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The Brussels Post, 1904-10-13, Page 70-0-O0.00-0.000-00000-0.0.0-0 "Jim the Ponman." 0000 00-0-0.000-0-0-10-0-00-0-0-00.0 I. "One of the celovorest and most pitiless sicoenclrels." ems Mr, Sur - fault nallesetine's verdict on "Jim ' the Penman." "That man better de- served hanging then most of the peo- ple who go to the gallows." 41* I quite agveo witli hint. Fiction - so writ ers have invested "j im the Puns n - lt•l". ma" with a falso kind of glory. The / ' scoundrel Nvas the cause—ono of tho counsel wlio permeated him told me —of no is than seventeen innocent people being convicted, Of loss in- nocent persons—men whom Ile in- •duceci s to become his accomplices— four were sent to penal servitude for life, two were sentenced to twenty years, and two to ten ,years! He had a wonderful faculty of get - 'f ting all concerned with Min into I "trouble," allft a, wonderful faculty for avoiding disagreeable ooneequene- I es to himself. I doebt whether the o dock at the Old Bailey ever held a greater villain than It did that day when, on March d•till, 1857, "Jim the Penman" made his bow to a crowded ° Illiff court. Ho was a short, stoutly built titan, . with hair beginning to go grey. His r face was rather bloated, and the small, twinkling grey oyes were set under heavy, shaggy eyebrows, His " bearing In the dock was clumsy, and calculated to give the impression that be was an ignorant boor, and • such was, no doubt, the impression he wanted to convey. Xfo bad de- scribed himself as a. "laborer," and he was vainly striving now to act the part. How could an -ignorant, uncultivated laborer bo ono of the cleverest forgers that had over spread panic front one end of the country to the other? It was noticed that the prisoner kept his hands low down in the clock, They would have been awkward wit- nesses to refute his claim as a work- • `,..'' or. They were plump, white, soft • )sandst--vory nimble ones indeed. • . ."..Tim tlie Penman" was in reality . , one James Townshend Seward, a - .4 barrister. of the Inner Temple, who had found the law too slow a means to making wealth, and who had 14 many years since drifted into crime. jot ' 'The chief witnesses against Seward were two of his acconndices—nomed .A.ttwell and Hardwick—who had a • short time previoualy fallen into the hands of justice, and been condemned to penal servitude for life. o I- For three years past something like 'dismay had reigned in London banks ... and commercial circles, 'Hardly a month passed without bankers a.nd merchants being victimized by moans of choquos forged so skilfully that they defied detection by the most skilful and cautious examiners. Even the people whose names were forged lieeitruted, when their manufacture.' signatures were placed before them, to doelare the;v were false. They coeld only arrive at certainty by studying the body of the cheque it- self. "The only way in which X can un- dertake to swear that I never signed that cheque," said ono of the vic- tims, "is from tho fact that Ill.:W(1r owed the person in whose favor it is drawn a eingl a penny, and eertai tily never gave Iiim a cheque for two hundred pounds!" In one yeas no loss than one lion- . ibred and thirty-two forged cheques wero cashed by the London battles. The gang was doing a "roaring bust - 0055." Dank cashiers' were at their wits' ends. The police were bitterly attacked on all sides, The best de - w000 engaged- in tiro work of finding the culprits; and as their ef- forts appeared to bo alr in vain, the banks employed their own staffs of private agents to help than. Now and again a person presenting a cheque would be detained While in- quiries were made respecting it. In , some cases tbe cheques were discover- .' ed to be forged, and the presenters were given into custody, brought - to trial, and convicted, With each con- viction the bankers and police con- s. , gratulatocf themselves with tho hope that they had caught the perpetrator «. of the frauds. They wore disillusion- ed in a . few clays by the discovery that more forged cheques had been , passed, The poor wretches ' who presented those cheques, 8,nd who thus fell in- to the hands of the police, told an extremely incredible story. Thoy stated that, being out of employment and seeldng work, they had adver- tised in the newspapers. In reply, they had received a letter- roguesting them to moot the writer at a public - house or coffee-lioush, and they had eagerly done so. They had been met there by "a voefect geittleman," well dressed, "nice Spoken," and of refined man- ners. This gentleman, after aelcing them many quaetions, and for refer- ences, had engaged them at liberal salariee. Ho