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Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1908-01-12

Al advertising bills become due after 6rSs
appsamace Of advertisement, auiess otherwise
Stipulated In contnet. Parties not known 20 ~
wiiI b required 70 pay for advertising In ID,
Uanca. Address, THR DAILY RUN.
0AuHsvILLh, VIA.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1908-01-12

A Nofi % the Siss IL sufacloaL
and thls thinks The Cleveland Leader.
- ~hy he h~SrE thinks IL NECESSARY
TO nv Aboat teooe words Al the
SFerase lsr} Aud Why NJ, Rocse.
Vsh thinks it 10 scoassary 10 aFs ahoat
saeoe sords a. coaEreaS
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1908-01-12

The financial tide has turned. says
the bank statement May the waters
OF the food be OF a bright greenland,
yellow
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1908-01-12

Even the price Of convict labor has
"slumped" about ten dollars per
month. This will make quite a difi.
orenoe to the treasury OF AlachuA
county.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1908-01-12

Don't be stingy with tips to hostlers,
One OF them may Gle and leave you
$4,000 This happened in PonnSyl.
vAnla--and q hotel clerk got III
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1908-01-12

In case the secession in trade con.
tlnues tho opponents Of prohibition
win soon be saying. II told you 80,
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1908-01-12

The TWiesa-wesk Sun Il an sight-page, forty
epinmn paper, published every Monday and
3imsday, and contains ali the news 81 the
Wesk, local, state and general, and will Be
MAILED, postage free, 10 any rRrt Of the UnI.od
RATES OF Canada, for s.. % year-in advance.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1908-01-12

There's not an advertisement print.
cd In this paper today that is not in.
forming or interesting.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1908-01-12

Nomination Of capsrs Confirmed.
Washington. Jan. 1.-the senate
has confirmed the nomination Of Judge
John Capers. OF South Carolina, 70
be- commissioner Of internal revenue.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1908-01-12

To look over the advertising col.
umnS OF the Gainesville papers one
would conclude that there were no ho-
tells or boarding houses In the city.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1908-01-12

Pass the dead beat" tenant along
until he has TO pay rent or live out.
doors.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1908-01-12

Once more the fated number
twenty.three insurance companies
have withdrawn from Wisconsin,
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1908-01-12

The ThRw trial attracts little at.
tentlop In this section Of the country.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1908-01-12

Reading notices In local column 10 cents line
eDr first insertion and cents for each additional
hsssEtIon,
Rates cor display advertising made known on
spPllcatiOa.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-20
Long Terms In Prison,

The gang which made the Monroe
hundred" was arrested in Philadelphia
in 1899. The plates which printed the
bills were recovered and the counter
feiters sentenced to long terms in
prisoa.
Another very interesting story that
can be relied upon. it coming from one
Of Washington's leading dentists
Upon a small shelf in this dentists Of
fee was many pieces Of gold and sew
eral good gold teeth, and. beside then,
on a clean white tray was a fresh
plaster paris impression of a patient
who was 10 have a new set OF teeth.
This impression being yet fresh was
just the thing for the impression OF
either hand or thumb
In the absence OF the dentist, who
had stepped across the hall, young
colored soldier had wandered in look
ing for Just what ne found With the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-20

racing mobiles and to him their
prophet Pindar an aristocrat himself,
was the poet OF Dorian aristocracy. He
was the bard Of those great houses
which. in spite Of their not infreq- sent
oCCUDation I'm trade. their occasional
leading forth Of an adventurous colony
remained for the most part grUrlbliug
aud half forgotten. while the main
stream of Hellenic life swept past them.
Tl-ry were men Of courage and musC-e,
or n, hunters, runners. boxers: If need
came, great warriors, though only IN the
manner Of their ancestral tradition,
with none OF your modern book learn
inS or siege tactics Their object was 10
be good men" and they meant by
goodness what their grandfathers
had meant. If they were outstrippel in
the race of life. it was as their great
ancestor Ajax had been beaten by the
unworthy Odysseus. Pindar added an
other quality 10 the goodness, % or Arete
which he required. Of his patrons: the,
must spend spend their money ard
strength and effort freely. for the at
tanning and maintaining OF their Arete.
Il was a great ideal I'm its day, and
Pindar conceives OF IL greatly The mis-
fortune is that in the NTH century II
has ceased to correspond to outward
facts. The time which created il was
the period after the great race migra-
tons, especially after the Dorian con
quest ct The Peloponnese. Mr.. Louis
Dyer has shown how the Olypmian TeS>
tival is derived from an ancient pre-
Dorian gathering of number OF neigh
boring villages at d center which they
called ''Pylos.' a gathering of the or
binary fOur-yearly type, with common
worship and sacrifice, open competitive
games, and opportunities for settling by
discussion and arbitration any intercOm-
munal difficulties A general truce was,
Of course, necessary for any such COM
mon meeting. and was enforced as
usual. by taboos and curses. Eventual
IL the whole territory Of Ellis. in which
the festival was held, was declared ''Sa-
cred OF. in modern language. neutral,
and anX invasion OF it forbidden
After the Dorian conquest this fes-
tival became widened and glorifed The
Peloponnese became fun OF conquerinE
warriors out OF work, athletes Of war
with no one left to make war on. TE,-
games ban a much closer relation TO
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-20
COunterfeiters Caught.

