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SUNDAY MORNING. THE TIP WBJfIFWEOM BUT IT LOOKED LIKE A SURE ENOUGH GOOD THING. Woman Whose New Gown Dyed Her Before the Race Tells of a “Hunch" That Was Misleading—Story of a Tragedy, The woman with the washed-out polka-dot gown looked sadly at her friend in tne fresh looking tan linen frock who had called to see her. "What are you looking so blue about?'’ asked the tan linen girl. Tha washed-out woman eyed her sharply. Then she flushed. ”1 suppose you mean my gown?” she replied. "Mo doubt you are sur prised to see me wearing such a raggy looking thing—but I'm doing it as a punishment!” The tan linen girl looked the washy gown over. "Are your sins as bad as that?” sho said. "I can hardly believe It.” “No womanly woman should ever bet on a horse race!” announced she who was being punished. "Oh. 1 don’t know!" said the tan linen girl. ”1 won a hat and a dozen gloves and two pounds of bonbons on the Suburban." “Ob, pouf! I don’t mean bets like that. You never have to pay if you lose. I mean real money." ”1 never know you were that sort of a girl!” said tho tan linen one. "No, I am not; that’s the trou’ 'e. 1 don’t know anything about it. But there are worse things. It all began with this gown—this limp, spotty look ing thing you see mo wearing. This is one of those alluring creations that you see in shop windows on a beauti ful blonde wax lady with red linger nails." ’’.Just fancy,” said tho tan linen girl. “You wouldn’t notice the gown at all except' that you see it from the street car. Y’ou wouldn't see it ex cept that it has a big staring price mark on the wax lady's chest or hang ing from her elbow like a theater bag. This holds you and although you may have the natural, inborn antipathy for purchasing goods that are marked in windows, it fascinates you like a Japanese crystal. "In reality it is a regularly cooked up trap for catching feminine lobsters, and there is always a lot more lobster to a feminine one than the other kind. You stand staring at the gown and say to yourself: ‘Twenty-five dollars. Goodness. That's how some women manage to dress so cheaply'. Now I should go to Chargem’s and pay forty five for or.e no better.’ “You don’t, really think of getting the gown, but you yield to the tempta tiou of going in a shop that you've never been in before. You are met inside the door by an imposing speci men of masculinity, who smiles and bows with a certain magnificent un bending of dignity and then almost carries you to the elevator. When you are projected on the floor designated you are met by another man. He usually looks as though he’d seen bet ter days and has that straggly sort of whiskers that you might call near whiskers. “This man scrapes before you and call out a young woman, 6 feet high with a 48 bust measure, who passes you on to another Juno. By this time they have you landed in the basket. You feel positively ashamed to have come in for such a cheap gown. Fre quently all they have to do is to bring out a SSO or a SIOO gown at tnis stage and you order it.” "If you have the money, you mean?" “And sometimes when you don’t have it. You find the gowns are made up without any silk lining. That, of course, reduces their value, hut the heavyweight girl tells you they are so light for summer. Then with a sort of Japanese wrestling tactics they get one around you in some way before a tall mirror and pull it down in the back" just as Warfield does when he sells a coat in the play, and tell you that all It needs is a little alteration. “This is just what Happened to me. 1 will say that the Juno girl seemed “Needs a Little Alteration.” too kind-hearted for her place, for she gave me a funny little look, lifted here eyebrows just a little bit—like this.” "And didn't you understand? That means twenty-three.” “Twenty-three? And what does twenty-three mean?" “Why, ‘Get out quick.’ Well—you are slow!” “She said: ‘Don’t you fancy those other gowns In black and white? They cost a little more, but they are quite cheek! I bought one myself this morning.’ ” “ ‘No, thanks,’ I said. Then she sent for the fitter. He made a few passes around—you know how they do—and said, ’That’ll be SO, Miss Mac- Grouchy!’” "Mat Grouchy!” “Yes; they always have queer names like that. Just the same as you find ‘Pinkie Chinn' and ‘Birdie Glue’ on programs. 'Well, 1 told them 1 wanted the gown sent home the next day, be cause I wa3 going on a little journey and wanted to wear it in the cars. I tried to convey the impression that I was going to throw it away when I reached the other end of the trip. You know how one acts when buying any thing cheap. But 1 wanted to wear it to the Suburban. It came home the day before the race. "Friday—the thirteenth!” said the tan linen girl. “And I thought I’d wear it in tha afternoon, just to get the first new ness out of it. I was going to dinner in the evening and had to get some gloves, so 1 went downtown for them. And here’s where the tragedy begins, “I was safely on the way home when it began to rain—one of those sudden, awful downpours. 