was so considerate ita to wish to poy them something to help them till they entered on their regular work, end so satisaed aree to their honesty that, as he had no money in liis pockets he handed the anxiotis opplicant cherme, to bo caelma at a bank neat* by. ,Tlo with that,,p,ht tho money for it," he Said, "and bring it to Ino, here." When the pollee—the cheque turning out to he a forgery—rushing to the pleas sought for tho amiable and irtietftd getUmnan, ho invariably nisei/permed. IsTo one had soon him, et or knew anything •ebont trim. The miserable chrome presenter Was loft to boat. the blnine, mad to extritate o, himself Or go to priSon, 00 might bo. All thane cliectileS Wore forged by' "dins ttio • Penmen." Sateard, When noked after torlyietiost 'rote it was he woe so :MIMI it forger, declared that 114 l eppeSed the knaok Woe tho res AtieswesS. hulls of "natural gift and some perse- verance." "I'vo often worked at a signature for a week," he admitted. "Melly hours to clay, too."' With blm he had assorinted the two SEM MEAVE.11 OM Hardwick, atesi anther named Anderson. Henry Atttvoll was the least clover Of the gang, 1121E1 had Et. very humble part of tho work confided to him. Hardwick was an old (omelet of pe- culiarly Imposing appearance. Tull, white -hatred, of ariaocratie bearing, and the most relined manners, Ile et ated the most favorable impression on strangers. Full of resource, he was imperturablo in the most ember - sassing circumstances, A inlerson rivalled ]frdwi sic and "Jim the Penman" in clevernese in his special department. act woe 11 genius at diegulso anti make-up, Alla Could play a part to perfea lon. With O variety of wigs andan extensive wardrobe provided Isles Auclorson was hardly the same man tWo clays together. Ile would have made a superb "quick -turn" artist. Each or those rogues would have been a danger by himself. Associut- ed together, their power wns therible, Having selected a. person whose name it would pay to form., t,lut nest business was to obtain his signature and cheque-book at the bank he dealt with. Pilo next was for "Jim the Penman" to exorcise his guilty skill, In a few days tho cheque was ready, and the other thieves were called up- on to play their part. In answer to an advertiser seeking a situation, Attwoll wrote, making an appointment at some publio place. Anderson, in disguise, turned up at the place named. engaged tbe would- be clerk, and sent hint off with the forged cheques to the bank, the inno- cent bearer being shadowed there by Attwell. and Hardwiak. Attwell watched from afar off in the street, but the gentlemanly, refined, whites haired Hardwick accompanied the cheque -bearer into the very bank it- self. If the cheque was cashed without any trouble, ito presenter Was WatCh- ed back again by Anderson's spies, to see that the money was dilly handed to his employer. II there was trou- ble in the bank, and the cheque was questioned, and its bearer detained, Hardwick signalled to Stilwell, wait- ing outside, to convey tho news to Anderson, who transformed himself, with fresh Wig end clothes, into an- other person, and disappeared before the police arrived on the scene. The plan, oimple as it appears, worlsod rernarIcably succeesfully for a long tbne. Like all schemes of tho kind, thowever, it was doomed one day to ignominious failure. The two chief dlIficulties to the operations of the gang wore the obtaining signa- tures for Seward to copy, and pro- curing the cheque-book necessary. It required considerable ingenuity. In order to secure the signatures of soma Yarmouth solieitors, whom tho thieves hacl marked as persons whose names would be worth forging, Alt - well and Hardwick ware despa tched there. They called upon the firms, and Instructed them to write let:tors to certain persons in London, de- manding payment of debts which their clients declared were owing to there. Those debts 55010 perfectly tmeattlarY, QS wove the persons to whom the letters were odclressed. These letters should have been re- ceived by Seward, who was anxious, ly looking forward to tho signatures put to them. Jiy an error made, however, la tho addresses given by Attwell and Hardwick, some of the letters were returned. The solicitors became suspicious. The police made inquiries respecting the 50 1(00(1 th visitors, and at last arrested them. In Attwell's rooms they discovered papers whidh so implicated him and his aristocratic: companion Hard- wick in the forgeries that the two woro brought to trial, convicted, and sentenced to penal servitude for life, Cooling their heels in their prison - cells, these gentry quickly grew envi- ous of their accomplices' freedom. Why should. "Sfim tho Penman" and