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    THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 10. 1003.
CRIMINALS BETDAYED
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'GZORGB KLUTZf '
G
EORQB R. . KLUTH 1 perhaps
tbs youngest ' hrmtr la the
tat of Oregon. Ha la but 11
years of age and baa a farm
II to himself. ThU ha cultivates and
tha product la under .hla antlr control
, . from tha tlm It cornea out of tha
around until It peases Into tha bands of
. tha eonaumer.
Thar may be younger farmers than
George Kluth, but ha baa tba distinc
tion of owning; hla own place. There la
. . no mortgage plaatered orer It, either.
. Oeorg la tme agriculturist and be
grows only tba beat product To be
" aura, his holding are not large or ex-
- tensive. - Ha has but one acre. This,
howerer, la made to do Its full duty to
' lta owner and tha crops ha raises are tba
beat that can be produced.
Master Kluth s--farm la located on
' Government island, but a few mllea out
. of Portland. The lad was born on tha
same atretch of land. A year or so ago
fcia father presented blm with a full
acre of land with tha warning not to
. get Into debt or become lasy. Out of
' both of theaa -dlOlcultlea the boy has
thua far safely emerged and at present
la on the high road to prosperity. This
year ba raised 100 sacks of potatoes on
hla one-acre farm. Hla stock waa of
" the best quality, yery regular. In shape
. and area In else. .
', Already tha young man baa learned
: tha leason of good sorting and packing
a trick that many' producer never
learn, Thla la hla trump card for hla
stock recently sold at the highest price
paid In thla market, so well were they
sorted and sacked. . ,
Those who purchased the potatoes of
: , tha young farmer - aay they were of
-superior quality. ' Mr. Kluth. Br, la an
' old-time fancher of Government inland
and baa no email reputation for' rais
ing good potatoes himself. By tboaa
who examined the euppllea of both1 son
nd father It Is said that tba younger
man waa the better producer.
Early In tha aeaaon, tba lad' goes into
the Held and with a horse and plow, such
as every farmer uses to tickle the soil,
. ' prepares his ground for tha reception of
' the aeed. Theae are very carefully se
cured and placed, and from that- tlm
- forth tba young man 1 engaged In tend
ing hla crop. - So carefully doea he look
aftef bis one acre of potatoes that th
' weeda have absolutely no show to live.
They appear, of course.- but their ex
. Unction la aura and swift. , . ,.
When .the time comes for th harvest
T'lT'"!.? onaacxa farm moves
like clockwork. The potatoes are dug
in a systematle manner, . cars being
taken that non is allowed - to sdoIL
There Is no waat of. product on thl4
nncn. u is an turned- into money.
, After digging the potatoes tha youngstei
carefully placea them in email pile
after which they are Juat as carefully
Character in Pencil Sharpening
n
. -
Trent th New Tork Sun.
. i t I I HE way In which a pencil is
" I , ' aharined. is an unfailing
jl maex oi character, "," said
a woman,
To prove that she can la this way
oeciptier character, and also to demon
strata how she doe it. she asked that
tim. number of pencils be collected and
submitted to her, stipulating only that
the more pronounced characteristics of
xnm owners snouia B known to th on
vreeentlnar them.
Tha first pencil examined was on of
ins c nra per aina. un on side th cut
ting was don with many short, ear
. ful strokes; on tbs other ther waa a
, deep, hasty slash and several 'others
irregularly, and carelessly- made.-' None
r of thee touched th lead, which was
. n large ana blunt.
-. "This," said th reader of pencil
r points, "belongs to a person of contra
dictory character.. Careful as to mi
nute details, and also parsimonious In
business matters, he or she, though I
f think this is a woman, will, on an lm-
pulse, apend lavishly. . .
- "Not artistic, though ah would b
greatly surprised to be told so I as
sum th pencil belongs to a woman
aha likes Bn furnishings, flna gems,
r handsome matertala, rich combinations
and because of this eh fancies herself
a person of taste, but shs does not know
boW to combine and separate la a way
to make these thing she loves attrao
m tlve accessories. -
" "How do I reach this conclusion Te
begin with, thla pencil is of the cheap,
harsh sort, which no highly organised
person would car to use.
"Th careful war in which it la cut
. an on aid Indicate th extreme char
actarlatlcs. as to business" matters.
hav pointed out; the long, careless cut.
a tendency to apend at times. In an tm
; thinking, -unreasoning way The Irreg
r lar cute-arhich follow this show a lov
t of excellence, but no sense of propor
tlon, of that Una fitness which consti
tutes beauty. Is this correotr -. . .