1 v.r.e drenched before I could get in a door way or a cab or a ear or anything When I got home this gown was likF A Straight Tip On Biues. this, only much worse, and, oh, so wet! it clung to me like a Hag around a mast in a rainstorm. But the wtrst of it all was 1 had changed color. My neck and shoulders anil arms were blue. And It wouldn’t wash off. Nothing would touch it. “The dinner was out of the ques tion. so I called them up on tele phone. It was at the Baskinrif.ges, and I got Ned Basxinridge on the ’phone and I explained as best I Cbuld. He said he knew a fellow who bought a white flannel yachting suit onefi and got caught in the rain and had to go home in a cab. I said I wouldn’t have minded that, but changing coirff was another thing. "Then, you know, how men fue. lie said: ‘Just put on a heavy veil and come over anyhow.’ They we if pick ing winners for the Suburban. “ ‘You don’t understand how had it is.’ I said. ‘lt may be poisonous. And missing the dimer and all bus given me tne blues besides.’ “Then he suddenly ejaculatdfl some thing, and I thought he’d had an elec tric shock. 1 asked what was the matter. •* df that isn't the stralghtest kind of a tip,’ said he, and he began to tell the others what had happened. Then he told me of the horse Blues that was to run at Sheepshead Bay. He said there was a tip out on him. “And that’s about all,” said the washedout girl, wearily; “we all went the next day and I wore the gown for luck, and four veils. I was very popu lar going down. They said I was a mascot. But it was so different com ing home. “Why, Blues was tilin',” said the tan girl. “Yes, but we didn’t bother with any thing like that. The tip was hoo straight, they said. Ah, weli, it’s all over now.” “Oh. you don’t know how to bet!” exclaimed the tan linen girl, triumph antly. “Why, I won on Watercure." “Watercure?” said the washed-out _girl; “why, he came in next to last.” yes,” said the tan linen girl, “but I know how to bet, you see. I aljvays bet all the way round.” —New York Sun. The Vanity of Antony. “I am dying, Egypt, dying,” -re marked Antony to Cleopatra. From without the windows of the palace could be heard the low ripple of the Nile and the shouts of the sol diers. % Cleopatra did not look up from the sheet of plans of "How to Build a $3,500 Barge for $65.” She murmured: “I should think, Antony, that a man of your age would realize the fact that gray hair was becoming. Anyway, you might soak your head in hair dye for a week and you couldn’t fool any one with the result.” ’ But Antony had read too many of the to be influenced by her comment. —Baltimore American. Gown of Historic Interest. Mrs. S. C. Reese of Baltimore has in her possession a gorgeous gown worn by her grandmother at the mar riage of Napoleon to Josephine Beau harnais. THE BRUNSWICK --DAILY NEWS. Clever Card Trick. Card tricks which are not difficult to perform are often mystifying, never-, theless. Here are directions how to place four kings in different parts of the pack and then cut them together: Take the four kings and exhibit them taeewise, but secretly place behind tho second one two other court cards of any description, which, being thus hid den behind the king, will not be vis ible. The spectators being satisfied that the four cards are really the four kings, and none other, fold them to gether and place them at, the top of the pack. Draw attention to the fact, that you arc about to distribute the four kings in different parts of the pack. Take up the top card, which, being really a king, you may exhibit without apparent intention, and place it at the bottom. Take the next card, which the spectators suppose to bo also a king, and place it about hai: way down the pack, and the next in like manner a little higher. Take up the fourth card, which, being actually a king, you show carelessly, and re place at the top of the pack. You have now really three kings at the top and one at the bottom of the pack, though Ihe onlookers imagine they have 3een them distributed in different parts of the pack, and are proportionately sur prised when the cards are cut to find all the kings are again together. It is best to use knaves or queens for the two extra cards, as being less distin guishable from the kings, should a spectator catch a chance glimpse of their faces. What Is a Horse-Power? When men first begin to become familiar with the methods of measur ing mechanical power, they often spec ulate on where the breed of horses is to he found that can keep at work raising 33,000 pounds one foot per minute, or the equivalent, which is more familiar to some mechanics, of raising 330 pounds 100 feet per min ute. Since 33,000 pounds raise one foot per minute is called one horse power it is natural that people should think the engineers who established that unit of measurement based it an what horses could really do. Tha horse that can do this work does not exist. The horse-power unit was estab lished by Janies Watt about a century ago, and the figures were fixed in a curious way. Watt found that the average horse of his district could raise 22,000 pounds one foot per min