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The Winslow mail., 1897-04-10

| had thrown this money into his hands,
and fate might take it away but not IL
| he could hold on tightly enough. His
| fingers trembled as he picked at the
elastic bands. Suddenly, and without
| his knowing why, the rubber strings
vanished with loud snap that startled
him, and the package sprang open on
| his knees. He caught a fash of green
| color, and then the cab rolled out of
| light into shadow.
1t seemed long time before another
| light struck in upon him. At the mo-
| ment when it did so he saw a face close
| to the cab door and he lodged back,
| covering the bills with his hands. But
the chance passenger on the street saw
nothing; he was thinking of his own
| affairs, no doubt, and had no inkling of
| the strange thing that passed so close
| to his eyes
| Herrick was himself again In mo-
ment and he bent forward, eagerly
| scanning the bills in his hands, and
counting them feverishly. There were
| forty of them, and each was of the de-
uOlullId lIOu OF S1,UUU.
Throughout the later period of the
| young mans misfortunes he had had
| substantially but one wish-to rest.
Rest has many forms, suited to vast
variety of individual tastes. To Her
| rick in his day dreams it had always
| taken the form of travel without care.
All paths lie open to man who has
| $4,000, and there is no reason why
care should sit behind him as he rides.
Herrick had only the most shadowy
| thought for the person who had lost
this money. He-did not even speculate
| upon the manner of its loss. 1t had
passed into the control of one who
needed it, and that was enough.
| He disposed the notes in his pockets
in the best interests of comfort and
safety. Then he folded up the brown
paper and pocketed that also, with a
| dim consciousness that if it were left
| in the cab, it might get the driver into
| trouble. The fellow was honest, no
| doubt, and Herrick did not wish that
! he should suffer a wrong. He preferred
to keep the wrapper himself, and take
| the risk of it until he could find some
means of disposing of it that would be
safer than throwing it out of the cab
window.
How to leave the cab was a question
| that concerned him nearly. He did not
wish to confront the driver again, for
there might be an investigation and
the question of Identification might
arise, in which case it would be we'll to
have the man know as little as possible
of Herricks personal appearance. He
reflected with satisfaction that the spot
on Wall street where he had entered the
carriage had been rather dark.
| The. cab stopped suddenly, its path
being blocked by tangle of vehicles.
Herrick put his hand upon the latch of
the door. 1t yielded noiselessly; the
door swung open.
Herrick stepped out. Turning back
for an instant he perceived the cabman
sitting upon his box in entire uncon-
sciousness of the fraud that was being
practiced upon him. He was a poor
man, and doubtless worked hard for all
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-10

The late Capt. James O'Kane, who
recently died at his home near St
Louis, had been in the naval Se"|lc2 OF
the United States for forty years. lie
entered the navy as a midshipman
from Missouri in 1856, and was on the
vessel which brought over the first
Japanese Minister TO this country.
When the civil war broke out all Of
the officers of his vessel deserted and
entered the Confederate navy except
himself He remained steadfast, how
ever. and was placed in command Of
the frigate Brooklyn. He was wound
ed while running the forts below New
Orleans, and was placed on the retired
list only a few weeks before his death.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-10

A new electric locomotive of large
dimensions, calculated to draw trains
of double the weight of those attached
10 ordinary engines at rate of sixty
two miles an hour, has been tried with
success on the Western Railroad of
France line. The first experiments of
this kind were made in 1893 between
Hayre and Beuzeville with an electric
locomotive, which behaved we'll
throughout the trial trip. Owing to the
success OF this machine the cOmpany's
engineers constructed two larger loco
motives, and II Is one Of these which
has Just ben tested. 1t Is flfty-seyen
feet long and Of 1850 horsepower. In
spite of their size they wear out the
rails less than ordinary locomotives, as
the weight is distributed Oh eight aXles
instead of four or five. They are safer
than the others owing to their elastic
character, which enables them to make
curves with security at full speed.
Great things are, in fact, expected from
these contrivances, which, when per
fected, will do 110 to lis miles an hour.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-10
she Was Not Rejoicing.

