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The Winslow mail., 1897-10-16
A S2O,OOO,OOO FRAUD.
That Is What the Bridal Package In tn
Government Treasury Is Declared to Be.

That Is What the Bridal Package In the
Government Treasury Is Declared to Be.
Il hate to shatter pet delusion by
giving the facts in the case" said a
former clerk in the treasury department
at Washington, ''but fraud ought to be
exposed regardless of consequences, and
the greatest fraud l know of is the ia
nous bridal package of the treasury
vaults.
81 say famous, but it isn't famous in
general sense. 1t is famous only
among bridal couples. I don't know
how it is. but every bridal couple that
go to Washington on their wedding
tour-and it seems to me that about
nine-tenths of the bridal couples of the
country go to Neutrality-suspicious. all
about that package, and the bride can t
rest until she goes through the regular
routine connected with it. No visit to
Washington by a stranger is complete
without an inspection of the treasury
vaults, but if his or her visit is a nom
bridal one the fraud of the package
isn't played
Il don't know who it was in the de-
partment that first imposed it Oh a bri-
dal pair, but it WENT and it grows in
popularity every year. When the couple
enter the vault the man in charge, aft
er few preliminary and perfunctory
remarks, reaches up on a shelf, takes
down package Of notes, and tells the
bride to take it in her hand, if she
hasn't asked for it the very first thing.
He then tells her that the package con-
tains $50, 900, 900 in treasury notes, all
in denomination of $40, 900 each. The
bride is delighted, of course, and when
she goes back home she talks for weeks
about having held $4,000, 900 in her
hand all at one time. The bridegroom
can't resist enjoying that same pleas
ure, and he fondles the package awhile,
and the pair go away blissful over the
experience, while the treasury vault
man tosses the package back on the
shelf and chuckles.
'Now this is all simply gigantic
fraud on the young people. The treas
ury at Washington does not hold that
amount of money. The bulk of the gov
ernment money is at the subtreasury in
this city That bridal package is a
gay deceiver. 1t does contain notes to
the amount of 10000, 900, of the de-
nomination of $40, 900 each, but they re
not money, because they're not signed.
So instead of having held in their hands
$40, 900, 600 the happy couple have
fondled simply a package that repre-
sented no more value than the price of
the paper and the printing OH it. 1t
may be cruel to shatter this pretty delu
sion, but my conscience forbids me to
carry the burden of its concealment any
longer; hence these facts. New York
Sum
The Winslow mail., 1897-10-16
Horsemen Make a Eight.

The horsemen of Camden, y. j., have
raised a fund and employed counsel to
fight the League of American Wheelmen
and cyclists in general The cause of the
trouble appears to be the new cycle path
which the city recently built for the ac-
commodation of wheelmen. While the
city built the path, it was generally un-
derstood that the Good Roads league of
Camden would pay for it in time. A few
days ago a prominent physician named
Fithian drove on the path and was arrested
at the instance of :. C. OFT, the president
of the Good Roads league. He was fined
by Mayor Westcott, but refused to pay the
fine imposed and walked out of the city
hall. DIR. Fitbian said that his attorney
advised him that the city had no right to
keep people from driving on any portion
of the public streets.
The Winslow mail., 1897-10-16
ANGER AND EGGS.
A Boston Man Says the Combination May
Result In Death.

"Never eat eggs while you are an
gry," said A. E. Stewart of Boston.
MY attention was first called to this
strange fact by the tragic and sudden
death of a lady acquaintance in Boston
several years ago. l accepted her hus-
bands invitation to dine with them.
just as we were going in to dinner
servant did something that caused the
lady to fly into terrible rage. She had
been irritable from some minor COM
plaint for several days, and her hus-
band calmed her ruffled feelings suffi-
ciently for the dinner to be eaten in
good temper / noticed that she ate an
unusually large amount of soft scram-
bled eggs. Fifteen minutes after we
left the dining room she was corpse.
She died in frightful commissions be-
fore the nearest doctor reached the
house. The doctor was unable to ascribe
the cause. A few months later / was
visiting brother in Connecticut, and
one of his sons died under similar cir
cumstances. Before breakfast one morn
ing the boy, who was about 10 years
old, had fight with neighbor's boy.
Before his anger had subsided my
nephew was called to breakfast. He ate
four soft boiled eggs. Had l known as
much then as l do now 1 would have
prevented it. In less than a half hour
after breakfast the boy died with exact
ly the same symptoms that were present
when my friends wife died. This set
me to thinking about the matter.
+ ''It wasn't long after this before a
Beacon hill friend of mine expired sud-
denly after a meal. The doctors, as
usual, We're divided in opinion on the
cause of death. Some of them contend
ed that it was heart failure, whatever
that is, and others are still holding out
that it was apoplexy. Inquiry by me
developed the fact that my friend was
very angry when he sat down at table
and that he ate five eggs. With these
developments l searched no further for
the cause of his death He was angry,
he ate eggs, and he died. If these are
not links in the chain of cause and eff
feet, the human intellect is incapable of
logical thinking ST Louis Republic.
The Winslow mail., 1897-10-16
The Peacock at Home.

