and as
certain the amount and cost of ma
terial used, the value of the articles
purchased, the expense of production,
and the gain or loss per year. Upon
sending in her final report to the su
perintendent of the census bureau
she received from him a letter of com
mendation for the excellence of her
work, and a deputy marshal's badge—
white silk in blue 'etters.
One of tlio Cliliio.o Kinprr-n'l Clonk*.
"There'll be an opera cloak worn
here this winter that will make every
woman In town turn green with envy,"
said a Washington woman who had
just returned from a visit in Now
York. "I saw It last week, and if
I could have pulled my soul up by the
roots I think I'd have traded it off for
that dream of a cloak. The woman
who bought it will spend the season
here. I saw it at a tea—l won't say
whose —in New York City.
"The woman who sold It Is the sister
of a naval officer —a surgeon, I think.
The brother brought it from China,
and—whisper—it's loot. He found it
In the Forbidden City, where a lot of
Russian soldiers who were looking
for secret doors and hiding places in
the walls of a palaee had fiung it on
the floor and were trampling it under
foot. He brought it away to keep it
from being carried off by some care
less and dishonest person.
"It's a long, kimona-sliaped thing
of black satin, embroidered in a mar
velous way, and it's lined through and
through with the richest ermine, and
if the Empress misses it, I'm sure
she'll be glad to know it's in safe
hands." —Washington Post.
Margaret Fuller.
It is due to a woman's effort that a
tablet has been erected as a memorial
to Margaret Fuller, who was drowned
many years ago off (he Isle of Pines,-
Long Island, and on this spct the tab
let to her has been placed. Margaret
Fuller's real influence among women
is only beginning to be understood.
Hundreds of women who today are
reaping seme results of her movement
scarcely know of her existence, or if
they do, It is merely as a member of
the set of literary persons in Concord,
Mass., when Emerson, Alcott and
those men were a unique coterie. As
a matter of fact, Margaret Fuller was
far less associated with them than
seems to be thought. She did indeed
know them, as those men admired the
type of women for which she stood,
believing, as has since been demon
strated, that woman was capable of
embracing more opportunities than
were then afforded her.
Margaret Fuller was in the best
sense of the word a broad-minded, in
tellectual woman, says a writer in the
Home Magazine. The men of her
day considered her their mental equal,
and. what was equally to the point,
treatel her as such. She lectured and
wrote, and her opinions were heard
with respect;.
Her tragic death off the Long Is
land shore on her return to this coun
try with her husband and child, having
married an Italian, is one of the
events that has until recently been
unmarked in any way. Her body was
never recovered, and with the passing
of time much that she did has been
forgotten.
It is Mrs. Lillie Devereaux Blake,
who ita3 at last done something to
perpetuate her memory by raising
money for the tablet that was put
in place a few weeks ago. Although
she has long admired Margaret Fuller,
it was not until several years ago
that Mrs. Blake, who spends her sum
mers on the Isle of Pines, found that
she was within a short distance of
the place where the former was
drowned. Mrs. Blake immediately set
about having a memorial of some sort
erected there. With energy that has
remained unflagging she has interest
ed persons in the work, has held sales,
given teas and resorted to other simi
lar means to raise money, with the
result that this season she found
there was enough, and with simple
ceremonies the tablet was unveiled.
Flowers are used on cold-weather
hats.
Large white wings are much seen
cn the new toques.
Pretty afternoon gowns are made of
the gav silks and libertv-satin foulard
now shown in floral designs.
Tucking promises to be used for
waist trimming on every sort of ma
terial that can possibly be tucked.
A new fancy in corsets is the use
of white velvet printed in colors with
floral designs. This is a step beyond
the silk and satin of other years.
The dog muff has made its appear
ance in Paris. In the front is a deep
padded pocket, in which the wearer's
tiny pet can be safely deposited.
Collecting scraps of lace to mount in
an album is said to be a fad at pres
ent among English women. Beneath
each piece of lace is written the
name and the date and place where it
was obtained.
Every now and again one sees let
combs, though they are not very uni
versally worn and there are pretty
things in jet brooches to be found.
These come in fancy designs, fleur-de
lis. horseshoes, and In more conven
tional patterns.
White Indian cashmere is utilized
for elaborate evening coats and one
notable example from a Parisian de
signer is combined witu black chantilly
lacc. A broad puffing of white chiffon
down the front is held in place by jet
motifs.
Very attractive is a brooch, a long
spray of acorn leaves and fruit, the
leaves of diamonds, the lower part
of the acorns each a single pink pearl
and the upper part, in which the pearls
are set, of a bronze gold, set with
small diamonds.
In bags of various kinds, those to
carry in the hand, chatelaine bags
with silver frames and card cases are
combined black and steel. Frequently
the foundation of the bag or case will
be of the jet beads and worked in
will be a design of some sort in the
steel beads.
