, -^BENEFit^ Pi-inceß* M aldemar nn Artist. The most interesting member or the Danish court is the Princess Waldemar. She is an artist, Her spe cial line being scenes from animal life, and judges declare that if she had been stimulated by necessity she might have rivaled Rosa Boulieur. She is to be found in her studio every morning, brush in hand and clad in a long painter's blouse, at 7 o'clock, absorbed in her favorite occupation. The Ufi-to-Date Bnby. It isn't correct any more to have 4 things daintily pretty for the new born baby just in order to have them idaintily pretty. It is no longer the thing to swathe the little body in yards and yard 3 of muslin and lace and put him to bed in billows of down and silk perfumed with rose or violet. Up-to-date mothers no longer vie with each other on the point of delicato elaboration, they do not vie at all any more. Their one object Is to make everything as sanitary and com fortable as possible for the ncw-com ar. Sometimes they give a sigh for the pretty bow or frill of lace, but after all, everything in the new fash ion looks so clean and sensible and wholesome they come to see the other was only a perverted taste, and take no pleasure in it. Things have ad vanced in the last few years. The iniisery is one of them.—Marsha Houk, in Woman's Home Companion. Stylos In Collars and Stocks. k The general preference at present "seems to be in favor of high, close -stocks for outdoor wear, and fiat, easy ■collars for the house gowns and silk v mists. At the neckwear departments of the big drygoods houses they sell examples of this latter model out of heavy yellow Irish, Dutch or Italian lace, In combination with velvet or Jilrror velveteen; and from France they are sending over delicate lawn and linen flat collars, with white em broidery around the edges and on the points. These are fastened with big old-fashioned cameo or seed pearl brooches. Should a woman prefer something quite as airy though less severe than a perfectly flat collar she can do no better than wear one of the new tucked silk muslin collars, the pat tern of which only came into being short time ago. The band of mus- that clasps the neck Is tucked to give it stiffness and body, and the tie ends are tucked almost to their tips, where they aro finished with rows of hemstitching or a broad hem, briar stitched down. In some cases a single thickness of colored liberty silk Is tacked on the inside of the neckband, and often enough of cafe au ladt mus lin is employed instead of thg ivory white. Instead of French knots, once so popular in the decoration of fancy neckties, the humor now is for pret tily beaded or pearl sprinkled stocks, and for some of the fashionable new spring tailor dresses the most won derful adjustable jewelled collars of leather have been introduced. A beautifully dressed suede or glace kid is used for this purpose. The collar is cut from one strip of delicate skin, trimmed with flat cabochon, turquoise, krearls or steel beads, lined with a soft "atin, and is hooked on with any gown with which it will harmonize. ' Women faithful (o the Btllf linen •collar wear starched Roman bands, such as the clergy use, and with this a broad folded bunting tie of the rich est, softest bird's-eye Bilk. This is, however, rarely seen, save in the make-up of a smart automobiling cos tume. when the tie Is red or mat new shade of haberdashery blue known as Irish eyes.—New York Sun. Pavlnir tlio Children. One of the most interesting and valuable forms of "child saving" work is that done by the Illinois State Training School for Girls. It is in Geneva, 111., one hour's ride from Chi cago, and was established to take young girls from vicious lives and reform them. The school is divided into B!X "fam tlies," each of which has a dormitory, ;ssembly room, kitchen, dining room and laundry. The head of each family is called the mother, and is selected for her tact and kindliness as much as for her ability to train the girls in the duties required. Each girl is drilled in baking, cooking, washing, ironing and sewing. They also milk cows and make their own butter. It is proposed to establish a dress making and cutting department in the institution, for many of the girls have a liking for sewing, although they did not know how to take a stitch when they came into the home. In addition to this training the girls receive a common school education in the branches of reading, writing and arithmetic. . A It is not all work at the school, 1 yiowever. The grounds are ample and beautiful, and the girls go out every •day, while for rainy days they have two large playrooms. Part of their work, even, is regarded as play by them, as they thoroughly enjoy the gardening, sewing and cooking. Un der the training of a skilled gardener they grow most of the vegetables used in the school, and have the finest flower garden in the locality. The vegetables and fruits not needed for summer consumption they can and preserve for winter. Ten and eighteen years of age are the limits of commitment, and a girl committed to the school remains in its custody until she is twenty-one. After a year's residence she may be placed with a private family, from which she reports from time to time. Her