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Two Bards.
A bard who wrote in staves
Once made a heathen hymn.
It hod this stern refrain,
And moved as though in pain,
“The undorthouarht of graves *
Makes the sea grim."
A south-land singer sung
With happy heart and free;
The living, not the dead,
lie dealt with, and he said,
“The world is glad and young,
And good to me."
Ami ever since mankind
Is shuttled back and forth
Between these singers twain
Of glad and sad refrain :
The south-land warm and kind,
The bitter north.
—[Richard K. Burton, in Harper’s Weekly.
DETECTING A ROGUE.
BY LAWRENCE LESLIE.
One of the cleverest feats in tho de¬
tection, pursuit and capture of crimi¬
nals that has been developed for years
was performed by an officer of the
New York detective police force some
years since.
About that time the officers of tho
City Bank of Ncav York discovered
that they had been swindled out of
$75,000 by means of a forged chock
for (hat amount, purported to liavo
been drawn by Commodore Yander.
bilt. Nearly a month passed before
•the fraud Avas discovered, and in the
meantime several other checks for
large amounts, drawn by the same
party, had been honored; so it was
almost impossible for any of tho bank
officials to remember Avitli satisfactory
distinctness any of the circumstances
connected with the payment of tlie
fraudulent document. IIoAvevcr, it
was placed in the hands of a shrewd
detective, and he Avent to work to find
a cIcav and trace out the mystery.
The officer’s first suspicion was that
some of the clerks of the banks bad
been in collusion Avith tlie forger, and
doubtless shared the profits of liis
crime. After two weeks’ scrutiny of
the character, habits and associations
of the various clerks, that theory was
abandoned, and it only remained for
him to gather from them, if possible,
some clew, however slight, of the bold
operator. His first inquiry Ayas if any
otfO, ^ HVtl*e habit of presenting
•checks, had been doing so within the
past month. Only tAVo of the clerks
bad any memory on the subject, and
theirs was of the most shadoAvy and
unsatisfactory character. One remem¬
bered seeing a stout, elderly man
driving a strikingly beautiful black
horse and fine carriage up to the hank,
enter the office, and transact some bus¬
iness, lie know not what, and depart,
since which he had not seen him."
The other clerk, after a thorough
examination, and a multitude of
questions put to assist or quicken his
memory, at last concluded that he did
recollect a strange man, avIio entered
the bank one day about the time the
forged check was presented, and had
a draft cashed for a large amount. A
peculiarity in the man’s neck-tie at¬
tracted his attention, and he looked
him full in the face, and retained a
vivid recollection of every feature.
He was an amateur artist, and especi¬
ally expert in pen-drawing. Taking
a sheet of paper and an old pen which
was lying upon tiro desk, lie quickly
produced a portrait, Avliicli Ire , de¬
clared to bo a good likeness of tho
man he suspected.
The officer did not look upon these
clews, if such they might be called, as
promising much hope of success, He
first exhibited the drawing to the clerk
Avho had seen tiro suspected rogue
drive up with tho line black horse, and
he confidently identified it.
Hero at last Avas some encourage¬
ment. The first attempt was to traco
the horse and carriage, and discover
who owned or Avho had hired such a
rig. The effort was unsuccessful'; tlie
officer, lroAvever, was convinced that
the mau, whoever he might bo, was an
admirer of fast and stylish horses, and
he therefore commenced a search
among the establishments devoted to
tho stabling and sale of such animals,
hoping that he Avould find some one
who could identify the parties.
After going to nearly all such es¬
tablishments, exhibiting the portrait,
he came upon a man who recognized
in the drawing one William Living¬
ston, Avhom he had known a year or
two, but who had disappeared within
tho past month, after paying up some
old debts and buying one or two fancy
horses. Further inquiry brought out
the fact that Livingston was in very
straightened circumstances but a few
months previously, and how ho could
honestly obtain the means to pay his
oid debts and gratify his love for
horseflesh was not so clear, and gave
fresh encouragement to the persever¬
ing detective.
To follow Livingston wes necessary,
but how could he be traced? Ho had
disappeared, and no one knew when
or whither. “\Vhat, then was to be
done? Should tho trail be abandoned
and the case given up as one of the
mysteries that baffled solution?
Never, said (he indefatigable officer,
and he went to work with desperate
energy to unravel the tangled skein.
lie linally reached the following
conclusions: The perpetrator of the
forgery was Livingston; lie was a
good deal of a liorse-fancier, and
would doubtless spend a considerable
portion of his dishonest gains in the
purchase of fine stock; and, further,
that the stock would bo purchased in
New York, as that market promised a
better selection, and tho criminal con¬
sidered himself entirely safe from de¬
tection.
