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"LET ALL THE EPS THOU AIMS 1 AT BE 111 i COuHlRI'S, THY GOD'S AND TitomT $1 A YEAR CASH IN ADVANCE. BEST ADYEEljSnH MEDIUM - " WILSON, N. C FEBRUARY 0, 1 S)(, VOLUME XXIX. DUMBER 6. m Pectoral - - . The best remedy 60 years ago for coughs and colds and at! kindred ail ments; and The best remfedy To-day. THE RETIRED BURGLAR. Ills Difficulties on Once More Taking Up The Ordinary Ways of IJfe. "For a long time after I had given jp business," said the retired burglar, 'I had great difficulty iu accommodat ing myself to the ordinary conditions jf life. '"There were some curious things ibout this that might never occur to rou at all. For instance, in those days, if I come home late at night, that is, it the hour at which formerly I had one into other people's houses, I never went in at my own front door; I used :o go in at a cellar window. And then I made it easy for ''myself, too,. When I locked lip the .cellar nights I used r.o leave a cellar, wicdow unfastened so ihat it wa perfectly easy for me to Jet in. i "But one night, or oneVJfcnorning rather, about 2 o'clock, when I got i round- to that window, I found it 'astened, and I knew well enough what had happened. My wife had a. per fect horror of burglars, and I knew she mist have been around the cehar after oi e and seeii the window unfastened ir.d turned the buttons. But that was no impediment to me: it made me 'laugh to , myself to think how easy it was, and' I opened the window and slid in as usual. "Besides having a horror of burglars ny wife was great on pickles and pre serves and jellies and that sort of thing, which she used to put up her self and keep down cellar on a hang-' ng shelf, consisting of a nice broad plank suspended by side pieces nailed :o the floor beams overhead. I don't" iuow how I did it as a general thing we never do know how we come to do :hings but when I slid in that night I got turned in seme way so that I ivas in danger of faliug, and I threw nit my arm instinctively to save my self and my hand touched the end of' :hat shelf and naturally enough it ?losed over the board. And the sport )f it was that I yanked that end of :he shelf free from its support and pulled it down, and the. bottles and ars went slam scattering down on the ;ellar bottom and I went down among cm. - The upshot ,of that experience was that I stayed in the house six weeks :o repair damages, and as a matter of 'act that aid more to bring me back :o the ways of othr people than any :hing else. I was half helpless at first, .md I gradually became accustomed to .he habits of the' house. By the time I was able to go out again, indeed, I lad quite fallen into the ordinary ways ind hours of . living. I got up when It her people' did and came in early lights, and came in with a night key jistead of a jimmy, just as natural is could be." " D.'sease; of tlie Meniory. ; Writing of diseases of the memory, l Russian doctor gives an interesting iccount of some of the eccentricities of his patients. In thocase of a literary nan. some time previous to his seeking advice he -had been troubled with an absolute failure of memory. lie could remember exactly every thing he had done more than a year ago, but occurrences of later date he liad entirely forgo tun. "When attack ?d by the disease lu was engaged in writing a novel, whieh he had half finished. He reme.mllrred the first half, but could not t il how he had intended to finish it. He Avas at last unable to remember whether he had dined. - '.- I In another case the -patient 'tells of his travels, but-reports the stales a dozen times an hour, with the same, phrases. He would play a game of cards carefully and well; five minutes mterwara luwould mention that he 5ay "Good UlOlnincr." when thf rlnotnr maae ins lirst visit of the day, but did "Ot IVMOlttll'!' tho vfaft tin-oik vntnntotf I later, if the doctor again looked in. I'opular Helinf, ' The research into popular beliefs is in absorbing and not a profitless study. Scarcely a da yv passes that we do not run across some piece of superstition that dates, in- one form or another, from a far antiquity. Salt is .spilled at table, and we jest with our neighbor ovc r the prospect of a quarrel, half hclieviug in the sign, though we may r ot know tnat the Romans did the Mime. A dog lpwls-at night, and we recall the widespread belief that the howling of the dog foretells death, but forget that our early Aryan ancestors assigned to the dog the officer of mes senger from.vne world of spirits ; The every-day custom is as old as humanity; the