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THE WASHINGTON POST: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18, Che Radium Glatcb. I IACE HAKES TO TELL THE TIME IN THE DABK. Sandy Deserted. WAS CHAMPION HOODOO, AND HIS EFFORT TO OBEY ORDERS RESULTED IN A TRAGEDY. I New Sork is i I sure It i i i tl irst of it a ho is a i a i Jonah ishth RegmKnt I nut be urpriwd to learn th-n ho i lea 1 i he isn I I 1 -n I bt if a i i me i a i ibo it i fai as is lo nK ind min other 11 he dis ai are 1 i ff the- ice the eai th on DC cember lu inoi It is A where he 4 i i a i a pc LCC fo- instance ule his presence in Now i necf' ear Id to Msit the South ncTitan republics alwavs want eU tt tc where there was lighting tur IP a id i hittie of i a mU he used ti that dun is 1 lif- he hid got 1 is dp rt and Iixed through it all just ap liip IK 18 the gentleman of leisure who 1 i 1 fireside md does nothing cal dilated to do i good in re tr-an to ir kt i ipt out of i he gets a modern.ti, i pleasure ho Sin has teen explained me and fact 10 01 in the army anv more about 1 im thin that he art come into camp one lax find joined tl used to ask him to tell us -w ere ne tame from but he would laugh it oft" and ay that the were far more seno is things for soldiers like us to think a i Sandi is never 11 1 been sad ind except on the occa i i of I im somg to rel te He had a cheering word for erj one ind enooi lerement on Held of battle i 01 1 to Cn( of us than a bottle of bra would hivo done It wa ea in ember when Sandj i eil our regime an no had he strut, tiit cam tl in i spell of biting cold weal! er 11 such pungency that It Deemed to eeth icn it was a in hearts we wished ihit there was no somu tlut to perform Although never spoke a of the matter to one another et bj the actions ot the ot er solders I knew that the loathed th? as much as 1 Dtctmbei band had to stand i ti for 1 ours in the morning 1 ft the i it bout clock and he v.a.

0 ba in camp and at It I he i as it seenr-d melted int tht iii ifch the thermc meter 11 tix low to encourage am melt ink. c- i le i bamli post tw id ers re st mdlng and it is from il eir Hun i detiils th it it a possible tu gather int tl rt ah ut him and the who tl Im San I 1 a it 1 is pist i romptlj a 0 t) at niori slm ering rr ri tli" Ul 10 i Id le- the umomfo-tible itl the s.ul ners had a i of clollies and not very uc i I 1 i 1 fro for 1 tile wliis'lii anil an 10 heel As a inpr nd 1 is fle readv for Tl i WAS a bi" il int-st i tt ill and iJ muscles of ircn the wa ind frail st 1 expecting the la 1 inter ign a he nkl then Ift I in i is-, tl i igli tl lines But th 3 mi, still i i and skip pi iff mercH 1 He! at the big soldi i and 1- i i nost IIR i IK mistimes Sand was ki ow tr ep 1 i ibout him and 10 Icrstod wl i ho diem grab i old of the chip md to some understanding Thf ha 1 gon but a Tew step 1 past Sandj the scntr sho ited aftci clceiaj him i i omc back hero the boj to obey the order biU he did i ot A thought flashed mtr Sandv mind JTat morn ng the General had given out v. rnuiK that soic-. had found thcli a i t( tttp ind id A. suspicion it misht a been of tin lads who brougnt pkrs to tlic soldier" oultl this lad hue bem one ot them Sandy inised hi-, rifie and shouted after the 5 oungster gnln but with no result The lad still continued lo whistle and skip along rc 0 ard ees even of he presence of Sandy Stop stop' cried Sandj Stop or I shoot He remembered the General orders-Yo matter who trice to pass our lines don fall to shoot v.hen the occasion de mands such tactics It mutat have been one of the most try ing moments Sandv life for he was a kind heurted and humane person his for lighting notwlthstinding ind it certainly must pained him to be forced to enrnestl point a gun at a little fellow like the lid who was still whistling st 11 skipping over the frozen ground I I I count three yelled Sandy at the top of his and if you don stop then--I li shoot Ills words were brought back to his ear by the echo as the sound hit the border of the woods a short distance a a One--two -Sandy paused He must have taxed his courage tr its capacitj Three he cried shot rang out on the stillness oC the morning and the Ind fell to the ground The bullet had pierced his heart Itlnn a few moments he died Two toldier who happened to be near enough to the sc-ntrj to see what was Kolng on i-in over to the bo as soon as the saw him fall Bj le time they reached his side bandy was there trying to bung the little fellow back to life The man ho had fired the shot was desperate and did not have full possession of hia mind He had committed some thing for which he could not atone and in sheer desperation he shook the lad attempting in this wav to bring back the spark of life that the bullet from his rifle had extinguished a the matter with this chap' isked