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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-10-27

the paddle, The cat and hanging up by the
thumbs would break him down in a cou-
pie of years, but it did not change his
must either compel obedience to discipline
or follow the refractory convict TO his
grave, and it was only human nature
that he SHOULD set his jaw anew. He may
have been overZealous and in his anger
he may have descended to meanness, but
it was his official duty to take a stand.
In the course of a year, as shown by
the prison records, Renfrew had not done
an hours work. He had passed fully half
his time in the dark cells, and his out
breaks and whipping ran up TO thirty or
more. 1t was after looking over this rec
ord that the warden went to the convict's
cell and and said:
'ReHfrew, l am tired of the way things
are going. / am here to run this prison
according to rules, and you have either
got to come to time or I'll make Jab-
bering idiot of you. You give me more
trouble than all the other men put to-
gether."
Listen to me-" calmly replied the con-
Wet. 81 was not guilty OF that robbery.
and my arrest and conviction were
blunder. ! told you so the day l entered
here, but you sneered at me. l hate you,
and you hate me. I'll do all can to keep
YOU in hot water. And as for threats and
punishments, I defy YOU
A week later Renfrew headed a mutiny
that was quickly suppressed and then it
was whispered about the prison that he
was dead-yielded I'D his life under pun
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-10-27
YOUTHS NATURAL HISTORY.
Copyright, 1901. by C. B. Lewis.)
The Gorilla.

There was a time when tens of thou
sands of gorillas o@med over North
America and made things as interesting
as they could for all other beasts. Why
they finally fled from the country no ont
can exactly make out but the boy who
Is sent over to a neighbours at o'clock
at night to borrow a flatiron may well
rejoice that the gorilla Is no longer ramb-
ling about. When the beasts had the run
of this country, they used to so about in
droves of fifty or a hundred. As they
swept along they jabbered like crazy men,
and whenever they came upon a .rhn-
oceros or elephant they picked the animal
up and tossed him about until every bone
was broken. They would uproot bushes,
strip trees of their branches and kill every
living thing that fell into their hands, and
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ishment. This was not true, however,
though he was close to deaths door when
the warden's hand was stayed. He was
sent to the hospital with a spark of life
left, and it was three long months before
he could limp about. His ugliness and OBJ
stinacy came back as he grew better, but
the doctor shielded him and carried him
along until one day there was such
fragrant breach of discipline that it had
to be officially reported. That meant a
new punishment on top of the half healed
scars, but when the guards came to take
him from the room Renfrcw was not TO
be found. He had in some manner passed
out of the prison In a crowd of visitors.
There was a hue and cry at once, and the
warden was among those who took up the
chase. The convict had only half an
hours start, but luck was with him. They
beat up the town and its suburbs in vain.
Fifty men covered the roads and trav-
ersed the fields but the fugitive seemed to
have taken wings.
A fortnight before the escape the war
den had sent his two motherless children
to pass a few weeks in the country with
an aunt. On the morning of the second
day of the seach he drove out on this
road and at high noon was within half a
mile of his little ones. His horse had
fallen lame, and he was proceeding slowly
and missing no opportunity to make in
quiries when a. great dog overlook and
passed him with growl. The animal
was flinging its head about and foaming
at the month. and there was no doubt Of
it being a case OF hydrophobia~
The warden stopped the horse and stood
up in his buggy and looked. Between him
and the farmhouse were two children
playing by the roadside-his Bob and
Susie. The mad dog had passed the chill
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-10-27

run, and turned as the dog sprang upon
him. They went down and rolled over and
over together, and by and by the warden
shook off his chains and sprang down and
ran forward The struggle was over when
he reached the spot. The man was Rem
frew the convict, and his throat had peea
torn open. Even in death. however ms
two hands clutched the throat of tho dog,
and the beast lay gasping and dying. ihe
children came running and crying MS
name, but the warden did not heed them.
He dragged the mutlated corpse OF the
convict on to the grass and sat down be-
side 1t and wept.
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er he would have at least received fair
treatment, but he would not give in.
He continued obstinate and rebellious,
and his punishments soon came to be
almost matter of routine.
Rentrew had been sentenced for fifteen
years with never a day of good time"
to his credit-with only black marks show
ing against his name-with a punishment
more or less severe two or three times a
week, he earned the reputation Of being
the bad man of the prison. He could have
figured It out for himself that ice ater
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dren, but would It pass the children with
out inflcting a deadly bite? The man
tried to cry out. but he was voiceless. He
thought TO leap down and run after the
dog. but he was helpless to move. The
mad beast was within doel rods OF the
children and had swcfle3 from his
straight course to attack them when
man who had been hiding in the rank
weeds Of the ditch scrambled up on to the
road. He was facing the dog. and he
hadn't FIVE seconds to understand the sit
uation 1t must have come to him like
flash. for he shouted TO the children TO
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-10-27
THE WARDEN.S KIDS.
BY NJ. QUAD.