Th person who bad secured the pen-
ell answered that It belonged to a widow
who successfully conducts th business
pertaining to a fleet of sailing vessels
left to her by beV husband, and that the
- delineation waa quit correct. ,
Th next pencil examined was dark
brown, of a standard make and evenly
cut with a long, strong point, but littl
Sharpened. - -
"This." ssld th woman, as ah rolled
th point between her thumb and finger
"belong to a painstaking, exact per
son. . Every cent, nay, every mill, must
be where it belong, not so much as a
- matter of economy as of business.
"Everything with - him is aeeom
' pllshed according to well-astabllnhed
processes. As to lmnrtnstion, he heart
shout It, and sometimes vaguely won
. ere,what It la
Th hlnnMil tA e. lunlft 11
who has grown old In th service of the
insrnution witn wnirn ne is conneciea
Th next on considered was a-briCit
1 -.11 .11 lk. ti..l ku. ftfc
dp strokes starting from each of lta
six viae. i nese ran were nui even
nd left the lead Jtorao unusual die--mncTXfuIght
and bora, . '. '
UT THB PLOW
gathered and later sorted ' as to six
before being placed Jp sacks for th
marvel. .
Th process of harvesting ' his crop
over, young Mr. Kluth begins to look
around ta eee what potatoes are selling
tor. inquiries are made at various
housea for- quotations and in papers
are eagerly scanned for new of th
crop and the .arket. Any item bear
ing on th potato alruation la lust aa
eagerly gone over and th beat market
for th product are discovered In th
same manner. - '
Not Ilka the ordinary producer of
potatoes is Oeorg Kluth, however. H
does not place potatoes of large .also on
tha top and small ones on th bottom.
Hi pack Is even all tba way through.
They are potatoes witn a reputation.
As a trader the young man I not to
be outdone. He la a trader all th way
through. Tha Ina and outs of minor
finance of tha produce market are known
to blra and be cleverly steers clear of
all th shoals In- th trad.
He Is a born tnder," says W. H.
McCorquodal of ' MoCorquodai at
Hoover, who had charge of th lad's
crop this season. "He la tha whole
thing on hi ranch. Everything con
nected with tba raising of potatoes Is
don by blm, H puta up a first claas
product and tha Kluth, Jr farm has
thus far taken th prise for fancy pro
duction. He Is quit keen on trad and
is a good example of a lad making
thinga go for himself. Because of th
young farmer'a age w have gone to
vary considerable trouble in seeing that
he get th beat price that could be se
cured." -.:,
Born juat a trifle over 11 years ago.
th boy baa lived all this tlm on Gov
ernment Island. He Is small ' for his
age, but at school Is said to bo a very
bright scholar and -the prediction are
out that h will win hla. place in the'
world and not a small place at that
That George Kluth la no sluggard Is
shown by his hours of work. No ranch
or farm, no matter tha alia, .la more
properly taken . car of than tb( one-
.are nntata natch bv the ll-rear-old
farmer. He rises before o clock each
morning. Sunday Included. - His hour
before school are taken up by digging
- the - weeds out of tha ground And eee-
Ing that th bugs give th place a wide
berth. After breakfaat he is again out
In his pach up to the very hour that
he is forced to go to school.
As th woman- held th pencil before
her and turned it slowly she exclaimed-.
"Hers w have imagination that
oountal r- Thla persons rides no useless
Pegasus. . II does sot catch at straws
but they show him which way the wind
blows, and he sets his sails accordingly
"See th strong, swift way in which
h, must hav mad"theee cuta They
ar not regular, but were affectively and
quickly don. . .
" "H Is frank, rapid, stir. A llttj r
ratio, Just enough to give blm Individ
uality and seat This laet Is . Indicated
by th way th wood I left to run down
on th lead at on point, and th slight
Irregularity." -. .''...
The pencil was th property' of a
writer whose work I well known.
' "Ah, what hav w here? This Is
Very nice." . -
Th pencil that brought forth this
assertion was neatly out, both .as to
th wood and th lead, with her and
ther a alight deviation,, which added
to th general, graceful outline. -
- "The person who is responsible for
this pencil is at one accurate and ar
tistic While precis as to things fun
damental, th. attractive, th beautiful
Is ever In mind and brought to tha fore
at th proper time and place, but rather
to adorn th useful than as aa and la
Itself."
This delineation was particularly good.
as th owner of th pencil Is an archi
tect who haa to his credit st least on
building in New Tork, which is much
discussed and admired.
The next pencil point taken up waa
scarcely a point at all, as It had been
hacked Into such shape as It had with a
dull knife, leaving a small, unsharpened
bit of lead exposed. A cheap affair In
th beginning, it . had evidently been
long In use.
