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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-12-20
Shorthand in Bookkeeping
BY W. J. Burrows.

MI r. JOSEPH SMGLER, otherwise
wi Joe" was second bookkeeper
for the dry goods house of Martin 81
Company, large, well-established
concern i'm a western city, and he was
already looking forward to the time
when the present head bookkeeper
should retire on his hard-earned for
tune or hc transferred where book
keeping is supposed to be NO more,
so that he might step into the old
mans shoes and salary.
Mir SmyIer had married what he
believed TO be the sweetest girl in
the world, carrying her off triumph
antly from a crowd Of admirers. any
one of whom would have been glad
of his chance. The bridegroom was
not wealthy men of his craft rarely
are hut he took his wife for we'd
ding trip to the east to see the old
folks" and 10 be duly admired, or
criticised. on their return they went
directly to housekeeping like two
sensible people and settled down to
| the serious business of 'iying. Miss
/ tanks had not been noted as an ex-
| pert cook, but Mrs. Snyder would
| EARN Miss Banks had been a stem
ographcr, frequently out of a posi-
! lion. but Mrs. Smyler intended 10 de-
}rlop into n model wife and house
/ keeper Above all, She was devoted
| .o her husband, believed him TO be
one of the -martest men that ever
! .iycd view Inn which he heartily con-
mrrd. aud as n consequence she
rarely ,cuturcd 10 have an opinion
or her own that did not coincide with
Ills. H.
II say, Joe, want YOU TO teach me
! bookkeeping, said Mrs. Smylcr one
morning AZ the breakfast table, a few
months after their marriage.
"Nhat's that fore" qucried her hus-
puud "goi.g to start in busness?"
NO. but ! think il is good thing
Tor amy body TO know. and | might as
3nll learn, 50 / thought if YOU would
-rt me some books would keep
track of our expenses i'm the house,
and so learn how 20 keep books. 1t
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the bed. There she kneeled down and
her long hair fell around her like a
shadow.
Il watched every movement in long
mirror opposite the bed. In moment
! nearly shrieked aloud. She had
thrown back the long veil, and no
words can tell the horror that pos
sessed me. In the frail fingers was
clutched a human hand! She drew 1T
again and again across her lips, then
sank the white teeth into the white
flesh felt that was losing my own
senses. For a moment there flashed
through my brain the horrible fear
that | was shut up in madhouse.
Every thing in the house was strange
the closed shutters, the perpetual
| light, the one servant, the keyless
! door-Llewellyn wreck, and now this
| poor, mad girl alone at night with her
| CHASTITY food!
There was not sound IN the house,
though once l thought heard step
at my duor-all was as still as death.
And perhaps, thought, ii is death!
The suspense and gnawing were
| growing uncomfortable. | get up and
moved as quietly as could toward the
| bed, until | was close enough 10 touch
her. | could see no sign of the hiieous
! crime about her leaned forward and
! fixed my strairing eyes on the fearful
object in her hand. she might attack
me, though knew | could crush her at
blow. The possibility of such neccs-
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THE next morning he continued,
for did not dare to interrupt MN, Mona
did not appear. Breakfast passed aud
she was supposed to be asleep. No one
was ever allowed to be awakened. The
afternoon came, and when nothing was
heard from her, a maid was sent TO
her room. She could get no answer
Now, alarmed, they rushed TO Mona's
room, and findingi locked, were obliged
to have the door forced open.
"'Oh, God, Low cruel to tell! There.
knceling 10y he bed. dressed in her Icing.
white gown, was my poor GarIil9
cIutching and gnawinE piece Of hor-
rible human flesh, a human hand! They
lied before the shrek she gave.
"'Then it was that my darling was
declared hopeessiy insane and taken TO
mad house. Her beautiful courage
shaken at last, her noble reason gone.
None had the courage to write me, none
dared to face ne, for they had wrought
