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StTNDAY MORNING. n OLD TIM& FAVORITES !j <JI the IRISH EMICRANT. BY LADY DCFFEBIX. I’m sitting on the stile, Mary, But the graveyard lies between, Mary, Where we sat side by side, And my step might'bleak your rest, On a bright May morning long ago, Where I’ve laid you, darling, down to When first you were my bride. sleep With your baby on your breast. The corn was springing fresh and green, ~ And the lark sang loud and high, I ™ very lonely now, Mary, And the red was on your lip, Mary, For the poor make no new friends; And the love light in your eye. But, oh, they love the better The few our Father sends. The place ia little changed, Mary, „„„ , , „ ... T ■ i■ The day’s as bright as then; A ™ a)1 ! had ’ M , ary ’ The lark’s loud song is in my ear, 3, le *" and nl t y P r,de; f And the corn is Jrcen again. dfcl n ° W ’ Bnt I miss the soft, clasp of your hand, I’m bidding you a long farewell, And your warm breatb on mv cheek, My Mary kind and true And 1 still keep listening for the worda But I’ll not forget you, darling, You never more may spenk. In the land I’m going to. *Ti* but a step down yonder lane. They sv there’s bread and work for all, The village church stands near— And the sun shines always thorn, The church where we were wed, Mary, But I’ll npt forget old Ireland, I sec the spire from here. Were it fifty times less lair. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BULLION-BOX By H. J. HER.VEY, Late of the Indian Government Telegraph Service, Saharunpore, N.W.P., India. {This story was related to the author by Mr. Hope Kuvariagh, the District Superin tendent of Police at Saharunpore. It de scribes how a native banker resorted to deception in order to'safeguard a east? of bullion which he was sending by rail to a customer, and how by a clever trick the contents of the box were stolen en route, the unhappy banker being precluded from prosecuting the thieves, although they were discovered, through the possibility of being involved in severe penalties himself. J THE firm of Bbugwondnss, Jey kissen, Singh & Cos., bun kern mid merchants, of Kangri, was one of the wealthiest Concerns In Upper India. With a far reaching connection all over the penin sula—and even farther—old Bhugwan daas, the principal, was wont to boast that his signature stood equally good In London as In Lahore, and that he could give you a hoondee (order) which would be honored with the same promptitude In Chicago as In Calcutta. Among the employes of the firm was a certain Thotaram. the son of n for mer client. Falling at. the entrance ex amination for the subordinate Civil Service he had been taken on by Bbug wandass as an English writer. At the time referred to lu this story Thotn ram had been some ten years In the firm’s employ, and for a mere copyist he had risen, through undoubted merit and perseverance, to the comparatively responsible post of confidential clerk to the managing partner. Now, while we must suppose that Thotaram had during his career Been subject to temptations, the equal in ference Is that he had hitherto suc ceeded in withstanding all assaults on his moral rectitude. Anyhow, up to the period I ant writing of the man’s record was clean, and he was looked on by all, from Bhttgwnndnss down ward, as the exemplification, of unim peachable integrity. He had worked ’himself Into the good graces of his pa tron; he was ever willing, hard-work ing and ready to please. Often, when others had cleared out at tin 1 recog nized closing time, Thotaram would be found somewhere about, prepared to Vlo anything that, might be wanted— from Igniting Bhugwamlass’s liooknh and placing it before him to drawing up n promissory note, unlocking the strong room, and counting out 1000 ru pees or so for some belntod borrower. One day the bank had occasion to send n consignment of bar silver to a correspondent named Ptisn, a gold and silver smith residing near the small town of Naglna. dlstaut about three hours’ journey by rail. The bullion, valued at 4000 rupees, after being duly weighed by Thotaram, was packed and nailed down by him In a stout deal box—all under Bhugwnndass’s limne- Mia(e supervision—and the case was thei deposited ou the floor close to the principal’s desk. At noon, when most the employes left the building for the usunl lunch hour, Bhugwandass signed to Thotaram to remain. When the office had emptied the old man called the clerk to him and said, in the ■vernacular: “Did you hear of that ease about a box of sovereigns being broken into during transit by rail between 'Agra and Bombay?" “Yes, sir,” replied Thotaram, In the same tongue. “I read an account of it In the Amrlta.” “Well,” continued tho principal, sink ing his voice to a whisper, “we must avoid running any such risk! 1 have got a good Idea. Take some black paint and address that case of bar sliver to Pusa, Soonar, Soouarl Bazaar, Xagi na.’ The clerk did as he was ordered. “Now. above the address, write ‘Old ■Nalls’ In large letters, fill in the con signment note in the same manner, and go youqself to book the box at the rail way station. See that the weight tal lies with ours, and do not talk to the railway people about the case. Take it carelessly In a bullock cart with you. and go quite alone, so as to cause no suspicion ns to the valuable nature of Its contents.” Thotaram carried out these instruc tions to the letter. On his return to the kotbi (bank) he sought out Bhugwan dass and handed him the consignment note. He ended up by asking for a week’s leave, to proceed to his native place near Bareilly. After transacting his errand at the goods shed he had strayed, he said, on to the passenger platform, and among the travelers iu a ♦rain that happened to arrive he met a fellow-townsman, who had informed him of his uncle's serious illness: it yvas for the purpose of visiting this rel- ntive that he now craved the Indulg ence. The request was granted and, after profusely thanking ills patron, the confidential clerk withdrew. Instead, however, of proceeding to his village, Thotaram, disguising himself ns an In fantry havlldnr or sergeant on tho look out for recruits, took the next train to Nagina. He was well aware that the case of “old nails” would not ar rive for another four days by goods train, so he had time to mature his plans. He first set to work to ingra tiate himself with the handful of na tive employes at the small station, which was easily done. He knew there were no military In those parts, and, being a well-set-up fellow, lie was able not only to pass himself off success fully as a recruiting sergeant, hut re ceived permission, as such, to put up on the premises till the people poured In to the local fair, which he gave out he was going to attend. In a noncha lant manner, and not 100 hurriedly, he sauntered off to the little mal godam, or goods shed, where he found the sin gle clerk, a Bengali named Hiralal Seal, doing nothing in particular. Ex erting all his inherent affability Tho taram speedily established a good un derstanding with the liahu (clerk), and by closing time lie had pretty well as sured himself that the Intter would prove only too ready to fall in with his views. Seal, for his sins, had been shuuted to this great distance from Lower Bengal; he was an idle, disso lute fellow, but had so far been able to escupe tho consequences of his bad conduct through the Influence of senior relatives holding respectable positions in the head office of the railway. That evening the two met by ap pointment, and Thotaram, intuitively divining the shortest road to the ha lm’s heart, treated him to a regular Jaunt, after the native idea. Thotaram paid for everything throughout, much to the Bengali’s admiration and envy. He bemoaned his state of chronic irn pecunlosity and his wretched salary of twenty-five rupees a month. Tills was precisely the state of mmd Thotaram desired Ills comrade to he in. Seated with the babu on the station yard fencing, preparatory to parting for the night, little by little the schem er unfolded Ills plan. Ho found Seal not only pliant, but eager to partici pate, and before they separated the two young scoundrels had agreed to help themselves to the contents of n certain case marked “Old Nails” the moment It should turn up at the Nagi ua goods shed. Jn due course the precious case ar rived anil was unloaded at the goods shed. Thotaram, by now a privileged loiterer—especially in that part, of the station premises presided over by Seal —took occasion to examine tile box. He felt satisfied it was intact: in exact ly the same state as when booked by him at Kangri. That evening Seal cas ually mentioned to the chou'kldars (watchmen) and porters that as lie had some returns to get through he should not leave (he shed till late. He ordered the lamp-man to prepare a lamp and place it In his partitioned office; had all the doors and exits except one se cured, and told till the underlings to go home, but to return punctually at 9, and that lie would be responsible for tilings In the meanwhile. Nntive-like and nothing loth, the whole posse cleared out. and hardly had the last man disappeared