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"The elder Herrmann told LOSS OF BIG THINGS. I aclmala were never deceived me that | very severe rules, all rigidly enforced. Dy false Should Carter grow disobedient bls table kgs, built up with looking prison allowance of tobacco will be J glasses and used In stage tricks. They shut off. be will be dented the privi SOME IMMENSE OBJECTS THAT always passed around on the other CONVICTED ARMY OFFICER'S lege of writing or receiving letters, bls ARE MISLAID. side. I guess they must see lietter, diet may be restricted to bread and FUTURE IN PRISON. somehow, than men.”—New Orleans water, and In the event of persistent misconduct he would be handcuffed tailroad that Hud to A<1«ertine to A»- Times-Democrat. Five Years of Bard Work — Rigid Dis day and night to the bars of bls cell. certain the Whereabouts of u Twenty- Miatak n Ident ty. cipline and Frugal Fare Will Be Hie They stand no nonsense at Fort Leav elght-Ton Bridue —UnaccountableDis The little daughter of a distinguished Portion —A Number lo Branded on enworth. Still they work no cruelties appearance of a Heavy Boiler. French scientist bad never seen a mon- Ills Clothes-The Daily Koutiue. and the prisoner who behaves well, key; so when an organ grinder, accom takes his medicine, as It were, unflinch ‘ Human nature will Insist on losing panied by Jocko In cap and Jacket, ap ingly, Is treated as well as be could Capt. Oberlin M. Carter, the United bid mislaying things, but when the ar- ; peared before the house her father took rightly expect. He can write to bis tides get to be ns big as a boiler or a her out to view the creature's antics, States army officer recently convicted friends and receive their letters; he bridge, human Ingenuity falls to under I expecting that she would be much of immense frauds in connection with may subscribe for any reputable news Hand how It happened. amused; but after a single glance the the Improvement of Savaunali harbor. paper or magazine, and may have A short time ago a Western railroad little maid hid her eyes against her Georgia, a work of which be had books from the prison library. had to Issue a pathetic advertisement father’s coat skirts and refused to look charge as the Government engineer, Every Saturday afternoon Carter In the local papers. They bad fixed a again, seeming much frightened and was sentenced to the Fort Leaven will be compelled not only to give him worth (Kansas) penitentiary for live twenty-elght-ton steel bridge on three distressed. self a cold-water bath with common fiat cars chained together and dis He soothed and coaxed her, wishing years’ Imprisonment at bard labor, brown soap accompaniment, but be patched it to Dayton, Ohio, with their to overcome her fears, but for some deprivation of his rank in the army, will be forced to wash and scrub bls blessing. time tn vain. She would not for a mo and dismissal, and $5.090 fine. cell, depressing work for the man who The contrast between Carter's life At an intermediate station tjie bridge ment think of feeding the monkey with for years has been living in perfumed for the next five years and bis life for was observed to be bearing the Journey a biscuit, us she was urged to do; In baths, and relying upon the services of extremely well, and was seemingly In deed, she would not even lift her face, the preceding ones could not be more a skilled valet for the simplest tasks the best of spirits; nevertheless, when “But you are really very silly,” th« dissimilar. Carter's rooms were al- of the toilet. the train arrived at Its destination not i father said at last, turning to take her ways models of luxury. No society Attends tlie Quaker Weddln?. a sign of the bridge could be discovered, | Indoors. “He Is such a harmless little girl, nurtured In the lap of wealth, ever A recent Chicago visitor to the East excelled this luxury-loving officer In »nd owing to the inability of the com- j animal.” the costly, artistic elegance of boudoir writes thus descriptively of a Quaker pamy to discover any trace of their lost j "Animal!” cried the little girl, stop property, the advertisement was ‘.sailed I ping short. "Oh let me feed It, papa, begging the public, should It meet with that will be fun! 1 don't mind animals » wandering bridge, to return It to Its | but I thought It was such a dreadful owners with all dispatch, when a sub- ' little boy."