[1ECTIYE STORIES,
Little Things as Aids In Solving
Problems In Crime.
the VALUE OF SMALL CLEWS
„ Experience ,' 1 Say, Police
stations, Cuff, One of Wilkie Col
“I Have Never Vet
IS such. Thing as a Trifle.”
von ask some London publishers
f tell that no book sells so
vou
detective story and that peo
* e find a fascination in the
Cements Rtm Edgar Allan Poe's
nfnn of
Gaboriau’s Lecocq and Tabaret
2 tie C S redoubtable Swere Sergeant Cuff of
W {hese the forerunners of
Sherlock Holmes, and their feats of
nlmal tracking were the as famous remarkable char
Those achieved by
created by Sir Arthur Conan
, r the least known is
nmle Perhaps Moonstone.”
« who figures in “The
Cuff looked for clews in trifles. In¬
vestigating a smear on a newly paint
d door he was told by the superin¬
tendent who had the case in hand that
It was made by the petticoats of the
women servants. The superintendent
said petticoats were trifles,
in all my experience along the
dirtiest ways of this dirty little world,"
replied Cuff, “I have never met such
a thing as a trifle yet. We must see
the petticoat that made the smear, and
we must know for certain that the
paint was wet.”
Lecoen, the beau ideal of the French
detective, was wont to explain his de¬
ductions to assistants, just as Sherlock
Holmes did to his friend Watson. In
the story of “Fite No. 113” a safe has
been robbed. There is a scratch on
the door of the safe which seems to
have been made by the key slipping
from the lock. Put Lecocq explained
that the paint was hard and that the
scratch could uot have been made by
the trembling hand of the thief letting
the key slip.
He therefore had an iron box made,
painted with green varnish, like the
safe. As Lecocq inserted the key he
asked the assistant to endeavor to pre
tent him using the key just as he was
about to insert it in the lock. The as¬
sistant did so, and the key held by
Lecocq, pulled aside from the lock,
slipped along the door and traced upon
it a diagonal scratch from top to bot¬
tom, the exact reproduction of the one
shown In a photograph of the safe.
Thus it was proved that two persons
fere present at the robbery — one
shed to take the money and the
ther to prevent its being taken.
In the play Sherlock Holmes, the
.'elective, with the aid of an accorn
lice, raises an alarm of fire at the
:u*eof the Larrabees, during the ex¬
citement of which he is able to inves
pfl* the mystery of the purloined
ocuments.
A somewhat similar Incident occurs
Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Purloined
etter," when Dupin, having obtained
•trance to the house of a minister
the state who had purloined a let
i of great importance from a lady,
fehed to take it from its hiding place
t card rack over the mantelpiece—
“ substitute
a facsimile. While
was talking to the minister
a sudden report of a pistol
?neath the window, followed by fear
J jaister screams rushed and to loud the shouting. window, The
ail* and
his attention was thus distracted
pin took the real letter and substi
™ the .false one which he had pre
r ' Needless to say, the diversion
^been ,
created by Dupin’s assist
Although “The Adventures of Sher
Holmes” somewhat overshadow
■ stories of other detectives which
P^vd not forget the Strand to Magazine, one
inv mention Martin
"T’ estigator, and Dick Don
®°th these detectives worked alone
P as t masters in the art of
• J crimes r nhbery mysteries, murders
of secret societies.
dan V3lue of notin g trifles, par
m'l i detective
Jstratedi,, , work, is striking
“The Case of Mr. Fog
ki. e intter had been murdered
,
tor, ’ )T! tb ,Cr e building ’ which was situated at
y in which Hew
outho IIew *tt was the first
and sceue - The door was lock
found iT" 1)0 ROt iusi( fe the room
, shot d2 att T), Ihere iUg aCr was ° SS il * be sheer tU '
Jof fifty f GGt , outsi de
* hadV had ‘* 1 he the windows,
, m,lrderor
j' 1 he got in. and
escaped?
remn' 1 ' lj ° ard were the freshly
it 'it vf
led that a ” apple - Hewitt
-oa h„ iad beeu bitten by a
W , 'T lost
the ton two teeth, one
, one below.
that He also
set e ad Illan bad an excel
of .T t > SC teeth
% foun^Jbserved, H e - with none
t00> that an ac _
*lnd C .° uld b v standing on
0 » sin ' ,
and thi,. ’ draw Himself on the
« to look escape - Thua Hewitt
young “ . fora tal >- athletic look
finds "' tb tNV0 te eth miss
. i mn obtains by
oer a^u ; a ruse
tees " Uch be has bitten.
t and
k \ the start!i ng Stor nitimately ob
the y of the mur
'atonefs fj f "aeeidi,,? i“ n Urderer had , burned Himself after
en tal , a ver
\ death.” _ London
"bich make
more ' displeasures
‘^Hitter. *i aU ^tlons
can to
*k» tdn' ^ 8 jT P«ak.~-UToaJwi. a dumb maa and
running jthe gantlet.
