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SUNDAY MORNING. Romance in Life of A California Recluse. S^""""""" OMEWHERE In the world there is some cne who is en 3|g|s titled to $142,200. Who is that person and where i3 he? Combining the mystery and romance of a Dumas novel with the weird and g or( jid reality of actual tacts the story or Charles Hill, the !ram P millionaire, who died recently fi the Good Samaritan Hospital at Angeles, Cal., leaving a fortune u * many thousands without a claim ant truly surpasses fiction and startled his Cincinnati relatives be yond belief. At present this wonderful fortune is reposing in the vaults of the First National bank of Los Angeles and consists of roils of greenbacks in large denominations. The public administrator of Los Angeles county has been searching for relatives of the dead millionaire to take the money off his bands since the third w r eek in May, 1902. Mrs. Margaret A. Roberts, the wife of a painter living on East Court street, Cincinnati, claims the fortune left by Charles Hill on behalf of her widowed mother, three brothers and a sister as legal heirs of the dead man. who, she says, was her dead father's half brother. The story which brought Charles Hill to the attention of his relatives and set the wheels of legal machinery in motion to establish their title to his fortune reads like a fiction. During the first week in May an agen man applied to the Good Sa maritan hospital at Los Angeles, say ing he wished to be taken care of lor a while. He gave the name of Charles Hill, and although dressed in rags had SBOO, from which he settled all his bills in advance. This strange individual was taci turn and moody; refusing to talk about himself or his circumstances, he sat silently brooding day by day. Almost deaf, conversation with him was carried on by means of signs and written words. The hospital nurses, foreseeing the end, tried repeatedly to discover something about their aged patient or his past life, hut all their efforts resulted in failure. Inquiries as to ills /ft Y q Charles Hill. his friends or relatives brought only the piteous answer, seemingly wrung from his heart: "I have no one to rare for me — no one! No relatives or friends in all the world!” Shortly after entering the hospital Charles Htll died, of what complaint no one knew. Apparently he just faded away of old age and loneliness. Greenbacks amounting to $2,000 were found in his clothes by the pub lic administrator, who took charge of Hill's estate. Among his effects was found a key to a safety deposit box and the ad ministrator went on a tour of the hanks to ascertain if the old man had rented a box of any of them. At the Union Bank of Savings it was found that Hill had engaged a safety deposit box on the 26th of April. President Rartlett of the bank, ac companied the administrator to the vanlt, and the box was opened. Sev eral packages were found done up in w'hile cloth covered with wrapping paper, and on these "receipts" wa< written in a large, bold hand. One of the packages was opened, revealing a bundle, of crisp, new greenbacks. All of the other pack ages were composed of the same valuable ‘‘receipts.” When it had alt Margaret Roberts. been counted the total amount of $140,000 iay before the astonished officials’ gaze. According to the laws of Califor nia Hill’s estate will remain in the hands of the public administrator for seven years. If at the expiration of that period the lawful heirs have not established their claim the money becomes the property of the state of California. Mrs. Roberts is firmly convinced that Hill is her uncle who has been missing for several years. Certainly her story throws a light on the dead man’s queer character and explains many things that seem perfectly in comprehensible to strangers. Mrs. Roberts says that Hill, if ha be her father’s missing half brother, was born in Edir.boro, Scotland, Nov. 22, 1819. That would make him 84, just the supposed age of the Hill who died in the hospital at Los Angeles. Hill’* own father, according to Mrq. Robert's story, died in Scotland and his widow married a man named Nor ris, who, after the birth of a little son whom they named Hiram P. Norris, brought his family, including his step son, to America. Norris settled at Troy, Ohio, where Charles Hill and Hiram P. Norris, born of the same mother, but differ ent fathers, were brought up as w Hill was a bright, gay-hearted boy up until the age of 21. when a sorrow somewhat like that of the ill starred JP iL ' :E| '\ fi'rf H. P. Norris. poet Edgar Allen Poe, made his heart "grow ashen and sober as the leaves that were withering and sere," and he became a restless wanderer on the face of the earth in search of forget fulness. Hill’s stepfather died, and his haif hrotlier married and had children be fore Hill returned to Troy. He was then, to ail appearances, a tramp, dis owning home, occupation or friends. When his half-brother chided him for his shiftlessness Hill would take his