—Pearson’s Magazine. ttantial rewurd would be given in <x change. On the Belgian railway line between Antwerp and Termonde a catastrophe was thought to have occurred early In the spring of 1897. The passengers at j the intermediate stations between these j places, after waiting for some time for ¡ The people of Pittsburg have voted the train due to leave the former place at eight minutes past 7 In the evening, in favor of the expenditure of $7.ln>0,- were not a little alarmed when no trnln 000 for the improvement of parks, was forthcoming. Many people thought waterworks, tire department and sew in accident had happened, others shook ers. Lexington, Muss., Is already making their heads hik I thought of all the kid naping stories they had ever rend, preparations for an elaborate celebra while the light-hearted suggested that tion It Is Intended to have April 1:1, the errant train had lost It« way. As a 1900, of the hundred and twenty-fifth matter of fact, there was no accident anniversary of the battle there. md no trninnaping, nor did the engine WHERE CAPT. CARTER WILL WORK. It Is predicted thnt in less than flv« lose Its way; Indeed, the only Individ years the sturgeon will become prac uals who lost anything were the offi tically extinct in the great lakes and and bedroom. Priceless tapestries, rare nuptial ceremony he had the privilege cials, who lost their heads, and, by an j on the Atlantic coast unless their ex old furniture, toilet trappings In solid of attending: unaccountable oversight, forgot to dis- ¡ istence be maintained by artificial gold and silver, fine linens, dainty per "At a Quaker wedding last week, patch the train. fumes—all these and a thousand other where there were no display, decora propagation. Railway wagon No. (»0,474 Is the prop Something entirely new in China Is elegancies are as much a part of Ober tlons, maids or groomsmen, the air erty of the London and Northwestern that the red ciosh tl >ais over a fully lin M. Carter's life as the air be seemed charged with joy. After a si Railway, and fifteen months ago It was lence of several minutes the guests equipped hospital, where from fifty to beathes. missing, with II» contents, consisting of 100 or more patients are treated dally. At t.e Fort Leaven worth peniten arose and the bridegroom taking the one ton of copper. Toward the end of The hospital is iu charge of four native tiary he must manage to survive for band of the bride said: ‘In the divine five long years without bis wine sup presence arid before this assembly I August the wagon turned up on a sid physicians. pers, his rapid friends, and his per take Patience B----- to be my wife, ing at Leicester, but bow It got there At San Jose, Cal, tne school board fumed baths. Five changes of toilet a passed the understanding of nil railway promising to be to her a faithful and hns come to the rescue of the salmon day are not recognized ns essential nt affectionate husband until death shall men. canneries. The opening of the schools the Fort Leavenworth prison. One suit separate us.’ The bride responded: 'I , A year ngo an advertisement appear was postponed for two weeks in order ed In an English country paper stating to allow the employment during the Is quite sufficient, according to the take thee. John J----- , to be my hus prison code—a stout suit of coarse gray, band, promising to be a faithful and that a reward of £50 was offered by a rush of the city's school children. with a big straw hat in summer and a affectionate wife until death shall sep great engineering firm to any one who small blue denim cap In winter. There is a lemon grove of 1 0 xj a ns arate us.’ A prayer was made, the produced a full-grown torpedo tha’ had The man who lias played the hlgh- bridegroom kissed the bride and after been lost about a mile and a half east In San Diego County, California, and roller for years, who has been courted congratulations bad been said all re of the Trow rocks. It was comforting ft is said to be the largest iu the world. by pleasure-loving fashionables, ad paired to the dining-room, where the Il was begun in 1890, when 170 acres to learn that there were no explosives mired by women, and envied by men, breakfast was spread. The table was were planted, and It hns been annually Ln the torpedo. Strangely enough n will for the next five years be kept set with the family silver and china, month later, a similar "fish" put In an added to. until it has reached Its pres under lock and key ns a mere thing, which had come from England with ippearance at Aldoburgh, In Suffolk. ent size duly ticketed and numbered. His num the great-grandfather of the bride, and According to a recent official return, This torpedo was marked with a crown ber will be marked in glaring red. sten »nd numbered 2414 X, and though orig England during the last ten years lias ciled on his prison garments In four there was a single rose at each corner. inally charged with a working pressure paid oft' $355.000,000 of her national places—right across the broad of his After the breakfast the entire party ac of 1,050 