The real home of the peacock or pea
fowl is in India. There they were and
are hunted, and their flesh is used for
food. As the birds live in the same re-
gion as the tiger, peacock hunting is
very dangerous sport. The long train of
the peacock is not its tail, as many sup
pose, but is composed of feathers which
grow out just above the tail and are
called the tail coverts. Peacocks have
been known for many hundred years.
They are mentioned in the Bible. Job
mentions them, and they are mentioned,
too, in l Kings X. Hundreds of years
ago in Rome many thousand peacocks
were killed for the great feasts which
the emperors made. The brains of the
peacock were considered great treat,
and many had to be killed for single
feast st Nicholas
The Winslow mail., 1897-10-16
Declined the Invitation.

A we'll known professor is noted for
his Observation-Disclosures He and friend,
another old professor, used to take a
daily walk together and discuss matters
quite beyond the comprehension of ordi-
nary mortals.
One day when the walking was very
bad professor No. was on his way to
the corner at which he and his friend
always met when he encountered a
young student whose face he recognized
dimly, having seen it every day for
some weeks in his morning class. He
accordingly hailed his pupil, who was
wading through the mud to get across
the street.
"Have you seen my friend?" he asked.
eyes, sir, !" replied the student, paus-
ire respectfully in the midst of mud
puddle to remove his cap. "He is at
the corner waiting for you.
Good, replied the professor, looking
over his spectacles Il thank you. You
may be seated. Strand Magazine.
The Winslow mail., 1897-10-16
-
Making 1t Easy.

Old John s. was rural postman
in a west country district and in a
rather rough fashion was also an anna
teur dentist. On his rounds one day he
met certain farmer about to start for
a six mile ride to town for the purpose
of getting an aching tooth drawn. On
seeing old John, however, the farmer,
distracted with pain, determined to test
the old mans skill as tooth puller. A
pair of somewhat rusty pliers was pro-
duced, and after few tugs the tooth
was held up for the farmer to see, who
exclaimed:
"Why, John, you've drawn the wrong
TOOTH That is a sound onep
81 know that, master, said John,
"but now 1 can get at the other handi-
er. Pearson S Weekly.
The Winslow mail., 1897-10-16
A Toad as a Talisman.

The Western Morning News reports a
remarkable case of superstition. A
young woman in Penzance had suffered
from fits, and she adopted a remedy
which would be to most people almost
as repulsive as the disease itself. She
procured a live toad, placed it in bag,
hung it around her neck and carried it
next her body. The woman was cured
of her fits, but she was being medically
attended at the Pensance infirmary at
the same time The woman believes,
however, that this was a coincidence
and that her strange talisman was the
instrument of her cure-South Wales
News
The Winslow mail., 1897-10-16
ERRORS IN LIVING.
Mans Excessive Appetite and the Body's
Capacity For Food.


