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SONG AND SINGER.
I saw him one?
the while he rat and
played
A stripling w ith a s.hook of yellow liair--II
is own rare songp,in mirth or sorrow made,
But tender all, and fair.
And as the years rolled by I saw him not.
But still his sons full many a time I sung,
And thought of him as one who has the lot
To be forever youn g.
Until at last he stood before mine eyes
An age-Lent man, who trembled oer bis
staff;
My sight rebelled to see him in such guise,
Ripe for his epitaph.
I grieved with grief that to a death belongs;
How Time U stern I had forgot, in truth,
And how that men wax old, whereas theii
songs
Keep an immortal youth.
Richard E. Burton, in the Century.
A BANK ROBBERY MYSTERY
7 M. QUAD.
AXTER VILLI
was a town of aboul
1500 inhabitants
a staid, quiet place,
which never boomed
nor hustled. "The
Bank of Raxter
ville," as the sign
rend.wasatwo-storj
brick building:, plain and substantial, and
George Carter, the sole owner of the
bank, was personally known to almost
everybody iu the county. lie was a
man of forty-five, unmarried, and an
old maid sister kept house for him.
The banker was known as a methodical
man, careful in his investments, and
no one had any fcf r of disaster overtak
ing him. Now and then he had
been warned that safe blowers might
pay him a visit, but he had not taken
any extra precautions. He had a large
fire and burglar proof safe, and a man
slept in the room at night on the cot.
On a certain April morning soon after
the close of the war Mr. Carter arrived
at the bank at exactly 8:30. That was
his usual time to a second. The curtains
were down and the door was locked,
and it was only after a panel had been
sawed out of it that entrance was gained.
There sat Davis, the watchman, bound
fast to his chair and a gag in his mouth,
and the safe door stood wide open. A
hole had been drilled and the bolts
thrown back, and the 23,000 safely
locked up the evening before was gone.
Davis had all the particulars at his
tongue's end. He had been aroused at
midnight by some one knocking on the
door and asking him for a light by
which to mend a broken harness. lie
denied that he had been asleep, but
claimed to be thinking." Suspecting
no evil ho opened the door, and three
men rushed in and overpowered him.
After making him secure they got their
tools out of a bag and began operations,
and in an hour or so ha 1 the safe open.
His statement thus far was all right and
reasonable. From thence on it was a
puzzler. I was sent dwn from tho city
in answer to the telegram for a detective,
and Davis was of course the first man to
be examined. He had not been blind
folded and he saw all that took place,
though the burglars wore masks and he
did not get sight of their face?. He de
clared that they did not get a dollar in
money and that they cursed and raved
and threatened to burn the building in
consequence. They pulled everything
out of the safe and opened all the large
envelopes, but the sack they hai
brought along was lying on the floor as
proof of Davis's story.
At 5 o'clock of the previous evening
Mr. Carter had placed in that 6afe $21,-
000 in greenbacks, most of it in small
bills. The packages would have filled al
lawyer's waste basket. Had the burg
lars got them, the sack would have been,
used, as that sort of men do not sit down,
and count up and divide their plunden
on the spot. Davis was not only believed,
to be honest, but Mr. Carter believed hbj
story. It is needless to observe that I
did not. I judged from his phy3iog-I
nomy that he was chicken-hearted. He
ha 1 no marks to prove that he had re
sisted the burglars. I believed he lied
when he said he was not asleep. As a
matter of fact, I made up my mind tha
he had "stood in" with the burglars
and either been 'deft" on his share or
had secreted it around the building and,
then let them bind and gag him. I
think the theory was not only reasonable,
but just the one which any other detec
tive would have adopted.
Fortunately for the bank aad its de
positors the proprietor had plenty of re
serve, and business went oa as usual. I
was told to go ahead oa the case and
work out anything I could, and my first
move was to search for Davis's share of
the money. No sign of it could be found
about the building. Iu spite of all my
efforts he stuck to his story just as he
first told it, and I had to admit
to myself that he appeared perfectly
honest and sincere. In describing the
burglars as well as he was able he men
tioned that one of them was a very tall
man with a hacking cough. That ex
actly fitted Steve Pratt, a burglar, who
had been out of Joliet ouiy two months
after serving a ten years' sentence. Steve
had had his throat injured by swallow
ing a fish bone, and kept up a constant
hacking, even in his sleep. He described
another as very short and stout, with a
falsetto voice, and I suspecte 1 he was
Alf Taylor, who was then supposed to
be in Canada. The third could man I
not place.