The first step, therefore, was to
learn if any one had recently made
any extensive purchases of such stock,
and if so, to run them down and see
who they were.
For weeks the search was without
reward, but at last the case brightened.
A man was found, of whom several
horses had been purchased by a man
much resembling Livingston, but here
giving the name of Peek. The horses
were shipped to Buffalo, whither “Mr.
Peck” stated that he Avas going.
Here was a long-sought clow, and
the officer lost no time in visiting
Buffalo, to learn further of Mr. Peck’s
present abode. Another disappoint¬
ment met him here. The freight
books showed that the horses had beeii
received two or three months pre¬
viously and taken away, but nothing
further Avas known concerning them
or Mr. Peck.
Nothing daunted, however, the in¬
quiry was pursued, and finally the
horses Avere traced to a stable, but
Avere now owned by a Mr. Welch.
Several other animals Avere purchased,
and the whole then shipped to Chi¬
cago. From the description, the officer
Avas convinced that Livingston, Peck
and Welch Avere one and the same
person, and the pursuit began to wax
interesting.
Arriving at Chicago, he found that
the horses had been taken away, but
the most careful inquiry revealed
nothing more. As they had not been
reshipped, the officer concluded they
had been driven into the country.
There Avere some mares among the
stock, and he concluded that the party,
wlioeA r er lie was, designed to open a
stock farm. Finding all other attempts
to trace the horses vain, he attempted
to learn if any farm suitable for such
a purpose had been purchased recently,
and if so, by Avhom.
At one of the real estate agencies lie
found that a man from the East,named
"William Livingston, had been looking
for such a place, and had finally pur¬
chased one, but where was not known,
certainly not in Cook County, as an
examination of the records proved;
but the officer reasoned that it could
not be far from Chicago, as the stock
was apparently driven instead of being
If, reasoned the officer, Livingston,
who was without doubt the criminal,
lias purchased a farm of this charac¬
ter, he must buy a large quantity of
tools, harness, saddles, Avagons, and
like goods for its use. A careful
search among dealers in those articles
revealed the fact that a liberal quanti¬
ty of such goods had recently been
bought by a Mr. William Livingston,
and sent to Du Page County, about
forty miles from Chicago, where he
had bought four small farms and con¬
solidated them into one handsome
stock farm. Believing detection im¬
possible after the lapse of so long a
time, he had boldly taken his own
name, and, though almost within the
clutch of the officer of justice, was yet
entirely unconscious of his danger.
The game Avas found—now for its
capture. Taking four or five police
officers from Chicago, all in citizens’
clothes, the party went out to the farm,
and inquired for William Livingtou.
The “elderly, short, stout gentleman,”
who had figured so conspicuously in
the officer’s search, appeared, and tho
correctness of the pen and ink sketch
impressed tho officer as remarkable.
The party represented themselves as
from Chicago, Avho, having heard of
his farm, and come down to see for
themselves, and perhaps purchase some
of his choice slock.
They Avere cordially received, Hos¬
pitably entertained, sIioavh over the
place, and finally dined and Avined in
the spacious mansion, On rising
from the table the New York officer
remarked:
“Well, Mr. Livingston, do you
like this place and this quiet life as
well as life in New York.”
The man Avas startled,looked sharply
at the officer and answered:
“Wlmt do you mean? I was never in
Ncav York in all my life.”
i i Weil, then,” retorted flic officer,
“you Avill lmvo an excellent opportu¬
nity to go there. William Livingston,
I arrest you!"
Livingston turned as pale as a
ghost, and gasped out:
‘What for!”
“For the forgery of a check on the
City Bank of New York for $75,000,”
replied tho officer, draAving a pair of
handcuffs from his pocket, and ad¬
vancing toward him.
“Stop, sir!” exclaimed the culprit.
“Stop, sir! This is an outrage," and
he glanced around tliQ room for some
weapon Avith which he could defend
himself. lie was quickly surrounded,
however, and the irons fastened upon
him.
For a time he raged furiously, mak¬
ing fearful threats against his captors;
but the storm soon spent itself, and he
was able to talk over the matter calm¬
ly. lie represented that a relative,
Avho had recently died, had left him a
considerable sum of money, Avith
Avliicli he had purchased the farm and
stock.
On searching him, however, a roll
of bills amounting to $10,000 was
found in an inner pocket, many of
them being entirely neAV, and on the
City Bank—the very notes which had
been paid out on the fraudulent check
some months before. After this dis
coveryhe was more quiet, and will¬
ingly accompanied his captor to New
York.