It was said that this pencil Indicated
a person whose point of vlw waa ever
th material Aspect of thinga: a person
of littl delicacy, much greed and . a
fondnes for contemplating things that
repreeent an immense amount of phys
ical labor. Energetto, forceful, deter
mined, In a certain, way, th pencil's
owner. If successful, must hav achieved
success through bodily fore, neither
using nor recognising th power which
Is f nr. "
Th -delineation again was true, as
the person who contributed th pencil
had begun a a day laborer, and, In the
way pointed out, had become th owner
of a trucking business.
"I hardly know -what to make of
this," said th student of pencils, scru
tinising ons neatly, sharpened on on
aid and cut In two deep gashes, .that
extended Into th lead, on th other. "It
does not seem to b don by on par
sen." "It isn't," said h who had collected
the pencils. "I asked a woman who is a
good deal out of th common In a cer
tain way to abarpen a pencil for me.
She cut Into It twice and then gave it
up, saying she could not do It and I
must finish It." .
"Thst makes it plain," said th wom
an, - "and I'll wager dollars to pencil
stubs that she has a beautiful hand,
with long, pointed fingers and a small.
shapely thumb. - I have found .that the
character Indicated by th sharpening
Of a pencil Is verified la thehend.
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DRIVING TO MAJZK&r.
Going to school Is a task that young
Mr. Kluth really llkea. Unlike the aver
age youth, he really "wante to go,- When
th school season Is on he la always In
attendance. After school hours the lad
makea a hurried trip to his bom and In
a ahort a tlm as possible Is .agalp
back In th field of potatoes.
A remarkable story is told by potato
buyers of this city In regard to th
young farmer. As Soon aa th potato
seed begins' to sprout and Is abov
ground th young man goes very care
fully over hi holdings. He Is looking
for vines that ar not hardy. Theaa he
1a said to be able to pick out without
trouble ror, although but 12 years of
age, he has ' that knowledge t which
would be a credit to - men who have
farmed all their life. . Very carefully
he looks ovr esoh foot of - soil for weak
vines and whetv ha finds them roots
them - up and makea a fresh planting.
In this way does Maater Kluth grow th
best potatoes In his section.
The Picking eulrlSa.,.waa.)to;Lis
not th only wonderful trait ofthla
B 12-1
yeor-old lad. His knowledge of foliage
is very sharp and as he goes along the
rows of potatoes he can tell In- an In
stant whether a mistake has been made
in any of th seed and whether th
grade ar "mixed."
To -tell a ebole Burbank potato from
"Now, shs who sharpened, not this
pencil, but on side of it, is an idealist,
a worshipper at the shiin of beauty
and imagination. ' Of course, she would
not sharpen a pencil If ther waa any
on at hand to do It for her, and, If
there waa not, she most likely would
not do It herself. -
'Terror of soul she has, enough and
to spare, but when bodily effort ta re
quired she la not equal to - the demand.
Sh would see visions, but - would
stumble over th first Impediment In
her path, however obvious. It Is such
as sh who hav th sixth sense."
Age In th reader of character from
pencil waa correct The woman who
had cut on side of the pencil haa pe
culiar gifts, . but Is helpless when it
oomes to th practical things of Ufa
Th last pencil to be examined was
one sharpened In long and ahort strokes,
sometimes two of a kind together and
again alternating. Ther we vigor, but
no precision. In th way it was done,
and th woman, smiling aa sh looked
at th- pencil, said;
This craft can turn In much less
sea room than a. man of war requires.
It waa not sharpened by a woman, of
that I am certain, and a weather vane
doe not move mors easily than doe
the one who cut it, but ther th like
ness, ends, as there is indication of
virile fore and a certain quick decision,
and also of economy of effort which
seven times out of 10 would lead ths
person to score success.
, "Tou see, this Is on of th best
makes of pencils, and has an eraser at
the' end: The man to whom ft belonged
wastes no tlm or strength with ' poor
tools." . . . - '
Ths pencil was on obtained from a
member of th stock exchange, whoae
quick tiirns from th bull to th bear
sld of th market and back again art
proverbial.' '
. Crack Bhot f a Colorado Deputy.
From th Denver Times.' -
Whil Deputy Sheriff William Ronald
son waa in the one "bad" town of
Coffeyvllle, Kansas, he got some of th
Dalton spirit jn his veins and' listened
to th stories' of how four of tbs Dai
tons met death at th hands of -one-men
stationed in a shed and shooting through,
a knothole. They told Mr. Ronaldsoh
stories of what. crack marksmen thH
Daltons wer and how they picked off
every man that appeared on th streets
with a gun.