While still suspecting Davis of having
a hand in the job, and securing the ser
vices of a local officer to watch him, I
began a hunt for the others. I got track
of Steve Pratt after a few days and lo
cated him in Cincinnati. He was too
quick for me,and I followed him to Chi
cago. He got the start of me again,and
led the way to Buffalo, and there seemed
to sink into the eaith. For two long
weeks I was engaged, with the local of
ficers, searching for him, but our efforts
met with no success. One day I took a
run down to the falls with a friend, and
wc went to the International Hotel on
the Canadian side tor dinner. We were
seated in the office when there .was asud
dev. outcry from the clerk behind the
railing. A man had coolly walked in
behind him and taken all tho money
from the till aud was walking out with
it. We had a pretty hot time to secure
him, as he was in a desperate mood, but
when we had him fast I recognized the
chap we had been hunting for. He was
Steve Pratt, and no mistake. lie denied
it, of course, but inside of three days I
produced such proofs that he finally
knocked under. I was never more as
tounded in my life than when I came to
interview him about the Raxterville
Bank affair. He verified the story of the
janitor in every perticular.
. "I shall get soaked' for this hotel
job, anyhow," he said, 'sand so I might
as well tell you about the other. There
are three of us. We threatened to kill
Davis and overawed him. Wc got the
safe door open, to find wc had been
fooled. I'm a convict and all that, but
I'm talking straight when I say that wc
did not find a dollar. Here is what we
c!id find and all we brought away. I
took it for luck a Spanish piece with a
hole in it."
"But Carter put 21,000 in that safe
at 4:30 o'clock."
"Then he or someone else took it out
before we go there. Baukers sometimes
rob themselves."
I explained to him that it was not so
in this case, and he was a3 much mysti
fied over the case as I had been. Oa
leaving the bank they had locked the
door from without and had carried the
key a mile before throwing it away.
They had gone away empty handed and
mad enough to kill Davis. I don't go
much on the declaration of convicts
caught again red-handed, but in this
case it did seem as if the truth was be
ing spoken. Had Steve got his $7000
out of that boodle he would not have
been dead broke so quick, for unlike
nearly all others of his ilk he was a
miser and never gambled. I returned
to Raxterville with my news and asked
Mr. Carter if it was not possible that he
had placed the money somewhere else.
"It is not, sir!" he replied, with more
acidity in his voice than the occasion
seemed to demand. "That safe was here
to put my money in. I put it there. I
stacked up the packages with my own
hand. I locked the door myself. 1
alone knew the combination. My book
keeper never handles a dollar of the
money."
"But you have searched elsewhere
in these cupboards and drawers?" I
asked.
"No, sir; but you seem to wish it, we
will do so now."
For a long hour we searched desks aad
drawers and cupboards, but W3 made no
discovery. lie was as sure that he put
the money in the safe as he was that he
was a living man, and the book-keeper
was sure that he saw him carrying some
of the packages back there. What had
become of that money? If it was tnere,
why didn't Steve Pratt and his gang get
It? That they didn't I was now pretty
well convinced. The only way that I
could reason it out was that someone had
robbed the safe before the Pratt gang
got there. If so, however, it wa3 done
by opening the door in the regular way.
The banker had said that he alone knew
the combination. I led up to the matter
again, and he admitted th3t his sister
also had it, as a safeguard against acci
dent. I now began work on an entirely new
theory. I felt that the key of the mys
tery was in the hands of the sister,
though I was far from hinting any such
thing to a living soul. I took my quar
ters in the town and began on the new
theory. I soon found that Anna Carter
was a spmister of thirty-five, and was
generally regarded as a strong-minded
woman. She had money of her own,
and she knew how to invest it to make a
profit. She now and then, so it wa3
said, gave her brother hint3 which he
found to be valuable in a business way.
Coming down to the burglary, I found
that she was under the care of the doctor
off and oa for a month previous with
some nervous trouble.
For some reason which she did not
explain Miss Carter refused to even see
me while I was consulting with her
brother at the house. There are plenty
of people, and good people, too, who
dislike detectives, but I take no offence
at it. Every man to his notion, say I,
provided his notion doe3 not lead to
crime. Had I sat down to interview the
lady, however, the case might not have
been helped along any. It had occurred
to me, as you may have suspected, that
the sister had robbed the safe herself
while in a state of somnambulism. I had
a talk with her doctor, and he agreed
that her condition during the first week
of April favored such a thing. Indeed,
on the morning the robbery was dis
covered he had been called in, to find
her very much exhausted, and she de
clared that she was as stiff and lame as if
standing at the washtub all day.