little niece, Margaret Norris, now Mrs. Margaret Roberts, on his knee and say: “Don't lost faith in me, little one. Be good, and some day i'll leave you a lot of money. It is worth less to me now.” Norris, the child's father, laughed at such statements coming from a man practically in rags, and mado Hill’s suppositious fortune, which lit tle Margaret was to inherit, the sub ject of many a joke. Charles Hill wrote to the Norri3 family at varying' periods of time from Kansas City, Mo.; Denver, Col., many different points in Texas, and San Francisco, Cal. The last letter received from him came from San Francisco, saying he had made a lucky speculation in some mining ventures. Famous Men and Music. Arthur Balfour the new British premier, is sail! m have "an ear for music," and is, indeed, “the first musi cal premier” for quite a long time. The truth is that most public men, so far from being unmusical or "anti musical,” would probably rather agree with the veteran diplomatist who, when asked the secret of his pro longed youth, said: "Music and flow ere.” Even Dr. Johnson, who be longed to the unmusical people, re marked while listening to tiie harp sichord: "I shall bo glad to have a new sense given to ine." Spurgeon refused to have an organ in his fa mous tabernacle, but it is said that he would take the handle of a poor organ-grinder's organ ami turn it while the owner picked up the coins. Old Church Laws. In connection with the anniversary of the Bethel Primitive Methodist chapel, Burnley, England, a souvenir handbook containing copies of old rec ords has been issued. A minute passed in 1834 reads: "That we do not al low young men and young women ol our society to court with each other on Sunday; neither do we allow our single men and women to walk in the street together arm in arm at any time; neither do we allow them to stand at street corners chatting to gether.” By another resolution the chapel authorities forbade girl chor isters wearing bows in their bonnets. Unique Offer for a Laundry. A laundry was newly established in a neighborhood to mote in wealth and social pretensions from the Fifth avenue district. New York. In the window after a few days appeared a placard that attracted the attention of ever# small boy that passed that way. "Every kid,” read the irregu larly painted notice, “wat brings dirty does here gets a piece of candy.” I! is a pretty good guess that every boy who read that sign and whose mother put her washing out importuned her to let him carry it to that particu lar laundry. Oil in Australia. It is reported that an oil spring ol good quality has been discovered in the southeastern district of South Aus tralia. The spring is near the lakes at the mouth of the Murray river. The existence of patroleum in this desert region has been known for years. The oil exudes from the banks of Lake Coorong, and also from the more southern coast line. The quantity of the supply and the purity of the oil are not yet determined. Austrian Emperor Still Vigorous. The Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria is 72, but is still vigorous and takes an active interest in all matters that concern his people. LABOP NOTES The Average Man. When it comes to a question of trusting Yourself to the risks of -lie roail. When the thing is the sharing of bur dens, The lifting the heft of a load, Tn the hour of peril or trial. In the hour you meet as you cart. You may safely depend on the wisdom And skill of the average man. 'Tis the average man and no other Who does bis plain duty each day. The small thing his wage is for doing. On the commonplace bit of the way. 'Tis the average man, may God bless him, Who pilots us, still in the van. Over land, over sea, as we travel. Just the plain, hardy, average man. So on through the days of existence. All mingling in shadow and shine. We may count on the very-day hero, Whom haply the gods may divine. But who wears the swarth grime of his calling. And labors and earns as he can. And stands at the last with the noblest. The commonplace average man. —Margaret 1-1. Sangster. Head of Stationary Engineers. Robert G. Ingloson, who was elected in Boston as the new president of the National Association of Stationary En gineers, is a resident of Cleveland, O. He was born in England March 30, 186S. and has been actively engaged in the various branches of engineer ing for the past 18 years by many big firms. He is a member of the Eccen tric Association. No. 47, Ohio N. A. S. E.; member of the Electric club of Cleveland, the Associated Technical club, vice president of the Ohio So ciety of Mechanical, Electrical and Steam Engineers and the Eureka Club of Masonic Engineers. He has been an ardent worker for the advancement of the engineering fraternity on educa tional lines, and was one of the lead- Robert G. Ingleson. Newly Elected President of the Na tional Association of Stationary En gineers. ers in Ohio who piloted the engineers’ state license law through the Legisla ture. The state has grown