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SUPPOSE yoa haye had a great
many interesting experiences ? I
remarked to an ex detective, now a
great friend of mine.
Yes, he replied, I may say that I
have solved a few mysterious cases in
my time. There was one in particular
which puzzled me tremendously, and
was so clever a dodge as to seem almost
incredible. It was at a little village in
Yorkshire; there had been a murder,
with extensive robbery. I was wired
for and hastened to attend with all
promptitute. I was cordially welcomed
by the local inspector, who informed
me that they had arrested a man on
suspicion, and that the evidence was
very black against him. He then re-lated
all the particulars of the case to
me, which were as follows:
The murdered man was a very ec-centric
character, aged about 50. With
the exception of an extremely old man,
who waited on him, he lived alone, be-ing
a confirmed woman-hater.
" The old man," I burst in, " have
you arrested him ?"
The inspector shrugged his shoulders.
" He is eighty years of age; it is not
possible for him to kill a man in his
prime; besides, there are signs of a
severe struggle. No, we haye not ar-rested
him."
" How long has he been in the mur-dered
man's service ?"
" About a year and a half."
" Thank you." I jotted that down.
" Pray continue." He did so.
"We know nothing more about him
except that he was reputed wonderful-ly
rich. On the morning his old ser-vant,
as was his usual custom, took his
master some hot water. He knocked
twice, but finding there was no re-sponse
opened the door, intending to
stand the jug inside. An awful sight
met his eyes. Oa the floor lay his
master, stone dead, while everywhere
were signs of a severe and protracted
struggle. Chairs, tables, boxes, every-thing
was topsy-turvy."
" One moment," I broke in. "Does
not seem strange to you that the-old
man should have slept through it all ?"
" Not at all; he is as deaf as a post;
beside, their rooms are far apart. But
to continue. The old man communi
cated with us and I wired for you. I
carefully searched the house and
grounds. In the library there was a
rather superior looking man of the
mechanic class. He was lying uncon-scious.
On the table stood a decanter
of wine. 'Halloa, my man,' thought
what does this mean ?' We raised
him up and examined him. On the
jack of his head was a terrific bruise,
most likely where he had fallen. He
showed no signs of returning conscious-ness,
and I sent for the old man. I
told him how matters stood, and the
old chap shouted out: 'He's been at
the wine ; master always kept a decan-ter
of drugged wine on this table.'
There was nothing to be got out of him
yet, though, so I went and examined
the garden. I found footprints leading
to the window which had been forced,
and carefully examined them. Then I
went back and measured the arrested
man's boots; they corresponded exact-with
.the footprints. That's my
case ; what do you think of it ?
Well," I admitted, " it eeems very
strong against the suspected man. Still,
I cannot understand him drinking wine
after committing the murder.'.'
Well, you see," said the inspector,
¡'one glass is enough to drug a man for
hours."
" I see," I replied, " that alters the
case. By-the-bye, does he plead inno-cent
or guilty ?"
" Innocent. He has some faked
story about receiving a blow on the
head and remembering nothing more."
"Ah," I said, " you never know in
such a case as this what's true or not
true; however, we shall see. I should
like to have an interview with the ar-rested
man."
Fortunately, I was allowed to go
and examine him and form my own
opinion. I found him an ordinary
type of the better class British work«
man. Somehow the moment I set eyes
on him I felt sure he was innocent. I
explained who I was to him, and that
if he was innocent it would be my en-deavor
to prove it. He swore that he
had no knowledge of the crime or of
how he entered the room.
" Well," I said, " you must tell me
everything you know, I shall possibly
be able to arrive at some conclusion."
" I know but very little, sir. I was
walking along the road in front of the
house, when, without a second's warn-ing,
I receiyed a severe blow on the
head. I remember nothing more.
" Were you quite sober ?" I asked.
" Yes, sir ; I had only had one pint
of beer."
"What seems strange to me," I said,
" is the fact of your footprints right
across the garden."
" My footprints, sir ! What do you
mean ?"
I told him that he had been traced
over the garden, and he looked rather
perplexed ; then he looked down at his
boots and blurted out:
" Sir, some one has taken my boots
off and put them on differently."
"How ?" I said.
" I tied them in a bow—now they
are in a hurried knot. See !"—•-and he
held them up for my inspection. He
was quite right; they were tied in a
knot, as he said.