when Thotaram, stealing up to and tapping gently at the unbarred door, was admitted by his confederate. The two had prepared everything beforehand cold chisels, hammer, pincers and, what was more important than all, a plentiful supply of old nails, which had been /collected and smuggled in during the interval of waiting. After thoroughly searching everv dark corner of the shed, and even walk ing twice round its exterior to assure themselves that no one watched them through possible oracks' and fissures In j the woodwork, they put the ease on the platform scales, carefully noted the ! weight, compared it with that entered in the invoice, and then gingerly j opened the bos. This done, thev took 1 out the silver bars, and then, emptying ; the ease of the cleats used to hbld the precious metal immobile, they replaced the box ou the weighing machine and crammed lu old nails till the original weight had been arrived at. After this they carefully re-nailed the lid, using lie same holes, and the first act in the robbery had been accomplished! They then descended to the permanent-way which ran through the shed. Here they dug a hole, kindled a fire, set an iron pot thereon, and melted two of the four bars at a time. This was a very neces sary operation, as the ingots bore the impress of the consigners. This work finished, the two conspirators obliter ated all traces of the fire, threw the melting-pot into the well, and each concealing on his person his portion of the “swag” they calmly awaited the return of the ehoulsidars and porters. On the forenoon of the next day Pusa came for his case. Everything was in order; the consignee produced the rail way receipt, it was compared with ♦in invoice, the weight of the box was ver ified. the .book signed, delivery taken and the old silversmith set out on his return journey to his village, carrying the box with him in a bullock-cart. In the meanwhile a few days’ leave being due to Iliralel Seal that youth applied for and obtained It. He had decided on spending It in a holiday at Kangri, the delights of which town Thotaram had already Impressed him with. Here, too. Thotaram said they would find no difficulty in converting their plunder into current coin of the realm. The two therefore returned to Kan gri with a hardihood and effrontery al most inconceivable, and the confiden tial clerk resumed his duties. But on the very night of their arrival Thota ram was seen in the company of a young Bengali babu, a stranger to Kan gri, at a native theatre, occupying front-row seats. Further, when Ja hoora, a famous dancer and heroine of the piece, at the conclusion of the performance applied to the audience for largess, it was noticed that Thota ram and his Bengali companion each gave her a handful of rupees. These curious facts reached the ears of Bhug wandass the next morning, and that afternoon, while the banker was in the middle of admonishing his protege on the evils attending extravagance there ensued a commotion in the outer court, and amid a storm of lamentations Pusa was introduced. lie and a servant car ried between them nothing less than the ease, “Behold, Mabaraj!” cried Pusa, ad dressing the banker, as he tore open the lid and disclosed the Interior chock full of rusty nails. “Behold what you sent me in return for my re mittance of 4000 rupees!” For a short while consternation pre vailed, but. Bhugwnndass’s suspicions did not take long In assuming shape. He pieced the whole thing together in a few seconds. Thotaram's knowledge of the contents, his own overweening confidence in the fellow, especially with reference to the false declaration and false superscription, Thotaram's departure on leave, fitting in so well with anew friend, and last, not least, the happenings of the night before at the native theatre—all tended to con firm the old banker's opinion that one at least of the culprits stood before him. Ordering Thotaram not to stir from hiß presence, Bhugwandass in structed one of his clerks to find Tho taram's companion, and, under a pre tended message from that youth him self, to Inveigle the stranger to. the bank. The emissary succeeded In find ing his man, and In half an hour's time returned with the Bengali. Addressing the precious pair the banker accused them point blank of concocting anil perpetrating' the rob bery, and asked them If they had aught to say in extenuation of their of fence before lie called in the police. Thotaram was speechless, but Seal was not so easily disposed of. “What,” asked he, “did the railway consignment note declare the contents to be? The