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Photography and Crime, A recent exhibition in Vienna, in stituted by a Berlin chemist, Dr. Paul Jeserich, who devotes most of kis time to legal and criminal mat ters, has fairly asiounded the press of that city by its demonstration of the value of photography in the de tection of crime. Every large city now has its rogue's gallery, and spreads broadcast photographs of suspects. The photographing of the scenes of crime for the enlighten ment of juries is still another devel opment with which the general pub lic is familiar, But few people real ize that in many other ways photog raphy has become of enormous value in the actual detection of criminals. To illustrate this remarkable devel opment was the prime object of Dr. Jeserich's display of the eighty en larged prints which constitute his exhibition, The sun sees everything, however fallible the human eye. ¥Even when reinforced by the microscope or the magnifying glass, the ordinary ob server ig apt to overlook little things in themselves of great importance. Moreover, a detective, or an etpert employed by the police, might behold through a magnifier something which he would regard as evidence, but about which a jury might fail to take his word. By means of the enlarge ment of a negative, proof of a crime may often be shown to a jury which would otherwise be practically un available. This is Dr. Jeserich’s con tention, and his demonstration of it impressed observers as convincing. For instance, he exhibited two let ters which had originally contained money, and had been received with out their enclosures. To the eye, they had not been tampered with in any way, and there was nothing to show whether they had been sgent without the money or whether they had been opened en route. An en larged photograph solved the mys tery. It showed plainly that one of the envelopes had two lines of mucil-l age, while an ‘unevenness in the post office stamp on the flap showed that there had been a slight variation in the resealing. 1t was obvious that this letter had been tampered with; the other proved not to have been, for the paper shests enclosed in place of the money showed, when photo graphed, the imprint of the post office stamp which it had recelved} through the envelope. | The tell-tale blotting paper has figured in many a novel and play. Hitherto it has been read by means of a looking-gless. Dr. Jeserich won a divorce case by first photographing the blotter and then enlarging the print; the resulting evidence that the defendant was guilty by itself suf ficed to convince the court, A mur derer was convicted by means of the cord with which he strangled his vietim; a piece of it was found in his pockets, but not until photog- THE TRAMP PRINTER. ] Passing of a Cnce Familiar Figure in Newspaper Offices, What has become of the old time printer, once so familiar beforo the invasion of the linotype machine? He used to show up with the first frost., You found him in the office early some October morning, toasting his back before the stove. His first request was, ‘‘Boss, may I look over the exchanges?” and he was soon pawing around among the papers on the editorial table. By 9 o'clock he had levied sufficient tribute upon the boys to get a shave and a drink, and after dinner he was picking up bre vier in a way to make an expert en vious. All winter he worked as stead ily as a clock. Many were the stories he told around the back room fire on & Sunday afternoon. Though with out much education, his very wander ings had made hin. an entertaining personage, In the spring, however, when the tiny bees buzzed lazily against the sunny window pane and the lilac bushes in the courthouse yard were putting forth their fragrant lavender plumes and the night air was pungent with the odor of burning brush piles and sweet with earthy exhaltions of upturned sod and everywhere could be heard the laughter of children playing in the twilight, a change <ame over the spirit of the tramp printer. He felt theé call of ‘the 'road, with its luxurious days of animal de light under the clear skies of spring, with its privilege of work when you wish and idle when you will. He wished to see the boys again, to visit | the fifty offices where he had friends. So one Monday morning in mid-April when you entered the office you missed his form at the case, the months’' familiar figure with one gal lus down and a short oil stained cob p("e protruding from under a slightly Juminous nose. Yet with all of his vagrant impulses you felt kindly to ward your nomadic brother in the urt preservative and were ever ready for him to come again, Before it is too late some gifted pen should tell the story of the tramp printer. It is one teeming with ro mance and the very best possibilities of good literary effort. True, to-day almost every office has the remorse less, speedy and ever ailing machine, hut no one can wax either enthusias tic or reminiscent over a mere ma cLine.