the cruelcst wrong ever inflicted upon
one of Gods creatures.
Those two Observation-Disclosures,
call them not gir,s-in order to carry
out their infamous plan to brighten
Mona had persuaGcd one of the med.
zeal students TO bring them this evil
depce Of human bulch,ry, human
hand fresh from the dissrcting room.
That day rcpudia,cd nv persona.
connection with the professions. and
cbalIrnred the iustiga,ur, or rather the
executor. of tbi, crime. but the coward
refused TO feht. do not know what
became Of MIN but he disappeared from
all possfnfIi;y of my ever meeting him
again.
".Months heightened into year.
and my Mona Has no better. became
an old man in that wear. Just as YOU
see me now. lcouId never bring back 70
her the SLIGHTEST s.gu of RECOGNITION.
DIR Bogaylus had a theory that
violence could only he lcsscncd by the
indulgence of the mauia, where it did
not threaten human life. The mania
was oncu ,Ntrayagaul and beyond the
power Of the institution to carry out
My Mona liked to repeat the CHASTITY
,,.r. ..F that deadly NIGHT.
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he restrain feeling of triumph. But
his face was unmoyed as before when
ne went on with his inquiries.
There is a dark corner here" he
said, entering the passage. Anyone
hiding in it woulG be unseen by a man
ascending the stairs. You could have
waited here, Mr.. Smithson."
"What the-of course, but I went
straight downstairs after leaving
Jackson. 1t must be plain that | could
not be the one Vernon alleges-alleges,
bear in mind-struck hiIi."
"Quite plain, Ell? Yet such thing
is as probable as the supposition that
dying man struck him with such
force as to render him unconscious for
nearly an hour. But | have seen all
require. Shall we go below again?"
Phillips agreed, and the five men
went downstairs. Vernon having by
this quite recovered. They seated
themselves round the table again, and
after a moment or two the question
was put to Desmond whether he had
formed his conclusions.
Eyes. to my own satisfaction, if not
10 yours" was the reply. ''ln the first
place, Vernon is quite innocent. His
story | believe to be true. Perhaps in
a law court my evidence would be in
sufficient to convict, but l unhesitat-
ngly declare Mr.. Smithson to be the
murderer"
For a moment there was a strained
silence in the room, 10 be broken by a
loud oath from Smithson, whose face
had suddenly become Iivid. Your
proofs he shouted, hoarseiy.
Eyes. your proofs?" echoed the
others. eagerly.
First. this shred of cloth that |
found in that dark corner of the pas
sage upstairs belongs, if | mistake not.
to the coat Mr.. Smithson has on. That
proves that he stood there against the
wall, does it not? Secondly, let me ask
a question. Has any one of you been
in Jackson's company of late between
the hours Of $50 and o'clock? But
Of course, as he only exists in the mag
nation, the question is"
NO, no! have been in his company
about that time" put in Phillips
auick1y. "You see. the real Jackson is
Lovely" he added, in explanation.
Have Won seen him. then. do any.
tbfno with his watch >"
81 have seen him take it out and
open the front. but what he did I can.
not say"
''Y ~Ir watch. please. Mr., Lovely
Thank Won. Now. observe the hurGs
Do YOU see ANYTHING peculiar? Eut. ot
course, Won know about If don't Won -
no, Why. the handshaye CAUGHT in
one another. The watch has stonncf
about II minutes TO 9. And Smith.
SON declared that. T,cl..or told hin, tIe
time from the watch later than that
That statement was untrue, You
Smithsou. must have been in the roon
when Vernon entered the house Won
heard him ASCENDING tbe stairs an,
took ,Jackson's stick and hid in the mas
| sage with the rest. as Vernon haI
stated, Won arc correct Mr.
! Desmond. Allow me TO congrat-"
Smithson spranp ND with a cry o
rage. Curse you!" he shouted. Ours,
you!" And before the unfortunate de
tcctiye could do ANYTHING to dcfcn,
| his self the man lifted the chair hioI
IN the air and BROUGHT il down with ;
dun thud upon his skull, knocking hin
fenseleSS to the floor
Desmond know no mora nn,n \,
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Women Only In ChinnIlIiterntc.

