THE FACE OP A CROOK
WHY IT IS THAT A THIEF IS GEN
ERALLY DETECTED. .
! AX) Almost Invariably, Some
Mar-as About Ills Countenance or About
Wa Appearance That Inevitably Be
tray II in to Officers of tbe Uw.
"Police! Police t Where's the police?
Some thieFs stolen my pockethookl"
- Jl. tall, bearded and excited country
jnan yelled out these words in the Grand
-Central depot one morning some months
ago. The alarm created the usual ex
citement which follows the announce
- meat of a robbery in a crowd. Some of
the stream of arriving and departing
travelers stopped in their places to has
tily ascertain whether or not their own
wallets were . safe. Others crowded
around the countryman in eager curios
ity to hear what he had to say. Some
. of the chronically cautious hurried their-
steps a trine from the scene of trouble
ana looKea DacK somewnat zearrouy at
the big policeman who was elbowing
hi -way vigorously toward the center -of
tike crowd.
- Any one of the score of people who did
wt stop might be the thief. The rob
bery had just "come off," for the coun
tryman had set up his outcry the mo
ment his wallet was jerked by some
mysterious force from his fingers. Now,
in all this confusion of hurrying people,
how was suspicion to be pointed toward
any particular man? One would say
"impossible." But one would be wrong.
-A plainly dressed man, with sharp,
black eyes, who had been standing in
the door of the restaurant when the cry
-of robbery went up, stepped quietly out
f the doorway and turned his keen eyes
in series of quick glances to right and
left. lie did not once look at the coun
tryman or the little crowd around him,
bat in ten seconds he had scanned with
lightning rapidity the face of every per-
mm who was walking away. . A sudden
look, as though of recognition, and he
walked quickly, unhesitatingly toward a
Talker well dressed man who was carry-
overtook him at the top of the stairs and
tapped him on the shoulder.
You are my prisoner," he said.
"he thief, was found.
WHV HE WAS RECOONIZKD.
How did the detective know him? That
ia a complex question to answer-Nat-wal
instinct of an order unclassed in
human psychology is what makes the
Selective. A fox hound has it, and it
stakes the dog hunt foxes aud find them
and catch them where other dogs would
fail impotently or through lack of effort.
If this instinct was lacking in the man
be would be no detective. " He would
aot only lack ability in thief catching',
bat would have no disposition to go into
the business.
This instinct which tempts hiiu into
hia distasteful and often perilious call
ing is developed by experience and ob
servation and constant study until it be
comes almost a supernumerary sense.
He knows a thief when he 6ees him, if
it is for the first time. It sounds im
possible, doesn't it? But it has been
proved hundreds of times.
Physiognomy has something to do with
it; a fund of knowledge of the tricks and
devices of the escaping robber, a quick
perception of tiny details which lead to
suspicion, a 6uperseiisitiveness to the
hints of circumstance, all go to make up
the professional instinct of the detective.
But the most powerful element of all,
and that which all serve but to re-enforce,
is the mysterious sort of animal magnet
ism which tells a detective a genuine
detective that a thief's a thief.
The man who was arrested in the
Grand Central, depot 'was afterward
proved to be a professional pickpocket.
He made a bold front when the detective
asked him for a moment's conversation
and became highly indignant before the
JLnM rtf Ilia llufonfnn . .1 .1 1 ..
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the mistake which nearly every petty
thief makes. The countryman's wallet
was found on him, and witnesses re
membered haying seen the thief walk
vat of the crowd and pick up his valine
just before the cry of robbery was raised.
They would never have remembered the
circumstance if the detective had not
flopped the thief as he was escaping.
HOW A THIEF 13 PICKED OUT.
"How do I pick out a thief?" said one
of the cleverest detectives at police head
quarters in response to a ' question.
"Well, there's a whole lot of things that
kelp a man to pick out a thief, but it's
hard to just say in words-what they are.