" Are you sure you tied them differ-ently
?" I inquired.
" Positive. I could swear it in a law
court."
I put that down in my note book;
it was one point in his favor. Another
thing that impressed me was, where
could he have put the stolen property
if he had fallen suddenly after par-taken
of the drugged wine. The spoil
ought to have been in that room. It
was not, tor I had examined it.
All this time the man had been
silently engaged thinking, now he said:
" Look here, sir. In front of the house
the grass is rather long. I was walk-ing
on it at the time, and when I re-ceived
the blow I was right in front of
the gate. You examine that grass and
see if there are any signs of a fall on
the grass, or if anyone has been drag-ged
along it, for I feel sure that I was
carried from that spot into the house."
" I will go and examine it," I said,
much struck by his intelligence,'' and
now goodbye for the present and don't
get down-hearted."
" Goodbye, sir; God bless you," he
cried, and then I left him and wended
my way toward the house.
On the way I met the inspector,who
inquired if I had learned anything.
"Yes," I replied. " A good deal. I
think I can almost prove the arrested
man's innocence."
He looked rather disappointed, but
did not ask any particulars. I believe
he thought I was mad. I reached the
front of the house and carefully search-ed
the grass. Soon I found a place
where it looked disarranged, and, get-ting
out my lens, I carefully examined
it. Yes, there was the mark of the fal-len
man ; a little further back was
the mark pf another man, who had
evidently stood there some time. But
search as I would, there were no signs
of any one being dragged along. But,
stay, I suddenly alighted on a deep
footprint, then another, and another
right up to the gate, then across the
garden, till they ended close by the
forced window. Suddenly an idea
struck me ; the footprints seemed very
deep. I made one or two beside them.
.Mine were not nearly so deep. What
did this point to ? The maker of them
had been heavily laden. There could
be no doubt of it, the yillian had taken
off his own shoes and put on those of
the arrested man ; then he had carried
him across the garden and thrown him
through the window unconscious, pour-ing
a glass of the drugged wine down
his throat, then he had robbed the
dead man and departed. But there
were a few queries unanswered:
First—How did he know the wine
was drugged ?
Second—How was it there were no
signs of his departure?
Third—How could he carry the
valuables away, for I had been in-formed
they were yery heavy ? In my
own mind I had proved one man's
innocence; but a harder task lay before
me ; to prove another's guilt.
Search as I might, I could find no
more traces, and the matter became
more puzzling. The burglar seemed
either to have flown away, or to be
still in the house. This feeling was
augmented later on, when I went to
the nearest station and inquired if any
strangers had been about. To my sur-prise
they positively affirmed that
was the only stranger that had come
or gone for the last few days. The
next station was some ten miles off; it
was not likely that they would haye
carried their spoil that distance. When
I reached my lodging and thought the
matter over, there was only one possi-ble
conclusion. The murderer must
be still in the village, and some of the
stolen property must be still hidden in
the house or grounds, and in the eve-ning
I determined to watch the house,
for there I was convinced lay the key
of the mystery.
About 10 o'clock I cautiously crept
into the garden and scaled a tree which
stood in a direct line with the old man's
bedroom. I have been in a few strange
positions, but never in such a one as
that, before or since. For there I sat
perched in that tree for two mortal
hours, in the most uncomfortable of
positions, and nothing; occurred.
Presently I saw the light in one of
the bottom rooms go out, and soon
after the old man himself came up to
bed. First he very carefully drew his
window curtains together, which shut
me out from all view. But I meant to
see somehow, and noticing that the
ends were left uncovered, I cautiously
descended from my perch, and after
taking off my boots, began to climb up
th8 creeper which covered the house,
and was as thick as a man's wrist in
some places. My heart beat violently
as I neared his window ; the stem of
the creeper was getting thinner, and
one false step might ruin all, but I
reached it at last, and, by bending un-der
the window, had a fine view. The
first thing that surprised me was that
he had not begun to undress; but a
greater was in store, for, after walking
across the room and locking the door,
he touched a board in the wall—which
was of panneled oak—and it sprang
open, revealing a small, secret chamber.
It might have been Aladdin's Cave,
for it glittered and shone, even in that
pale light. It contained the stolen
property !