one of the men who had come to the dead boi side What made you The first question was asked in the hope that Sandy express his con fidence tint the bey w-ould not die as there was never i flame of hope cast into Sandj life that he aidn attempt to kindle into a blaze of success But he did not replv to the question so the soldier asked what had made him shoot Again his interrogation was met ith silence The bov as taken to camo while Sandy walked behind taciturn jet ex cited It was evident to anj one who saw his face that he was suffering men tal toiture in sharp contract to the look on the bo who had died while whistling and with a smile on his face the request of the Geneial the- lad was stretched out in his tent The sad trio had not been in cam? a quirtir of an hour when an elderlj man flted lo the point of recklessness i ushed into camp and piteouslv is boj mj bo He was told He hastened to the Gen tent and fell on his Oh Robbie 3 told not to the house 1 did you disobes mj wishes 1 Deid No no Robbie speak to me--speak to me I saj The father burst int- tears ard between his sobs asked questions as fiat as he could think of them The truth of the mattei was told Tint oc a fiesh outburst from the ten itled parent He kissed his son on the ford cad and sciearned Robbie Oh didn they know tl at were iml dumb the first time in -( jears Sand He stolo out of the tent and he liasn been hrard if On thC buoki ho ib enrolled a a deserter Signs Lost a Gold PROSPECTOR WHO BELIEVED IK THEM PASSED TTP A CLAIM THAT WOULD HAVE MADE HIM KICK I A amone tells me he believes In signs I off 111 quit him on the spot and so i when I tell you the deal that I got from a part ner that I used to have.

It was about the ear 1802 that my partner Charlie and I went out pros pectlng TVc proceeded along the main divide of the Rockies i a couple of pack horses and a good supply of grub and tools The first sign that Charlie pointed out to me waa the new moon The lower point of it was slightly tilted and Charlie said that it a dry moon He said tho point is up so that vou could, bang powder horn on it if the Miner point was down so that vou could pour water out of it then it would be a wet moon and would have wet weather Well -ne did have dry weather for two dajs and Hen we had rain for atoout two weeks It finally cleared and then Charlie got another sign It was just about bed time one night hen we heard an owl hoot Do you know what that is a sign of 9 asked Charlie Of course I do I it a sign that there is an ov 1 around We)! he said I see don know anything about iigns That is a sure sign that we will do weather Sure I replied didn we have dry weather ever since we had the dry moon except for the last two weeks' Oh well the point of the moon wasn UD very well that tlma. but the nrl booting Is a sore sign of dry weather, was my partner's rejoinder Well, we kept prospecting; Sometimes we had dry weather and sometimes it rained The owl didn seem to have much of a line on tne weather, but Charlie would see signs of good or bad weather and signs of good or bad luck all most every day One day we were fishing; In a small lake and we ha-3 more trout than we could eat, it -was hard to stop wnen they were biting good A wind took Charlie hat sailing out on tbe lake and he started to throw rocks at It- I told him to get a pole, but he said that he was throwing the rocks Just the other side of It so that the waves would work it into shore He kept throning until at last he threw a rock right Into the hat and it went out o' That is the last we of the hat To lose your hat meant a year of bad luck said Charlie who stated further that he hail a mind to quit right there and go back to Butte I told him that we had better pack up to morrow and go over to another range of mountains that we could from where we were 'Ml right he said but I wouldn, prospect around here for ani thing So pulled out the next We went down the mountain and in cross ing the valley we came onto a ranch It nas just at the mouth of a gulch The rancher had just come home from the timber with a load of poles and was unhitching his team when we arrived He told us to turn our horses into the pasture and stay all night That looked good to us as we were gelting tired of bac and beans so we unpacked our hcrees and turned out in the pasture and then we helped the rancher to unload tl poles Then we sat down and ha 3 talk witn rancher who told us that his name as Foster and that he and hie old woman had come -out from Missouri the eur before Well he said 1 11 go and see If Llze has got supper readj Wte started to make camp but Foster told us that we could make our bed in the house as they had an empty room came to house Airs Fos ter asked Charlie where his hat was He told her how he had loat it 1 11 give ou one she said and she