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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 16. 190G.

MISCELLANEOUS. THE TREASTJEY GANG. MISCELLANEOUS. GOLD FOK TIN. JAMAICA PLOT SOLD.

HH5. MITCHELL'S STORY GIRL OF 16 IS TOO OLD Ten-Acre Tract Bought fcy Lida V. De Groot. Benjamin H. Sweet has sold to Llda V.

DeGroot a ten and one-half acre tract about half a mile south of the Long Island Railroad In the village of Jamaica, 1.800 feet eouth of South street, and fronting 1,252 feet on the easterly side of the Jamaica Water Supply Company's works. The property Is said to be worth $40,000. Tho sale Is made subject to two mortgages amounting to $21,420. Mary Hicks gives a mortgage of $13,292.33 to the New York Land and Warehouse Com-rany on twenty-nine lots at Long' Island City, on Van Alst avenue. Third Borden avenue and Long Island RailroaL QUEENS NEW BUILDINGS.

72 Structures to Cost $282,793, Including Big Hebrew Sanitarium at Rockaway Beach. Plans were approved last week, by Suer- intendent of Buildings Carl Burger, for seventy-two new buildings in Queens, to coet, with plumbing. $282,793. Amone the new buildings are a frame sanatorium for Hebrew children, to be built at Rockaway Beach, at a cost of $30,000. It Is to be a three-story frame structure, 77 feet by 91 feet, and is to be located on Eastern avenue, northeast corner of Beacn street.

Three brick three-story tenements are to be built by Frank Hebenstreit on Covert avenue, at the northwest corner of Linden street, Ridgewood, at a cost of $26,400, in cluding plumbing. The Glendale Construction Company is to build five brick dwellings, 20 feet by 55 feet, on the south side of Layette street, 260 feet east of Main avenue, at a cost of $16,500. LEGAL LAW BREAKING. How the Trust Beinains a Lawbreaker, but Has a Semblance of Lawfulness. These criminal and semi-criminal devices are the mere beginuings of monopoly; the raw first stages, says Ray Stannard Baker in McClure's.

One would think that a year In mileage profits, beside probable cash favors of other sorts, would be sufficient to satisfy any monopoly. But no investigator can look into these conditions without being amazed over and over again by the marvelous tenacity of competition. The country has expanded so rapidly, men have fought for their Industrial existence with such vitality, such never-extlngulshable hope, that a monopoly requires astonishing advantages to make headway. Even now, iu Bplte of the power of the beef trust, there are tenacious and even prosperous packing houses in various parts of the country not large, but operated with virility and alertness. There comes a time in the life of a trust when bold, crude, palpably unlawful methods, having served their purpose In building up great power, are discarded for the quieter wavs of apparent legality.

In principle and purpose the trust remains a law-breaker as much as ever, but it Is able to assume an appearance of lawfulness. So with Armour and the beef trust; so with Rockefeller In times past. By rebates and mileage charges they have driven out of business most of their competitors, they have come to tremendous and concentrated power. They do not need any longer to deal with plcayunish rebates; they can operate upon the legal freight-rate itself. Many people know about the evil of the rebate, many realize the danger of the private car allowance, but few have yet come to any clear understanding of this much more vital and dangerous sort of discrimination.

Indeed, the greatest advantage from the use of the private car, and the concentration of shipments under one control, lies not In mileage profits, but In the ability to force a lower legal rate. This fact should never be (ergotten. PASSING OF THE PICTURE. Our Usual Wall Decoration Not an Art at All. Miss Martha S.

Bensley, late of the artistic colony of Chicago, now of the Settlement col ony of New York, has arrested the listening ear by her remarks concerning pictures, which she considers not the highest form of art, or perhaps not art at all, savs The Reader. She considers the detached and portable picture as a survival from the time when "our marauding Northern ancestors." armed with sword and bow, descended upon the art producing nationes of the South, compelling them to flee their homes, carry ing with them their most treasured possessions. She says: "To those to whom decorated walls and frescoed ceilings were undreamed of, these detached pictures seemed things of beauty. Because these people had no standard by which to measure art. the beauty of pictures was taken for granted, not appraised, and they were valued at their cost In war, labor and gold.

Beauty was to them an inherent quality in pictures, like blood and bones in a man. If the beholder did not see the theoretic beauty, tho fault was in him. She savs there should be a harmony he- twecn the room. Its use and decorailon. One Idea, she thinks, should pervade each wall Inclosed space.

She withholds her admira tion from an apartment in which a picture of shad is hung between a Nativity and a color rrlnt of lovers on a Venetian canal. She admits that we have passed the place where we like terrier or rose bedecked rugs, but laments that we are not yet so uniievel- ed as admire representations of these things on our walls. There seems to be a great deal In what Miss Bensley says; but from the placidity with which she utters her postulate, it Is evident that she has little Idea of the havoc she Is working in our feelings. It is true, as fie says, that we have parted with our terrier and flower bedecked carpets; and, as we feccntlv have told that the Oriental rug as out of keeping with out Mission or our Owppendale furniture, we are about to cast them forth also, and walk on bare, or. if need be, dirt floors.

