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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-05-10

Il didn't think there was anything
out of the way about it at the time, but
when ! came to talk it over with Mr.
Haswell the teller, We found that the
highest point whisky had touched that
day was 934. So. you see. he must have
been away off in his mind
Hum. He may have been and he
may not: what else did he say
HE commenced to talk about John
Y. McKane. Here's that rascal Nc
Kane out of prison again, he exclaim-
ed. That man ought TO be kept in jail.
and not allowed to go around the coun-
try presiding over Sunday schools. II
one of YOU fellows gets TO presiding
/ over a Sunday school there will be
vacancy in the bank
"Hoi Ho! and yet they thought this
man McKeever was crazy. muttered
BENJAMIN to himself; then in a louder
tone:
Gentlemen. this is the most import
ant thing that | have heard. That
earthquake settles the business. My
mind is about made up. Hurrah for
the earthquake!
NndL III lHHnuNi w !ON 'ANN' -
that?" | demanded. with annoyance;
for his words sounded most silly and
preposterous.
Il mean that that earthquake is the
key 10 the whole matter Without that
earthuuake there wouldn't have been
any robbery: or no. l won't say that;
but it had a good deal TO do with bring
ing about the robbery. Hurrah. | say,
for the earthquake
perhaps you think | exclaimed in
dignantly. that il was this earthquake
that made the vault and safe fly open.
You are trying to mystify us with lot
of rubbish. which you don't believe
yourself. Get down and talk common
sense. We have neither the time or
inclination for any such tomfoolery."
Old Benjamin looked al me with what
seemed a glance of superiority and OF
commiseration.
wait till we are through. young
man. and we will see who is talking
rubbish. You can't understand me;
consequently you think it is tomfoolery.
It is the way with every one, when
they are brought before something
which is beyond their comprehension
will tell you this: since hearing about
this earthquake, it is settled in my
mind that Mr.. McKeever was innocent
OF the robbery of the bank. But | am
through here. and now. il YOU like, We
will go TO McKeever's house"
When we got TO the house. we were
received by McKeever's neice, Miss
Agnes Warren. She had her street
garments on when We arrived, as she
was just on the point Of going over 10
Brooklyn to stay with some relatives
for a day or two She took us into the
library or sitting room and obligingly
remained with us. that she might give
us any information we wanted about
her uncle.
She was a tall. rather slender and
very good looking girl, of about TWEEN
ty-four. She had modest and engag-
ing air. and there was look of sadness
in her face which showed how much
the recent occurrences had grieved and
crushed her.
/ She spoke OF her uncle in terms CT
the greatest affection. and the tears
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shoulders and a very large head. His
hair was ScanJy and OF reddish brown.
mixed with gray. His forehead was
high and wide; his face smooth shaven:
or rather. it had been shaven week
before we saw him. His ears and his
nose and his mouth were Of generous
proportion, and his small sharp eyes
were Overhung with shaggy reddish
brOws. AS he sat there with his head
bent over the chess men. and his long
arms and fabby hands extended upon
the table and curved around the board.
he seemed TO me 10 resemble nothing so
much as an enormous crab.
He soon finished the game and
sTooping the pieces off the table into
the box where they belonged. he
slaughtered himself up in his chair
and asked us our business.
| introduced myself and my friend
and told him in few words what had
brought us there.
Tell me the history Of the case from
beginning to end" he said. and be
careful and leave out nothing"
He lay back in his chair closed his
eyes and twirled his thumbs while T
detailed as accurately as | could. the
story Of the robbery.
When had finished, ne opened his
eyes.
What do YOU want me TO do" he
demanded, with no appearance OF inter-
est.
| told him that ] was friend of Nc
Keever, the missing cashier: that I
could not bring myself 10 believe in his
perpetrating such a crime. and that T
wanted 70 sift the matter to the bottom
and show. if possible. that he was not
the guilty man.
"You don't want much. do you?" he
demanded pithily. But at the same
time. I've seen cases which seemed as
plain as this which disappointed every
body. and turned out exactly contrary
10 all the appearances. ! wish now that
You would go over the whole matter
again and. if you have forgotten any
thing in your first account. be sure to
remember ii now
| complied with his request. and man.
aged to recollect two or three circum-
stances which had at first omitted. He
lay back again with closed eyes and
heard me out. When | had finished he
surprised NE with the question:
DO you play chess. Mr.. Dennisson?"
Il have played chess. l answered.
but no, lately. | don't get much time
for it.
You are wrong not to take time.
There's nothing like playing chess for
sharpening and developing ones rea-
sOning powers; unless it's playing chess
with ones self. Playing chess is the
nearest like detective work of anything
I know Of You are the man of the law
and your antagonist is the criminal.
You make this move and he makes this
other. You put yourself in his place
and reason out what move under the
circumstances, he would be likely to
make. so that you know how he will
move before he moves.
You can only win at chess by getting
inside of the other fellow and arguing
the game out from his point of view.
from what you know of his acumen and
sagacity: and you can only succeed as
detective by putting yourself in the
place of the criminal and finding out
how you would proceed under these or
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shave: but when IL comes TO a case OF
this kind which requires thought and
ANALYSIS. they are altogether at fault.
don't blame them very much either.
They are brought up and educated in
the cid beaten path, and it's a hard
thing for them TO get out OF the rut.
Then this Benjamin makes it his
business TO solve just such problems as
this one of the bank rObbery?" ! asked.
NO, you can't say that he makes it
his business. In the first place. he's
too lazy 10 make Il business of anything
and. in the second place. there really
isn't quite enough OF it 10 keep any one
occupied The old fellow was formerly
in the postoffice; in that branch of it
which is called the secret service; dis
covering thefts in the mails and all that
sort Of thing. YOU know. He has just
about enough of an income TO keep him
alive, and he supplements his small
SJipen by obtaining. now and then, a
Zee for fifty or a hundred dollars for
unrayelling some curious and krOtty
point in regard TO missing documents or
securities.
I'D like to see him" I exclaimed. 1T
can't do any harm, anyway. and he
may have some idea or suggest some-
thing which will throw some light on
the subject You know how much I
thought Of McKeever. and it pains me
TO find no alternative but the common
belief in his guilt"
We talked the matter over further,
and agreed to call upon Mr.. Benjamin
and submit the case TO him that very
night
We found him in his rooms on the
sixth floor Of a dingy tenement, on
Ninth avenue He didn't take the trou-
bic TO rise when we knocked. hut babe
us come in. with a voice which was
hoarse and cracked and somewhat
Querulous. We found the room blue
With the smoke Of strong tobacco and
old Benjamin engaged in the somewhat
singular occupation of playing chess
with himself
He looked up with an air Of annoy
ance and exclaimed hurriedly:
Take a chair. gentlemen, and wait a
mGmeht till I've finished this game"
There was only one chair. My friend
Wolcot appropriated it. ard l sat down
upon a trunk near the greasy stand
upon which the pane was going for
ward, so that had good opportunity
Of examining the appearance and
manner of the professional gentleman.
whose acumen we were about to test
He was man of slovenly appearance,
with threadbaTe garments and shiny
sleeves; man somewhere between fifty
and sixty years of age: of medium size,
but with very long arms and broad
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wound to run certain number OF hours.
II wound until the hand upon the dial
points 10 the figure -, the clock will
run for - hours and it will be II hours
before the safe can be opened.
On the Wednesday afternoon at four
o'clock. when the cashier last closed
the safe. he should have wound the zine
lock 10 run for u hours. as the next day
was 10 be a holiday. and the bank was
TO reopen at ten on the morning OF Fri
day, the Both
The bank was entered and robbed at
some time during the night OF Wednes-
day, during Thursday, or the night of
Thursday. which showed that Mr.. Nc
Keever had wound the time lock, not to
run forty-two hours. but some shorter
periCd.-Say fifteen twenty-five or
thirty hours This being the case and
IL also being the fact that no one besides
himself knew how long the clock would
run who could have entered the vault
and taken the forty thousand dollars
but Lewis McKeever?
There are two or three other matters
which / have neglected 10 speak of and
Wnlcn. as they are necessary 10 a full
understanding of the case. | will now
mention. The safe from which the
money had been taken. stood inside and
al the back end OF the fireproof vault:
the door Of which last was fastened
with an ordinary fiat key lock. This
lock had not been forced, but had been
opened in the regular manner and had
been locked again at the departure of
the thief. The same was true of the
lock Of the outer door of the bank. Mr..
Mckeever, of course, had the keys of
the bank building and of the vault in
his possession. Here was another fact
which did not add to the probability of
his innocence
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DUE TO GROSS EXTRAvAGtN-'
Utter Disregard Of Dams Wife 'nr T
omy Produced a Dislike for the W.