iu the' number of associations of the N. A. S. E. from 30, since he took the office as the state deputy president of Ohio, to 58 at the present time. Union Men Checked. By his decision Judge Jackson makes it a criminal offense for a man to ask another to join a labor union, and if his opinion holds good it is an easy step for a judge to take to say that a man must not he asked to join a so ciety, a church or a political club. No matter how arbitrary or how opposed to political freedom a corporation's demand may be, a judge can be found willing to exercise his power if it is but invoked by the proper people. And if corporations, coal producing or otherwise, ever lose a strike, the blame cannot be laid at their door. If they continue the working people will bo forced back into the condition of slavery from which they have been rescued by the trade unions. It is not so very far back in the history of the long struggle between capital and labor when it was a seri ous criminal offense for a man to ask or accept a rate of wages higher than was ordaineu by law, and the rate was so low that to think workmen lived upon it seems incredible. Nor was that ail, for another law said that it was penal to refuse to work at the pre vailing rate. These judges would again bind the hands of labor and make it dependent, upon the generos ity of employers. Neither law nor judge has the right to say that a man may not join a trade union or ask another man to join them. And when existing law is bent and twisted to the end that, some men may employ others cheaply and thus reduce the standard of living, is it any won der that contempt for both law and judge is rampant?—Exchange. In Search of Child Labor. The cotton duck mills at New Hart- ; ford, Conn., which give employment to 700 persons, are to be closed per- i manently on the Ist of September, i The machinery is to be moved to some I southern state and work resumed i t#ere. The object of the removal from a place where the company is doing a fair, profitable business is not to get 1 nearer the raw material. It is to get ; a supply of cheap child labor. That can be had at the South. It cannot j be had in Connecticut. The laws of j that state, as of other northern manu- j facturing states, forbid the employ ment of children under 14 years of age. That humane, economically wise legislation is as offensive to the own- : ers of the New Hartford mills as simi lar legislation was to the Lancashire mill owners seventy years ago. There is to-day in some quarters the same appalling indifference there was then to the sacrifice of health or the lives of children in the fierce effort to pro duce goods at lower cost and make more money. THE BRUNSWICK DAILY NEWS. Possibly the natural pride which southern men take In the remarkable development ol’ the cotton manufactur ing industry in thair midst makes them less observant of the evils which child labor entails. The southern states which permit it are guilty of an economic crime as well as of a crime against humanity. They are tolerat ing methods which are destructive of valuable human raw material. They are allowing the boys and girls who should grow up to he healthy, able bodied workers to be killed off in childhood, or If they survive to grow up stunted, dwarfed, and ineffective workers. Strikes Across the Water. In England during the year 1900 there were 648 strikes, 188,538 strik ers. 3,152,864 days’ work lost in conse quence. In France the figures were: 902 strikes. 22,714 strikers, 3,760,577 days’ work lost. In Italy there were 259 strikes, 43,194 strikers. 231,590 days’ work lost, or more than 7,000,000 days’ work lost in the three countries in a single year. In England SO per cent of the strikes were successful, 25 were unsuccessful; in France 22 per cent successful, 27 per cent were un successful; in Italy 34 per cent were successful, 30 per cent unsuccessful. The strikes not here accounted for were compromised in one way or an other. Millinery Trimmers in Union. The millinery trimmers, makers and preparers, of whom there are many hundreds in Chicago, have an swered the bugle call of trade union ism, and hereafter will trim my lady’s hat according to the rules of their union. However, fashion's latest decree in headdress will be carried out as it has been in the past, but the worker who converts wire frames and millinery folds into beautiful creations (o cover a woman's crown iug glory will ask for more compen; nation, lighter and airier workrooms and the abolition ol' three hours of night work "for thirty-five cents sup per money.” Fight Label Counterfeiters. Tlie war against counterfeiters of (lie elgarmakors’ union label is bear ing fruit, according to reports from Pennsylvania. A few woeks ago a dealer in Gettysburg, Pa., was lined SIOO and sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment, and last week another dealer in Red Lion, Pa„ re ceived a similar sentence. The cigar makers' officials are elated over the prison sentences, and believe