earnings are sent to the institu tion. and the money is banked and held in trust for her, necessary ex penses being deducted. Every child of the school receives a bankbook for this purpose. From such earnings one of the girls now has $129 to her creoit, and the aggregate runs into hundreds of dollars. In almost every ease absolute re form is effected, and many of the girls are respectably and happily married. Mlgmnted IVwrU Worn. There is no doubt about feminine enthusiasm over the earring. Pro digious pearl buttons are, with the exception of a few novel shapes, the kind to wear, and their vogue is very largely due to the fact that a pair of truly magnificent "orty-dollar pearl ear studs could really not be identi fied from a pair worth four or forty thousand unless a jewel expert is called in to pass upon the compara tive merits. This was illustrated the other day when the custom house offi cers seized a brace of splendid pink beads that had not been declared, and thd jeweler who examined them at first pronounced them genuine, so admirable was their make. Until very recently the fashion in ear studs de manded that the pair of pearls should first of all be of unusual size, then as nearly as possible perfect spheres, and finallly exact mates in color. It fell to the lot of a doting young husband to change this mode. His wife's birthday was due about Thanks giving time, and on discreetly inquir ing her preferences as to a suitable gift he was told that nothing short of a pair of pearl ear studs bigger than any her friends had would just fill the aching void in her jewel box. He wrote and telegraphed and tele phoned, and cabled, in away doting American husbands have, and his or der was for a pair of the biggest pearls in the market. A New York dealer got one in Paris and one in London, and both were guaranteed to be as big as ordinary gooseberries. There proved, however, to have been a little hitch in the instructions, that nevertheless had been interpreted lit erally as to size, for one pearl was as black as London soot and the other as white as snow.' There was no doubt about their size, though, and the wife, rather than hurt the feel ings of her faithful knight, put the mismatched pearls in her little pink ears and went to a dinner of excep tional splendor. The next morning she woke up and found herself as a leader of fashion, and since that dinner party the women with "mated pearls," as they are called, have been negotiating ex changes at their Jeweler's or among themselves. Mated pearls are not "in it" with mismatched pairs, and though a black and white bead are at the top of the list, a green and a pink, a white and a yellow, are acceptable seconds in style.—Chicago Record-Herald. Lace mitts are still good form, an! they can be found in black and white and in different lengths. A hat made of strings of pearls In terwoven with bands of lace is one of the striking creations for the spring. A handsome parasol is of white sillc, covered with black chiffon, put on (lain, and then in the centre of each gore there is a medallion of blacit lace. A narrow border of heavy white iace further carries out the scheme of black and white. A charming evening gown for a young girl is of rich miroir satin, veiled with either white, gold or col ored net, showing a delicate design, of lace or ribbon applique in a floral design alternating with roses or cam ellias sewn on in a studied careless ness. Modish separate skirts are effec tively trimmed with folds of moire extending from the waist line to the head of the flounce. One Idea is to set a fold on either side of the seams an laid very flat. Then the flounce is finished with bands of the same mate rial, running horizontally and widen ing toward the back. Lace still continues fashlonuble, and for street and evening wear is held in highest favor. Tambour lace, relic of several decades ago, occupies an Important place on the list, although it is not truly lace—that is, needle made lacc —as it is worked with a sort of crochet hook, with the net stretched on the frame. The pat terns, however, are very effective. Some of the new little frocks vhich are made up for small girls open the full length of the front and a little to one side. The waist is made with the little straight stock and dicky effect with trimmings of Hamburg and broad lapels turning back at tne front, the one at the right being carried over a little and the end forming the beginning of the opening. The skirt is simply made, gored in the front, and without a gather, the fullness of the back being given by two rather broad box plaits which begin under the collar, wnicn is sailorlike in the back and are carried the full length of the skirt. FEW BANK CROOKS LEFT THE BURGLAR'S INCENUITY DROVE HIM OUT OF BUSINESS. Blecliaufcal Devices Outwit Skill Com pelled Now to Go Hack to and Follow I'etty Thieving—The Modern Safes Will Desist Dynamite—The Electrical Alarm. The modern burglar alarm not only renders it utterly impossible for one to disturb a vault protected with it without detection, but it also gives a signal at the first attempt to raise a window, file a bar or enter a door. So thoroughly does it protect the de positories of great wealth that it