At the bidding of Mr. Will Bradley, we have burned up every com fortable seat In the house all rocking chairs, sleepy hollows and lounges and now, at the sneer of a Bradley bored world, we are de stroying those straight legged and meager furnlshltiEs which we had purchased at Mr. Bradley's bidding. Little remained in our desolated rooms save our pictures, and now we feel compelled. In the interests of a pure eslhetlclsm, to tear them down! Well, we do not hesitate.

Depressed but firm, we pace through our denuded homes and call the caveman brother. "ICE PIE." Where the Fans on Certain Vending Carts Are Made. "Ice Pie and Ship Factory" Is the sign to be observed on a small building on South Sixth street, which looks scarcely big enough to movo about In, to say nothing of space for ship construction, says the Philadelphia Record. It is a puzzle to all who see It, but Inquiry of the proprietor soon solves the mystery. "Ice pic" Is one of the names of the little shallow pans made of Vied or baked cake dough, filled with ice cream, which are sold on the streets from pushcarts in certain seasons.

No Ice cream Is made In tho factory In question, but ih.t baked pans whloh contain it are manufacture here wholesale. Sixty boxes a day. neatly labeled, and holding about ten pounds each, Is the fac tory's usual output, and the pans are shipped as far West as Chicago, though the bulk of the product goes to nearby points. The ships are simply snother form of the same pan, being of about the same size, but having the shape of a ship. Just now the factory Is as busy as though It were the height ot the ice cream season.

CASTOR For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature, of Pennsylvania's Fight for Freedom From Quay's Political Descendants. Isaac F. Marcosson writes in The World's Work an article, "The Fall of the House of Quay." The following is his story of the sinister beginning of a tremendous system of political corruption: "I don't mind losing a governorship or a legislature now and then, but I always need the state treasuryship," the late Senator M. 8.

Quay, of Pennsylvania, is reported to have said. And be always controlled it, and upon It reared the corrupt structure of bis political machine. For more than thirty years the little red colonial treasury bulldlug that stood at the north end of Capitol Hill at Harrlsburg was the real source and seat of state government. In the stately capital that reared its dome alongside, governors and legislators came and went. But the power that made them and the money that often elected them came from that little red building.

When it was torn down, the "system" moved with the, treasurer to the new building; for the system was The manipulation of state funds for political and private purposes has long been Pennsylvania's shame. It has made fortunes and unmade men. Juggling with millions has caused many tragedies, including a number of sulcldeB. Beyond the occasional disclosures that were made when a victim died, tho people could only guess at what was going on; for the snug, nicely balanced printed reports covered a multitude of financial sins. But the people at last revolted.

The reform movement which began with the awakening ot Philadelphia has had its larger result in the election ot a Democratic State Treasurer who was chosen by the decent voters of every party. With his election a blow was struck at the corrupt Bysfem of state finance and a new era of Pennsylvania politics began. OUR GEEATEST SELF-MADE MAN. He Was Benjamin Franklin, Who Hose to Wealth From Obscurity. Ben Franklin was tho first ot our great "self-made" men the greatest example.

In his day, of a rise from obscurity to wealth and position, says Hosmer Whitfield, in Success Magazine. He owed his success entirely to his own efforts. His parents wore people of little ambition, with means enough for a modest living, but insufficient to give him the education that had been planned for him. None of his ancestors had succeeded in more than a humble way. When "ho landed in Philadelphia, a mere boy, he had only one uollar and a few pence over; at the time of his death he was easily the most prominent man In America, as well as one of tho richest.

Indeed, he stands as the very greatest of all the multitudes of Americans who have risen from nothing to greatness. Our modern "self-made" men have, as a rule, succeeded along the single line of money, art. scholarship, or science. Rarely has the first been accompanied by any one of the latter. Franklin stood at the top in all.

At the ago of 42. without college training, he had become a man ot position and means. He was always a scholar, and his attainments were honored by degrees from Scottish and American universities; as a scientist, his fame ex tended to every country. Besides, he had some opinions on medicine, which were not unworthy of consideration, and he even made a considerable stuly ot scientific agriculture. He was the most many-sided man in all our public life.

As a business man he had one railing a lack of order and method. He himself complains that he never could learn to keep things In their places tr arrange any system. This was one of the complaints mado against his work as an ambassador in France. It. would possibly have meant his failure in the Involved maze of present-day business.

But he had the ability to see and grasp an opportunity, and his enterprises became finally almost of the manifold na ture of a modern department store. In ad dition to his printing shop, which was the main object of his attention, he sold books. Importing manv from Europe, published books and tracts, and conducted a stationery store, besides editing and publishing his own writings, and even sold groceries, feathers and Junk of various kinds. Some of the various lines thai he handled Included medicine, toilet articles, clothing, vehicles, lottery tickets, mariner's compasses, aud rags. In connection with his trade in the latter article he established a small mill and manufactured paper.

It is also recorded that he bought and sold negro slaves and carried on a considerable trade In taking up and disposing of the terms of indentured servantB. As a side issue, ho invested in real estate and bought a farm of three hundred acres near Burlington, New Toruey, which he worked carefully. HUGHES AND HIS VOCATION. The Chief of the Insurance Investigat ors Intended at First to Be a Teacher. The success of Mr.