~—Shawnee (Okla.) Hernld. The eunvelope was invented in 1983 and was in disfavor for a long time. raphy was called in was the fact be yond dispute that both pleces of cord had originally been one. Another victim of a murderer clutched in his hand a mere scrap of a linen mask; a search of the rooms of the sus pected criminal revealed another piece of linen. When both were photographed, it was found that the weaving was identical; in each plece four dark threads were always fol lowed by fourteen light ones. A stolen wedding ring, when found on the thief, bore the number }2, 12, 9% C. 8. A magnifying gless re vealed nothing, but the camera brought out the original mark, 8. b. 2. 88. Faint traces of blood stains not otherwise discernible are algo re vealed by the photographic plate. Not even the most careful expert has as yet been able to re-photograph that picture of the murderer on the retina of the victim’s eyes, which has betrayed the criminal in more than one novel. But Dr. Jeserich was able to capture one criminal who used part of an envelope bearing his address as an extra charge in loading his old-fashioned revolver. The pa per was apparently charred beyond hope, but the camera ended specu lation as to the identity of the crim inal by furnishing his name and street number. In the same way, a photograph of a bullet that had end ed a life showed very faint mark ings, which could only come from a slight unevenness in the barrel of the revolver from which it was fired, The weapon of one suspect was used ‘again and again, and each bullet fired showed the same faint lines. In the discovery of forgeries, hand writing experts have long resorted to the camera, and Dr. Jeserich ex hibited some startling examples of the ease with which the work of the cleverest forgers was revealed. All of this shows clearly that if new inventions and the advances of science furnish new weapons to the criminal, they in turn make it harder fc~ him to escape punishment. Some day we may yet see men like Dr. Jeserich included in the detective staffs of our great cities; and not only photography, but all the other sciences, will contribute to the de tection of wrongdoers. Not even in Scotland Yard have the police gone into partnership with scientists to the extent possible, In this city our detectives, when not ecorrupt, are often incompetent or wholly behind the times. When they have scored successes, It has generally been by good luck, by breaking down the prisoner’s mnerve through methods often indistinguishable from torture, or because of the stupidity of the criminal, Gen. Bingham has dreamed of the time when he could appoint civilians to his detective corps; but he has not yet asked for that alliance between science and de tection which modern developments make feasible.—New York Post. NOISE NUISANCES. Some Early Efforts Toward 'fheir Suppression, “It is so quiet uptown now that the patient listener may now and then catch some of the softer noises of the world,” said a semi-invalid lawyer who spends most of the day sitting by the open window of Lis Harlem flat, “I have naturally taken a great deal of interest in the present crusade against unnecessary noises, and have been reading up on sporadic attempts to suppress them,” he continued. “The earliest case that I have found was in the reign of George 111, when a circus band was silenced by injunc tion on the ground that its noise was & nuisance. In another old English law report it tells of a plaintiff recov ering damages because a flock of wild ducks was frightened by the persistent firing of a gun. The learned judge held that this consti tuted a public nuisance and was a prejudice to private rights. In Georgia ‘gathering in a noisy way at a pigeon shooting' has been iudi cially decided to be a nuisance. A North Carolina court held that the stamping horses in a livery stable near the plaintiff's dwelling was suf ficient annoyance to entitle him to damages, ‘‘Even the noise incident to an or dinary business may be a nuisance, A gold-beater pelting a thin sheet of gold into shape, the hammering of the anvil in the blacksmith shop, the noise of a skating rink, and gfo on, have all been held to be abatable nuisances. . ~ ““The test laid “down in the booke is that any ‘noise which constitutes an annoyance to a person of ordinory 'sensibllity to sound so as materially to interfere with the ordinary com [tort of life and impair .the reason able enjoyment of his habitation, is a nuisance to him.’ “It is within the bounds of possi bility that in great centres of popus lation a new class of experts will ‘arise to draw salaries from the muni ~clpality as noise specialists. Un ' usual noises long continued undoubt ' edly induce deafness, aside from irri ltaunx nerves and murdering sleep. . At any rate, they destroy a diserim 'lnatlng nicety in hearing, especially i in those who have what is called a !mualcal ear.,"-—From the New York ‘Tlmea. 1. Hamburg has more firemen in pro portion to her size than any other city in the world, .;..‘ = == e ot !AT ol z;*—‘;“,if ,_:; —=g %l New York City.—The dress that 13 worn over a guimpe is one of the prettiest included in the younger girl’s wardrobe, and this season it is being shown in an etceptional num- N S \/\/ 4 “-‘:..' : v \\ { : fa <2, ~Jis ,""'; »:,:'.:V v‘\ : 'r‘:’t.“”"di/fi. 2 \ 2 7 b LAY % / £ A ; { Ak f \ } :—..- .-;;‘fiffl 7 55.'1 "-"'. ‘\'K.l : b L, RN I'// 221008 WA RVA ; I-f"'\\ \ /] :f' fi 3 \;\\\\ RS LTR AR\ 0 R AROR -2 B A RN i A 1A \Xi' \\‘\ Y O N ‘ ié-' 'i".: ’“‘ - b ¥i o / s ber of attractive designs. This one is extremely charming yet perfectly simple and can be made from challis as illustrated, from cashmere, from ;',//’-\\ BN ‘ ‘f_"_;f;.\‘»\"; 2 &)} NS — 2 mi ‘,, /,‘ bv fi‘ SN N Z/ NGB W i“, ‘{L" ,’fi’ e PR g "‘\' =IR ‘:':;:'; ; 27/ A X 4 v bl‘- 7.4 5 o J 3 ‘;\? K .‘;‘ g )?’, , &\ v P . B\ N\ Llk [l oA NN e £y \ ANER AL Ll e & N 4 NS - : ) S A ] Xi\ /7 : Y <k e i \‘.m?‘ ' i ~;}'}‘§‘% . ¥ » '3 o’ i = 1 (" ’ 4 ] ¥’ y k chiffen Panama cloth or any similar simple wool fabric, or from pongee or some material of the sort if a more dressy frock is wanted. In this case the blouse is trimmed on itg edgss, and the trimming is extended over the centre front of the entire dress, but whether this last shall be used or omitted is entirely a matter for indi vidual taste to decide. It consists of the over blouse and he skirt. The shoulder edges of the ver blouse are joined for a portion of their length, but fall apart prettily over the sleeves, and the under-arm edges can be seamed for their entire length or left open a portion of the way as liked. The quantity of material required for the medium size (ten years) is three and a half yards twenty-four, three yards thirty-two or two and a half yards forty-four inches wide, with seven yards of banding. All in the Sleeve. In the new sleeves lie the most novel of the waist features. They vary in length, fulness, shape and mechod of trimming. They are plain or full; tight from wrist to shoulder, or puffed, or capped, or slashed, and filled in with net or filet. They are extravagantly trimmed or verfectly unadorned. Scented Buttons. s The latest fad in buttons made over molds is to have them scented. Sift powder under the material be fore making up the novel dress trim mings, then milady’s costume breathes just the faintest whiff of her favorite sachet. New Satin Ruff. The latest neck ruffle is merely a satin pleated band with a bow and a single tulle frill at the neck. 7 Simplicity in Lingeric. ~ A superfluity of trimming on stout women’s lingerie is not desirable on account of its fluffiness, yet the plump. type usually likes dainty underwear quite as much as slender women, and 80 a description of a charming yet suitable model for the former will be interesting. Blouse or Shirt Waist, There is no waist quite so useful as the simple tailored one, and this model would be charming made from linen or soft finished pique, from the pon gee that is so serviceable and so fashionable, from the thinner madras and also from silk or from washable flannel. It makes a most satisfactory model whatever the material may be, and it suits both the separate waist and the gown. The tucks that are stitched for their entire length give a tapering effect and the wide box pleat allows successful use of the or namental buttons that make such a feature of the late season. In this case white linen is trimmed with big pearl buttons and worn with a collar of striped lavender and white. The waist is made with a rntted lining, which can be used or omitted as liked, and consists of the fronts and back. There are tucks over the shoulders that are exceedingly be coming, and there are narrow tucks at both centre front and centre back. The closing is made invisibly at the left of the front. The sleeves are in regulation shirt wajst style, with straight cuffs and the neck-band, over which can be worn any style of collar that may be liked, finishes the neck. The quantity of material required for the medium size is three and three-quarter yafi:&;—-twent;m;: three and a half yards thirty-two er two and seven-eighth yards forty four inches wide. oy 3 ¥ 2 4~ »3’%;“3 § A § s i ! 