Beading plays an important part in
handlcercrlefs. Very dainty little
handkerchiefs have a line of beading
on the exact edge in lieu of a hem,
and inside this a line of embroidery,
fine and delicate—anything heavy
would be out of keeping—a slender
vine with a little more elaborate work
in the corners. In some of the hand
kerchiefs the beaded edge Is entirely
straight, and in others It is slightly
undulated. Perhaps the former is the
most attractive.
BUYING "GBEENGOODS,
DIFFICULTY IN PREVENTING THIS;
FORM OF SWINDLE.
Few Kealize to What Extent Tills Par
ticular Calling of the Powers That Pro
is Carried Kings Among the Crooks—
-1 lie Method* of the Sharpers Are Many.
Perhaps every newspaper reade:
knows what a "greengoods" man is.
but how many people who think tha
they were pretty well acquainted with
the intricacies of metropolitan life
have any idea to what extent this
particular calling of the "powers that
prey" is now carried? The trade of
the "greengoods" man is one of the
most puzzling and mysterious with
which detectives have to deal. And
what is most astonishing of all is that
every day within a radius of a few
miles from New York City hundreds
of daring schemes are being carried
on and brought to full realization.
A New York Tribune reporter was
prompted to make inquiries as to the
extent and workings of this practice
by a Washington dispatch. This dis
patch said that J. L. Bristow, fourth
assistant postmaster general in his
recent report, had advocated an
amendment to the interstate com
merce law which would prohibit tele
graph and express companies or their
employes from aiding and abetting
"greengoods" or lottery swindles, or
any other scheme carried on partly
by mall and partly by common carrier
in violation of the postal laws. The
necessity for such a law, together with
the probable difficulty of its enforce
ment. was made evident by Theodore
W. Swift, chief of the New York post
office Inspectors. Mr. Swift said:
The "greengoods" man is one who
promises to give a certain amount of
counterfeit money for genuine money.
He is one of the oiliest individuals
with whom detectives have to deal.
He is difficult to apprehend, and when
he Is caught it is almost impossible to
obtain sufficient evidence to secure
his conviction. Every year ho robs
innocent, trusting men, of large sums
of money—how large we have no
means of determining. He is a high
wayman, a true freebooter, who
handles his revolver with as easy an
assurance as he does his chief weapon
—his tongue. We have fought him
sub rosa for years, and we are still
learning his cunning ways. He is the
trickiest, nerviest, most desperate ruf
fian in good clothes with whom we
deal. I could talk to you for hours of
his wormings, his twisting and hit
burrowlngs. but perhaps a description
of only one of a hundred different
methods by which he makes his living
will serve as an illustration.
Practically all the "greengoods" men
ot the country operate from New York.
They work in this city because the
great volume of mailing which goes
on here makes detection more difllcult.
If after they receive replies they
could be tracked and watched, and if
we knew from whom their mail comes,
of course we could more readily drive
them out of existence. As the system
is now worked we have no means of
knowing who send letters to them or
at what point these letters to the
sharpers are really written.
Let's take the simplest case. The
"greengoods" man sends out a circu
lar to a man whose name he finds in
the directory of some town. This cir
cular may state that the writer has a
son who once worked in the treasury
department, who is perfectly familiar
with the process of making money.
The crook adds that further instruc
tions may he obtained by telegraphing
to, say. "J. W. Ellis, Greenville, N.
J.," which, of course, is a fictitious ad
dress. The innocent is told not to
use the mails, but to telegraph all
communications to the crook under a
signature, say, for example, "736."
No. 736 accepts the bait and tele
graphs as instructed. In a short time
a generous pile of messages from
gullible persons, addressed to the
crook, accumulate at Greenville. It is
easy for us to find these telegrams at
that office, but we can't find the crook.
By collusion with the telegraph oper
ator, copies of these messages are
sent by mail, by express, or by hand
to New York, where the crook has
all along kept himself. This scheme
prevents us from capturing him. It
is practically impossible to prove that
the operator, who receives SSO for
his share in the transactions, is an
accessory to the operation.
Each of these copies ol' telegrams
represents to the crook a possible
"sucker." The greengoods man then
writes again to No. 736, the weakling,
and sends him a genuine one dollar
bill as a specimen of the counter
feit money which is for sale. He adds
that for SSOO, in good money, SSOOO
worth of counterfeit money like the
sample enclosed may be purchased.
The innocent is then instructed to
come to New York, but to first tele
graph, always in cipher, to the sharp
er's real address in New York tell
ing him when he starts.
A few minutes after No. 736, the
innocent, goes to a room at an ap
pointed hotel, the "steerer," or as
sociate, of the greengoods man ap
pears. The "steerer" then pilots the
man with the SSOO into the country,
perhaps to a small Pennsylvania
town, where the greengoods man
meets them. He is told that safety
requires such a move. The crook
then actually gives the "sucker" SSOOO
in genuine money for his SSOO.