What happened during the next
few minutes I cannot tell, my brain
was too dazed to observe. All I could
think of was, the old man had the
stolen property. When next I looked
he was packing things into parcels,
wrapped in rags and old paper, so that
they looked like rubbish. As I watch-ed
him, I observed that he no longer
painfully hobbled about, but rather
flew over the floor in his joy. Soon
they were all wrapped up, and the
secret panel was slid noiselessly into
its place. I watched with great inter-est
for the next development, but I
am bound to admit that it almost stag-gered
me. The old man fumbled
about his beard for some time, when it
suddenly fell off, revealing the face of
a man about 40, then the wig followed
suit, and the metamorphosis was com-plete.
It was a young man in disguise.
The mystery was solved. Soon after
he extinguished his candle, and I went
to my lodgings to ponder over the
strange case.
In the morning we arrested him, to
his great surprise, but after having his
beard and wig removed he was too
astonished to lie, and confessed his
guilt. Needless to say, the suspected
man was released at once.
BY THE WAY.
Interesting Notes and Comments
Persons. Places and Things.
IS
ALiLI SORTS.
There is a lighthouse to every four-teen
miles of coast in England, to every
thirty-four miles in Ireland, and to
every nineteen miles in Scotland.
A skate fish weighing 90 pounds was
taken by hook and line in San Fran-cisco
bay the other day. It was the
largest ever caught there.
Electric lights are to be placed in
the Sivan Hindoo temple at Kochlead.
de, Ceylon, and it is likely other
wealthy temples will follow the
example.
If you pick up a starving dog and
make him prosperous he will not bite
you. This is the principal difference
between a dog and a man,
A woman can drive a man crazy for
twenty-four hours, and then bring him
to the gates of paradise in two seconds
by simply tickling him under the chin.
The true ballot reform is that which
enables the voter and not the politician
to do the voting.
A girl is never considered a good
singer until she has caused a concert
to be postponed because she has a cold.
The city having the greatest death
rate in the world is Rheimes, France»
the proportion being 28.62 per 1,000
one year. Dublin follows, with
27,05, and then New York, with 26.27,
A Mighty Big Tree.
" Yes, sir; they have the largest
timber on earth up in Humboldt
county!" exclaimed Sam McConaghy,
of the United States Mint, to a Post
man. " The trees up there are so big
—well, I am not going to tell you
how big they are because you wouldn't
believe it. Don't know as I would
believe it myself, though I do believe
a whole lot I tell. But just to give
you an idea, now, they cut down one
tree up there that made enough lum-ber,
pickets and shingles to build a
whole town and fence it, and they've
still got logs enough to put up a build-ing
as big as the Palace Hotel.
The butt of the tree was hollow,
too, for about fifty feet, and as it fell
right square across a deep gulch they
used it for a bridge. Four horse
teams drive through it. By a little
hewing out they can make a foot-path
on each side of the wagon road through
it. The tree was so tall that when
they commenced cutting it up they
had to make two camps—one at each
end—for it was too far for the men
working on the top to walk back at
night. I don't know what they would
have done if seyeral hundred feet
hadn't been broken off at the top by
the elements centuries ago."
"But that was a small tree compared
to the one—"
McConaghy is telling himself about
that other tree.—San Francisco Post.
THE P.ACE for the presidency
now a thing of the past, and not until
another century dawns upon us will
the country be called upon to elect
a successor to President-elect McKin-ley.
It was a hard and fast race, and
let us hope the best man won. Friends
of the defeated candidate for the presi-dency
generally bewail the result as a
calamity not only for the party, but
for the candidate. Yet there are com-pensations
even in defeat for the latter.
Henry Clay was regarded by his friends
with enthusiastic devotion while living,
and the sympathetic halo which has
surrounded his memory since his
death owed much to the fact of his de-feat.
Reverses bring out a man's
true friends, and such was remarkably
the case with the great Kentuckian.
The same applies to Webster and
Blaine. To-day they undoubtedly
occupy a higher place than the men
who defeated them. The presidential
race is a wearing and worrying one
from start to finish, and the prize in
the end is the White House with all
its cares. Is the game worth the
candle?