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" In the total number of mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians (4034) on exhibition, the New York Zoolog ical Park stands to-day at the head of all the zoological parks and gardens of the world. Berlin comes next with a total of 3149, John Ruskin, the great English es sayist and critic on art, at the age of seven wrote verses in rhyme and kept a diary. It is claimed that the harbor facil ities of Montreal are almost as good as those of Liverpool and have cost much less. A great tunnel has lately been found at Gezer, in the land of the Philistines, in Palestine. A locomotive engineer remarked that he never made a run in his life at night that he did not strike sev eral skunks. As a rule the white flowers are more fragrant than those of other col ors. Though Russia has much coal and iron her industries are quite undevel oped. Russia produces only one tenth of the quantity of iron produced in the United States, and only one twentieth of the quantity of coal. There never was but one oil por trait of Daniel Boone painted from life, and that was by Chester Hard ing, a distinguished artist of Boston. New York City has 133 department stores. > Twenty million feathers are sent from Germany to England every year for millinery purposes. ; It takes about 2,000,000 cords of wood a year to make the newspapers that go through the presses of New York City, There are 20,000 dangerous crim inals in Paris who are capable of do ing murder and 100,000 who live by dishonest means. :1.........'.1...‘....'..': 2 HOW WHALES noz $. .- ARE KILLED 2 :0..0..0...1.00..0...0.0.: The feature attracting the casual observer is the vessel’s harpoon gun, situated forward of everything, from which the formidable harpoon is fired into-the whale. The gun looks like a small cannon, and about a pound of powder is used to discharge the harpoon, which is rammed home in the same manner as a shot would be, and tied fronf the outside end with a small cord, this breaking, of course, when the gun is fired, The harpoon is a very heavy missile, weighing sev eral hundred pounds, which necessi tates its being fired only at pretty close range; the lance head pierces the whale and soon afterwards ex plodes a bomb contained in it, while still farther back on the shaft are barbs, which expand on entering the whale, making it next to impossible for the harpoon to be drawn out again. Each harpoon, after being fired, has tc be straightened by a blacksmith in order to again fit the gun-barrel. A stout hemp rope, four inches in circumference, is attached to the harpoon about eighteen inches from the point; this line is of great flexibility and strength, and is manu factured solely for whaling in Nor way. A few fathoms of this line are coiled on a plate directly under the gun, the remainder being below decks' clear to run. There are two of these lines each 1800 = feet in length, and sometimes they are none too long for the purpose.—From “There She Blows,” by C. R. Patter son, in the Metropolitan Magazine, One-Sided View. “A member of the Georgia Legisla ture,” he remarked, ‘“has introduced a bill whiech provides that any man who is lured into marrying a woman who has by artificial means enhanced her beauty may, if he wishes, have the marriage declared null and void. That is to say, if the bridegroom dis covers that the bride is compelled when she goes to bed to hang any of her supposed charms upon a chair he may consider himself free to wed s2ain.”’ ‘‘And what about it,”” asked the lady, “if a bride discovers after the ceremony that the groom wears a wig or dyes his mustache?” ““Any woman who is foolish enough not to know a wig or a dyed mustache when she sees one ought never to make any complaint about it.”’—Chi cago Record-Herald. Insulted, The big stray dog loomed up from behind an ash barrel. “Look here,” he growled savagely, “I have a bone to pick with you.” The multi-millionaire’s bull pup looked up with wounded dignity. “What!” he responded, in the dog language, “pick a bone? Why, I never ate anything but boneless chicken and ham in my life. On your way, you iramp!” And leaping into his master's $20,000 automobile he was whisked off to the park.—Chicago News. .PE.’RU_NA AS A LAST B AeL TP ROk y HF i g > Ry ey ';,z:f'a‘f’if/“‘.‘—:'z’ ST e J/l IBAE RSy b LA HE Fod -"‘li 9 “/.}‘/"‘[:" % i{‘ o )!. {4 f“;)"." o <V§;B§‘é“£, L f‘",'.;’ SEE 11 RERRTRG SR iy S TR ST HEREes <LSe sk el WU TR s S e REEE PR TR i;““'m“ e “v#“ b h /f" PR o R uiEiEf?:l:;-" ?fi.f‘; i Nooo A e, S L A X R DI oo i i N [ vEs R S ':l:2'7\'- “fes TH R R R (Y 544 BRI Soo A <‘§ i RS TN Lo K .G;:'A:::G;:_:-::‘;::._::::."J;;;lv';.-'.;.‘u- R ARSIy, | T e o 8R e o s 1 A ) '\\,;é:éliz;.;:fgfl-mv.;,;.;.V,,.;.;'_-:;;A-x;:-:~:~:».