Anderson tho Changeable go free? In- formation given to the authorities, they shrewdly suspected, would also probably secure some mitigation of their otvn sentences. They resolved to toll all. When they Had done so, however, it still remained to find Mr. James Totenshend Seward, 'rhat gentleman liad is very accurate notion of how Lan one thief may rely on another when anything is to be obtained by betraying hirn, and P6 had disappear- ed. He lied also, it; soon become evident, nevor trusted his nrcomplic- es so fully as to absolutely disclose his identity to them, or oven a per- manent lodging. But at last "dim the Penman" fell into his enemies' hands. Som o de- tectives on his trock visited it pulalic- house in a by -s'ti'nt, off Oxford Street, No one like "Jim tlic Pen- man" was there. They waited, and consulted where they should scorch next, As they did so, tho door into their room opened, and it while -faced Man, with peering, grey eyes under heavy brows, looked in, shoat* back, and :het the door hastily. "That's the anan we wattl" gaeped cate.of the detectives; anci they dart- ed off atter the appaeition, In a few minutes "Jim 1.1ion Esentrian," eatery handcuffed, was being earriod away to tee pollee -station. Anderson was orrested later, and he end SeWard appeared in the dock together, to retooled their swifts in the shape of sentences of penal servi- tude for life, have said flint Sawnrd posed at Iii8 trill]. na it Joborer, Ho protencied also to be so omor as not to have enough to pay a solicitor to 'defend Mfrs tle toothy poteee.esed very little money, in spite of all the largo sums he had made by hi a villainy. Crie1111- Ale aro nIrrioet irrectriably fool, and SaWard tn,q no axoopttott it Woe robbed of the Money he made by forgery by eartioliorpere, Itiro mot libre at the gambling tab1e.—Lor010.11 eSsOoessessosonentotSon.neetseenossoossonoos. r The revere :dart Waltit iii ono of ,the plainest of the new designs of cot- CHEESEPA.RINGECONOMIES rc)ri and linen only. It must bo ex- + Fashion .,:troniely well made to carry mit its SPAIN LOST CTJBA. FOR A rxw .4, ohn of swagger trirnnees. 73OTTLES OP QTJINISIE, tit i 'rho cut Is of the bre/eldest and wide und it, takes et full, high chest so - Os ....Talk ,,,„, Ono expanse properly, it le Pored ,loorereCshosfttiianigtsof the , Now the Pritish Admiralty Haxn- S se*, ;1111E1 eorrect carriage to maintain o t !perfectly plain extiopt for the revers tti4:41:"2.4.4.4.4":"......,..“:40x.t..1)144ve turning back on each side from the fastenings al tile fronts, which meet mh.I,O,rav,nicue lino nitiiitifixe,ciltutili,se kwv•oll:Iduit,liount With ns tiny bo and loops. 'rwo- econ- thirds of I he way to the waist line Kerguelen Land, now mutr her trot, the provision and sis, .1 t or clo- the revere narrow abruptly, The regular short sleeve, with the 9°Ifor 8liflooss's'1""1 fooriosrs, whish wets established there isy Britain osw alb()W spring, it pin in mann ish collar, black satin string Ito and 001110 thirty years ago. This means bleak Patent leather belt, complete that heneeforward any sailors who this shirt waist, may have tho misfortune. to be cast SHIRT WAISTS, Since znatinee jackets and lointging robes, however lovely, aro barred /1'0111 OS I./Nal:1E1S5. table in these won groomed days, the shirt walet lias grOW11 to bo the accepted gar- ment fur Gully morniag wear, And so one is ready for shopping, market- fliff, business or outdoor sports withoet loss of time, and always looks delittiously, crisply freelt and sweet. But to keop womesi. of ever chang- ing fancy front growing bored with the shirt waist, even at its best, every season shows a charming var- iety of now designs and new material adalited to the good old COM.111021 001100 garment, And, SO that the waist is left loose over the bust, shoulders and aruse, the girth ie none too snug, anti it is cagy to put on end comfortable to Icee.p on, end- less vaele.tions can be sprung -with, ut it murmur. The prettiest of the changes this fall are elioWn in the Quaker, the sailm and the surplice style, all built 011 shirt waigt lines, all simple, washable and adjusted to the athle- tic figure of the day. These waidte aro W0111. WILI1 any sort of short .skirt—tweed, homespun, hoesockt cheviot, storm serge or Burlingham cloth. If of stnooth cloth, the skirt harmonizes in color; if of rough, the color is not considered As to colors, the restriction bars out white, that is all white, which has reached the atrophy of an over muccesoful whim. In the cottons, all tho prettiest and newest aro dotted or striped with color or lia.ve broche figure or aro checked with IN All ENGINE HOSPITAL, How Stearn Giants and Railway Carriages are Repaired. Railway