a few more such cases will put an end to the nefarious practice. Early Tailors' Unions. Journeymen tailors were among the earliest craftsmen to form trade unions in North America. Even pro vious to the year 1800 we find some records of their organization in New York. Philadelphia and some of our eastern cities. In Boston a tailors' union was organized in 1806, which is still in existence, having at no time since that date entirely lapsed. In 1823, at Troy, N. Y.. the tailors form ed a local union which lias also had a continued existence. President Shaffer's Position. President Shaffer of the Amalga mated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, is reported as having said “that he will force the tinplate workers to accept the proposition of the American Tinplate company for a reduction in wages.” President Shaf fer may have that power, but the tin workers stil! have ground for some consideration, especially when it touches their pocket book. Help Invalid Employes. Forty invalid employes of the Wa bash railroad were recently sent from the company’s hospital at. Peru, Ind., to San Francisco, accompanied by hree trained nurses. It is said to be the purpose of the road, in case these employes are benefited by the trip to California, to send invalid employes to the coast every year in tlie future. The railroad company pays all ex penses of the trip. Can Not Import Men. The United States immigration bureau has informed the Machinists’ union at Omaha, Neb., that any effort to import men from foreign countries to take the places of striking shopmen on any railroad would receive im mediate attention. It is presumed that the Union Pacific was preparing to import men from Scotland and England to take the places of strikers on its system. Money for Striking Miners. The South Wales' Miners’ Federa tion has passed a resolution to donate $50,000 to the striking miners of this country. All the unions throughout this country are contributing liber ally. Still it needs a lot of money to support the families of 150.000 men, and they should not be allowed to suffer when the trade unions gener ally are in suen a prosperous condi tion. Proud Record for Labor. It is estimated that 500,000 people were on tlie streets and viewed the parade in Chicago on Labor day. Of this vast crowd only thirteen were taken sick or were injured, while but eighty-seven needed attention because of exhaustion and fainting. Dr. Cox said the other day that this was a remarkable record, and one that the labor men could be proud of. Swelldom Has Choice Morsel of Scandal. ( HE win of the late Eugene Guido Cruger, which is still nanga claiming the attention of the jdggjlf Surrogate’s Court in New York, serves to recall the strange story of a man who once was the arbiter of fashionable metropoli tan society and whose matrimonial experiments were as to the jad ed appetites of swelldom's gossip. Cruger belonged to a family of that naiuo which has prominently figured in the history of old New YcTk and was thus relieved of the alternative of purchasing his entry into society. It Is money or blood—never brains—you know r that opens the gilded portals of society and with his Knickerbocker blood Cruger had only to knock to have the doors opened. He became the rage of society. Ho was tall, handsome, cultured, a good talker, a good dancer and had the hap py knack of paying compliments as fulsome and as lying as a tombstone. Women raved over him. They can rave over anything from a cannibal king to a chameleon. But Cruger was no cannibal king, though perhaps he had some of the chameleon’s changing characteristics. Some of them one day hunted up an old mythology and lo! Cruger becamo Apollo, the hand some, the divine. Weil, Apollo one day found his Ve nus. She was Blanche Spedden, of New Orleans, a belle of course and naturally handsome. They were mar ried in Grace church. Society ap proved the union and its butterfly life went on. In due time three children were horn to the couple, society, of course, approving. At this time—lßßß—the father was at. the height of his popularity and Mrs. Cruger was allowed to shine in her husband’s brilliance. All of a sudden society was shocked. Mrs. Cruger applied for a divorce and the custody of her children and got both. Very prudently Cruger went abroad. He visited the Riviera and dazzled the French shore of the Med iterranean. There he mot Meta Kane Bell, the widow of Louis Bell, of New Eugene Guido Cruger. York. Each knew the intricacies of the love game and after a few careful moves each captured the other. Cu pid led them to the altar, where the usual ceremonies were performed, and the American colony abroad approved. Shortly after the birth of a daughter, Mrs. Cruger No. 2 applied for and got a divorce. Society now became downright in terested. "What could it mean?” it asked itself, and as no one ottered an answer it very accommodatingly be gan formulating theories itself. But its Apollo was shattered. It had to have another