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LONDON.— "I can tell you this,”
said “Big Bill” Pinkerton, rais
ing a heavy forefinger to em
phasize his words, “that the
whole tribe of American crooks
—big and little —will breathe easier (
when they hear that this man has quit
the detective business for good.”
Superintendent Frank Froest of
Scotland Yard, the “man” in question,
smiled benignly. His name (which is
pronounced to rhyme with “ghost”)
is almost as well known in the United
States as it is in this country, where
he is regarded as the greatest living
detective.
The superintendent is most famous
as the man who tracked Jabez Bqjfour
of “Liberator” fame to the Argentine, ,
and after nearly a year’s hard work
finally succeeded In luring him on
board a British vessel and there ar
resting him, but perhaps his biggest
•‘coups,” apart from this have been
made aginst American crooks and bad
men who will not bewail his passing.
To him also was given the job of ar
resting Dr. Jameson for his participa
tion in the raid on the Transvaal. No
man outside the United States knows
the American brand of criminal better
or has been up against It oftener.
Froest has fought the Yankee thug
hand to hand and brain against braiii,
and generally he has beaten him. '
Debonair is the word that best de
scribes the superintendent. The iron
strength and bulldog grit that have
carried him —not without some nasty
stabs and slashes —through life and
death tussles with thieves, murderers
and maniacs are masked behind the
sleek, well-fed appearance of a jovial
clubman, and this effect his dancing
blue eyes, which, however, can harden
pitilessly, his cocky little mustache
and his closely shaven cranium com
bine to heighten. Yet it is wrong to
say that "Frankie” Froest’s air of an
out-and-out “good sport” is deceptive,
except as appearing to indicate a soft- i
living man who would be easy to get
the upper hand of, or even the big,
bad men he has landed In “quod” will
tell you that he is one of the best.
Never Shirked Danger.
My, the fights the man has had!
The tough customers who have had to
knock under to his Porthos-like
strength! He finally put the brace
lets on one man after a titanic strug
gle all over a first-class compartment
of an express train, and even after
he was handcuffed this thug managed
to raise an iron foot warmer between
his manacled wrists and tried to brain
the detective with it. Perhaps the
liveliest fight of Froest’s whole life,
however, was against an American
cowboy who already had six murders
to his credit and who did his level
best to make the killing of Froest con
stitute a seventh.
This bad man’s name was Kuhne,
and he hailed from Primrose City, Wis.
The murders he was wanted for were
particularly brutal ones, and after
committing them Kuhne signed on a
cattle boat bound for Liverpool. At
Queenstown Froest, who then was un
known to fame, put off in a small boat,
met the cattle boat and climbed up
over her side. There were men on
deck and one of them was a giant,
inches taller than Froest, who is not
much over medium height.
“Is your name Kuhne?” said Froest
to the big man, drawing his bow at a
venture.
. “What?” was the answer. “Oh, no!”
But Froest saw that he had got his
man. “I’m a police officer,” he
snapped, and Instantly the giant drew
a bowie knife and jumped at him.
Over the deck they rolled, clamped
together, struggling furiously. Up and
down they went, the cowboy jabbing
his knife through the detective’s cloth
ing and trying to grip his throat. But
gradually the Scotland Yard man’s
iron strength wore down his man and
that’s why there Isn’t a seventh
notch in the hilt of the “sticker” that
now lies on Froest’s mantelpiece. #
Known in United States.
Froest has made three visits to the
United States and means to pay an
other after his retirement, in the next
month. He first went across in 1884,
having been “borrowed” by the United
States government in connection with
the prosecution of William Lord
Moore. By this time his name was
well known, chiefly as a result of his
smart solution of a big mystery which
he unraveled with the aid of a photo
graph he had stolen —yes, stolen de
liberately from a matrimonial agent
whom he visited and sent out of she
room on some pretext, the while he
purloined the picture from his desk. He
got a lot of praise for his work in this
case, and followed it up by exposing
a lawyer from the Midlands named
Marshall, who declared that $60,000
had been stolen from his room in a
London hotel. Froest demonstrated
that the money had not been stolen at
all, but had been approprlaaed by the
lawyer, and the latter went to "do
time.”
William Lord Moore was the author
of the biggest series of next-of-kin
frauds ever perpetrated in the United
States. His Invariable bait was an al
luring sum of millions awaiting Amer
ican “heirs” in England. The millions
in-chancery myth is one that dies hard
at home, and Moore found dupes by
the thousands. These he bled white
and then vanished. He was the lead
ing lawyer in the state of Tennessee
when this bright idea struck him and
a pillar of the church. “But he was
an Englishman by birth,” said Froest,
adding, “Have you read Oulda’s nov
els?”