went into another room and returned with a hat which she gave to Charlie Charlie was tickled i the new hat and he had almost forgotten the fall Into the lake After tnpper Mrs Foster told us tbat the Int had belonged to Ijer brother In law arid that he had dropped dead with it on about two vears ago Charlie removed the hat at once and gave it a luapicious look Oh said Mrs Foster the hat is all right He didn have any disease he died of heart failure But Charlie never put the hat on again he always can led il his hand after that. Ftstei asked us 1C we would show him how to pan for gold and his wife told us that she nad a dream the night before that was gold the ranch and that shf believed in dreams Charlie asked Foster if he knew anj thing about signs Well no I dont he said "But I have got a brother In St Louis that is a sign painter Oh no said Mrs Foster he means if you believe In signs I do she said and I tell you that dreams aln for nothing I dreamed once that I fell off the porch back In Missouri and the next day I fell off just as I dreamed it and I believe that tve have got gold on the ranch and that we will flnd it to morrow ell said Foster 1 go a whole lot on what she says and if you bojs will show me how to pan to morrow we 11 see if there is iny gold here I alwajs thought that there was from the time that we came here but I didn know how to find out Charlie got the gold pan and showed it to them Mrs Foster wondered how much gold it would hold and It was easy to see that thej didn know much about gold I guess that they expected to get full The next morning we got up to a good ham and egg breakfast Mrs Foster told us that she had dreamed about gold again so that she was sure that we would flnd lots of it so after breakfast we to the creek and panned several pans of gravel Then Foster tried it We had to give him the idea of getting the gold to the bottom of the pan but there was no gold Mrs Foster looked disappointed but I hold her that the gold was always on or near bedrock Well said Foster if ou will wait I will try to dig to bed rock so went up the creek further to here v. though that we could strike bedrock easier Charlie put his hat on a bowlder that Foster commenced to dig As Foster dug we would try a pan of dirt At last we got a few colors of gold Then Foster tried it and he got a few colors then he went aftor his wife and she came on a run Didn I tell you that I dreamed that there was gold and my dreams always come true shouted the woman Foster and his wife were glad They started to tell us that they were going to get some of their relatives out from Missouri and work the whole ranch The had the gold good and strong said Mrs Foster that we have struck it come to the house because dinner is nearly reads She started on ahead and Charlie commenced looking for his hat and when he found It It was flattened out like a pancake Mrs Foster had sat on it we had i good chicken dinner and Foster wanted us to stay until -the next daj TO that he could learn more about placer mining After dinner I told him that there was a little gold in most every gulch but that he would have to do more work to find out If it was rich enough to work "We climbed the other range and found some good ledges and ifter a few dajs we struck a good ledge thit looked like gold rock pounded up some of the ore ind pinned it and we got a pretty good prospect So we commenced to sink a shaft on it In awhile we would pound up ome of the ore nn 1 it kept getting better all the time We had a good thing and we knew it But Charlie got up against It again real hard We sitting around the camp fire one evening talking about starting a tunnel Charlie had hung his hat up on the limb of tree under which we were sitting and i we were talking a little puft of i blew the hat squaielj Char iie head He jumped up tore the hat off and threw it into the fire He was as as a sheet That settles it he declared I am go ing to Butte to morrow I won do an olliei tap on the prospect. You re bughouse says No replied he Didn you see that coVote the trail ahead of us this morning when he went to work' That was a bad one but that dead man hat falling on my head is a sign of the damned more of it for me I couldn work it alone so we both went back to Butte We hadn recorded the prospect jet and I made up my mind that 1 would go oi.t the next year and locate it myself but I drifted over to Idaho winter and I stayed there a couple of ears 1 still had the prospect in mind and about three years after I went out there to take it up and found a hoist and about 30 men worl ing They were also build Ing a mill down the hill from the mine Charlie is married now and has got a couple of kids He working at the Speck now and I am working at the Saint Signs' Nothing doing no never not for me NEWS IK OLDER TIMES.