pounds, when it was recovered debt, and ns a matter of rank In the buck, over the right thigh, and on the companled the happy pair across the meadow to their new home and were debtor nations lias sunk to third place. It was exhausted. calf of each leg. A more degrading shown the gifts of loving friends. One Franco and Russia occupying respec ' Early In 1897 a peculiar case was thing this branding of the criminal of the guests was heard to say as she tried at Woolwich regarding an extra tively the first two. more prominently than the government Tho last Federal census showed that mule Is marked—could not be devised. started homeward: ‘What is the use ordinary piece of lost property. It ap of all the fuss and worry attendant peared that a man bought for $75 a during tlie ten years 1807-1870 there Fort Leavenworth Is not n place upon a moderately elaborate wedding, were 121,121 divorces in the United boiler, whose size can be estimated where the tastes of prisoners are con- when one can linve such a sweet time from the fact that It took six horses States, and during the next ten years, as that was without them?”’ and twenty men to move h. While this 1877-188(1, there were 200,59.5 divorces. operation was being carried out the The ratio of Increase greatly exceeded The Ruling Paailon. boiler, by some remarkable freak, man thnt of the population. The clergyman bad finished and the aged to lose Itself, and where It went to The American Jewish Yearbook g ve» organ was penling forth the sonorous no man knew, nor could they find out. the Jewish population of tlie country rapture of the Mendelssohn march. though tho police were put on Its ns 1,043,800. It Is stated that of these "One moment, George,” said the ra track, and II was requested to return there are 400,000 lu New Y'ork, 95,000 dlant bride, aud facing the audience she ta Its Borrowing friends. In Illinois, 95,000 In Pennsylvania, 50,- raised her exquisitely bouud though Some yeats elapsed, and then, when a <>00 In Ohio, 35,000 In California, 35.000 somewhat bulky prayer book in her surveyor In the office of works was es in Maryland and 35,000 In Missouri. daintily gloved hands and pointed it timating the value of a fine crop of An Ice man lu St. lands, who lost his directly at the brilliant audience. There scrap Iron that a piece of ground right eye by an accident, was married was a sharp click. known ns "No Man's Land” had yield a few days since, and his fellow-work "All right. George,” said the bride, ed. he spied the boiler; but, being Ig men, desirous of giving nim something “come along.” norant of Its history, ordered It to bo that should combine beauty with util And as they marched down the aisle sold at auction, at which sale It real | ity, made up a fund, and with It pur she showed him that the supposed ‘••ed $12.50. Then the original owner chased a glass eye as a wedding pres prayer book wasn’t a prayer book at recognised tils long iost property, and | ent to him. till. It was a camera! sued tho surveyor for the $75 It cost I "It's my own idea, George.” she The Mississippi State Board of film. Eventually the Judge awarded ! whispered. "Clever, isn't it?”—Cleve Health Is pronounced iu favor of the film $50, while the surveyor received $1 ! land Plain Dealer. CAKTKK IX CONVICT OARB. policy of Isolation and dislufeetitm of for the trespass. It was learned that I first cases of yellow fever, rejecting tho three years lost boiler had hid Itself suited, lbscipllue of the handcuff YVater Ch ap in Glasgow. the old plan of local shotgun quaran on a piece of land quite near Its own shotgun variety is promptly applied as In Glasgow a £15 householder obtains tine against Infected towns as barbar Sr's residence New York Press. the occasion demands. The prison is for 71d [H*r annum a continuous, never- ous. inefficient and destructive to the a collection of old buildings, entered failing, unrestricted, stream of the best Interests of the State. through a sallyport, guarded night and purest water In the world, delivered llrut« a Have Gooil Eyeatght. Lyman Barnes, of Ottawa, Kan., "It Is a singular fact,” said a man In tried to enlist In the army, but found day by heavily armed men. Inside the right luto his kitchen, washhouse and sallyport a gloomy archway leads tin- | bathroom. It Is calculated that 380 the show business, "that Illusions, as himself four pounds abort In weight, we call 'em. don't fool animals. I've lie went away, and for tweuty-foirr der the offices of the warden and his | gnllotis of pure water art* delivered to subordinates. Hit* printing shop, and , th«* citizens of Glasgow for every pen teen that proved over and over again. hours stuffed himself with food, with photograph gallery, to the prison build ny