rursery jingle may bs traced back to an origin in the world's babyhood; the familiar tairy tale ymcn aeugnts nineteenth century chl - dren is fourd in varvinsr forms in nil eouEtries, pointing to a common origin in a remote age. embodying old Aryan myths, and givieg us interesting in formation of the conceptions of our ancestors regarding nature and human lite. GREAT record of cures, nne- it" Wled in medical historv. tussars aparil laoKReRB kn0 wn to anoarerMDCmUE' 1 mEpiClfJE. The Havana Lottery Which for Years Has Been a Curse to Cuba. A GIGANTIC SWINDLE. Tickets Sold Broadcast Over the Isl . and, But Winners Few 'and s Far Bt ween. Two Hnadred anj iirty Thouund Iued and a Drawing Kveiy Ten Days, Though Misery Reigned General Lee? Char acteristic Message t. Oor Government The End Near at H ind. The Royal Lotte ry of Cuba, with headquarters In Havana, is , still doing business $1 a ticket, and tpe king of Spain, as ever, winning the grand prize of $50,000 at each drawing. I The royal gambling scheme, however, is uearing the end of Its fortune-promising, pauper-producing career In Cuba. Here for many years this corpora tion, existing by rojal grant and under royal favor, has conducted a thorough ly honorable swindling business, its little red tickets hare spread over the island, irritatingly, like the signs of Drickly heat over the body. Billettos le Loteria have sold 1,000,000 a month, it $1 each. And tventy-tive per cent, f this $1,000,000 has been paid month y to" the royal ruler of Spain. But now :hat the said royal ruler is no longer to rule Cuba, since his royal army is to ivacuate the island, his royal lottery is n danger of eviction. Hence, the corporation's president ind all its vice presidents have put their heads together and concocted a jcheme, by the operation of which they hope to continue business at the old itand. They have planned to cut loose from the royal head In Spain, t& drop from their concern's name the word 'Royal" and substitute the word Cu ban. Moreover, the twenty-five per lent of the gross receipts now demand-, d and received by Spanish royalty, will be offered to. the Cuban govern ment. The question now is, will the Cuban government, or rather, ought the' Cuban government, to accept the proffered bribe and permit the lottery to continue business. . In Havana, Santiago, Cienfuegos, Matanzas, everywhere in the island, .ottery tickets are sold by every worth less man, woman or child, who can jecure the confidence of a broker. The broker trusts the peddler with the tickets, and the peddler sells them for a. certain commission. Thus far, the lottery scheme is good it furnishes employment for the needy and the ne'er-do-well.- The peddlers infest the streets, wharves, and shops. While rou sit in a cafe, you are offered twen :y billetes by twenty different" venders in as many minutes. In the old prosperous times, the tick ets cost $1 each, in Spanish silver." But since the beginning of the Cuban war, more than three years ago,! the price has been $1 in paper. Two hun dred and fifty thousand tickets are is sued and there is a drawing every ten Jays At the .last drawing on the morning ot Oct. 10, the bait offered to the poor people of Cuba consisted of the usual (grand prize of $50,000 and, n addition; one premium of $10,000 one 3f $5,000, four of $1?X)0 each, two of MOO each, two of $200 each and seven aundred and ninety-eight of $100 each, making a total of 809 premiums, am mounting to $150,000., Two hundred ind fifty thousand tickets were issued, and supposedly, all sold. Yet during the ten days in which that quarter million pieces of worthless paper were sold at $1 each, misery reigned in Cu ba. People were - starving to death. Bight ceijits a , day would have saved and still save a life. Just before the war, when the United States began the work of Cuban re lief, money was sent to Consul General Lee. The general distributed the nec ssary 8 cents a day to those of the re loncentradoes who were found worthy. Still the starving starved. What did these people do with their 8 cents? Gen. Lee Investigated. He found that the money went toward the purchase f lottery tickets; and he at once cabled Washington: "Don't send cash. Send ?ornmeal and codfish." Since the, raising of the blockade the people generally have lost some of their confidence, for the lottery officials have been detected passing out count erfeit coin with good currency. Still the drawings are held every ten days. A.n observer has noticed that out of the thousands of spectators present at each Irawing, not one, on any