Any fly copper will tell you that there is
something characteristic about the ap
pearance of every thief. And it's only
good sense to believe it. "
"If a man spends his whole time study
ing thieves' faces, Haunts and habits, he's
bound to get the thing down pretty fine
if he has anything of a .head on him. I
don't say that you can pick a top notcher
a 'con' man or a bunko sharp out of
a crowd, because he's a mighty smart
man, and his whole business is to de
ceive people Dy ms appearance and man
ner; but you take a pickpocket or 'sneak,'
and you can get on to him in a crowd
nearly every- time, provided, of course,
that you've got every reason to believe
that there is such a man in the crowd
and you're looking for him
"There's something about the eyes
particularly that every common thief I
ever saw had. Then they nearly all
have a dissipated look. That's because
they're "nearly all dissipated. A thief
will run chances of getting ten years to
Set money, and then will go and spend it
as if had a million. I never knew a
common thief that didn't have some bad
habit besides stealing. Half of 'em hit
the pipe or take drugs in some form; a
great many are 'boozers,' and most of
them are the victims of some worse de
pravity." Cincinnati Enquirer.
. Wit and Humor. .
Man (looking up from paper-r-John
what does "1-a" stand for?
John (poring over his lesson in geog
raphy Louisiana , sir. -
Joan Well, this "Louisiana grip'1
aeems to be- an epidemic. Harper's Ba-
A WOULD BE SWINDLER BEATEN.
Be AVas Only Trying: to Learn the Shell
Trick, but Hla Scholar Knew It.
After awhile the young man with the
white hat and red necktie observed that
a friend of his hall posted him on a new
trick, and he took from his' pocket the
shell of an English walnut which had
been cut in two to make two small cups.
He also took from his vest pocket a com
mon field pea and explained:
"1 don't say that I can do the trick
successfully, but after a little more
practice I hope to batch on."
Half a dozen of us exchanged winks
and spotted him at once for a sharper,
but there was a middle aged man from
Indianapolis who appeared innocently
interested. He was not a green looking
man by any means, but he had a confid
ing, childish look which would have au
thorized any stranger to ask him for a
match or the time of day.
"What is the trick?" he asked as he
laid aside his paper.
"Why, it's to manipulate this pea in
this way so and so and this way, until
you can't tell which cup it's under," ex
plained the other. '
"That's a new idea." -
"Yes, perfectly new."
"Say!" I'd like to learn that myself,"
continued the Hoosier. "The boys down
our way are full of tricks, and I'd like
to get something to astonish 'em. It all
depends on the twist of the wrist, doesn't
it?"
"Partly that, and partly optical illu
sion. As I told you before I can't work
it yet. because I haven't practiced suffi
ciently, but do you think you could tell
which cup the pea is under now?"
"I think I could," replied the Hoosier.
"And could you now?" asked the
young man after further manipulations.
"I'm sure of it."
"How sure?" -
"Well, as 1 want to learn the trick,
and as I am always willing to back my
own eyes, I'll bet ten dollars I can."
We winked and shook our heads at
him, but hi3 smile only grew more child
like. "Don't want to make it twenty dollars,
do your" asked the sharper.
"I'd just as soon say thirty dollars."
"Thirty it is. Just hold the cups
firmly down on my knees while I get out
my sugar."
I took his last dollar, and. when it was
up he asked:
"Which cur is it under?"
"This one."
The cup was raised, and there, sure
enough, was the pea, it having failed to
stick to the substance inside and be lift
ed with the shell. The look which came
into tliat young man's face was some
thing queer to see, and he kept swallow
ing as if he had tacks in his throat. He
gave up the stakes without a word, but
sat for a long time like one in a dream.
I thought he needed sympathy, and
after awhile I found opportunity to in
quire: "How did it happen that way?"
"That's what I want to find out," he
absently replied. "Say, you childlike
Hoosier. take these things and let's see
what you can do with 'em."
"Certainly, to oblige."
He took the cups and the pea, and the
manner in which he performed was
enough to show everybody in ten seconds
that he was an old professional. .
"Anybody wish to bet?" he smilingly
asked, as the pea went hopping about:
Nobody did not even the young man.
He sat and stared and . stared, and
watched and watched, and when the
outfit was returned -to him all he could
say was:
"Well, by gum!" Detroit Free Press.
Feats of Carrier JMiri-ons.