invoice, the receipt handed in by the consignee, and the superscrip tion on tiie box itself all notified the same thing—‘old nails,’ weighing so much, and ‘old nails’ of the specified weight wore duly delivered to Pusa, Ihe consignee. Why, then, do you ac cuse us of stealing your bar silver? Who beyond yourself is there to say that the contents were bar silver? Even granted such to be the ease, who saw us take it out? Who saw us even as much as tamper with the box? Where are the signs of any such tam pering?” "All the circumstances point toward you and Thotaram being the robbers,” rejoined Bhugwandass, somewhat ir resolutely. “Assuming that we are,” retorted Seal, insolently, “supposing you have us apprehended, and the affair goes be fore the magistrate, how will you ex plain your false declaration of the con tents of the ease? You have rendered yourself liable to a prosecution under the Railway Act for misrepresenting the contents of your box. Come!” lie shouted, seeing the effect that his words had on the unhappy banker, “take us before the magistrate. You shall tell your story, I will tell mine! lie will ask for all the documents I have mentioned, and when he peruses them, who will he convict —me of rob bery, without a scrap of evidence to support it. or you of false declaration —to prove which those documents will speak, let alone the words ou the box?” As he finished speaking ho gazed at the banker triumphantly, but the lat ter only knitted his brows in woebe gone perplexity. lie realized only too well that Bhug wandass, Jeykissen. Singh a I'o. wort powerless to move hand or foot. Tl;< scoundrelly Seal had'them, as it were "on toast. All they eonld do they did and ’I Uotaram was dismissed from their employ, but Seal got off scot-free That was all that happened to the per petrators of as impudent and bare faced a robbery as had ever beer, known to have been committed on an Indian railway. But Bhugwandass Jeyklsson, Singh A Cos. no longer send bullion under the guise of “old nails.*’ —The Wide World Magazine. THE BRUNSWICK y DAILY NEWS. FARMERS THE RICHEST CLASS IN THE UNITED STATES. IIE richest Individuals in the * United States are not farmers, ' but the richest class, accord ing to the latest bul letin, is the farming class. This bul letin gives the statistics for 1899, the latest available, and according to these figures, the lauds, buildings, imple ments and live stock of the farmers in the United States are worth over twenty billions of dollars. In com parison with this the total manufac turing capital in the country, from the Steel Trust to the smallest factory, is a little loss than ten billions, and the total value of the railroads, counting bonds and stock capitalization, is a little less than twelve billions. The farmers, therefore, arc worth almost as much as the manufacturers and rail road magnates combined. Bradstrect's notes that the manufacturing products, however, outvalue the farm products in the ratio of $13,000,000,000 to $.3,000,- 000,000, and notes that “every dollar of manufacturing capital produces $1.30 worth of product, while agricul tural capital produces less than twen ty-five cents' worth.” How the profits compare is not stated. Comparing the farming industry with the railroads, the New York Financier reckons that the farmer is better off than the rail road magnate. It says; “The farmer, so faras actual wealth is concerned, is the capitalist of the United States. The Census Bureau re port on the value of farming property of the country issued last week, esti mates that the 5,739,037 farms of the United States are worth $10,874,090,- 347. Of this amount $3,560,198,191, or 21.4 per cent., represents the value of buildings, and $13,114,492,030, or 87,0 per cent., the value of land and im provements. Farm implements and machinery are worth $761,261,550, and live stock $3,078,050(M1, making the total farming wealth over 20,514 mil lions of dollars. “This is undoubtedly a very low es timate, but accepting it as correct, oth er forms of industry pale beside It in comparison. The value of the railway systems of the United States, approx imating 200.000 miles, is about 11,800 milllou dollars, counting bonds and stock capitalization, or but a little over half the farming wealth. The rail ways, in fact, constitute the only sin gle industry in the country which ap proaches, even remotely, the stupen dous totals revealed by the census enumeration of farming wealth. It is Impossible, of course, to compare the operations of these two Important <B vlsions of Industry, for the simple rea son that they