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A LONDON CRIMINAL - OfcthtM Boldly Roth U the Cttj 14 “ rtaatler From Vana and Cabs (kroaded In the Demae Gloom. Thousands l of , thieves .. long for fog Wkh a great longing. Incredible as ijt -*- woru, of of pounds is every year stolen tree v r&na sod lorries alone in London Streets. Quite nine-tenths of this prop¬ erty disappears during fogs. The leaders of the fog thief gangs wsoatty t»ve some little capital to Mart with. One of them affects to be a cartage eoatractor on a small scale. Ha takes very quiet premises that have a high boarding round and that are ■ot overlooked. If he has plenty of Cell a ra ge, all the better. He has at on* smart trap and horse and and sometimes three rogues to go vrtth it It Is during, the late foggy afternoons •■d early evenings of winter that the I**ds made. Streets with ware fcsoscs and not shops that are lighted b Mil l a atiy and early—on each side and are often congested with traffic **% mostly chosen. The small and Moait though dingy and Inconspicuous looking trap plunges into the thick of tooiBc. It soon, in the gloom and pieces Itself immediately behind or lorry plied with packages of Various kinds. The men in the quick trsp are all on Ik* aloft. One of them, a man chosen for his immense physical strength,, goes %s the bead of the pony on some pre¬ text. He soon has a package down from the vgn tn front. He Is provided With sharp cutting instruments, and be has a powerful piece of strap with a hook at one end. If there la a boy sit¬ trap ting behind the van, the men In the contrive to get him down by di¬ verting his attention, fiven with a View to distracting the possible atten¬ tion of carters, the thieves generally •ot up an altercation, or “barney,” among themselves or with others. They Ore men of colossal Impudence and powers of abuse, and all attention be¬ comes riveted upon them. In one case hot far from Farringdon street last De¬ hor they carried off one parcel of fors worth £700, the van boy being temporarily blinded, as alleged, by a tad with the thieves blowing some ■miff into his face from a pen shooter tfen disappearing. One of the most notorious of these (eg thieves was a lithe young fellow Who crept along the back of a pony to Its head, American jockey fashion, and Woked what he could from out of the -tab in front. Th« great hauls of these men are Whan they follow- cabs and private car gteges from a railway stntkvn. In such they generally use two traps and fcoraea. A cab Is marked that lias ap¬ parently valuable luggage on the top. This if followed till some dark street In reached where the way Is narrow or OMifMrted; then the driver of One of |he traps, that has a very swift pony fcamesaed to It, deliberately drives •cross the head of the cab or carriage Of course there is on angry alterea Hor and while this Is going on the tkWWs on the other trap have got into th» Immediate rear of the luggage la ^ vehicle. One of the thieves goes mrTl * his horse’B ' hack uud lifts the lug ya^eaown. hauls effected last winter On* ot the tD this way was worth £8,000 and was tfe* nroD«rty of Mr do Silva an Argon |lsa rallHonalro. Tb, robber, took: phv.o CTr l- ^ frQ ”-r“I summer sun brings forth myriads of living crent u res, so does a •Thornes fog bring out upon the dark *nd apparently deserted river a Vast horde of thieves. At least a dozen of the wharf and lighter owners complain 9 i losing from their respective wharves M roach as from one to stx hundred ^winds’ worth of coal alone every year. th* reader can learn at any river B td» house frequented by tugboat men there are scores, literally scores, of tucs on the river that have never tonght a pennyworth of coal for great numbers of years. The Thames police ^•uld t«n that same reader that men fea«« retired on competences who have heoii reported to have made their whole •Htofia oat of coal stolen with tm police are helpless over the vast vjy-yfsr * thy pirate boats tn the gloom and dark hago, the spoil is turned out to the bottom of the river ln a trice. If this •act of can be done to such an •My°be imagined what wharves befalls other ln valuable property on or fighters. picker of the The fraudulent up giver blesses the fog. The picker up ia a man who notices that certaiD barges with valuable cargoes are moor ad in such a way that. If they broke l»ose, , ‘tbey would entail vast expense The picker up sees that these barges Co break loose. That part of hls work ha does in dead secret And then, mak Icg plenty of noise about it at this Mage, be rescues from danger the vary barges that be has set adrift and •endo in a heavy salvage claim.