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of the United States Army under my
father" said the son of the famous
first, and L was fifteen then. 1 served
through the war, and then I went to
school. Not for long, though. Then
l got back into the Office again and I've
been there ever since and I'm still
training. You are always learning
something in any game you play with
men. | tell my new men that. The
new ones are always the sure ones, you
know. We train our own men. We
don't want any botching to pick out
and do over, and we don't want the
tramp detective who goes from office
to office exchanging methods. We'd
rather begin with them and teach them
spotting, shadowing and roping. Those
are the three Rs of this business. You
know what they mean, don't ypu!
"Well, spotting and shadowing, yes.
But roping?"
That's getting their confidence
some offices. call it worming."
ooh! And is it hard business to learn,
do you Think?
"No harder than any other if you
give your mind to 1t. You've got to
have mind though to go with it. And
yet every man you meet thinks he'd
make a good detective. Have you ever
noticed that? We're simply besieged
with suggestions from amateurs when
ever we have big case on. And wo-
meni Do you know lots of women are
crazy TO go into this business? You'd
be surprised at the number of applica-
tions l get from women in private life.
Crazy over the idea! What do you
suppose it is?"
II don't know. The roping, perhaps,
appeals to the feminine nature"
well, it's anything but feminine
work, / can tell you. Some women are
smart at it, but won't employ them
on principle. / don't want to have
anything to do with unsexing women.
I like them just as they were made,
good and womanly. If they're that
they're no good as detectives. And if
they're successful detectives they're no
good as women. There are plenty of
bright men in the world who can do
that work. OF course, as / said, a
man has got to have brains, because
the business is half management, which
will come to bright men with little
training, and half luck-more than half
luck. Why! 1 have been wonderfully
successful in the business and I can
see where nearly all of 1t was luck
Time and again I've had men I've been
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handouts in his pocket, six-shooters
under his buster, transacting such bust
ness as he might have to transact other
than pursuit in the dark Railways of
low lodging houses, the skulking back
chambers Of little evil inns
After this ingenious confession 1t Is
superfiuous to say that 1 read the elder
Pinkerton faithfully in my youth
without the knowledge Of fond but I'M
romantic parents-and if the portly,
dressy, prosperous, comfortable man
who now opens the door of Mr. William
A Pinkerton's private office and waves
me cordially to enter in is not the old
sleuth OF many dear and troubled
dream 1t is through no fault of his
father. No, nor Of Mr.. Nick Cartcr's,
neither.
He is of great breadth as we'll as
height, Mr.. William A. Pinkerton, a
man of quite unusual size, with rather
heavy, str0ng-featured face, a good
brow, deep-set eyes, one of which is
gray-brown and the other brown-g gray,
so that the difference is quite notice
able as he sits facing the light, full.
dark mustache and a sporty taste in
clothes. His invisible check suit was
cut by good tailor, his linen is fine
and his gray silk tie admirably in sea-
son. He wears superb emerald and
diamond ring on his left hand, fine
oeippd III SIllll OOSOIIl, elaborate
links of cats eyes set with diamonds
in his cuffs and gold and jeweled
dagger, sheathed, which may be a
pencil, or a toothpick, or a cigar
cutter, or a court-plaster case or
a mere watch charm, dangling from
a chain, but whatever it is it
is large enough to be seen. His
manner is easy, natural, dignifed and
modesuy reserved-all agreeable char
of q manner, even when con-
sidered eparately-altogethe irresist-
ible when taken in lump. / decide
that / shall like Mr.. William A Pin
kerton very much, in spite of his jew
elry, OF which l am naturally little
envious, but of course 1 can never love
him as loved his father.
One Of the old books. bound In red,
pictured outwardly with the great gilt
eye and the motto, 1--WE Never Sleep"
lies on the sons table. I pat 1t in low
ing recollection.
az have read them ALL" / said. 1T
think should like to read at least one
Of them again"
'Yes?" replies Mr.. Pinkerton, coldly.
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them, and when / got back to New
York / sent over their pictures to the
London office. Right after that came
the discovery of the frauds on the
Bank of England, and the English po-
lice picked those two gentlemen right
out of Piccadilly, where they were liv-
ing in style on the Bank of England's
money. 1t was nothing but luck my
meeting them in London, wasn't it? And
it was nothing but luck that / remem-
bered them. Then there was that train
robbery, when Kellogg Nichols, the ex-
press messenger for the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific, was killed. ] went
into the dressing-room of the car to
wash my hands and found the scrap
of paper that led to the identification
of the man who did the killing and
robbing. Now it was luck that took
me into that room, wasn't it?"