:Tsn't it delightful to know that It's
getting cooler" said the woman who
runs in for minute or two" at al
most any hour Of the day.
:'Oh, don't know"
"Why, you don't mean to say that
you like the temperature as high as 1t
has been!'
no. don't enjoy hot weather. But
I kind O. hate to see it get cool"
Land sakes! 1t takes all kinds Of
people to make worldv'
ITS mostly on my husbands account
that | don't care much for the cool
wave You see, as long as it stays hot,
he doesn't do anything but find fault
with the weather. And I'd rely rather
hear him go on about it than not. But
just as soon as 1t eases up, he'll return
to his old subjects. He'll begin to say
things about the coffee, an the way the
eggs are cooked, an the looks o. the
house. lust as usual. don't enjoy the
perspiration and the risk Of sunstroke;
bat I must say that with al Its draw
backs a hot spell kind o seems like
vacation to ME" e."-Wasliington Star.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-10
NaI11ahIc Helner

Gen. Nelson A. Miles describes the
manner of completing peace with Ger
onimo and Natchez, chiefs Of the hos
tile Apaches, and their subjugation not
only through reason and force, but
partly by science.
At one interview with Geronimo,
says Gen. Miles, l tried to explain to
him the uselessness OF contending
against the white race. I told him that
we had the use Of steam, and the tele-
graph and heliostat, both superior to
anv of their methods of commUnica-
ton. l then had the heliostat set up
and said 10 Geronimo;
"We can watch your movements, and
send messages over the tops of these
mountains, in a small part of one day,
over a distance which 1t would take a
man on a swift pony twenty days to
travel"
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-10

The American peanut, the ''goober
pea" of the South, in the munching of
which the aristocrat and the plebeian
alike ind soldce, is rising into CONNER
cial importance more and more every
year. Its oil is highly valued in Eu-
rope and fully $5,000,000 worth of the
nuts are sent 10 Marseilles, France, for
the manufacture of the oil, which is
used for toilet soaps and for other pur-
poses. Peanut flour is also extensively
used in Europe for the making of
bread cakes etc
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-10

There are some entertaining pictures
of life in Washington seventy years ago
in Stratford Canning's diary and let
ters. MY predecessor" lie writes,
had greatly the advantage over me
in his collection of good stories. | re-
cord one of them to serve as a pattern
of the rest. He was Sir Charles Bagot.
a man of very attractive manners, intei-
ligent, witty and kind. An American
minister and his wife dining with him
one day, he heard Lady Bagot, who
was at some distance, say rather quick
ly: My dear Mrs. s., what can you
be doing" The salad bowl had been
offered to Mrs. S, and her arm was
lost in it up to the elbow. Her reply
was prompt: Only rOllicking for al
onion, my lady"
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-10

Russians are fond Of relating the fol-
lowing anecdOte about the Gar when
his Majesty proposed 10 his future
wife: When the young CZarowitz pop
ped the question he said: 1.-The Emper-
make you the offer of my hand and
heart" Tc which Princess Alix of
HesSe responded: And my grandmoth-
er, Queen Victoria. has commanded me
to accept the offer of your hand: your
heart l Will take myself" And thas
the royal trotl was plighted.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-10

4 New Jersey COW. recently killed in
that State, was possessed of an appc-
tite that would put to shame the best
efforts of the healthiest ostrich or cas-
sowary that ever lived. Ninety-five
pieces of hardware were found in her
stomach upon which she had frequent
~ ruminatcd while chewing the cud OF
sweet and bitter fancy. These articles
included eighty nails, a lot of screws,
various lengths of wire, three large
stones, an iron spike three inches long,
a paddock with key to fit, Il hog ring,
and 4 file
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-10

1t has been discovered that the mar
BILE pillars which adorn the rear of the
Speakers desk in the Assembly Hall OF
the New Jersey State House are made
OF white pine and covered with plas-
ter. The bases are marble. There are
six of these columns. from twelve to
fourteen inches in diameter and ten
feet high. They were supposed to be
of white marble, and the discovery has
made quite a sensation.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-10

detection had quite left him. OF all
stolen goods money is the hardest to
recover.
presently he found himself riding
doWn town in an elevated railroad
train. He was going to a steamship
ofhce to arrange for his journey; then
to a bankers for travellers check
book.
His pockets were bulging with money,
but there was something in one of
them that he couldn't remember to
have put there. He pulled it out, and
found it to be the brown paper wrapper
that had contained the money. AS he
held it in his hand it was concealed by
his newspaper. No fellow passenger
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-10