engines, like human beings are subject to 'a multitude of com- plaints, and, altinnigh iL is not gen- erally known, every railway has at least one hospital where these steam giants are nursed back to C011Val-, upon the desolate shores of this un- tated island, will liave to shift for themselves; ond it is only rt cam., Is likely to be, unless speed- ily rescued, too certain whet their Otte, in sueh Even the British have not held al- together tdoof from exercising simi- lar robelireeted economies, loor instance, by order of 5 he Ad- miralty, in I51I5-1, it was decided to no longer pny the mo toward, eseence. As a rulo each hospital is which up till then had been granted capable of accommodating lifty en- to poarl-flehers EMU others reporting ginee, whilst there aro enoaller hos- uncharted reefs in the clangorous pilots for railway carriages and Torres Straits, separating Aua. strali trucks, from Nov fleinea. levery engine, on arriving in from The result oho that, on Februnry O long journey, is thoroughly ex- 26t1i, 1890, the Qtmesland liner (Sti- arnined, aod if any defect is reported ate., with an enormously 's'aleable an engineer proceeds to diagnose the cargo, stoma: on an unknown rock asst., and writes out in detail on a. off Cape York, hi, these same 'a - form the nature of the damage, tors, and whereupon the engine is at once put WENT TO TILTO 1301717011I. out of traffic and goes to he:vital. About 1133 lives were lost out of The hospital itself is a large Riled 282, amid terrible scenes of panic. filled with gigantic machinery, Yet it was clearly proved at the in - which cuts steel like popes., and enormous cranes, each capable of gull's' that the catastrophe might have been avoided. Fos' the existence lifting forty tons and travelling 2,- goo feet, a minute, in toe gi.11, of of the rock on which the vemsel which an engine seems liko a shav- ing. As soon as the engine arrives here a foremen takes her in hand, blocks of color. Cotton cheviot is studies the engineer's report, and usunlly striped and Madras has the then eels a gang of men to repair broth() effect the injury. As a rule there are 500 The cotton and wool cheviot looks nion engaged in the hospital, and exactly like the all cotton, except their object is to get the engine at that ft comes also in plaids and bril- work again as soon as posotble, since liant two -toned chooke, and the wash she is it dead loss to the company flannels show all tho loveliest of tho while out of vane. new fall shades, the dahlia, copper A big railway company will bave coque de recite, onion, skin nnd oak from fifty to ono hundred engines in tones, front the palest to the deepest hospital every week, but some of and richest hues. these can be returned to duty again The wash flatmels are the newest in a few hours, An engine :seldom waist material, and prophesy, with lasts niore than twenty years, and their fineness, light weight, beauti- ful colors and qualities in the laun- during that Linn she is laid lip for a weelc for thorough overhaul dry, a partial eclipse of the hand - LIVERY FIGIITEMN MONTHS. 8001081 cottons, at least for tho wo- men who dread the chill of cotton A boiler will be useless after ten or linen. years' work, Mit as it is made up But the fall linens are itt womler- of fifty long tubes all of which must ful colors, too, quite different from stand a pressure of 100 pouters to the woollens. They axe in the the square inch, the woncler is that roughest • weaves—butcher's linen, it lasts as long. If an engine goes coarse homespun and a very rough iuto hospital on account of RS 110i1- apanese weavo—and in all the won- or, every tube is made to stand it derful colors of the old vegetable test of 210 pounds Co the meteor dyes, tho dull blues, greens and yel- inch, lows of real nournoy cloths, and in exquisite tetra cotta anti real Indian Tim speed with which an (eagle° can be repaired is marvellous. Unless reds. They, too, wash well and she has been In collision she can make up a shaSfe smarter in the fla- ish than wool, because of the body • ' • probably be mended without polling in the material. • her to pieces, ns an engin° is •mado The Quaker shirt waist is demure in a nuiltitudel of parts, alumet ev- and sensible, ceisp and businesslike, ory one of w iteh can be removed • singly, Moreover, net engine con - and quaintly 'feminine. Tee body of the waist is iest a tains a good deal of timber, a fact Vain cosmopolitan blottE0 without which; most travellers are unaware any Opecial flavor, loose and full of., The boiler lies on a bed oft Toe wood to localize tho heat and enough a nd Inconspicuous. Quaker elTect is gained by a three piece cape, the back part cut circu- lar and cixtending