In drawer stored away was a de-
scription Of just such a pair Of hands.
handed him by a prominent detec-
tive. and with it an assurance Of a
$500 reward for anyone giving inform
alton for same. In friendly and on
hand way he photographed the mans
hands, and sent copies to the detec-
tive who gave him the description.
Nothing was heard for week or
more. when one day the detective and
two other officers entered and very
gently asked il so-snd-so worked
there, and could he be seen. Good
morning. Nj. C.. Are you Nj
c.? You are wanted i'm PhiladeI-
phia as the leader Of the gang who
manufactured the famous Monroe 500
bill. Mr.. c. was tried and SEN
fenced. and with him forty-eight
more persons, all of whom were led
by the thumb or thumbs Of this no.
torious crook.
The Monroe hundred" was a 500
SILVER certificate with the face OF
President Monroe stamped upon II.
1t was of a series of 1881. and an alb
solutely perfect counterfeit. Experts
in the Treasury Department were
fooled by IL. The notes became so
numerous and were accepted so OK
tensively that the Government called
in its entire issue Of the bill. amount
ing to several million dollars. Even
now a Monroe hundred" is OCCASION
ally picked up. and it is almost i'm
possible to tell whether it IS genuine
or not
The only difference between the gen
Uinc bin and the counterfeit was in
the shape Of the figure and and the
length Of tine bill In the figure 3
the loves loop did not extend up so
far toward the center Of the figure as
IL should have extended. In the figure.
- the space between the base and the
center cross line was narrower than
ii was II the eRuine
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-20

The inm. .nse fame Of the OIympiad
festivals comes largely from their hay
uS been chosen as giving ar era, or
means Of dating other events. The RO-
mans had apparently a fixed tradition
Il the founding Of their city; they
could date historical occurrences by the
,ear alb urbe conaita. There was no
liked era for the Greeks. Some his
-oIians dated from the fall Of Troy; but
opinions varied within some six hun
bred years as 10 the time OF that occur
renee itself There We're divers other
systems Some dated by the archons at
Athens. or by the priestesses in the
temple Of Hera al Argos. But, apart
from other objections. neither system
was International. and both implied that
the reader must know his list of archons
or priestesses by heart. The archons
were more satisfactory than the priest
esses because they had. at least. a
fixed term Of office. \ priestess might
hold office for one year or for thirty.
But. obviously the great four-yearly
festivals formed a better basis for dates
than either. and among such festivals
the Olympian were probably the best.
True. the Pythian games at Delphi we're
tLllE as ldutOuS anu INSPIRED lar more
religious feeling But the temple at
Delphi was too much exposed 10 dis
turbance and pillage Olympia lay quiet
out of the main track Of war and poll
teal trouble. And Olympia professed.
truly o.. falsely, TO have record of
ali conquerors since the great recon
struction OF the games in 776 B. c. The
games themselves are just declining
from their prime glory at the time when
we hear most about them in he fifth
century 3. C
Bodily prOwess was sim such an i'm
pOrtant quality in man that, if any
great athlete happens - play part in
history. the historians generally mention
his victories in the games. But il was
no longer an age in which Shaw. the
life guardsman, could seriously be re-
garded as a more admirable warrior
than the Duke Of Wellington And in
Pindar, the writer from whom we hear
most praise of the games. there is 2
constant undercurrent Of regret. irrita-
ton. almost bew;iderment. that the
world is no longer attaching proper i'm
! portsnce TO the great boxing and horse
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-20