According to Editor Murdock there
are but four women in EldOrado, Kan,
who know how TO cook pot of beans
in an artistic manner, and from this
fact he proceeds to point moral ana
adorn a tale-by declaring that no girl Is
nit TO marry until she masters thls ac-
compliShment.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-10

and il did not feel like bread But had
it been food and he at the last pang of
starvation, the touch of it would not
have sent such thrill through all his
frame.
He knew that the contents of that
package was money. 1t felt like mass
o. bills, folded. awkwardly wrapped up
and fastened with elastic bands
Through the brown covering Herrick
could feel the crispness of the govern
ment paper. The amount might he a
poor mans monthly wages or rich
mans profit on a great transaction.
AS to his own conduct in the matter,
Herrick had no doubt whatever. Fate
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-10
The Telephone.

A foreigner has invented a telephon-
&c gear that can be carried with ease
on soldiers back in lieu of the ordi-
nary linapsack. 1t combines the indis-
pensable qualities of simplicity, light
ness, facility and rapidity of installa-
ton.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-10

Some idea of the magnitude or the
great Siberian railway, now In course
of construction by the Russian govern
ment. may be gathered from the fact
that by changing the route thousand
miles were saved. II is expected that
through trains will be run over the road
within two years.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-10

A Massachusetts man has discovered
that by using sunshine during the day
and electricity during the night he can
raise several crops of onions in one sea-
son. AT the same time 1t may be ap-
propriately remarked that there has
been no crying demand for several
crops of onions in one season. Many
people could get along with several sea
sons and one crop of onions.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-10

Several Boston boys broke up bo-
gus spiritual naturalization seance"
recently and exposed the fraud, captur-
ing all the "spook" paraphernalia. The
boys who exposed this swindle, how
ever. have been fined $50 apiece In po-
lice court for disturbing a religious
meeting" Boston must delight in be-
Ing humbugGed.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-10

The Kansas City Journal is quite
right in spirit when it says that Miss
Frances Willard could lily be spared,
but that word ''illy' would easily be
spared without 8 regret.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-10

The citizens of Topeka, having tried
the Kneipp cure for rheumatism with
Indifferent success, are now trying a
course of fried salt pork, which is said
to be much more efficacious and pleas
anter to take. Some of the young ladies
of that city find boiled bacon and cab
bage pleasant variation from the reg
ular course of treatment, with just as
good results.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-10

The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has recently adopted a new design of
water scoop. known as balanced
scoop, by which it is possible to take
or water while the train is running at
the rate of sixty or seventy miles an
hour. Since 1894 al new passenger
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-10

A Michigan young mans mind is
a blank because of cigarette smoking,
and the report calls it strange ef-
feet" There is nothing strange about
1t except the imbecility of parents who
permitted the atrocious self-sacrifice.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-10

A cahlegram from Bluefields. Nicara-
qua, says that the newly-elected niayo;
of that place sis a lawyer and his fun
name is Marks" The whereabouts Of
the rest of the 'Uncle Toms Cabin
troupe are not given, however.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-10

A New York scientist says he has
made an analysis of love. Some day
a dear girl with 10 scientific training
whatever will make a paralysis of his
theory
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-10

An Abilene (Kan.) clergyman is
preaching a series of sermons on the
general subject. Making 1t Hot for
the Devil" This would strike the un-
preiudiced layman as unnecessary trou-
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-10
Vnrr WnnderfuI.