When th Denver deputy was on th
train soms stranger entered into a cop
venation about what crack shooters
there wer In Kansas shout th tlm
th Daltons blew into Coffeyvlll and
secured several thousand dollars from
a bank. --.
Ronaldson -said: "Tea, there were
some good marksmen there, but It is
easy to bit a man with a Winchester.
In Colorado we us a edit almost ex
clusively. - Of course, w hav no crack
marksmen, but I believe I might pick
off a prairl dog ther whil th train
I moving." '
Th stranger flashed a flv spot in
Deputy Ronaldson's face and It was
covered. ' Ronaldson snapped out his
.tl-callbr Colt and without much de
liberation, and whil th train vy In
rapid motion, sent one Kansas prairie
dog to the eternal aleep.
' Deputy Sheriff William Ronaldaon of
Denver la now f I to the good, and
friends on the sheriff's fore aay they
would take a hundred similar bets that
Ronaldson could do th sam nine tiroes
'ut of ten.
' "'Mr , , . . .:,Y"--;
and American Wonder or a Rural from
a Pearl, or to distinguish any two grades
of potatoes Is a wonder In itself. Just
bow this task Is accomplished there ar
non to say. It is don; that's alL Or
dinarily a farmer or potato grower goea
niitoTils field and can see only potatoes.
No matter to th ordinary grower of po
tatoes whether he haa a dosen kind of
potato on his ranch all mixed In to
gether. They are potatoes. That's all
he cares. . r " . -:
To Oregon's youngest farmer there la
more in the growing of potato than
lust to be ralalng them., Thua early-In
life he has come to th conclusion that
It pays to do' your beat. Ha considers,
as otners nave oerore mm, mat it takes
work to run even a pea put stand sue
ecsafully. It la quamy that Is always
considered on the Kluth. Jr., 'ranch. . To
raise the beat potatoes that can be pro
duced i the motto of lta youthful
owner. Something Juat a good a th
other fellow raise la not good enough
, Hnmwtl
wnai ua is striving si a
nd something
better he has thus far produced. This Is
his thought, "Any on can rats pota
toes, but It takes a good man to rata
th beat." . ; ,
A potato that doe not com tip to th
George Kluth, Jr.. standard, la not a po
tato that will be marketed by that young
Physician Says
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' . From-th Chicago Tribun. .
1EARN to smoke.
. This la th advice of Dr. Valen
J tin Nalpsss. lecturer In th Paris
collage of medicine and physi
cian to the French embassy In. Persia.
Tet although bis advice may shock
them. Dr. Naipasso Is on of th strong
est of th antt-tobaccolste. He wants
Americans and Europeans to learn to
smoke, because he declare that th na
tions of th west hav not yet learned.
He urges Americans to sit at th feet
of th orientals and learn all over again
how to smoke to learn again without
ths pangs and ' grlplnga of - th first
time; to learn to. smoke healthfully,
hygtenlcally. For he believe) that to
bacco can h smoked without - harm
or Injury to th smoker although he
does not commit himself as to cigar
ettes. In ths confirmation and reinforce
ment of his counsel Dr. Nalpass offers
th results of his varied experiences In
ths Asiatic countries, his . observations
there, and his convincing conclusions.
Pipes and poison are Intimately asso
ciated In this wise man mind. Ths
best pip for Insuring th smallest pos
sible Inhalation of nicotine, hs thinks,
haa a long tub and a bowl Ilk th chi
bouque, which was In. honor formerly
among th Turka. Thla chlbouqu. un
happily out of fashion today..' is com
posed of several successive tubes
swelling out to large dimensions at ths
end, and waa of unquestionable value
In arresting th passage of ths nicotine
ere It reached the Hps of th smoker.
But of all the 'weapons that' comprise
th arsenal of tha well equipped mod
ern smoker nons can-rival th all too
classic, th gracefully elegant narglle.
In this curious and elaborate appara
tus supremely hygienic, tobacco Is grilled
In a littl metal furnace, th vapor is
conducted through a tube across a basin
filled with ordinary water, or, better,
rosewater, and arrives at th lips of ths
smoker by a second tube.
From tlm to time th oriental in
terrupt his fumigatlona to drink from
a diminutive cup a few drops of coffee,
thus neutralising th slow Intoxication
which can otherwise ba . produced by
prolonged use of ths strong and bitter
tobacco. Known aa tombeku, which Is
smployed in the narglle. -
Thanks to f has device in constant
us all through th orient Dr. Nalpass
affirms tha noxious action of th to
bacco la almost entirely "annihilated, so
that war th nsrgll -or ghallia In
use In. the-Occident, together with th
oriental tobacco, smoking never, would
be debased into a hurtful praetloe.