A keen eyed. nervously active
old woman. whose New Ene'arl Pm
and thrift were plainly app7rr- 70 d.
one familiar with the New En-''
type. vas a passenger on an a.
bound train leaving Chicago one r
ing not long ago. o0servcs ta' p
Free Press.
I've teen ont in Iowa y....- %
son Danl." she confded 10 .ao
who shared her section O. tao
with the old lady. i've rffr- pr
vest before an I do'no' as 8''.
go again"
You didn't like the west ta.'
No. can't say as did.
nice country. too. in some resp
I don't like the st8lfvf Twins nD
I'd go crazy If l had TO live Wa job.
Danrs wife"
indeed
Yes. | just would
should fly some days when ] 4''
She's enc o. those western gf' "
want brought mp 10 to a''. 4-
brought my girls up an as nt
brought her girls no.
"Oh. wasn't She? ..
Indeed. she vss no.
ing her voice 10 a connden.
added: Il just want 10 tell '- "a
o. Dan1s wife's rsCklessn
first place. she uses q wno.' '--
tie her coffee mornings. N.. d,
knows the yoke is plen'..
Of that, A half an egg sa'''
means one hundred and cf
a half eggs a year. Thai h.
and two eggs 81 fifteen ceni' l--.
which comes 10 two dollar -
eight cents. I figured a
DanTs wife. an she JUST
went right on wastin ce-
BILE, 81
Then. here's anot'rr
never cuts a pic into bu' .o'
was brought up 10 cut p.e i
an us enough for anFo9'
whole third OF a pie 'a-
She says DAM likes his pc
tell you he want fetched i'
ton. Then she pdres po' .
pies the thickest 81 anyb'a- -.. ee
II Just made me tired Of %. -.s
to see her set down 10 pare ."
fer dinner" ..--.-."
Potatoes are plenty b. t.e t =
That's no reason ia'' e
wasted. Sugar aim as no 81
DanJ lives by a quarter o. ,.
pound it is back in e.-.-.- ,5 =
live. an just felt ike scr. -.e.re-
Danrs wife putin Two ''- q
Of sugar in her cup o. coffee p, 10 -o
; =, S"S MD Won ever, They il us,
Gus Twin a~fully on. here l' -
"They don't think so n
omy as in Vermont ~.. vi., ,i
Il should say not. Dan ... 40
cream in her mashed poil,,- o.
chunk o. butter as big as q r t
S Soefste y after shes boiled d. e--
- mo bomesick 90 ser III
on an amt NJ use ' ~, ike r,,
where girls are brcuehl ~ 800 toE
Ven give me old Vernon. .,ria.
LEU ~ The The blegsedness o beih ..
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lore; and, as 10 Mr.. McKeever having