To the lay mind nothing seems to az
CUR so strongly in favor of robust health
as a hearty appetite. Furthermore
there would seem to be a strong con
giction in the public mind, aanctific,
by tradition from time almost lmme
mortal, that the more a man eats tbs
better he is. The quantity of food that
many people naturally eat is very large
as compared with their actual physl-
illogical requirements. Add TO this the
many tempting forms in which food IS
presented to the palate by our modern
culinary arts, the sharpening of the ap-
petite by the anteprandial cocktail, the
stimulus afforded the appetite by bot
tie of good wine, and the result Is often
the consumption of an amount of food
that simply overwhelms the assimlla-
tive organs. Such indulgence, If unre-
stricted and habitual, taxes both the as
similative and the excretory organs to
their highest capacity, especially when
coupled with sedentary life, and, more
over, it lends an additional impetus to
the evils springing from the use of i'm
proper quality of food.
The human celebrating and excretory
mechanism was evidently adjusted for
ordinary wear and tear to an average
limited period of about 20 years. Un-
der 40 per cent of extra work we must
naturally expect impairment or break
down of the mechanism much earlier.
1t should therefore excite no special
surprise that so large proportion of our
we'll to do people die from Bright's dis
ease, heart failure and allied diseases at
so or 90 who should, and under prop
erIy regulated lives and habits would,
have attained the natural age of 20 or
over. Paradoxical though it may seem,
such people usually spring from excep-
tionally healthy stock and often point
with pride to the fact that their imme-
diate ancestors lived to advanced ages
of 80 years or more. This paradox, how
ever, is more apparent than real, for in
vestigation will usually reveal the fact
that for the most part the parents in
such cases were people of more simple
habits, such as corresponded with New
England life IS or 100 years ago.
The truth is that the well to do man
Of today lives in a faster age than that
of his father and grandfather. He meets
with greater opportunities and posi-
bilities and therefore greater stimulus
to all his energies. He more easily ac-
quires pecuniary resources, and in
larger amounts, and therefore he pos
sesses greater luxuries of domestic life
With these come greater temptations to
excess While he has often inherited a
splendid constitution from his ances-
tors, unlike them he has run his phys
ical mechanism at breakdown rate,
and it must of necessity more quickly
wear out-Charles W. Purdy, NJ. D. +,
in North American Review.
The Winslow mail., 1897-10-16
CURED HIN TO KILL HIN
Trephining the Skull of An In
sane Murderer.
CHEATED THE GALLONS AFTER ALL

Typhoid Fever Carried Off q Prisoner
Who Had Undergone a Surgical Oper-
alton So That He Might Be Hanged.
Strange Features of the Dreher Case.
A surgical operation was performed in
st. Louis recently which in all probability
has no equal in the history of the world.
ing a man of insanity so that he might be
hanged. The operation proved successful,
but the man died from typhoid contracted
from impure drinking water
Charles Dreher was sentenced to death
for numbering his sweetheart. After his
condemnation he became insane and could
not, according to law, suffer the death
penalty.
Three years ago Dreher shot and killed
his sweetheart, Bertha Hunicke. He de-
veloped a fit of insane jealousy for reasons
that no one could ascertain. The girl was
only 49, On Jan. 80, 1894, he went to her
room, upbraided her wildly and shot her
dead.
Then he turned his revolver on himself.
He fired three shots, only one of which
struck him. This one lodged in his skull,
entering the parietal bone on the left side,
just below the coronal suture. 1t was
easily removed together with piece OF
splintered BONE Dreher recovered quickly
and was placed on trial for the murder.
He seemed perfectly rational, although
dull and brutal. The evidence was clear
against him, and he excited little SYM
pathy He was convicted and condemned
to death.
While in prison awaiting execution he
began to behave strangely. His symptoms
quickly developed into unmistakable in
sanity. Within three days of the date set
for his execution he was declared absolute
ly insane.
He was sent to the insane asylum at
Fulton, Mo- There his condition was or
The Winslow mail., 1897-10-16
Famous Collection of Antlers.

OF the famous collections of antlers
formed in the seventeenth century only
two or three have escaped the general
fate of confagrations, sieges and pill
lage One of these is in MoritZburg,
the king of Saxony's historical hunting
castle, near Dresden, while in the cele-
brated gun gallery in Dresden itself are
to be seen, in an unrivaled show, the
wonderfully inlaid arms used by the
elector.
The great banqueting hall of the cas-
tie of Moritzburg is one of the sights
with which no doubt a any Travelled
reader has been charmeG 1t is cham
Der of noble proportions-66 feet long
by "a feet wide and 38 feet high. On
it's otherwise unadorned white walls
hang II pairs Of magnificent antlers,
which one may describe as the most ia
nous of their kind in the world. Not
single one carries less than "a tines or
is less than 300 years old, while some
are probably double that age.-W. A.
Baillie-Grohman in Century.
The Winslow mail., 1897-10-16
DORA IOOMIS.