Every sort of tobacco, according t
Dr. Nalpasse, acts on the organism ac
cord lag to its quota of nicotin. Analy
sis has shown that th tobaccos of th
orient contain but a. minute portion of
this noxious element " On th contrary,
th products of other oonntrle show s
much larger proportion, beginning with
that of Hungary, -which 'has about t pet
cent of nicotine, thence to that of Bra
sil. Havana, Maryland and Virginia,
which -varies from lhi to nearly T per
eent of. nicotine. The tobacco from th
Garonne region I th strongest of all.
with a proportion of nicotine reaohlng
almost I per cent t... . . .
.The doctor thinks th young man of
th west should nvr amok sav tor
.... ,. . ..... .. ... v ,
man. To be said to be a George Kluth
potato It .must have no Irregular shape
and th color must be just right. .
Of course It must be said that' thla
raising of first-class potatoes does not
com without great work. Experi
ment are many on thla Columbia river
ranch. Before ' th acre waa secured
th young man worked on hla father
farm. - Her he became acquainted with
the various kinds of soils and found
which produced th beat potatoes. It
was found that a certain acr would
produce American Wonders to ' th
"queen's taste," but if this variety were
planted In another part of th farm It
would not bav a good quality aa th
first place. .
There waa a certain ' spot of : land
which produced th faroou Burbanks to
perfection. This is th sit selected for
th location of the George Kluth. Jr.,
ranch. Sine coming into possession of
this strip th soil haa been put Into th
best possible condition.
Right her may b told another story
of th success of George Kluth, Jr. - He
uaes tba proper kind of fertiliser. He
knows th proportion that - should be
worked into the ground h neither
glvea It too little) or too much. Every
thing la don on this ranch in th Tight
proportion. Th amout of seeds to th
acr I carefully figured and Just what
treatment the ground needs is always
accorded It. 'There Is neither too much
plowing or too little. - It's Just enough.
Not too much hoeing or too little.
Potatoes mist be fully matured to
leave th Oeorg Kluth, Jr., ranch. Th
quality and reputation of tha stock he
raises ar at stake. After both of these
th proprietor looks with an ey
trained for th work. Th fact that th
product of his ranch Is of superior qual
ity to that raised by his father Is note
worthy. ' George Kluth, 8r., has ' th
reputation of producing a stock that haa
a ejuaiity out of th -ordinary. 'To be
beaten In raising the beet potatoes by
jgn son and. pnlT 12 veaji-Attiiai
doean't worry th alder Kluth. The
boy seems not only to have th knowl
edge of bis father when it comes to
raising fancy potatoes -but somjg of his
own besides. - Tha fact that "Tie raises
th best potatoes and knows better
than his alders Just how to market them
Is In Itself a token of bis character.
Learn to SmoKc
special therapeutic purpose, under th
direction - of th physician, that hs
should never exceed three or four cigars
a day or their equivalent in pip or
cigarette smoking, that he must not so
to speak, drain hla pip to th dregs, cor
over us a pip that has become discol
oredthat Is to say. Impregnated with
nicotine and that.Ji muat discard his
cigar or cigarette when three fourths
of It has been consumed. This caution
Is based upon th principle thst th
nloottne, not being volatilised under s
temperature of 260 degrees, la - with
drawn with th smoke to tbs snd of the
bowl of th pipe, th cigar, or th cigar
ette, thua running th risk of being
drawn In to th mouth of th smoxer If
b persists In smoking all- his tobacco.
- Nor Is it necessary to relight th to
bacco one It is extinguished, thus pre
venting th unexhausted smoke from
being absorbed. Experienced smokers
know perfectly how agreeable ar their
first puffs and how aorld and noxious
the last, ordinarily producing" a cough
and irritating th larynx. " -Th
Japaness alone, think Dr. Nnl
passe, have profited by th last obser
vation and hav adopted a fashion In
smoking which Is as curious as it Is
hygienic Ther ar 11 ring on their
weapon of warfare. Their tobacco,
formed of long fibers with the finVuose
of hair, comparable to th stigma of
malsa, is buried In a pip of mlcroscoplo
proportions, from which th. Japanese
sailors -Inhale th fume but two of
three times. This system 1 followed by
th Nipponese solely to glv the- nico
tin no tlm to pass Into th mouth of
th smoker. Th pip must be refilled
Instantly and relighted, not with
matches aa do we westerners, but by th
aid Cf burning wick which ar sus
pended In every eomer of th ship. Aa
excellent hygienic measure, remarks Dr.
