'J
f
"Edward Ooadby, ta ZngUia statis
tician, has been flgnring op the cost of
the Franco-German war, the Russo-Turk
Ish war, the Russian conquest In Ami
ad the French operation in Tunis and
Tonquin and pat tha figure at $2,787,
0O.OC0. r
The new marriage licene law In Penn
sylvania ha proved a bonanza to New
Jersey preacher " living near the State
line. Hundred of Pennsylvania conple
oid the publicity and expense of a li
cense by croing the river to hare the
knot tied. '
The Indian women are coming hourly
in the front. At a late meeting of the
Presbyterian synod of Dakota, the Indian
women reported having raised $500 for
laisgiopsrrgjc among ,theirt own people
7r.'Thi ".ttwnnra Jhn all the
Honey, raised by their white sitter in
. . dree societies. "
-
There was a novel affair io Paris lately.
Two French women entered into a con?.
test to determine which of ' them could
talk-fastest. , A common friend was ap-
pointed umpire, and the sum of $200 waa
t go to the victor. For three hours they
read from a novel, and during that time
. the "victor succeeded in pronouncing
196,311 words. Her adversary came in a
d second with 203.360 words.
Coral jewelry is daily becoming more
costly, owing t? thi diminished supply
rt the material. .The fisheries this year'
have been u?isureeMful.t Few persons are
aware of the extent of the coral traffic.
Naples alone employs fire hundred ves-
e and fire thousand men in-this fishery.
The Naples merchants export $2,000,000
worth yearly to India alone, to say noth
ing of exportation to ether place in
Asia and Africa. ' :
fawrencc Barrett, the actor, has been
talking to a reporter, and give to the
world the information that' he is now a
, "vegetarian. It appears that he met a
physician who told him that American
ate altogether too much underdone beef,(
and ruined their live thereby. Barrett"
at once determined to leave off beet eat
ing and, although the struggle was hard,
he has finally conquered, and says he bc-j
lieves the vegetable diet has improved
bis voice. -:
- "Washington emi to have two very
successful bill collectors. One of these
rides home-made tricycle of peculiar
build. If a man doesn pay he pits on,
his maclflne in f ro'at of- Vpt" 'liJue, and
gazes mournfully 'up atl the windows,
bill in "hand. "The Tricycle -Man" is
well known, and hisrnachine always at
tracts attention, so he has little trouble
in collecting even the most hopeless bills.
The other sends in his bill in a big en
velope that has his name' and vocation
printed on it in large type A man doesn't
like to get these' great circus poster en
velopes and ro pays up.
We "read in the Florida Herald that
"the eyes of the Northern mill men are
turning eagerly to the comparatively
virgin forest of the Seuth ami heavy
sales of timlvred land are constantly be
ing announced. If the ravenous saw.
must be fed, and no ltter and cheaper .
building material than ,wood can be de
Tised," then the people, of the South
should not dispose of their heritage for
a mere pittance of Its actual value. These
huge traols of yellow pine can be con
verted, into yellow gold, and should not
be sacrificed as a worthless possession.
We should make the most of our oppor
tunities, a'ud not yield too readily to the
pressure of greenbacks. These hugs
areas of undisturfed trees are :daily en
hancing i;i value and importance as th
supply in the North and West diminishes.
It i idle to talk cf the "ine.xhaustiblel
forests of the South, when-Mr. Little o
Montreal, an authority on the subject,
estjmates that the saving capacity of the
North is sufficient to consume the mer
chantable pine of this State in Vss than
year. The South possesses imnes o7;
ln heroble forests, and they
should not be disposed ef earelesslr-and
withooio-full woptefiatinn at their t rut
and real value."
A leading Northern physician call at
tention to the fact that one of the most
common and fatal forma of disease at this
season of the year, especially if the tera-
perature is above the freexiag-point, is
pneumonia. The Jllness results from ex-f
posure to violent changes in the atmo-'
V miaV k a aM T"Tvi mnrA Avt iminf?i
P" "" r e. . kr
from overheated rooms into the damp, i
chill air outside without sufficient protec
tioQ in the vonn oi wraps. Men are
tempted to leaxe off overcoat when
railed to go short distances, and women:
neglect to put on the same weight of gar
ment for . a brief walk which they are
accustomed to wear under ordinary cir
cumstances out of door. This folly is!
too apt to be indulged in by persons who'
roomin one house and take meals in an
other. 'It i only a step, they say, but
that "step" may be long enough to pro
duce a thorough chill, which induces the
conditions favorable to disease. Another
ianger, particularly to women, liea in the
thin-soled shoes worn without rubbers.
Ladies clothed in heavy furs and .woolen
are frequently seen upon the wet street
ihod with light, foot-gear, regardless of
the fact that the extremities are the parts
which should be best protected. These
tonuBon means of defying the simplest
law of health keep the doctors busy and
berae the mortality statistic of cities.
. -
LOVE'S CALENDAR.
The Boomer come and the Summer gee
'Wnd flower are fringing the dinty lace-.
Th swallow go darting through frajmn!
raise,
all of a sudden ft enow.
Dear Heart, our live o happily flow.
Be lightly w heed the flying hours, .