are distinct in their re sults, and the items which enter Into one are not found in another. Still, it Is not without interest to classify ns far as possible the operating totals, with the Idea of affording a rough approximation, at least, of income yield ou Investment, etc. “The railway systems of the United States in V.aXI reported gross earnings, of $1,501,695,378. or a little more than 12.0 per cent, on the total stock and bond capitalization. The gross farm Income in 1899 was $3.764,177,700, and the percentage of gross income upon investment was 18.3 per cent. It will be seen that the farming industry made out better than the railways. The net earnings of the farmer cannot be cal culated, but assuming the railway av erages as applying equally to both, the expense of operation ranges some where around 70 per cent.” Some may suppose that farming is ou the decline Hi this country; that idea, indeed, is often expressed, and young men are advised to enter some other branch of iudustry. The Finan cier says on this point, however: “Rapid as the development of rail ways has been, however, the rise in farming wealth has been greater. Thus the total value of farm property iu the United States in 1900 was more than five times as great as in 1850. and 28.4 per cent, greater than in 1890. The railway industry was in its infancy in in 1850, so that comparisons extending hack fifty years are unfair, but taking 1890 as a basis, it is found that railway property, as indicated by total capital ization, rose from 10.029 millions of dollars iu that year to 11,892 millions in 1900. This is an Increase of 15.5 per cent, or nearly 10 per cent, less than the increase in the value of tarms. lu this connection recent in vestigation of farm and railway values, growing out of an attempt on the part of the Legislature of lowa, to increase railway taxable values, may be cited. The claim was made that inasmuch ns the railways had increased their earnings and enhanced share values, assessments should rise iu proportion The railways opposed this proposition. Without denying the facts, they con tended that the appreciation of railway values had not been as great as the rise in realty values, and to prove this a committee of attorneys representing the principal railways began an inves tigation of farm values. Records of ac tual sales publicly filed showed that In the last half decade the average ap preciation of land in lowa had been in excess of S2O per acre. The present value of farm lauds iu lowa is stated by conservative authorities to be SSO n acre. If this is true, it follows that in five years the appreciation has been 00 2-3 per cent., which is much in ex cess of the rise of railway values. The figures give an idea of the enormous rise in agricultural wealth. lowa has gained alone in the salable value of her farming lands in five years an amount much In excess of the total capital in vested iu banking in the State, and the same ratio of rise holds good in many other agricultural sections. “The farmer, considered in every light, is an individual much to be en vied. Asa class, he is prosperous ; s never before; liis capital account, as represented in the value of his plant is appreciating, and his income yield, based on present prices of his product, is above that of other industries, or avenues of commercial investment. It is idle to repeat that he forms the real backbone of the country, and none will begrudge him the easy path into which he seems to have entered. As long as he is prosperous, the country has noth ing to fear iu the way of industrial depression.” Where Do Salmon Feed? There is no family of fish more inter esting than the salmon, and in no other fishery have the benefits of artificial propagation been more clearly demon strated. The homing instinct of the salmon enabled the propagators of fry to learn, at tho beginning of their work that it was worth doing. Salmon hatched in any stream usually return to that stream when they are of spawn ing age. The propagators reared sal mon to the size of fingerings, marked them and turned them loose. In due time the marked fish returned and were caught in the home stream, it is a curious fact, however, that, in spite of the homing instinct salmon are found at the spawning season in the brackish water at the foot of Alaskan glaciers, where, it is believed, no fish was ever hatched. Another curious fact,learned through marking the artificially propagated fish, is that a Ungerling weighing from one to two ounces may grow to weigh from two to ten pounds in six or eight mouths, and in two years a weight of forty pounds has been reached. The growth depends, of course, on the food supply. But where salmon feed and what they feed on have not yet been learned. It Is supposed that they find small marine animals so numerous in their deep-sea haunts that they swim about “as If in a soup.” Perhaps the deep-sea haunts will sometime lie dis covered.