Hughes In opening the heavy barred doors of the Insurance corpor ations' secret closets aud turning a flood of light upon some of the greatest financial iniquities of the age, says J. Herbert Welch In Success Magazine, has lifted him to the position of one of the most Important men In this country. Under the spell of the per sonalities of his teachers, he felt at one time that teaching was the finest profession in the world, just as his early home influences had convinced him that he was destined for tho ministry; but, when he was called upon to write the class prophecy the graduat ing exercises at Brown, his mind was not made up as to the calling he should follow. "What are you going to prophesy for your self?" asked a classmate. "I don't know," answered Hughes.

"Well, If you want to make a true prophecy when you come to your own name, tell them about your brilliant future at the bar." Both laughed at this, but It set Hughes to thinking about the law. He thought about It a good deal during the summer following his graduation, and In the fall, after he had written to the principal of Delaware Academy, at Delhi, Now York, asking for a place as a teacher, and had received a reply to the effect that half his time could be utilized as a teacher of Greek and mathematics, he decided to devote the other half to the study of law. In the office of Judge Gleason, at Delhi, he began to read dusty legal tomes, and his first dips Into them left no doubt In his mind as to what his profession would be. He told his father that, If the latter would see him through the Columbia Law School, he would buckle down Immediately afterward to the practical business of making a living. The 19-year-old teacher of mathematics and the classics hod no lack of confidence that, in the jostle of legal work In New York City, far different from his quiet life of study, he would be able to get ahead.

At Columbia he concentrated himself to such a degree upon his work, and showed such a grasp of legal principles, that Professor Oeorgn Chase coupled his name with that of William M. Hornblower, afterward in the same firm, calling the two the ablest students the law school ever had. UNBUSINESSLIKE FARMING. The layman can hardly realize (he lack of system that prevails on the average farm, writes Edward C. Parker, in the American Monlhly Review of Reviews.

Drainage Is lttllo thought of on the lowlands, crops are rotated only as chance determines, and probably not one farmer In a hundred can toll what enterprise on his farm and under his conditions is the most profitable. In no other business Is It likely that men can bo found with $10,000, $20,000 or $50,000 investments who never pretend to keep books of the business. Farmers books are too often kept in this manner-gain, money fn the bank; loss, money borrowed. The writer once argued this question of keeping books with a well-to-do American farmer, who finally concluded his argument by saying. "Farming ain't all keeping books, hy a long shot." Truth lies in tho argument, but keeping books is not all there is to manufacturing furniture or transporting freight, and yet It must be a valuable accessory or it would have been discarded years ago.

There are still thousands ot farmers in the The Story of the W. B. Leeds Fortune in Indiana. In the World's Work C. M.

Keyes writes the first of a series of articles on "How Men Get Rich Now." Among a eumber of dramatic stories of fortunes quickly won is the following: About the beginning of the 90s, a junior fflcer of the Pennsylvania Railroad went to Europe on a holiday. He had a good posi tion, a little capital and some good friends. He went sightseeing, with bis eyes wide open. That was his habit. Wales fascinated him.

Wales was the country that supplied the world with tin. He knew that the huge tin doposits of his state, Indiana, had lain Idle because the tin of Wales held thu world's markets, including Indiana. The people of the state, whose houses were built over tin deposits, paid to Welsh manufacturers every year many thousands of dollars for tin. The markets of the United States had lain wide open to the tin of Wales. Tho change In tariff, at about the time of his visit, had put a duty on this imported tin.

Back In his native state he tamea tin, thought tin. dreamed of tin. Here was his opportunity. Most of all, he talked to a boy. hood friend, who, by hard work and genius, bad come to be the vice president of a small country bank in Indiana.

Under our feet," ho said, "lie minions. We allow Welshmen to keep them buried. This is our chance. Suppose we start a tin mill of our own. They can't pay this new duty and beat us here in Indiana.

The local trade will make us rich." Probably he said the same thing over many times. The upshot of It was that he and his friend gathered together a small group of helpers and built the first tin plate mill of ny Importance In the Btate. lthin seven years that mill had come to be the head and center ot the Tin Plate Trust. The imports tin fell from more than 1,000.000,000 pounds in 1891 to about 100,000,000 pounds in 1903, and our manufactures roBe from an in- lgnlflcant sum to more thitn 1,000.000,000 pounds. The Imports fell off 90 per cent; the manufactures increased 2,500 per cunt.

The man with the idea was W. B. Lends. The bank vice president was Daniel To-day these men are directors ot railroad companies owning more than 15,000 miles ot road, and they aro the guiding spirils of great national banks and of other enterprises. Of course tho new tariff was the basis of their fortune; but they first rejeg- ized its possibilities, risking thetr little fortunes to back their opinion.