has defied all of the wonderful skill of the cracksman, until today the few living experts of that class of crooks are found either In abject poverty or devoting the genius which brought them millions twenty years ago to the practice of crime of the most petty character. One can scarcely fail to notice the utter absence of great bank robberies during the past live or ten years. A few have been successfully performed in that time, but with one single exception the money was ob tained during banking hours from the cashier as he glanced down the bar rel of a six-shooter. The exception was when a stranger engaged a bank cashier in conversation while he hooked out a roll of bills with the aid of a piece of wire from under the offi cial's nose. The electrical burglar alarm of to day, the great modern safes, which will even resist dynamite, are the re sult of a series of bank robberies ex tending over a period of twenty or thirty years, which were conceived and successfully carried out by a band of criminals, many of whom are alive today. Strange as it may seem, these men have driven themselves out of business. The almost fabulous wealth which they stole made the invention of mechanical devices which would outwit their skill necessary, and they came in the course of time, until today a robbery like that of the Manhattan bank or one like that of the Ocean bank in New York city, where over a million dollars in money and securi ties were carried away, is wholly im possible without collusion with the custodians of the vaults. Twenty years ago bank officials were not one whit less vigilant than they are now, but the brain of the crook had gone ahead of the brain of the honest man, a condition hard to understand today, when the very reverse is the fact. One of the best living illus trations of the old school of crooks Is Maximilian Schoenbein, better known to the police of the world as "Count" Max Shlnburn. After defy ing the vault and safe makers of the world and looting banks in this coun try and abroad for an aggregate gain of $5,000,000, this great criminal fell a victim to modern science. He was released not long ago from the Clinton, N. Y., prison, after a five years' term for robbing the Middle burg bank, penniless, gray with age, broken in health and spirit. The sto ry of the man's life is like a romance, and is full of chapters which one finds it hard to believe. In his prime he was truly the greatest criminal in the world. Ruloff, the butcher, who fought his way to freedom scores of times over the bodies of his own vic tims, excelled him in daring perhaps, but no criminal that ever lived had his mechanical genius. Shlnburn is a German, was taught the trade of a machinist and lock smith by his father, came to this country before he was seventeen years old, and had launched on a career of crime before he was eighteen. He had wonderful skill as a locksmith and was taken up by two noted crimi nals, George Bliss and "Fairy" Mc- Gulre, whom he met in a New York gambling house. They used him in robbing a New Jersey bank, and the success of the venture was due pri marily to his skill. He progressed rapidly, and as his ability became known in the "crook" world his ser vices were in constant demand. He probably engaged in twenty robberies before his name became known to the authorities. He had scarcely attained his majority when he was planning out big robberies for himself. At that time the only safe in general use in banks and business houses in this country was that made by the Lilly company. Shlnburn figured that a man who could mnster the secret of the Lilly combination lock could loot every Lilly safe in the country. He decided to go and work for the Lilly company. Bliss and McGuire agreed to keep him in funds while he studied. Such an expert machinist as Shlnburn had no difficulty in getting the job he wanted. It took him over a year to obtain all the knowledge he needed for the successful consumma tion of the series of robberies he had planned, but he kept at work with pa tience. The most important discovery he made at the time was that a per son with acute hearing could, by put ting his ear near the lock of a Lilly safe and turning the dial, discover at what numbers the tumblers dropped Into place. He made a care ful study of difficult combinations, and is credited with a discovery that is alleged to have driven the Lilly safe out of the market. He removed the combination from a safe and then placed an impressionable piece of pa per under it. Then he turned the dial slowly and found that whenever a combination number was reached the impression on the paper became more distinct. By using a mlscrctscope ShinbuYn was able to tell what the combination were. With this mass of valuable information Shin burn and his associates pluniered Lilly safes all over the country, finally driving the Lilly company out of busi ness. Time and again the man was arrested, and 'several convictions are on record against him, but no prison was ever strong enough to hold him for long. With the police of the coun try after him, Shinburn went to New York city and invested a large sum of money in the stock market. He was warned to fly, as the authorities were closing in on