There are remarkable instances on
record of what pigeons have done. A
French bird captured near Paris was
taken to Berlin, !500 miles away, and
kept there for fonr years. It escaped
somehow, and at once made a straight
line for home, safely t eaching the loft in
Paris where it had been reared. Colonel
Cameron relates that he purchased In
Toronto two birds that had never flown
eastward of that place. From Toronto
they were taken to Kingston, 150 miles
due east, and there kept for some time.
They were then sent to Sharbot lake,
nearly fifty miles north of Kingston, to
be flown. Instead of returning to King
ston they went westward 150 miles di
rect to their old loft at Toronto.
As they had been, in the case of both
moves, conveyed in a closed basket, they
had no chance of seeing the intervening
country, so that sight evidently had
nothing to do with their return. There
are numberless instances of birds in
training making their way swiftly and
safely back over-100, 200 and even 250
miles of utterly unknown territory.
Denver Republican.
On His Mind.
Pat was a hodcarrier. Long practice
had made him an expert at threading
the mazes of unfinished buildings, but it
had also made him somewhat careless in
his movements. . . . .. -
He had just stepped from a bidder to
one of the landings, and after setting
down his load of bricks with a sigh of
relief, he straightened up. Whack!
his head came smartly in contact with a
heavy beam. .
When the foreman passed, a few min
utes after, he saw Pat sitting on a keg,
holding his head in both hands.
"Hullo, Pat," he called. "What's on
your mind?"
"The whole top av me 'head, sir. Oh
my! Oh my!" Youth's Companion.
Sorry for God.
A little girl on being asked by her
mother whether she was not glad to hear
that an old fsiend of whom she was very
fond had recovered from a dangerous ill
ness, replied, "Yes, of course I'm glad,
but still I'm sorry for God not to have
his own way sometimes." London
Truth. . . v
.
A Pretty Tight Squeeze.
Angeline Oh, mamma, Algernon
squeezed my hand so tonight that I al
most cried.- - -
Mamma What, my child, from pain?
Angeline No, mamma, from joy.
Texas Sittings.
'Chines Justice.
During a recent riot at some place be
tween Tong-Tu and Kalping, the mob
destroyed a good length of the railway
that had recently been carried through
the district. .
The local mandarin, instead of using
the forces under him to quell the riot,
sent the soldiers to assist in the evil
work. The embankments were leveled
for some distance and the rails thrown
into the river, and an attempt was made
to destroy the bridges. Mr. Kinder, the
head engineer of. the line, laid the state
of the case before the toatoi of Tien-Tsin,
who is the head director of the under
taking. The toatoi sent for the man
darin. "To-please yourself and friends," said
he, "you have destroyed the railway
track. To please me you will put it
back just as' it was before. If in one
month from today the trains .are not
running as before you lose your head,
and your" family and ancestors are dis
graced. -
"Mr. Kinder estimates the damage
and loss by nonrunning of trains at 50,
000 taels, which sum you will have to
pay out of your -own funds to the com
pany. "For labor, all your officials, soldiers
and townsfolk will work as you direct,
receiving no money for their labor, and
all salaries are stopped until the repairs
are complete. I shall appoint a board
of punishment to return with you, with
power to torture and imprison any one
who makes the. least disturbance or
trouble."
The mandarin begged for mercy on
the plea that, as the country was all un
der water, he could not possibly get
mud and stone wherewith -to build the
embankments. The toatoi saw the
force of this plea and said he would give
him a chance.
He could pull down any of his forts
that he liked in order to provide ma
terial for the repair of the railway, and
he would give him three months after
the railway was completed to rebuild
his forts at bis (the mandarin's) expense.
In less than three vweeks the trains
were running again, and the mandarin
and his agents are now rebuilding the
forts. Cor. London Truth. .
A Fish Swallowed His Watch.
A rather strange as well as amusing
incident happened on board the schooner
Emma Clara while at sea Saturday on
her way up from Rockport. They were
well out at sea where the water was
blue and clear and the wind very light,
when one of the passengers discovered
a large fish which is known 'in those
waters as a linn, following close behind
the boat.