over the shoulders where the front pieces are tuoked on to the edge. The f rents then cross modestly over the chest, leaving a heart shav- en space to be filled in by a stiff thee -Lisette. Tho cape reaches nearly to the girdle, It is of oak brown wash flannel, tho capo embroidered about the hem with reddish brown silk. The long tie, which is pulled through a slash In tbe cape, is of a still deeper se lalTpkie; and iloreoly masculine coney 'tie and the maiclonly little bib are a sample of this seaeon's many incongruities. The sleeves are a circular putt to meet the deep Puritan fitted cult, which is also em- broidered This design is prettiest worn with a full soft cashmere skirt in har- monious tone, with a band or two of velvet for a modest decoration. The surplice staid waist, like the others, is an absurd mixture of early nineteenth century demureness with the m.ost exaggerated mannish ef- fects of the ultra masculine sports - 1501111515. Fancy an ivory white cheviot witlt O faint stripe, neatly tucked and machine stitched -with violet silk, cut in the plainest old tithe surplice way, crossing neatlo over the bosom, buttoned with fine trimness by violet art tourean buttons, aad then in- stead of a bit of yellow loco for is bib, a stiff linen shield and boy's turnover collar and conventional string tie. Tho sleeves for this blouse are too new not to hash special mention. There is a wido eiecular puff to just below tho elbow, then fine tucks to meet a narrow cuff, This upper puff and loeg cuff is the most fashionable sIva, so far, oT the fall. A few grist wnist houses, however, aro utterly ignoring eccentricities) even novelties, and putting out the plainesit sort el mannish 8hirt in cotthe or linen. The favorite dolor's aro cornflower blue, pale copper, and the yellow of the limo skim Robinson, and the other Admiralty (Uncials responsible for allowing the ship to ff0 10 Sea, who were haled before a Government Commission Joel severely comet:roil. TUB I'OTATO imETL,N. In 3802, Meet the great civil war broke out in the lIoiloel Statue of America, rele,17,11111(11t Wag, quitsna- turally, lila order of the day, And U100115 other payments ordered to WEALTHY RUSSEL SAGE BIGIITY-IGIIT, AND STIZT, EVUKING MOITEr.. Born a Poor Boy, Brow Worth One Hundred ollars. Most any man cart make a del - be diseontinued woo ono of .$25o 'ars" Mrs. Bessie Sege said, a yestr year. which the Federal Governmesti or so ego, when speaking of her won - the derful husband; "but it talc's a wise at Wasleington had boon allowing State Govinannent of Wievoreita 150 itS nr,10,11 to knew how to save a dollar," withusi aftet.„.„tootisesusino nosooi„„o smisr rnore then sixty years the had boon be ruirtIsb utt•filcein 1 itt(tIvon rdia8 set7iijoisf41. qcgtPd yle)Yri t LAT: tAsotlotiOn,818igileICOrinfloSit• saving dollars "all the time," until the name of tho Colorado Potato 13to-day scarcely he himself could give 71illec;. result was that Wisconsin their number within it few hundred thousurecfs. Others have estimatec! abandoned lis efforts in the direction unheated, the beelles more:teed and multiplied - ,in bee lc ed , swarmed oast- s% rds right up to the AE.121111.1E! filll- bosnsJ, and clici damage eolinutted at no fewer than .97:10,005,,o0o. them for hien at a hendred millions, and he has not troubled to clony the impeaelunont. Tint lift-storst of this doyen of mil- lionaires is curiously like that of doyens of other Americhns who liave The newly-croatecl Government of the A ust Tali an Commonwealth, amassed colossal fortunes. Threes quarters of a rentury ago he was again, set the world, only this other working on his fother's stnall farm day, about as bad an example in this dimus, an 11 is pos„ibie t,±11 Orkeida County, New York, mid volvof. be considered his foe -Lune made when, cone The overland telegraph lino that at the mature age of twelve, his two- lienry gave him a place behind spans the Island Continent from th" the counter of his Troy grocery store South to North, passes through two thousancl miles of more or less wild and desert countey, inhabitated for the moot part only by wail:tering "black fellows" and adventurous white bushoton. At the repairing and maintenance stations it has been the custom, up till 21019, to keep medicine chests for the relief of el - Meted people, irrespective of color or class. Now, however, this is to be tire case no longer, the Ccmnion- wealth Government having refused to vote the necessary funds $150 a year, struck had been known locally for at least three years. Only, the gra- Wily for the information being no CURIOUS COINCIDENCE. longer forthcoming, nobody made it their bueiness to conummicate tho fact to the proper au (hod t ies. For a few bottles of quinine Spain lost Cuba. In that fever -stricken is- land this drug is more important than food or drink even, to the un - acclimatised lOuropean. And, until tho cloee of 1895, the soldiers of the garrison were regularly supplied with it by the home Government. Than some wiseacre in Madrid, who had never been near Cuba, and knew nothing of "yellow jack" or malaria, ordered the discontinuance of the ",medicine ration," as it was called, on the score of expense. General Canapes, the Captain -General of the island, knew what the order meant, and protented vigorously; but ho was not listened to. Some montlis later half his army was 021 the sick list, the "rebels" had broken through his wookened military cordon into the rich Western Provinces, end with this came the practical overthrow of Spanish do- minion in the last and fairest of her foreign possessions. When. in 1838, the French Govern- ment destined any longer to pay the. wages (about $1325 a year each) of the three men whose duty it was to see tb the stability of certnin dykes along the banks of the Inver Rhone, they probably did not anticipate that anssil.hing very dreadful would come of it. Yet 'hardly two years had passed when one of tbe neglect- • ed dykes suddenly gave way in the this needs repair the engine is swung night, and, almost before anybody aloft by the • cranes, enabling --lEl e had time to realize what was hap - workmen to crawl in nnd out of her poising, like pigmies over a Gulliver.. Every moment Oho is in hospital has to be SIXTY THOUSAND ACRES , accounted for, and when sent back of fertile land were ender water, and to (Tuts: sheis givea a cortilicate as loindrecls of human beings and massy O disilewhaar aterriaatgicesntOre treatal much sheep wore drowned. scores of thousands of cattle and Bet frt the aerne way, each one being ex- pow people are aware that the lato amined by three inspecters atter a President of the now defunct South run. Perliass (lie brake :hoses signs African Republic, was once a paid of weasine, or a wheel is thinning, servant of tlie British Government, In which case the chief inspector Yet'such 1s tho fact, sticks a. label on the calving° win- His SalarY WEIS, roughly, about dow, winch declares the vehicle un, $900 it year. Somebody in London 01 for duty and states the natois of cut it down by $100 or so. Ancl the defeet. Repairs to a railway care "Oom. Paul" was so bitterly incon- riage seldom take long to effect, but sod, and said so many nasty things (hiring its average lite of ten yeass a about the Government, and its mean gloat really visits to the hospital way of doing business, nett Sir may bo necessary. A largo raltwny Theophillis Shepstone, the British company invariably sends soo rail- Administrator, dismissed him alto - woe' oarrioges and trucks to hospital gather. every wok, end during Iliso pronstere Kruger thereupon resumed his old of tile holiday Beason this numbee is role of political agitetor, end to increased, eusili good purpoge that tha 13ocos shortly afterwards broke into that IT INTERESTED TIER. armed rebellion which regaled in M• tuba and all tbat resulted at - your"And what is to bo the subject, of "Well, my dear young lady, I can toarwmiaste.lsrt. lecture to -night, Professor?" $100 note saved 011 El. pot- ty official's sidary in a distant end, hardly hope it will have Much hates - t that time. unregarcied Colony, est for you, I shall lector° on 'Sun eat evenotatt,,‘r more than Spots.' " 000,000, 111151over 21,000 mem rind 'Oh, but that's of the greatest in- terest to me. I shall certainly come, coloo within all flro of bringing' about the downfan of Britain as a V011 11E1V0 110 idea .110ES suffer front eorld's power, freckles." There heave been many land exam - Meg of cheoseparing by the British NO FUTURE MoSPPICTS. War Office and Admiralty respective - :Ms Chargotn—"Your friend needs ly, acting ostensibly in the interest vigorous t sea tmont: I rower maw a of Mos John Bull, but nothing quite man 111 sueli it state of 1110M:el de- so lane es tho afTair of tht.t Ormolu Pression. Can't you convinee him troopship. that the Mimeo holds some bright.- THE FATE Or Trim "111E,GERA," ness for bus'?'' --Tho vessel was roporled waist for Sympathetic Prioncl—"Tat s im- seevice in 18(37, but in (fetter to keep fortunately impossible. TIo has down the estimates successive First drawn his :Wary foe three weeks tato% allowed her to go to sat ahead, and vont the money." oranoned with aoldiere. 