Mall Not mans minutes after a statesman has finished a speech nowadays the news is selling in the streets and has been flashed to every capital in Europe It was different in the In the time of Pitt He made a memorable speech one March and the eager public only learned exactly what he said from the Gentleman Magazine of the follorv- November IVIost Wonderful Cow. THIS BOSSIE FEASTS OS GASOLENE AND HER MILE CAB BUH AH AUTO. G-ove (X INST PALL KELLER, the well known jam salesman and amateur farmer, has been sum tnoned to appear before the Cedar Grove Board ot Poultry Trade to show cause why his brinJ cow Calliope should, not be condemned as a menace to the community Rollo Rollins Assistant Recording Sec retary of the Board drew up the charges against Keller cow He wo-ked da and night on his first di aught of the charges and just before he had finished the final copv his wife was apprehensive that he had. developed brain fever The following is Mi Rollhio indictment of Calliope A certain special resident of Cedar Grove one Ernst Paul Keller jam sales man and alleged farmer and poultry raiser has got a cow what am no fitten live stock for this heie or any other com munltj The name of this here cow of Ernst Paul Keller is Calliope She was named after one of them steam contra shlons that makes music anJ goes round with circus parades leading the lion cage The Cedar Grove Board of Poultry Trade does not lay down any charges against that cow name excepting to state that It aln no fltten name for a cow The chief and particular fact the board alleges against the aforesaid Cal Hope is that the milk and butter she produces has qualities which are unusual and revolutionary to proper and decei farming The board ha got it on good authority that Ernst Paul Keller runs his automobile with his cow butter and that all the lamps on ivellei place is lit with that there Calliope milk George Henry Smith a member of the board has filed an affidavit carrj ing thiee seals and a wax wafer in which, he states that the aforesaid and mentioned jam salesman and alleged farmer i tins his twenty horse-power au tomablle miles on one pound of Cal hope butter In this affidavit of Smith it is set down that Jam Salesman Keller waters that cow of his down at the Thumb Point garage night and morning just after the automobiles have been cleaned Cor World. and when the water that trickles down the gutters of that garage are Impregnated with high pressure gasoline If that there statement of Smith is true Ernst Paul Keller is guilty of cruel and inhuman methods He is guilty of crueler and inhumaner methods in making his cow eat the para fine waterproofing off the tops of his jam pots so as to make her milk one of the clearest burning illuminating fluids known I got It on the testimony of Keiler hired man that one quart of that cow Calliope milk keeps the two gate lamps on Keiler place burning a month That same hired man has testified that one day after milking that cow Calliope he starred back to the house with the milk s-noking a cigar Something causes him to drop that cigar in the pail milk and when that hired man come to he had been blown a mile east that jam salesman amateur farm If that there statement of that there hired man is true that cow milk is dan gerous to this here community It may be fine illuminating fluid and it may make butter that will drive an automobile fast er and cheaper nor the ordinary gasolene of commerce but there am no decent self respecting farming community which Is going to stand for the perverting of a respectable cow milk to such purposes As Assistant Recording Secretary to the Cedar Grove Board of Poultry Trade I questioned and examined tbat Jam salesman Einst Paul Keller but I didn get any satisfaction out of him He said he had photographs of that there caw of his which proved she wore the happiest smile of any cow in Cedar Grove He said that cow Calliope was the only cow in Cedar Giove that could hum a tune while she was chewing her cud and that she got the evenest disposition that eve: has been recorded in cattle She comes when he whistles to her and smiles clear through a milking She eats anything gives her to 1 eat with the same smiling humor and she Isn a bit finicky or par ticular about what she drinks Do run your automobile with that there cows Butter' I asked that jam salesman to which he replies sarcastic Not exactlj but if you wanter know Rollo Rollins I get a lot of help in run nfng that machine from eating Calliope t.

butter I only have to breathe in the tanks after eating that butter and the machine runs like tarnation jO to 100 mile on any breath He kept on making cracks like that gentlemen till I lost rny tempei and he knocked me down I believe all that been, said against this feJIer and his cow and urgers the board to take criminal action against the both of them Cbe Champion ZKre-apper. A MILD-MANNERED OLD GENT WHO MADE EXPERTS LOOK LIKE PIKERS AT THE GAME Torh was the mildest man nered most fatherly looking old chap imaginable and the crowd in Judge Kelsant courtroom refused to believe that this gen tie mild esed individual bald of dome and bearded like a prophet could be the famous wire tapper Crime of any kind didn seem to match ith the general make up of Brown There was too much of the Sunday school Superintendent about the old gentleman and not even the shifty eyes of the crook--a point whereof so many alleged detecth es and alleged de tectU stories make so much Brown neighbors stood in back of the courtroom or pre empted chairs wherever they could flnd them They were moat re spectable people all of them and eager evidence to the entire inno cence an3 the numerous virtues of Mr Brown The latter was--exactly as his general make up proclaimed--a Sunday school Superintendent He was a man of property and Influence In his suburban home People regarded Brown as a pillar the church and a prop of finance Brown not only owned the house he lived in but 37 others which he sold on the installment plan To clinch the good character and entire decency of Mr Brown it was a matter of common report that his houses were built to last outfitted with every modern convenience and sold on terms that were not those of a miser or a greedj money grabber In short Brown surrounded by his neighbors and his interesting family was