—Lon Answers. Acids Tkat Are Dcatk to Cholera. The acid of lemons and oranges la fatal to the cholera bacillus. Even If placed upon the rinds of the fruit the germs will not survive longer than a fray.—Ladies’ Home Journal - the mountains between the Caspian and Black seas, dada means mother mama father. Does Educate n Pay. By A. I). Hammock, C. S. C. . It means a great sacrifice for a rzT!z>::: f ::z:z move to town. As a rule it means enerifioo of nr< mertv •ind Ln‘1161' and happiness. , Yet this , . day 1 ,. m one can not . afford, i cost , what i, flt it it w jn ’ to raise up a family in igllO ranc e Town Itfo h» it, ri*. and oft on time, when parent, leave the country and go to tow,, to seek ecnool advantages therr children become better educated iii idleness prodigality and vice than they do in books. In the country is th ^ place to laise children in accord w,tb mi tore and educate then, to a life cf economy, industry usefulness. The country ha, ahvay, eilmoat of the great leader, among men in every profession and indua try. City life is n>t conducive to the best development of mind or body. The excitement ndoor work and rush of city ims a tendency to mux j one unust able. surface minded and bodily weak. Country life has a tendency to develop i purity ., of ... heart, , strong, , of body, fixedness of purpose and breadth , of intellect, , ,, , rm ihe towi.s j. . „ would soon degenerate if they were not constantly invigorated with fresh fresh stock stock from Horn the the countiy. country If ir the country is not the host place to become suddenly rich, it is the very Best place to raise pure, no¬ ble, healthy, independent men and women. Lot our farmers fill their homos with music and pictures and books and sunshine and cheerfulness ami cease complaining about hard times and their children will not want to leave the farm and engage m the overcrowded pursuits of the cities, and thoso old red hills will bloom and blossom with a luxury unparalleled before. (To Bo, Continued.) Fhilaiirtphtn Feline Duplicity. It was during the natural history hour. “Give me,” asked the teacher, "an example of the alleged deceitful char¬ acter of the cat.” “In restaurants it is sometimes said to pass itself off for a rabbit.” answer¬ ed the head boy.—Philadelphia Times. IHvininK UuUk. The only trustworthy divining rod that lias ever been made is fortunately cheap. It Inis a steel head and a wood en handle and Is shaped something like un am hoi. Any man woo wants one should go to ii hardware store and ask for a pickax.—Youth's Companion. _____ A . fool . . forms . an alliance with ... the straws driven by the wind; a wise man forms an alliance with the wind.—Chi » ««»___.__ Tb« ar»t sovlncs bonk In Ibe United States was established in 181 a memmmmk r . T r SA . nii * i b m It I . Q ur fee returne< 3 jf we f a jj. Any one sending sketch and description - i - any invention . will promptly , receive . oar opinion . . free . concerning the pate , ability of same. “How to obtain a patent” sent upon request. Patei 9ecure( j through b us advertised for sale at our expense. Patents taken out through us receive special notice , without charge, The Patent Record, an illustrated and widely circulated journal, consult’ j™ ' Manufacturers and Investors, » Send for sample , copy FREEs Aaaies% A ^ i VICTOR EV&ffiS* ^ {Putdlt AtTOfU6} S,) Evans «*»"*»»» ' WASHINGTON, fi. £“ mm day Is BARGAIN I\ * ■A r r 51 Fiji ^ ■ 5- i Ji. - Ik isr ■ it; i -t- m ff ff . I NAPOLEON’S EYE. ©ire Look From It rixpisinod Hi* Power Over 31en. i n i^87, while work Jug in London as StSsrSK admiral in Eaton f. ,uare. ihe adini ral’S name was Eden. After the serv sai, L elidu. . .“S y tEan . There are Mt many alive who can say J. what I can say. You are talk - ‘ , , ins tn! . ;ed t0 Na - K"So“ th Great” C iS ‘Sir” iror I «o!d “that 1 The ““ J"? “„*XT ul, S bet of, mo no, ,t p «L to .Na,.o an( j ^j, e senior midshipman comes with me.” t ^old^-l.tk^am”auSo'i'w^t W4 waite(1 - for xapoleon in an outer room, ^ W ' „ , n8t aut , bc on . He was short and fat and nothing- very ^ f J er ‘ to the aduiini! be turn tHi t0 n c . !r< ; j understood tor the fir. u™ tn my K* w Lad ,.J e - n ,. lugllt t0 -hate the Frencb a8 , bate<1 i} . 0 devil, but wh-n ^ ^ ^ pj down that he might walk over Q0 i WO uld have done it at cnee, English middy though i was. The look on Napoleon s face was the 1(>volation {(f the man and thoexpiaua (ion ot his p 0wer . lie was born to command. Such was Admiral Eden’s version to me of an incident which at 90 years old or thereabout seemed to him as fresh as if it bad hardened ^ only the day bo Jo ln London Spectator. CASTOR I A. Tar Infants ami OMMm. ,- •' <ii- ru ' p ano , c « U| on |f FOR ABOUT THE PRICE OF ONE. 