reading can write from dictation or pen
answers to questions asked her. The con-
sciousneas that directs her reading knows
nothing of the writing and the conscious
ness that directs the writing knows moth
ing of the reading. Study of this case
may aid to solve one of the mysteries of
life-the responsibility of person for acts
committed under the direction or impulse
of the subconsciousness. During attacks
of hysteria she has violent delirium. At
other times she is bright and intelligent,
docile and quiet. She is the living Dr.
Iekyll and Mr.. Hyde.
The Winslow mail., 1897-10-16

off in much the same fashion. All possess
the same quick round swing, strike the
ball with the center of the head and let
the arms follow ON after the ball. All
have the essentials, yet each has his own
little mannerisms In this respect one is
apt to attach too much Importance to the
mannerisms and overlook the fundamental
principles.
Harold Hilton, the noted Liverpool anna
teur, has quick and rather short swing,
and the club seems to circle around his
shoulder rather than his neck, which is
lower down than is usually the case among
front rank players. The conspicuous fea-
ture in his long game style is the manner
in which he throws his arms after the ball.
His body is carried so far round at the
completion of the swing by the sweep OF
the arms that his cap frequently falls to
the ground. The head of his club travels
back along the ground in the upward
swing for what seems long distance, and
it returns along the same line. His object
is to make the ball describe a particular
line through the air, and to attain this his
club head must be travelling in that line
both before coming in contact with the
ball and after.
Willie Ferrie of Troon is thought by
Hilton to have the best style of any pro-
fessional. Ferrie plays without any effort,
appearing only to drive the ball by me
weight of the club head. He stands square
to the ball and concentrates his grip of the
handle by grasping tightly with the fore
finger, middle finger and thumb of the
left hand and loosely with the others,
while the little finger and fourth finger of
the right grasp tightly and the others very
loosely. Ferries swing is perfect circle,
his shoulders moving round with the club
as if on pivot. A feature of his play is
the exceptional power with which he seems
to drive badly lying balls, or balls lying
much above or much below his stance.
He uses light clubs, both wood and iron.
The Winslow mail., 1897-10-16
Two Definitions of Poetry.

An Alabama editor, being asked to
give definition of poetry, " replied:
Poetry is nothing more than words
thrown together with jingle at the
end of each line like the music OF TIN
can at the end of dogs tail.
Not to be outdone by the above,
Georgia editor adds this opinion:
Poetry is the foolishest thing IN the
world, but it has return stamps on one
end that help an editor to get his mall
off. "-Atlanta Constitution.
The Winslow mail., 1897-10-16
Shirt Signs.

"In Brooklyn the other day." said
resident of Manhattan borough, 81 saw
in the window of a furnishing goods
store this sign: Shirt Constructor.
There is furnishing goods store III
New York that displays, among other
signs, one marked 'Shirter There used
to be another furnishing goods store i'll
this city with sign reading, as re-
member it, Shirt Builder, but Shirt
Constructor is new as far as know. F"
The Winslow mail., 1897-10-16
TWO MINDS IN ONE BODY.
Dora Loomis Can Do Two Things at the
Same Time.

A young girl at the Binghamton State
hospital is the most remarkable example
of "double personality" ever brought to
the attention of doctors who study freaks
of the brain. She is afflicted with hysteria
and actually lives two lives in one. The
discovery of her dual consciousness was
made during the treatment at the hospital
for her malady. Hypnotic suggestion is
part of the treatment.
The girl, Dora Loomis, can do two
things at the same time. For instance,
she can read aloud from book and while
The Winslow mail., 1897-10-16
Cav Wall Papers.

The shops of the decorators show a
decided return to gay effects III wall
papers and seem to indicate that the
reign of negative backgrounds for rooms
is seriously interfered with if not fin
ished. A yellow figured paper, that Is
almost an orange tint, hangs next to one
of deep red, which, in its turn, gives
place to rich and vivifying green.
These are, any of them, to be used fash
ionabIv With white woodwork.
The Winslow mail., 1897-10-16
Worked Both Ways.

"It must have cost you great deal
to provide all these comforts for your
employees, - said the friend who had
been looking through the reading rooms
and gymnasium attached to the factory.
''It does cost a little, - admitted the
manager. "but, you see, we pay EN-
such low wages that the factory is real
ly a better place than home. That makes
'em conterted to stay. Exchange.
The Winslow mail., 1897-10-16
Wrecked on Boston Shoals.

The young man looked up from his
writing.
The-ah-the-girl lives in Bos-
ton, he said to his chum. "Don't you
think it would make hit with her if 1
quoted few lines of poetry?"
"Got the book?"
No, but l know the verses by heart. -
Don't you take any chances. tried
the same thing once and got shook be-
cause l used a semicolon where there
should have been comma. Wash
ingtOn Star.
The Winslow mail., 1897-10-16
Good Manners and Quick Wit.

The little viscount is receiving a few
friends in his bachelor quarters. Among
them is BOireau.
The latter, having allowed his cigar
to go out, throws it without ceremony
Oh the carpet. In order to give him a
lesson in good manners the little Wis
count stoops to pick it up, but Boireau,
feigning to misunderstood his intention,
interposes:
''Oh, leave the butt, my dear fellow.
Take fresh cigar.
And he hands him the box. Paris
The Winslow mail., 1897-10-16
Do Not pnmp Too Hard.