CHINESE INVENTIONS. Early Investigations In the Lino of Sciences and Arts and Even in Arithmetic and Philology. Without trying to unravel the tangle of early Chinese history, it may be said with a fair degree of assurance that forty centuries ago nearly a thousand years before tho earliest assured event in Greek history, the Dorian Invasion, and a century before Abraham was born we find in North China, In the modern provinces ot Shan-sl, Shen-si and Ho-nan, a people with institutions, government and religion, with a fairly well devel oped literature and a knowledge of the sciences and arts, says Harlan P. Beach in the Chautauquan. Iu this region it Is pos sible for such questions as the following to be put.

to candidates for literary degrees: 'Firearms began with the use ot rocKets in the dynasty of Chou (B. C. 1122-255): in what book do we first meet the word now used for cannon?" "The Sung dynasty (A. D. 900-1278) had several varieties ot small guns; What were their advantages? Here.

too. another Important factor In modern civilization, the compass, seems to have been first used about 1100 B. when magnetic needles were given to ambassadors from a Southern country to enable them to find their way home. With the perversenoss which marks many things Chinese, these needles always point to the south and are known as "Indicating south needles." or "south nointina chariots." alluding to an ancient arrangement by which the needle was mounted on a pair of minute ana easily moving wheels. To name a third important invention, in the ancient capital of Hsi-an Fu, 700 years before Gutenberg announced the discovery of printing, the famous Emperor T'ai Tsung caused the "Thirteen Classics" to be engraved upon 137 slabs of granite.

No sooner was it completed than the Idea of making this standard version accessible to scholars throughout the empire led to a multiplica tion of copies through rubbings that were taken, and these colossal granite type-forms are still used for a like purpose. In 932 one Feng Tao invented the present metnod ot printing from blocks, while the inventor ot movable tvpe. Pi Sheng, made his discovery In 1000 A. D. In this same old China the sciences re ceived much attention.

Six hundred years before alchemy, the forerunner of chemistry, began to be studied In Europe Chinese alchemists were trying to find the elixirs I hat would bestow Immortality and change baser metals Into gold. If legends may be believed, an astronomical board was in existence 2,200 years before Christ. Apparently It was no sinecure to belong to it, since two of Its professorial members are said to have been put to death lor failing to foretell an eclipse. At any rate, at that early period, they had fixed the length of the year more exactly than bad the Romans in Numa's time. Decimal arithmetic seems to have been In use 2,000 years before Christ, and in 1125 B.

C. It formed the baBls of China's oldest arithmetic. This venerable volume by Chou Pel contains a treatise on right-angled tri angles, though the history of geometry in the Occident dates from mates ot aiuetus, nearly 500 years later. The oldest philological work In the world first saw the light In Ho-nan. probably at Lo-yl, eleven centuries B.

C. Though It was added to some three centuries after Christ, It is still in use, and the descriptions of the work of artisans, its pictures of ancient tools, show that three millenniums havo not Improved much upon early processes and models. RAPID MARCHING ON "SKI." Reports of Speed Often Exaggerated, hut It Is Swift Work. The speed attained by the men on ski has often been exaggerated, no doubt owing to the rapidity with which a snow-slope can descended, says a writer in the American Monthly Review of Reviews. When the troops arc engaged in cross-country maneuvers, it Is doubtful whether they will do more than five miles an hour.

Of course, in races, scouting competitions and the like, some of tho best Infantrymen, lightly clad and under tpecial conditions of snow and weather, have dene as much as eight and one-half and nine miles an hour. Tho record long-dlstanca military sKl-runner Is a Lapp, who. at Sokk In Sweden, did 137 miles In 21 hours 22 minutes, or an average of about B'j miles an hour. Last year, a detachment of the Norwegian Guards accomplished a march of 125 miles on ski in li days an average of 17'is miles a day through very difficult snow. This must be considered a very good performance, con sidering that they carried canvas for the tents, as well as sleeplng-baga and a full supply of provisions.

Moreover, the country was exceedingly difficult, and caused the men to glide up hill and down dale, awending more thin once a mountain height ovjr 4,000 feet above sea level. In 1903. 115 officers and men of the Swedish Norbotten Regiment, after six days exhaust ing maneuvers on kl, made a forced march home of over forty-three mlleg In twenty hours, although the men were extremely timl. and the snow was In a wretched condi tion. The great advantage of the ski, ot course, is that great bodies of Infnntry are able to move across a snow-buried country where those not so provided would be en tlrely helpless and compelled to remain Idle.

DYSPEPSIA EASILY CURED. No trouble to cure dynpepila when you go at 11 right. fituart' Dyspepsia Tablets, tie Ing natural itRiBttvci, rellev th stomach entirely of work and permit It to regain lt strength and hoalth. Thoy are (or sale by all drugglsta at SO centi a box. Everyone knows, doctor included, thai thert Is nothing on earth so good lor dyspema at gtuurl'g Dyspepsia Tablet, JTTWe show about two hundred different forms of card and filing cabinets on our salesroom floor, and over nine thousand forms of cards and guides.

Also business furniture of the new labor-saving kind-Library Bureau 29 Salesrooms, 7 Factories 316 Broadway, New York ARRESTED ON SUSPICION. Manhattan Police Think McCedney and oj-le Broke Into Fred Tietjen's Factory. Joseph McCedney, 28 years or age, of 655 Eleventh avenue, Maahnttnn, was arraigned in the West Side Court this morning on the charge of burglary, having been arrested last night by Detectives Boyle and O'Connor of the West Forty-seventh street station, on suspicion of having born one of two men who were surprised In the act rf burglarizing the factory of Fred Teitjen, at 739 Eleventh avenue, on February 6. At the time the men were surprised by Patrolman McKeon of the West Forty-seventh street while In the factory, both ran away. laving a jimmy and soma ether burglar tools behind them.

