Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-06-27
Saved from the Robbers.

Some years ago q prominent railroad
builder of Warsaw, Poland, experienced
one of the most remarkable marrow
escapes" on record. He WAS employing
several thousand laborers along the line
of q railway then under construction,
and as there were few banks in the
provincial towns of Poland in those
days, he was compelled to carry with
him large sums of money from head
quarters on his regular trips, to pay off
his hands. He usually drew the amount
he needed from the Bank of Poland on
the day before his departure, keeping
the money over night in his own safe,
which he considered a perfectly ecure
depository for these funds, as the art of
safe:cracking was not yet very extern
sively known at that time.
One afternoon, as he was engaged in
counting and arranging the money he
had just drawn from the bank, some
n called him into the outer office on
some urgent business. Mr.. - threw
q newspaper on the bank notes which
he had spread out on his safe and
stepped out, expecting to be back
directly. On his return a few minutes
later he very carefully locked his safe
and went home.
When he entered his office about 6
o'clock the next morning to get the
money from the safe, he was terror
stricken on finding chat the safe had
been broken open and its valuable con-
tents were missing. Detectives were
called at once, but when they arrived
and started to make a careful survey of
the premises, they found all tine money
lying intact on the safe, still covered
with the newspaper which the con
tractor had thrown over it the day be-
fore. He had forgotten to put the
money into the safe before locking the
latter, and the burglars never thought
of looking anywhere else for valuables,
but took the few hundred roubles they
found in the safe and departed. His
forgetfuiness saved the contractor about
$4,000 roubles.
Harvard's Successful Colored Student.
Harvard College has another colored
orator who will graduate this year. His
name is William Edward Burghart Du
Bots. In the competition for the Bowls
ton prize for defamation last Thursday
night in Sanders Theatre, Mr.. Du Bots
and Harry Edwin Burton divided the
first prize of $3.50. Mr.. Du Bots selec-
ton was the Hon. Carl Schurz's "Ameri-
can Battle Flags" Du Bots has worked
his way through Harvard and stands
we'll with his college mates, as does
Clement Garrett Morgan, Haryard's
first colored class orator.
w. e. 3. Du Bots was born in Great
Darlington Mass, Feb. %, 1868. He
early attended the public schools there.
Entering the high school in 1881 he
graduated with high honors in 1883.
Afterward he took the post graduate
course for one year at the same school,
: In 1856 he entered the college depart
ment Of Fisk University, Nashville,
Tenn, and graduated with high honors
in 1888. While there he was editor OF
the Fisk Herald, the college paper. He
also taught school in the South.
T After his graduation at Fisk. Mr.. Du
Bots entered the junior class OF Harvard
has continued the academic course. and
will graduate in June. 1t is his inteu.
| ton to take q post graduate course for
the degree Of Phi. D. in social science.
after which he expects to teach in the
South.
Du Bots has supported himself for Q
long time by teaching, lecturing, and
= winning scholarships. Last year he
= was awarded the second Boylston prize
Since his entrance at Harvard, his ex.
! animation marks have been A, Will
. rank between 80 and 100 per cent. 1
is thought that he will try for q fellow
ship, which means 500 ayear for stud,
abroad.-BoSton Globe.
t WHAT a troop OF other voices follow
! in the train Of untruthfulness.