Nalpasse, which well teatifles to th
caution exercised by th Japanes In all
tbetr undertakings, and In this Instanc
la a real safeguard. agaioa. jthe poison
of nicotin. I
Nlootln. explain Dr. Nalpasse In
passing. Immortalises on Jean Nloot,
ambassador from Franc to th court of
Portugal, who brought the wonderful
weed to hi sovereign, .Francois IL In
16(0, showed him It marvelous proper
ties and popularised Its us throughout
his native land.' It waa rather as a
medicinal drug with.. l almost magical
curative powers than as a recreation
that Nlcot Introduced tobacco into
France. It soon ' became a favorite
everywhere as a panacea for every 111.
Little by little tobacco smoking became
established as ft pastlm af ter-tha, way
of th denisen of th new world. 'The
plant acquired great fame and was
mad th faahlon by th grand prior of
France, Francois da Lorraine, and then
by th queen. Catherine d Mediot, to
whom Nlcot had presented his first gift
of tobacco. After lta introduction into
France, and particularly Into Paris, th
tobacco custom extended - farther and
farther into th other countries. .
Hla Progress.
"When I started In life," said th tn-
Iqultabl Insurance director, -"I didn't
hav a dollar I could call my own."
"And nowr t
"I have mnagd to call a lot of money
my own, although thtre la a great deal
or oisput aoout it'
Prom Lendon Answers.
RKAT pianists hands r a en
tlnual ' sourc of. troubl ud
Vj anxiety to them, bot they can
not be more so than the hands
of many criminals ar to them. Detec
tive Maclntyre had one a mysterious
prisoner In custody concerning whose
iuwiiiui nn he waa aomewnai owbimou.
He kept unauspected observation oa him
In hla cell to see If h oould -discover
any clue to It In his movement The
prisoner quickly betrayed himself. H
was actually charing ins up ,ot n
flnxora together, mey were i
aa those of a- child. H was a plck-
Little, delicate, anm iingerea wun
hands are aenerally supposed to b
characteristic In a man of refinement,
subtlety and vacillation. They ar. it
haa been noted, a peculiarity of the
mala prisoner. Palmer, Prltchard and
Lamson all had beautuui nanaa taper
ing, soft and whit. They wer an
men , of refinement and subtlety, but
In their grim work ther was at leasi
no vacillation
Uanv criminals ar. bowver, by no
means anxious to show their hands In
court. Bennett, tha murderer of his
wife oa Yarmouth sanda. kept hla bands
well down from observation whil tak
lna hla trial. It waa on of th point
in hi defenae that such a weakly look
ing' person would hardly have dared to
murder a rather strong woman In such
a fashion. As a matter of fact. Ben
nett'a hands were peculiarly large,-and
be had long and big thumba, capable of
a terrible grip, and b did not oar to
display them.
Th left handed man la at a disadvant
age compared with ordinary individuals
In escaping th penalty of many Crimea
In on senaatlonai case. In which a man
named Patch was . accused f - having
shot a gentleman named Bllgh, the doc
tors called In declared that tha crime
muat have been th work of a left
handed man. But Patch, who was sus
pected, stoutly maintained that he was
right handed., and no witness couia o
found to aay which hand ho ordinarily j
used. During hla trial, however. In hi
anxiety and terror at soma of th evi
dence, t waa noted that ha used hi left
hand. He was really- left banded. -
In the case of a woman named Rob
inson, who was found dead with her
throat cut and with a raaor in her hand,
th queatlon arose whether she had
committed suicide. - ' But the womsq
was right handea, and in rasor was in
her left. The perpetrator of tba crime
.was himself left handed and so had put
'th weapon In her left hand. : ' ; -Left
handedness- Is more common
among criminals than among ordinary
persons. Bo Is ambidexterity the power
to us both hands equally wlL Why II
should- be so none can telL It would
not be fair to left handed or ambidex
troua ' persona to Infer that they are
more disposed to crime than others.