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Felton, John Temple Gravep Hon c H Jordan and other distinguished writers, Q1 Call at this office SS and ’SftLZ leave your »c»—.l—■ ® I: iUi'jT i. k SOME OF THE BRUTALITIES TO WHICH HE IS SUBJECTED. and Other Punishments Which Sometimes Find Iu the Vic tlm *„ Death That Are Winked at, if Sot ordered, by the Officers. - U» r.'-n .no, are not HUbiectcd by “*J law a to cornoral * punish- 1 ™ ent any more t . . .. •- J of the regulations governing the Mill tai T academy at West Point that ca «. ®oo M “br.ee” or W if S’ The Freud, Midler Uuown „ rietou or Dmuahet, jusF.s the English soldier is known as Tommy Atkins. Dumanet Jpd S when he joins «*^oloy S that thing which distinguishes the hazing w the, bientm dimy fi■■om ■ e SfL? most ordored hy « o comr i»„ioucd .«■ cent. An o^tfer wih say to a corporal ”, * ST. 3“ “vial offffllSe, more than likely to be somc ‘ ne » Iect of tho deference due to ^ “ The officer turns on his heel and walks while the .untortunate sol MyS^S P^ant bedfellows, and the combina «on is tossed until the haters are too i0r tne innh » cc.miaacs, i..-,Ai..aiii n 4 thay are hair drunk, which they are likely to be. This diversion has rather gone out of favor just now, because b0 ' c —■— _., m 0 hf)vp '- a ' e U( n tossed • - had the bad taste dio after disc » P line - 1;1 some of ^ French barracks, a favorite method of punishment is to hang the offending soldier up by his heele and then to spank him with a sword bayonet. In Algiers, whore the men are far removed in the outlying garrisons from the central authority and. at the uu*r<5y of their tormentors, they are subjected to many forms of hazing at the suggestion of the officers. At om- time the “vilo” was much hi favor among the haaers in the Algerian army of occupation. It consisted in putting a man in a dec-p hole made in the shape of a reversed funnel dug by thv Arabs in the ground as a place for the storage ot corn. The unfortunate man v. as left there sometimes for days, with hardly anything to cat or drink and exposed all the time te the heat of the sun, while at night the place was cold. Many died from hunger, thirst or coin, while many others became in¬ sane. The military authorities when they became av.-are of ‘these tortures issued aju c.nler prohibiting such a punish nbut it is still practiced in isolated parts of Algiers where no eye can see of which the officers arc afraid. Several years ago Prince Piguatolli d’Aragon, a young Spanish noble, ran away from his home and went to Al¬ giers to join the foreign legion, the refuge for men “with a past.” His friends announced to the French niili tary authorities that the prince had gone to join the legion, but the authori¬ ties were able to get no word of liis arrival. At last a soldier suggested that perhaps ri stranger who wandered into camp and had considerable diifi t-ttiiy in speaking French might be the ’ the .p: nice. The sergeant to whom prince had rpok-.-n was drunk at the time and beeaiye annoyed at the .Span¬ iard's broken French, so he’ ordered that ihe stranger be .p-su-wl in the “vi!o” without mere ado. Hire the inferable yr.im,’.- jr-»m remained for two days wifh'.-'it 'eating nr brink big. avd th :i a j u.it'yed uonh-v broke Ihe rules and gave .him food. • As soon as h • was. t-es.ciit-U frm.u ihe “vilo." the youlig man : igrt; U ,i ,.r An. having' most thofvrngbiy reconsidered his de¬ termination to ' enter the celebrated foreign ieglon." Alim ii- i' form iff pi: 111313 '»ent which used to be flop-mar iii Algiers was the “ora.”. A ffi.Vo c?- wood, usually '4be tile ivtiiik of a 1 . e, .is-in-.ji., man as 1'Ud •••!>.. it- tv. fiH;;, L-ounch-so that V:.' middle iff his Lru.-k would -be 'nff-ling oil the woodr-fritK his head and feet hanging down to the ground. His feet were tied to an iron bar and his hands to another, and, left lying face upward, he was export'd. for hours to the terrible beat of the suit. Seme men have survived Iff hours of this torture. A form of punishment "sfill popular among the French colonial troops—that is, popular with those who inflict it and not with those who suffer it—is the “crayadine." It consists of throwing the man face downward and tying his wrists and ankles behind his back so that his wri ts and ankles are brought together.—New York Press. ■ Digests vjhat you sat. It. artificiaily digests the food and£id£ gens. Jt Is,the latest No disGOvereddigeat* preparation ant and tonic. other caa approach it in efficiency. 