him, but he calmly waited to see how his investment would turn out. A sudden rise in the market brought him a fortune, and with over a million dollars of stolen money he 'sailed for Belgium, with which country the United States had no extradition treaty at that time. He purchased the title and estate of a decrepit nobleman and blossomed forth as Count Shinburn. He spent thousands of dollars on entertain ments, the magnitude of his opera tions on the bourse staggered the na tive speculators, and his enormous winings and losings were commented on all over Europe. For fifteen years he kept up this gait; then came a series of misfortunes, and the great bank burglar was penniless once more. He went to Paris, met some fugitive American crooks there and planned the robbery of the Provincial bank at Vivleres, Belgium. The merest acci dent in the world resulted in the ar rest of Shinburn and his pals; he was sent to jail for live yeare, but escaped In a month. Some of the big jobs that Shinburn engaged in were the robbery of the Lehigh and Wilkes barre Coal company's office at White haven, Pa., of $70,000 in cash by tun neling his way to the vault from an adjoining building; tlje robbery of the Walpole, N. H., bank of $50,000; the robbery of the St. Albans, Vt., bank of $20,000; the robbery of the Ocean bank on Greenwich street, New York, of $1,000,000 in money and securities; the robbery of the West Maryland bank of $25,000, and a score of others. Shinburn has shot a dozen men, been shot several times himself, and has broken jail fully a dozen times. It was over five years ago that Shinburn, an old man then, ran up against mod ern science. It was at the Middle burg, N. Y., bank. He and his asso ciates fought their way to the doors of the vault and had blown away ev evry obstacle with nitro-glycerine be fore they realized that they had set off a burglar alarm. Shinburn escaped on a handcar, but was arrested later in New York city. Chauncey Johnson, a man who stole over $2,000,000 in his time, died pen niless not long ago while serving a term in prison 'for stealing a pocket book from a woman in a New York city book store. He took the pocket book because he was in genuine need. In his time he was one of the most skilful and successful thieves in the country, but the field for his peculiar talents had lisappeared. He stole SIOO,OOO from the Hatter's bank at Bethel, Conn., and $400,000 from the Marine National bank. In 1863 he walked into a Philadelphia bank and with a long steel wire hauled $14,000 out through the paying teller's win dow right under the official's nose. He took It in three packages and wasn't detected until he had the third package almost out. In 1867 he walked Into August Belmont's office at Wall and William streets, New York, sauntered past clerks and office boys, reached Mr. Belmont's desk, took $25,- 000 worth of government bonds from it, put them in his pocket and walked out again. A month after this he walked into the office of the Adams Express company in New York just as the cashier was leaving his cage to go to luncheon. He slid in the cage as the cashier went out, put on the latter's office hat and duster, and while protending to work over some books, rifled the cash drawer and safe of SIO,OOO. He walked into a New York bank one morning and notified the bookkeeper that he had been dis charged and that he (Johnson) had been employecf in his place. While the indignant bookkeeper went to see the president about the matter John son vamoosed with $25,000. By a similar exhibition of nerve Johnson robbed a number of hotel safes while the clerks were on duty but. a few feet away. But his face became known, and it finally became a police custom to arrest him every time he appeared on the street. Prison life had robbed him of his wonderful nerve, and he descended to the petty crimes of the street, pocket picking, etc. An almost similar case is that of Edward Rice, better known as Big Ed Rice. He was last arrested for stealing a pockethook from a woman in a 23d street car in New York city. Once or twice before that he had been accused of picking pockets, but the primes could not be fastened on him. When convicted of the street car rob bery Rice broke down and confessed that he had turned pickpocket be cause there was nothing else for him to do. The only money ho had for over a year was whaf he could raise by pawning the scarfpins, watches and articles of jewelry" ho had stolen from men and women in street crowds. This confession from a man who, with his associates, had stolen millions in his time was interesting. Next to Shinburn he was regarded as the most dangerous bank robber in the country. Around the country today there are probably a score of other crooks who thrived and made fortunes by their nerve and skill in the palmy days of the cracksman. But their day has passed, and every year two or three of them are picked up for some triflng crime that fifteen or twenty years ago they would have scdrned to think of committing. Electricity and the mod ern safe have driven them to the wall. Gradually they are dying off.