“Only ‘Under Two Flags,’ ’’ was the
reply.
Splendidly Equipped for Crime.
“That’s all you need to have read to
see Moore,” said the detective, "for he
was for all the world like the hero of
that novel —the beautiful Life Guards
man, you know. He stood over six
feet and must have weighed seventeen
stone, though he hadn’t a bit of a
paunch. He had a magnificent tawny
beard, a thing you rarely see in the
states, and his manners were those of
a nobleman. He came over here, and
I went to see him, more on principle
than with any definite object, and
then I looked him up a bit. Finally,
when your government decided to stop
his game for good and all they sent for
me. It took three trials to convict
him —the first two juries were fixed,
sure —the last being held at Jackson,
Tenn. And do you know,” said Froest,
"even after I got home I got letters ’
from hundreds of people in America
asking me to find out if there really
weren’t a few millions belonging to
them over here.” ,
It was in the United States, too,
and in the service of the American
government, that Froest first went up (
against Tom O’Brien, who eventually ,
came over from Paris to London with
the express purpose of murdering the
Scotland yarder. Williata Pinkerton ,
described the big American crook's
career from his beginning as a news- .
boy on the trains between Albany and
New York to his end in the French
convict settlement at New Caledonia
as we sat in Froest’s den in the yard.
He told how he began to go wrong by
selling ten-cent shinplasters to rubes '
for ten-dollar bills, and how he climbed '
up to the big bunco steerer—“the king
of them all,” said the head of the Pin
kerton agency.
End of Tom O’Brien.
“Tom O’Brien never asked for any- ’
thing easy,” said Pinkerton. "He was •
a game man and he wanted the hard
est there was, and got away with It 1
until ‘Frankie’ here landed him, and i
how you kept him from putting a i
bullet in that fat stomach of yours 1
I don’t know,” finished the American i
detective admiringly, beaming on his h
famous friend.
To let daylight through Freest was
precisely what O'Brien had planned
to do, when, after escaping from cus
tody in the United States, he took ref
uge In Paris. “He had never forgiven
me,” said Freest, “for getting him
at Albany, and he was in London be
fore I knew it, and two English pals
of his have told me that they stopped
him from finishing me in Regent
street by pulling him into a doorway.
After that I got busy and dropped on
O’Brien while he was tackling a good
English porterhouse steak and chips
in Gatti’s restaurant In the Strand.
He saw me coming," added the de
tective, “and got out quick, and he
thought he’d given me .the slip, but I
was behind him in the street before
he knew it, and, as we were too many
for him to have any chance in a
fight, he threw up the sponge. That’s
his pistol over there. Yes, a wicked
gun.”
“Frankie here sent O'Brien back to
Paris,’’ said W. A. Pinkerton, “and
there, you know, he killed another
American crook named Reid Waddle
at the north station, and they wanted
to behead him, but the authorities
there decided that as he had merely
wiped out another bad man he’d only
get a ‘lifer,’ so they sent him to New
Caledonia."
Success in Two Lines of Work.
As a fact, Froest’s admirers do not
know which to admire most, his
strength or his shrewdness. “The se
cret of detective work,” he said to me,
“is the elimination of the unneces
sary,"and like Rouletabille in “The
Mystery df the Yellow Room,” he al
ways has taken hold of “the right end
of his reason.” It was under his. di
rection that Scotland Yard drew the
net of evidence tight around Crippen,
another American, by the way, and of
the scores of stories they tell of his
shrewdness one may be recalled be
cause it is rather funny.
Near a bungalow in the country a
man was found dead, head down in" a
water butt. There was an ugly bruise
on his forehead, and as the local po
lice believed there had been foul play,
Inspector Freest, as he was then, went
down to investigate. He looked over
the scene and his eyes twinkled. “This
is not a case of murder,” he said.
“That man was a tramp. He hurt his
head in climbing through the fence —
he probably was going to break into
the house —and went to bathe it in
the water butt. As he put his head
down he slipped and fell in.”
It was like Sherlock Holmes lectur
ing Lestrade and Gregson, but one of
Froest’s hearers was not convinced.
“Impossible!” he cried, and to prove
that It was impossible he leaned over
the water butt. A second later his
heels were in the air, there was a
splash, and if Freest had not- fished
him out .promptly he surely would
have proved the superintendent’s the
ory to be right.
Master of Disguise.