~'-:- 3 GRg SRR e o S Te IR ‘}fi‘« . ¢St o R R eI SR 5 : '«'l’f“‘*- 25 ,‘,’. ..“fi:fi:fi;f .E.Z.'E:)‘Z‘ < BEE R Rl & o R B BRECHERMR TS LR R R e N R BT e B e S PRI e Rk eB T R T R t‘,v."*';;,v'&: N PSR U U eI B o RO 83588 5t VR R N S N R [SPES B RS desy St O eI TR DR e g A INEIR ERe Y Il eSR 5 LR i f AT RS 1] SO BRI eAR AN f'rc ; PRI B SO S %e AR ) i SRR 43 ,} PR PRt ASR SR SRS s BSRTR RSN -&‘—‘fi‘:‘*\-}’t e e SR RS IRENDY & T R S i ) ‘l' R O RN RSO Rl s P 4 ;1‘! [PR R e REdg e e . p [fit e St S ICRP N S = R TRy s 3%2.';‘31‘34 RKb T TR T AR e e et ev T MR. WM., F. VAHLBERG. Mr. William F. Vahlberg, Oklahoma City, Okla., writes: : “One boitle of Peruna which |1 have taken did more toward relieving me of an avated case of catarrh of the stom aeg than years of treatment with the best plysicians. e | Ymd given up hores of relief, and 'onlf tried Peruna as a last resort. “1 shall continue using it, as | feel sat isfled it will effect an entire and per manent cure, “I most cheerfully recommend Peruna to all who may read tiia." ‘ Peruna is usually taken as a last resort. Doctors have been tried and failed. Other remedies have been used. ‘anitariums bhave been visited. Travel has been re sorted to. - At last Peruna is tried. Relief .3 found. This histo? is regeated over and over again, everg. ay In the year. It is such re sults as this this give Peruna its unas sailable hold upon the peo‘slle. We could say nothing that would add force to such testimonials as the above. That people who have had catarrh and have tried every other remedy available, find relief in Peruna, constitutes the best argument that could be made. Sample treatment P I L Es RED Cross Pile and Fistula Cumre and Beck sent by mail FREE. REA CO. DEPT.B. 4 MINNEAPOL IS, MINN, e Most people, philosophies the Dal las News, give advice about the things they don’t understand and get it about the things they do. Hicks’ Capudine Cures Nervousness, Whether tired out, worried, overworked, or what not. It refreshes the brain and nerves. It’s Liquid and pleasant to take. 10c., 25¢., and 50c., at drug stores. - Aesop In: “Little Italy.” A school teacher in the Italian quar ter of an American city told her children the story of the fox and the grapes.’ Tony was especially delight ed with the story, and eagerly sought his chum, Joe, who was in another class. By good luck, the teacher over heard Tony’s version. In his excited, broken English he told the fable much as it is written, until he came to the end. This was his rendering of the climax: | “De olda fox he say, “De grape no good, anyhow; alla sour! I guess I go getta de banan’.’”—Youth’s Com panion. Petroleum Production Is Large, The petroleum production of the United States in 1907, says the Geo logical Survey report was character ized by a total output far in excess of any previous year, an unparalleled accumulation of stocks, in spite of which the price of all grades of oil was kept at a high level. Sensation al developments were the great in crease in the new Illinois field and the phenomenal yield of Oklahoma, together with increase in both quan tity and price in California. The total product was 166,095,335 barrels in 1907, an increase over 1906 of 39,- 601,399 barrels, or more than the total product of petroleum in any year up to 1889. The total value increased from $92,444,735 in 1906 to $120,106,- 749 in 1907. The average price de creased only slightly.—New York Her ald. NEW LIFR Found in Change to Right Food. After one suffers from acid dyspep sla, sour stomach, for months and then finds the remedy is in getting the right kind of food, it is something to speak out about. A N. Y. lady and her young son had such an experience, and she wants others to know how to get re- Hes. She writes: “For about fifteen months my lit tle boy and myself had suffered with sour stomach. We wera unable to retain much of anything we ate. ‘“After suffering in this way for so long I decided to consult a specialist in stomach diseases. Instead of pre scribing drugs, he put us both on Grape-Nuts, and we began to improve immediately. “It was the key to a new life. I found we had been eating too much heavy food which we could not digest. In a few weeks after commencing Grape-Nuts I was able to do my housework. I wake in the morning with a clear head and feel rested and have no sour stomach. My boy sleeps well and wakes with a laugh. / “We have regalned our lost weight and continue to eat Grape-Nuts for both the morning and evening meals. We are well and happy and owe it to Grape-Nuts.”” “There’s a Reason.” - Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read ‘“The Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. Ever- read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human interest.