The cash found on his person, the
farm and stock were taken possession
of by the victimized bank, and man¬
aged so judiciously that more than
$65,000 was realized, leaving the bank
a sufferer for less than $10,000.
Livingston Avas soon after brought
to trial, convicted, and escaped Avith a
sentence of four years and a half. Al
the expiration of his sentence he went
West, and Avhen last heard from Avas
opening a small stock farm in Iowa.
The case in all its phases ranks
among the most curious and interest¬
ing in criminal annals. The slight
clew so perseveringly followed, tho
little incidents Avhich pointed so uner¬
ringly toward the culprit, and the sa¬
gacity Avith which all these little hints
Avere followed to the end, places the
detective art among the most notable
and useful of the sciences.—[New
York Weekly.
A Maltese Dog.
A rival to the Maltese cat is the
Maltese dog, an irresistible bit of
canine beauty Avliicli comes straight
from the Paris kennels, liis mistress,
a Washington belle, Avho lias but just
returned from abroad, considers him
the most val uable prize she has secured
during her wanderings. He has been
dubbed Marquis, and is thoroughly
French from the top of liis curly Avhite
head to the tip of liis snOAvy tail.
Spoken to in French ho becomes a most
obedient dog, but liis knowledge of
English is at present very limited.—
[New Orleans Picayune.
Kept His Appointment.
Mrs. Blifkins (time, midnight) —
Horrors! husband! husband! I hear
some one burrowing through the
Avail I
Mr. Blifkins—Well! well I It must
be that book agent. I knew we’d all
be in bed by 11 o’clock and I told him
to call at half-past.—[GoodNeAvs.
Vegetable Diet.
Jones—That’s all nonsense about
eating m#at being injurious to health.
My ancestors for hundreds of years
ate meat.
Vegetarian—Yes, and where are
they now? Dead, ain’t they?—[Texas
Siftings.
Items ol Interest.
Last year there was spent in this
couutry, for tea, the sum of $50,000,000;
for coffee. $122,500,000; and for malt
and spirituous beverages, $000,000,000.
Stale pits in railroad restaurants have
long Recognizing been disseminators member of dispepsia. the
this jact, a of
Missouri Legislature has introduced a
measure compelling bakers to date their
pies.
A Tim ee-year-old corpse is carried
around the country in a zinc-lined case
Chicago drummer, and shown to
undertakers as an evidence of the excel
lent quality of the embalming fluid used
to | reserve it, of which he is the agent,
Temptation for desperadoes exists in
the secret hoards of Avcaith in India. An
Allahabad paper estimates that coin and
gems to the value of $1,850,000,000 are
locked up in ihat country. In Amritsar
City alone there are hidden jewels worth
$ 10 , 000 , 000 .
The hatching of alligator’s eggs in an
incubator is a new industry in Florida.
villages SJfiT
little negroes in the arc poking
in the sandbanks all day long getting
eggs for the artificial hatchers.
Boston is the only city in the world
which preserves an exact record of the
proceedings of its common council,
Evcry motion, argument and remark, no
matter how unimportant, is stenographi
cally taken down. The members are
therefore very careful in their utterances,
A Bkahama hen on a farm in Cecil
county, Maryland, belonging to Wm. I),
Summers, of Philadelphia, lately sur
prised its oAvner. It laid a dark-brown
egg which measures seven audthree-quar
ter inches in its long diameter, and six
and a hall inches in its short diameter.
Drunkenness is the failing of tbe
Hercules beetle, a South American insect.
It sometimes attains a growth of six inches
in length. It is said that it rasps the
bark from the slender branches of the
mamma! tree until the juice flow’s. This
it drinks until it drops to the ground in¬
toxicated.
In Holland there is an original way of
collecting taxes. If the taxpayer omits
to promptly him, pay after notice has been good sent
appetites to two soldiers /possessed of
are sent to his home, to be there
lodged and maintained at the expense of
the delinquent, until he rushes doAVn to
the tax-office and settles.
John Schiumsuer, of Emporia, Neb.,
weighs 145 pounds, and his Avife weighs
404 pounds. She is thirty-one years old,
and is still gaining flesh. Her father
weighs over 500 pounds, and her mother
tips the beam at 410. She has a sister,
twenty- seven years old, who Aveighs 460
pounds, and she has four brothers whose
combined weight is over 1,500 pounds.
Electricity is employed in a Berlin
cafe to boil coffee. A platinum wire
passes in spiral form through several
glass jars, the electrical current quickly
raising the water contained to boiling
point, and the coffee is thus prepared in
the view of any one in the room. A
small electric railway conveys the coffee
to the several tables, so that the guests
may help themselves to their liking.
A man who haa practiced medicine for 40
years he ought to know salt from sugar; read
what says:
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