a gentleman a rich citizen a repu table and harmless personage Iseverthe less the case against Brown was a warm one According to the oft torment ed officials of the Western Union Mr Brown was a wire tapper and the smooth est one that evei monkeyed with a fuse Most wire tappers do not tap That Is wires They make their taps upon the wallets of people who are enough to believe In them and to imagine that they will get something for almost noth ing These people i lust of plunder in their hearts avarice and crookedness surging through icln and marrow imag ine that their dear friend Skinnem friend the suborned operatoi at the track Is to do the illegal thing He is to hold back the mfoimation from the poolroom" till the money can be rightly planted on the norse that has already won and then these wise birds who ar ranged the killing are to reap a fat re ward That is how it usually goes and. nobody lajs a finger on the company wires or the lines that spread out from the track It was d'rferent wit i Brown however Brown was a real tapper ot wires and the tricks he had been doing with the lines were on the Herrmann K.eller order Brown the Sunday school Superintendent the real estate king of Willow Dell was the greatest electrician the most consummate master of wires that stepped So said the company officials and a host of expert witnesses Instead of applving his wlzardly knowl edge to rightful a he had deliberate ly chosen to use It against the company and against the men who paid for service to the poolrooms Highly improper vast I sinful deleterious to morals ac curate telegraph service and the wallets of the poolroom people It was specifically charged against Mr Brown that using a cunning and a degree of telegraphic knowledge none could, surpass he had cut in on the wires while a Derby was being run What Brown and the elnnefs who had backed him had done to tbe poolrooms was something hard to compute but it was plenty An ample sufficiency and the evidence was without a flaw It all pointed to Brown and the bald lone-bearded real Telegraph estater seemed to be the guilty induid ual Seemed to be 9 Beyond, the hypothe sis of a doubt As the witnesses were heard Brown merely smiled sweetly and the good -folk of Willow Dell declared that it was an outrage--that it was either a case of mistaken identity or else that these sporting men these poolroom gamblers were tiying to blast the reputation of an honest man They did not weaken even when one of the young men who had been trimming the poolrooms with Brown matchless aid turned state evi dence and told in detail, how the was done They did not go back on Brown when he advanced no alibi brought no contradictory testimony and relied on a general denial and the well rounded speech of his attorney When the verdict was guilty Willow Dell arose indignant and held a sympathy meeting around the rock of probity un justly shadowed with a taint that was not rightly his The pious air the honest eyes and the general Sunday school Supei intendent make up of. Mr Biown mist have im pressed Judge Xelsant He did not sen tence Mr Brown to the pemtentiarj noi even to the county jail but fined him SI 000 and Mr Biown with a long sigh as of one who knows himself unjustly stung produced the money As he left it- courtroom a Western Union official laid a gentle hand upon his shoulder Beg pardon Mi Brown but can we talk a moment about this thing 1 With pleasure Mr Swatz answered Mr Brown What can I do for ou" Only this Mr Brown said the tele gripn official If we can get you to work for the company we 11 yoa $100 a week and can just about your own job Oi if you don fancy that we i pay you $60 a week just to let our wires alone "What do you say Mr Brown shook his head Couldn think of It Work as such without a spice of excitement it doesn appeal to me And I simply couldn He idle en for s'i-ty per Sorr but nothing doing Two weeks altei the wires began to be tampered with once more and the work done upon them was evidently by an ex pert and Just as an experiment the V( extern Union refrained from arresting Brown Instead the co-npany before Judge Kelsant and obtained an i junction a double riveted cast iren cop per banded injunction forbidding the said 0 Brown to work any havoc of any kind upon the wires of the plaintiff i who had some big real estate deals on hand must have respected the injunction for thiee months and possibly a week or so er Then one summei dav a beautiful job of wire tapping was pulled off It was a dainU delicate prettily handled job It was so complex and far reaching that it didn stop at the lace tracks and the poolrooms but dealt the stock market a staggeiing jolt inside information hav been neatly shot from ty to city with special attention to -ew and Chicago No one but Brown so the company officials decided could have done the and they went after him hot foot They got him and with consider able evidence upon him Judge Kelsant was choleric and de terimned He had been easy with the leader of suburban aristocracy on a prevl oub occasion and this calm defiance of sacred injunction wai too much for him "ion are fined $2000 and sentenced to six months Imprisonment he snapped Have you any thing to say for your Yes Tour Honor drawled Brown smiling sweetly and stroking that long chestnut beard Your Honor can 1 un around the courthouse lour limes and then hold your Honor head in a horse trough till lour Honors alleged brain is cooled Judge Kelsant was purple Fivq hun dred dollars fine for contempt of Court he roared Here ib the money said Brown The price Is very small when compared to the actual measure of the contempt I feel for this Court Your Honor And they led him away while Willow Dell buzzed reiterated its faith in its idol made faces at the Judge and clumped out into the hall Brown passed his term of im prisonment most merrily He refused to accept it as a disgrace and his friends made his cell a bower of roses Persian rugs ered the stone floor Book shelves masked the Iron The jailers grew to Worship Brown who waa the most generous old gentleman Imaginable, Once, when little Tommy Shaughneasy'a baby died, and the little guard bad no money. It was the bearded prisoner who advanced htm all that tbe funeral required, and coughed Tommy Into tearful silence when the poor fellow hinted at repayment.

