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uSave Money GBT YOUR JOB PRINTING DONE AT THE eadlight Office (Tillamook cadliglit PRINTING When you Want Butter Paper, WE HAVE IN STOCK THE PURE PARCHMENT, Wagazin« Saetion.—Tillamook, Oregon,"April 5, 1906. THE PRIVATE DETECTIVES. THEIR NAME IS LEGION, AND THEY WATCH ALL CLASSES OF BUSINESS EMPLOYEES. Some Clever Schemes for Swindling Firms and Corporations—Sharps Who Make a Regular Business of Getting Damages. and excitement, they make their ap pearance among the injured. Theli "Injuries” are generally, of course, of an internal nature, and, uttering heartrending groans, they are carried off to be attended, if possible, by some medical accomplice. Now and again the conductors of trains are in league with the sharpers, which,, of course, greatly facilitates the frauds. Indeed, it is said that railway accidents such as small collisions, have been deliberately brought about by conspiracies of this kind. One particular “crook” made large sums by conspiring with conductors to push him off the train when it was in motion! In this way he acquired a profitable crop of “permanent Injuries to the spine,” for which the railway companies had to pay smartly. So numerous and £- astute have the American detectives become of late years, however, that such frauds hi.ve become increasingly difficult. The suppression of malpractices of this kind is, as stated, the principal work of the great army of commercial detectives, many of whom are appar ently ordinary citizens, or even work ers—known as “plain clothes men.” Among their minor functions is the watching of suspected employée especially those of banks and great financial houses. Any tendency to extravagant habit« or Irregular living on the part of em ployes is noted and reported upon by these unsuspected watchers. Others there are Who, in the guise of clerks and laborers, secretly note any ten dencies to disloyalty or discontent. In this way approaching strikes are do- tected, and, oftentimes, nipped in the bud. ' In no other country in the world, are so many private detectives employed as in the United States. Every great corporation has its staff of "secret service" men, many of them recruited from the detective forces of European countries. The chief occupation of these com mercial detectives is to protect the various institutions they represent from the depredations of professional swindlers of all kinds. These “crooks,” are a formidable army. Groups of them travel from city to city, concocting and carrying out frauds of ail kinds, aided in their ne farious plans by "shady” lawyers, phy sicians, and even, al times, by tne em ployés of the corporations which they seek to victimize. Insurance companies are the favorite prey of this robber bands. Of one audacious swindler, who was recently brought to justice, it is stated that, assisted by his confederates, he defrauded seven different accident in surance companies of sums aggregat ing some »13,000. Had be varied his method, it is quite likely this particular “crook" would still be reaping a golden harvest. But he repeated his device too often. His trick consisted in slipping on a piece of soap while taking a bath, Startled by the Artist. and sustaining "severe internal in juries.” He always had a doctor (of "One of the greatest difficulties In course, a confederate) to testify to art,” remarked a critic, " is to get one’s the serious nature of his accident; but, facts right, and for this you have to although the trick in itself was diffi go not to art, but to the people who cult of detection, a constant repetition understand the things represented. of it naturally awakened suspicion, “I received my first lesson in this and led to the downfall of the swindler. direction when, as a youth, I painted Some of the sharps pose as mechan a coast scene with a ship in the fore ics, and prey upon employers of labor, ground. It was highly praised by all their method being to pretend to sus who saw it, with the exception of an tain some injury in the course of their old seaman, who, when he examined work. Aided by shyster doctors and the rigging, politely turned aside to lawyers they bring actions for dam conceal his amusement. No ship, he ages. Sometimes by taking out acci explained, could possibly have gone to dent insurance policies, they contrive sea with the ropes and tackle arranged to gain a double share of plunder. as in my picture. So I had to humble Railway companies are victimized myself to learn to draw reevlng- in much the same fashion—that is to blocks, shrouds, yards, and other por say, by bogus claims for injuries and tions of a ship’s rigging as they really accidents. In these cases the frauds are. are generally more elaborate, involving "But it is not always possible to be not only the services of dishonest true to fact. “Take, for Instance, a typical picture doctors and lawyers, but the testimony of witnesses paid to perjure them which represents a herd of self-deny ing cattle grazing in a meadow where selves. Of one group of railway sharpers, the herbage is of the scantiest, while the ringleaders of which were brought near at hand are unprotected fields of to justice, it came out in the evidence grain into