An Indian Incident In Indiana’s Pi
0 -
David neer Days.
Johnson, one of the early set¬
tlers of Indiana, was a noted hunter
and at one time was with a hunting
party of which John Severns was a
member. On that occasion the early
settlement of the state was discussed
Mr. Severns, having been there
many before so
years any other white
man, was accepted as authority on all
Buch subjects. In the “Pioneer His¬
tory of Indiana” Colonel W. M. Cock
rum gives one of Mr. Severns’ stories
as repeated by Mr. Johnson.
Mr. Severns said that in the fall of
1793 he was with half a dozen of his
Indian neighbors, hunting, and that he
stayed all night at an Indian village
During the night two white prisoners
were brought in, and preparations
were made for their trial and death.
First two lines were formed facing
each othei, and the two men - were
compelled to run the gantlet between
the lines. A point some hundred
yards beyond the lines of the gantlet
was designated as the place that was
to be reached to save their lives.
One of the men was of middle age,
but frail; the other was a strong, ath¬
letic young fellow. The lines were
made up of more thau 100 Indians,
mostly squaws and boys, with enough
active men to keep the prisoners from
getting away. The young man was
the first to make the race. lie got
through the lane and to the life sta¬
tion without being much hurt.
The older man before he started
held up his hands and offered a prayer
to God for aid, then commenced the
race, which was not more than half
completed before he was knocked
down by a heavy club in the hands
of a squaw and was set upon by the
horde of squaws and boys and beaten
to death.
As soon as he was knocked down the
young man, who was several hundred
feet away, ran like a deer and jumped
Into the throng of Indians and tried to
save his friend’s life, but was soon
overpowered and dragged away.
For this brave act the chief of the
village adopted the young man to
take the place of a son whom he had
lost.
Mr. Severns, on being asked why he
did not intercede for the prisoners,
said that if he had attempted to inter¬
fere it would have cost him his life.
THE JOY OF EATING.
It Is Courted to the Fullest Extent In
Berlin.
The Germans in a good many ways
get more happiness out of life as they
go along than we do. Eating is an in¬
nocent pleasure, and they eat oftener
and more. No one is required to get
up to breakfast. There is never any
formal family breakfast. Coffee and
rolls are sent to your room, or you
can go into the dining room and get
them when you choose. Not having
had breakfast enough, a German
spends all the rest of the day in mak¬
ing up for it. At 10:30 or 11 every¬
body takes lunch. The laborers along
the streets all stop to eat. And in
general it may be said that in all
places and at all hours it is good form
and a matter of course to draw out a
substantial sandwich of rye bread and
raw ham and go to munching. Wom¬
en do it at the opera. Students do it
at the university between classes.
Dinner comes at 2 o’clock. About 5
the maid briugs to your room coffee
aud rolls and perhaps cake. At 8 p. m.
is supper. Those who are going out
to auy entertainment may have sup¬
per at 6 or 7. But there is always a
long enough intermission at the opera
or theater for those who are disposed
to take lunch, aud most persons are
disposed.
There are innumerable restaurants
all about the city, and tens of thou¬
sands of people eat there, sitting at lit¬
tle tables iu the open ah- right by the
sidewalk. After the day with all its
cares aud meals is over it is a favorite
custom to go to a restaurant and sit
there for half the night eating and
drinking and listening to music. No
city in the world hears so much good
music so cheaply as Berlin. And ev¬
erybody who is anybody knows
enough about music to talk with some
Intelligence.—Berlin Letter to Spring
field (Mass.) Republican.
A Greater Loss.
Here is a laughable experience of
Lord Sheffield. He was once walking
down Piccadilly with a friend, to
whom he explained that it would be
impossible for any one to pick his
pocket without his knowledge. Lord
Sheffield’s pocket handkerchief was
hanging out, and his friend, having di¬
verted his attention, quietly abstracted
it. Instantly Lord Sheffield collared a
seedy looking man who was passing
aud charged him with the theft, but,
the friend producing the handkerchief
aud explaining the joke, the unfortu¬
nate individual whom his lordship had
so unceremoniously seized was released
with many apologies. The man beat a
hasty retreat, aud shortly afterward
Lord Sheffield discovered that he had
lost his pocketbook.—London Express.
Sure of Something Good.
Van Antler—I think we are sure of
a good dinner tonight. You know my
new English butler does the entire
catering for the household.
Grubb—Cun you rely on him to
Vun Antler—Not always, but this
evening I requested him to send us
up something from the kitchen tab e.