—Wash ington Star. SQUAWS UNDER THE HAMMER. Venture* ot the Annual Sale of ISrltles fct tlin Comanche Indian*. The annual distribution of Coman che Indian brides has just occurred at the Saddle Mountain mission, in south ern Oklahoma. Fifty of the prettiest women of the tribe were sold at pub lic auction as the wives of tribesmen who bid them in. This barbaric cus tom was to have been discontinued by the Comanches last year, but it went on more boldly than ever this season, being conducted under the very eyes of the white settlers. The festival of the Comanche "pony smoke," as this ceremony is called, i 3 of more than passing interest. Sel dom are so many young squaws auc tioned off as was done this year, but the surplus was great and needed thin ning out, according to the head men of the tribe. Their parents, refusing to keep them any longer, the girls naturally needed homes somewhere, and it was deemed best by the medi cine men to auction them off as wives, the highest bidders to take their choice. Big Bow, a monstrous fat and ugly redskin, acted as the auctioneer, He was assisted by a number of medi cine men, who performed the marriage ceremonies after the sales had been made. Five hundred Indians gathered at the Saddle Mountain mission last week. This mission is located 30 miles direct ly south of Mountain View, and on the range of the Wichita mountains. The girls who were sold had been confined in a lodge for three weeks prior to this meeting, and were well fed and extremely well groomed. They were all clad in gay colors, and their hair arranged in perfect Indian fashion. It was plain to see that their parents had prepared them to bring fancy prices. The girls were in various moods; some hysterical, others calm, and not a few delighted with the experience. Among others was a daughter of the famous Quahnah Parker, tne noted Co manche Indian chief. This daughter, whose name is Amy, had displeased him by attempting to run away and marry a white man, and a cowboy at that, so Parker decided that the best to do would be to sell her at auction. This is the first time Parker, who is counted by his white neighbors a high ly cultivated red man, has ever al lowed any of his relatives to be sacri ficed at the auction block. But the wrath of an Indian parent knows no bounds. Sad and silent, Amy Parker was led to the block for sale. The first btl was 11 ponies. Jack Wild Horse, a well known scout of the tribe, was the bid der. He was immediately raised by a rival, likewise a scout. This latter claimant bid 15. Otners then cut in, and Miss Parker was run up to 50 po nies. Her face grew pale when she saw that Wild Horse was determined to get her, as he is known as the most desperate savage on the reservation when drunk and angered. It is said that he has killed three wives when drunk. Wild Horse, however, won the young squaw for 63 ponies. The stock was turned over to Parker, and a med icine man married Wild Horse and the squaw according to the Comanche rites. The couple then went to El Reno, where a regular marriage license was issued to them and the ceremony performed by a paleface minister. Al though the marriage took place only three days ago, a dispatch from Law ton says that she attempted to commit suicide after failing in an attempt to kill her new husband. Other young women objected quite as strongly as Miss Parker did to be ing auctioned off, but it did them no good whatever. Big Bow went ahead with the sale until every one of them was sold. The lowest bid made for any of them was 20 ponies. This was the price paid for a half breed woman who had been married to a white man, but the latter having died, she reverted back to her parents again. In all, over 1500 ponies changed hands in the three days of the big bridal auction. Not for many years have the squaws commanded such spir ited bidding and big prices as in this latest event of its kind among t.ia Comanches. —Chicago Inter Ocean. Tlin Savins Soime of Humor. To have a keen sense of the ludicrous lu not necessarily to be shallow. Some of the world's greatest humorists unite with that sprightly gift a deep tender ness and broad sympathy. Their lips smile at a spectacle of the absurd at the same Instant that their eyes over flow in recognizing the pathos that is its so frequent accompaniment. It is this quick perception of a situation as a whole, this power to see all its as pects at once, that gives us just judg ments tempered by mercy; severity lined with leniency, that acts as a sav ing grace to culprits. The world would be better and hap pier if every one in it who is invested with authority over his fellows had this peculiar sympathy with wit, which makes it impossible for one to be a bigot and a tyrant. Humor and cruel ty do not go together, although there ie a kind of counterfeit humor, some times mistaken for the real thing, which is essentially oppressive, be cause it finds enjoyment in looking upon that which is at the same time grotesque and horrible. But this is far removed from the gentle humor which mellow their judgments and hu manizes actions. —Florence Hull Win terburn, in tne Woman's Home Com panion. No Prcjtttlicn. "You say your government shows re partiality in its appointments?" "Absolutely none!" said the official proudly. "l ook at our poet laureate We didn't allow the fact that he can I write poetry stand in the way of bia appointment."