The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-02-25

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| the mark.
| There are on view in Chief Wilkes
| office souvenirs of the famous counter
| feiting case recently brought to success
| full close in Philadelphia by the Secret Ser
vice officials. There have also been OBJ
| tanned photographs of Kendig Jacobs. and
| the others identified with the gigant C
! scheme TO defraud the Federal Treasury
/ They are framed in a handsome case
Other trophies include samples OF the work
! of the conterfeiters. perfect specimens OF
| the bogus $50 and 800 bills and tobacco
! stamps. Photographs Of the two youthful
looking men. Taylor and Bredell who made
| the plates that deceived the most expert
meE of the Treasury, are placed at the top
and bottom. respectively, and between
them are arranged the pictures o. the men
who conceived the plot and furnished
funds for The enterprise-Kendig and ia
cobs. photograph of the roustabout.
Burns, is also included. The whole exhibit
is completed by an inscription taken from
the testimony OF the philosophical Jacobs
during the trial. He said: 1T was ten
millions or ten years: we took a gam
bler's chance and lost
1T is strange" remarked a Trenton. n.
j.. public official who is in Washington on
business, how in some sections OF our
State the inflexibe bigotry of certain no
lions still rules the people. Within few
days past there has been an Illustration o.
1t in Plainhed. Il appears that the
younger members OF the Quaker congrega
ton of that place had absorbed a few en-
terprising ideas. They believed that il was
time for the church to be comfortably
heated by steam and pleasantly lighted by
electricity. But the old. hard-shelled folks.
tNb N he hui IN
church should be solemnly disciplinary,
who resisted all innovations as though
they were the inspiration OF Satan himself
would not hear Of such worldly doings.
They seemed to regard the proposition as
wicked and the desired improvements as
an actual Dissertation. So the old box
woodstove and the kerosene lamp won the
day
Referring to the recent mental collapse
of the renowned chess player. Steinitz. be-
cause of the intense strain undergone in
his devotion to the game. a well-known
WashingtOnian expressed his opinions on
chess and insanity to small party of
friends In a way that was not very encour-
aging to amateurs with ambitions to be-
come masters. Il undertook. at the sugges-
ton of a friend who considered himself no
tyro in moving men on the chess board. " he
said. TO learn the game attended
chess party where | was TO watch number
OF people at play and learn the moves ami
afterward join their club. First, the names
OF the various pieces and their moves upon
the board we're explained TO me.
| at once becamt infatuated and
watched the other pl3! ers with an inter
est that would encourage one to believe
that had heavy wagers on the games in
progress. Everything wns very quiet and
serene excepting that occasionally some
one would quietly say check and l
learned the rudments O. the game, or
thought / had. in a single night Then !
went home and tried to sleep. but that was !
almost impossible. All night long little |
pieces of ivory with horses heads on them |
we're prancing all around the room pawns |
were flirting with queens and bishops were |
making diagonal dashes from every corner |
of the universe straight at me. / made up |
my mind then and there tGat constant ap-
plication to chess would destroy the best
balanced mind in the world and when I
arose in the morning after about one hours
sleep. | concluded that domi- !