Copyright. 1901. by C. B. Lewis)
Convict Renfew arrived at the State
prison in company with a bad record
When arrested for robbery, he had
stabbed an officer; while waiting trial
he HAD broken Jail; when sentenced he
had tried to assault the Judge; as the
irons were fastened on his wrists and
ankles preliminary to his journey he
had sworn to kill any official of the
prison who attempted to rush him.
In addition to his record, which would
count against him on the prison books,
he had the look and bearing of an OBJ
stinate, dangerous man. If any proofs
! were needed that he meant to make
trouble, he furnished them himself as
he stood in the warden's Office during
the recording of his pedigress. After
sulkily answering a few questions he
burst out with:
Look here, now, but they got the
wrong man. l am not guilty, and
don propose to creep and crawl to no
one. If you start in to be rough with
me, you'll find me bad man"
and let me say to you, replied the
warden, that if you give me any trou-
bic I'll have the hide logged off your
back"
That was the challenge and the an
swer. and as warden and convict look
ed into each others eyes they both
realized that there would be trouble.
1t was not long in coming. Renfew
sulked for week and then broke out.
He had been assigned to the wagon
shop without consulting his desires,
and he fatty refused to pick up tool.
More than that, he called upon the men
in the shop to mutiny and offered to
lead them. 1t took the united efforts
OF three or four guards to overcome
him, and he was triced up and his
back barred for the cat. The warden
gave him a show at the last moment,
but was answered with curses.
Convict Renfew was Gated until his
back was like gridiron, and the doc
tor interfered to prevent another blow,
but his spirit was not broken. He
bore no grudge against guard or turn
key, but twenty-four hours after his
whipping he was threatenin the life of
the warden and hoping to live till he
could secure revenge. In thus natural
ly came about that the warden was
down" on Renfew and showed him no
mercy. Had he given in after his first
defeat and become an obedient prison
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-10-27
M'MURPHY'S FLATS.
The JanitOr Tells the German Gro
Ger All the Gossip.

Copyright, 1901, by c. B. Lewis.)
81 don't see you in sooch long time
dot belief you vhas SICK" said the
German grocer as the janitor of Nc
Murphy's fats quietly entered the store
the other day.
q haven't been sick abed," was the
reply, "but you know how it is with a
man when he has heart trouble, asth-
ma, rheumatism and three or four 9TH
er things combined"
you vhas liable to drop dead some
day. eh?"
Eyes, If I'm not careful. l have given
the tenants to understand this, and
they don't expect me to sweep the hall,
wash the windows or carry out the
ashes. The janitor of flathouse
should be treated tenderly and handled
with care.
"Und how vhas dose tenants?" asked
the grocer after pause.
"Oh, there's something new all the
time. They haven't Spoken to each
other for weeks, but each one is still
trying to get ahead of the other. One
day about two weeks ago Mrs. OSul-
Ivan goes to McMurphy and asks him
to put electric bells into her fiat.
What for?" he asks.
"'For style says she. Every lady
I visit has electric bells in every room
in the house. and I'm as stylish as the
best of them.
eff it's style you're after says Nc
Murphy, III raise your rent from four
dollars week to eight dollars, and
folks will look upon you as million
aire'
Mrs. O'Sullivan went away and had
the bells put in at her own expense.
She had one for the maid, another for
the cook, third for the nurse and a
fourth for her man Tim and the goat,
and she kept them ringing for eighteen
hours out of twenay-four."
But she don't hat some maids und
cooks and nurses" protested the gro
Ger. 4
"Of course not, but she had the bells
Just the same. and they hadn't been
ringing over two hours before the
Countess Divito and the BARRIERS wife
got on to the racket and set out to beat
it. They saw those four bells and went
two better, and when they were all
ringing at once the fat was lively
place. People stood on the front door
step and in the street until the police
had to dispense 'em.
'Und vhas dey ringing YETI"
ooh, no. McMurphy came along one
evening and heard the racket, and next
day he had all the bells yanked out
Since then, whenever Mrs. OSullivan
has wanted Tim to go for bottle of
beer. or one of the children to run the
goat out of her boudoir, she has had
to yell at the top of her voice instead
of pressing button. Things were just
quieting down when the BARRIERS wife
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into the carpet and growing at the leg of
a chair.
mo one can doubt that the cat once re-
garded man as her natural enemy after
seeing the look that the old yellow feline
has just given me.
Not so much harmony between cats as
naturalists would have US believe. Our
old cat has Just knocked bobtail over
for seeking to play with her ears.
Il am now seeking to read the thoughts
of the tom cat by the expression of his
eyes. He appears to be on edge for a row
THE old yellow cat has just emitted d
long drawn wall. 1t is a momentary re-
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turn to her wild state. doubt II the wild
instincts of the house feline can ever be
completely eradieated.
THE bobtailed cat is now listening to
noise in the back yard, and her whole at
titude shows that nature intended her to
prowl the primeval forest and secure her
food by stealth and craft.
The four cats now have their noses to-
gether In loving proximity. I wish to say
for the benefit of posterity that cat has
more or less sentiment.
THE four cats are movement
The four cats had hardly got their noses
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-10-27
MR.. B0WsER, NATURALIST.
He Takes Up the stnd of the
Cat.