more; and, as 10 Mr.. Mckeever having
been in danger OF bodily in
jury and needing our assist
ance. anybody would have known
that, TO be sure. because. if he was inno-
cent, his keys must have been taken
from him and his pocket rified for The
combination. Not only that. but he
must have met with foul play. have
been kidnapped, perhaps murdered"
The fact of the matter is" answered
Wolcott, that the thing seems easy
enough TO you after BENJAMIN. has
said it. You are like the Spanish cour-
tiers vho concluded that it was the
simplest thing in the world to make an
egg stand on end after Columbus had
shown them that they could DO it by
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-07-02
WRITER AND ACCOUNTANT.
Machine Which Inscribes Letters and
Adds Figures at the Same Time.

Machine Which Inscribes Letters and
Adds Figures at the Same Time.
machine has been invented for
typewriting and adding figures at the
same time. The invention is described,
says the Pittsburgh Dispatch, as being
intended to quickly and accurately
add column or columns of figures, and
at the same time and by the same
manipulation of the keys to print these
figures upon a sheet of paper or blank
book in the order in which they are
added, SO as to form proof sheet,
which will verify the correctness of the
addition. The machine, by special ad-
justment, may be made to print at the
end of the column the sum total of the
figures, and to do this in vertically
descending or vertically ascending or
horizontal progression. Addition can
be made either to the right or to the
left. The printing is in fnll sight. The
machine works with the ease of a type
writer, and its speed is only limited by
the skill Of the operator. It subtracts
by reversing arrangement. the regis
tering disks running one way as readily
as the other. Its construction is simple,
considering the variety and extent of
work done. 1t is adapted to printing on
passbooks, which it does as readily as
upon the ordinary plate and sheet. 1t
can be used to add without printing
or to print without adding. If mistakes
are made they can be seen at once.
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Grants OsBsr to oeuersl Pickste.