In his “active service” days Freest
was a master of disguise and make
up. and could dress any part at a few
moment’s notice from peddler to
priest, such a priest, too, as would
convince the pope himself of his in
nate saintliness. Since then he has
trained many a pupil, and from the
big red building on the Embankment
you will see go forth at various times
“city” men in silk hats, carpenters,
racing touts, and men who look like
doctors —all of them the superinten
dent’s henchmen, and each playing his
part in the unending fight with crime,
while up in his office sits Freest, like
Bunty, “pulling the strings.”
When he quits, definitely, next
month, he is going to take a pleasure
cruise to the West Indies, and then
will look in on you In “God’s country”
for a bit, visiting his friend, “Big Bill”
Pinkerton, and perhaps Colonel Lit
tle of Baltimore, Md., with whom he
worked in the Moore case, and who
still writes to him at the beginning
of every new year. After that he is
coming back to settle down in the
West Country and, in the season, in
dulge in his favorite hobby, which is
shooting (in preference to being shot
at). Meanwhile he will rest —which
he has a right to do if ever a man
had. —Hayden Church.
Corners All the Dollars.
Each man who gives a silver dollar
to the bride at a Hungarian wedding
gains the right to dance with her.
Boris Michael attended the festivi
ties following the wedding of John
Wallish and Mary Stoke here, with
27 silver dollars in his pocket, having
cornered the market in that particular
coin. As a result he danced with Mrs.
Wallish nearly all night, and he is a
mighty unpopular person among the
other guests.
Boris had a motive in taking up the
bride’s attention, for he used to be
one 0 sher suitors. When the invita
tions were sent out for the wedding
Boris decided that for one evening
Mary Stokes should be his partner,
and he set out to collect all the sil
ver dollars in the village.—Jackson
ville (N. J.) Telegram to the New-
York Sun.
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Plenty of Deer and Moose.
Deer and moose are reported to be •
extremely plentiful in the Maine woods ,
this year. Maine guides who have ,
been cruising in canoes over the lakes ,
and -treams of the wild lands are ,
sending word to city sportsmen that
they have seen more deer this summer
than for some seasons past and ad
vising them to be on hand October 1, ,
when the law goes off. ]
One party who spent a month canoe- ,
ing and fishing in Maine this summer j
reported that they had seen 167 deer ,
in that period. In a six day trip down
the Allegash a party of five canoeists ,
saw 28 deer.—Fall River Line Journal
PROFITABLE PRODUCTION OF BABY BEEF
ON FARM IN SOUTHWESTERN PART OF IOWA
Grade Beef-Breed Cows and Good Pure-Bred Angus Bulls Used as
Foundation Stock for Operations — Pasture Provided
With Shade and Water.
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Angus Grass-Fed Steers.
(By L. L. SHOEMAKER. In the Country
Gentleman.)
Judicious management, a knowledge
of cattle and values, and a natural lik
ing for the work have resulted in the
production of baby beef on a south
western lowa farm at a profit of S2O
a head for several successive years.
We used grade beef-bred cows and
good pure-bred Angus bulls as the
foundation stock for our operations.
We reduced the cost of keeping the
cows to a minimum in order to in
crease the profits on the finished calf.
The cows were fed on cheap, home
grown roughages, supplemented in
part by a grain ration consisting large
ly of corn and cottonseed meal fed in
moderate quantities during the last
few weeks prior to calving and con
tinued until the grass became well
grown in the spring. Care against
feeding cottonseed meal in heavy
quantities prior to calving lessened the
danger of abnormal calf birth. Feed
ing the cows largely on such roughage
as oat straw, corn fodder and clover
hay during the winter months, and let
ting them remain on grass as much as
possible during the year, reduced the
cost of keeping them to S2B a year.
We managed to have most of the
calves come in the spring, from March
Ist to March 15th, atfd, under our sys
tem of managing the cows, they came
strong and vigorous. Keeping the cow
in good physical tone prior to calving
by feeding a ration strong in ash and
protein content so as to stimulate the
milk flow gave the calf a strong start
In life, and also kept the cow in such
condition as to tide her over the in
clement spring weather, which is the
hardest drain upon her. Through a
careful management of the bull we
succeeded in having the calves come
within a short period of each other.
He was never allowed to run with the
cows during the day. A good blue
grass pasture was provided for him,
and a grain ration consisting of oats,
bran and cottonseed meal was given
during the heavy breeding season.
The calves were allowed to run on
the pasture with their mothers after
the grass had become well started in
the spring and until the flies had be
come bad and the grass no longer fur
nished an abundance of green feed.
The bull calves were then castrated,
and the entire lot were put in a well
grown blue-grass pasture. This was
provided with ample shade and avail
able fresh water, but they were allow
ed to nurse mornings and evenings.