1t should be borne in mind that tires,
wien they have been ridden for some
time, are much more liable to damage
than when they are new. Even assuming
that they have been taken care of and the
moisture has not been allowed to penetrate
and rot the fabric, it Is likely that the tire
will have been reduced in strength by
wear, and some caution must therefore be
exercised in pumping.
The Winslow mail., 1897-10-16
Walter Besant's Tribute to America.

Sir Walter Besant, the eminent Eng
lish novelist, said, when he went back
to England after visit here, that moth
ing he saw in America impressed him
so deeply as the devotion of our young
people to their flag; that nowhere ex
oept among British soldiers had he seen
such affection and respect for a national
emblem. and that nation which as a
whole felt as we seemed to feel about
our colors from the time we left our
mothers knees, was one that could
Withstand the whole world in arms -
Charles Sydney Clark in st. Nicholas.
The Winslow mail., 1897-10-16
A Delicate Commitment.

No more elegant compliment was
ever paid to a preacher than that of
King Louis XIV of France to Jean Ba-
tiste MGsillon, bishop of Clermont.
Said he: 81 have heard many great
preachers, and the effect they produced
On me was that 1 felt thoroughly salts
fled with them. Every time | heard
you / was dissatisfied with myself" s"
The Winslow mail., 1897-10-16
An ANALYSIS,

"What did that young man call this
poem?" asked the editor.
"a satire. -
"And that implies that he is show
ing the uselessness and absurdity of
something"
81 believe So"
well, there's only one guess that
can make concerning this, and that is
that it is a satire ON poetry. Wash
iDgton Star.
The Winslow mail., 1897-10-16
Addition to a Well Known Proverb.

/ remember to have been told by
late brother oGicer, who was well read
man, that this proverb was OF Portu-
guese origin and that it ran, Hell is
paved with good intentions and roofed
with lost opportunities. Notes ana
Queries.
The Winslow mail., 1897-10-16
To Check Suicide.

The Russian commander in Turkestan
has issued an order that, in consequence
of the number of cases of suicide, both of
officers and troops, superior officers are in
future to pay special attention to the
moral well being of every young soldier
uuder their command
The Winslow mail., 1897-10-16
BORN A THEE.
A Four-year- r-old Girl Who Comes Naturally
by Her Pnfering Instincts.

by Her Pilfering Instincts.
In the Colorado State Home For De-
pendent Children there is a pretty. blue
eyed baby girl, just past her fourth year,
who is by birth hardened and expert
thief. Her name is Grace Williams. Her
mother, Mrs. Tilly Williams, is serving a
ten year sentence in the Colorado state
penitentiary at Canyon City, for shoplift-
ing. She was sentenced about four years
ago after srial which developed the fact
that she had stolen thousands Of dollars
worth of goods in nearly every city of i'm
portance in the country.
With the mother is her sister, Mrs Mary
Watson, serving similar sentence for the
same offense. The maternal grandmother
The Winslow mail., 1897-10-16
AN EPIDEMIC OF GOLF.
Spread of the Game on Both
Sides of the Atlantic.
WHERE SKILL AND SCIENCE COMEN
Uniformities of Style In Most Great Play
ers-Quick and Round Swings In strik-
ing-FundamentaI Principles Often Lost
Sight of In Mannerisms.

Sight of In Mannerisms.
Golf is increasing in popularity in Eng
land and is rapidly spreading throughout
America. In the larger cities it is already
epidemic. Ten years ago, when the game
first began TO be popular in England,
there was no end to the people who pre-
dicted that it was only craze and would
pass. The same prediction, it will be re-
called, was made about cycling, but golf,
like cycling, has grown despite denuncia-
tions of heroic sportsmen, who say that
only old men and weak young men who
cannot play football and cricket favor it.
Women as well as men are fascinated by
golf, and the champion of England, Miss
E C. Orr, is certainly not among the class
that can properly be termed either old or
weak. She is an ideal athlete, and much
of the popularity of the game is doubtless
due TO the association of the best women
with it.
The evolution of golf has demonstrated
the advantages of certain styles Of playing.
1t is noticeable that leading experts drive
The Winslow mail., 1897-10-16
To Live

70 live is to have justice, truth, rea-
son, devotion, probity, sincerity, COM
mon sense. right and duty welded into
the heart. Victor Hugo.