occasion, held a winning number. Two hours after each drawing the names of the winners are published In the Havana "extras and cried in all the streets. The names are telegraph ed to the newspapers in Santiago, Ma tanzas, and other cities. But as no ad dresses are given, it Is obviously Im possible to meet .winners face to f ape. Hoval Lottery officials positively refuse to give any information what- Boever Their plea is that they must roananf' aanvgxA 4- m.twAs respect, keep sacred," the privacy of tneir patrons. Alter the d Fa wing of Sept. 19, one of the vice presidents was asked a very ordinary qugjjjon con cerning the conduct of the lottery- His reply was: "Senor, this is our business ana not yours. mis royal company of pickpockets. uuwever, iuay soon nave to walk Span Isn by order of an American. Tw HeigH's to Attain. There are two heichta few human beings attain that I think they must be left for us to rn, i in heaven. . They are the m-t r. wronged, and of oeiug gruxeim ior the blessings that nave ueen wiiuueia rrom us. " ,rasi ms oread upon the water, but he kept on working, and it came back cake with "iflt Ing on. Another man cast his bread upon the water and then and waited for its return; but when it came back to him it was moldy and he bm i , UJ "uu ae said it was "just his luck." T7 ANTED SEVERAL trustworthy T persons in this state to manage u. uuMiics in their own and nearby counties. It is mainly office work con aucteel at homo cu,.. !y!?r and expenses ,-definite bonafide ;"u! no lels s?ary. Monthly 7S- IZVl' .f-nclose, self-addressed Fri iH Prest., Dept. M. Chicago. ' AN OLD CIRCUS MAN'S STORY He Telia How They Found a Place In Which, to Bnry the Great Giant. "I never told you the eact height of the great "giant what's the use?" said the old circus man. "You wouldn't believe it if I did; as I've said before it would only make you dis-believe what I do tell you about him, and what's the use ? But you can form some' sort of an idea about it if from these things that I've told you and from what I'm going to tell you now about his death and burial, because in the course of time he died. ; "We were under canvas then, show ing three times a day, and moving ourselves, and we were tolerable busy, and we really hadn't time to give at tention as weought to the burying of -what had been, after the great giraffe, our very greatest attraction. The dig ging of a grave for him would have been like digging the foundations for several houses in a row and would have taken lots of time, and the mere cost of the land would be considerable. "Well, as usual, the old man's horse sense came to the rescue. In looking around for forage when he struck the town he had discovered the ned of an abandoned canai, that they'd stopped using when the railroad was built. This old canal ran through the edge of a man's farm there, and the land was no use to anybody. It didn t pay to plough it because it wasn't worth the time and trouble it would take to get horses and plougns up and down the bank, and it wasn't auy good for any thing; and the old man bought a strip of that land along there, a few acres of it, enough for a cemetery lot for the giant, for next to nothing. So you see there we were, with the land bought and the grave dug at , very small ex pense and practically in a minute. 'We laid the giant down in the sec tion of the canal we had bought, and hauled earth from the rest of the piece to cover him up the old man was wise enough of course to buy land enough to provide for that. When the mound was rounded up in proper shape and due proportions it made quite a ridge: it was a flat country round there, and you could see this ridge for quite a piece. N "Of course the old man put up a headstone, and it was much the biggest I ever saw, and quite different from any I ever saw it was built of brick. The old man hired all the men that could work on it, and they put in a foundation anu built the headstone in half a day. It was something like the side of a brick house for general di mensions, only it was very much- thick er and tombstone-like in" shape, and at a little distance in the level country the ridge with the great stone at one end of it looked like what it was, the grave of a mighty giant; . "And so we left him secure in mem ory, as we thought . with the Inscrip tion we had put on the headstone, but a great storm came up before the mor- Tar had set and blew the headstone down, and there it lay simply a scat tering pile of brick. But the mound remained, as it still does; I saw it there only a year ago when I passed through