"Orayte Is the best man at telling
an after-dinner story that ever heard -
That's so. He tells that story he got
off to-day just as well as he did twenty
years ago. 1t is something wonderful" :"
Indianapolis Journal.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-10

Thieves threw hook and line
through an open window of house at
Monterey, Mexico. and stole the bed
clothes under which the owner of the
house was SleeDing.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-10

locomotives and fast freight engines
have been designed TO include water
scoops, but with the old form of scoop
it was necessary 10 slow down while
taking water, while with the improved
deSign no time is thus lost and more
water is taken per hundred feet of
trough. At seventy miles an hour 1t
is now possible to fill a 300-gallon ten
der in nine seconds.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-10

A young and pretty girl in Minneapo-
lis has been "holding up the boys late
ly. The new woman evlnces a dispo-
sition to reverse things everywhere.
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-10

A New Orleans contemporary says
that Chicago doesn't pack anything
worth while except pork" Aren't pri-
maries worth while:
The Winslow mail., 1897-04-10

A New York lawyer has been over
come by gas He wasn't saying Il WORD
at the time. either.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-09-01

silvery river, are among the finest sights
that human eye can behold anywhere.
and then again, the view, panoramic and
extensive, to be enjoyed from many of
these mountain tops, is unique. From
the Bastei rock, for instance, near the
town of Schandau (although but about
700 feet over the riyer) one sees, when
the weather is clear, the pillars and
spires of Dresden(25 miles distant) on
the one side, and the mountain tops of
Bohemia (about the same distance or
farther on the other). Below, scores of
little villages, hills and dales, wooded
slopes and rocky formations, with the
river separating the whole picture,
spread out, checker-board fashion. The
whole district, so far as it is worth sec
ing and visiting, measures but few
hundred square miles, it is true, but
within that small territory the tourist,
to his amazement, notices more variety
in landscape, in type of population, etc.,
than he would elsewhere in territory ~
times that size.
Beyond the Saxon borders, on Bohe-
milan soil, there are two Of the loyeliest
sights of all, viz: Prebischthor, and
the Edmund's Klamm. The lateer Is a
ohasm opening into the steep and per-
pendicular rock for the length Of ten
niles or so, the bottom being formed by
pellucid mountain river. Row boats
ascend this river to the very heart of
this slit into the rocks. and the scenery
changes frequently during the trip.
New one passes rocks down which the
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-09-01

mountain brookiets trickle with 49,.
lodious splash, and then again bo,l,
banks are lined with pine trees. verdurs
bushes from which hundreds of SIM
ing birds pour their songs, for thoua;,
men are In close proximity they capno.
harm these birds, and the birds kno,vi !.
and are jolly in proportion. There arc
sc7eral rapids, but IL is easy to avoid
them-nt least il is so for the e,.
perienced boatmen of the neiphbor.
hood. To right and left of this Ion,
cleft in the rocks valleys extend and
in these there are picturesque mills and
little chalets.
The Prebischthor, again, is a tremen.
dous rock formation-some 1900 fee,
high and standing in the very midst
of magnificent wilderness of tall trees
and powders. The valley from which
1t rises skyward looks as il giants had
played marbles with immense powders
and had left the game unfinished; every.
thing is topsy-turvy. But out of il
two enormous pillars of gray, withered
sandstone stick up straight into tbs
air-1,200 feet high, and on the ion
these two pillars have another bups
slab of rock lying right across them.
thus forming natural gate. On the
slab of a rock stand big terrace. a res.
taurant and numerous other signs q,
human civilization, including iron rail.
ings, from which the different phases ~
the outlook can be enjoyed in safety.
and galleries have been hewn into H..
rock itself, facilitating the ascent and
making it even possible for donkevs
and horses to climb up to the height
Persons who have ever seen the Yo.
semitic valley, in California, will bs
struck with numerous points of resem-
blance between that lovely region and
this. This is especially the case as to
the peculiar shapes of the rocks and
promontories. Here in Saxon and Boz
hemian Switzerland, too, all sorts of ex-
traordinary forms are noticed-faces of
human outline, for instance, are quite
frequently met with, with noses and
mouths hundreds of feet in extent, and
tall pine or oak for eyebrows. But
while these and similar points are of
striking resemblance to the Cali
| fornian landscape mentioned this one
of little Saxon Switzerland is much
more idyllic, picturesque and peaceful,
and the vegetation, too, is more plenti-
fui and varied. Lovely flowers, not met
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-09-01
TRADE OUTLOOK GOOD.
The Miners strike the Only Ihing 'nA'
Clouds the Outlook.
NEW YORK, Aug. 2s.-Bradstreets