var JEaU modern athletics have. and
the idea OF Arete. or goodness In "a
man on "a warrior had become promr-
uent and forceful iu the Greek world
The conguerors OF the Peloponnese
liked the 07portUn5 y eft prscucinE Arste
and displaying it one against another.
Only the mobiles. ass rule, had leisure
Tor such exercises. FfeSiod. the peasant
poet never speaks of the games
rtither is Piers TIuu-uual Interested
i'm Journeys. NouIes or other races
Joined i'm The wealthy new nobility Of
CiciIv and Italy not only won horse
racss-tuey had more money 10 buy
expensive horseS-huJ actually diStin-
guished themselves in personal prowess-
The games served a great purpose
Trey gave q harmless and humane out
let 70 the fighting spirit of many. con
qUering tribes They Kept UP the in
valuable tradition of I'e- colo friendly
MEETINGS between neiEhbor states, Of
the security of the public roads. OF the
notion of a fixed international state Of
peace and decent conduct even in the
midst OF warning units And they
served intensely. almost toG intensely
TO keep Up that desire for goodness
iud ed by competitive standards which
is at the root Of many Of the best and
worst qualities Of ancient Greece. Like
most conquering nations. the classical
Greeks were good sportsmen-~ on The
whole, one can see that Pindar's men
neither cheat nor accuse others Of
cheating. and mostly take a defeat like
men Il is only boys who are said 10
jeer al q defeated competition. and those,
I suppose. We're the boys who looked
on. not the boys who competed.
The decline IN the Importance Of the
Games came when the idea OF good
ness changed. Arete began 10 be
identified in part or whole. with So
rhia. Goodness began to include Owls
dom, or the qualities Of the intellect,
and the old p4rejy athletic virtues in
evitably paIed- True. a strong eIe-
ment Of wisdom in various forms
found its way into the Olympian festi-
val FerodotLs read his wonderful
book aloud there. The great fifth cen
tury sophists IecCured there. Poets re-
cited their poems Hippias illustrated
how the wise" man was self-suficius.
and should be the maker Of his own
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-20
How They Were Caught.

= night OF 50 afl-r he proposed that
they play a NV game. and see who
bad ,he queeresE thumbs. DEE went to
lis room md 1rr3aco5 "a package Of
WAX he haa bought t.e same day. ana
All dipped fingers in just for che I'm
of IL. He declaring the first the wax
stuck 70 was tho bad vn=. ANA Should
have last go. OF turL His next thought
Sunrise. IT, uevJ morning fraui HIM
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-20
Thumb Prints Caught Him.

a search II many months and sJH
the hoy or man was not 20 he found
one day the devtiSt and several youne
students were talking the Incident
over, when one discovered ;he thumb
imprint or the cast.
The story was related TO the detec-
tive force and the cast given them
with information Of the trunk and
boxes OF other articles. It was only
three days later when walking leisure
" on their beats these officers were
attracted by men putting in window
glass. and. stopping 20 examine the
work. noticed the broad thumb print
in the putty.
Upon investigation it was found to
be the collector OF all the trunk and
boxes fun Of articles. He was cor
nered. arrested. and convicted. and
has yet several years to serve.
one OF the most thrilling cases ever
brought to light and to justice was
the act Of a supposed minister Of the
gospel. who worked on innocent
farmers. He would make his visits
late in the evening and request shelter
for The night and was always hos
pitably received. He proved a good
taIker. Just about retiring time a
couple would drive up and ask the
farmer where a minister could be
found to marry them. and OF course
the minister got the job. The farmer
was an interested spectator Of the
happy affair. and. at the conclusion. of
the solemn words that made the sup
posed clippers man and wife. was
benevoleutly delighted to sign his
name. as d witness. TO an elaborate
marriage certificate. which the min
lister hshed up from his little black
grip as a present TO the bride and
bridegroom. In the morning that sig
nature appeared at a bank in the
neighboring town. at the foot Of a
check for a large amount. and was
cashed without question.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-20
Thumbs OF the Dying.

A. ;ue approach OF death, the thumb
OF he dying, as taken with some
vague fear, takes refuge under the
finger, which announces tho near end.
Man alone. because he mas thumb
thai is to say. rcasop-knous death.
"Thc thumb" says D'Arpentisny.
'individuaiizes the hand" on the
BAL or cushion-llke surface Of the
Two Joints Of tae thumb. as mde. d
on The other fingers. there is seen a
kind Of spiral formed by fine grooves
In tho skin These are alike in no two
inc'viCuals Nature, never duplicates
these aarkinss. Examining even 4
thousand million thumbs would show
them al to Ice distinct and different
InoIy!duaiized by some innnitesmaI
variation. these markings never
change from birth to death. and the
risht thumb differs from the left
The Chinese do not take photographs
OF their criminals. They merely force
them 10 press their thumbs on a piece
col waite n"r'r covered with anilir.
dye. India ink or similar substance
The resultant impressions are stored
away. classified and brought out years
after IL necessary, 70 identity a sus-
pected person with one who has al
ready received his diploma for crime.
In many parts or the empire thumb
marks are used on passports, for thew
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-20