Nc takes Up the study of the
Copyright, 1901 by c. ri Lewis)
Il got notice to-day" SAID Mr. Bowser
after dinner the other eYenffig-"I got no.
tice to-day that / have been elected an
honorary member of the Natural History
Club. and thele was a request that /
make study of some domestic animal
and prepare paper on the same"
Yes, replied Mrs Bowser, the study
OF natural history is an interesting one"
Il think. / will take a cat" he contin-
ued. Il was reading a work the other day
which devoted three or four pages to
her. and 1t was chock full of plumbers and
errors. The man didn't seem to know
cat from a eockatoo."
Il should think you could get up some
thing very interesting.
I'm going to try 1t anyhow. While the
sat Is familiar animal to all, it's my
opinion that she's the least understood of
any domestic animal. If were a teacher,
/ should have a cat in the schooiroom as
an object lesson. There's our old cat on
the rug. You have seen cats around ever
since you could remember. but did you
ever ask yourself or any one else why
they invariably lie down on the right side
TO Sleep
II don't think ever did" replied Mrs.
Bowser. why Is it?"
"A cat invariably lies down on her right
side and never on her left because
The cat got up and Shook herself and
looked around and then calmly laid down
on her left side, and Mr.. Bowser's argu
ment was knocked into a cooked hat
thereby. Mrs. Bowser looked at him in Il
Questioning way, but he flushed up and
let minute elapse before he said:
'It is known to us all that cat breads
water. but has any one explained why she
does?"
It's because she's afraid of getting wet,
Isn't it?''
That's childs answer. I haven't
studied into the matter two minutes, but
yet can give more reasonable explana-
ton. You viii find 1t in the paper l shall
prepare. That cat, to all appearances, is
sound asleep, and yet If I drum on this
table with my fingers you will see that
she is only shaming-"
He drummed, but the cat slept on Then
he rustled newspaper. but her sleep was
not broken. A smile was beginning TO
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show around Mrs. Bowser's mouth, when
he grabbed book and hurled it at puss.
and as it struck the floor near her head
she opened her eyes and sat up and
sQuinted in a sleepy way.
shes an old fool of a cat, and that's
what's the matter with herr" growled Mr..
sewser as he glared at her. 4 don't
see what you keep her around here for"
81 like to study her habits quietly re-
piled Mrs. Bowser.
''oh. you do? That's a hit on me. sup
pose? Well. you can study her habit OF
going out Of the window"
He rose up and threw up a window, and
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decided to give a progressive euchre
party. You know what progressive
euchre is, don't you?"
! IL don't remember him, | guess.
well. there's no need to explain. l.
some way Mrs. oSullivan and int
countess heard of the scheme, and on
one and the same night we had three
progressiyes in the house. Each was
attended by about twenty guests ana
| made up my mind there'd be lively
doings before the evening closed. 30
there was. The beer progressed faster
than the cards. and by 10 O'Clock things
were ready to break loose. Mrs. U sui
liyan's goat got up stairs among the
colored folks, and they got him drunk.
and that was the start OF the row. /
cut for the basement and let EN- nght
it out, and for twenty minutes there
was fighting all over the house Then
the police drove up and got about forty
of EN-, and 1t took me an hour to sweep
I'D the relics. If either of the three
women got ahead of che others 1t was
Mrs. O'Sulliyan. She had two black
eyes as she appeared in court, and the
Judge said that any one could tell at
first glance that she was real lady"
But everything vhas all right now?'
asked the grocer.
Eyes, in a way. The women were
pretty humble for three or four days,
and then the countess comes home one
afternoon and puts up a sign of Modes
in her window. Fifteen minutes later
Mrs. OSullivan comes to me and says:
"'Mr Hocket, maybe you can tell me
what is the meaning of Nodes
az can says l. 1t means style and
heaps of it.
"'Oh, it does?' says she, and she goes
out and has two signs printed and
hangs them in her windows. The bar
ber's wife wasn't slow to catch on, and
as | passed through her hall she says:
"'Don't you worry bout me, Misser
Hocket. I'll smash dem white trash
all to squash tomorrow
Next day she covered her three
front windows with signs of Modes,
and there was excitement all over the
neighborhood."
but What vhas modest" queried the
grocer as he looked troubled.
1T has to do with dressmaking, Mr.
Wasserman, though l wasn't clear
about it myself until McMurphy came
along and saw the signs and said:
Nov, then, is this family fat or
dressmaking foundry? Be me sowl
but down comes those signs or out
goes the tenants,'
1.-THE signs came down, with honors
even all around, and for the lest three
days there has been holy calm around
the fiat 1t won't last long, however"
"Und dere will be some more quar-
reling?"
sure to be. Just as I came away
Mrs. OSullivan was going out to an
auction room to bid on a Louis XIV.
sideboard, and If she gets 1t the count
ess will never rest until she gets
Marie Antoinette bedstead and the
BARRIERS wife will turn up with an EN-
press Catherine refrigerator. Yes,
they'll keep it up till the end, and if
one of 'em has to hunt for cheaper
lodgings she'll go out in blaze of fire.
works and the hand nIayinp"
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-08-06
STATE INSTITUTIONS