And how about the rest of it?''
We'll, training" said Mr.. Pinkerton
modestly.
you don't think, then, that people
are born to it, like Sherlock Holmes?''
"Ha-ha!" laughed Mr.. Pinkerton.
He's great one, isn't hep
rs he, really?'
ton. He'd make a terrible lot of
trouble in the business, though. It's
all made possible, you know-perfectly
possible-in the book-only things don't
happen that way in life. Some of it is
probable, too-his finding things, for in
stance, where there didn't seem to be
anything to find. traced big rob-
berry once through three hairs from
horse. That's so! A horse had been
seen tied in the woods, but he was
blanketed down to his hooks and the
snow had fallen thick all over his
tracks and nobody saw him ridden off,
1 found two bay hairs and a long black
one sticking to a twig, and I put him
up for bay horse with black points,
and I set out to look for a horse like
that and a man that owned him or rode
him, and 1 landed my man. FNow that
was a great piece of luck, finding that
horse hair, wasn't it?''
Great" 1 said, laughing.
That's what it was" said Mr. Pin
kerton, land things have happened that
way often to help along case for me-"
what is the most interesting piece of
luck that ever happened to you?"
Finding that scrap of paper in the
Nichols case" replied Mr.. Pinkerton
promptly. That's my pet case. I was
greatly interested in those Bank of
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world; that its Principals were Robert
A. Pinkerton and William A. Pinker-
ton-sons of that famous Pinkerton the
first, whose pictured face, of the grim,
strong, granger type, high-boned, keen
eyed, clean-shaven to the beard
beneath the chin, hung on the
west wall of the room. Oppo-
site hung the portrait of a young
ana a very different looking man, and
TINS, although | did not know it then,
was William A. Pinkerton, his son.
Beneath window stood the man
ayers desk, and before it stood the
manager. He was running busily
through some papers in his hand. There
was no sound in the place except the
rustling of these papers, the scratching
OF pens, the tap-ta tapping of type
writer's, the light football. the subdued
tones Of clerk who left his desk to
consult with his superior and returned
quietly as he came.
1here Is an office stiffness eloquent
ABOVE words of the Importance of vast
businesses. 1t belongs exclusively to
mem 1t is quiet distinct and apart
from silence imposed on employees by
, ntle starchiest Of small shoppers and
NIUE professionals. It is the actual dig
nifty OF the big enterprise which COM
HluIlcates itself, perhaps without his
CONSCIOUSNESS, to the least who serves
us needs
You are impressed, solemnized by this
atmosphere at the Pinkerton Detective
Agency; 1t is as respectable as bank
somehow you do not expect this.
There is no reason why you should not
There is no real reason why you should
respect the detective less than the
criminal lawyer. If you are handling
crime what difference does il make
whether you pick it up by the head or
the tail? If you are stalking the crinni-
nal what difference does II make
whether you run him into Jail or onto
the gallows? Only 1t is not the real
but the imaginary differences which are
of the greatest Importance in this world.
and half the accepted facts in life are
standing without sny legs under them.
Society, which is more particular than
just. admits the detective to her fearful
need. And SO, for the matter Of that.
she does the hangman. But she docs
not concede either Of them to be quite
She sets the detective at
the stalking of her crimes and makes
it nip and tuck and toss a coin between
the hunter and his quarry It is only
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looking for walk right into my arms
and I pledge you my word If I'd had to
look for them 1 wouldn't have known
where to look for them. I've run across
a man one day-some suspicious char
acter I mean-and taken a few notes
on him on general principle and had
a demand for that man perhaps be-
fore the week was out. I was in the
Louisville (Kentucky) Jail once, and
happened to notice a couple of pretty
hard cases in for some kind of bank
work, and meeting these men in Lon
don, England, several years afterward
I put the London authorities on to
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room, one of suite on the second floor
Of the Croker building. I could read
backward the gilt letters on the great
arched windows which announced to
the world without that this was an Of
fee of the Pinkerton Detective Agency,
founded by Allan W. Pinkerton in the
year 1850; that it's other Offices were in
New York, Chicago, Boston, st. Louis,
st. Paul and Kansas City, Portland,
Oregon, and few other places; that its
correspondents were in all parts Of the
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kerton promptly, "and the owner wants
his property"
So the spirit of the chase is in it still.
after all.