cloak runiC. boots and signet ring. a
well as the author Of his own peace Of
mind When HippoIyrus wished q
stand high in the great games Of Hell,
las" he was probably thinking more o.
wisdom" than Of pure athletics. But
in reality wisdom had not much
chance of cutting a good figure at thess
contests Make the most sympathetic
arrangements you viii a lecture b.
huxley and a recitation BY Tennysor
would scarcely have "a fair show at
say, the Henley regatta or the OxfOrt
and Cambridge sports, not TO speak OF
Epson The spiritually active part Of
Greece devoted itself more and mOrs
TO Wisdom tHe mere pressure Of the
world worked. as usual in the direc-
ton Of success and money making. and
Pindar's Dorian mobiles were left &C
cultivate their splendid bodies and
their expensive horses somewhat in q
backwate Of the rational stream True
they had more influence on ordinary
adult life than athletes now have
Euripides. though a good athlete him
self, once or twice denOUnCes their in
fuence with an intensity which would
not be too great in modern public
school
Plato gently satirizes the fashionable
young AtroniaEs who showed theIr
aGmirauouOof things Spartan by acquir-
ing. at much inconvenience, broken
noses and ''prizefghter's ears" And Il
remains true, and a rather Important
truth. that in the comparatively simple
conditions Of ancient society g mans
body was much more with him and
more important to him than it is now.
The tOOthlesS and short-sight6d mar
had then no Oculist and dentist to put
him, as a matter OF course on an
equality with his fellows The fiabby
rnTn was not hidden behind good tailor
ing. the obese man did not fly lightly on
a motar car; he waddled and perspired.
and cOrreSpOndingly there certainly
Was-the statues alone would prove it
q great deal OF sincere admiration for
an object which has now been so long
and sedulouSly hidden from human ewes
that 10 has whitened like a starved
plant out OF the sun, the healthy and
weli-develOped human body.
But in the main, though the CON
courses Of people at Olympia we're prob
ably greater in the fifth and fourth
centuries Jhan in the seventh and sixth,
the inward meaning OF the games was
passing rapidly away at the very be-
ginning Of our classical period.
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had been inserted. so that its sigma
ture line came right under the opening
left for one Of the witnesses. and. in
consequence. the farmer was actually
signing a check on his own bank when
he good naturally witnessed the fake
marriage
Nothing was heard Of the minister
"r tho happy pair for nearly a year or
rather until they had prICticcd rhis
same method on several of jhe nno-
cent farmers several times. and had
collected y snug sum for each mem
ber Of the party
one dav it was announced that two
of the farmers would give S-o' to any
police or detective turning over 10 the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-20
How 1t Was Worked.

The certificate Of marriage was
printed on heavy cardboard and.
whenever names or dates were 10 be
written in, the cardboard was cut
away with a beveled edge. and the
writing was done on smooth paper
pasted on the back or the certificate,
and showing through the beveled
holes. The effect was ornamental and
nothing wrong about it could possibly
be suspected. Between the two sheets
OF pasteboard, however, a bank check
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-20

or for a tramp over she country -
md The GuDed farmer. n due course
il time he landed az the farmhouse.
at first being very c5id!y received.
the farmer having Had euopzh expert
suca with friendly callers
After a half hours talk the farmer
was satisfied that his new VISITOR wa
D.. earnest. gave ov-r the cheek
The detective ar once was satisfied
that he aad the right man. and started
straiah- for town. where DE had The
mcgr prints enlarged. revealing, not
only che wouId-he minister. but the
happy pair, who were really man and
wife and had six little ones. The two
raeu were tried and convicted The
vyou'l-be minister died in prison serv-
ing his term, and the other was
gray-haire6 man of sixty when re-
leased.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-20
Big Thief Caught.

A few years ago. III course OF transit
between New York and New Orleans
an express packet Of paper money had
been opened and S22.5OO Of the original
amount had been abstracted. Two Of
the seals had been broken and one
had been resealed by thumb pressure.
The solution Of the mystery baffed
the most ingenious work of the best
detectives until. in despair. the matter
was referred 10 an expert in hand
writing and other methods Of identi-
fcation. Noting the faint impression of
the thumb on the middle seal. he OBJ
tanned wax Impressions Of the thumb
Of all the officials OF the particular ex-
press companies through whose hands
the packet was known to have passed.
These impressions we're photographed
and enlarged and one Of them clearly
agreed with the thumb impression seal
of the broken envelope. The thumb
mark Of one Of the most trusted Off
cials Of the. company thus betrayed
him, and he was promptly arrested.
tried. convicted, and sentenced.
SO the thumb will speak when the
tongue remains silent
a true and interesting incident Of
where the thumb was the most prom
inent and truthful is told by a New
York photographer.
This man had hung in his show
case the sign. one morning.
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gold and the teeth, the impression cast
also went. he keeping it for a keep
sake. About a year afycrward the
dentist received a hurried call one
afternoon L. extract a few teeth FOR
an old colored woman.
Tho dentist made a quick response.
and upon entering the room. the first
thing that his eyes. rested ON was the
plaster paris impression.