Left handedness which' has been -unex
pected has frequently plsced detectives
In an awkward position. Melville, th
terror of anarchists and foreign political
criminals generally,; one had his career
very nearly cut short by It la the oarly
Land Frauds in
m I HB national council of th Creek
i Indians baa prepared a petition
; ' to congress asking relief from
. . th grafters wbo ar busy with
th owners of what ar known as "nig
Th negro owners a
tha slave one owned by th Flv Civ
ilised Tribes of Indians, but freed by
aot of congress in M. In th allot
ment proceedings they are known as
'freedmen," "to distinguish them from
th Indian allottee, with whom they
stand on an equal footing, except that
they ar permitted to aell their surplus
lands at any tlm, whereas the Indian is
hedged about by restrictions whioh can4rly scared a Jackleg lawyer, tha fourth
b removed only by th consent of th
secretary of tba interior. -
In th last two years more than 10.000
negroes hav received a quarter section
apiece of th finest of farming lands,
with an unrestricted right t sell all but
a 40-acr homestead, and this has drawn
to th territory all th expert crooks In
the land business from everywhere la
the United States. -
In many eases th grafter works- th
following scheme to get th land from
th negro. He bargains for a certain
amount of th land, say 40 acre a, fqr a
certain sum of money. Taking advan
tage of th Ignorance of the negro, h
makes out the papers for tbo entire tract
of 100 acres or. more. Of course,' the
seller makes a kick when he finds out
what haa been don to him, but It does
him no-good. It Is simply his word
against th grafter's, and "nobody will
believe a nigger." Besides, ther Is a
general disposition to tak th view
that, as he got pay for 40 acre and still
has his homestead of 40 acres left be
cause homesteads cannot b sold Inside
f 41 years tea has got-anough anyhow.
This form of graft Is slmpls and gen
erally safe enough, but It Is open to the
serious objection that It calls for th
payment of at least a part of th price
In aotual money.
In order to escape this hardship th
grafter has a cheaper way of getting th
land. Th government regulation per
mit an owner of land to leas It to
another party for agricultural purpoae
for a period of flv years. The crook
takes advantage of this provision and
contracts with th negro for a flv year
leas. Sine th darky does not know
th difference between a leas and a
warranty deed. It 1 an easy matter t
get him to sign a deed under th Impres
sion that he is simply giving a lease.
Her, again, ther isscaht sympathy fot
th injured party. He still has his
homestead, and as he cannot sell that
nnder any circumstances for a period of
11 years, it Is hoped h may know bette:
by that tlma
In fact, if tha grafter were content to
confine hi talent to the work of sep
arating th Indian territory freedman
from hi real estate th probabilities
are that nobody would b disposed to
Interfere. "
It Is. only when he display a per
nicious activity In th Un of robbing
th whit man who buys th land from
him that lb publ)o conscience take
alarm. ' ' -" .
On scheme Is this: .
When the newcomer gets . possession
of a piece of land be make out a leas
for It for five years In favor of a con
federate., - This leas Is not put - on
record until sfter th land has been
sold. As soon ss th buyer 'pays th
money, but before tha deed, is put on
file, th confederate file th flv year
leas on the same land. . . .
In a recent eaa of this kind th pur
chaser had paid 12.000 for 110 acrea
When he went to take poasesslon hs was
confronted by the man wh bald th
lea a and was told that he could not
get on th place for flv years except
by buying up that lease. . Hs paid 11.500
and was permitted to occupy his land.
Occasionally It happens that a f reed
man gets hold of a particularly valuable
tract and wants to keep it .In such
cases It sometimes becomes necessary
for the grafter to make uas of th lateat
and moat complicated maohlnary. This
Is ons of ths systems ss followed In a
recent case, wher an old darky had se-
BY HANDS
years of his work. ' He was on tha track
of a peculiarly ddaperate offender, who
had aucceeded In baffling him for a
considerable tlm.
Th famous detective cam upon him
unexpectedly when there was no help
near, and when ha would have to rely -solely
upon his own promptness and .
strength to effect a capture. Th man
was short but powerful In build, and It
was well known that In th pockets of
his coat he carried revolver loaded and
ready to hi hand. Melville sprang upon
him and grasped hi right hand In as
Iron grip. But th man waa left-hand- ,'
ed, and th revolver was whipped out
and presented at-' the detective head
almost before he realised it. He did a
just in tlma to dash It aside, but It was
"a near thlng.T - - . .,
A furtive ability with the band ap
pears peculiar to criminals even to '
thos whose crimes have not been aucb ..
aa ar Identified with hand-aklil. Rush.
th muderei of th Jermyn in their
horn near Norwich, waa a farmer, but
he performed in court a feat which al
moat showed th skill of a conjurer.
While the trial was proceeding, a num
ber of slips of , paper wer produced
against him. At a later stag of th
proceedings they were not to b found.
They wer of th highest consequence t
th prosecution. They wer eventually
discovered In Rush's hat, which he had
carried with him Into th dock, concealed
beneath th lining. How h managed to
get hold of them and hid them there
undetected by th eyes of all around blm
waa a mystery. ' . .
Next to the professional poisoner, th
forger's hand Is spt to be th beet. Pick
pocket and swindlers com third.
sergeant Bauantln was on of th
cleverest barristers that ever addressed
a Jury. His power with them, even m
apparently most hopeless cases was
normous. ' In a certain murder case th -sergeant
exerted himself most vigorous
ly oa behalf of his client. In whoa favor
there wer on or two mysterious clr-.
cumstanoes, and secured his acquittal;
Th prisoner, released from th dock.
and overjoyed at hi good fortune, had -th
impudence to bustle back into court :
and present himself before his counsel.