W only knew Winter 'is p00" by
tho
Coiwerv
W ml know Winter is come by the snow.
.2 T. B.JLldrieh.
THE WRECKERS
A SATLO'S STOST. I
Speaking about sharks, alligators, pi
rate and such, may be 1 can interest you'
in an adventure which occurred so re-j
cently that all the particulars are yet
fresh in my mind. ; j
I aaa a sailor man, and I am as honest
a the general 'run ef them. I was in'
new urieans, jcnocxing around lor a
berth, when one day on the levee, at the
foot of Canal street, a man with a blink
to hi left eye seem to take a great shine
to me. 'He invites me to drink with him'
and to join him at dinner, and, when he'
Deneves the tune to be ripe, he says
"You looks like an honest chap, and I
don't deny that I've taken a liking to'
you. How would you like to ship with!
my captain?. , j
"And who: may vour captain be?"' I
asked-
"Captain McCaJI, "of the schooner
Glance, and I'm fa vine to vou that a
better man never gave orders from thH
quarterdeck, and that a better vessel'
than the Glance was never put together."
"And what may be the voyage."
He looks Lard at me a long time before
replying, and then draws down his left
eye ana whispers: tlCome aboard and
see the captain. He'll beTglad to shake'
hands and tell you all about it."
I must own I to my confusion that.
I am a drinking man.. as most sailors are,'
and that this chap with a blink to his eye
had me half-seas over .bef ore we left thel
saloon. We had another drink or two'
before reaching the schooner, and when!
we went aboard I was in no condition to
judge of men "or things.- I remember of:
meeting three or four men and of .drink-'
ing again, and then all memory was gone, j
When I came to my senses the schooner:
was in the Gulf of Mexico, heading almost;
nortn, and the nour was 4 o'clock in the
afternoon.
Stiff and sore, and thoroughly fright-,
ened to find myself at sea, I crawfed out;
of the close and ill-smellinr forecastle'
and made my way on deck. The crew
were all there, including the captain.
There, were five white men, two negroes,;
and I made the eighth man. There was a!
light breeze from the southeast, and an
Island was in sight off to the northwest.
A single look satisfied me that we were
beaded for Chandeleur Bay, on the Ilia-'
lisaippi coast. '"
I was greeted in a pleasant fashion by:
the men, and the captain beckoned me!
Into his cabin, poured out a stiff glass of.
grog, and said i
"You'll feel better after drinking it.'
It's good grog that puts heart into a sailor
nan."
"Will you tell me what schooner this,
E, and how- I came to be aboard of;
lerl" I asked, never minding his soft
ways and the liquor he had placed under
my nose.
"Why, man, have you gone clean daftfl
he calls out. "You came to me for &
berth on the Glance, and I, Captain Mc-;
Call, signed you for a trip to Santa Kosa
Island and return. You were sober
rnough when you signed articles. Come.l
iown with the grog, and wish us a sue-,
ressful, voyage." .
"Captain McCall, I never signed with
foul" I says, looking him straight in the!
tje." "And if you are bound to thenorth
I tast, why are you holding to the north t"
"Tut, tut, man ! I am not used to such .
lalk aboard this vessel. Go on deck and
do your duty, and if you dare talk mutiny
I'll put a bullet through your head."
With that I turned and left him, and
to say that I was in a rage would hardly
describe my feelings. My sailor's instinct
had shown me that I -was on a' wrecker,
and such wreckers are no better than
pirates. I had beer, duped aboard to
make up' the complement of men, and
If they discovered that I was' not hand
ind heart wfth them . they'd have little
hesitation in faking my life.
I went forward to the bows, and pres
ently the mate joined me. He was the
tnan with the blink in" his eye, and I laid,
all. the trouble to him. He spoke very,
oftly, but I was so bold and bitter thati
be soou uew mad ' and abused me in the
foulest manner, and finally ordered me on,
watch under pain of being placed in irons..
i It would have been foolish to resist, and'
I took my place among the men and
turned to for duty.
The schooner held on, passing between'
the East and West Qiandeleur island'
bout dark, and holding to the north.!
Soon after night the wind fell, and final
ly there was a dead calm. We were then
opposite theIiddle Chandeleur.and only
four or five miles away, and as there was '
a current setting us to the east the an
chor was let go, an anchor watch set, and
the rest of the crew were privileged to
turn in. ' The captain and mate retired
to their staterooms, and a, the nirht
the rest of us held the
deck. A 1 1
stowed away myself forward
for a smoke and a think,one of the white
ben came over to me in a rather cautious
Way, bunked down beside me, and whis-'
pered:
"Come, comrade, the better face you"
put on the matter, the better it will be for
you. There's no question but they made
you dronk to get you off this voyage.and
as for your signing articles, that's all
bosh-" -
"What sort of a voyage is itf"
Tor what we can pick up."
"And what made you ship!"
"Well, I was obliged to dodge the law
for a scrape I pt into at Mobile."
"I shall leave her at the first chance."
j "That' vour lay Cbiit keep quiet. The
j captain and mate are bad men, and won't
I atop at murder, to hush Vour talk. If
i Stop at murder , to hush tour talk. If
u : i t w i.'j a
wen u cuuni"i i mru urmou unw I
me to co with rou." I
"How far to the north do we COT ;
-W shall cruise among the island, j
and perhaps along the Alabama coast.'