"Lucks been with US good deal"
he went on refectively, "and luck is
nearly everything in this business.
"And, I suppose, experience is some
thing, and, in your case, perhaps he
redity?"
Training more than heredity. Luck
and training make a good detective"
How many years Of training did
you have?"
well, I went into the secret service
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England frauds, too"
"And the big strikes, when the Pin.
kerton men were all disguised among
the strikers, and-?"
mo, thank you,' replied Mr.. Pinker-
ton. 1--WE were too unpopular to make
that an interesting recollection. There
is law now against that work, and
am not at all sorry. In Chicago during
the riots over those anarchists-that
was exciting enoughl But it isn't the
sort of thing you can go over. 1t was
being In 1t that made it so stirring. We
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when her relatives are found mysteri-
ously murdered in their beds or her
family plate and jewels are taken from
beneath her pillow while she sleeps that
she seeks to know what manner of man
he is. and then she goes about it as If
she were pawning her watch.
For myself, / never before thought of
the office side of detective work. l have
pictured the ferret Of the law ever in
the act of ferreting. He has coursed
through my mind hot on the trail Of
crime, disguised beyond recognition by
his own mother, schemes in his head,
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eyes from their ledgers or typewriters
or memoranda or whatever occupied
them at the moment of my entering the
room.
1t was very handsome and spacious
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R. WILLIAM A. PINKER-
TON was engaged in his pri-
vate Office.
One of the several clerks
IN his outer office gave me
this information with chair.
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fortunes retired. And now bankruptcy Is
staring the country IN the face.
Russia i primarily an agricultural coun-
try. The bulk Of .ts population is SO prirn-
tive that II scarcely needs any Tnaniitac-
TIRES: but her agricultural population. ac-
eust0lned TO work under taskmastsrs and
suddenly left 10 itself, has not known how
TO grapple with its economic problems. The
land - exhausted. periodic faEines which
could b. prevented deciTnate the people.
who have in recent years parted with A.
Per cent ana IN some cases Nj per cent OF
tGer horses and c2tsle. They are hope
iessly n arr aTs with their taxes, IN some
districts as much as ten and even fifteen
y5ars. CIV .ng TO the doforeSjatfon OF The
county TIE 81 mate 5 CLEANSING. In short,
tie agricultural CcUdtt. ons are deploraole.
Now, the principal source OF revenue Is
th,. agricaili IRA. population. As these are
ruined. who i 80 supply the funds neces-
say f9r the armameuts OF she empire
France? France is beginning 10 show
signs OF impotence.
There s nothing for 1t. The situation
mUst he faced. Russia must put her house
iH order. she mus, develop her great mn
eflI wealth. she mus attract capital. and
rest and u9urisa r. IT, Ard now $ this
10 he done? she must give proofs tnat she
Is, sincere IN her professor ~ iseHce. Tat
xlGee<lgy - best silo0 ny d.sarGGDg her
ssiG, she Car only DO that Il the ether
powers Ia n also. This = Tie light in
NsftIa Rus san trie-.- optimism a. read
Count NuravelY = meme gaudam- Russian
Pablo opinion Niit bop tuat the money
Neh fA Is nov t-iHg spcH, IA he army w.N
he s,e=Ht IN providing tecnn.caI education
t1r t1e pctsst-. ih pab,c works. n e
satisfactory basis. q ex 30 lions, in loans
t. sft ssaa5s. lD fesi.e s.us; 81 taxez, VII On
taeY can ntycT hopc see pay. 90 short N
reforms. Ash untI Nass.a abaudons her
te usaale t. rehao4!tAte her finances
london u .sgyala.
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standards, and w!elds an incredibly vast
influence.
What is Il 10 such voice whether It's ac-
cents please Berlin. or sutt Parls or st,othe
Vienna. or crafty Rome or terr.fy Picking
and Constantinep.eH Il can. at one breath.
lift. as It has just lifted, q question OF his
tory ont OF the gson of theory into one Of
hard fact ard practee~and The chief point
therefore. about the new and sudden man.
tft~to in favor OF peace and aiSs fnraUenr
consists In the certainty that IL il the
cars own u;IeTanTet rot thai of n states
man. or ptilaDthroptc society, OF OF a
church. or Of a mob.