One of the alleged burglars was caught that night, nud he gave his name as James Doyle, having no The next, day he was held In $1,000 hail for trial. Mcflcdney was also held by Magistrate Cornell in the same amount of (ail for trial. STORE FIVE TIMES ROBBED. Ilrst Time Police Caught the Burglar. Honor Due to Unusually Alert Policeman Brick.

The ring of the drawer of a cash register opening convinced Patrolman Brick of the West Thirty-seventh street station, early this morning that a burglar was at work In the butcher shon of Jacob Goldfish, at 510 Ninth avenue. Manhattan. The policeman was passing the store at 12:30 o'clock this morning, when he noticed a man loitering nearby, and started after him. The man took to his heels and fled, aud confirmed the patrolman's suspicion that something wrong was going on in the store. Returning he heard tho ring of a cash register as the Inoney drawer was opened.

He peeped ln-fcide and saw a man in the store. Finding the door had been jimmied, he rushed Inside end captured his man, who made no resistance. When searched the jimmy was found cjn him. In tne West Side Court this morning the I'l-isoner game the name of George Buck-jtiau, 20 years old. and said he lived at tCj-i Tenth He was arraig-ied on the barge of burglary and held in 12,000 ball lor trial.

Magistrate Cornell during the proceedings turned to Mr Goldfish, the proprietor of the store, and s.iid: "Haven't I seen you before?" "Yes, judge, you have several times," replied Goldfish, "this is the fifth time I have been robbed, the fifth time I have been In court, but the first time the police ever caught anybody, and 1 think it's about time Ba they took my store lor a mark." AMATEUR FIREMAN ARRESTED. Man Who Helped to Put Out Fine In Virginia Charged With Murder. Norfolk, February 16 Fire discovered tarly this morning by a negro stable boy In the new livery stables of C. L. Grizzard, at lourtland.

wiped out a considerable mount of property-in that town with damages amounting to $13,000, and only $1,400 Insurance. Among the buildings burned was the Courtluud Hotel. All the guests at he hotel escaped, saving most of their effects. M. (Savoy, claiming to be originally from Memphis, but latterly of Troy, N.

was arrested after rendering valuable assistance at the Are, as Leo C. Thurman, the alleged murderer of Waller P. Dolsen. In the Norfolk trunk murder ease: He Is being held at Courtland pending Investigation. "MALTSOFF SUSPENDED.

Ax Is Suspended Over Heads of Other Russian Navy Officials. St. Petersburg. February 16 Spurred to act Ty Admiral Rnjestvensky's remarks regarding rascality the the construction and fitting out'of the Russian fleet, which gave point to rumors which have long been In circulation, Marine Minister Billk-ff 'jas decided upon a thorough houseijeanliig of all the departments concerned The dismissal of Lieutenant General Malt-off, who. as chief of the supply division In the department of naval construction, wai responsible for the purchase of materials for construction.

Is announced, and It Is said that the ax ill soon fall on other high officials. OFFERED A GOVERNORSHIP. Washington, February 16 The President las offered the appointment to the position of Governor of Alaska to I). II. Jarvls, formerly u.

the revenue cutter service, but liow engaged In business In Alaska. HIS MONEY'S-WORTH. "Doughnuts," said the baker, "are ten rents a dozen and the crullers are the same price. "I didn't know," said the customer, "that there was any difference between doughnuts end crullers." "Oh, yes; erullerB have holes In the center, Vhlle doughnuts" "Gimme doughnuts; I ain't spending' my food money for holes" Catholic Standard ad Times, ost Card Coupon, FOURTEENTH SERIES. This Coupon, together with five others, cut from the daily or Sunday Eagle will entitle the fielder to any series of Eagle Souvenir Post Cards, same to be presented with name and address attached, at any Elagle Offue.

For further particulars see advertisement on another page i to-day's F.nifle. lent hy mall, 2 In RtamiM must mch KerteB. Jfin-'tM "II ninll to Pmvnlr 1'0T IU liiuuklj-n Iiu(lci. Eagle Souvenir OF That Told to Capt Gallagher Differs From Her Version of Yesterday. MAY LEAD TO DISCLOSURES.

Important Arrests Likely to Follow. Mrs. Mitchell Secures Bail Girl in Gerry Society's Care. In a confession made to-day to Captain Gallagher, of the Flatbush police station, by Mrs. Mary Mitchell, who was arrested yesterday at her home, 385 Humboldt street, on a charge of kidnapping fifteen-year-old Louise Maurer, of 1950 Vanderveer Park, who was found in the Mitchell flat after having been missing for four weeks, the woman told a Btory which differs widely from that which she and the Maurer girl told yesterday.

During her recital she made use of the name of Mrs. Bessie Schmutz, of 119 Clark-son street, who was arrested on Thursday of last week, also charged with kidnapping the Maurer girl. The woman claimed to know nothing of Policeman William Hughes, of the Flatbush station, a brother of Mrs. Schmutz and a friend of the Maurer family, that would in any way cause her to implicate him with the girl's disappearance. Promises of startling disclosures, however.

were indicated when Mrs. Mitchell was arraigned this morning, before Magistrate Steers, in the Flatbush court. Captain Gallagher asked that the examination be set for Wedtiesday, in order that warrants may be drawn and served upon persons who are im plicated in tho case upou the confession which the Maurer girl is said to have made to Captain Gnllagher last night. Mrs. Mitchell told much of her story this morning to an Eagle reporter.