H5 •
IT COSTS a great deal to be a presi-dential
candidate, says a writer in the
St. Louis Republic. McKinley, for
instance, kept open house from the
time of his nomination up until the
day of election, and there was not a
day that he could sit down to his own
table alone. Thousands upon thou-sand
of callers from all parts of the
Union visited him, and he had to wel-come
them with a speech regardless of
the hour. A large clerical force had
to be maintained to answer his mail.
Ex-President Harrison was quite poor
when he was first nominated, and it is
said he had to borrow money to keep
him going between that time and his
election. Robert AIcKee, his son-in-law,
paid a large part of his expenses,
and other friends put up for him or he
would have been decidedly cramped.
During Andrew Jackson's three presi-dential
years he lost a lot of money,
and it took the proceeds of his cotton
arop to pay part of his expenses in the
White House. Martin Yan Buren,
rich as he was, was robbed right and
left, and during his second campaign
the politicians actually came to the
White House doors and demanded
food, and got it.
* * 4-
THE presidency is rather a lucrative
one from an American standpoint, but
in comparison to salaries paid most of
the foreign rulers it seems a small
pittance. The salary for the four
years amounts to $200,000, and the
White House and lots of perquisites
are thrown ia in addition. The Presi-dent
is always ¡rare of his salary, too,
when "the ghost walks," as the treas-ury
bank never bursts. He has a
good chance to lay by a snug sum "for I
a raing day," as Congress is asked this ]
year to appropriate about $43,000 to
run the White House. He needn't
bother about paying rent, and his fuel
and light are furnished free to him. He
does not even pay for his own news-papers,
and has the finest stationery
the world produces. Even his steno-grapher's
salary is paid out of the ap-propriation,
and there are half a doz-en
watch dogs to keep the crowd away
from hisn. His telegraph bills are
paid by Uncle Sam, in fact all the
thousand and one little incidentals
they eat out the heart of the ordinary
man's salary are paid for him. His
private secretary receives $5,000 a
year, and the man who sits outside his
office door to open and close it gets
$1 800.
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Lever Bros., Ltd., Hudson and Harrison Sts., New York,
—An attempt was made to fire a ten-ement
at 166 Division Street, New
York,in which twenty two families live.
—Three attempts have been made
to poison Albert F. Learoyd, of Dan-yers,
Mass, Several of the family
narrowly escaped death.
ALL THE salaries of the sarvants
connected with the White House are
paid by Uncle Sam,, even down to the
barber. The kitelisas have all the
latest improvement», and the Govern-ment
pays the WMfce House steward,
whose duty it is to attend to the mar-keting,
about $35 as week. The cook-ing
utensils are of copper, and one of
the cooking stoves is so large that you
could al most roast an ox whole upon
it. The dish® used by the President
are of the finesi china and of the most
beautiful cut glass. Many of them
were made especially for the White
House. The President's wife pays
nothing for her linen. There are great
closets filled with bedding and towels,
and others in which are kept the
finest of tablecloths and napkins.
The napkins used are all about a yard
square and of the finest damask, and
have the initial U. S. on them, but
this rather improves than injures the
appearsuce, and the greatest beauty of
it all k thai they don't cost a cent.
* *
MANY presents come to the1 White
House either for the President", or his
I wife if he is married. President Cleve-land
was overloaded with thgm, and
at the time of his marriage they came
in almost by the wagon load. Shortly
before Thanksgiving he always re-ceives
some immense turkeys from
Rhode Island, the one sent last year
being so large that the White House
family could not eat them. President
Cleveland will not receive things off
actual value, but he takes eatables andl
drinkables. These are some of the
compensations for being President, but
it is doubtful if they pay for the worry
and annoyance incidental to the office
of chief executive.
* * *
IN AN article in a recent number of
the North American Review on "Men
Who Might Haye Been Presidents,"
the following came within an ace of
filling the highest office in the gift of
the American people: Thomas Pinck-ney,
Charles C. Pinokney, A aron Burr,
DeWitt Clinton, Henry Clay, John
M. Clayton, Daniel Webster, Lewis
Cass, Beojamin F. Butler, James G-Blaine
and Samuel J. Tilden. Some
of these names are familiar ones, while
it will be a surprise to many to know
that the owners of others were within
a few electoral votes of the Presidency,
and that their success was only pre-vented
by the scattering votes. But for
the latter fact, Thomas Pinckney, of
South Carolina, would have been the
second President instead of John
Adams, and Charles C. Pinckney, also
oi South Carolina, would have been
tied for the third Presidency witlh
Jefferson had the former's own state
voted for him, as it was anticipated it
would, and one of his party's electoral
votes in Rhode Island not been di-verted
to the scattering list. Burr, as
everybody knows, was tied with Jef-ferson
for first place and was only
finally relegated to the second place by
two states, Delaware and South Caro-lina,
finally casting blank votefi.