Nearly every Chinaman can read,
but 30 per cent. of the women are en-
tirely uneGucated.
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"JAMESTONE VERNON

And this was all Though Desmond
has since devoted days to the search of
the street and the brick house, or 10
some of the men whom he saw therein,
he has not succeeded. They have dis
appeared as utterly as if the earth had
swallowed them up. Did the real Jack
son recover from his wound? Did
Smithson meet with the penalty limited
at in the letter? These are questions
he may never have answered. But he
will never forget that nights strange
adventure, when he solved a mystery
by the two hands OF a watch catching
in each other-Tit-Bits.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-01
LOST CHILD FOUND.
In Finding Gertrude Weaver Her Par
ents Were Reunited.

Toledo, O., Dec. I-Ten years ago
Richard Weaver, a mechanic, lived hap
PLY with his wife and little daughter.
Gertrude, in Butte Montana. Theirs was
not home of luxury, but they had the
comforts of life. The wife had been
reared in luxury. She had brave1y faced
the anger of her parents and forsaken
them to cast her lot with the artisan
She had nature that craved luxuries-
Her husband could not give them to her
She grew Indifferent became too fond
of another, and the sequel was the di
vorce court In August, 1897, Weaver
obtained a divorce and was given the
custody Of the daughter.
Mrs. Weaver left Butte as soon as
possible. Little Gertrude was told that
her mother was dead. Weaver did not
renarry, and as the months passed he
was inclined to forgive his wife
On New Years day 1899, he received
a letter from his former wife. She said
she was living on Kinney street, Toledo.
and making a modest living by her
needle. She begged forgiveness and i'm
pIored her former husband to let her
see her child once more if he could not
condone her wrong.
The husband wrote that she had his
forgiveness before the asking. A cor
respondence was begun and a few weeks
later little Gertrude was put aboard a
train and consigned to the tender care
east.
on the day the child started Weaver
was stricken with a fever. He had in
tended to telegraph his wife that Ger
truGe was on her way, SO that the
mother might be surprised with the It'd
1ngs almost incidentally with the ar
rival. Weaver lowered between life and
death at a Butte hospital for several
months. When he had recovered suffi-
GENTLY he wrote Mrs. Weaver and asked
concerning the child. She replied that
Gertrude had not arrived, and upbraid-
ed him for joking about a serious mat
ter.
Weaver furnished the mother funds
and met his former wife in Chicago to
take measures to find the child. They
were remarked. The railroads were in
terested, detectives were enlisted, but no
trace of the missing Gertrude could be
found.
Mrs. Weaver returned to Toledo, sold
her furniture and rejoined her husband
at Pullman, Ill.
Mrs. Parent, who resides on Mckinney
Weaver yesterday in which she said
Gertrude had been found. In changing
cars at Chicago the little one, impelled
by curiosity, had wandered out of the
depot and could not find her way back
She had been taken to police headquar-
ters and could only tell her name, but
had forgotten the name Of the Montana
town. She was placed in a founding
home and later adopted by a farmer
living near Aurora, III.
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STOCK GAMBLING VICTIM.
Caleb R. Lunger, Once Wealthy, Ar
rested For Attempted Burglary.