She Is a slight little woman, a little short ot 30 years, with a careworn face and pathetic eyes and mouth. Mrs. Schmutz brought the girl to me about noon on Suturday, February 20," sho said. "She told me she would pay mo by the week If 1 would keep the girl. I took her in, and 'he has helped me take cure of my two babies and with t'ae housework.

I thought the girl's name was Schmidt. She did not remain In the house all day, but often went out. I never saw her write any letters, but I think sho did write some, and went out to mall them. "No, I did not know that the papers were all telling about her being missing from-home. Mrs.

Schmutz came to the house once or twice, butadn't been there ol late. I don't think I remember having seen or even heard of a Mr. Hughes." It is learned that part of the woman's confession to Captain Gallagher tells a slightly different story than that told to the reporter. Airs. Mitchell has been in a highly nervous state since her arrest and is unable for the present to tell a well connected story.

She signed her name to the confession made to the captain, as did also the Maurer girl. Mrs. Meury. the probationary officer at the Flatbush court, recognliei Mrs. Mitchell as one of her charges during the time of her work in the Faith Mission In WllllamB-burg.

"I knew her up to the time she married," said Mrs. Meury. 1 then lost sight of her. Sho Is a drcsimancr." It was stated on good authority that Mrs. Mitchell had frcqucutlv done sewing for Mrs.

Schmutz. Mrs. Mitchell waa held by Magistrate Steers In $1,000 bonds fop examination and was balled out at noon by Adam Stolbinger, who owns the house at Humboldt street, in which Mrs. Mitchell lives. Stolbinger re sides there also.

Louise Maurer was arraigned late yesterday afternoon In the Children's Court, charged with waywardness, and held for examination on Tuesday. For the present she has been committed to tho care of the ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chll. dren. Captain Gallagher spent some time this morning In conversation with the Maurer girl. All things point to arrests in the near future, especially those of two persons whose names, however, are not disclosed.

Captain Gallagher's successful conduct of the case thug far. and the energy which he is exerting to bring about a satisfactory explanation of the girl mysterious detention from home, Indicate a speedy solution of the case. ENSLAVING OF THE Armies of Puny Children Wear Out Their Lives to Supply Rich With Luxuries. The factory wants the child, says Juliet Wllbor Tompkins In Success Magazine. There is little, to Biiggest the Maglo Piper in Its whistle, yet the summons brings the children scurrying down tho broken stairs of poverty and want, and the factory doors close upon them by lens of thousands, leaving their childhood outside.

The factory wants the child and will pay for him; the child, and often his parents, can see no value In a birthright as balanced against a little hand ful of Bllver; only the state and the dls Interested public are left to care and protest. I'erhuna thA nresent attitude of tempered humaulty, which still allows children of 13 work all night and keeps boys ana gins oi from ten to fourteen hours at the spindles for wages ranging from 10 to 20 will seem as Incomprehensible 100 years hence as' the past feeding of "workhouse brats" to tho factories do to us. But the new measure of what Is humane cannot become established unless we know clearly what is happening and how and where the children are at work. Knowing, we must care. Ruskln said "Luxury, at nresent.

can only be enjoyed by the Ignorant; the cruelest man living could not sit at his feast unless he sal onnuioia. Picture an army of 1.700.000 children, all under 15, and then realize that that army tramns. day after day. not to school and play ground, but to the factories, fields, mines and workshous of these United States. One million seven hundred thousand was the number of child laborers estimated when the census ot luuo was taken; only tho God of fallen sparrows knows what It Is by this time, In the twenty years preceding 1900 the num ber of bnys In manufacturing and mechanical rjursuits boys between 10 and 16 naa in creased 100 per the number ot girls, 150 ncr but only a 60 per cent, in creane had been added to the population To-day, In spite of all the child-labor agitation of the past few years.

It Is estimated that 40.000 children under 16 are at work in Pennsylvania alone, and the Southern mills are suld to employ children not yet i A CASE OF NON COMPOS. There is lawyer of Baltimore who tells a story of how he secured a verdict In favor of an Irishman cnargea wun assault witn intent to kill. The lawyer secured his ell ent's acquittal on the ground of temporary Insanity. Counsel and client did not meet for sevcrnl months after the release of tho accused. When they did meet, the following conversation ensued: "Well, Mike, Isn't it about tlmo you handed me that "What $500 "Why.

the fee of $500 that you promised me I should have It I saved you from the Dcnttentlary! "Shore an' did I promise ye that? I don't raymimbcr." "Don remember! Why, you were so grateful that you promised me over and over again that 1 should have It within a week!" Mike gnve a sickly smile. "Shure I think the claim Is not a good wan." said he; "ye know, 1 was crazy thin!" Harper Weekly II TO SPANK So Pretty Blue-Eyed Miss Tells Court and Magistrate Agrees With Her. MOTHER IS A BIT INDIGNANT. Adela Nicholson Isn't "Wild" in Police Court Sense and Wins a Lot of Sympathy. Because she thought she was too old to be spanked even by her mother, sixteen-year-old Adela Nicholson smashed the four panes of glass In the front door of her home at 1335 Broadway, Wednesday night, and to-day was before Magistrate Furlong in the Gates avenue court.

