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WAS A GOVERNMENT PLATE.
sMonroe Head" Engraving on 800
Counterfeit Bills Was Stolen
from Vaults at Washington.

According to the story printed in the
Denver News the government secret
service officials here have just received
the information that the plate from
which the famous Monroe head" 500
counterfeit was printed, was not the
work of Taylor and Bredell, the con-
fessed counterfeiters, but was stolen
from the government vaults at Wash
ington, only the work printed in colors
being done by the men now under ar
rest. 1t is said the theft was perpetrat-
ed five years ago, but it was not until
recently that an expert engraver could
be found to execute the color work so
that the plate could be used 1t is al
legged that the counterfeit revenue
stamps, which are known to have been
the work of Taylor and Bredell, are
not remarkable for cleverness, while
the counterfeit bill was so perfect as
to deceive the government experts, so
that the treasury department was COM
PEELED to withdraw the entire issue
from circulation. 1t is claimed that
the counterfeiters not only stole the
plate from the treasury vaults, but ZOO
sheets of the paper on which the notes
were printed.
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COULDN'T TALK TO A WOMAN.
Mans Tongue Gets Him Into Jail in
Texas-New Use of the In
junction.

]. b. Warfield, state agent for the
American Tobacco company, was the
other day remanded to the custody of
Sheriff Ben f. Cabell, at Dallas, Tex,
who placed him in the county Jail,
where he was kept for three days and
until he had paid fine of 500, assessed
against him by District Judge Richard
Morgan.
This proceeding was a closing act in
one of the most peculiar cases in Texas
courts. Wartield and Mrs. Will r. Nor
rs entertained an affection for each
other. Mrs. Morris husband secured
an injunction restraining Warfeld
from going near or communicating
with his wife.
Warfield repeatedly violated the in
junction and was adjudged to be III
contempt of court by Judge Morgan,
who fined him 500 and ordered him
sent to Jail for three days. Wartield
appealed at once, taking the case to
the court of criminal appeals. After
weeks of waiting that tribunal affirmed
the order of the lower court. A re-
hearing was afterward granted and it
was overruled.
The mandate sending Warfeld to Jail
came and he was hurried to prison.
The decision of the court says the
right of free speech, guaranteed by the
constitution, shall not be exercised in
breaking up the family relations.
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select few merchants, bankers and gam
blers, and. most curiously, not by their
votes, but by the capacity of their
lungs. They meet and everyone pres
ent begins to talk at the top of his
lungs In praise, each of the candidate
81 bis choice. The noisy conference
lasts many hours, and the. candidate
whose adherents are longest-winded Is
declared elected, ------
Strange to say, the authorities of
New York city tacitly acknowledge the
sway of this elective monarch, while
no Chinaman within his realm dares
to disobey his mandates.
Back of Choo Fong are the high
BINDERS" dread and terrible organiza-
ton which Furnishes offenders in the
most tragic manner, and he who comes
under the mayors" ban is turned over
to their tender mercies. 1t will scarce
ly be believed, yet it is positively true,
that this body of cutthroats is regular
ly organized under the laws of the state
of New York, under different name,
to be sure, but they are highbinders
just the same. Their chief source of
revenue is the levying of blackmail up
on the numerous body of unfortunate
white women who have taken up their
abode in Chinatown, and upon fugitives
from justice, who seek retreat in the
crowded little city within a great city
Woe TO the woman or man who refuses
to comply with their demands. Charges
of serious nature are preferred
against the derelicts, who are tried and
given long sentences upon perjured tes-
timony, or they are sent out of the
world by bullet.
The highbinders are a secret organ
ization, yet its members are known to
all the Cinnamon, and its chief officers
are held in as much honor and respect,
such are the morals of the Chinese, as
themerchant, or the banker, or the gam
bier. They obey implicitly the instruc-
tons of the mayor. The latter issues
his instructions upon a bulletin board
in front of Chinatown's city hall, and
representatives of all the $4,000 Chi
nese dwellers of Greater New York and
vicinity are expected TO visit China
town at least once a week in order &c
learn the orders of his majesty. Sun.
day is usually the day selected, and OF
that day the three narrow streets are
literally crowded, while the restau
rants and stores and bazars do a thirty
ing trade.
There are two kinds of gambling il
Chinatown, lotteries and fan tan. Ever,
Chinaman is a gambler, a game which
they regard as honorable as selling
shark fms or lending money al inter
est. The authorities know there ar,
more than a score of places in China
town where gambling is carried on. bu
1t is only at long intervals that raid
are made by the police. It's impossibL
to break up the baneful practice which
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WOULD TAKE HIS PLACE.
Young Woman Who Wanted Secre-
tary Alger to Let Her Relieve
Her Sick Soldier Lover.