We all criticised Grant for that dras-
tic war measure Of his by which he dis
continued the exchange Of prisoners,
but he certainly behaved very hand
somely to Lee and Lees troops at Ap-
pomattox. And when he became presi-
dent he was kind in giving places to
Confederates. Longstreet himself
profited by Grants friendship in that
way. Grant offered to make General
Pickett United States marshal for one
Of the Virginia districts but Pickett
declined the Office, telling Grant that
as popular as Grant was with the peo-
pie, he Grant, could not afford to make
such an appointment. This was az
much to say that Pickett could not
change his affiliations, and that for him
not to do so would be to ihjure Grant
in the view Of the northern public.
President Davis spoke very kindly in
deed Of General Grant in letter pub
lished about the time of Grants death.
Indeed, Grant stands far higher in the
estimation Of southern veterans than
any other general Of the war on the
northern side. Richmond Dispatch.
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Apins Thinss American.

Human nature is initiative, and in all
countries prone to ape customs and
things foreign. An American writer in
London declares that Americans are no
more given to aping things English
than, are Enelishmen to aping things
American. This writer recently found q
London swell strutting in one Of the
parks with an American corncob pipe in
his mouth. It was soon all the rage.
and the smoke Of this cheap American
article has probably gone up in many .
fashionable club One Of these swells, be-
ing reminded that corncohs were smoked
BY common folks in America, replied
sltirically. But then. tits American.
dcncher kncwl" Smoking American
cigarettes has also become swell fad
in England, and II orc 10 dshins for Q
"Thanka most awfully. my dear fel-
low, /" he has to but ofIer one to an Eng
lish snob. with the supplementary re-
mark, "Whas delicious 'baccyl" thrown
in.-Boston Globe
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EEIGNlNG DEATH.
Many of the Lower Animals Practice This
Form of DeceptiO

Form of Deception.
The habit of feigning death for the
sake of protection can be observed
among many of the lower animals-an-
imals which differ widely in family,
genus and species. Indeed, says James
Weir in Lippincott's, this habit is to be
observed in creatures microscopic in
size and of exceedingly low organiza-
ton, as well as those as high in the scale
of animal life as man himself; for even
man does not hesitate on occasions to
avail himself of this natural subter-
fuge, when he thinks it will aid in the
preservation of his life.
With the aid of the microscope one
can observe and study the natural his
tory of the minute animal world which
otherwise would remain closed and
unread volume. This instrument has
shown me, beyond cavil, that creatures
as low in the scale as actino-phryans,
very minute, microscopic animalcules,
practice death-feigning when surprised
by an enemy from which they cannot
otherwise escape. Thus, have repeat
edly seen actinophryans fold their del
icate hair-like legs or ella and sink to
the bottom of their miniature lake "a
drop of water) when approached by a
water-louse, which preys upon them.
They remain in all appearances abso-
lutely without life until the water louse
swims away, when they unfold their
ella and go back to their feeding
grounds--a bit of water-weed or moss,
or decayed wood
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MAsHiha ooLp QUARTZ.



Metsl IL ObtnIned.
Millions of dollars of gold are annu
ally taken froIn rude heaps of base-
looking quartz by the flowing water
over huge piles of broken rocks that
contain the precious metal; and
the water used by miners in bring
ing gold from piles of mineral-bearing
quartz is charged with simple chem
ical which has the potency to dissolve
gold and hold it in solution. The spark
ling liquid which flows over hundreds OF
tons of quartz, trickles through the
mines and finds its level, laden with
gold, is charged with deadly poison, cy-
nnide of potassium, a drug which fer
rets out the miEutest particles of the yell
lowish metal and dissolves them, bring
ing the precious burden to the vats for
conversion into refined gold again. The
cyanide process is as noiselesss and un-
erring as the laws of gravitation; the
method is based on the fact that even q
very weak solution of cyanide of potas-
sium dissolves gold and silver, form
ing, respectively, auropotassic cyanide
and argento-potassic cyanide, the solu
tion being separated from the solid ma
terial, and the gold and silver precipi.
tated in metallic form. Precipitation is
effected by the use of fine pieces of
zinc. so arranged that when rich waters
flow over them the fine gold clusters in
rich deposits over the zinc. for which
it has an affinity-the gold depositing
itself in the form of fine dust on the
plates of zinc
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AFTER TWELVE YEARS.
Wayward Daughter Once More Taken to
Her Mothers Forgiving Heart.