title, however, for its former hero, and some reader of By ron fittingly suggested Don Juan. At this lime Cruger, whether from his matrimonial infelicities or from some other cause, developed epilepsy. He became old-looking and haggard and probably realizing that he had not long to live and that when once dead lie would be a long time dead, he determined on enjoying himself during the intervals of his epileptic attacks. The place for this, as every- Mrs. Cruger No. 1. one in the world knows, is Paris, and in the gay French capital Cruger es tablished himself. One day in a restaurant he saw a girl. He saw many, of course, but this one interested him. She was cashier of the restaurant, lately pro moted from being a scullion. She was of Tartar origin and had jour neyed from her native Russian step pes with an art student. Cruger did some figuring. He had tried matrimonial bliss with two of society’s chosen and was shipwreck ed twice. He reasoned that a wom an was more devoted the more ignor ant she was, and he resolved to try ati experiment. He proposed to the Tar tar girl, was accepted and they were wed. His reasoning, possibly, was right. At any rate the Tartar wife did not sue for divorce, and when a few years ago Cruger died he left the following brief will, scrawled on a piece of paper: “I leave my name of Eugene G. Cruger and my property which I possess to Olga Salomea Heitz. I make her my legatee to all my property.” Olga Salomea Heitz w'as his Tartar wife. The two ex-wives contested the will, each wishing for a share of the prop erty for their children, and this con test is now going on. It is unneces sary to enter into its details, but it Mrs. Cruger No. 2. may be said that the divorced wives are trying to prove that Cruger’s mind was affected when he drew the will. It may also be noted that wife No. 1 and wife No. 2 married again; the first Mrs. Cruger becoming Mrs. J. Frederic Tams and the second select ing Chevalier Raval Mourichon, a Knight of the French Legion of Hon or, for her third husband. Meantime, New York society has developed other Apollos and other Don Juans, and Cruger, while not forgotten is rarely spoken of. Society must have change, and it generally gets it. CLEARED BARN OF RATS. Vermonter's Ingenuity Was Equal to a Hard Task. The tale is old as Hamelin Town. Rats! They hit the babies in their cradles, they licked the soup from the cooks’ own ladles. And they also ate up the grain in a Vermonter’s barn. Ilamelin tried the Pied Piper and got rid, to its sorrow, of more than the rats. But this Vermonter tiled rolled oats, and still has his thirteen-odd children, but no rats. If this were an advertisement for a breakfast food the moral would be plain. ”It was this way,” said James F. Manning. “Out in the country, not far from Burlington, the grocer, who is general grain and feed dealer and disburse!’ of farming tools and the like for the surrounding district, found his storehouse to be overrun with rats, which no trap seemed cunning enough to catch nor big enough to hold them all. As the grocer put it, no ten traps could catch them fast enough to prevent a second genera tion. So he hit on an idea. He took a great, wide tub and filled it half fuu of robed oats. "The rats fattened on it, or rather in it for some days. When they had learned to go there with confidence he one day filled the tub half full of water, on the surface sprinkled ° coating of chopped cork, and thdn over all sprinkled a thin layer of the rolled oats. That night the rats came to the tub as was their wont, peered over the edge, saw that ail was rolled oats, and jumped. The next morning seventeen of them were found dead at the bottom. In this way the grocer cleared his storehouse. Being a Yan kee, he is already talking of a pat ent.” Curiosities of Nature. The thread of the silkworm is so small that many of them" are twisted together to form our finest sewing thread. But that of the spider is finer still, for two drachms of it by weight would reach 40U miles. In water in which vegetables have been infused the microscope discovers ani malculae of which many thousands together do not equal a grain of sand; and yet nature, with a singular prodigality, has supplied many of these with organs as complete as those of the whale or the elephant, and their bodies consist of the same substance, ultimate atoms, as that of man himself. In a single pound of such matter there are more living creatures than of human beings on the face of the globe. Woman Will Carry Mail. Miss Lulu Adsit will be one of the rural free-delivery carriers on the new route established from Manilus (N. Y.) postoffice Aug. 1. Miss Adsit is the first woman to receive an ap pointment as carrier in this country, and one of the very few in this state. She is 23 years of age, of rather slight build, determined and popular, and with a good business education. Superintendent Machen states that, although the number of woman car riers so far appointed are few, they are giving good