ute. At that time Watt was em ployed in the manufacture of engines, and customers were so hard to find that all kinds of artificial inducements were necessary to induce power users to buy steam engines. Asa method of encouraging them Watt offered to sell engines reckoning 33,000 foot pounds to a horse power. And thus he was the.means of giving a false unit to one of the most important measurements in tho world. Cat and Dog Story. Everybody knows how much a dog and cat hate each other, but it is very seldom that their dislikes lead to such serious results as did a dif ference that lately occurred between a bulldog and a black cat in a fruit store. The owner of the bulldog used to lot him run around in the cellar for exercise, hut one morning the dog got tired of his narrow quarters, and went up stairs into a neighboring fruit store, where the black eat lived. Of course, the cat did not like to have any one come into her home without an invitation, much less one of her old natural enemies—the dogs. So as soon as the dog entered out jumped the cat full upon him, and, of course, a fight followed, which natur ally drew into it the owner of the fruit store, and the owner of the dog. The dog, being very lively, soon turned over several baskets of fruit, and upset the stands of oranges arid peanuts, while their masters were vainly trying to settle the row. As there seemed no early settlement in sight., the owner of the eat and fruit stand called in a polcieamn, but in the meantime the dog had virtually gotten the better of the fight, having caught the cat, by the neck, and all the coaxing and pulling would not per suade him to let go. The owner of the dog pulled and pounded, and the policeman, seeing a way out, put his “billy” between Bruno’s teeth and pried open his jaws, only to find that the eat was so badly mangled that it hail to be killed, which the policeman did with two bullets from his revolver. Bruno’s owner settling the differ ence by paying the damage, they both went out, after having learned once more that cats and dogs have a stand ing disagreement, that, in hut few in stances is overcome. Ac to Users of Tobacco. “Nine years ago we commenced to keep a record on this subject,” says Dr. Fish, ari eminent eastern educa tor, “and we have found that the boy who fails usually uses tobacco. When asked to sign our pledge the pupil usually answers that he does not use very much, but we find that he continues to fail in his studies. One of the questions submitted in our rec ord blank is whether or not the pilpii thinks the use of tobacco is necessary to his success. I must admit that many answer this question in the af firmative. I our chapel we frequent ly ask all those who have not had to bacco in their mouths for twelve months to arise and be counted. The average varies from CO to 70 per cent” Dr. Fish's theme was “The Student and the Cigarette,” and. while ho took the stand that tobacco in any form had a tendency to dull the mind of the pupil, ho said that he was com pelled to admit that the cigarette form was the most objectionable and the most injurious. He showed by re reciting statistics taken at the uni versity during the last nine years that the student addicted to the cigarette habit made a much lower average i.i his class percentages than those who were not given to the use of the little paper cylinders. Chinese Fables. A tiger captured a monkey. Tha monkey begged to ho released on the score of bis insignificance, and prom ised to show the tiger where ho might find a more valuable prey. The tiger complied, and the monkey conducting him to a hillside where an ass wav feeding—an animal which the tigej bad never before seen. “My good brother," said the ass to the monkey, “hitherto you have al ways brought mo two tigers. How is it that you have brought mo only one to-day?” The.tiger (led for his life. Thus a ready wit wards off danger. The principle of the next fable the Chinese always apply to the European instructors in the art of war. A tiger, finding a cat very prolific in devices for catching game, placed himself under her instruction. At length lie was told there was nothing more to be learned. “Have you taught me all your tricks?” ; “Yes.” replied the cat. “Then,” said the tiger, “you are of no further use, and so I shall eat you.” The eat, however, sprang lightly into the branches of a tree and smiled at the tiger’s disappointment. She liad not taught the tiger all hot tricks. The Game of Rivers. First, appoint a leader, who starts the game by assigning to each player a country. To No. 1, we’ll way, he a3 signs the United States; to No. 2, Eng land; to No. 3, Scotland; to No. 4. Ire land; to No. 5, Germany; to No. i'., Russia; and so on until'every player lias a country. When that has been done the play ers should refrain from talking for a while, so that they may do a little thinking, and you know very well that if you keep on talking to each other there will be no chance to think. But when the thinking is over you may talk as much as you please. The thinking is to be a little tost of your knowledge of geography, for