Adela is really a beautiful girl with blue eyes, brown hair and a pink and white complexion. She has just one fault her mother, Mrs. Louisa Nicholson, admitted in court to-day. and that is a violent temper. Adela once worked in a Broadway department store but was not altogether pleased with the position and did not always get around to her place of employment as promptly as she should.

Then she had a few words with her mother with the result that she was placed on probation with Mrs. Tietjen, probationary ollicer in the Gates avenue court. Yesterday Miss Adela's probationary terra expired. The night before, when taken to task by her mother because she had not complied with the terms of her probation and reported regularly to the officer in order to get a favorable report and a discharge, the young miss became angered and vented her spite on the glass in the door of her home. Yesterday Mrs.

Nicholson went around to the Ralph avenue station house to seek advice in her troubles. The distresed mother finally got a warrant for the arrest of her daughter, Detectives Farrell and Reynolds took her into custody. The girl was as fresh as a rose when she appeared In court to-day. but appeared very bred Ut P'aCe t0r De 80 youDB 110(5 wel1 When she was arraigned to plead the court remarked that the parent had described the daughter as "very wild." The young girl no evlden of this and Mag-strate Furlong questioned the mother to learn the worst thing that the girl had done. The reply was to the effect that the girl was sobedient, would not work and at times yielded to a violent proper.

"She broke aU glass In the door on Wednesday night and as the result of her mother 1 hSVe movt-" y0UI" "ay out the court. 1 cannot sav that; but she does go to theaters wlhtout asking my permission I hat Is not often and mother knows when I go, said demure Miss Nicholson, who all the time had been as peaceful as a dove The court wanted Information In regard to the incident of Wednesday night "Mother took off her shoe and was going Pi 1 broke the Klass 'he lm 00 ol(i to be spanked," said Miss uJiiwVht'f her sli8ht-8tr8lght Irame 10 Magistrate Furlong agreed with Adela in that she was too big to be spanked and Mrs. Nicholson remarked: strikeh me 1 thCD; 1 Cannot let he' JJI: A'adoes that I will have to send her to prison." said the i tones, looking straight Into the girl's blue "I think that wnulrf In our house," sobbed Adela, as she assumed the air of a martyr. Right away the court wanted ta know what person In Adela'a home could be so cruel and there came faintly from the lips of the aoout an older sister. Here Mrs.

Nicholson, a woman, explained that she was a widow with six children, all of whom worked but Adela. It was only natural that they should in. uci tu no Bomeioing. fc tV; Patently until her mother had finished and then she said, as the tears, which had been held back until the last moment rolled down her cheeks: "I do not like coming to court; I have feelings Just as well as mother." Magistrate Furlong remarked that he was sure Adela was not such an awfully bad young person after all and that he would place her on probation if she would promise to report regularly In tho future. Adela said, between great sobs, that she would report as directed and Mrs.

Tietjen took her iu ami. WRECK ON WEST SHORE. Continental Limited, at Sixty Miles an Hour, Crashes Into Coal Train. Albany, February 16 A misplaced switch at tho west end of the Ravena yard, about twelve miles from Albany, came very near causing a serious wreck on the West Shore Railroad at noon to-day. Train No.

4. known as the "Continental limited." east- bound from St. Louis to New York, crossed from the east to the west tracks ymistake. and, going at the rale of sixty miles an hour. crashed into a heavilv laden Cftql train which stood on a siding nearby.

The passenger engine, baggage car, combination and day coaches left the track and are now piled ntgn in tho air with the wrecked coal cars. The pnssengets were badly shaken up. and two whose names have not been learned, were slightly Injured. Conductor Breeze and Fireman Stahl were also slightly Injured. The railroad men regard the escape iium a uurnuie wrecK as little lesa than a miracle.

GOING BACK TO MOTHER. Mrs. Paul Trest Decides to Quit After a Dish-Throwing Scene at the Market House. I' inn, In the Essex Market Court this morning, tried to act a peacemaker to a couple he knew well. His efforts.

however, were In vain, although tho man was willing, but the woman insisted ou going back to bcr mother. The trouble existed between Paul Trest. of 22 South street, and his wife Annie. The couple run the Market House, a small hotel cn South street that Is popular with the water front men. Mrs.

Trest had her bus band haled Into court on a summons. She told the magistrate that be had assaulted end quarreled with her, and that she wanted to leave him, and have his agree to support her. Trest told Magistrate Finn that it was all a misunderstanding, and had arisen out of the fact that ho had contracted to put up a lot of Immigrants, en route for Boston, last night. He said that he asked his wife to get them a meal, and he would arrange the sloop ing accommodations. She i.aid thai while she was cooking the meal, he cau.e into the kitchen and said the food wasn't good enough, and that it uugeied her.

Then followed a dish throwing scene itnd angry wurds, that finally brought them all to court. Trest asked his wlto to come back, and told the magistrate that his business was worth $110,000 and that, he wanted his wife to shuro In It. Mrs. Trest said It was no such thing and accused her husband of being head over heels la debt. Natural a a 1 1 ve i Water, the surest, aaj I tstg beet REMEDY 1 for Constipation and all Bowel ailments.