'Ger last voyage was in February, ',Dobbs: tens so pleaged with the 1871, what she sailed With shop winclowe," Mrs. Tleitdricks said, ebent feu, litratfred on board for eloping tier soup. "Dear little fel- 'rho model is easy broad across the low, 1 vould scarcely tear him attray shoulders and wido over the bestfrom them," "Vete, indeed," ac - Without ete fulness except 0 gather quiesccd Debby, entliesiaetteally, so wore you, and yott rsaid that if We didn't rnnke haste wo .weosidn't get hove until leech seas over." Willie—"I met olle 155,15 minister on nty Way to SIMALLY-80.1i001,. 111(1.111111a, and he Wired alio if 1 over played marbles on Stnulity." Monier— uirnit Ana What did you ony te Willie—"I said, 'Get, tlioo behind me, Setae(' and walked right ofT and left him," ----- The Mere Welton 000 Of men GM %ere they find to tglittire in 1015001.8, or two at tho belt. There IS a two inch front box plait from shoulder to bolt, double et:Itched. There aro O turnover linen stellar and regolar shirt sleeves with scarcely notieeable gathers at the cuff. The back has a short yoke and no plaits. This is one of the few designs con - :adored smart: in all whito, but itt linen only not cotton, A cheelot Mart, short plaited not Unlike tife Wein, 'is F31mplo and not too heavy, onli the leather belt MettehoS the skirt. Tho buttons on the skirt pirate may auto be of loath, Ors Australia, Three Months later she began 'voicing badly, and nn examina- tion revealed that hor bottom was nearly Worn away by corrosion, many of tlio plates being no thicker than it Sheet or ordieney cardboard. Captain. Thrupp, her rommentler, promptly changed his course to St, Pesil's Island, the eormest land, and there rein the ship ashore. His ac- tion, nitiloubtecily, saved the Men - deeds of lives ietrusted to his charge for Lho rstrasheekle old Itlegeres could hot have kept afloat another forty- eight hours. NoVerthelese, on his retern to Engs land, ho was tried by court-martial. But they dared not convict Inns And, In the end, it Was Sir Spencer Young ladies sometimes "change their names" with curious effect. The Rev, A. Metcalfe, rector of St. Pet- er's, Dorchester, England, in his par- ochial magazine, callo attention to the following extraordinary instance of coincidence of names. He says: "Perhaps some of you noticed the singularity in the last banns of mar- riage published in our church, name- ly, between Charles Rose and Rose Charles, Tho bride lost her surname Charles, but married a Charles Rose, and so became not only Rose Mae, but also Mrs. Charles Rose instead of Miss Rose Charles." RUSSIA'S ANTIMM. The Ruesian National Anthem is the only national hymn which was adopted ne such In open competition. Until tho time of the Emperor Nich- olas determined to institute a genu- ine and native Russian anthem. Ho announced a competition, open to all musicians, for an origintl national hynuo A musical cons ittee re- duced the thousands of entries to two, and between these—the works of (Intake and Lvoff.—the Czar him- self decided. The highly martial character, with the drums and trum- pets, of LvoIT's composition won tho Imperial verdict, and it was decreed henceforth to bo the Russian Na- tional Anthems WHY HE LOST THE PATIENT. physiclan—',Diets Is the main thing in this case. Your husband eats too much. That is a feature of the dis- OEM, and he should be watched." Mrs, Youngwife—"But, doctor, Ito is man, with his steel of splendid hors- alwnys so hungry. What can I do?" es, is content to hong on to a strap in a crowded car on the Elevated Railroad on his way to and from Wall Street. So oblivious is Mr. Sage to things unconnected with coining money taint be line lived for ninnyyears in his present house without exploring it and its grounds. "110 you know," said Mrs. Sago the other day to an interviewer, "my husband has al- ways been so limy that he 'hasn't had time to look round this place. Tho other morning he walked Oround the house like a stranger and suddenly turned to roe and :aid, 'Wheat a beau- tiful place thie is!' That shows you What a busy man ha • is. He's like tho railroad engineer who was so busy that he never saw his children except when their mother brought them down to the station to secs him go by, and said, 'Children; there's papa t' " YOTJ-4110- AT SPIVENTY. The time was—and not so long ago either—when men of sixty-flve 0101 SSE7021ty regarded themselves, ono were regarhed by others, as halving reached that point when they shoula bc willing to retire from tho activi- tiee of life. Our mance/Aloe of the iimn of seventy-five only a few years ago was that of a white-haired pe- triarch who found pleasure only in reminiscences, his pipe in the easy - their, rtnd Ma grandchildren. But the Unica have changed. The aver- eme man or seventy-ffee to -clay ts neitliee bent, Seoblo, nor senile. /To has not retired from tho activities of life that be Is aware of, 