report says:
the general trade situation continues 70 i'm
proyc and aside from the unnecessarily pro-
longed strike Of the soft coal miners, there i
little in sight to cloud the outlook. Inc feature
II the week Is tn, advance in prices OF almost
all leading staples, beginning with an upward
movement all along the line In iron ana steel
steel billets are now s1.5 above lowest hrures'
bars. ~. 80; rods $500. and plates, si0l Lead,
zoo. and soft coal are higher. as Is wheat, not
outstanding one or two reactions brad-
streets points out that the statistical position
Of wheat is the strongest known since Tue
United States became o considerable exporter
a.d that its price as we'll as that for bread, Is
likely TO materially exceed the present week
advances Following that for wheat prices
are higher for wheat flou-, corn, oats, Ia u po-
,atoes butter eggs. beans cheese, leaf to-
bacco, wool and live stock. Advances TOT
leather. hides, lumber and linseed oil are also
reported.
Cotton. which is up 10 OF cent, reports the
smallest worlds stock for seven years past at
this period. an improved tone and higher prices
for the manufactured product In spite OF
crop damage the tendency Of estimates Is to-
ward the largest total yield on record
but with probabilities favoring much bet
ter prices than those obtained for the
.rop of lS9L95. the out-turn OF which was
s29 900 bales Advances are being also asked
for recorders OF wooden goods at mills, but
print cloths. petroleum ana sugar are uh-
changed for the week, while pork Is reported
slightly lower than q week ago. No such gem
eral or pronounced movement Of prices OF
nearly ali leading staples has been witnessed
within a week for MANY years
There are 2l0 business failures reported
throughout the United States this week.
against 2n last week 80 year ago
and 100 two years ago. 10, three years ago and
S6J in the like week OF 1893
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-09-01
RUN DOWN BY DETECTIVES.
William smith, an Iowa Murderer and
SMindler. Arr. sted In klondIkc.

William smith, an Iowa Murderer anu
SwindIer. Arr, sted In Klondikc.
PoRr TOWNSEND, Wash, Aug. 2s.-
On the steamer Portland, due from st.
Michael's, in irons and under constant
watch of two Pinkcrton detectives, is
William Smith, an Iowa murderer,
who was pursued over the continent
to Juneau, to Dyca and across Chilcoot
pass, over the lakes and down the riv-
ers to the gold fields of the Klondike,
where he was taken into custody.
Smith was storekeeper in small town
near Cedar Rapids, Ia, up to several
months ago. One night the store was
burned and in the ruins was found the
charrcd body ora man. Smiths rela-
tivcs claimed that he was burned to
death in the fire. His life was insured
for $50, 900 and demand was made for
the money. An investigation led to
the belief that the body was not that
of Smith, but Waterman. The
theory was at once advanced that
Smith had committed murder and
burned his store in the hope that the
body would be burned beyond recogni.
ton and his relatives obtain the in
surance money after he had disap
pearcd. Pinkerton men were put on
the trail and caught Smith at Dawson
CITY on July IL.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-09-01
FOR CYCLISTS.

A good and cooling beverage is made
by straining and beating fresh egg
and adding it to bottle of ginger beer.
When the muscles are tired and lame
fine liniment to use is made of five
cents worth of castor oil added to five
cents worth of hartshorn. Shake
well and keep tightly corked.
Waterproof road maps are now to be
obtained and if one is caught in sud-
den shower they make good protec-
tion for ones head.
Dust is worse for bicycle than mud,
for the latter can be cleaned off at once,
but the dust gets into every corner and
hides. A pair of good bellows can be
used with marvellous effect after a run
over country roads.
The latest novelty in handle bars is
made hollow and contains those arti-
cles usually relegated TO the tool bag.
This removes the fear of having the
bag stolen If the wheel is left alone by
its owner.
Soap is sold in book form and when
needed a leaf can be torn out. This
is handy and almost necessary ORTIZ
cio for bicycle tourists 10 take II long
ont-of-town run Is contemplated,