which they could walk at that they made more than »5,000 a will. Why aid not the painter include In his picture the fences which ac year by their practices. A real railway accident, especially one tually surrounded the corn fields? Of any magnitude, is a perfect wind Simply because they would have spoilt fall to some of these rogues, if they are the composition, and consequently reality had to be sacrificed to the de anywhere in the vicinity. Taking advantage of the confusion mands of art. MOTHER OF SENATOR DICK OF OHIO. Mrs. Magdalene Dick is one of the he was very proud when he acquired a half Interest in a feed and machinery few mothers in Washington who can establishment. All this time however, visit the United 8tates Senate cham he kept studying at night to gain an ber and look down upon a son who education, and to achieve something is a member of the most powerful better than an anxious Interest in the legislative body on earth. That son market price of oats. The good mother is the Hon. Charles William Frederick who looks down upon him in the Sen Dick, senator from Ohio, who succeed ate can recall with much pride the struggles of the son to better his place ed the lamented Mark Hanna. There is especial swelling of pride in the world and she did her part to in the breast of Mrs. Dick as she looks help him. He went into politics and down from the 8enate Gallery upon was elected county auditor before he her boy. for the reason that she knows was 30. This is always the best office better than any one else how many in any courthouse and gave the young were the struggles and how rough the man a start not only in politics but paths that led to his present honor. in business His activity and shrewd Both parents of Senator Dick were ness in local elections led to his se born in Germany but they met and lection in 1892 as chairman of the He won married here, settling in Akron Ohio, state executive committee where the father was an humble arti the election by such a small majority that there was no glory in it, but the san He was careful and frugal after the German fashion but was not very following year he managed the second successful in business. The little fam election of McKinley aa Governor with ily knew what it was to work hard splendid results. Later he went to for the necessities of life The future Congress from the old Garfield dis senator knew what it was too. to be trict and when Hanna died, came to born of the traditional poor but honart the senate by unanimous vote. Mrs. Dick is of fine appearance, not parents. His schooling was limited, for he had to begin work when able yet 70 and remain« calmly complacent over ths romantic career of her eon Io earn even a little bit First be was a messenger boy in a who may yet achieve still higher clerk in a hat store and honors. THE AMATEUR SMUGGLERS. MOST TRAVELERS FEEL JUSTI FIED IN OUTWITTING AND BEATING GOVERNMENT. Foreign Dealers Know the American Mania ior Private Smuggling and Sell Accordingly—Many Disappoint- menus in Reauits. If the arrivals on one of the big liners were drawn up in rows on the pier and searched, it is doubtful if five per cent of them would escape the charge of smuggling. The women are said to break the law in greater num bers than the men, although the latter cheat the Government of larger .mounts. The majority of women don’t understand the customs laws. Said a nervous little lady on the promenade of the Deutschland as the tugs were pushing the big steamer into the dock: "I’ve got two china salt cel lars under my hat Do you suppose they’ll hear them click together? They cost 5 cents apiece at tne Palais Royale, but they’re so cute. ’ "Why you dear old goose,” said a business-like person near her, ‘I guess you’d jump over board if you had my trunks to wriggle through the examination. Just listen. ■You Know you’re allowed to replenish your wardrobe if you’re gone a year. When I decided to go over twelve months ago, I just took all the old trunks in the house, I had eleven in all, and I filled most of them up with the stuff you usually send to the Salvation Army. Thought some of them would go to pieces on the trip.. I got rid of more than half in London, and bought beautiful English leather trunks to take their places. And the thlngB I’ve brought back in my replenished ward robe!" "But the foreign names on so many dresses?” gasped the nervous one. “I’ve ripped them out and sewed in the names that were in my old dresses." She was even cleverer than the white- haired gentleman, who confided to his neighbor at table that he had brought back some lace gowns worth at least 30,000 francs (»6000) a piece that were entered in a sworn invoice at 6,000 francs each. "But,” said the little maid at his elbow, “won’t the ap praisers know the real value?” The ven- erable sinner stroked his white beard complacently: "Why should they sus pect the invoices approved by the Am erican Consul at.............. ? Ah, they are my very good friends at the con sulate," he purred. Real Syrian Rugs. Even the steerage has its smugglers. There was a commotion on the immi grant dpek of a French liner one morn ing. Several hundred Syrians were westward bound. One of them had stolen a roll of bedding from another. The