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Law . complicated , , thing, .. . ana . is a. some of its decisions seem not to be founded in equity. Probably most readers will pass that criticism upon the case, recorded below: Basutoland, being broken and moun¬ tainous, was until recently the resort of lions, leopards and other wild ani¬ mals. Now, however, the hillsides which were once the resort of these savage creatures are the pasture grounds of tens of thousands of cattle. Nearly all dangerous animals have been driven away from Basutoland, but not long ago a leopard appeared on the outskirts of a village. The animal soon became as.badly frighten¬ ed as the villagers and sought safety in flight. The next morning the inhabitants turned out for a hunt. One of the hunters was climbing a steep rock when he suddenly found himself face to face with the leopard, whose re¬ treat was cut off by the rock itself. Neither flic .man nor the animal could escape the encounter. The dilemma was an awkward one, for the climber was unarmed. Realiz¬ ing his danger, be put forth hia, hands and in desperation caught, held of Ffie leopard on each side of its jaw. .hold¬ ing it at arm’s length and < riling for help. The leopard clawed and tore his captor, but the man held on till help arrived, and the beast was speared. Now c-aiue a -question of law. By Basuto law the skin belonged to the chief, who must reward one of three claimants—either the tnnn who speared the leopard or the man who held it ra¬ th at it was possible to spear it or tin¬ man who, being warned by the bark¬ ing of his dog, first discovered the animal in the village. The Basuto Solomon decided the case as follows: The man who speared it could not have done so but for the man who held it, and the man who held it could not have known of its existence if the dog had not first warned the village; therefore the credit for the killing belonged to the dog, whose owner was entitled to the re¬ ward.—Youth’s Companion. Now She Hates Him. A young man and a young woman lean over the front gate. They are lov¬ ers. It is moonlight. He is loath to leave, as the parting is the last. He about to go away. She is reluctant to •see him depart. They swing on the gate. “I’ll never forget you,” he says, “and If death should claim me my last thought will "be of you.” “I’ll be true to you,” she sobs. “I’ll never see anybody else or love them as long as I live.” They pari. Six years later lie returns. His sweet¬ heart of former years has married. They meet at a party. She has changed greatly. Between the dances the rec¬ ognition .takes place. “Let me see,” she muses, with her fan beating a tattoo on her pretty “was it yfeu or y.qur brother who was my old sweetheart?” “Really I don’t know,” he says. “Probably my father.” — London An¬ swers. . Rang In Ita TMvil Centaiy. The bell on historic .old St. John’s church, in Hielimond, where Patrick Henry made his famous speech pi-for to the American Revolution, rang in the twentieth century. This bell is thus given the distinction of being* the only • one iii this country, with the possible exception of that on old Liberty hall, in Philadelphia, that has rung In three centuries. Old St. John’s bell has an interesting history. Many years ago, when the- old structure for which it was made was repaired, the bell wag removed and sold. Later its last own¬ er presented it to the Virginia Historic¬ al society, by which it was restored to the church.—New Orleans Times-Dem ocrat. Shopping. Shopman—This matches your sample perfectly, madam. Customer—It certainly does. It couldn’t be closes. Shopman—How many yards do you Customer—Oh, not any yet! Yc-u see, this is the very first shop I’ve tried!— London Fun. His Task. ^race—That will not be ^ ^ y° n have to do is to conquer papa, —London Tit-Bits. - Why should a novel writer be an ex traordinary looking animal? 0 f his tale coming out of his head.— Philadelphia Ledger. The man who lives for himself alone ls apt to be neglected by the world at laige.—Chicago News. “THE FRENCH SHORE.