that country. But with nothing to marK it, exact knowledge of it gradual ly faded, and even tradition had grown indistinct, and the srreat mound had come, finally to be known simply as the giant's hill." The Climate of Cape Colony. - The climate of the Cape Colony, and indeed of South Africa, may be com pared to that of the south of Europe and the north of A frlca, with frost and snow on the highest lands and subtropical belts en the lowest lying parte, . as in Natal. Zululand and Mas- honaland. It mav 1m roiis-hlv snid Hint any. part of South Africa is better for4 those suffering from chest complaint than Is the climate of our 'home coun try, at the most trying time of the year. But those who coiQt? t" south Africa hoping to ' escape - from ,thisv, disease should not as a general rule dela on l the coast. -. , - - The Cape peninsula Is delightful fori most people, but it is not by any means best for those who are constitutionally inclined to consumption. , They must leave the coast, no .matter how many inducements there may be for them to stay, and climb the tableland which faces them at whatever port they may land. At irregular distances from the sea we have probably nowhere more than a hundred miles of low-lying coast lands before we ascend.Once on the tableland, so far tis climate goes, it matters not in what direction health- seekers proceed, the climate is equally good. The Snn'a Motion. The sun has three motions a rota tion about its axis a motion about the center of gravity of the whole solar system, which points always within the sun's volume ;. and a motion round some bigger fixed star. " lid't l.'s?;l2C.t Var )L.:-.-t.i-. Liver troubles quickly result ia f-crirMu onl plications, and the man who neglects Lis I - liver has little restart! for health. A hocila ..." of Browns' Iron Bitters taken now and then will keen the liver in nerfeet order. Tflho disease has developed, Browns Iron Bitlers will care it permanently. Strength and vitality will always follow its use. Browns' Iron Bitters ia Bold by all dealers, i.iveii fa Cje. Capt. Dreyfus is not the only man so unfortunate as to be shut up in a cag. At the Castle of Plessis lex Tours one is shOwu a dark aiu gloomy place un der a stairway, where they 'tell us Cardinal La Blaue spent twelve years in ah iron cage so constructed that he could neither t.tand nor lie. in it. He had the singular gootl fortune ne probably would question the adjective of undergoing a punishment unkiue in history. . In Copenhagen aliout 17,40 there was living an Englishman who had spnt eleven years in a cage. lie was a gen tleman of Lancashi renin the sei-vice of Charles XII. of Sweden, and was ar rested for some alleged act of treason. He escaped from prison, took refuge In Hamburg, where, he was safe, but im Drudently ventured back, was again arrested and this time, for greater safe ty, was put in an iron cage and stayed there eleven years, when he' was re moved to a prison room. , He had not been ill any of the time, was quite Ci-eerful, wrote a volume of anecdotes, tamed a mouse fjr amusement and never lost his hope cf ultimate release. Low J'llloTve A well-known physician says that tter sleep can be obtained with a low I than with a high pillow. i :i iiis iff fii They Are Useful in Marry Ways, But Make Unpleas ant Companions. THE HIDEOUS BUZZARD. In Some Communities It Is Unlaw ful to Kill this' Malodor- . . ous Biri. " . The Scorpion Not Half So Had as Hi Reputation The Tarantula Said to lis . Harmless if , Not Disturbed Land Crabs Are Considered a Delicacy The Curious little Spider Crab. Our soldiers in Cuba have no ad miration for the big land crabs, and certainly those creeping creatures aro j hot Attractive. They are, however, useful allies of the buzzards, repul sive scavengers that consume decaying bodies which would otherwise produce dire pestilence. There is considerable difference between these two scaven gers. The buzzard is an absolute crav en, fearful even of its -own ugly shad ow, and touches nothing that is not already decaying; while the crab, when ravenous, seeks prey, devouriiij live kittens and other helpless small things. At Belize, British Hocdurous, th-'re is an annual swarm of small land crabs, the negroes then catch as many as pos sible and keep them in barrels, salted, for future consumption. The hermit crab," common in those lands ,is ob jectionable for other reasons its pala table flesh often proves poisonous to the msiguided ones who enjoy it..,- The hermit monopolizes v any empty shell of convenient shape and uses it as a movable cell, until