Then the crook tells No. 736 that
it would be better if he did not take
these five crisp one thousand dollar
bills to his native town; that it would
ue far safer to submit tnem to a chem
ical process, invented by the crook,
that would, after a few days of treat
ment, make them appear older and
.'-ss likely to cause any one to sus
pect tlielr origin. Mind you. this prop
:>ition is made after the SSOO is in
ho pocket of the sharper. It is al
nost incredible, but it is a fact that
he countryman, in the majority of
ases, consents to give back his SSOOO
worth of genuine bills to the crook to
subject it to the "process." After re
citing the SSOOO back the sharper dis
appears, the "steerer" does likewise,
and the "sucker" is penniless. Had
le murmured an objection or hesi
ated a moment, he would have been
confronted with a loaded revolver. In
this way theft by assault and battery
is not necessary, and the same object
is achieved in the quiet suave fashion
described, and the victim, because of
his position as a would-be dispenser
of false bills, is blocked from com
plaining to the police.
This is the simplest method of
greengoods procedure. There are a
thousand variations to thi3 theme >
each of which is a hard nut for us to
crack. You ask why canuot one of
our men impersonate a credulous per
son and then arrest the blackguards?
We have done this, but have practi
cally abandoned the idea.because gen
erally we have been unable to pro
duce enough evidence to convict. The
sending of the telegrams and letters
is so adroitly managed that the train
of evidence which we may collect is
likely to break at an important point.
Of course, the detective's life is in
constant danger when pursuing these
crooks.
"Where do the sharpers get the
money with which to play their trade?
Where did the man in the case cited
get his ?SUOO in genuine money?" was
asked. Mr. Swift replied:
"That is the most interesting part
of the story. The system does not
depend for its success upon the re
sources of a few needy swindlers.
These men are simply agents of
wealthy criminals, who manage their
men, outline the plan, think of new
schemes and pay their agents a gen
erous percentage of the amount they
steal from their victims. This weal
thy criminal is the king sharper of
the crowd; it is he who furnishes the
capital. To prove my knowledge of
the existence of these facts, I'll say
that I know one of these king crooks,
lie lives in Pennsylvania where he has
a magnificent stock farm. Many acres
of rich laud, on which are costly cat
tle and horses, stretch on all sides
from his baronial-like mansion. There
are others like lifm, closer to New
York human vultures, who by the ex
ercise of a peculiar cast of intelli
gence have been able to amass large
fortunes. They have wrought so cun
ningly that, while we are certain
that they are exceedingly dangerous
to society, we are almost powerless
to convict them. The very nicety of
the law of evidence renders almost
impossible the fulfilment of justice.
We have been fairly successful, liow.
ever, in driving these highwaymen
from our postofllce, and what we
want now Is just this amendment to
the interstate commerce law which
will make telegraph and express com
panies—the former particularly—
more heedful of their duty. We have
a law in New York state which pro
hibits this wretched business being
carried on by telegraph or mail. All
states should have such a statute i or
else let us have a Federal law to the
same effect. New Jersey has a statute
prohibiting telegraph and express
companies from aiding and abetting
these swindlers. We have recently
had a New Jersey operator imprisoned
for violating this law.
IlHd liven There All llie Time.
One of the "fly men" at the central
police station was given instructions
several weeks ago to "bring in" a
young man who had a criminal record.
The detective knew his man and had
received information that he was in
the city.
A detective working under an in
struction to arrest a man when found
does not usually devote all his time to
the search. He puts the warrant into
his pocket and depends upon encoun
tering his man sooner or later. If he
has no other work on hand lie occa
sionally drops into the resorts such
as are usually favored with the pres
ence of men who have been photo
graphed side and front.
One morning the "fly man." while
on his way to his room met the long
sought crook at the front stairway of
the building.
"I want you," he said good-natured
ly, "but 1 didn't expect to ilnd you
here."
"This is where I live.
"For how long?"
"Since I came back, six weeks ago."
"Well, you're a bird. I live here,
too." Both men were touched in their
professional pride—one that he could
search for weeks to arrest a man in
the same building, the other that he
should rent a room next to a "fly man."
—Milwaukee Sentinel.
Siuilln to IVmil Window*.
Snails have long been employed in
this country for cleaning windows.
The creatures are dipped in cold
water, and then placed upon the pane.
They crawl around slowly, devouring
all foreign matter and leaving the
glass quite blight and clear. They
are, of course, used only for upper
windows, not easily readied from out
side. Water snails also command a
ready sale. Almost every aquarium
owner keeps a few water snails. They
are the best of scavengers and keep
the place as tidy as a new housemaid.
London Answers.
On the Mississippi, between St.
Louis and Minneapolis, GO Hawmills
are in operation, and 179 steam craft
of various kinds navigate this stretch
of the river.