—John It. Spears, in Success. Secret of Cast Stel Stolen. The history of cast steel presents a curious instance of a secret stealthily obtained under the cloak of an appeal to philanthropy. In 1700 there lived at AtterclitT, England, a watchmaker named Huntsman. He became dissat isfied with the watch springs in use and set himself to the task of making them homogeneous. He succeeded, his steel became famous and about 1770 a large manufactory of this peculiar steel was established at Attercllff. The process was wrapped In mystery, faithful men were hired, high wages paid and stringent oaths administered. One midwinter night, as the tall chim neys of the Attercliff steel works lielchcd forth smoke, a traveler knocked at the gate. It was bitterly cold and the stranger awakened no suspicion. Moved by motives of hu manity the foreman let him iu. Feign ing to be worn out with cold the fellow sank upon the floor and soon appeared to be asleep. That, however, was far from his intention. He saw workmen cut bars of steel into bits, place them in crucibles and thrust the crucibles into the furnaces. Tlte tiro was urged to extreme heat until the steel was melted and then drawn out and poured in liquid forms'iuto molds. Mr. Hunts man’s factory had nothing more to dis close: the secret of making east steel had been stolen.—Mining and Engi neering' Review. Xew Money For Old. There is an unprecedented demand for new money, in reaching out for tile evidence of wealth aesthetic taste is asserting itself in the choice of the tokens ot' prosperty. New, clean, crisp notes are in demand, and persons do not hesitate to ask for them, There is a strongly asserted objection to receiving old, dirty, crumpled paper money that looks as though it might be a vehicle for all sorts of disease germs. This fact is in evidence at the win dow of every bank paying teller in the iainl and at the cash counter of every store. “Please give me new money." and “Will you give me a cleaner bill iu place of this one?" arc requests heard thousands of times every day. These requests are having their effect so far that there is a growing tendency to pay out only the clean, unobjection able money. It is an illustration of the old truth that people get what they want and insist on having. Every bank will verify this fact. Old and objectionable bills go into them, but they do not go out to their cus tomers. They go to the redemption division of the National Treasury, where they are exchanged for new money and then destroyed. That <C‘- partment reports an immense increase in this branch of its business.—New York Herald. How to Burn Soft Coal. That there is an art in burning soft coal is admitted by all who have long been accustomed to its use. J. W. Hartness. who has had thirty years* experience in Cleveland, Ohio, with all qualities of bituminous, says; "If users of soft coal will follow these direc tions they will burn more smoke and less coal for a given amount of heat. Never throw fresh coal on a fire; push the live fire back and drop the fresh coal in front, a few shovelfuls at a time. This is the priaciple that ail successful stokers work on. It will cost nothing to try it.”—New York Frer- Is it merely electrified matter, asks the London Electrician, or is it some thing essentially different from ordi nary matter and of a separate and in dependent substance from atomic sub stances? Are we in the electron, face to face with electricity itself as a thing apart from matter (that is. is an elec tron simply an atom of electricity), or have we therein imply a minute, ma terial chip off an atom, electrified to an enormous degree in proportion to its mass? When these questions are an swered they will solve many funda mental problems in dynamical science. Inertia may he discovered tc be eleetrS§ cal iu its essential nature, and even matter itself may prove to be nothing but electric whorls. Dr. Deslandres, of Paris, has applied a fertile spectroscopic method to the determination of the rotation times of the superior planets. As the planet ro tates one end of its equatorial diameter moves toward us. the other away from us. The rotation will produce, instead of a circular image of the planet In the spectroscope, an