Several of the boys were soon leaning
over the stern admiring the fish, when
one of them accidentally dropped his
watch overboard out of his overshirt
pocket. It was a large old fashioned
Swiss "silver watch, and when it hit the
water it glanced off sideways and darted
on its voyage to the bottom of the sea,
but the linn saw it, and as he is a fish
that bites at. everything that shines, re
gardless of flavor or taste, opened his
huge mouth and swallowed the watch at
one gulp. The surprised and chagrined
young man says that the watch had just
been wound up and was good to tick
away for twenty-four hours at least.
The fish seemed to enjoy the meal, and
followed leisurely after the boat for
some time. Velasco Times.
Earl Grey.
Earl Grrey's illness is regarded with
much anxiety in his native county of
Northumberland. He will enter his
ninetieth year in seven weeks time, and
his prostration at the-beginning of win
ter is seriously viewed by . his friends.
Earl Grey was sitting in parliament for
Winchelsea some years before Lord Sal
isbury, was bom. At one time he seemed
destined for high office, but soon after
his father's (the premier) death he devel
oped a cross-bench mind, and has since
then been increasingly dismal in his
forebodings of national decay." He is
passionately fond of his home at Howick,
close to the Northumberland coast,
where he has buried himself for many
years, occasionally reminding the world
of his existence by his long and old fash
ioned letters in The Times. His heir is
Mr. Albert Grey, some time member for
the- Tyneside division of Northumber
land, and now better known as a direct
or of the South African company.
London Star.
The Grave of St. Patrick.
A tourist, who has been visiting Down
patrick, writes on the subject of the
grave of St. Patrick. He says: "What
I saw was this a hole such as animals
or poultry might scrape, with a few
loose stones, apparently thrown in where
the earth had been taken out, and laid
across the opening was a stone slab, evi
dently of great age and with traces of
carving upon it, broken into three frag
ments. There was nothing else." The
modern cemetery -near by was neatly
kept. In explanation it was said that
such veneration was attached to the
grave by some that they could not be
prevented from taking the soil bit by
bit The neglected condition of this
grave has recently been brought before
the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ire
land. Exchange.
BIr. Field and tbe Queen.
Cyrus Field is one of the few Ameri
cans who have a standing acquaintance
with Queen Victoria. Mr. Field's part
in the laying of the early Atlantic cables
obtained for him a presentation to the
queen that meant rather more than such
things usually mean, and the acquaint
ance of many years ago has been kept
up by occasional meetings and commu
nications of one kind or another. New
York Sun. "
' A Beautiful Rainbow.
One of the beautiful sights on last
Thanksgiving day at Bedford was a
rainbow, remarkable because of its posi
tion; it was located almost in the zenith,
with its arc turned toward the south
and its extremities reaching northwest
and northeast, respectively. There was
no appearance of - rainfall anywhere
while it was visible. Indiana Mail.
'A Xorer's Rare Fro pert jr. -
Young Toddleby was a true hearted
and promising youth. He had graduated
with honor at Yale, and was studying
law with Mr. .Lofter. It bo happened
that Toddleby became acquainted with
a beautiful young lady, daughter of old
Digby. He loved the fair maiden, and
when he had reason to believe that his
love was returned he asked Mr. Lofter
to recommend him to the father, Lofter
being on terms of close intimacy with
the family. The lawyer agreed, and
performed his mission; but old Digby,
who loved money, asked what property
the young man had. Lofter said he did
not know, but he would inquire. The
next time he saw his young student he
asked him if he had any property at all.
"Only health, strength and a determi
nation to work," replied the youth.
"Well," said the lawyer, who sincere
ly believed the student was in every way
worthy, "let us see, what will you take
for your right leg? I will give you $20,000
for it."
Of course Toddleby refused.
The next time the lawyer saw the
young lady's father he said:
"I have inquired about this young
mail's circumstances. . He has no money
in bank; but he owns a piece of property
I for which, to my certain knowledge,
he ' has been offered, and has refused,
$30,000."
This led old Digby to consent to the
marriage, which shortly afterward took
place. In the end he had reason to be
proud of his son-in-law, though he was
once heard to remark, touching that
rare piece of property, upon the strength
of which he had consented to the match:
"If it could not ' take wings it was lia
ble at any time to walk off!" New York
Ledger.
pimples.