—Washington Star WITH THE "CAR CHASERS." Hallway Emplnyeg Who Keep Track of the Company's Holling: Stock. Among the most important employes of the great trunk lines of railroads are the "car chasers." The title exact ly describes their business. On some railroads they are called traveling car agents. The department head who em ploys them is also called variously the car agent, the car accountant or the su perintendent of rolling stock. These officials have as many as 20 assistants on some of the great roads, nine or ten being clerks at S3O or S4O a month, and the rest being "chasers," who travel all over the country on free passes hunting up missing and who receive $l2O or SIOO a month and expenses. Great railroads have immense num bers of cars. The Central railroad of New Jersey has about 50,000 of all sorts, the Pennsylvania in the neigh borhood of 100,000. These cars are at the present moment in every state in the Union. They go wherever the freight with which they are loaded is billed, and thus are scattered from Winnipeg to Mexico and from Los An geles to Bangor. A most minute and thorough system obtaining on all rail roads except the very smallest records every movement of every car. These notifications are made by pos tal card. In each general office car accountant books are kept, and the movements of the company's own cars are recorded from day to day. When ever a loaded car is emptied on a for eign road that road uses it to carry back a load of freight in the direction of the road to which the car belongs. It pays at the rate of seven-eighths cent a mile for this use of its neigh bor's property in this way, and if it should happen that there was no freight to he snipped in that direction in a reasonable time the empty car is sent along and the mileage is paid on it as though it were laden. It is when cars are lost that a travel ing agent is sent out. Sometimes it happens that the ears are on a little branch road, idle and overlooked; sometimes they have happened to get into the hands, of a company that is short of cars and full of business and is using every foreign ear that it can get. If it is in use by a company short of cars that company pays mileage on it until it sometimes happens that a car is worn out and paid for before it is returned, or else it is never re turned at all. If a "car chaser" de mands the return of his company's cars they are sent home, but often others are seized and used when his hack is turned and ne is traveling else where. If a car is smashed up in a railroad accident it is either rebuilt, a new one is made or the price of the ear is paid to the owners by the company on whose track the "smash-up" oc curred. Diminutive War Heroes. Military experts generally of late have been recognizing as important the fact that some of the greatest mili tary achievements in history have been made by men of small stature, notable among these diminutive heroes being Alexander and Napoleon, while in our own history Generals Sheridan, Wheeler and Funston have been less remarkable for their inches than for their pluck. It Is doubtful whether some of the most famous men In army history could have got into the ser vice if the height now demanded of enlisted men had been a test for them to pass. The world-conquering sol diers who followed Napoleon to Jena, Wagram and Moscow were little fel lows; not one in ten of whom would have had a chance of enlistment in an American or British regiment; but they knew their business, and the more stalwart warriors of Austria and Prussia could not stand before them. No restrictions being placed on officers as to height, the little men have had to look for their vindication to the men who wear swords. The time may come when the rifle carriers also will be able to prove the truth of the old saying that "you can't tell by the length of his legs how far a frog can jump." In fact, new regulations low ering the limitations as to the height of recruits have already been favor ably considered by the army leadei-3 of several nations.—Chicago News. Kutlipr Mixed A duet in a noisy street ear. "Yes, she came yesterday morning." Rattle, bump, bang! "How nice! I knew you were expect ing her. How long do you think she'll stay?" Bang, rattle, bump! "Why, I hope she'll stay right along indefinitely." "She must be a dear. They are often so different, you know. I must call on her.", "Call on her? You wouldn't try to coax her away from me, would you?" Bangity, rattlety, bumpity! "Take her away from you! Why, I've got one myself." "Eh! I thought you had two." "Two! How could I have two?" "The idea! Of course you could have two." "Two! Aren't you talking about your husband's mother?" "No; I'm talking about my new hired girl!" Rattle, bump, bang.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Ono Definition. "What is the difference between a statesman and politician?" asked the little boy who wanted to grow up to be wise. "A statesman," said the man of great practical force, "is the man who is studying what the constitution of ! ...o United orates means, while the other people are hustling to get votes."—Washington Star.
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