elliptical one. Dr. Deslandres uses a spectroscope of mod erate dispersion with a wide slit and therefore employs a great part of the light of the planet. The method lias been applied to Uranus, regarding whose rotation little is known, and the observations show that the rotation is retrograde, as was to lie expected. Its velocity will be determined by later observations. The velocity of Jupi ter's rotation agrees with the results from observation by other methods. The possibility of melting carbon and maintaining It in the liquid condition has been demonstrated by Dr. A. Lud wig. The heating was effected under great pressure in the electric furnace, and a curious phenonemon noticed at 1500 atmospheres was a very brief fail ure of the electric are, the current re fusing to pass, even when the voltage was much increased. It is supposed that, as the carbon passed into the liquid and transparent state it assumed a rare allotropic form, becoming a non conductor. The experiment was too brief for a study of this condition, but was made to include a sudden cooling of the molten carbon by a flooding with water of the interior of the pressure vessel. Though minute diamonds were recognized in the gray powder thus ob tained, the result was not wholly satis factory. Sir Joseph Hooker, the famous bot anist an<l director of Kew Gardens, lias devised an ingenious and useful new pocket micrometer. By the sim ple adjustment of a scale to one arm of the micrometer the length of an ob ject is recorded up to a fraction, and can Vie road off at leisure. One side of the scale is graduated to inches, the other to millimeters. For microscopic work there is obv4Rsiy great advan tage in the use of such an instrument, as a measurement can be made with out moving the specimen or removing the eye front the eye-piece.. The length of the arm of the micrometer is exactly four inches, and this is graduated to tenths of inches and can therefore lie used for larger measurements. The instrument, says Nature, from which the foregoing description is taken, is small and handy, and can he easily carried in the waistcoat pocket. A dispatch from Geneva to the Lon don Chronicle says: A Swiss amateur photographer, M. Adolphe Gartner, re siding at Berne, has. it is said, discov ered the secret of color photography after a number of years of experi ments. The inventor takes his photo graphs on glass, porce.lain and paper, and in any color, the best results, how ever, being obtained from blue, red and yellow. His productions oh glass are veritable pictures, being true to nature in every detail. Even the shades of coloring in a rose are easily distin guished in the photograph. The photo graph of a landscape, viewed front a distance, resembles a painting. Some of the bolder colors give better results than the quieter ones, and M. Gartner is at present occupied in remedying this partial defect. The secret lies in the “bath” and in the developing pro cess. for the photos, it is stated, are taken with an ordinary camera. Many Continental firms are taking a great in terest in the discovery. A Hard Way. In 1594 a fugitive from Vienna with $250,000 in trust funds. In 1902 a slowly perishing pauper on Blackwell’s Island, New York—-his wife Wragged with him down to the public almshouse in a foreign land. Such is the summing up of eight years in the life of Adolph Bettelhcim, Boedeseb. Crime doesn't pay. Or when it does It is in an exceptional case that proves the rule. In Brooklyn borough this very year there was the ease of a man who had been a thief all his life. He had stolen $1790 and served eighteen years in prison. Results of his efforts, State board and $99.41 per year aver age plunder. In Bettelheim’s case fright and con science opened a patli to blackmail. His dollars went chiefly to buy the si lence of one who knew where they came from. Sin worked a third degree of its own. and has eclipsed the punish ment possible under the law. If men would learn some things as easily as they do others a very few such exam ples as the Bettelhcim incident affords would keep many from roguery.—New York World. Fortune and MUfortuue. A woman’s face is her fortune and her clothes her husband’s misfortune.— New York Press NOVEMBER 16 THE MEW GIRL When the New Girl and Cnpid first met, How the little god sighed with regret* *‘l suppose, now. be said, “I must aim for the head. And my old-fashioned methods forget.” But she dodged, and the shaft went astray; So the moral is this, one wouid say, He must send his best dart At the New Maiden’s heart In the dear old Ar cadian way. —Anna Mathewson, in Leslie s Monthly. Teacher— " What is the force that moves men along the street?” Tom mie—“ The police force.”