A grain ration consisting of oats, bran
and a small amount of shelled corn
was distributed in troughs convenient
ly placed in the pasture. As the
calves became older the grain ration
was gradually increased. Little trou
ble was experienced in getting them
to eat again, and they were soon eat
ing about three-fourths of a pound of
mixed grain per hundred pounds of
live weight. To this ration was added
a small amount of cottonseed meal
later in the fall. We found that such
a ration gave the most desirable gains.
When the second crop of clover in
the hayflelds arrived in the fall the
calves were changed to it from the
blue-grass pasture. After they had be
come accustomed to the new feed the
weaning was started, the cow being
returned occasionally so that she
would gradually dry up in good con
dition. The calves were allowed to
graze upon the clover until late fall.
In early winter they were given win
ter quarters. A well-drained lot, slop
ing to the east and south and pro
vided with an open shed and good wa
ter, furnished excellent conditions for
winter feeding. The shed floor was
kept well drained and bedded down
once a week; the water was warmed
during freezing weather, a very im
portant matter, and roughages were
supplied in generous amounts.
By the first of January our calves
weighed from 650 to 700 pounds and
were in thrifty, growthy condition,
though not fat. They had retained,
however, the natural calf fat which is
so necessary in making the best qual
ity of baby beef at a profit. The grain
ration was increased and cottonseed
meal was substituted for the cats,
making a grain ration of two thirds
■ corn and one-third cottonseed meal by
weight, fed at the rate of a pound per
! hundred pounds of live weight.
Various roughages, all of which
were grown on the farm, were fed.
The corn fodder, usually shredded,
was fed in the early winter together
with clover hay, and later in the
spring oat straw was given instead of
the corn fodder.
The following summer the calves
: were given a good blue-grass pasture
and in addition a liberal grain ration.
' The ration was not changed in compo
sition from that previously fed. When
1 the grass was in the flush of growth
the grain ration was somewhat de
‘ creased. During the entire grass sea-
L son personal attention was given to
the feeding so that the calves would
1 not be overfed. If overfed the cost
' is not only increased but the steers
get out of condition and frequently
! will not gain so well afterward.
They were ripe and well finished
’ beeves by September first and weigh
ed from 1,200 to 1,255 pounds, a de
sirable weight for such youngsters.
1 They commanded the top price for
1 such light-finished beeves. In com
puting the cost for our productions we
' found that each calf had eaten from
1 27 to 30 bushels of corn, valued at
' $16.20; 6 bushels of oats at $2.40; cot
! ton seed meal, $7.50; grass, $10; hay
and fodder, $lO, which, together with
the cost of keeping the cow and the
interest, made a total cost for produc
' tion of about $75. Our young stock
varied in price from $6.75 to $9 a
hundredweight, making an average of
$7.50, which gave us a cash value of
about $96 a head. This left a total
of over S2O clear profit, charging our
work against the manure produced and
the satisfaction of seeing the grains
and roughages marketed at home and
the land appreciably increased in fer
tility and condition.
SELECTING GOOD
DAIRY ANIMALS
Systematic Plan of Examining
Calves Needed to Bring Herd
Improvement.
(By W. M. KELLY.)
Many dairymen make a practice of
raising every heifer calf and fail to get
results. Then they select the heifer
calves from the best producing cows
and get nearer to what they want, but
still, there are many inferior cows
raised by them.
It is not until we begin to carefully
examine every heifer calf that we can
conduct any systematic plan of im
proving the quality of the dairy herds,
for, unless the calves are good indi
viduals and have stamina and strong,
vigorous constitutions, no matter how
liberally they are fed. some will
fail to come up to the qualities of their
dams.
Every heifer calf should be care
fully examined and if they show signs
of weakness they should not be raised.
Open their mouths, and if you find,
after examining their teeth, that you
can see but four of the milk teeth, you
can make up your mind that such a
calf is hardly w\>rth raising.
Many raise their calves, but few turn
out to be profitable cows. Next ex
amine the navel and teats. If the
teats are not placed In their right
position do not waste your time and
food trying to make a good cow out
of such a calf.
When we find a heifer calf that
comes up to our standard or require
ments and when we decide to keep it
we must not forget that its value as
a cow depends larjely upon the treat
ment that it receives during the first
two years of its life.
Calves must be well cared for and
fed in such a manner that they will
never lose their calf flesh.
After they are a few months old
they should be turned out and allowed
plenty of exercise and good air so that
they may build up strong muscles and
good strong organs of respiration.