the leader is going to call on you, skip ping about from one to another, and when yon are called you have to rise and give the name of a river in the country that you represent. For example, the Leader says, “Let ns hear from Germany,” and the play or to whom Germany has been as signed rises and says, “My name is Rhine, and 1 am a river of Ger many.” , Now, as you cannot toll when you may be called on, you must think ol jour river as soon after you get your country as possible. Where Potatoes Grow. Humboldt says that at the time ol the discovery of America the potato , was cultivated in all the temperate 1 parts of South America from Chile up the coast. The Spaniards at first no ticed it In Peru. The variety of potato cultivated in Europe and North Amer lea grows wild in Chile. Different spe cies of the plant are found growin.y wild in most parts of South America land, it. is claimed by many botanists - in Mexico anil Arizona. Boy Was Enameled Green. Thomas Scanlon, aged 12 years, fol into a vat of liquid green enamel al a manufactory at Beaver Falls, Pa. and when fished out was found to lx enameled a bright green from heat to feet, the stuff soaking through tin boy’s clothing. The enamel hardened quickly whet exposed to air, and had to he chipper and scraped from the hoy’s body. He is none the worse for the mishap. A man once owned a small farm He did ins best, to till it and rear a family, hut after working hard ail Ills life lie died a poor man. The farm was Inherited by his eldest son. The son discovered a gold mine and be came immensely rich. The property he had was the same that his father had; but the father didn't know what was in the land, while the son found it out. That is the difference be tween Christians. Through the atone ment of Jesus Christ God hath made ns heir to all things, but only the Holy Ghost reveals our riches. —A. .1. Gordon. The man who persists in, doing nothing is entitled to first prize for perseverance. If a man lives as he should the world will not be very much better by his getting out of it. The man who thinks he is ahead of God is decidedly but of date. Nothing hurts a self-made martyr like being ignored. When it comes to earning a living some men are dead ones. POISUR HER PASSU)!! JANE TOPPAN CONFESSE3 TO KILLING THIRTY-ONE PERSONS. Long Liat o? Persons Done to Death by Trained Nurse—Alienists Puz zled Over Most Remarkable Case In History. Jar.e Toppan, spinster, aged 15, a trained nurse by profession anil by confession a murderer of thirty-one persons, is now safely confined at the asylum for the insane at Taunton, Mass., to which place she was taken after the alienists appointed by the court had declared her of unsound mind and irresponsible for her con duct. Her crimes outrivaled these of Lu cretia Borgia. She stands singly and alone as the greatest criminal of mod ern times. Holmes, who was hanged at Philadelphia in 1395, was an ama teur; Garcia Palasco, executed in the City of Mexico in 1867: Valdiroz Mas- Jane Toppan. sinni, garroted in Barcelona forty years ago, and Maria Polloch, put to death in St. Petersburg in 1856, were angels of mercy as compared to this woman. Her recital of her crimes makes one's blood run cold. She has told of the death of her victims as if she were talking about a summer picnic at which she enjoyed herself; of the fiendish subtlety she employed in ending human lives, the patience she maintained during the paroxysms preceding dissolution, the exuberance and joy which came to her when sho saw their eyelid:-, pressed down. No ghost has come to her in the midnight hours to disturb her dreams, no smart ing of conscience visited her unnat ural brain that excited either tears or sorrow. The three alienists who examined into her sanity marveled and thought she was ail extraordinary criminal when she confessed that she had pois oned eleven persons and attempted to kill two others. But to these men she told only one-third of the tale of her career. For the purpose of his further in vestigation from a medical standpoint. Dr. Henry R. Stedman was told of the confession of Miss Toppan that she killed by the uses of narcotic poisons twenty persons in addition to those sho had mentioned to him. Dr. Sted man has in preparation a work for psychologists, with Jane Toppan as the subject of investigation. He had intended writing merely of his own observations and detailing the admis sion of eleven murders she made to him. When he was told of the other twenty he decided that the magni tude of the case required the most careful investigation, and he intends to consult the attending physicians of each patient Miss Toppan says she poisoned to ascertain if her story of the manner of death is consistent with the symptoms observed by the doc tors. The following is a list of those she has put to death within the past seven years. Sho has promised her attorney that as soon as her mind be comes fresher she will prepare . for him a complete roster of those she has killed with morphine and atro phine. Israel P. Dunham of Cambridge, died May 26, 1895, aged 83. Cause given, “strangulated hernis.” 