Secretary Alger recently received
novel letter from a Pennsylvania girl
which rather startled him and stamped
the young woman as heroine OF the
highest type. She has sweetheart
who is a member of the Tenth Pennsyl-
vania infantry, now on duty in the Phil
ippines. He was desperately i'll and
homesick and had written his family
asking them 70 secure his discharge.
The young woman assumed the task
and wrote Secretary Alger letter in
which she made three propositions.
The first was a commonplace one, which
simply asked that the sick soldier be cis-
charged and sent home.
The second was one which made the
secretary's heart swell in admiration OF
the girls courage. This was proposal
that if the soldier could not be spared
she should be permitted to take his
place in the regiment. She told Gen.
Alger she was strong, healthy ard ro-
bust girl, fully competent to perform
all the duties of soldier, and would
be of infinitely more service to the gov
eminent than the man confined in
hospital. She then begged the score
tary to let her go to the Philippine is
lands to nurse her lover if neither of
the propositions were acceptable to
him.
Secretary Alger did not lose any time
in acting in the matter, and immediate
ly telegraphed Gen. Otis to discharge
the soldier and send him home on the
first transport leaving for this country.
He then wrote the Young woman a let
ter telling her what had been done, and
complimen.ed her for the nobility of the
sacrifice she was willing to make to re-
lieve the sufferings of one of Uncle
Sans soldier boys.
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language as is necessary TO trade, and
the vices peculiar to this people. They
retain all of their own. They attract
the vicious, the lawless and the des-
perate. who adopt all of the manners,
customs and ways of the Chinese ex-
cept the dress. All of the Chinese wick
edness is speedily picked up by these
weak and wicked whites and made part
Of their lives.
One steps out of Broadway right into
this alien city. There be many who in
sist that if it be that Chinatown must
be and abide in the great city, il should
be farther away from the great down
town life. Hence the move to widen
Pell street, which would mean the
death of present Chinatown.
WILLIAM RossER COBBE.
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NEW YORK'S w G i1;oihnF s,H
CHINATOWN Y It Must Go.


swallows up so much of the hard earned
money of the poor Celestials. The lot
teries afford scarcely chance to win,
while fan tan is worse even for the
players.
AS Americans understand morals, the
latter are exceedingly low among New
York's Chinese. Wives are bought, ia
theirs sell their daughters for immoral
purposes, and prostitution is deemed as
proper as marriage. 1t is not deemed
wrong to take advantage in bargain,
and lying may be virtue.
Yet this may be said to the credit of
the Chinese: They pay promptly all of
their financial obligations. A China
man may not buy business except
through the mayor, who first assures
himself that every debt against the
business is paid, and the purchase
money is paid into his hands. The bust
ness is not known by the name of the
buyer, but by number. Should Chi
ilaman run away owing money, some
member of the highbinders follows aft
er. finds and kills the offender. Thus
those who are unwilling to be honest
are made so through fear.
Chinatown has theateY which holds
nightly and renders plays, single one
of which requires several weeks OF
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INDIANS SELECT A CHIEF.
Successor to the Dead POkaEon-
Tradition of Tribe Observed.