—Town and Country. "Do yon have trouble with your cooks boiling coffee too long?” “Good ness. no! They don’t stay long enough for that.”—Puck. Madge— “ Why is she having her poi trait painted?” Marjorie - "She Ims reached that nge when she doesn't look well in a photograph."—Judge. The automobile struts around With jaunty, careless air. But let )t view the bicycle And see its finish there. —Chicago News. “Well, young man. to be successful in business you will need considerable means. Have you any financial pros pects?” "Yes. sir. I'm engaged to your daughter!”—Life. Mrs. Klondike Nuggets—“ Who arc these people, anyhow?” Mrs. Corn squeeze—“ Made their money iu Texas oil.” Mrs. Kloudike Nuggets—“Dea> me! How painfully recent!”—Puck. "Paw.” said little Willy, “is they such a thing as a 'cradle o’ the deep?' "Certainly. son.” replied I’aw "There’s got to be something to stop the squalls at sea."—Baltimore News. "I fight quite shy of cupid’s dart,” The worldly cynic said; “For he who wins a woman’s heart Must first lose his own head.” —Phdadelphia Record. Mr. Marryat—“l see. old Roxley lias left an estate worth $2,100,000 at least. Wouldn't you like to be his widow?'' Mrs. Marryat (ambiguously)—“No.dear, I’d ratber be yours.” Philadelphia Press. “You officeholders." sneered the man who was vainly trying to be one, "don’t die very often, do you?” “No.” replied the man who was one, as he smiled benignly, “only once.”—Phila delphia Press. A.—“ That woman who just went out is the partner of your joys and sor rows. I suppose?” B.—“ She’s partner to my joys all right, but when it comes to my sorrows she slips over to see her mother.”—Tit-Bits. Friend—“ Hard up and been married only two months? Well, take cheer and remember love makes tile world go round.” Benedict (sadly)—“Yes, but it doesn’t make the milkman and the butcher boy goround.”—Chicago News. Barnes—“ Your nephew, I understand, has got through college at last?” Shedd —“Yes, and what good did it do him? 1 don't, believe he learned a thing the whole four years. Why, man. I doubt if he could repeat the college yell.”— Boston Transcript. A Very Clever Sv indie. For some years a little wagon has come into Paris daily from one of the suburbs and in accordance with the regulations it has been examined at regular Intervals by custom house of ficers. Their task, however was easy, for they never found in it anything but fruit and vegetables, which are free of duty, and so they naturally regarded the driver as an honest countryman, who was taking to market the produce from his little farm. The other day through a mere acci dent they found out their mistake. A brewer’s wagon came in collision with the little cart, and. as the heavy shaft shattered one of the sides, a stream of rich oil gushed out on tiie sidewalk. As there is a heavy duty on oil the custom house officers arrested the" innocent looking countryman and discovered, to their amazement, that there was a false bottom in the cart, and that con cealed from view was a tank capable of holding several quarts of oil. Subsequent investigation showed that oil had been brought for a long time in this surreptitious manner to a dealer in Paris, and the authorities are now carefully examining every little wagon that enters the city, in order to find out whether it also lias a double bottom or not. Deceitful Appearances. Once again the fact that appearances are ofttimes deceitful lias been proved true. The interest of a number of those in the audience at a local theatre one evening was evenly divided be tween the action on the stage and the conduct of a couple seated In the sec ond row of orchestra chairs. During the intermissions between acts, as well as a goodly portion of the time, while the curtain was up. the two folks re ferred to gave evidence of being more concerned about themselves than in the play. Each gazed lovingly into the eyes of the other as a whispered con versation was carried on to the extent that the people sitting near-by felt warranted in making mental compari sons with turtle doves. All the romance was ruthlessly dashed from the situation, however, when those in the row of seats directly in the rear of the couple chanced to overhear a portion of what was under discussion. The man was describing to his fair companion, in a most mat ter-cf-fact manner and with much ear nestness the mussed condition in which one of hjs shirts had that day reached home from the laundry.—lVashington Star.