Ton cannot afford to suffer when relief Is so easy. Begin now. Go to the droarglst today and say distinctly "BUNYAD1 jXnOS" Take half a Klaas on I 1 arising. A positive cure middle West who do not follow the markets, who rarely, if ever, stop to consider the relation between prices of feeds and prices of beet and pork. Hogs are fed because "there Is money in hogs." and many an operation on the farm is done according to some preconceived notion.

The writer knows a German farmer in Western Minnesota who has a beautiful, clean farm, and is evidently prosperous. While watching him feed his hogs one day, this conversation took place: "How old are those pigs?" "Sixteen months." "Why don't you sell them?" "Well, I don't like to sell a hog until ha weighs up good and heavy." Further conversation revealed the facts that corn was worth torty-two cents per bushel and pork four dollars per hundred weight, live weight. When asked if the pigs he was feeding were gaining enough to equal or exceed the value' of the coru, and pay him tor his labor, he I realized that each bushel of corn had got to produce about twelve pounds of pork to yield him any profit. Knowing that his pig3 were not gaining the half of that amount, he i decided to sell boih pigs and corn. NOTHING THE MATTER.

Miss Flora McQuInsy of Medicine square Is a person of very strange notions; She is crazy for medicines, I do declare She has powders and tablets and lotions. What is in all these things must remain a great mystery. I just write of Miss Flora. Behold here her history! Miss Flora's a spinster, exceedingly wealthy; She would rather bu poor, though, she says, and be healthy. Her aches come ulohe, and her aches come together, At all hours of the day, and in all sorts of weather; She's all manner of things that the doctor can put On the crown of her head or the sole of her foot; Or rub on her shoulders, or tic round her waist; Or that's known to the feci, or the smell, or the taste; Or that's smeared on without, or digested within.

She's afraid she'll get fat, she's afraid she'll get thin; She's afraid she'll get sick, she's afraid she'll stay well; She's afraid she'll keep silent, she's frightened to tell; She's frightened of fruit, she's frightened ot meat; She's frightened to diet, she's frightened to eat; She's afraid to stay in, she's afraid to go out; She's afraid to believe, she's afraid she will doubt; She's afraid she'll get warm, she's afraid she'll get cold; She's afraid she'll die young, she's afraid she'll grow old; She's frightened to live, she's frightened to) die; She's frightened and scared, 'cause she doesn't know why. In short, for all ails that could ever be thought of. Or doctor, or dentist, or druggist be bought of, From a spray for the throat, to a cure for the chills: From a lotion for bruises to food for the blond. From a gargle for gumboils to bathing in mud, She's tried all these things and she's footed the bills. MisB McQuInsy is known unto every physician.

As a woman who's got a diseased disposition. With her fears about measles, lumbago and sprains, And her horror of fevers and all sorts ot pains; For of every disease Miss McQuinsy complains And there was never anything awful around But in Miss McQuinsy the symptoms were' found. When you've got it badly, why, she's got it worse She's always in charge of a doctor and nurse. 'Tis thus that she uses her very long purse. She wastes time and money on doses and drugs; Her only companions are frauds and humbugs.

They humor her whimsies, but still keep her 111, With horrid concoctions her insides they fill. Alas! Miss McQuinsy, you're in a bad way; The doctors have "cured" you, but you are sick still; And sick, my poor lady, it seems you will stay As long as you gloat over troubles rheumatic. As long as you dote upon ailments asthmatic. And now, be It told, though she screams and she faints, Ad though her whole life Is a list of complaints That vi'ile on each ailment she's anxious to seize. And while there's no 111 can her longing appease.

She will still have complaints. But she has no disease! Harold Susman in Success Magazine. COEDUCATION. A woll known university professor has a dilemma In which he is wont to entrap advb-cates of coeducation. "If you lecture to twenty boys and twenty girls in the same room." he asks, "will the boys nttend to tho lecture or to the girls?" Of course the coeducatlonist.

to be consistent, must say that they will listen to tho lecture. "Well. If they do." replies the dean, "(hey are not worth lecturing to." Harpers Weekly. UNDER WHICH KING "The Mnre Pnstmii the More rood the Mure C'olree the More I'olMon The Pres. of the W.

C. T. TJ. in a young giant state In the Northwest says: "I diil not realize that 1 was a slave to coffee till I left off drinking it. For three or four years 1 was ohllired to take a nerve tonic every day.

Now I am free, thanks to I'OHtmn Food Coffee. "After tl tiding out what coffee will do to its victims, I could hardly stand to have my husband drink it; but he was not willing to quit. I studied for months to find a way to induce him to leave it off. Finally I told him I would inuko no more coffee. I got I'ostum Food Coffee, and made it strong-boiled it the required time, and had him read the little book, 'The Koad to Well that comes In every pkg.

"Today PoHtum has no stronger advocala than my husband! Ho tells our friends how to make it, and that he got through the winter without a spell of the grlp-and has not had a headache for months he used to be suhject to frequent nervous heartaches. "The stronger ynu drink Postum tho more iooti you get; the stronger vou Anna. coffee the more poison vou get." Natna given hy Postum Battle Creek, Mich..