About 100 of the Pottawatomie-Pok-
agon band of Michigan and northern
Indiana held a council two miles north
of Hartford, Mich, under the old
council tree, nearby the residence
of Indian MeXis. The tree is a large
maple, the branches of which spread
over circle of 200 feet. 1t was the first
grand council held by the tribe since
the death of their chief, Simon Polka
gon.
1t was proposed that one of the oldest
Indians of the band should be chosen
honorary chief, and inasmuch as differ
ent candidates would be presented that
they should be voted for by ballot. Then
middle-aged Indian arose and said:
although we are civilized, we are,
so far as the object of the meeting is
concerned, Indians still, and l propose
we vote according to our ancient Gus
tom"
This was finally agreed to. Two vet
Grams were selected to run for honorary
chiefs. The chairman instructed one
of them to take his position on the east
side of the old council tree and the other
on the west side. Then a request was
made that the members of the council
should form in line around the man
they desired to elect. John Mix, Po-
kagon, was declared the choice of the
council, and was hailed by some of the
young men as ''our old war chief"
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REMARKABLE FAMILY.
All It's Members Have Never Been
Under the Same Roof at
One Time.

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Scott, who live
near Navilleton, Floyd county, Ind,
will for the first time, when they cele-
brate their golden wedding February
10, 1900, see all their children together
under the same roof. The Scott fam
ily is the most remarkable in many re-
spects, of any in the country. To Mr..
and Mrs. Scott Is children have been
born. All of them are grown, and there
has never been a death in the family.
In fact, there has never been a serious
case of sickness. Strange as it may
seem, the parents have never had all
their children under the family roof at
the same time. This they will do next
February, unless death or illness pre-
vents.
OF the children born ten were boys,
and the latter at an early age, especial
~ the older ones, started out for them
selves. All the children have seen each
other, but not at the same time. They
are so widely scattered that family
reunion is almost out of the question,
but the occasion of the golden wedding
fsiibi' VI sou Vi t''- PdiNh'o 10 uh S'Sht
at which they will all be present, if pos
siblC. The names of the children are
Prof. Sam Scott, county uperintendeIit
OF schools of Clark county, Ind; Prof.
j. r. Scott, a keeper and instructor at
the Indiana reformatory: William
Scott, Carter Scott, Winfield Scott. who
is auditor of county in Iowa; Daniel
Voorhees, Scott, Zenor Scott. Glen Scott,
Mrs. Jency Bell, Miss Eliza Scott, Mrs.
uelvina Mason, Miss Eva Scott and Mrs.
Emma Semple and Miss Lizzie Scott,
who are twins. The parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Scott, have always lived in the
same house where they now reside since
their marriage. Four generations of
the family are now living. Mr.. Scott
was born January 25, 1929. On Fcbru-
airy IS, 1850, he was married to Miss
Nancy Mckinley, who is to-day &C years
old.
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NV EW YORK'S Chinatown must go.
I'M Such is the mandate that has
u v gone forth, and the indications
are that it will be enforced. China
town is an odorous oriental plant set
close to the business heart of the city,
and influential politicians object to its
presence.
1t lies scarcely more than one-fourth
of mile from the city hall and is less
than that distance from Broadway the
Magnificent. It's area is exceedingly
small, being limited to Pei street,
about 400 feet long; Doyers street,
about one-half this length, and, say,
about 600 feet of the length of Mott
street. The three streets start from
the Bowery, Pell running directly into
Mott and Doyers curving around into
Pell
In the district of Greater New York
end Jersey City are about $4,000 Chi
nese, but scarcely one-tenth of these,
or about $500, live in Chinatown proper.
Yet all of these $4,000 are ruled and
governed in the most absolute despot
ism by Choo Fong, known as the may
or of Chinatown"
This mayor, as were all of his prede-
cessors, was elected, not by the suf-
'rages of Lis servie subjects, but by
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The New York magistrate who has
discharged mistress accused by her
servant of having taken her over her
knee and spanked her for disobedience
has, in the opinion of the Boston Her
aid, contributed something practical
problem.
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nights for the rendering. Here the mu-
sic is abominable, but some of the act
ing is quite clever. Female actors are
not permitted upon the stage.
Such is a brief glimpse at China
town. Its inhabitants learn nothing
that is American, but SO much of the
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-06-15
An Equally Great Ecnt.