Mr Brown's family were dally visitors, and he had more privileges In that JaH than tbe Sheriff or the Warden One day a court employe came over to the jail to see Brown. -Mr Brown said he waving the verbal olive branch, "Judge Kelsant was In a pleasant humor to-day He thinks, possibly that you have been punished enough and Is willing to let you out. says that if you will apologize to him for the offensive remarks jou used In Court, he will remit the balance of your sentence Mr Brown airily waved bis hand. Spoken like a gentleman said he. Tell him concerning the things I re quested him to do, that he doesn't have to Judge Kolsant must have been pacified by this, ambiguous apology--at least, he issued an order for the release of M.

Brown For a few brief months Mr Brown trod strictly within the limits of the law so far as the Western Union wires were concerned--a course of be which only made the Western Union people watch their property with hawk like care while the Postal Tele graph officials were worried almost dotty over a strong suspicion that Mr Brown was about to transfer his attentions to another field Mr Brown meanwhile was a martyr out in Willow Dell and his good people from the Sunday school to the village board remained absolutely loyal Not one of the Villagers seemed to think that there was anything of the Jekyl and Hj de pattern about Brown He as simply misunderstood or persecuted whilo his wife a lovely dame of the real old colonial type fervently believed that her husband was heroically assuming the blame to shield some wicked brother the black sheep of the family or some othei relative whose name must be concealed Queer how human nature works out Sometimes the best fellows on earth are given the cold shoulder and the icy glare when they have really done nothing de serving even partial condemnation but here was a whole community standing up for a men ber who had again and again been caught with the goods landed dead to rights and convicted without a struggle Was the btarded and mild eyed Mr Brown a hypnotist 9 Hardlv--or he would have occasionally hypnotized a jur Mr Brown had been at Ilbertj perhaps montis when some sheep--beg their pardon honest citizens--came bleating to police, headquai ters with ruefM tales Thev had been stung in the old fashioned regulation wire tapping way bj swindlers wlio tapped wires at all It was the old gag- of giving the Hook to fellows who thought they were going to skin some one else and the police Kughed be hind the hands even while they were Ktfing 011 to lound up the criminals This time nobody suspected the suave and long bearded Mr Brown Coarse work of tl is kind wasn in his line and it was with genuine surprise that the officers of the law snared Mr Brown in a room that was fairly woven into a birds nest of wires and ticking things Mr Brown cheerfully explained He had principles even the wire tapping game So great had been the kindness recently shown him by Judge Kelsant that he didn have the heart to jar that distln gulshed jurists feelings by resuming ms attacks upon the Western I mon wires He had therefore just to keep his hand in resorted to the antiquated way of fleecing the unwary but lie hadn done it a crude rough fashion With pride and detail he showed the admiring laugh mg officers that his telegraph while It didn connect with any pool rooirs or race tracks was not a mere bunch of wires starting nowl ere ending where they started and simply equipped i a buzzer operated by the foot of the man at the desk Not a bit of it Brown private and individual sjs tern was a beautiful arrav of wires finely equipped with improvements of his own and elaborate enough to make glad the heart of eevry operator It did gladden the heart of the Western Union men when they came to look it over They immediately renewed their offer of a fa salary promised to square ever thing th the fleeced lambs and fairlv begged the wizard of the wire to dome under the canvas with them He didn though Somehov or other-probably with a small slice of Brown private fortune--the wool producers were sidetracked and as Brown had flone noth ing against the Western "Lnion or Judge Kelsant injunction he was ont prose cuted The papers got the story and plajed it up with pictures but even jet Dell stood like the Rock of Gib raltar More persecution or else more of poor dear Brown noble work in behalf of a disgraceful relative The fact that there was no prosecution this time cinched the belief in Brown uprightness and Brown was doubly an idol In his own community illow Dell and the pretty suburbs all around will not soon forget the night of the big fire so closely following the big spring floods The unexpected freshet had swept through the villages flooding basements drowning chickens and inci dentally between the rush of the water in the river and the shock of goating trees against the poies completely abifng both telegraph and telephone com munications The ires would be repaired within a day or two--that of course was certain But the promise of quick repairs didn help much when