officer to whom complaint was made was not deeply interested. Hadn’t the immigrant a good berth in the steerage? Why so much fracas for a bundle of dirty rags that should have been stowed in the hold? The com plainant waxed desperate: "Mother of the Prophet, his bed—of dirty rags! It was of Syrian rugs, the best, a dozen sent by a merchant of Damascus to his brother merchant in New York.” The duty on Syrian rugs is heavy—but who would think to find them in the dirty bedding of an immigrant! A glove buyer for one of the big Am erican houses used to bring back on each semi-annual trip, for his own pur poses, twelve dozen pairs of gloves care fully hidden in many pockets of his coat and overcoat. Almost every tourist who can afford it buys a diamond ring while abroad. A feather boa is al most the first purchase of the American woman arriving in London, and what customs official can prove that she did not carry it out of her own country With her. How seldom do those first purchases in London and Paris outlast the evan escent charm of novelty. Fllmslly built of fragile material, they drop to pieces before the owner has had time to weary of them. If they do last for any length of time, it is only to become a source of anger and disgust. The silk petti coat bought at the Bon Marche, Paris, for which you paid »8—what a bargain it was until one day you felt myster ious prickings at your ankles and Stooped to find that the half inch wide steel ribbon which gave such a chic set to the bottom, had broken loose from the dust ruffle and slashed the silk to bits, and your stockings to tat ters. To comfort you, every depart ment Store in New York and Chicago is showing you identically the same skiit, without the steel stiffening, for »5. Sometimes, remembering these things, the high prices that assailed you In London and Paris, you may won der how the French women of moderate means manage to dress so well. Americans Charged Double. The answer is that Americans are abominably over-charged. A raw clerk In the Louvre once told an American customer that the house would make her up a pongee suit for 150 francs. He was sharply contradicted by an older employe who explained that the snlt would cost 300 francs. As the lady moved awav without ordering the gown, she heard the novice -remon strate. "You told mo 180 franc«.’ "For Frenchwomen, yea,” growled the old hand, "but that was an American.” The biggest lace house in Vienna (and Vienna is the cheapest place in the world to buy lace) purposely puts up the prices to allow a good margin for bargaining. Experienced Amer ican buyers for fashionable New York tailors who go yearly to Paris for models, take with them on their shop ping excursion«, a French frhmd with whose assistance they eerare asnterials and models for about half ths quoted price. French workmanship Is inferior. The models brought home by a tailor who [ outside dependency of the nation. nas a shop just off Fifth Avenue were That the commercial interests of t sent into the workroom to be resewn east, if not its statesmen, are alive before they could be placed in the show the desirability of promoting the sett) cases. Style is what the French tailor PLAN PRESENTED TO CONGRESS ment and internal improvement of tl aims at. Chic, beautiful, a gown must BY WHICH MANY DEFICITS west, is shown by the very comprebe be. If it falls to pieces the first time sive action taken recently by the N COULD BE A VOIDED. it is worn—so much the better for tional Board of Trade in Washirgjp the business—madame needs another a powerful association, composed < gown. A woman who had ordered a During the Past Five Years the representatives from most of the grei single dress from one of the big French Government Has Lost Over a Hun commercial bodies of the United Statu houses complained of the workman dred Million Worth of Tlmbei—The The organization represents a combine ship. The manager shrugged his shoul Remedy. capital of billions of dollars employin Every now and then there is a sharp several hundred thousand workers; 1 ders: “One dress, why should vs bother passage at arms in Congress between has been a strong factor In urgin, at all for that!” Most expensive French lingerie is the East and the West. In fact some legislation on various important in frequently finished with rough seams, of the rather prominent men of Con ternal works; it was the first of th, lace is se-wed to unhemmed edges; gress still seem to think that the West.1 great commercial bodies of the Eas threads in hand embroidery are left is a separate country, and not in to advocate the passage of the nations oose—the garment simply falls to pieces reality a part of the United States and irrigation law and it has a regula, entitled to the same consideration that standing committee on forestry anc even in the most careful laundry, No words can express tne horror of it shown the Mississippi Valley, The irrigation. English tailoring. In London they have Atlantic Coast or the New England The report of the ezganlzation this made an attempt to meet American States. An Instance of this kind oc- year is most Interesting and reads at tastes, but the English tailor’s con cured the other day when Senator Tel follows :— ception of the short