Take my .advice and do duty and keep
your eye open."
With that he left me. and after finish
ing my pipe I slept uutil about 2 o'clock
In th morniaf , when we fiot a slant oi
rind from the Gulf, and the mate called
a to up anchor and make sail. W
erept along at a slow pace, and about
tunrise had the Big Chandeleur is
land under our beam. During, th
afternoon we ran down jto the northern
end and came to anchor within a few
fathom of a coasting achooner,' which
wa then. lying a wreck, on therocka
within a stone' throw yst the beach.
Dec matt were gone, bulwarks stove,
and Che beach was covered with wreck
age. It wa plain that she had come
ashore in a gale, but in the tail end of it,
and th sea had not broken her up. !
( Long enough before we came to an
chor, although I wt at the wheel 6f th
Glance, I saw a man on the wreck mak
ing signal. It seemed to me that the
raptain and mate placed themselves pur
posely in my line of vision, to prevent
ny seeing the man, and we had not yet
egun to take in sail when" the mate took'
he wheel, and the, captain sent me into
he hold to look up some spare oar for!
he yawL, I wa rummaging around
down there fqr half an hour, the oars
being only a pretence to keep me off the
deck, and when . .the captain finally called
bo up. the sails were down, the ancher in
the water, and several of oar teen wer
aboard the wreck, having taken our
yawl to convey themselves across the'
spaoe. ' ;
I was not allowed to go aboard of the
wreck, but was ordered to remain on the
schooner to help receive cargo which the
ethers broke out. The yawl presently
made her first trip, bringing a load of
ropes, chains, ami sails,' and these trips
were continuedjfcfat intervals all day.
When they came to break out cargo the
yawl brought us flour, hardware, grocer
ies, and, clothing, " some damaged and
some in good shape, and the mate bore a
hand to help us on the schooner. '
There was no knocking off for dinner,
and from the way the men were rushed it
was plain that the captain feared discov
ery and wa in a hurry tr. get everything
out of the wreck and be off. We had a
bite to eat a we worked, and at sunset
we were piped for supper. This .ve ate
on our deck, and my friend of the night
before, who gave me his name as BilL
planned to take a seat near me. I had
worked hard and without grumbling.and
captain and pmate no longer felt sus
picious of me, or at least showed no
signs of it. There was an opportunity
now for a few words with the man Bill,
and I asked him if it was a case of salvage.
"Wuss'n that 1" he whispered back.
"Wasn't there a man one of the crew
on the wreck when we first came upt"
"Yes." '
"Where is he now!"
"Knocked on the head and thrown to
the sharks I" ; '
; "Do vou mean that he was murdered P'
"That's just it, matey 1 While you
were below the captain and mate
rowed off to the wreck. We all TBaw a
man aboard, but none Of u.r have seen
him since. .Had ho been allowed to live
on it would htvr. been a case of salvage.
With him dead, what's to prevent our
captain from owning all he can get.
"And you talk a coolly as if only a
dog had been thrown overboard I" .
Hush ! If there is the least show for
escape I'm off with you this very night 1
Io more now we ar$ watched I"
After supper the yawl was sent off
again, and we .worked until about 11
o'clock. Two-thirds of the cargo had
been transferred, and our captain meant
to hang right by until he had secured
everything or a shift of weather drove
him away.' There had been a fair breeze
ill day and it still held, coming from the
south-east. There was doubtless a smart
turf on the other side of she island, but
pn our side the water was quiet
enough. '
When the crew turned in the man Bill
was left on deck as an anchor watch.
fhe man lopped down on deck, some
ithout a thincr between them ' and the
planks, and in half an hour their snore
were hearty and continuous. Then I,
cautiously rose up and joined Bill. The
yawl was towing as! em, with the oars on
the thwarts, and I was determined on
escape. ' To my surprise I found him
eager and anxious to go with me. ,
- While captain and mate both appeared
asleep, we dared take no risks. ' If we
got away in the boat it must . be bare
handed. Any attempt to look up water,
provisions, and the mast and sau might
upset our whole plain.
While Bill walked the deck whistling
to himself, I drew the yawl under the
tern and slid down the painter. In a
minute or two he came after me, and
then cut the rope and pushed us off. We
at ence began to float to the northwest,
and in a quarter of an hour were out of
sight ef the schooner. It would not do to
use the oars yet, however, and we were
waiting to increase our distance, when all
f a sudden the waters around us grew
alive with shark. I have sailed in most
sea and have seen a sailor's share of
sharks, but never before nor since did I
witness such ' a congregation of the
voracious monsters. They seemed deter
mined on destroying us, and every minute
dealt the boat such thumps that we looked
to see the planks crushed in. They jumped
half their length out of the water at the
gunwale of the boat, and twice the head
of a shark rested on the seat in the stern
for several second.