Wayward Daughter Once More Taken to
Her Mothers Forgiving Heart.
1t was under the trees of one of the
uptown squares. The rain, which
came up with the sudden swiftness Of
the May shower, had passed away with
equal swiftness and left the newly
clothed trees shimmering in the bril-
liant sunshine which followed the
cloud, says the Philadelphia Call.
Every leafy fold of natures spring
dress seemed trimmed with diamond
as the sun rays fell across the pendent
water drops. An old woman, in tat
tered dress, and with work-worn hands,
moved wearily from under the shadow
of friendly tree whittier the storm had
driven her. As she stepped into view
from the other side of the tree another
woman. younger, but with the same
toil-stained. weary look, moved to meet
her. Their eyes met, and with pierc-
ing scream the younger woman fell to
the ground. A crowd gathered quick
ly, attracted by the screams. But there
was no robbery, NO assault. no arrests.
The old woman, with q softened look in
her face. said simply: "It's my gal,
Mary. I hain't seen her for 12 years.
She's goin' along O. me now." The
crowd drifted silently away, and two
sorry-looking figures, the penitent
prodigal and the forgiving parent,
moved out into the glare of the sunlit
street and disappeared.
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It is easy to suppose circumstances
which would produce the conviction in
all rational human beings that there is
future life, " between which and ours
there is Accommodation. Let us
take as type form of "apparition"
that is visible and vocally audible, but
not tangible, that cannot produce
changes in ordinary physical objects,
that cannot be photographed, whose
audibility and visibility, whether tele-
pathic or not, are at least not dependent
on our present normal senses.
Let us now suppose that Immediately
after death such an apparition Of the
deceased was invariably seen and heard !;
that it affirmed itself to be the deceased !;
that it exhibited such knowledge as the
deceased possessed while inhabiting the
ordinary organism, and so on; that it
affirmed itself to be still Giving" under
very different conditions, most Of which
were alleged to be inexplicable to MS in
terms of our present environment. Let
us suppose that arrangements for meet
ings could be made with the apparition |;
that the apparition, except perhaps for
its occasional disappearance for hours or
days, explained by the necessity Of full
filling certain duties in it's new sphere,
behaved in general, as regards recogni-
tion by living persons and its rational
and social relations with them, much as
an ordinary living person does, the main
exception being that he is not embodied
like us. We're the case like this, make
no doubt whatever that the human race
would be possessed by belief in the
survival after death, which would be
regarded as barely less certain than the
belief in their present embodied exist
ence. Richard Hodgson in
Forum.
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REAL ESTATE.

In pursuance Of An order Of the Probate
Court Of Highland county, Ohio, win ofFer
for sale at Public Auction, ON
Wednesday, July 20, 1890.
On the premises the following described res1
estate situate in the county Of Highland. sr,d
Stste Of Ohio, towit Beginning q a stone
8. W. corner to DR.. Nathan Troth thence
with the line OF said Troth N, 28 deee.. o min.
W. 1853 6-10 poles to . white OAK. 8 corner u
the land Of Henry Cowgirl thence with Oov-
gill's line, 8. 671S degs., W. 81 $40 poles TO Z
black walnut, corner to Joseph Depiels'
thence with line of said Daniels, 8. I16 de0s.
W. crossing Blinco's Run at IA poles and (
stone In the line Of said Daniels at 100 6-lO
poles, 17s 16-1OO poles to the middle Of the
Chilltcothe pike, corner to Daniel Miller and
Chapman thence with said pike, N. 66h degs.,
T.. i67 4.10 poles to point in the middle Of
said pike thence with said pike N. 81 degs., q.
"a 10 poles to a stone in the middle Of said
PIKE corner to Beavers and Redkey thence
with Redkey's N. ak degs., W. S6 l.iO poles
10 the beginning, containing one hundred and
seventy-six Q76) acres three roods and twenty
poles, more or less, and being same premises
conveyed to John Russell by Henry s. Foraker.
Said premises were appraised at S4,400.00.
TERMS OF SALE-One- third iu hand. ONE
third in one year, and ope-third in two years
from day OF sale, with interest the deferred
payments to be secured by mortgage upon the
premises sold. WILLIAM BAsHoRE.
Administrator de bonis non Of the estate Of
John Russell, deceased.
Huggins h Watts, Attorney,