paid. And it is water of such pecu A few years ngo 1 had what Is known the result of gaining the tour pounds ings where the convicts nre boused, liar softness that the householders of ■ s the 'Mystic Maze' nt the Nashville and iidmlsslou Into the service. The fed. ami bathed. Glasgow can pay their water rate out exposition. It was simply a room At Fort Leavenworth hard labor | local paper says that lie ate ten meals of what they save on soap. filled with mirrors so arranged that lu one night aud a day. means Just what the term Implies. Car you seemed Io be In a narrow corridor Hobson City, the uew town lu Ala ter. with hands utilised to labor harder A IHnppearln* Hirer. full of turns. It was very puzzling, and than uncorking champagne bottles and One of the strangest streams In the I used to get lost In the place myself, bama founded by aud for the use of throwing away money, will find tlie but it never bothered tuy dog a mo tha colored race, bus Its charter. Its conditions far from enjoyable. He will world Is In East Africa. It flows In the ment He would run through It from mayor, council and city officers, but it sleep in a regulation prison cell behind I direction of tin* sea. but never reaches tnd to end at full ap«*«*d and never lacks the wherewithal to make It go. a steel-barred door, watched by a guard It. Just north of the equator, and when | It has uo tuouey, mid as no taxes cau only a few tulles from the Indian hump against a mirror. nrmed with a shotgun. It Is netalless "I saw something In the same line In lie assessiil until next year the mayor to say that th«* rar«» carpets and price Ocean. It flows into a desert, when it Frisco not long ngo. A friend of mine has asked for voluntary coutrlbut.ons less tapestries which have heretofore suddenly ami completely disappears. bad an illusion called 'the haunted to meet absolute expenses. contributed to his comfort will uot Electric »tree« Sweep rs. Herman Mclutyre Is suing the city tiglire in his Fort Leavenworth cell. iwing.' You get In what seems to t>e Electric aulouiooile 8treel-swet*plng of Binghamton, N. Y„ for damages, j in ordinary swing, hung In the center The bill of far«* Is not an appetizing | machiues ar«* being prepared to clean jf a good sized room, au<l the thing Some time ago. uuder city authority, I outlook for Carter, for this luxurious the streets of Baris. The old clumsy | began to move. It goes back and forth the number 13 was tacked ou the door I officer has fattened for years upon the dirt machines uow in use arc* to be done of his residence. Since then on Jan. 13 choicest foods prepared by artist chefs. | and finally clear over the top— away with. that Is to say, It seems to. What really his wife died, and ou May 13 Ills house Nothing In the eating and drinking line ! turns round Is the room Itself—the burned down. He Is sure that the un lias l»*en quit«* good enough for the epi Sensible Legist itlon. «wing standing perfectly still. It Is a lucky Buuibrr w hlch the city tacked j curean captain. Think what five years Western Australia has an act In for»*e of Fort Leavenworth prison fare will prohibiting the landing of any one who good Illusion, and when the room Is on his door has hoodooed him. A firm lu Allutuy, N. Y., recently sent' mean to him—an eternity of gastro cannot write out a given passage in revolving rapidly there never was a aian who could keep his head lu the an advertisement to La Freese, a new s nomic misery. English. swing. paper printed In Montreal, and by re- ’ The work which falls to the share of When you think a man Is talking "It seems as If he must certainly turn mall received the following: ”R«*- almost all new arrivals Is with the pick pitch out, and If the motion Is kept up plylng to your favor of the Sth Inst., and blasting drill In the quarries two , nonsense. i>osslbly he Is talking sense, he gets deathly sick. But a pet cat be we are sorry to say that we do not j miles front the prison. The stone Is for and you an* unable to comprehend him. longing to my friend u»«-d to lie on the publish any advertisement having for I us«* In th«* construction of the new peni Clara—And are you still searching for edge of the seat and never turn a hair, Its object the Immigration of our peo- j tentiary. Carter comes lu for this back breaking. hand-blistering experience. your Ideal man? Maude—No; 1 have no matter bow fast the thing was pie to th«* Uulteil States. Yours truly, | Fort Leavenworth prison has a set of quit reading novela. 1A I'reses.'* worked. CARTER IN JAIL LIFE THE RETIRED BURGLAR, THE REAL "DAVID HARUM." “*i Li His Marvelously Developed Renaes of Qna HU* ;nt ***.