I have seen this young autocHst many
times and IN ciosse Proximity. Never was
power So stupendotF~ embodied in form
simple, gentle and progressing. Every
body - famill0r by y&ctGre AZ least. " n
the appearance az Nicholas H.. who inheT-
-. by his mother pagmar OF Denmark.
the tyne Of prnce.y grace and ''tponhorar'
to which English people tave grown ac-
clS;onscd bv The seeut}y offspring OF the
lIlus1r3oua Si#tcr Alexandra
II Ia a face wa.rn. whether yop admire x
or not. yGu must love goa must {r1st y0a
raiEsi ever patty. sss c.e4r and plain il grows
on yoa " aile ven gaze taas tsle nsud ne
hind = and .hs heart teratlng in "a cx-
aitea breast fee. tke sesf+c2ssi talsties ~ that
tremendous power q hsndred times nlnrs
than itS pleasures or ciogses sUtw tina
yo1lue cZtr crowned ~ tho ancient chapel
al tise kTcnl+jn- V2s almost with}g fva,ss1
az Air1 at ft4E s4l}}re17e moment wktG 50 f.t.r
tbe h-s.y NUclnt4G& and tbe solemn Cerr-
mo,gtS pF the coDfsrS+ aDS ~ faith. Gn3 tae
KrUclaiifat 3sYl ~ nss tttles tnc velff4fu.
a&tocrat--ha e 1ssst p years tsH tos,AY-
fs.atrd az, .rt. brow az hts fsetH1fftl s1rf
cousort the d.tEs.ersl crown fust yorlsY&tf
fF7p'n t.tS OWE. tGls sire. ON hrc Aaess,
h,srs he~ sx,ss.re~ rs.,, in, 4l.~ ,,,trrN ~ 1s-{ -
rvsntia ana r.s.e t,,.,t,- b, h.sr .r-....sl \
troG}se. tA~ RTs8t-@e .afV ~ t3le W. c3fti~
-rr-- h~a,y f., th7f fr4,r, .,,f.s-,.. -,
s,f,.-,,. h. ,,otls -rs,,. 4ss ss tf.~,,..,,.,
60 $50. = 80. - ~ - -
~ AMI $50. e.. ,s..,, 80. 49, -,
$50 -.'' e." i''T1
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THE RUSSIAN GOR|OUNS.
VICTIMS OF SORROW, OTHERWISE
TRAMPS.
Never Work, Wear Patched Clothes
and Love to Rest-HOw These
"MOurners" Live ON the Pcasautry

There are two types OF tramns in Russia
and they may be classified as the author
lied and the unauthorized. The frs; are
the so-cai.ed religious mendlcants who arc
protected by the church and tolerated by
the police; the second are the common
vagaoonds- II is ;hese last who constitute
from tina Russian poIn: OF view. the tramp
problem. The religious beggars are con-
sidered an inevi'a BILE church class and
are taken c-~c OF almost as Correspondence
~ as the priests The common tramDs on
the other hand, are looked upon as a very
Unnecessary burden and ever since the
conversion OF Russia TO Christianity laws
nave been passed and institutions founded
Tor their suppression and reform II in
estimated that In European Russia alone
they number over socoo, and IN Siberia
Their class represents an even greater pro-
portion OF the population
Iheir national name among themselves
Is 'Goriouna '-mourners or victims Of
grief. The word Ls an invention OF their
own, bat Is supposed 10 come from tho
itpsslaA word gore meaning sadness In
RUSSIAN proper they are called broJiagt
IL you ask them why they do no, work
and lhe great majority perfectly able
20 90 so, they reply n the forlornes, voica
morta! ever heard; Master. I am a Cor
loun-a victim OF scrrow." They seem 70
tain number or human beings are fore
ordained 10 a lie OF misery ana sadness
ana they pose az members OF this class
On many OF their passports I saw such
expressions as 'Burned out" HAS los:
AL his relatives" Has no home"
VII die soofi. rs possessed Of tho
rs.Gul spirit" and others OF a like nature
k7i.Ch they hr-be officials 70 wri,a or
themselves forge. I could have had sirni-
lar explanations put on my own pass
port There are tramps who make A
regular business Of this kind % !rnpossu-e
and Il Is another evidence OF how ft.actl,
* - 10 make sven passport tel the
tTUth. Ia Germany the same trick IL prac-
tlse9 by tFamps. and In both countries he
oeggar can buy false passes which tire
police cannot detect saw several in
Russia which looked exactly Ike the GEN.