I was now satisfied that I was on the
right trail. I found that Mr. Carter al
ways carried his key home, and that the
watchman never left his in the lock at
night. I went for Davis again, and he
finally admitted that he was asleep from
10 o'clock until arousod by the burglars.
The end of the case was as mysterious as
the beginning. One night when I had
reasoned it all out and felt satisfied in
my own mind, but could sec no way to
secure proofs, I got so nervous that I
arose at midnight and went out on the
street for a walk and a smoke. I took
no heed of my direction, but at the end
of ten minutes I found myself in front of
the banker's cosy home. It was in total
darkness, as well as others in the village,
but I leaned up against a tree box and
stood gazing at the windows as if ex
pecting something to happen to pull my
case through. Something did happen.
I was within six feet of the gate and
I suddenly saw a figure in female dress
come around from a side door with a
If.rge market basket on her arm. She
was fully dressed; and from the first in
ftant I believed it was the banker's
6ister. I thought she looked full at me
as she passed out of the gate, but never
theless she walked otf up tne street wito
the basket on her arm. I followed a
few yards behind her, and she held
steadily on and went straight to the
bank. I was sure of her then. She
paused at the door for a few seconds to
unlock it and then disappeared inside.
Five seconds later Davis was shouting
and a woman's voice could be heard ut
tering shrill screams. I opened the
door and entered, and the mystery was
solved at last. There stood Miss Anna,
just aroused from sleep, and in the
basket on her arm was that missing
money. Davis was lying down, but not
asleep, when she catered, and he had at
once seized her.
now did she get the money from the
safe? She had been reading about bur
glars and gone to the bank in her sleep.
She had entered and secured the money
and left again without arousing Davis.
The burglars came later on. She had
taken the money home and concealel it,
but in what spot she could never deter
mine. She probably did not walk again
until the night she returned it. Tnere
was a new safe and a new combination,
but as she knew the word she might
have restored the money and escaped
unseen but for the vigilance of the watch
man. To this day no one in that vil
lage except brother, sister and Davis
knows how that money was restored.
They even declare that not a dollar was
ever recovered, and that I had to throw
up the case for want of brains to strike
a clew. St. Louis Republic.
Of the 43,634 deatHs in New York
City the last year 18,223 were children
under five years of age.
LADIES' COLUMN.
gotha.m's widows.
New York has more widows than any
other city in the world. On a fine after
noon the promenades are black with
Henrietta cloth, crape and Persian lamb.
Take a pretty Sunday to go church visit
ing and you find the pews in Grace, St.
Thomas, St. Bartholomew, St. Paul aad
Trinity Chapel half full of melancholy
stuff. Loudon ranks second in the list
and Paris third,which goes to prove that
the rate at which New Yorkers live is the
pace that kills. New Orleans Times
Democrat. OIL FIIOM THE WOOL OV LAMBS.
The oil that is extracted from the wool
of lambs is said to afford the best fool
that has been discovered yet for the
human epidermis. Women who use it
declare that they can defy wrinkles.
This is only the new telling of an old
story. Everybody who has ever used
old-fashioned mutton tallow which is
simply the fat of lamb or sheep tried out,
knows that if properly applied it will
keep the skin as soft and smooth as vel
vet. The swell druggist, however, puts
up the "wool fat" with cucumber
cream and charges $1 a box for it, while
the economical woman trims her mutton
chops of superfluous fat, trys it out in
the frying pan and cools the mass in a
neat little cake, and then she is supplied
with face food of most nutritious quality,
and the dollar bill safe in her own
pocketbook instead of the druggist's.
New York News.
P2RSIAX WOMEN.
Persian women are said to be un
usually bright and s'arevd as well as
very beautiful, with dark flashing eyes
and gentle, graceful manners. They
are naturally active minded, with a
strong poetic temperament, and a liking
for art, letters and politics when they
can get at them. The Persian woman
has greater power with her meu folk
than other Oriental women, and in most
affairs of importance her in due. ice may
be distinctly traced. She is r,3rmitted
to enter trades on her own account,
to possess independent property, to ap
pear as witness in courts, and is respon
sible for her own debts, and in divorce
has a right to her children. In theory
then the fair Persian is well off, but
practically her place is insecure, owing
to the insecurity of life and property in
all phases of Persian life. And in
Persia the tender woman and tenderer
child hold their religious convictions
with their lives, and go to the stake or a
worse death for their faith's sake. New
York Sun.
MRS. ASTOP.'s UXDEuWEAtt.