We realized that we must make mom
demonstration, even at the peril of being
overheard on board the, schooner, and"
retting out the oars, we punched and
jabbed with all our might. As soon c
we got well out from the land, the wind
bore us along at a' faster pace, but the
harks .were not to be left behind. If
there was one there were 200. They bit
It the oars and splintered the blades, and
1 the men on the schooner had not been
aver tired they must have been awakened
I by the row. x
We had I drifted perhaps two miles
i when a terrible thing happened.' We
j two sat on one thwart, Bill minding one
! aide and I the other. He was bending
i over the rail, punching every ahark
within reach, when I heard a scream, and
turned my head in time to see him pulled
overboard. A ahark had jumped far
enough out of water to seize him. 'There
WM temoie commouon in xne water iot
i fn minntM tr n T ion to
J -
CUTf! morsel, and for a time I was en-
urc negieciea ua uxjug uvne.
Bj nd by three or four hark cam
alter me, dux tney no longer aucca un
boat, nor did the number increase.
When I had got my nerve back I put
the best oar over the stern and sculled
sway, keeping to the northwest, nor did
I rest beyond . a few minute at a time
antil daylight came, I was then entirely
. -
cat ef sight of the schooner, end making
a good pace of it. "I saw half a dozen
coasters on the bay, but mode no signals.
The Louisiana coajt was in full sijht.and
I preferred driUfg ashore to bein picked
Op. I knewtJow the coasters felt toward
wreckers, and if I were picked up, my
tory would probably land me in th
courts.
Soon after noon I fetched the shore lq
a bit of a bay. but I soon realized that
was no better off than out at sea. I was
hungry, and thirsty, but there was neithet
fresh "wa(er nor food. I culled - all
around the bay in, search of s creek, but
found none, but toward evening
smart shower came up, and
gallon or so of fresh water was caught
In. the boat. It waa full, of filth whea
I came to drink it. but it relieved
my burning thirst and put new life inte
me. Shortly after that I found a dead duck
floating on the water. I did not stop to
investigate itsjcond&on, but stripped ofl
' a part of the feathers and cut out and at
a large portion oi tne raw meat:
As the shores were dense cinebrakes,
through which I could make no progress,
I tied the boat up for the night and wen
to sleep, 'but darkness had only fairly so'
in when the mosoruitoes came down upoi
me by the million. ! Sleep was Out of th
question.- Indeed, within an hour I was
obliged to scull the boat out into tht
bay against a smart tea rolling in, and
hold her there by hard work to keep
fromvbeing devoured alive. Whenever 1
would let up -for a few. minutes, over
come by want of sleep, the boat would
drift back and the pests would attack
me, until I found them in my mouth. --
After midnight th wind dame up.se
briskry that the mosquitoes could n
longer come out of the swamp at me,
but a new danger arose I had no thought
of alligators until, as the , boat rested
against the reeds, a monster reptile rosi
up and clashed his jaws over the stern.
In two minutes there were three or foul
swimming 'about me, and others wen
thrashing around in the swamp. Front
that time until daylight I had to shout,
splash the water, and keep moving ' front
one end of .the. boat to the other t
frighten my enemies away, and it seemed ,
as if I lived a month: in those few hours.
A day broke the wind changed off th
land, and I drove with it out of the bay.
I was hardly out before , an oystei
schooner picked me up, and in a couplt
of days I was safely landed in New Or.
leans, i When the captain asked for mj
story I offered him the yawl as a fret
gift in place of any explanation, and h
accepted it, and did not ask anothet
question. JYrw Tori Sun. . ,
i Corie-iu Names.
"What a name that young man has,,
said a clergyman yesterday to a JV gath
erer as the person indicated left hi
presence. :',
' "What is itf" . v
"E. P. Baxter,' fie' writes it. Nothing
remarkable about that, bqt, what an amount
of foolish patriotism is, concealed in
those initials. The young man was born
on January 3, '1863, and his parents
named him Emancipation Proclamation
Baxter, in honor of the occasion."
"That's pretty bad." '
"Yefj but there are somenarents with
cranky ideas on the subject, of naming
children. One boy I christened Perse
verance Jones. I endeavored id dissuade .
the father, but he. said the child's mother
was called Patienoe, and he saw no
reason why the boy should not be called
Perseverance, because the two always
went toeether. Within a few paces of
the grave of Benjamin and Deborah
Franklin, in the old 5 cemetery at Fifth
and Arch prrets, there fis a headstone
bearing the inscription : ' 'Sacred to the
memory of S. L. U. Lloyd.' If the owner
of that name were living-now his friends
would probably call him 'Celuloid.' I
had a colored man named Alexander
doing some work around here once. I
used to hear the other workmen call
him Trib' and 'Hole, and it struck me
one day to ask him what his name was.
, " Tribulation Wholesome Alexander,"
sah,' he replied.
. '"It may have been some relative of
his who came to me with twins to have
baptized. '.' .
" 'What name will you call them?' I :
asked. .
' "'Cherubim and Seraphim, replied . j
tne mother.
" 'Why?' I asked in astonishment.
" 'Because, she replied, 'de pra'r book
says says "de cherubim and seraphim
continually do cry," and dese yere
chil'en do nufin' else.' "
The JV'wi gatherer edged toward the
doorV and when he had got in the lobby
shouted "Chestnut," and skipped down
stairs. Philadelphia New. t
Four Thousand Counterfeiters.'