the fire Taroke out and the oncoming blaze began to eat away the houses to the north ind west of Willow Dell and three villages be vend Help fro the metropolis, was easy to get--with the wires working Otherwise the chance was slim for the simpie fact that the great foundries to the north cast such a burning glow across the night horizon that even a rag mg conflagration would make little change in the landscape When "Willow Dell found itself cut off from help by wire and with the flames advancing there began a panic and a hegira sud denly checked when the bearded profile of Brown was seen outlined against the background of red Mr Brown bur dened with a couple of suit caseb was tiottmg briskly down Cherry street one of the boulevards of illow Dell and his cheery laugh wars better than the ar rival of oO firemen Willow Del! believed in Brown and believed with the implicit trust of a child that Brow was about to do something majestic monumental for the rescue of the periled burg Mr Brown had on climbing steels He went up a pole--one of the poles yet standing by the river bank--like some great cat ills whiskers standing out against the breeze and the red back ground of the skj With him went one of his suit cases and when he reached the crossbars he opened the suit case took out varied and curious things and grew extremely bus Just what he did no one savp a skilled telegrapher could pos sibly have said but whatever it was it worked It seemed a startlingly little apace of time before there was a clanging of bells and a thudding of fire hoofs and the big fire was on the defensive against fast coming engines dashing up from three different ways Brown descended from the pole and when assaulted with cries of praise and hoarse bellows ot admiration acted In the same innocent mild eed fashion as when arraigned in Court on earlier oc casions He went home resumed the even tenor of selling real estate and has since escaped captivltj An inquisitive policeman once asked him if he had re formed To which Brown with that same innocent smile replied I al said I keep on monkeying with wires till I did something worth while 1 think I did it and so--I ve quit Incidentally the Western "Lnlon never prosecuted Mr Brown for wire-tapping on this last occasion nor did Judge Kel sant say a word about violating his in junction Aren some people incon latent 9 Remarkable Belgian IT IS LOCATED Iff THE BIVEB METTSE AHD IS A REYOLV- OTG GLOBE. (Illustrated London News Cbe of A VTVTD BUT SAHBICAI, GIUtPSE OF HER QTTAIITIES AS COM PANION. Mail H4T women turn Biddy if they Is anj one realh erj sorry that i stan, on a cnair that the a time they can run quickly is The women ho used to be escorted fro when they see a mouse that station to station wlien crossing Lond they faint at the sight of blood on their travels now i Cen tral Africa as i pligrnmd They art, Qn tering Qf sp 0rlb niaiiship -( I 11 you jj on Kill me lirst i bov )-- th hippopotami and tlgeis and and make the libeling of their dearest friends a regular 5 clock amusement that they no sense of honoi and cannot car another an to aa mired-- these are a few of the irable hunters There are at least notions about the female sex which still English women traveled abso irect svith a certain amount of surface lutely alone over a and the repm i acceptance because the public is too lasy to chanee a it thinks is its imnd a ter ous ind an uncanny gei but is really Its digestion AU reform in tleman His wab are sleek He ib gei Enslano spring fron, indigestion Tu, "th? Henry Arthur Jones has been bewailing are womcn holding strange and the fact that the Agnes and Dora types i on ely posts In many barbaric places of women are disappearing It is inter The English rriss, with her pirapher to nnd that men til, e.ist who -Ua of like those types-- men who would not stm lntact ls to be found in manj an odd have gone to the gallows with a laugh corner quietlv teaching French and mu for the joy of throttling Agnes or at sic (and a little Oerman) as though applaud at Bow street on charges of throwing the lamp at Dora Saints jj nes also counted the Jane Auste are usually adored In proportion to the women among the vanishing tjpes Ev i time that has elapsed since then- death It takes us some centuries to recover town and mth Jane from the exertion of beheading them If Austen women With a good man exccp Agnes could only die we might feel more tlons one would not be sorr to see then. kmdly to her well meaning pnggish soul are klnllly but a As it Is Mr Jones weeps alone over her oman the future is not of this thinning descendants And as to Dora type She is far too busy to be did not Dicken, Mmself know that she TM must die early' His Flora is unforgiv genn th( an Mghts now tl CQJ-IJ nac been removed she Is darkenmi, the whole sky like a pillar of smoke able just as Dora, grown to Flora would have been unbearable Tiese two tjpes are becoming mcreas ingly rare In their places we have woman softened by realiii women who think and feel Instead of Galatea softened into life She will not the women