L. o. Henderson. Warden State Prison
JOS. i. Stubs, President State Uuiversity
DR. Patterson, Supt. Hosp Mental Discs
Jos. Josephs. Snpt., Of Orphans Home
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-08-06

7. n. Evans. w. w. Beohcr,
H. S. Starrett.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-08-06

Railway Depot, L. S. Mint, Government
Building, Post Office and State Capitol
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-10-31

~ IA IAAAHl NANHn al AAANANA ~ fAAA AHL ALAAA W. NH' -
as james Withcrs. the dcpositor in whose
favor my bluudcr had been made. Had
not been lahorirg under great excite
mrnt. it is likely that my suspicious would
have been aroused by the s~trangouess Of
Withcrs' presence in Chatham. room. Tho
two men received mo PLEASANTLY. and tho
alleged Withers, even hcfor. could breach
the subject. EXPRESSED his rcgrot at hear
ing of the error which had been commit
. r,imburso the bank: but-ahl there was an
omiu.us but.' He was short of ready
money lust then: everything he had was
tied nm i'm a promising enterprise which
MA; b0uad 10 hiring in n MAGNIFICENT uroAt
I'm th. rnurs,. of n few day. if only he could
r.Iia "a foy p4Itrv hundreds to enable him
to lold ONT a little longer. If he failed
+, scrona together this small amount, all
voull he lost Insidiou~lv and relentless
I d, tl.v drove mo toward the tran they had
r,rrpurcd and wa. weak enough to fan
.ntn II Hcfnra m, interview was over.
If had consented to allow Wlthcrs TO still
rprth,r overJraw MI account. and had
received his solemn uromisc TO refund. be-
for. thn md Of mo vp.k tho entire amount
ne owed the bank. Then chatham suggest
cd tb,t If would he wiser to LEI tne Soc
ord ov,rJrart come from another ac-
|ro,rt Nitbors nsraed with hin, ord stated
mar Tho rh,aok Gould T.. made in rho rai1c
az Itorr, enyronr , rolotirn Of his who
rrd ronnrtIy nrcnod , email ,c,ourt vitr
,bo /. uioLorhoiLa bnnL STRANGELY oh.
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helped A%rbogast, who was not yet
dead, and who perhaps by this time,
had regaincd consciousness, into the
cab which was waiting near by in FIX
change place, where | found the blood
stains Oh the curb. as you will rctncm-
Der. After starting Oft his two ac-
completes in the cab, he returned to
the bank, put away the pistol in its
proper place, which, by the way. he
seems to have known, and washed up
all or nearly all the blood stains. There
is a spongc and bucket under the sink
in the clerks room, which were used
in this operation. After, as he thought.
completely oblitcrating all traces of
the tragedy, he quietly walked off by
the Exchange place entrance, locked
the door and threw away the key.
All this, while Policeman Flynn was
chasing Quinlan. You Will note that'X,'
knowing nothing of the Quinlan cpl
sode, was quite justified in believing
that tie shots had failed to attract
any attention outside of the bank.
Very likely he was disturbed by the
return of the policeman and Quinlan;
cannot otherwise account for his hav-
ing left the gas burning. Hat he had
.he time, | feel confident that, with
his customary thoroughncSs, he would
have turned it out. As to my minute
description of Arbogast's wounds, there
is nothing remarkable in that. know
that the weapon used by X was yon-
I-.. .1,'. ln,nttn fD1tnI M rf iplpG nf
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SYNOPSIS.