In thev Treasury . Department is on
room where there are on exhibition th
photographs of over four thousand couu.
terfeiters, writes aWashington correspond
ent of the Atlanta Constitution. Largt
frames upon the wall and hujre album)
upon the tables are filled with faces 1
every age, sex ana naiionaiuy. iiere i
the rough, hardened visage of a Caucas
ian side by side with the peaceful face ol
a suave and almond-eyed Chinese; here,
too, is a youth, with a trace of inno
cence yet left in the features, side by sid
with representatives of the sex that give
us birth, and coarse-looking men en
framed beside the faces of seemingly re
fined and polished gentlemen.
Some, iaea as to the extent to which
counterfeiting is carried on here may b
formed from the fart that in a vault in
the Rogues' Gallery theru is now over on
and a half million dollars of counterfeit
money, all of which has been captured
from counterfeiting gangs within the past
even or eight years. Beside this, th
government has destroyed two million
dollars since the war. I am speaking now
only of money that has been captured in
the hands of counterfeiters by the twen
ty odd agents of the secret service.
The Tyrant's Hear.
Let every sound be dead!
Baby tJecpa,
The Emperor softly treads I
Baby sieepa.
Let Mozart's music step,
Lr PhidW chisel drop!
Baby sleep.
IVtnoabenea be dumb!
iur tyrant's hour bas coma,
.Sabr tlmK
. ': Wqtkington Sla
THE FORGER'S PROFESSION.'
i '
SOlCETHrwo JLBOTJT THB BCHEXXBS
. WHO BWiniHTYB BAJTKB.
'. .
Detail of "Uuainee" That 1 Car-'
ried on With Much System The
"Backer" and Ilia Assistant. .
- Describing the habit of forgers to a'
New York j World reporter, Detective
Pinkerton said : ,
"There are residing in the city ef New
York, and in some of the other large
cities of the United States, men who
mak it a business and . a study' to con-'
coct schemes to swindle banks by means
of forged check, notes, draft, bills ef
exchange, letters of credit, etc., and in
some instances getting up forged and
counterfeit bonds to hypothecate for
loans. These ' are the men who lay out
the plans for ailthegreat schemes worked,
by ! forgers ' from tirne to time on the
banks . in this city and other banks
throughout the country. These men are
. possessed of considerable capital, and are
known as the 'capitalists' or 'backers.
j ?The business .of the 'capitalist oir
backer is to get the genuine paper from
which the forgeries are made, to prepare
or have prepared the counterfeit blank
check, draft, letter of credit or bill of
exchange, and, in cases where it is neces
sary, to procure a 'crooked engraver or
lithographer to make an exact duplicate
f the genuine paper to1 be operated
upon. This ( backer has generally
an expert i . penman at hi
command, 'who, under his directions,
does the forging, the penman writing in
the names and such amount as the
backer may direct him to do, and,' in
fact, getting up the paper in shape to be
presented at the bank. In this shape
the paper is "delivered by the forger or
penman to the backer. The backer then
calls in the services of a party "known
between themselves as a 'go-between or
middle-man,' and to the go-between he
passes over the forged paper; with full
directions as to how he desires it passed
at the banks.- The go-between is, as a
rule, some man who has had at least
one and sometimes two or three convic
tions for criminal offenses recorded
against him,. He is generally a man who
has considerable acquaintance among
that class of criminals who are at all
times willing to take great chances to
make money 'by laying down forged
paper. ' The object of selecting a man as
a go-between who has jfreviously been
convicted of some crimens to weaken his
testimony in case at anyt time he should
be arrested,! and, in order to help him
self out or lessen his punishment, con
cludes to turn State's evidence against
the baqker. ?
"Being an ex-convici, it: would require
strong corroborative evidence to allow a
court to have a jury convict the backer,
and the backer, appreciating that state of
things, isflcareful in all he does to doit in
such a way as to guard against corrobora
tive evidence accumulating against him.
The parties whom the go-between selects
to pass the forged paper, or in their own
language, .to Tay down the checks,' are
known as presenters. These men are
very numerous, of all ages and appear
ances, from the party .who will pass as tho
errand boyj porter or clerk, to the man of
t f At A J
Business appearance or me reiirea mer
chant. In .selecting these presenters,, the
go-between, like the backer, is careful
-9nly to select men who have had one or
more previous records ' of conviction
gainst them, i His object is the same as
that of the backer, to invalidate their
testimony, to some extent in case they get
in trouble and make a confession impli
cating the party from whom they obtained
the forged paper. Sometimes another
party is introduced in the gang by the go
between, whose . business it is to follow
the party to whom the go-between gives
the check (the presenter) from the time
the check is given to him until he presents
it for payment and returns with the
money to the ; go-between. This man is
called the shadow:. . In case the presents
is not successful, but is arrested in the
attempt to pass the check, the shadow
immediately conveys word to the go-between,
who conveys word to the backer,
but in' many cases the shadow is left out,
and in order to cut down expenses the
go-between does the shadowing himself,
especially if the check is to be passed on
a bank where he is not likely to be rec
ognized. . V f j
"In case the presenter is arrested the
go-between notifies the attorney who at
tends to all criminal cases for the backer.