* * *
THE political history of our country
might havabeen completely revolution-ized
had the narrowly defeated candi-dates
been successful. Had Aaroin
Burr secured the executive chair, the
dark after pages of his history, the
killing of Alexander Hamilton and
his trial for treason would have beein
missiDg and he might have Gome dow:n
to posterity as one of the greatest of
our Presidents. Again in the case of
Gen. Banjamin F. Butler, had hie
accepted the vice-presidency with
Lincoln, which was tendered him and
declined in 1864, he would have been
President instead of Andrew Johnson.
The whole history of the reconstruc-tion
of the South might have been
radically altered and he no doubt
would have stood upon a higher pin-nacle
than he does to-day.
* * *
THE ambition to be President will
always live in the breast of the Ameri-can,
voter, but it is a question whether
the« is not more satisfaction in the
peace and contentment of private life.
Sonae<sf the defeated candidates lived
longer and had a more peaceful time
than woald have been the case had
they won. William Henry Harrison
succumbed after a little more than a
month in the office and Zachary Taylor
after a little more than a year, whiile
Lincoln and Garfield became assassins'
victims because of their success. Aind
Tyler, Fillmore and Andrew Johnsion
added nothing, but if anything de-tracted
from their fame because they
became Presidents. Life, after all, is
what we make it, and the many worries
and annoyances attached to the office
of Chief Magistrate largely overcome
the glory that goes with being chief
ruler of a nation of 70,000,000 people.
* * *
.Is THE game worth the candle ?
PHIL,
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STORES.
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He Registered.
The last three names on the hotel
register read :
« P. I. Potmore, M. D."
« Hiram All, U. S. N."
"Reginald De Courcey Styles,M. A,"
The man with the untutored whiist
e n and the chronic sun grins pondered
a moment and wrote i
"' Reuben Oates, P. C."
" What's the 'P. G' for, old man ?
asked the commercial traveler, with
tfea eaey assurance born of a business
life began at the age of eight years.
w Prominent Citizen, mister j Promi-nent
Citizen. I got the biggest farm,
the fattest hawgs, and give more money
to the campaign fund than any other
man ia my township."
CT. H i . jE3I t T ~ F 3 H i t - ^ jj
Miksch's Old Stand.' Main Street, Lititz
Over the State.
Thieves robbed two houses at Hazle-ton.
George W. Kein, aged 23, commit-ted
suicide by shooting at Middletown.
W. Oscar Miller now holds the
double office of City Solicitor of Read-ing
and State Senator.
Bishop McGovern conducted services
at the dedication of the new Catholic
Church at Quarrytille.
William H. Allen, a colored waltef,
tried to act as peacemaker lu a quarrel
at Chester and was badly cut.
In payment of an election wagef,
John Warren of Mohnsville, rode a
bull in the streets of Sbillington.
Deputy State Veterinarian Noáek
reports the existence of tuberculosis
and hog cholera in Berks, county.
The people of Yoeboro, near York,
have raised a flag to an unknown man
who voted for Bryan, the only silver
vote in the place.
A farmer named Hoopes, of near
Parkersburg, shot and killed a colored
man named Johnson, whom he found
robbing his house.
A Northern Central locomotiye de-stroyed
a large amount of timber and
cord wood for Charles ITuathcote, near
Glen Rock, York county.
John Pugh, of Pugh Brothers, was
probably fatally iojured in the Wood-ward
Mine, near Wilkesbarre, by be-ing
struck by runaway cars.
Captain Hugh S. Taylor, of Com-pany
F. Fifth Regiment, National
Guardsmen, at Bellefonte, has dis-charged
fifteen men for missing drill.
Railroad and city officials were cen-sured
by a Williamsport Coroner's
jury for the death of fourteen-year-old
Elizabeth Lougan at a grade crossing.
Jjife at Washington.
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