The cedar chests in the Astor man
sion, which contain the superb under
wear of the queenly Mrs. Astor, are
perfect household ornaments in them
selves, with deep engraven go'.d lockers I
with the initial A wrought in rinet carv
ing upon its svrface. Inside the chests,
neatly folded in webs of choicest linen,
are the dainty garments of society's
queen. Each week as they leave the
ironing sheet, they are laid within the
chests tu await the bidding of their
owner.
Every article of this superb wardrobe
isstitcbei by hand, and no materials but
the purest aud finest of linens and cam
brics are used. They are all elaborately
trimmed with lovely point and duchess
laces, and the initial "A" is daintily
embroidered on every article.
I In the same orderly manner Mrs. As
tor arranges her footwear, which is
equally as ex juisite; only the cedar
chests ha apartments moulded In which
each slipper and boot fits perfectly and
keeps its shape. By the way, Mrs.
Astor has a pretty foot for an old lady,
ner daughters, Mrs. Coleman Drayton
and Mr3. Orme Wilson, have neither of
them such pretty feet, and they are
eternally envying their lady mother her
beautiful feet and their adornments.
Courier-Journal.
FASHIOX NOTES.
Little bow-knots of white enamel are
i
a novelty in lace pins.
Heart-shaped lockets in gold and sil
ver are very fashionable.
Collars appear higher, and the Medici
shape continues in favor.
! New basque skirts are fifteen inches
deep below the waist-line.
: White silk, corduroy and relvet are
fashionable for evening dresses.
Velvet muffs, trimmei with bunches
of violets, are considered pretty concert
accessories.
. Some? of the handsomest costumes of
the season are made up without founda
tion skirts.
New French dresses of heavy clotb
have silk linings. This is fashionable,
but foolish.
Feather boas and fancy muffs are like
ly to be quite as popular in the spring as
they were in the fall.
An elegant theatre wrap is made of
gray matelasse, with gold brocaiings.
The lining isot gold-colored satin. The
trimming is of white fox, very long and
rich.
. Ribbon in bows,loops, ends and knots
is more popular than hereto tore. Some
rihbons are very wide, while others are
not over three-fourths of an inch in
width.
Bonnets made of tweed, Bedford cord,
cheviot, cloth, or any other wool fabric
matching the tailor costumi are still In
high favor with stylish womjuboth here
and abroad.
A novelty in millinery this season it
the use of the whole plant, including the
roots, which, by the way, are the real
article. These roots are so skillfully
attached to the blooms and foliage that
it is difficult to believe that they really
are only artificially joined to them.
Haw a Gild Discovery Was Made.
James F. Wardner, of Fairhaven, tells
a singular story of how the gold quartz
.in Okanogan County, which is now be
'ing worked as the Little Falb and Red
Jacket mines, was found. "On Septem
ber 18th last," he says, "two pros
'pecturs, Redmond and Herrick,were oat
(hunting and prospecting, and they had
with them a bird-dog named Skookum.
They were working through the Salmon
'River basin when they came over a hill
.and looked down intD a little ravine with
'a brook running through the bottom.
(They saw in a bush overhanging the
, brook a pheasant at which one of the
men shot. The bird fell into the water,
and the dog Skookum started after it.
,As he scrambled back with it in his
mouth, his paw pulled down some soft
igreen moss from the rock at the side of
the stream. The prospectors noticed that
'the stone showed whiter under the moss.
.They made an examination, and found
'it to be gold-bearing quartz. They fol
lowed the lead and located the twe
. claims.
I "Wclljl had been for some time look
ing for that sort of ore, and so on m)
recent trip to Okanogan Ibonded the two
,claims,and with them included the black
i dog Skookum. We are now going back
; to take possession and arrange for de
" velopment."
An Electric Mail Car.
One novelty in the way of electric
traction on the St. Louis and Suburban
Railway, now in successful operation in
St. Louis, Mo., is the application of elec
tric motors to a United States mail car,
which makes regular tripj over tho en
tire line, distributing and collecting the
mail at different railway stations, as is
done on steam railways. This car is of
the same length as an ordinary steam
railway mail car, and is equipped with
double trucks with thirty -six inch wheels,
a Thomson-IIoustcn motor of fifteen
horse power capacity being connected to
each truck. A very high speed is at
tained, and the delivery and collection
of mail is made without 8 topping thr
ear, as in steam service. &.enti f
American.
Aboolutely Pure.
A crem f tartr baking powdar.
Highest of a'l in leavening strength. -Latttt
U. ', Ooternment Food Report.
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