The old idea of 40 year ago was that facial
eruptions were due to a "blood humor," for
which they gave potash. Thus all the old Sarsa
parillas contain potash, a most objectionable and
drastic mineral, that instead. ol decreasing,
actually creates more eruptions. You have no
ticed this when taking other GarBapariUos than
Joy's. It is however now known that the stom
ach, the blood creating power, is the seat of all
vitiating or -cleansing operations. A stomach
clogged by indigestion or constipation, vitiates
the blood, result pimples. A clean stomach and
healthful digestion purifies it and they disappear.
Thus Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla is compounded
after the modern idea to regulate the bowels and
stimulate the digestion. ' Tbe effect is immediate
and most satisfactory. A short testimonial to
contrast the action of fhe potash Sarsaparillas
and Joy's modern vejrctabla preparation. Mrs.
C. D. Btuart, cf 400 Hare St., 3. F., writes: "I
have for years had iniiiire:.tion, I tried a popular
Sarsaparllla but it actually caused more pimples
to brcai oat on my tcx-e. II caring that Joy's was
a later preparation and artej Oi.ferently, 1 tried
It and the pimples immediately diKappeared."
Vegetable
Sarcaparilla
Largest bolTly, moat etli'ctivo. same price.
For Sale by SNIPES & KINERSLY
' THE DALLES. OREGOV. '
LH GRIPPE
CUKED
By using S. B. Hetidache and Liver Cure, and S.
a. Cough Cure as directed for colds. They were
STJcoisssi'tnjij'jr
used two Tears nan dnrintr th Tj (irinno en
demic, and very flattering testimonials of their
F over inai disease are at r.anl. Manufact
ured by the 8. B. Medicine Mfg. Co., at Dufur,
A Severe Law.
The English peo
ple look more closely
to the genuineness
of these staples than
we da In fact, they
have a law under
which they make
seizures and de
stroy adulterated
" products that are.
not what they are represented to be. Under
this statute thousands of pounds of tea have
been burned because of their wholesale adul
teration. - v
-- Tea, by the way, is one of the most notori
ously adulterated articles of commerce. Not
" alofje are the bright, shiny green teas artifl-.
dally colored, hut thoupands of pounds of
' substitute for tea leaves are used to swell
the bulk of cheap tea-s; ash, sloe, and willow
leaves being those most commonly used.
Again, sweepings from tea warehouses are
colored and sold as tea. Even exhausted tea -
. leaves gathered from the tea-houses are kept,
dried, and made over aud find their way into
the cheap teas.
The Engliafr government attempts to stamp
hi out by confiscation; but no tea is too
poor for U ', and tbe result Is, that probably
the poorest teas used by any nation are those
consumed in America.
Beech's Tea is. presented with the guar
anty that it is uucolorcd and unadulterated;
In fact, the sun-curea lea leaf pure and sim
ple. Its -purity insures superior strength,
about one third less of it being required for
an Infusion than of the artificial teas, and its
fragrance aud exquisite flavor is at once ap
parent It will be a revelation to you. In
order that its purity and quality may be guar- -an
teed, it is sold only in pound packages
bearing this trade-mart :
BEECI
'Pure AsWdhopdr
Sdoe Mo per pound, lor sale at
Leslio Sxitlor' m
TKC DAILS8, 0RE9O9.
T tie Dalles Ctiionicie
. Of the Leading City
During the little over
has earnestly tried to fallfil the objects for which it
was founded, namely, to assist in developing our
industries, to advertise the
adjacent country and to
the sea. Its record is
phenomenal support it has
expression of their approval. Independent in every
thing, neutral in nothing,
for what it believes to be just and rig ht..
Commencing with the first number of the second
vclume. the weekly has been enlarged to eight pages
while the price ($1.50 a year) remains the same.
Thus both the weekly and daily editions oontain
moie reading matter for less" money than any paper
published in the county.
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THE DALLES,
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a year of its existence it
resources'of the city and
work for an open river to
before the people and the
received is accepted as the
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