New York, Dec. Caleb R. Lunger.
inventor, stock Spectator, member Of
swell London clubs, is detained in the
Raymond street jail, Brooklyn, awaiting
examination on a charge of attempted
burglary.
that the burglary was attempted at
night time and the place was rectory,
but it is probable that the prisoner VIII
be permitted to escape punishment, for
his story is a pathetic one, and none
who have heard the gray haired man 5
sobbing confession and protestations Of
penitence can fail to be touched.
Lunger is 81 years of age, and OF dig
nified appearance.
STOCK speculation drove me to my
crime he sobbed, yesterday. AS US
ual the brokers got it all and here am,
penniless and disgraced-"
Lunger was born in Washington, N J.,
and made some money there in the gro
Gerry business In 1887 he and Major S.
w Herrick, of that place, went to Lo1i-
don to exhibit at the Colonial exposition
a hair restorer in which they had equal
interests
The hair restorer made an instantane-
GUS hit and four years later Lunger
sold out his interest for SIS, 600 He mar
ried a beautiful English woman of ex-
cellent family and settled down in q. lit
tie house near London
He entered into stock speculation, and
within short time had cleared $40 900.
At the time of the Venezuelan dispute
between the United States and England
Lunger was worth $50, 600.
Then came President Cleveland's ulti-
matum, followed by rumors of war and
a sudden slump in stocks, and Lunger
awoke one day to find half his fortune
gone. He continued to speculate, some
times winning, but more often losing
His fortune grew smaller and smaller.
until at last his holdings consisted only
Of South African mining shares
Then came the Boer war and the drop
in mining stocks, and Lunger found him
self again a poor man. as he had been
% years before, but with a loved wife
and child to support and expensive
sastes that had been developed in the
days of his prosperity.
He had, however, what promised to be
the nucleus of another fortune in a half
interest in the patent Of an ingenious
fancy comb that did away with the use
of hairpins.
With his partnership papers in his
pocket and a modest sum of money. Iun-
ger bid goodbye to his wife and child
and came to this country in October,
1899.
Il tried in vain to interest capitalists
in my invention said Lunger yesterday.
but Fate seemed against me. The fash-
ion in hairdressing had changed, and
there was no such demand for combs as
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-01
ENCOURAGING THRIFT.

TFrom the Washington Evening Star.
II always have confidence in people
who save a little money out OF their
salaries said prominent western
merchant, "and / do what can to en-
courage habits of thrift I employ
about IS clerks in my establishment. to
whom I pay weekly salaries ranging
from SO to $40. Naturally enough, more
of them get the former than the latter
amount but they are none the less
worthy on that account
I'm the beginning. when I employed
only two people, I lived pretty close TO
them and 1 knew how thriftless they
could be when they were not encour-
aged to do otherwise. I have discharged
more clerks for that sort Of thing than
for any other cause. They spent their
salaries, large or small as might be, in
a reckless fashion. and let debt accam-
ulate quite regardless of the rights OF
creditors. AS my business increased. and
with it my profits and my force Of peo-
pie, I began to give the matter more
study, and in the end. when I felt able
to be of material assistance IN encourag-
ing thrift and honesty, I proposes a
yearly recognition to those VINO Woulo
save something out Of their salaries II
was small at first, but was 50 successful
that today / haven't a clerk who mas
not some kind of a bank account and
not one who wilfu1ly refuses to pay his
debts. When we get a new one who
refuses to take advantage of the oppor-
tunties afforded we let him go at the
end Of the first year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-01