POLLY VICTIM OF DECEPTION
Bird Realized Period Between Ith Tem
porary Oblivion Had Been Ma
terially Cut Short,
The Goodleys have a sailor son, who
on one occasion brought home a parrot
for the amusement and enlightenment
of the family. They kept It for the
sake of the donor —on no other ac
count would It have been given house
room. Os course, It was a perfectly
respectable bird—occasionally; but on
Sunday evenings, when young Mr.
Saintly paid his regular visit, it was
deemed advisable to cover Polly with
a cloth.
Recently, however, Mr. S. took ad
vantage of a half-holiday accruing to
him, and made an extra call on the
Wednesday. As he was ushered in
Miss Mary Goodley dexterously threw
the cloth over Polly’s cage. Greet
ings over, there ensued the usual awk
ward pause, which was broken by a
squawk from the covered cage.
“Well, I’ll be everlastingly blessed,”
said Polly. “This has been a thunder
ing short week!”
Serious Lack.
An old Englishwoman, who was ex
tremely stout, was making vain efforts
to enter the rear door of an omnibus.
The driver leaned over good-naturedly
and cried:
“Try sideways mother, try side
ways ! ”
The old woman looked up breath
lessly. and replied:
“Why, bless ye. James, I ain’t got
no sideways!”—Youth's Companion.
Out of Fashion.
"I see where fluffy skirts saved a
i girl from drowning in the Chicago
j river recently. The old styles were
the best styles after all.”
1 “Huh, she probably tried to drown
herself because she had to wear the
fluflies.”
; DR. CALDWELL’S GUIDE
TO GOOD HEALTH
।
s The natural tendency of people in
this busy age to demand of the dl
- gestive organs more than nature in
-1 tended they should perform, frequent
-1 ly results in throwing the entire di
• gestive system into disorder. When
- the stomach fails to freely digest and
> distribute that which is eaten, the
I bowels become clogged with a mass
t of waste and refuse which ferments
1 and generates poisonous gases that
' are gradually forced into the blood,
causing distress and often serious 111-
I ness.
Dr. W. B. Caldwell says that if the
- bowels are kept regular there will be
much less sickness, and prescribes a
■ combination of simple laxative herbs
• with pepsin that is most effective In
1 relieving any congestion of matter in
the bowels. This compound can be
bought in any drug store under the
name of Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin,
and costs only 50 cents a bottle. It is
1 mild In its action, pleasant to the
taste and positive in effect, a dose at
• night bringing relief next morning,
naturally and without griping or oth
, er discomfort. A bottle of Dr. Cald
well’s Syrup Pepsin In the house will
: save many times its cost in doctor
bills. Your name and address on a
postal to Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 203 West
St., Monticello, 111., will bring a free
| trial bottle by return mail. Adv.
For the Car.
“She worries every time he takes
the car out.”
“Yes, I don't blame her. They had
to save a long time to get that car.”
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
I Bears the
Signature of I/t
In Use For Over 30 Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castori*
Will Soon Wake Up.
Cincinnati woman declares she has
discovered a man without a fault
Wait till they’ve been married ten
years.—Milwaukee Sentinel.
If your appetite is not what it should be
perhaps Malaria is developing. It affects
the whole system. OXIDINE will clear
away the germs, rid you of Malaria and
generally improve your condition. Adv.
Its Kind.
“The papers say carrots will make
one beautiful.”
"Huh! That’s only yellow journal
ism.”
TO DRIVE OUT MALARIA
AND BUILD UP THE SYSTEM
Take the Old Standard UKOVM'S TASTKLIsSS
CHILL TUNIC. Ton know what yon are txkinj.
The formula is plainly primed on every boule,
showing it is simply Quinine and Iron in a taste lean
form, and the most effectual form. Fur grown
people and children, 60 cents. Adv.
Not a Dry Bock.
“This is the most lachrymose novel
I’ve ever read. The heroine weeps in
almost every chapter.” “Then yon
certainly can’t call it a dry book.”
As a summer tonic there is no medicine
that quite compares with OXIDINE. It not
only builds up the system, but taken reg
ularly, prevents Malaria. Regular or Taste
less formula at Druggists. Adv.
The Only Way.
“No use to woo that girl. She has
a heart of marble.”
"Then leave it in statu quo.”
For SUMMER HEADACHES
Hicks’ CAPUDINE is the best remedy
no matter what causes them—whether
from the heat, sitting In draughts, fever
ish condition, etc. 10c.. 25c and 50c per
bottle at medicine stores. Adv.
While thou livest, keep a good
tongue In thy head.—Shakespeare.
A man will never reach the top who
is too lazy to move until he is pushed.