1t is not likely that Maj. Gen. Lawton
ever essayed the great feat of eating
30 quails in 80 days, but the Indianap-
oils Journal says that winning % fights
in 20 days is quite as praiseworthy.
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Col Thomas Fletcher and John d.
Braddock, of Arkansas, will give to that
state all the granite needed 10 construct
he new capitol building.
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There are 5000 licensed liquor shops
in St. Petersburg, against $4,000 few
years ago, and under the law person
can obtain but one drink of liquor in
one tavern.
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AuuinaIdo's Portable CAPITAL,

Aguinaldo ought to be Satisfied, says
the Chicago Record, with the splendid
he has made to military
scientists as to the value of his plan
OF portable capitals.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-02-10
LAST OF THE ROSICRUCIANS

Hermit Chemist of London Dies at AZ
Advanced Age.
The pre-Faraday school Of chemis-
try, the chemistry Of the elixir Of life
and the philosophers stone, in whose
strange nomenclature metals were
known by such uncouth names as the
"red lion," the green serpent" the
"blue dragon" and invested with mys-
terious, inexplicable properties, has
recently lost one of it's last, If not its
very last, genuine disciples. His name
was George Knox, and he died the
other day in London at the age OF
somewhere about 80 years. For the
last thirty years he had lived in the
quarter of the city known as St. Johns
Wood, the last place where one would
expect to find philosopher. The old
gentleman, however, knew nothing OF
the ways Of his neighbors ana they
knew as little Of his. Though cheer
full old man and exceedingly active for
his years, he lived the life of hermit,
his whole energies being bent on the
task of resolving the chemical prob
lens of the middle ages. Mr. Knox
used to call himself the "last Of the
Rosicrucians," and the chief objects OF
his pursuit were the elixir of life and
the philosophers stone. Three small
fortunes he had had left to him at
different periods Of his life and the
whole of two of them and the greater
part Of the third went into the crucible
and the mortar. When a young man
he had travelled all over the east, camp
ing with Bedouins and hobnobbing
with Brahmins and Tartars, seeking
information concerning the recondite
and occult. The latter half OF his life
was spent in endeavoring to apply the
information thus gained. One fortune
went in the making Of few small
rubies and commercially valueless
diamond. The elixir of life swallowed
up the second. Among other processes,
this latter chimera involved the boil
ing of liquid in a crucible for three
years. Up to the day of his death he be-
lieved that he had discovered if not the
veritable elixir at Least. something ap-
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-02-10
TransrcreEco of Heat.

A correspondent Of Nature, who is
associated with the observatory at
Toulouse, calls attention to a very sin
gular phenomenon. the scientific ex-
planation of which he seeks. Take a
bar OF iron in the hand by one end
and plunge the other end in the fire,
heating it strongly. but not so much
that the hand can not retain it's hold.
Then plunge the heated end in a pail
OF cold water. Immediately the end
held by the hand becomes so hot that
it is impossible to retain it in the fin-
gers. This phenomenon, said by the
correspondent to be familiar to work
men in iron, Is ascribed by them to
some repellent action which they sup
pose the sudden cold to exert upon the
heat contained in the iron, which is
thus driven to the opposite extremity.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-02-10

where his master Went. and followed
him afar off On one Of his excursions.
Looking between the loose ti1nbers
which made the wall of the cabin, he
saw the man Of God engaged in his
work of mercy" It was not strange
that a man loving such deeds should
be surprised in no less humble and
Christian charity himself.
Mr.. Mel had been told that a worm
cut German teacher was lying i'll in a
cold attic in the poorest quarter Of the
city. The kind-hear:ed FrencLman
went in search Of the friendless suf-
1erer. and after long hunt found him.
On coming near the top OF the dam
gerous stairs. Mr.. Mi:l heard a strange
noise. He ""ept up softly, stopping
10 listen. There was a man at the
open door of the room. He had a
broken broom in his hand. His back
hooked familiar Mr.. Micl fpllowed him
into the room, and came face to face
with DR.. Gannett.
The squalid room wa, warming with
q newly lighted fire. The invalid was
sitting in chair, rolled in blanket,
eating hothouse grapes which the good
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THEATRICAL TOPICS.
SOME SAYINGS AND DOINCS
IN STACELAND.
The Revival OF 1ngomar by julia
Arthur--A Splendid S.ccess of David
Beiasco's Dramatic Adaptation OF
"Zaza.~

