Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-06-20
you think you had better go into the cabin


 and am no believer in ghosts, even such as are provided by our Spiritualist friends, yet the coincidence of the suicide with my vision and the similarity between his description | and the face in the plank troubled me more than care to confess
 1 made no mention of my last experience to my wife, as thought she had been worried enough about that matter; but did consult my family physician about it, as considered my second optical illusion to be indicative of some serious constitutional disorder. He was of the same opinion, and advised ma to 1 take an abundance of exercise, as that was the only thing, except an entire absence of work and worry, and complete change of air and scene, that would be likely to straighten ! me up.
 hired rowboat for the remainder of ths l season, arranged for shortening my working hours, and rowed myself all the way down l and up the Harlem and East rivers whenever the tide would serve me. Of course could not be expected to row against the swift East river current, and I became quite learned in the matter of tides and eddies. l One evening in September, as the tide would be favorable at least as far as the mouth of the Harlem, I invited Charley Guest to take passage in my rowboat and submit to Q late dinner at my home in liar l lem.
 1 Charley was detained by business, as it happened, and it was dark when we got away. took the oars and he took the rud- der lines, and we went up the East river with the tide.
 In rowing up previously, though passed close to the pier which I have mentioned, I never again saw the face in the plank. There fore 1 was compelled to connect it with the Harlem boat and the suicide, and that cir cumstance impressed me.
 On this occasion we had passed Corlaers Hook, and were a little below and in sight of that pier, when a rowboat came up and passed swiftly. It was rowed by two | men, who were evidently pulling their best, l and in the stern was seated a man whose face strikingly reminded me of the face I had seen framed in the plank Opposite the pier he jumped overheard, and the remaining two men ill the boat, without seeming to notice his performance, pulled swiftly under an open dock and disappeared.
 Charley and I allowed our attention to be l attracted to the man who went overheard. He partly dived and partly swam to the pier, showed his head there moment and then suddenly and unaccountably sank.
 Before we could recover from our surprise another boat came from the same direction,
 with two oarsmen, and a man in the stern and one i'll the bow. Their uniforms told us at once that it was police boat, and the de- tective sergeant in the bow hailed us quietly and wanted to know if a rowboat had passed
 us there.
 As briefly as possible told him what we
 had seen, and he caused his boat to be pulled
 in there and followed with mine, watching
 him while he appeared to be examining the
 planking of the pier.
 "Aha!" he exclaimed in tho tone of a man
 xvhn has fonn1 c,on,afbiro nd ho ol
 me to stay there and to take one of his men
 into my boat, while he went for more help
 could not make out the meaning of this, and
 my policeman could not or would not explain
 it to me, though he examined his revolver
 carefully, as if he were expecting some des-
 perate work.
 Shortly heard voices and the tramping of
 feet the pier above, and then the ser
 geant's boat came around to where was
 ''Those chaps are getting to be mighty
 smart,' said he.
 "What chapss What do you mean? What
 are you after!"
 "River thieves; and it is very lucky that you happened to be just where you were, so that you could point out their den. Just
 look here" .>r-
 He pulled spring catch near the edge of the river-it was then almost high tide-and square of the plank opened outward, show ing hole into which the water flowed freely A pistol shot from within told us that some body resented this intrusion. The sergeant closed the hole at once, and it was not long
 before the rising tide covered it entirely. } heard the rending of blanks above, and then two shots were fired, followed by brief
 struggle in what may call the bowels of the dock, and two policemen brought to the head of the pier the man whom had seen ir
 the rowboat that escaped. 'That's the man," said the sergeant. ''Take < < him in and lock him up tight. That is Oar . . Skilly," he continued, addressing me, ''one of the worst of the river thieves and the , leader of the East river gang knight never have found his den if it had not been fo, you"
 :; was not at all surprised at this, since ! had seen the man in the rowboat and the panel in the plank, and was really glad tha
 my supposed optical illusion had such solit , basis of fact.
 The sergeant hailed tug, which towet u Charley Guest and mo in my boat up to liar ,, lem in a hurry. At home I took pleasure il @ explaining the affair to my wife, and th beauty of it was that Charley and were no ) called upon to appear against the river thief u who was sent to Sing Sing last November Stanley Henderson ill Drakes Magazine Freaks in rnamentation. = =, A jeweler who was asked if he was calle a upon to furnish special watch case designs fo N his customers replied: II should say so. T What class of designss "Well, monogram a. principally, while next to these in popularit I come crests, which are in great deman I among that class of people who delight i initiating everything English, you know n Of course many of these people haven't tn
 faintest idea whether their families posses ,- coats of arms or not; but that doesn'tt troubl 70 them in the least They select whateve d crests happen to suit their fancies from