«*» Hero — of - — Westcott ’s Book - -r David Hannum of Homer, im . *• Hearing and Touch. “It is not always possible,” said the retired burglar, "to avoid making a noise In a house; which doesn’t seem remarkable when you take Into account the fact that a man is all the time in strange houses, aud more or l«*ss of the time In the dark; the wonder Is that a man doesn't fall over something seven teen times In a night and rouse th« whole neighborhood. A man’s got his lamp with him, to be sure, but he can't be all the time fooling around with that; In bis ordinary goings about he relies upon his sense of touch, which comes to be very sensitive. "A great help to a man In getting about is the fact that there’s more ot less sameness to houses, in the arrange ment of the stairs and halls, and things in general: be isn’t an architect, but he has at least Inspected a good many houses, and a glance at the start, as a general thing, will tell him how things lie. And so, while he's got his lamp, he relies a good deal on his senses of touch and hearing. I don’t know, but it seems to me that I could feel a door, or a wall, or a partition before I touched It, by the compression of the air between It and my shoe as I put my foot forward, and oue is in a state of constant readiness to stop. Aud no matter how hard a man's hands may be they are velvet-tipped as far as the sense of touch Is concerned, and as yielding as willow. If he touches any thing movable he rarely upsets It, though he may sometimes; but the only wonder to me Is, as I said, that he doesn’t fall over things right and left. “But while he Is quiet himself, any noise, however slight, made by anybody In the house, he can hear with cer- tainty; he comes to be very sensitive about that, too. If a man In a room overhead gets out of bed and stands on the floor you can feel him If you don't hear him. Y’ou know how boards that have been trodden down upon the beams that support them swell up again If they are not walked upon for a time; the fibers of the wood spring back to their original form. Then when you walk on them for the first time, when they settle down, you hear them creak; the way stairs do, the first time any body goes down ’em In the morning. You might hear a sound like this when a man, however quiet he might be him self, got up and stood on the floor. But if it was a perfectly firm and solid and settled floor, that made no sound xvhat- ever, you could still fee! him by the vi bration of the house caused by the shifting of hfs weight, communicated to you from the beams of the floor upon which he stood, through the walls, and thence through the beams of the floor upon which you are standing. The vi bration might be so slight that it could scarcely be measured by any known means, but In your couditlou of sensi tiveness you could feel it. "I really believe that in a frame house I could feei a mouse walking ou the floor above. I don't mean a rat. Some times you hear a rat running across a floor; and that, under such circum stances, makes practically as much sound and shake as a horse would gal loping over a wooden bridge; but I mean that I think I could feel a mouse walking slowly over a floor overhead; aud you can easily imagine that if a man should knock down anything In 1 house, anything whatever, why, It made more noise than an earthquake. “I still have that sensitiveness of touch, just the same; and, though I don't visit other people's houses at a late hour, as I formerly did, I find my self In my own house just as suscepti ble as ever to the faintest sound or Jar.” Don't Use "Esquire.” The word "esquire,” or, as It Is gener ally abbreviated, "esq.,” is becoming more and more obsolete In America. And it is well that this Is so, for it never had any place here. Even In England, where It belongs. It is woefully mis used, and always has been, for not one person out of a great many can tell who are legally esquires. They are all sons of peers, baronets and knights; the elder sons of the younger sous of peers, and their eldest sons in perpetuity; the eldest son of the eldest son of a kniglit. and his eldest son In perpetuity; kings of arms, heralds of arms, officers of the army and navy ranking ns captains and upward, sheriffs of counties for life, J. T.'s of counties while In commission, sergeants-at-arms,sergeants-at-law and queen’s counsel, companions of the or ders of knighthood, the principal offi cers of the queen's household, deputy lieutenants, commissioners of the court of bankruptcy, masters of the supreme court and those whom the queen may see proper to style “esquire.” All others have no right to any thing beyond the simple prefix “Mr.” ’ ~ Jews In Palestine. There Is a new Turkish regulation re quiring Jews arriving at Y'afa to leave the country again In thirty or ninety days. If they come as visitors. There