skirt is a tweed ler, of Colorado, was addressing the It is gratifying to note that much monstrosity escaping the shoe tops in Senate. He resented the intimations of the legislation on Forestry and Ir front and tickling the pavement be- that the funds used in connection with rigation matters which has been con sistently urged by the National Board of Trade has been enacted into law. The National Board was the first or ganization representing the commer cial interest of the whole country to re commend a /rational irrigation policy and June 17, 1902 a National Irri gation law was enacted. There is in the Irrigation Fund at the present time about »30,000,000 which is in creasing from the sale of public lands at the rate of at least, »3,000,000 a year. In ths matter of Forestry legislation the National Board of Trade recom mended the passage of the bill pro viding for the consolidation of the various forestry branches of ths Government into the Bureau of Fores try of the Department of Agriculture. This bill was enacted Into law at the last session of Congress. The National Board of Trade has stood against the practice of exchang ing worthless "scrip” land in the national forest reserves for valuable public lands outside of the reserves and has repeatedly recommended the repeal of the law permitting this prac tice. This law was repealed at the last session of Congress. At the last meeting of the National Board, opposition was expressed to what was known as the 640 Acre Home stead bills-—Increasing the homestead entry in parts of South Dakota, Colo rado and In Montana from 160 acres to 640 acres; these bills were all defeated at the last session of Congress. Much, however, remains to be done. The National Board of Trade has con sistently advocated the saving of the great public domain for the use of the real homemaker as against the land and timber grabber and the speculator. Trade and commerce will Increase as population increases, and our National land policy should be administered to preserve our remaining half billion acres of public lands for those who will build homes upon them. As laws which tend to overcome this policy the Na tional Board has continuously, since IN THE NEW YORK CUSTOMS HOUSE. hind, while a straight row of stitch the irrigation reclamation service had its meeting in January, 1902, urged the ing is beyond the modest capability of been given as a bounty to the West. In repeal of the Timber and Stone Act, the first place, since the money is ail the commutation clause of the Home the English workshop. Many a woman who in her first paid back to the government, he stated stead Act and the Desert Land Act, io month abroad materially diminished that It was simply in the nature of a accordance with the recommendations her letter of credit, has come home to wish for the trim smartness of Broad way. The frills beloved of the English woman, and the skin tight little jackets of the Frenchwoman quickly lose their fascination for the American woman whose aim in dress is unusually a seem ing simplicity that has cost her tailor hours of nice calculation and herself a great deal of trouble and not a little money. After all, the exp. rienced American traveller buys few things outside of his own country. Considering quality and manufacture, nearly all articles of ordinary wear are cheaper in the Uni ted States than elsewhere. The law allows only »100 worth of foreign ap parel to be brought in duty free, and if this is conscientiously lived up to, the saving Is small on Imported goods A few gloves, ostrich plumes or small pieces of Jewett y, are about the only things the sensible tourist will bother with on his return. SAVE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, Doings in New York. The wife of a Wall street millionaire, whose name in New York is almost a household word, as the police declare, unwittingly furnished the password to a magnificently furnished poolroom for fashionable women at an uptown ad dress the other day and the place was raided by the police. In it were twenty women, whose finely appointed equip ages awaited them in the street. The appeals of the women, members of some of New York’s wealthiest fami lies, when the detectives and officers gained entrance to the drawing room and revealed themselves, formed a thrilling tableau. Several women went on their knees to the detectives. They offered their rings, watches—anything they possessed—rather than face the ex posure of arrest or even the chance of ecoming their identities becomii — known, One woman t clasped the detective sergeant by the knees as she knelt, ____ _ for __ Ciding her ______ liberty. Another tore her rings from her fingers, and offered f them ail to him, saving: "If my name is known there will be murder or sui cide in my home, for my husband will either loll me or I shall kill myself.” Tolstoi Hard oa Ibsen. Grant Tolstoi was one day discussing Tbsen with a friend. Said the latter: "I have seen a great many of Ibsen's plays, but I cannot say that I under- stand them. Do you?” _ ___ ______ Tolstoi smiled, ,___ and _______ replied: “Ibsen doesn't understand them himself. He fust writes them, and sits down and waits. 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