of Dickens we are coming to glide about with uplifted finger like AK have the women of Meredith Dickens nes nor drtve tired men to stractlo i was an artist he painted what he saw Hh her prattle like Dora nor weep Meredith was a seer he described what ternall when George is unkind iik was to be His large souled women with Amelia No when feels hyst ri their capability their charm are coming she will go and on a Hlmalaja till -h to pass under our eyes Carinthia Jane is cooler and when her husband anno in her time a surprise or even as Mr her out of her usual placid ty sticking Swiveller would have said a staggerer few pigs Texas or India will soon il to everv one now gives way to ladlos her straight And with it all she 11 who call the Alps hills and are only wear her frills as well as ever content when tiie are perched on a Him shou not a woman know now to 1 i alayan peak where no one has ever been pal as well as how to do her hair' before Carmthia Janes stride is almost ings on the woman of the future ib a toddle now going to be perfectly delightful Producing JVIonstcr THREE-FOOT-TALL HENS GIVE THREE-POUND FOOL BEEF TRTTST FRUIT AND Notch Cor "New York World the closely guarded hot that hennery th a pair night heated and lasses He seen them three oit hens right but thej warn actin Iik air cooled henneries of Phineas ugual hens One of em had a pa the other one had a lantern an was gom around lookm for nigh crawlers The rooster was ff to one side givin ordfrs thev got that pail full of rmt th to the rooster Instejd tliankln em that big loafer of a roost cussed etn out for bein too oiv an then et up ail the worms hi self My cousin Joel Pebbks tak a nip applejack i an then I ui man If them three foot hen gom to up to 1 hme expectations If the Great Notch Burbank the astounding report has percolated that by next spring Mr i put on the market sure enough white Brahma eggs as big as carries eggplants and each one capable of sup plying a square meal for a family of six Phineas Whackersinger Jr told In strictest confidence to a. girl friend of his who js a chum of a girl friend of 3 our mostly correspondent that before all the violets tas is plucked next April Pop (meaning the hackersinger gets egg month parental hackersinger) Is going bust the egg market wide open and re 1 0 1 jJl ct duce the cost of living to a state where se acglsl lhe a proc folks won have to thmk no more about or that rooster ain goln to let th what they re going to eat than what air hens loaf in the while they got th they re going to breathe rU tllne grUb Young Mr "Whackersinger said that his Jlm Newt Cotters grand father had raised a pair of three foot father used to tell about a relative of tall white Brahma hens and one forty his that raised a of three foot leg inch Brahma rooster These Brahmas horns dunng the Mexican a didn have not got their full growth and will not have reached the laving age for sev eral months When they do attain maturity the Great Is otch Burbank looks for two pound or even three pound eggs with pa lr giant hens but what was inside every hen laving three to five eggs a day that egg warn never discovered Jso Furthermore and moreover it is averred "Oald that Wizard "PV hackersinger will be able to Sma8tt a hole in it Finally to feed and nourish his great hens at a was turned- over to the Government to cost not greater than two cents a day use In the war Old Jim otter sajs per hen and that this small cost 8 I will be offset when he breaks these hena vi nc me that Whackerslnger is goin to harness and compels them to haul to get more notoriety nor benefit out their own eggs to market them three foot Brahman cost a cent a day to feed that pair ot giant pullets They eat anthing from fence rails to wagon wheels They eat bark oft trees and knobs oft The was shot at an stabbed by neighbors but their hide was tougher brass They laid one egg between em that Hugo Pebbles the Great Notch tank tender who Is a master gatherer of coun Brahmas to nigat tryside gossip was questioned to night regard to the reports of the seemingly miraculous feat of Phineas Whacker singer Mr Pebbles said Don you go to buildm no high hopes Whackersinger positivel comment his new breed ACEES AND BIBLE LETTERS and Queries It has sometimes been stated that there on them three foot hens of Whacker- are more acres in Yorkshire than there singer Hs raised a ten pound turnip are letters in the B'bie A person hear oncet that took three prizes at tne coun mg the stat ement for the first time is trj fair but when that turnip was dressed down an cooked it boiled away clined to doubt ir but fa trae a to the size of a ladish I don know same Authorities differ as to the exact what he done to them Brahmas to rear acreage of the counts one giving it em up three feet but I reckon it warn 3 330 343 and ano tber as 3 771 S43 But the nothin My cousin Joel Pebbles climbed up numb er Of letters in the ble Is said to on a tree longside the Whackersinger be 3 S66 480 so the acres beat the letters place last night an looked down into with something to spare..