The attorney cajls and sees the prisoner,
And his business is to instruct the prison
er to keep his mouth shut, to talk to no
one and he will secure bail for him. The
attorney finally tells him he cannot get
bail for him, but will get. him off with n
light sentence if he is convicted, or if ho
is a young man he promises to have him
sent to the reformatory through influence
which he claims to have with the court
or with the district-attorney. All this is
done to keep him quiet. Finally the law
yer, by his promises and sometimes
threats, induces him to plead guilty, and
when this is done the presenter gets a
long term1 of imprisonment, the attorney j
for the backer gets his fee, and the go- i
between can come out again and get some
dupe to pass his forged paper, and when i
SuTested be humbugged into State prison. f
The influence, of the backer or his money ;
causes the presenter to be watched from j
the time of his arrest until he is landed
in prison. (The money obtained on forged
' paper is divided -about as follows :
To the presenter, for passing checks under
500, 15 to 20 per cent. ,
Passing- check from $500 to $1,000, 20 per
cent.
Passing checks from; f 1,000 to $8,000, 25 to
30 per cent.
Turning checks from $5,000 upward, 35 to 40
per cent. ' ;
'"The go-between get for his share,
from ten to fifteen or twenty-five per
cent. The shadow get - whatever they
are willing to give him, probably five
per cent. The oacxer taxes the balance,
and out of LT amount is paid the "pen
man, the eng:: ver and the lithographer,
and an occasional "fee to the attorney
when any of the gang is in trouble, but
the attorney i expected to get the princi
pal part of hi fee out of the prisoner.
This gang frequently make 'trip all
ver the country.; defrauding bank with
this forged paper;. They generally travel
under the management of the go-between,
the backer seldom going; but he furnishes
the forged paper in a completed state,
possibly with the exception of' the num
ber and date of the check or draft, which
can be pat in by the go-between. The
! if w
connected with the scheme outside of
the go-between, and if there is more than
one presenter it frequently happens that
thev are not allowed to see or know each
: other. The shadow as a rule is not to
; the name of the parties whom he is told
to shadow, by the go-between, nor does
he know their address or resorts .unless,
as often happen through carelessness,
1 they permit turn to become aware of it.
j The, g between knows the backer, but Is
not supposed to know tne rorger or en
graver, j By this system the hedj of
gang of forger expect to escape arrest oi
punisnmeni.
. - V- - -
A Strike 2,600 Team Ago.
It was supposed that strikes were aa
outcome of our modern civilization, Say
HoHtehold Word, but the deciphering of
a papyrus into the' museum of Turin
shows how the old -proverb that there Is
nothing new under the sun applies to
strike a well as to nany other thing.
This papyrus, which I a sort of journal
or day-book of the superintendent of th
Thebes Necropolis, furnishes curious de
tails of a workmen's riot or disturbance
in Thebes, in the twenty-ninth year ot
King Ramses, who is supposed to be
. Ramses Illr The workmen' quarter
ent a deputation on the 28th of Decem
ber to - Hatnekin, the keeper of th
book, and to several , priests of the no-;
cropolia. The peaker,of the .deputation
spoke a follows: We? haye neither nom
ishment, nor oil, nor 'vestments. We
have already sent a petition to , our sov
ereign lord, the Pharaoh, praying him to
give us these things, and we now address
the governor in-order that he may give
us wherewithal to live." . . . ! .
The general distribution of wheat wa
then evidently due to the workmen, but
why it did- not take place is not known.
Perhaps the individual who should have
distributed the food was absent. What
ever was the car.se of the delay the need
was urgent, and Hatnekin j with the
priests present, either touched with com
passion or to prevent the affair: from reach
ing the ear of the governor of the necro
polis, accorded ,one day's rations. How
the workmen lived in the days following
is not recorded in the papyrusjjjut some
weeks afterward they were in full revolt.
Three times they forcibly emerged from
their quarters, notwithstanding the walls
which surrounded them and: the gates
which closed them in. "We I will, not re
turn," cried a kneftu to the police sent in
pursuit of them. "Go tell your chief
what we tell you; it is famine which
speaks by our mouths." To argue with
iSteva was useless.
"There was great agitation," writes the
superintendent in his day-book. "I
gave them the strongest answer I could
imagine, but their words were true and
came' from their -hearts." They were
quieted by a distribution of -half rations,
but ten days later they were up again.
Khon8, the loader of the band,, pressed
his Companions to. provide; . for! them
selves. "Let us fall," said he, utpon'
the stores of prqvisions, and let the gov
ernor's men go and tell what we have
done." "".. ; :.. ." !'..-"
This . counsel wa followed as soon as
given. f They entered forcibly into the
lnclosure, but not into the fortress where,
the provisions were keptr The. keeper of
the stores, Amen-Nextu, 'gave thern
something, and contrived to induce them
to return to their quarter. ( i . '. t
Eleven days later the movement began
again. The1 commander of Thebes, pass
ing by, found the men seated on' the
ground, behind the temple of Beti, at the
northern end of the necropolis. - Imme
diately they began to cry: "Famine!
famine!" The commander then gave
them an order for fifty measures of wheat
in the name of Pharaoh,! "who has
sworn," said he, "an oath that yH will
have food again"." Most likely Pharaoh
never heard of the event and never re
ceived the petition which these strikers
addressed, to i him a couple of months:
jreviouaiT.