I had counted on. No one wanted to risk
any money in It.
7 began to live more and more econ
OnicaHy. but finally found myself PEN
niless- had to pawn my clothes and
jewelry ia order to live, and finally was
glad TO- be able to pay for a room at the
Mills hotel
Sometimes I ate 10 cents worth of
Eve cents to SPEND but I tried hard to
keep@up an appearance.
At last | had to sell for a few cents
the samples of combs.
"One of my friends in England offered
me a small position there. 1t was a very
small one, but I would gladly have ac-
cepted it-but England is far away and
had no money.
'tOn Thursday went to Williamsburg
intending to find the man to whom 1
had sold my combs and beg him to give
me back one or two of them. I thought
that with the samples would make one,
more attempt to find a hacker.
On my way to the store I noticed a
building on Putnam avenue, one of the
lower windows of which was open. Then
the temptation came. had read much
in the papers of burglars and it flashed
across me that if I could enter that
house at night I might take a coat for
myself and a few little articles that I
might pawn for enough to buy my
combs back and make fresh start
"A few days before I had found in
Blocker street an iron bar that looked
jimmy, but had never seen a jimmy
before and do not know whether it is one
or not. had taken it to my room and
left it there.
I put the iron bar in my pocket and
late at night started for Brooklyn again.
intending to enter the house. 7 reached
The house, but before had entered il
the police arrived and I was arrested"
The old man broke down at this point
lie sohbed convulsively. Il had never
committed a crime before in all my
life" he added And now l do not
know what to do. on account of my
poverty my wife has had to take a DO
sition and our child sent to friends
hope to God she will never hear of my
disgrace
The house that. Lunger attempted to
enter was the rectory of the Church Of
Our Lady of Good Counsel He was
frightened away by Waterman and ar
rested after long chase. The jimmy, or
box opener. was found in the yard The
house had not been entered.
If / were a regular criminal" said
Lunger yesterday, Il would not have
been caught with my pockets full of
cards and letters"
Friends of Lunger have come to his
rescue and the priests of the rectory
have promised to consider his case be-
fore determining whether or not to press
the charge against him on December >.
when he will be arraigned before Magis-
trate Worth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-01
ECHO OF CUSTER MASSACRE
Discovered That Only Man Who Es-
capped Killed Himself

st. Paul, Dec. 1.-The mystery of the
death and disappearance of Lieut.. Har-
rington, of the Seventh cavalry, which
occurred twenty-four years ago has
been explained. Lieut.. Harrington was
with Custer when the regiment met Sit
ting Bull and was annihilated.
After the massacre in 1876 the bodies
of all the officers engaged in the battle
were found with the exception of that
of Lieut. Harrington. A dispatch comes
from Fort Yates giving a statement of
the Indians who last saw Harrington.
He was about the last survivor of the
battle, and when his companions had
been killed he made a dash on his horse
and managed to escape through the line
of Indians to the open prairie. The In
dams saw him riding away ard one
said:
''Well, he is the only one left alive;
let him go and tell the news to the
white man.
So they agreed to abandon the chase.
but one Indian called Paints Himself
Brown followed. He says he rode but
a short distance when he saw the lieu
tenant raise his revolver, fire and fall
from the saddle. The lieutenant had
shot himself rather than fall into the
hands of the Sioux. His bones lie in an
old dry lake-bed some distance from the
scene of the massacre
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-01

my present plan is to double the saw
ings Of all clerks who receive $40. &l2
and SIS a week: TO add 25 per cent 70
all who receive from S15 to SIS. and 10
for those over S25. A clerk on SIS a week
or under cannot save much. but az a
rule that class Of clerks have no one TO
maintain but themselves, and III one
can not save more than SOS out Of his
years labor it is rather pleasant Tor him
to get S25 clear profit. Those who re-
ceive the larger amounts usually have
families and their savings are not large.
but whatever they are they are COM
fortably increased. One Of my 81 200 "A
year clerks. with a wife and two small
children, saved $500 last year. and my
check for 800 additional was deposited
to his account the day after New Year
A young woman in charge Of a depart
sent at 5000 a year has almost paid FOR
a nice little cottage IN the suburbs out
of her extra, and so the list runs on
through every branch Of the busineas I
make it a condition that all current OBJ
legations must be met at the end OF the
year, so that the savings are actual net
profit. Every year some OF the clerks
are not entitled to any extra. bat n this
is the result Of sickness assume a part
or all of the doctors bills You may
say It costs something for me to do thiA
and am under no obligation to do 81
and you are right. But have the best
class Of clerks A the city. and as a re-
suit I have the best class Of custom IA
the city. and guess don't lose enough
by II to necessitate an assignment at
an early date" and the merchant
smiled with very evident satisfaction.