rrrp c.. - o.N,,. L., a, Now
'ilAi Eit 90cne v S,uiS last dav
sCih wy tt' iii1t V.fIh crE
~ rSyyiir,g 70 rrotnd cahman and passon-
,nr ,isn Se9Gcd nuf.idc. Latter disappears;
thrn ineidc mo cab. hndv of min shot
Jr,,i - ditCoynrad Sturris. reporter, cX-
amines cab and SURROUNDINGS.
u-Intor that evening. ut
stol dinner marty. SttIrpis. in imurumptu
lis6nssion. maintains reliability of cir.
,,mstantial ovidence. Or. Murdoch, IA
none chCrniet. waerrs in reply $4,000 to 800
ma from any daily Dapcr he can select an
unsolvable riddle. Sturgis takes bet.
- r,rrr ~ r.- ..i &C. 81 tu.o
nvstnriou4 shots fred that afternoon in
or ucnr KuiCkerbocker bank. MAJ had
tccn seem running from bank with Vali-",
and arrested. Man said he stole V&lisc
nom bank stems and was shot at. Valisc
contained nothing of Interest.
80, rrt.,, r., s..r ,,ro or,otr+-
,,crt wiz nunlap' nrrsident of bank, TO
sieit scene of .hooting carly next morning,
.h.n indlces hi4 friend pr. Thurston to
como To- his rooms whiIo he urrauges data
,f Inc tO,n strange cases.
crIApvrp = Erou obeorvo tiors made
,b-,s "a trdnrtE.o ,a5 sorlng thereon
n nu . = 80 nnr'i1sCd. IN Gr.1 man I'M
lrtN.rv. "9,- ,r ~ So,,t "a ,.c,r, Old -r-
.oiyfmr c"od asloiry. %, wouuI crised hy
L,,tinntt 6Srog Of "i,so ,i,i1r,nre. ~ rnirht
NV .bo. birnsalf, ~ eLootirr had NOT
occurred in cab: O., right arm broken ly
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MI.
TIE BOOKKEEPER'S CONFESSION.

THE BOOKKEEPER'S CONFESSION.
" " ~ '.S'"e'' "l'C " -
aaI. honl0 aa.a Un vos,i rod > liza
,,.a. narnInvod. for vi,h IN ii. umn,o.
rinr ondrn,. hig a,,icI intn11ir,nn. nnd
'ia97 ioIai99a ..draranno hnLaIonu,n
r"tnndat hi,n his inra.+tra.ta Th.
r,"ninn ,,i+h mo-
fnr,hor ,nontinn nr +hn nuinlan na.n
11 ,.;.t 'a,lu m,.n. -
rLa nat a.. ha,;.u
. n,a1n - ,u.n tanc.r.
w. ua,,I5 nat nam,art 49, nnhIish III.
,,,;1o,oa NIL ,o .r,o r. oauu1n+.
- :. ~ n..,mn,a1t..
,I
"Pl' ~
y. Il " i'6"' - - "i'''' "''
= ''i"'"S' '"' Va I'u".'I' ""''
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CHAPTER NH.

So saying, Sturgis settled himself in
his chair and began his narrative.
after leaving you this morning, my
first step was TO gain admission to the
Tombs-'
ITO the Tombs?" interrupted Dun
lap,
Mes; the cabman has been remanded
to the Tombs to await trial for compile
itY in the murder of the unknown man
whose body was found in his cab"
"Arbogast's? ~
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CHAP1 Err NI,
A RECONSTRUCTED DRAMA.

H. ,no1,o c+rrcls h,,d.d Dnr1on
g. atoa,. n.uor mo-, ,,bicb no had
.aI nt.n - tLa L,nicLerhoclcr
honL
"rron this noint ON" he continued.
.r bo,e ;nIicotod the various trails on
Ia di.ur,m The DATED lines reure-
cant Arboroat.s foo~tnrints. the con-
+innous lines show Chathpm's trail"
"Uow cor ,on distinruish between
+be tvoo' innuired Dunlap.
.Ti,or. l.; uo dfn1c,I,v nLout that"
,.or1;od c,urois. The differences are
,or, ,oarlcd I know Arbogast's foot