11l four days. Jane Toppan nursed him. Mrs. Lovcy P. Dunham, wife of Is- Mrs. Mary D. Gibbc. (Woman for whose death Miss Toppan was tr.ed.) rack died in Cambridge Sept. 19, 1897, aged 87. "Oid age.” Jane Toppan nursed her. Mrs. O. A. Bridgman of Lowell, died Aug. 29, 1899, aged 69. Two days’ illness. “Heart failure.” Jane Top pan was in the house when she died, and waited upon her a part of the time she was Hi. Mrs. Mary. MoNear of Cambridge, ■wealthy widefw, died Dec. 28, 1900, aged 70. Two days’ illness., “Apo- SEPTEMBER 14. Jane Toppan nursed her for three hours before death. Mrs. Florence M. Calkins, house keeper for O. M. Bridgman of Lowell, died Jan. 15, 1980, aged 45. 11l three days. “Heart failure.” Jane Toppan was in the house when she died. William H. Ingraham of Watertown, died Jan. 27, 1900, aged 70. “Heart failure.” Jane Toppan nursed him. Mis3 Garah E. Connors, matron of St. John’s Theological school refec tory. died in Cambridge Feb. 11, 1900, aged 48. “Complication of diseases.” Under care of Jane Toppan. Mrs. Alden p. Davi3 of Cataumet, died in Cambridge July 4, 1901, aged 62. “Chronic diabetes.” Jane Top pan nursed her. Mrs. Annie E. Gordon of Chicago, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Alden P. Davis, died at Cataumet, July 31, 1901. Short illness. No death certificate. Jane Toppan nursed her. Alden P. Davis, died in Calumet, Aug. S, 1901. aged 65. Few days’ ill ness. No death certificate. Jane Top pan nursed him. Mrs. Mary E. Gibbs, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alden P. Davis, died in Cataumet Aug. 13, 1901, aged 40. Two days' illness. No death certificate. Jane Toppan nursed her. Mrs. Edna Bannister o' Tunbridge. Vt., sister of O. M. Bridgman, died in Lowell Aug. 27, 1901, aged 77. Two days’ illness. “Heart failure.” Jane Toppan was in the house when she died. Of the whole number there was not one case that liad aroused any sus picion on the part of the physician, who. depending upon the nurse, was using his best skill to restore the pa tient to health. Miss Toppan said she had heard of no question by any doctor that she had not carried out his instructions to the best of her abil ity or that she liad not shown profes sional enthusiasm and faithfulness. The same doctors, she said, had en gaged her in subsequent cases. , Her counsel was satisfied with homicidal details long before she fin ished. But she declared that she wished to tell the whole story. “Well, how did you kill them?” sho was asked. > ”1 gave them doses of morphine and atrophino tablets in mineral water and sometimes in a dilution of whis ky," she said. “Then I also used in jections just as I did at Cataumet. I do not remember how I killed them all, but those that l recall wore poi soned by atrophine and morphine. My memory is not good; I forget some things. “No, I have absolutely no remorse. I have never felt sorry for what I have done, Even wnen 1 poisoned my, dearest friends, as the Davises were, I dill not feel any regret afterward. 1 James Stuart Murphy. (Miss Toppan's junior counsel, to whom she made her confession.) do not feel any remorse now. I have thought it all over, and i cannot de tect the slightest bit of borrow over what 1 have done.” Upon successive visits of her coun sel Miss Toppan added details to the narrative of crime that had been the history of her career as a nurse dur ing the last ten years. This confession was made to Judge Bixby and he instantly advised with the state authorities that a committee of experts be selected that would be satisfactory. To the physicians she was uncommunicative for some days, refusing, to answer questions and otherwise acting ugly. Finally she agreed to tell them of her life. For five hours the doctors listened to her story, the strangest and bloodiest they had ever heard. She told them that she had killed her first victim when a young girl and while attending an undergraduate school for nurses; that a desire to see one die as a result of her own methods was so strong as to overpower her. The victim was a young man well on the road to recov ery when she gave him poison. To her the death rattle in his throat was as sweet as music and when she saw him cold in death she kissed him. "Soon the mania became an uncon trollable passion.” she said. “No voice has as much melody in it as the one crying for life; no eyes as bright as those about to become fixed and glassy; no face so beautiful as the one pulseless and cold.” Gettling the “Tip” Question. The awkward question of the tip was solved by a big New Englander from the State ot Maine who was din ing in a London restaurant the other evening. Having paid his bill he was informed by the waiter that what he had paid did “not include the waiter.” “Wal,” said the stranger, “I ate no waiter, did I?” And as he looked quite ready to do so on any further provo cation tho subject was dropped. Has Charge of Public Playground. Rev. Charles V. La Fontaine, pas tor of the Ada Street Methodist Epis copal church of Chicago, is supervisor of the first publir school playgrounds in the city. He originated the idea.