Tou did wonderfully well, sergeant,"
he exclaimed "wonderfully well I I muat
thank you. sir thank you and shaks -handa
with you for your cleverness."
The sergeant looked for an Instant af
file hand h extended, and then, bend-.
Ing bis eyea on him, gleaming from un-.
derneath th contracted, shaggy brows,
said:
. "Tou would need a much cleverer bar
rister than I am, sir, to jnduc me to
shake hands with you." -
A distinguished solloltoT. engaged is
th defense of a recent notorious crimi
nal who ended bis days on. the scaffold
for th good of society, said that on of
th most' dlsageeabl incident in con- -nectton
with the case was his client's
Insistence on shaking handa with him at
vary Interview, necessltstlng his wash
ing them 'at th earliest opportunity
Ther ar band that on does not car
to shake. v -'.- ' . -
Indian Territory
cured a valuable quarter , aectlon . of
choice bottom land. ,' .
Th first member of th gsng ap
peared as a sewing mschin agent and
sold him a machine, taking a mortgage
on a young calf for part of the price.
A few-days later another member. . of
the s-snr showed up ss a stock buyer.
that calf and offered such a big prlc
la cash that th old darky forgot all
about tha mortgage and sold It to him,
laying himself llabl to a penitentiary )
sentenc. '..";-.'' ;
In th third act another member of tha
gang appears and arrests th negro en
th charge ef selling mortgaged prop
erty. About th tlm he ha him prop-
mem her. turns tin. Of course he saves :
th darky from th pen. and th lawyer
get three fourth of choice bottom land
a hi fee, whtch is divided up among
tb gang. - . :
Th subsequent history of this par
ticular tract Is of interest, because It '
ahow what the sam gang did to .th
farmer who bought th land. 4t wa
sold to an eastern fcuyer, who " paid
ll.BOO down at th tlm of purchase.
As an Inducement to get him to buy, '
he waa told that their "loan company'
would loan him $500 on th land. H
mad th loan, but discovered when to .
late that h had been deceived In mak
ing out th papers, and Instead of giv
ing th usual land mortgage he had
been duped into giving a trust deed con.
veytng th property to th creditor with
out notice if the loan was not paid at
th ml nut of maturity. -
area Trad la
Austin, Texas, Letter in New Tork Sun.
Some' idea of the magnitude of the'
pecan nut meat Industry "may be had
when it Is stated that in Ban Antonio
alone there ar 1,700 . members of the -Pecan
Shelter' anion, a labor organisa
tion composed . of men -engaged as a
regular business in th spelling of pe
can nuts and extracting the delicious
kernels. '..,;., . ,
Not all of th pecan shelters In San
Antonio belong to the union. Ther ar .
several hundred other men. women -and
children In that city who gain a liveli
hood from th work. Ther are branches
of th Pecan Shelters' union In Austla
and several other towns of ths state. j .
' Th pecan nut shelling season laata
from October 1 to July 1. The new crop
of nut begins to com Into market about
October 1, and from then until January 1
the business of extracting th kernel ,
Is very aotlve. --The kernels are shipped -In
large bulk to New Tork, St Lmits
and other cities; wher they ar used by
confectioner in th manufacture of
candle. - .-
Pecan shelling Is a comparatively new
industry. It had It origin, so far ss its
becoming a recognised business Is con
cerned, a few years ago when a candy
manufacturer of New Torrt":"Vialted
Texas. ""';' '-; - . .
He at some of th candy mad and
old by Mexican street 'vendors in Ssn '
Antonio. Pecan kernels form an import. "
ant Ingredient of this candy. As an ex
periment he arranged for a small ship- "
mentrof th pecan meat to b mad t -him.
-
Tha kernels wer reoelved in du tlm
and th highest art of th candymakor
was employed In their use. The pecan
candy became popular almost instantly
and other orders for pecan kernels wer
placed.-'.. - - '-.
That was th beginning of an Industry
which now gives employment to several
thousand people. Ther is a big demand -for
ths pecan kernels in every large city
In th country.
Carefully Worded, -
Excited Fisherman (to country hotel
keeper) Ther Isn't a bit of fishing
about here! . Every brook .has a sign -wirnlng
people off. .What do vou mean
by luring anglers here with th promts
91 nni iismngr -
Hotelkeeper I didn't sav nthi.. . I
about fin fishing. If you read.m sit.
vertisement carefully vou win see that
what I said,-wa "fishing unapproach-
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