his growth compels him to seek a larger one. It is odd to see a periAvinkle shell., several inches in diameter, steered over the ground by one projecting crab claw which, k:-pt busy out of. doors, grows much bigger than the other, sheltered and ii-activo. . ' In hot countries, where thorough sanitary measures are not taken, land crabs and buzzards serve a great pur pose, and this is so well recognized that in some communities it is unlaw ful to ki'l a cariio;i bird a fine being imposed for the offense. Ugly, malod orous and timid, this creature cau arouse only disgust and pity. Decid edly "distance lencs -enchantment" t s.the buzzard's .appearance, for when soaring on high its circling flight is admirably graceful. But a company of these scavengers catches sight of some still form upon the earth biilow. Swiftly the birds swoop downward, always circling, from the height where . they had appeared like mere specks. They settle upon the leafless branches of some d so d tretv .-E;ts:erl y tbe black eyes scan the body they perceived from afar, and having irada sure that noth ing is at hand to disturb their right, they partly unfold their rusty-black wings and stealthily light upon their banquet. When these black-robed" undertakers retire millions of ants soon swarm up on the skeleton and clean the bones, which, In a few days, become whitened .by the strong sunlight. The scorpion is not half as bad as his reputation, especially the mother scorpion, the unfortunate beingrdoomed by nature to be devoured bv her own progeny. It is rare, indeed, for any one to die of a scorpion sting, though the venom inducts temporary paralysis of the tongue and some fever. Natives 01 Honduras assert that indigo is a good antidote, but ammonia is the Dest remedy for poisonous virus, generally. As long as the scorpion is trppivx? with due respect it will reciprocate; other wise there is a fair probability that the neat little dart at the end of its in teresting but woeful tail will bethrust into, the aggressors skin, injecting a thousandth part of a drop no mor otjiie virulent white liquid stored in a gland at the base of the ting. The great - haify tarantula is com monly dreaded, 'the ugli not aggressive: in fact, some persons declare, that it does not bite, but I? should be particul arly avoided on account . of its hair, fine bristles, which,' if they enter the pores of the skin, make exceedingly bad sores. In places these black-hair ed spiders, whose bodies measure two inches in diameter, are so numerous that occasionly whole armies of them can be seen changing, their quarters. In such districts it is always advisable i to shake each garment before donning It; also to give boots and shoes a good rapping on their upturned soles, in order that scorpiors and others of the spider family may have a falr chance to : vacate the promises. This polite attention may present an unpleasant encounter. As the crab was first considered, the crab spider may close the subject un der consideration. This curious little being is too interesting to be left out, and sufficiently : dangerous to gtard against; since one is enough to close the career of the finest -race horse. When full-grown the am Is about the size of a dime; in shape It is like la clawless crab, and its color Is bright yellow, with brown spots. This pretty little body is exceedingly venomous not that it bites, but because it poisons the man or beast that has the misfor tune to swallow it in water, or in fod der, among which insects are apt to tumble. One am suffices te cause the death of horse or mule. It is asserted that a human being poisoned by the same means continues to exciaim "Am am! am!" up to the hour of death; for which reason the Maya Indians name the spider thus. No big spider lias" such an appetite as this small one; it consumes an astonishing number ot flies. The am lives on trees, and noth ing can be more Interesting than tc - watch it i-apidly spinning its gren w-eb. Upon the approach 6T a storm it quickly draws ail fiber back into its body, 'and--unt.il fair weather again pre vails remains motionless beneath a leaf or in any cod renient nook No fewer than 1.173 persons have been buried in T7as in -ester aDDey. A young man ia . Lowell, Mass , troubled for yeans with a constant suc cession of boils on his neck, was com pletely cured by taking only three bot tles of Aver's Sarsaparilla. Another result of the treatment was greatly im proved digestion with incrensed avoir dupois. JAN MA2EPPA.S CAREER Escapade ot 'i70t tb. Wild how Jan XT ftU0 laiue. year irZfPPa as born about 18 Fear 1C45, being th3 ,on 0f a poor bo bleman f PodoMa e UmB S jJ?ati'8erTed' tie at the Court of John Casimlr, KbJ Poland.! On J return to his native province be earned on an intriga the wife of, one. of his neig!s Being sur- bor I7 lhe ffend husband, he was bound by his orders to one of the wild horses which roam about the Ukraine, and the terrific aniffial Delng turned tl' WUh his burden till it reach ed the country of the Cossacks, where Mazeppa, half, dead was released by the peasants. 