Loss of Life by War.
ft ha been estimated by i Mulhall that
the loss of life in the great war of 1 793
to? 181 5 betweeen England and France
amounted to 1, 00,000' men.! Of these
the vast proportion were wounded, who
never recovered, or men who, perished by
sickness incident to the war. I Thi' entire
loss of life by war of the civilized Hfat'.
of the world since 1793 is thus tabulated
by Mulhall :
Years.
lr t Men, j
to 1815 England and Fran,
1SS8 Kusmaani iurkey4-'
1890 to 1940 Bpein and Portugal, .
1830 to 1847 France and Alzria. .
'120,000'
ir,KM
fV,,0'IO
51 10
184 Civil strife in En
1854 to 1S46 Crimn war
1859 Franco-Austrian war
1881 to 1865- American tefvil) war
1866 Austro-Prussian war.
1860 France and Mexico;.
1864 to 1870 Brazil and Paraguay
1870 to. 1871 Franco-Oflrman war
1876 to 1T7 RaaBO-Turkish war j.
1 . ' "
4.47U. W J
l0,0fXI.
Total
1
As showing the rnormnsMi prortJons j
f waste of life, we firrth' r extr.Kt,n fcw:
figures from
the Dif tionary of t-tti- 1
tic:"
Men t
the fiekl ;
1.4-,.VI
ii.ti.nfn
l.:i:r.(n
Returned
' ki;.kx , -,:
?,ii.'u
.Vtl.on "
Crimean war. . .
American war. . . .
Hado wa "am paiirn
Franco derruan
The numbers placefl hors de ruibnt m
the leading gaeat battles of the wotM' aire
thus estimated : -
- Tbrasymene.. 6'.mW
Cannas.. ...... .14.000
, Bannock burn.li',orV
Airmcourt .... fl-i.'AJ
Cntmv 1 1 :.'
Marengo .'.".fno
AnsterUU. U'l.rtt"
Borodino KV.
Waterloo... i.UV4
Alma....
Badowa ....... 4r .
GraveloCte XJi.Of
;i.'
l :..
. fjt'f ft
' ."
. . L ' ; M.'l'h
. ; ';.':r..'tv
; t-,vw '
! '. ' reasanakle.' ' ' ' L , " -";:'
One' of Tennyson' 'new poem begiB:
: And now the heavenly Powar make aO
i things new;
And dome tbm red-plowed hill
WW loving bine. ',
i Tha blackbirds bavaitbeir wflto,
i The poet too. ; '
j - The lines would be more seasonable if
, they were a follow:
1 And now thev frost king's power make nose
- blue; : . .
Iceboand ar brooks and riHa,
Tb year im new, -Our
grocer aenas ns btlla.
, ' Tb butcher, too.
etoH Cwrior.
i nrMOB op Tins pat.
Justifiable 'homicide Sleighing girl.
Cifisn.
If a man is to die by laches he wants
td be tlL JNVw Tori JSWs. t
A snow-plow is ; like a bad habit
A-good thing to cut adrift.
tetxn.
4 , -
jone "Can you always tell fooir
Brown' If he doesnt ask too much.
What would you like to knowf Binf
amton litpvtliea. i .
( They are going down to dinner: He-r.
"Kay I alt on your right hand?' She
"Oh, I thinklyou had better take a chair." .
Re did. ?ai JVVtr.
lilo Lewis Ssays that hot water will
cure all complaints. r la that case lm
firovident men ought to be xtr healthy,
or they arealwsys in Jt. - ?
Entering the asylum for Inebriates, ha
asked "Do" you' trej drunkards here!
iJYes, sir, "Well, I'm one. Wsr'a
yerbarf Chicago Aiv. t
: An exchange says the "fall of the ska
ting rink has come.' Yfell, it is time.
The rink has caused enough falls in its
time. Xetv Tori Qrnphtci ; .
-An Eastern physician has published a!
work telling, how : to prevent sears. A.
treatise on minding one's own -business,
most, likely. Chicago Ledger.
A - brass band has been orga lized '
among the employes of; a Colum'ms car- '
riage factory. They are said to be must- I,
cal felloes. Ohio titate Journal. . ' !
In regard to modern languge it- is. said
that the Chinese is the most diflicult. We
find this out when, wc try to expIJn to
,ijur .Chinese laundrrman that a pair oil
'far socks is missing.' Sifting: , .
jBillyVlittlo sister had fallen and uart .
her ooe, and she cried a great d&A 1
over it. 'Hearing his mother tell hT to '
be careful lest she'd-srjoil it nttt time, j
lie said : "What's the good of a nOi t
her! She never blows it.". V .";'-";
Every roan is tho architect of his own
fortune, they say.and it needs but ag'.onca
to convince the most skeptical that scne
men don't know any morealoutarcUitec-. ,
ture than a hen knows abaut artificial ih
cubation. Merchant ; Trateler. i
The blissful elasticity of spirit which a
self-made 'man is supposed to posses, i
despondency itself : compared to that elaa
tk; buoyancy of soul which permeates the
being of the street Arab who has learned
to play a lun6 on the mouth organ.