satisfaction. To Command at Sandhurst. The British military attache at Washington, Lieutenant Colonel Kit son. has been appointed commandant at Sandhurst, one of the most import ant assignments in the British army. Lieutenant Colonel Kitson was former ly commander of the Royal Military College at Kingston, Ont. To Make the Batter Better. Cooking teachers say that the ingre dients for pancakes, fritters and tl like should be mixed fully two hours before the hatter is needed. This, they explain, gives the flour a chance to swell and the batter is better and more wholesome. Which means, to some of us, an unlearning of old methods. tA How to Drink Milk. When one needs a reviving stimulant after exhaustion, nothing can rival the effects of hot milk sipped slowly. Some people say they cannot digest milk, and these are the people who drink it down quickly, so that! the digestive acids, in playing round it, form large curds, which give trouble before they can be absorbed. The right way Is to sip the milk in small amounts, so that each mouthful, as it descends into the stomach, is surround ed by the gastric fluid, and when the whole glassful is down the effect is that of a spongy mass of curds, in and out of which the keen gastric juices course, speedily doing their work of turning the curd into peptones that the tissues can take up. ~ , m#& Tlie Ue of Lemon. If more people realized the many uses to which lemons may he put this fruit would always be found in the well regulated household. Here are some of its good qualities: Lemon juice removes stains from one’s hands. Lemon juice and water make a mouth wash, useful for preventing tartar and sweetening the breath, but the mixture must not be too strong, or the enamel of the teeth will in time suffer. Lemon juice will often, when everything else fails, allay the irritation caused by the bites of gnats or flies, and a teaspoon ful of it, in a cup of cafe noir, will usually relieve a bilious headache. The juice of a lemon, taken in hot water on awakening in the morning, is . liver corrector and a flesh reducer. Lemon juice and salt will remove rust stains from linen without injury to the fabric if you wet the stains with tlie mixture several times while it is blenching in sunshine. Two or three applications may be necessary if the staiu is an old one.—Brooklyn Eagle. -j l Buckwheat Cakes. To make buckwheat griddle cakes, mix together four cupfuls of buck wheat flour with one scaut cupful of cornmeal and an even tublespoonfut of salt. Sift these ingredients to gether. To moisten them use five cup fuls of lukewarm water and two cup fuls of milk. The milk Is used to give the rich brown color preferred by most people. To accomplish this many housewives use all water and add two tablespoonfuls'of molasses. The milk, however, makes the cakes more deli cate. Dissolve a compressed yeast cake In n half cupful of lukewarm water; add it to the other liquid. Then add tlie liquid gradually to the dry ingredients, beating hard meanwhile. Pour the hatter into a pall that comes lor the purpose, and let it rise over night. In the morning, just before baking the cakes, stir a level teaspoon ful of soda into a qunrter of a cupful of lukewarm water and beat It into the batter until it foams. Then fry a test cake on a hot griddle, and if It is too thick, add more water or milk to the batter. At least a pint of the bat ler should be left for the next baking, to use in place of the yeast. To renew tiie batter, add the ingredients in the same proportion as the first time. A hot solution of salt and vinegar will brighten copper and tin ware. A few cloves put in the ink bottle will prevent the contents from mold ing. When color in a fabric has been ac cidently destroyed by acid, ammonia may be applied to restore it. A pleasant household deodorizer is made by pouring spirits of lavender over lumps of bicarbonate of am monin. Mildews on linen may be removed with soft soap and chalk rubbed over the discolored place before it goes Into the washtub. String beans, covered with French dressing sprinkled with chives and seasoned with salt and pepper, make an excellent salad. A pinch of salt will make the whit® or an egg beat quicker, and a pinch of borax in cooked starch will make the clothes stiffer and whiter. When a bathtub becomes shabby sandpaper it and give it a coat of or dinary White paint, to be followed by one or two coats of bath enamel. Stains on brass will soon disappear if rubbed with a cut lemon dipped in salt. When clean, wash in hot water. . dry with a cloth and polish with a wash leather. Aluminum pans are excellent in every way and no trouble to keep clean if rinsed out directly they are done with. They should not be washed with sodg, as it Is destructive to the brilliant polish. Jtw.clry can be cleaned by washing iu soapsuds in which a few drops of spirits of ammonia are stirred, shaking off tlie water and laying in a box of dry sawdust. This method leaves ut> marks or scratches. ... ...... . NOVEMBER IS