9nfiD tenderly nursed by the peas ants, Mazeppa was restored to health and rose to such favor with their Het man that hp - -..ij t-Losen-as uia ouv- S0r. As chipf nf fv .-Tro ia rpn- uered manv spi v;,.., .. vo nrnt and, being strongly attached to the liberties of hij adopted country, is said . " uaye iw.l A an. . i .i- noiroi inir remonstrances to that monarch when he had rpsiivd . . . , - - .,u LU ,l0iate meiii. Created Prince oi thp' Ukraine. Ma- "l-a "cc-dine tired cf his dependence nn fh n TTW . . 70rro V.-i. . -m "ii-eior ar.d entered into -a sec ret leaeilP Witli rV.., OmoHon His scheme being discovered, and his capital, Batourin, having been taken by the Russians, he joined the Swedish King. The battle of pultown was the resuu or his toi:r.sel,'and after that dis astrous enga; cn:ent Mazeppa tool; ref uge at Bender, where he poisoned him self September 22, 1709.. MnrrloKe in tlip iiiliipineff. In no respect will thp domination, or even the influence, cf the United States in tne Philippines vork for good more than the social lifp nf thp necmle. An American minister who has recently returned from the islands is the au thority for the statement that the priests have for manv years charged the natives no less than $30 for per forming the marriasre service. As the aerage native under Spanish rule was able to earn about S5 a month "when times were good" and he had regular employment, it is easy to see why com mon law marriages have always been the rule rather than the exception. It is safe to say that among the first' re forms introduced in the islands is one that will have direct bearing upon the sanctity of the .marriage relation. Memory of Hotel ClerUa. The memory of a hotel" clerk is cul tivated along peculiar lines. s Hun dreds -of names ami faces have to be accurately memori::Bd, and he must be abfe at a minute'-; notice to tell the number of the rocra in which any of the hotel visitors is quartered. If asliea the number of the room occu pied "by John Smiti a good clerk can, without hesitation, put his hand in the proper pigeon-hole and extract the key. The curious part of the operation is that he can rarely make it work back ward. If asked who is in a given room he almost invpriauly has to consult his books before responding. Permanentlv cured by the masterly powers, of South American Nervine Tonic. Invalids need suiter no longer, because this creat remedy can cure them a'l. It is a cure for the whole world of stomach weakness and indi gestion. The cur begins with the first dose. The relief it -brings is marvel lous aiT4 surprising. U makes no fail ure ; never -disappoints No matter how long you have suhtred, your cure is certain uuch-r the use of, this great health giving force. Pleasant and al ways safe. Sold by K V. Nadal, Druggist, Wilson. N. t ... , Manila Hemp. Every engineer knows what Manila hemp is. but few are aware that it is the product of a . spec ies of banana which, is cultivated in certain localities a. TMiilinnine Islands. The nlaut. called by the natives abaca," throws sheating-leaf stalks to o i,o!o-ht of twer.ty or thirty feet, which spread out at the top into a crown of huge, undivided Ran. nen u is three years oht h ls lul "own, ana tne r.T-, turn into strins - Thp.e Bianwa (il , - . strips while still fvesh ,are drawn be tween a knife .ami a wooden block, and tho snft ceilv.ious matter is removed. The fibre is then hwt: up to dry in the open air until it i ror use. Each stalk-gives about a pound of fibre, and two natives will nu: um udout twenty -five pounds a layThe inside fibre. which is thin and WTB-U.sea natives for makiwCtkles f.fr The familiar ManJliW is ! the fibre of the ouiayeT,.Bu i is hard and strong. TSehoc fWf Manila hemp practiaUv .c-oyie "V' the Philippines, and the United consume 41 per cent of it7 y1 - ' . this country took 417.473 the 823,020 bales exported-! rea ain coming next with The continent of Europj' u" bales. Smallest Tj..