Chicago Ledger.. j. i
Man in a carriage (to a farmer , in the
Coll "That corn doesn't look aa
though you'd get mor'n half; & .crop."
Farmer in tho field (to man in a carriage)
."Don't expect to. -I'm working it on
shares." I mean rou won't ct much to
the acre.1'.
ipC to : oniy goi
half mTicre
. fones "Smith,' you arc thc.lazist man
ever saw." Finith - ' Correct. " ones
"They say you lcp fifteen honr Wit of
Jones "What do vou do iiorf' Smith
"In order to econoiuirC. Yoli see t cost
nothhig to sleep,, 'but th moment you i
wake up f xpnses i lwgiri." r
. f AS rrTtMIKT K .AT. ' U
.The butterenps llint gfiniiKvi the val -i . i
'fn summer gnM"!!. hours are AH;- ' v
Tlw wiid row red, t he nmiv pale, ;
TiP hyacinth ftH, all are l-ai. ", ''
No rtiftre at morn in beauty's. prM
; Their tinted petals Uioy unfold !
And scrnt ths breeze ;ithy lrooxvl nn4 diwt..
When juMJwipd5 swept jutos th woli.
Hut why bhouM we their lo deplore,
-Whv-po,d our tim in vain rugret
When orcan griivtern to our door . :
Come daily with V$wt Y"irlt(r
'i liotton 4'nrir. 1
An African lir ad Jxe.
Thr Switzerland-of
feature of whirh it
Vfrir-i, th chlf
the l.ftv Mo inf.
.Kilimanjaro, riin' some 1,000 f.-et
abov the lfvid of the
frca, anri rovrren
witli jwrpHual kovs t
tou''H rail v three
degrees; t-otjth of the eq j-'itt.t, about
2-!50 inil riorthw'! from M.nb;it. and0-,
throucrli it-runs the ta((jjUi rai to 'th ,'
Nittoiiii NyanJ. i . TfityHer iioite ijj
describing tins' mtutry 'nn'inarvrloudy ''
lovely,' uniting the luxuriance of the ?
tropics with the gfand'tir of Hit'it.erlund.
The be mt if ul vaieof Traveta i poken
of as : Very radian bowr of bliss.
H,yiD - , 2,400
miles i' l"n:
ff-t - above thi- m-a. bevrn
hth by one in breadth; ir-
ricrated - with co11 waters from the mlt-
ing wows on the mountains, richly culti-
vated, fiirraunded by gigantic forest
Irmx rlfiilirr phritt tn 1 (lit fi,t 1 .r. s.rm
branclrrng into a luxuriant jtnpy,
with btju-oxuMon of ferns and flowt-nng
slirubv -of ' every hue in the intervahi,
this J-alU'y is . very forest haven of
refugee It is entrre through a narrow
defite, acros Avhi' h jure thrown thick
barriers of wool, fonning an impenetra
ble qfic-ns-, waion! guarticj, witli a
ingtc opening tvt a gut
tct f&nd a ruMie, -
origin, and. are diligent a
The inbabU.
are of- mired
origin, ana. are dtjigrot agncuitunsU. ?
A Wondernil Care;
A wonderful -jve has rc nt J v leea et-
1 1"'4 n mnw Valley, J'ne coiintrV
! cyif i $s n. f on.i.t of grat
numler
or flpjKirtmcntu connected- bv 1
ong gai-
! lrc and ornani-nlcd vtuj4 txautifu!
1-ftLlactite of a ltr?mpnV''rtt vh!tenes.
The largest roomUrt imn i .vo feet
'f long. j. gOOfwt . i.'. I 1.') f.e-t in
! tcigfat i'aneiful in un- J..;'- J given
I to th'i o!j1 mH v;;! in. tui- cour
i sf th' evpWatkjip. Schntm - rnIe is
j ' mirJiiiU-ent stalsgrr.jf'- 'i'u-." Cleo-
iJe&d r -.t'l lieuti
f fully C.isi:imnil tije grurfl !aelral i
"Nsn rmmnom pilelof ;.w!u: .ulvTnit
j figlity gve ft4i- U
c :rcijn:f x-
i't and'
fi'l ur-..prpor-little
-eming
U
of
i Voornj-d by a tUiM
7 tiofr., The cae !i"jTJt r.m
, takes aJ2Jwat!rf3f'w' kn'i r,ri "
W'atrpJ'i'a hft -! '.:;.:r
1tw'l'iarraifei th.' J.'
r. icy-
hri-
, Oft lathe Stilly Nirht.
Oft in the njy nlkt. .
Waco bedyrkitbea mazlt Ux.rA ro, y
Tv heard the whiakarwf feJio fibt
la luartial troop around ra.
.: v ' The ifpat of r&i,
v -a. f sTbeburiodbrkbaU.
Th earJw word thn pokn :
- The eyes tht sbone
; " - Tb back feoca on,v '.'
TTia rjame of now broken!
i ! m Pkiladtlphia llm. .
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