*' WSer* Misery, Staler, Eaa , w He1c Xewfoandlana. Misery, squalor cud wretchedro ^l acce ntUated by SS almost ce < ~LaS£i£gg ., s ,,' Struggle , Wlul uno-roi and , cold, of the inhabitants are the thl Newfoundland 0 f “North Shore” in Their little hamlets <i£e perched ih th* STfiWSf , «. s^Vt Iu aad *** , turnon a i mos i. f 0 their ' doorstenq ' PK ■nrh- whlIe tm seven months , + ol ., the year their , eon** is blockaded with ice and they are off from all communication with th» ««*•*• "«*■ JVS SXSi&TSZS The people rarely see money, and bas ter is the system of trading, a quiuttl of cod being the unit of value, needs of the fisher folk fare only sup. piled by the'* itinerant trader, hi» schooner being ’iddep with provision*, clothing ‘arid' fibbing appliances. Thru have these.people liveg. for generation*. They are ignorant, for the means of e( j uca ^j 0E ai -o nonexistent, the childrea thS ^ e 6Htent with wBat satisfied fath6rs Tlie vofiilndh objects of every M n fe are unknown to them. They Oi^ have neither hoi^S nor cattle. a few r of south the'older have fojk who have ves¬ tured knowledge of these things. ” ‘ * ** There are no roads and therefore no vehicles' ‘‘Travel is by boat during the sumifier and over the ice floes dur. Ing the*rest of rise year. The few let, tors for th<? clefgy and others who caa read are trains conveyed to the settlement* by dog during the winter, and, save’ for the 'forinightly visit of the mailboaf duThrg tire -period of open navigation, 'a steamer is never seen by the residents. With such imvrveis as electric tele graphs,^ telephones ; and electric light they ’ of unfamiliar, and aye course their standard of intelligence is best indicated by stating that it is not un¬ usual to find a justice of the peace who cannot writ* hi3 own name.—Cham, hers* Journal. A MAN AND HIS VIOLETS. TJie Story ot the: Vivacious Maid WKo IScec-’veil tfce Flowers. “Yes," it was a Icveiy bunc-h of vio¬ lets,” sighed the g!Vl who received them, “but I wish they had never com* to me. You see, it was this way: Th* man who sent them is one of those aw¬ fully nice fellows who bore you to death—the kind you feel so glad to se« talking to some one else, don’t you know,” she ended apftefiiingly. “Yes; I’ve seen the type,” sympathet¬ ically replied her auditor. “Well, on my birthday he sent that lovely bunch of \ ioiets^-perfect beau¬ ties they were—witli a dear little not* to the effect that he had to go out of town, but would be represented by these little purple clad messengers, so like my eyes and whose fragrance al¬ ways reminded him of me. I thought the note rather nice,” she concluded pensively, “and put the flowers in the parlor on the center table, writing hack that I had done so. Why in the world was 1 so prompt'd’ she wailed. “It was no more than polite.” “Oh, much more: My dear, it is ah Ways idiotic to go into details like that Well, he did not gc- c at of town, but 'was ‘fortunately’ detained and came around after all to tell me so. And those wretched violets”— “Surely they were "dll right?” ‘T had loaned them to Annie to went to the Blanks’ dinner. Of course I had to tell him that the heat of the room was too great, and I had put them in the icebox. Just as he waa going and I was congratulating myself on my escape in saMbd that miserable girl, violets and all! if he had only gone, ns bo said lie vvould, it ^ould have been all right. Mon are so unre¬ liable!”—New York Mail and'Express. Animal Pecoliarities. If a female fox (vixen) gets caught in a steel,trap and is discovered by the male or fox dog, it is said he inva¬ riably kills lx r, although I have not heard it stated that ihe vixen would kill tlie (log fox or another vixen or the male Another malot" If a Cow becomes impaled on a fence apd groans with pain, the whole herd irTsfafifiy rush wildly to the spot, fight and apparently do their best to destroy her if not beaten off. A hog confined with others in a pen breaks out and cn being returned to the pen is at onc-c set upon and bittei by the'others. Why, with all the instinct animals possess, is the desire so "strong to in¬ jure or destroy rather than to help of rescue?—New York Sun. -f Wood TRnt Causes Sneezing. A Among its many curious products South Africa includes the “sneeze wood” tree, which takes its name from the fact that one cannot cut it with a saTr without sneezing, as the fine dust ’ !fls exactly the effect of snuff. I- V >Q ’n planing the wood it will sometime* caate sneering. No Insect. v '’orm barnacle will touch, it. It is very Diner tIlc taste, and when placed in vatu it will si; k. The color is light brov. u and Hi- v 7 c ? osu and Laid • For doc' \ o : rs or jetties i 1S useful tin.be< - 5 . : US a long while un¬ der wafer. Where ifee Shoe i’inBhed. - f Young Giri (glancing at-her pedal cX —-o, w My feet are so^ ^^-f-aijy iiig! stand practical Auntie—But you oc them all right, den’fydu? otbet Young GIH-Oh. fes, but so do f lks t0 ; _x ew York Tribune. Really UscEse. Beggar—Say, boss, won’t you help a poor fellow out of a job? get oi¬ - Joakkiy—Gracimif! Chn’t you f jt without hold? Pretend you iff 0 my Bre«s. sick or something.—Philadelphia
