Evening star., 1894-12-14
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for gain In the lace or the absolute GER
tainty that the crime will be traced to
them," said d. NJ. Evans of Indianapolis
at the Cochran this morning. when re-
venge is the motive for a crime. there is
no occasion for surprise, and usually 1t Is
committed in an open manner, as II the
perpetrator cared nothing for the conse-
quencies. But where gain Is the motive
you will almost always find that the deed
is planned with apparently consummats
subtlety. The incest Skill is developed in
arranging every detail, and the man or
men concerned IN perpetrating the final
act in the tragedy appear to have satisfied
themselves that they are free from all
chance Of detection. The Cling murder in
Minneapolis Is a striking example of this.
fiendish work. He had even worked off
suspicion Of his motives by lending the
woman money and engaging in business
transactions with her. He had arranged,
In the eyes of a jury. but he tried to be
too careful He sent q bundle of bloody
clothes away by the man Erickson, to have
them washed and returned, and this gave
the police unerring clue that would
have brought him to justice even II his
brother Adry had not confessed to his
knowledge Of the murderer's intentions.
The murder of the janitor in Chicag go.
whose body was found in a packing box
in an alley Is another instance Of the
immediate unravelling of a seeming mys-
terry. With bold confidence one Of the
mans murderers went to the morgue and
identified his remains. TIe intended by this
move to ward OFF suspicion, but his action
had the opposite effect. Every day 1t is
becoming more and more true that 'mur-
der will out and still the remarkable fact
remains that men continue to commit 1t
for gain. pure and simple 1t Is one Of the
marvelS Of the age"
mo one need imagine that the good gov
ernment clubs of New York have ceased
their vigorous activity in behalf Of .secur-
ing a clean municipality because Of the
gratifying results Of the last election"
said J. r. Daniels of the metropolis at the
Ebbitt last night ''They are more ener-
getic. If possible, than ever before and in
creasing in number and membership every
day. You see. the confederated council of
the clubs agreed some time ago to investi-
gate the various city departments, assign
ing one club to EACH and this duty Is being
prosecuted most commercially. So the
street cleaning department is being investi-
gated by one club, the excise department
by another, the park and police by another
and so on through the list. The investiga-
ton is practical and to the point, and the
gentlemen engaged in it's various branc hes
are instructed to ascertain wherein the par
ticular departments under their eyes can be
improved In their management and cur
tailed in their expenditures where such re-
ductiOn Is just and reasonable, and pre-
pare bills covering such recommendation
as they may make. to be presented to the
incoming legislature. Some frightful ex-
ampies of loose government have already
been brought to light For instance, the
investigation of the department of public
parks shows that it makes no annual re-
port, while It's quarterly reports to the
mayor contain only two lines devoted to ex-
penditure5, the total amounts paid for SAL
aries and for bills, each item ranging from
100000 to S4OO.OO0 OF course, a bill will
be drawn up requiring the board to make
an annual report, with every expenditure
detailed. and, l think, 1t will pass
Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, accompanied
by his daughter. was recently a guest at
the Arlington for several days. Every time
the distinguished divine scratches his
rame down on a hotel register somebody
who owns an autograph album spies 1t and
the hotel people are straightway requested
to take charge of the volume and get Mr..
Talmage to write something in it," 1t
happened that one of the permanent guests
at the Arlington owns autograph album
herself. so when Mr. Talmage got there
this time she gave Manager Bennett the
precious thing for the purpose already in
dicated. Bennett accepted the duty in his
customary Chesteffeidian manner and car
ried the book to the office, where Messrs.
Birney, Ross and Smith were assembled.
Say" remarked Bennett, when DR.. Tai
mage comes in one of you fellows get him
to put his name in this. Take care to give
him a blank page so it won't get mixed up
with any other Obituary-I mean auto
graph" The trio nodded assent and the
book was laid on the desk. Mr.. Morgan
Ross alone Saturday evening behind
the counter when DR.. Talmage came in to
ask for mall He handed out the letters
and also the book. The great preacher
seized pen and wrote across the center
of pink tinted page:
With best wishes for your future happi-
ness.
T. DE WITT TALMAGE.
Dec Sth, 1894
Ross blotted the lines carefully; deter
mined that man who wrote such fist
was pretty near right in taking the pulpit
instead Of running the risk of a civil ser
vice examination. and. putting the book
back on the desk, went to supper.
Mr.. Ham Birney sauntered in to do the
honOrs of the hostelry Immediately there
after and DIR. Talmage came back to make
some inquiry. Mr.. Birney answered him
| and spied the book at the same time.
autograph album? Why. with great pleas
ure! Mr.. Birney selected nice. clean
chocOlate-colored page and placed 1t be-
fore the parson. He wrote with exceeding
alacrity:
With best wishes for your future hap
piness.
T. DE WITT rALMAaE
December 8. 1894
MT. 13lT.ley thanked the tHeOlOSlaH
gracefully: arranged his boutonniere and
tossed the volume back on the desk.
Sunday morning. after his sermon, DR..
Talmage returned to the Arlington, where
Rear Admiral Smith was walking the
quarter deck in solitary grandeur, waiting
to receive boarders.
When the preacher hove into view the
diplomatic rascal cast his weather eye
on that autograph album. In an instant
it was seized: a chrome yellow page Of
spotless virginity was chosen and Dr. Tai
mage was requested to decorate 1t with
his honored name. If the divine had not
been accustomed to being bombarded with
such books he might have paused a mo-
| ment. but the horrible things had become
| familiar TO him. so he picked up pen
| and this is what ne wrote:
With best wishes for your future hap
piness.
T. DE WITT TALMAGE.
| December 8, 1884.
Sunday night Col. Bennett casually in
quired of his three assistant graces IL any
| one of them had thought of asking Dr.
| Talmage to write in that album. They all
| answered that they had and when the book
was produced they proved 1t.
"MY OWN THINGS"
This IL an Age Of Individual En-
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