1105' has he aoy ideaof retiring. Much less is he inclined to surrender to the youo- ger people /teemed him cosy of Gm re- sponsibilities or plea:elves of exis- tence. Tie evade tho sporting an- num:I rind points out nll the Maori- Oomings Or the tendons drama. Mere. over, ho is °gently atismtivo to the ladies as he was at sixty, at rorty, or at thirty. at the equivalent of 75 cents a week and board. It was out of Ohis micros scopfc income thett Sago began his dewollantsssaving, and withiu a few years h A EULL-BLOWN PARTNER in another grocery store in Troy. A. year later lie Itaci bought his brother out and had launched into the whole- sale trade. Then came lucky invest- ments in raflroads and shrewd Stock Exchange dealings, the ball of For- tune growing largee and larger each year, until 1.0 -day Russell Sage would think ae /tale of lending $5,- 000,000 or buying a railway out- right as many- men would think of investing a $25 note. And what kind of men Is this ven- erable juggler in millions? Just a plain, "rattier shabby" man, with a clean-shaven, shrewd, strong -featured facel—e, man who roaches his Wall Street office every morning at nine, travelling with his (leeks, oftener be- fore them, on the Elevated Railroad, snatching it modest luecheon, the outside cost of which would be a few cents, and not leaving for home un- til he has seen his books and lookesi up and his clerks off tlio And the secret of Ids wonderful success he sums up in tliree words: "economy, regularity, temperance." When Ile was asked a short time ago how lie had been able to lend such a strenuous life and carry youth to the verge of the nineties, he an- swered: "I've done the best I cart with the 'light of dny. Get op early, get hll the daylight you can. Work in it, save in it, and you can do what I have done." Mr. Sago nei- ther smokes nor drinks, and cats sparingly of the simpleet food, his only stipulation being that it shall be tho best of its kind. "I make it a rule," he says, "to get seven hours' sleep every night, and there- fore X always go to bed at ton o'clock sharp and am up again earlyI; TTAS BUT ONE RODDY. Ho loves horses, and has spent some of the few happy hours he has spared from money -making in driving the finost teams in New York along tha Speedway. And yet this remarkable Physician (absently)—"Couldn t you prepare his meals yourself?" -- The Germ,an Crown Prince, when vgr,v young, was taken to church to liessio one of his tutees preach. The tutor gave a very impressive ser- mon, and in the course of it ad- dressed a question generally to the congregation, of course, 1105e5 expect- ing to receive any answer. Before ho could continue his diecourse, how- ever, tho little Prince 'sprang up and, to tho surprise 'and ranamement of everyone, shouted out an answer to the query, Mrs. Hendricks, accompanied by Bobby, had dropped in for a 1110- ment to see Mrs. lia Hobson, and, after mucb'i urging mid entreaty', had finally consented to stay to luncheon. A girl who is too lazy to keep the holes in be5 hosiery neatly darned has no business to monkey with the leap -year privileges. Percy—"Atolly, for your sake I'd shed the last drop of my blood!" 14103l55—"Ye5, all young mon sny that. But somehow they seem very careful never to shod tho first drop," -- First 'Rival Delle—"You have not noticed my ring." Second Rival Bello—"Dear me! It's on the ore. gagetnont finger!" ''Yes, boon there a week." "I had nlmost forgotten that this is leup semis" "Woll, T only lirspo so," returned ITeapeek, with unusual spirit. "I wouldn't want nny boy of mine to, bo so unfortunate as to regetof it QS o 30:ke." .--- Nr.r0 (finding it grew hair)—"T do eo hate to grow old." Husband — "You can avoid that, imsy dear," Wile — "How?" Ilusbrinel —"Dye young," If yon APO not feeling well just take another look at the last bill yonr doctor rendered', end it's ten to ono ,you will feel better. The girl Who is tho most populor With men in general is apt to Make ono man miserable for life. "My dear," Said Sirs. Henpeck, "I'm positive that our George Is thinking eeriottsly of matrimony," 4.1* The Megor sont runielpate a plan. sun tho loss yoll will alley it when it eoltes. An ire -miring sssan tkrust Ills hand into is liorse'm mouth to see how many teethi it had, anti tho horse closed its mouth to sec how many Angers the man had. The curiosity of each was featly satisfied. -- loonier Int hand of strtirs)—"Itlthel, what time is .11?" lo.thel (in drawing room)—"It's a (merles past len, [o- ther." Isitther---"All right, 11,sn't foeget tsl strut the clocti again Mine the young man goes mit to get els broaldast." The girl who is tho poet iediltiorent to 551013 ili tho 0150 15510 most etheire.