Is no provision, however, as to bow these people are to be made to return. As the Turks do not accept the word of the Immigrants on landing, a system of money pledges has been resorted to. This may tie called "fine,” "tax.” “de posit,” "backshish,” “ball,” or 'pledge.” It Is a money guaranty that the parties will carry out the requirement of the Turkish Government. Unless they pay the guaranty the Immigrants have great trouble In landing. In many cases the consul Is appealed to. and rather than see them starve or sent back to the steamer, which would proliably not re ceive them sgain. he gives his word as security that they will leave the coun- try at the expiration of the time speci fied. Respectable American Jews, go ing there as bona fide travelers, encoun ter no more trouble than do Christian travelers. It is the Immigrant class— Russian or Polish Jews—who are sus pected by the authorities as likely to swell the ranks of the colonist* "•* The real "David Harum,” the charac ter in Edward N. I. Westcott’s book of name. Is David Hannum, of Homer, the New York village West cott has made fa rnous. When Ho mer read “David Harum” It recog n i z e d underneath tho literary paint the rugged, wide awake, homely co u u t e uauce of David Hannum, DAVID HAXNl’M. who had been a character lu a town of quaint, long-headed, dryly humor ous characters up to a few years ago Homer is full of stories of Hannum, banker anil horse dealer, droll, shrewd, sharp, yet tender. He would lather trade horses aud make $200 than make $2,000 in a business operation. He be gan without a cent iu the world, made a fortune and died with no money. In 1853 New York gave a g aud ex hibition at the Crystal Palace. "Dave” found a horse whose mane was so thick that It gave him somewhat the appear ance of a buffalo. Hannum bought the animal and took him to New ? ork, trimmed Its mane so as to heighten the illusion, and exhibited him ns the “buf falo horse.” New-Yorkers flocked to see the curiosity ami added many d >1 ars to “Dave’s” stock. Some one dug up the stone Cardiff giant, an alleged prehistoric man, which turned out to be a fake. Han- num saw it anil bought an Interest in It. and made more money. Yet, when again poor, no family in Homer ever went without Thanksgiving turkey. Hannum borrowed money to send them to the poor. Mrs. Gibson. Hannum’s sister, has never read Westcott's book and says she never will. “He put words and spelling Into David's mouth such as any one in Homer will tell you he never used,” she says. TRIBUTE FROM LOVING FRIENDS Memorial to Winnie Davis, Unveiled in Richmond. In a lovely plot In Hollywood Cerne tery in Richmond, Va., at the foot of a steep hill and by the side of her father, repose the remains of Winnie Davis, Daughter of the Confederacy. Recent ly a memorial was unveiled over het grave, a tribute from admiring women all over the country, to perpetuate th« *«• THE WINNIE DAVIS MEMORIAL. memory of one who was beloved In Ilf« and mourned In death. This Is prob ably the first time in this country’s his tory that a monument has been erected to a woman soley by women. Tho design represents the Angel of Grief seated on a granite pedestal, one hand holding a wreath as If to place It on the grave. In the pose of the figure dignity and sadness are blended, and In the face of the angel is unfathomable sorrow. From every point of view the outline is perfect and the poise of ths wings Is exquisitely graceful. fl ©IRJ Delays are dangerous—advertise now. No good business man leaves his ad vertising for the sheriff to attend to. A black hen can lay a white egg—but you can't be successful if you don’t ad vertise. It is the momentum of advertising that carries a business along. It is like the steam power which carries along the railroad train. Cut off the steam and the train will move on for some distance without perceptible diminution of speed. But gradually It comes to a stop. It is the same way with advertis ing. The way to keep the business en gine going, whether t! e engineer be an Individual or a combination, is to keep up action. Four stiff Poker Hands. An English paper tells of the wonder- ful deal at poker s«*en recently at Simla, India. The |xick had the small card« out up to the six. and when the handa dealt four out of flv«* players "stood.” The game proceeded In the usual way, and when the four hands were exposed they were found to be a royal flush to the king, a royal flush to the queen, four aces and a king full. Mr. Novice (Indignantly)—See here, you rascal. You told me Tornado could win In a walk! Tout (coolly)—And so he would. But thia was a running race. —Exchange. A good many men go to church out of respect to their wives, and expect to be saved for the same reason.