usrse thing. and. had wished 20 pose as a
Russian. could have hough. one any day
for 10 TclAles
In looks ana tres. the "Gorfoun" acts
cat N uicety me story which his papers
ara supposed 20 substant.ate Never havs
! sen such sad ssrces AZ these men and
women have when begging Ar heart they
are capable OF considerable fun and hoist
erousress, bat they affect a leok OF de-
sanndency. which many Of them retain
even when of duty. II other respects
-heF resemble very closely the ordinary
peasant, Or muihik They all have an M
na@ns4 shock Of hair. parted IN The middle
ana chopped off roughly al the edges The
face Il generally covered with huge
beard. which gives them 4 ekwoodsrnan
ioox 10; Always Indicative Of their char
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come and help me out?''
how-where'll take hold. ma'am?"
stand there like nnnyt Pull me out
some way
Very gingery the conductor seized her
Cr-r-r-ack, The fabric gave way and the
conductor turned pink and white.
Now you've done it. Torn my best
dress You'll have 70 pay for that I'll
me I'll get out myself"
Again she strove and struggled until her
face became purple ana dreadful TO see
"You.l tiave an apoplcxy. ma am the
conductor warned her. Don't do II. Wat
TIL | call the motorman."
1T will serve you right If ! should die
right here in thu car" Eaid the pa sseT ger
angrily. What right have you got to have
your spaces SO narrow
Wen, nlaam, you see we amt used-I
mean AL our passengers amt so--te l--er--
We mostly carry slenderer peop.c than
YOU"
Am going 10 stick herr to be lne't,lted
about my sizer' cried he passenger
s1wrming ike a stationary danse-d u-ven-
tre artist. Chop down the post and Let NE
out ar once
BY this time the notorrnar had come
IN and the crowd which had been diverted
from the church entrance gave advice
freely.
Get crowbar and pry The seat loose.
No. rs easier 10 pry the upright over"
III Ne could get a rope around her she
could be pullee! out" Take OF that coat.
n1a'am. and ven can &c: out"
To all Of these suggestions the victim,
replied with disa+a}nful sgliffs. An elderly
ana solemn look ng man approached and
after carefully looking ever the situation
sad:
MY advice 10 you. ua'am. r. 70 take
(. deep breath ard when the breath Is ex-
PEELED YOU VIII easily release Yourself"
You're an old fo<k." said the victim.
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Fan wouA>'s rnEDICAaENr.


Daring ter r.autes Of church time there
Tas gnore 81 q crowd ~ caureA sJgrs cut
$ 81 tle FARSI Presbyterian chuFcii, Boom
Sid, \. J. tAaa Inside, Says the New
NcfA san The center of uleresi was a
trolley Cs~ whch stepped IN front OF TIE
ceore Nile t9e conductor ana motoynlan
tfsf,l 80 Eet a 1.sSse1srg O0t # AT an
pssAs8gs pgs 1iya3ltAt TIE passenger as
woman II Nose we3sat. breadth ana
sti eAn@ss thar any person u this town.
y fss - sne cane fr1u ncb23y knows, Bat
sl~ escue near saving there permanently.
Sc had is5-4Ft I'D 1ne cay At Tire northern
eat - tae -.ae ans sea sided carefully
between du at.~at support All tae arm
Y seat aaA dsopoed back. sltA slEn
ef 81
-I.es ne Fl a. the fsrss Presbyterian
cAs31sa" SEE directed Jht raactor.
yes 81 sal tH~ nffl,s4. hoping that
Rs t4T w2s 63iI f9y heavy Tonnage
y aea the csugra @a~ reac1ed The con-
e3etct ~ane th- Se3 ana cs -ea 0ut:
Here's souT place. ma an. Step right
oa..'
Den: yoa hurry ne. youne man" said
tie pasSeuxer n ccua4ng az quick as I
car
t~ter,H~a,e'y. s-c baked out -. re
seas .zfea3 - ee.aS S.ie S-se a18 e7n-
trtzst ~ ssf aefsslt usBs.y -, w~er
gee ar~shs a-3 fa4 sea- 4saz. wsfge SO
stft.es .e4 " suf.f Icr several secsr3s lss..
Caua.ag mere IEI.y wtisea A. every ef.
:arS-
''csGa4sssE. sas cred. why dealt yov