—Puck.
__
Again or Vet?
Stayluigbt—Oh, Miss bobbins, may
I come to see you again? Miss Wob
bins—Well, I cannot see how you can
xrery well unless you go this time.
MANY SPECIAL FUGS,
Uncle Sam Has Some Which Are
Very Seldom Seen.
COLORS OF THE PRESIDENT.
Not Until 1882 Did the Chief Execu¬
tive of the Nation Have a Personal
Banner, but Now He Has Three, the
Naval, Army and Peace Flags.
As the United States grew and the
government expanded many new de¬
partments were added, and with them
many special flags have come into ex¬
istence. Least often seen and yet
most interesting of these twenty-five
or thirty special flags is that of the
president of the United States. He
has a wealth of them—in fact, no less
than three—but they are seldom seen
in public. There are two each of these
flags, one of bunting and one of silk.
They are exactly alike, with this ex¬
ception, but the one of silk is called
the “president’s colors.”
The provident of the United States
had no personal flag until 1882. If he
went aboard a ship his presence was
denoted by the national flag hoisted
at the main truck, aud his presence in
a garrison or post was denoted by the
raising of the big garrison flag. These
were uot entirely distinctive as denot¬
ing the presence of the president, for
these flags were hoisted on gala occa¬
sions when the president was not
around. The lack of a distinguishing
flag for him was felt by the navy also,
aud the secretary of the navy by gen¬
eral orders, Aug. 19, 1882, established
a flag for the president of the United
States. The general orders described
the flag as of blue bunting with the
coat of arms of the United States in
the center. The flag was to be hoisted
at the main of the vessel when the
president was aboard and be carried at
the bow of the launch on which he
came aboard.
In the army there was no distin¬
guishing flag for the president of the
United States until just before the
outbreak of the Spanish-American war.
Colonel Theodore Bingham, who was
then superintendent of public build¬
ings and grounds, called the attention
of President McKinley to this lack of
a distinguishing flag for him and
stated that he thought the commander
in chief of the United States army and
navy ought to have a distinguishing
flag. President McKinley did not like
the suggestion, but the secretary of
war did, and a flag was made. It was
designed by Frederick D. Owen and is
a beautiful thing to look at. The offi¬
cial description of the flag is as fol¬
lows:
“The president's flag is of scarlet
bunting, thirteen feet fly and eight feet
hoist. In each corner is a five pointed
star of five inch radius to the tips. In
the center of the scarlet field is a large
fifth star, also of five points, two feet
nine inches in radius to the tips. In¬
side of this star is a parallel star,
separated from it by a band of white
three inches wide. The inner star
forms the blue field upon which is the
coat of arms of the United States. On
the scarlet field around the large star
are forty-six small white stars, one for
each state, equally scattered in the re¬
entering angles and all included with¬
in the circumference of an imaginary
circle three feet and a quarter iu
radius. In the upper point over the
angle is a constellation of thirteen
stai-s, representing the original thirteen
states of the American confederation.”
Mr. Owen explained that in the olive
leaves, its berries and the arrows is
symbolized the original thirteen. It is
also not a little singular that the offi¬
cial seal should bear in its motto ex¬
actly thirteen letters and that the gen
eral order which created the flag was
also numbered thirteen. The magnifi¬
cent silken colors of the president’s
flag are of scarlet, and the design is
embroidered upon this so exquisitely
that it is impossible to tell right from
wrong side when looking at the flag.
The colors on the flag are what is
called “proper”—-that is, natural—the
eagle being brown and the olive
branches green, with red berries. This
flag is to be displayed only iu time of
war.
Yet another flag has the president.
In 1902 the “peace” flag was adopted.
This third flag differs in a good many
respects from the other two. In the
first place, the great seal of the United
States is correctly depicted. On the
other flags the design of the seal is
seven red stripes and six white ones,
which is correct, as the flag design
was adopted by the Third congress,
but when the great seal was adopted
the designer, not knowing much about
the flag, as the forefathers intended,
and six red stripes. Aud that is the
seal today. There was a long diseus
siou whether the seal should uot be
changed to agree with the stripes on
the flag, as the forefathers intended,
but it was deckled that as it had
been adopted it should remain. This
“peace” flag thus has the seal correctly
depicted. The eagle is snow white,
its feathers being outlined in deep
black. There is a different arrange¬
ment of the stars and of the sunburst
also. The sunburst is exactly circular
in form, with the rays radiating from
the group of stars. The colors are of
silk with exactly the same design.
Wasbington Star.
The Remedy.
“Doctor, I'm troubled with a terrible
buzzing in my ears.”
“Get a divorce.”—Boston Transcript.
The secret of success In life is for
• man to be ready for his opportunity
when K con**.-Disraeli
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