Julia Arthur's revival Of "lngomar"
Is one Of the features os tine season
IN New York. She has provided an
exceedingly sumptuous setting for the
old play, and she performs the gentle
Parthenia upon lines which are all her
own, inasmuch as, according to her,
she has never seen the play acted, eX-
cepting by her own company. There
are people who think they detect re-
semblance between her impersonation
OF this role and that which Mary An
derson gave us some years ago. But
although Miss Arthur is charming in
this as in oil her othcr chac .rizations,
there is not the slightest room for
the Anderson comparison. Physically
and tempcramentally the two actresses
are leagues apart. Miss Anderson was
cool and stately, and Miss Arthur is
full Of fire and fervor and warmth of
coloring. l fancy that j. is her inten-
tion to go in quite extensively for re-
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tic over the prospects of "Zaza," which
he describes as a second Camille"

II 1t is so, as we have been told, that
Miss Airline Potter. of the Della Fox
Opera company, was actually called
down" by the stage manager because
she went to church, and Obliged to
| have her innocent ears filled with re-
proaches that made them tingle on that
account, the stage has come to pretty
pass. OF course, young actress on
$50 a week. which is the sum and sub
stance of the tempting emolument for
| which Miss Potter condescends to Law
ish her aHIty and her unstinted
charms upon the public, cannot be ex-
pected to indulge in many luxuries
without their making some effect on
her. And going to church Is certainly
a luxury. Anything that entails an
early retirement the night before IN
! order to enable you to arise early
enough to enjoy it. Is luxury. Shay
ing, for instance-but Miss Potter
doesn't shave. Nevertheless il Miss
Potter went to church the harm Of 1t
is not evident.
How could going to church affect the
work Of an actress? That's the ques
tion. Would the result of simple hour
within hallowed precincts be to the
detriment Of the actress who enjoys
that privilege? 1t seems not On the
contrary, one would think that church
going, even If irdIlged in to never so
small n nI1c1>nt, would tend rather to
elevate an actress. It's new question
one that hasn't been brought up be-
fore-ard is worthy Of consideration.
After all, perhaps it isn't worth while.
Maybe Miss Potter didn't go to church
at all, ard the story is only some work
of her NreSS agent.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-02-10
EPISCOP ALLAN SIOUX.
Great Work Accomplished by Bishop Hare
Among the Different Tribes.

It was Just quarter OF a century
ago that Bishop Hare, then young
man Of thirty-four, left his Philadel-
phia home and went out to spread the
gospel among the Sioux.
In these twenty-five years he has
gathered red army of the cross num-
bering Over 5000. In this mighty
band are warriors who fought with
Sitting Bull in the bloody fight where
Custer lost his lie. and others who
often terrorized the pioneers IN the
scattered settlements along the upper
Missouri. But those marauding days
are over. The Sioux rides on desc
lating trail no more. The tepee has
given way to the house, the medicine
lodge to the church and the school.
This marvellous transformation has
come largely through the self-sacritlc-
ing effort Of Bishop Hare.
The spirit of this change IS striking
ly shown in the great convocation
which the Sioux churchmen hold every
fall. From all parts Of the reservation
delegations from the Ogallalas, the
SiooclOAp, tuS bldShlOCt, thO A1uA'S|''
tho Wahpetons and the other Sioux
tribes journey to the convocatlon.
In long trains they wind over the
hills and plains, some Of them being
on the road for 10 or II days. Now
and then there Is heard floating above
them, not a warwhoop, but a hymn.
Each delegation has banner bearing
its name. When the meeting place
is reached tents are pitched, and by
the time the convocation opens the
Dakota prairie looks as if an army
were encamped on it.
Here is Bishop Hare's open-air ca
thedral. Instead of rafters the blue
vault of the sky is its roof. The chan
eel rail Is meridian Of latitude. On
carpet Of Buffalo grass the altar is
largest number of communicates Of
the Protestant Episcopal church that
gathers at any diocesan convention
or convocation in all America.
South Dakota is by far the largest
Indian mission of the Episcopal
church. 1t reaches 13 tribes, and out
Of population of $4,000 Indians over
5000 have been baptized and nearly
| 5000 confirmed. About SO churches
and chapels have been built, and four
boarding schools.
The bishop himself left fame, for
tune and friends behind him when he
wen: from his Philadelphia homo out