-n!itotivc The smallest locomotive ever made ras'seen at the Omaha exposition. Its height from the top of tlip st;1 the rail is 25 inches, iml the ?ln ' 12ir -inches. The cyliu'1'1 xl inches; the boiler is'lVi llors ' l'01; pressure and trill hold -4 gadoiis water. The diameter of the giving wheel is 10 inches. The w eiyht cf ihy little engine is about fiOO v&'Mvh: an ,! wiU run ori a rail three-lill tels of an inch square. It will Jra' 10 cais. each containing tvrc persons. Cheap laii'h Five acres of land at Cnnrin? now owned by the Jla1-!"" bv bttry, were bought 33 -yi :ir, 'o a"t his aneesters for gr:lZin? I'oO a ground rent of 3 ao ?!- 10 years. OA lT Bought Bean the Signature of iir sum One of the Cleverest Tricks Known to the Professional Swindler. IT REQUIRES PATIENCE. The Victim May Have Been Watched for. Months Before He Is Fleeced. - . . The Case of Doctor T)arllnton. Who v Kobbed of a Sat.lifl Conta!nlnS .-,o,-OOO In Cash-Some Other Instance. AVhero Larjre Suras Have ll?.n sheared ly This Troces. '-'The art of 'substitutinz' Is t.erhnr. one of tjie cleverest tricks of the nm- fession." said a veteran thief-taker, when approached concerning the hs of Samuel Greenwood, president of the ijoatsvnie (i'a.) National linnk wi..- .was-7 robbed of a satchel containing bonds to the vahw of .lo.tHto, while another grip was substituted in its place. 'Speaking of similar cases that have come to my notice,"' the detective con tinued, as he leaned hack in his thair and took on a reminiscent air. "it is re markable what clever devhts the pro fessional swindler will rt s rt to in order to fasten on his intended prey. Ana yet, wnue the abstract mi: of om-'s grip ana the substituting of another may seem a difficult matter at-first glance, nevertheless v.iu n you remem ber that the thief may have watcluif Mr. Greenwood for months, the thine becomes quite clear. He may have followed him from place to place, week out and week in. He became acmiaint- ed with the habits of" his intended victim, anu when the opportune mo ment arrived in the restaurant all he had to do was to place his enintv trrin where the satchel containing tln valua bles had been before. Y"So much for that case. Let mo tell you about another, much clevere r with the exception that the swindlers were apprehended -afterward. About thirty years ago a great sensation was creat ed when Doctor Darlington, president of the West Chester (I'a.) bank, was robbed of a satchel containing $."0.oim) in cash. He was on his way home from 'Philadelphia. Seated in the rail road coach, with his feet on an old grip on the floor, the old gentleman thought himself and his treasure abso lutely safe. But be did not know what was in store for him. In the seat in front. of him sat a woman in black. By the way. it is nearly always a wom an in black who Is concerned in these swindling affairs. Hut to continue. "The lady, for she had all the ap pearances of a gentlewoman, waa evi dently distressed from a cough and vainly" 'attenuated to raise the window next to her. She kept luting away, i and still the window would not budge, j This was too much for Doctor Darling ton. Gallantly he got up from his seat, or rather released his foothold on his grip, wliile "placing his knees on his seat. The scheme was not mature as yet liowever. The woman bore down on the .window.', while apparently assisting in its raising, and thus matters stood for a minute or two. "The moment for-the work of the confederates had now arriv ed. Seated across the aisle one of the thieves swiftly pushed his own satchel under Doctor Darlington's seat, abstracted tne full one, and the trick was done. The man was attired. in a long cloak, which facilitated the oper ation, and when the ob man sat down he felt secure in the fact that his feet once more touched a saiehel. At ths next Station the thief got off, and the woman was not suspected until long afterward, for Doctor Darlington never discovered his lows until he reached home. The men implicated were To bacco Jack' and 'Slappy Williams. since convicted to long terms in the ponitt n tiary.. The woman, whose name I have forgotten, was also sent up.. ."You can easily see how the trick was done," and here the superintend ent showed, bv the aid of some chairs and other paraphermialia. how Doctor -Darlington was made the lostr of a satchel with .$o0,000. "One of the foremost detectives in 'the service, who for obvious reasons desires his name witheld. told of an other satchel robbery that differnl in some respects from the one above. The spotted victim was. despoiled of his grip as the train n eared a station a distance away from the point of de parture. 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