The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-12-05

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81 explain later, and if you don't
mind long walk, / think / know where
these trinkets belong. The game is not
over yet, and we can talk on the ways
We were eager to accept; our curios-
ity was excited. As we went along he
mentioned the fact that he was mot a
patrolman at home, but detective, and
that most Of his time was taken up III
travelling on the continent. We remark
ed that ne would have to make use Of
different languages.
EYES," he replies, zone must know the
languages"
"How many do you use?" we inquire.
Seven, besides number of dialects,
together with continental pronyn.
ciation,p he answers,
"You don't mean to say that you
read, write and speak an these I" weask.
Certainly" he says, 81 know one as
well as another. don't deserve any
credit for this, for / learned them all
with my mother tongue"
Goodness" we exclaim, 1--WE can't
teach one language thoroughly in our
colleges"
Il didn't learn them in the colleges
knew them all before / was twelve
years old, from my father and mother
and special tutors, and travelling in the
countries. OF languages in the colleges,
l studied only little grammar, and not
much of that, because had been taught
correct forms. l used to tease the old
professor at Heidelburg by talking Latin
He would say: boy, you know more
Latin than 4 do, and I've studied every
lesson for forty years. THAT'S it." he
concludes, "thc old man was book
worm"
st must be great comfort to know
these things" we suggest.
ut is" he replies, and continues,
"There was little company of emf
grants on the ship, from a scclued val
ley of Normandy, as we came over.
The old preacher of the clan had died,
and when child died at sea, the captain
requested me to read the burial service.
read it from their poor little prayer
book Of bad French and worse Latin.
and as they dumped the little body into
the wGtcr, chanted their native hymn
in their miserable patois, but, no doubt,
it sounded grander in their ears than
La Marseillaise, or your Star Spanglcd
Banner would have DONE" He broke off
suddenly. 81 heard the indyor.elect OF
New York make speeches in four Ian
guages on one night i thought he did
pretty well, and, no doubt, he made
friends, too"
EYES," we answer, 4but he didn't learn
the Languages in the colleges"
maybe not" says the detective, "a
man don't learn to work typewriter
by reading about it"
as it necessary to have college grad
yates for detectiyes?" we inquire.
"of course" he says, 'tthe great Grim
inals are not all of the poor and ignor-
ant classes, but in these timse, the most
successful 'manipulotors' come from the
cultivated and learned classes, and you
must have officers of the law equally cuI-
tivated to deal with them, otherwise
they'd be outclassed, as they too often
are, anyway. But here's our place." he
calls out, as he walks into hotel
In reply to questions, the landlord
stated that they had lost a number Of
articles by burglary, but that had oc-
Cured five months before and he never
expected to hear of them again. His
wife was delighted to recover her dia-
mond ring and gold thimble, hut still
mourned the loss Of pair of fine scis-
sors.
They were all greatly amused at the
place and manner of finding the ring and
thimble. The lady said; at sounds like
a fairy tale" But the detective ex.
planned that burglar in Philadelphia
had confessed to him THAT he had placed
valuable iewelry in a plugged green
pumpkin, under a pine tree at Glen Elk;
and that the rest of The performance
on his part, dad been merely good luck;
or good management, as we might
choose to call it. Mr.. Gharlock coombs
then turned to US and said:
'1'm going away tomorrow, and if our
colored friend has any trouble with his
pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving day, and
you know ms doctor, you'd better sug.
gest that dyspepsia is the reward of a
guilty stomach and THAT Sanbo most
likely, has The new kind of grip, called
Scissors"
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