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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe East Huron Gazette, 1892-11-10, Page 2y I#r 73 .J. I;x aaVL - " rya a private detective, a calling which is just now the object of a good deal of abuse. Still I don't think society could get on without us. If Scotland Yard is to do our work they will have to get rid of a good deal of red tape, and make their men some- thrag better than mere promoted policemen. There are black sheep amongst ore -but I find evidence; and never undertake to manufac- ture it. Many of my cases are of a very private character, which I could not write about without giving pain, however carefully I try to wrap up the real names and persons. Others are of a more public character, and then, as in the case which I slways ta'k and think of—the " Case of the Bleak Bag" -1 have engaged myself in the investigation of public crime, and beaten the police at their own game. There are some mysteries which contain all the elements of a great sensational crime, and yet for some reasons fail to take hold of the public imagination. Such a case happened shortly after I set up business for myself as a private detective. The body of a man was found in the Thames under circumstances that clearly pointed to murder. The man bad been run through the heart with what the doctor, who gave evidence, suggested was the blade of a sword stick. Nobody identified the victim. He was a middle aged man, dress- ed in a well worn blue serge; there were certain marks on his body, but on his clothes there was nothing that would lead to identification, except that the shirt he wore had the name and address of the dealer —Box, Vine Street, Melbourne. This mystery never, to use a theatrical expression, "caught on." The public per- haps is so used --to the idea of unknown bodies being found in the Thames. I thought a good deal about it. It appealed to my detective instinct, and once or twice the idea came into my mind of what a score it would be for some one in my line of life to wipe the eye of Scotland Yard man in some such erase as this where they had fail- ed to find out anything. I had ceased to think anything about the case, in fact one or two of the same sort, in 'which the police were at fault, had occurred since, when it was recalled tote. A tobacconist, whose shop I used as it was near my office, told me one day that a mat- ter which sometimes troubled him was the disappearance of a lodger of his. " Owing rent?" I asked. " No, he owed no rent," said the tobac- conist, 'for he had paid in advance. It was a curious case. He left a bag behind hint, and I should like to open it." I suggested there was no time like the present. The tobacconist left his shop and came back with a black hand bag and a bunch of ' his own keys. Without much difficulty we. opened the bag. There was not much to reward us ; four old pairs of socks, some underclothing, some tobacco in cakes, a very old pair of trousers, and three flannel shirts. I can't say what impulse made me do it, but just as I was goingto shut up the bag, I took up one of h, the—shirts, though they were not inviting things to handle, and saw that there was a maker's name on it —Box, Vine Street, Mel- bourne. That was, I remembered the name on the shirt of the man found in the Thames. That set my instincts to work. I asked a lot of questions, and learnt that the man was very silent and close, that he gave his name as John Smith, and that he had dis- appeared a day before the body was found in the Thames. I had- another look at the bag, and found, under the lining, two let- ters in envelopes. One was to Mr. John Smith,.104, Blank Street, London. Inside there was just one line—" Meet me to -morrow at 7, Thames Embankment, near -Waterloo Bridge; I will bring what you ask for." The post- mark was the day before the man disappear- ed. The second was addressed to Miss Fan- e ny Waring, 10 Federal Road, St. Kilda, Melbourne. It had an Australian stamp on it. The date on the post -mark was llth June, 1887, just one year before. The letter ran : "Dear Fan, I will call to- morrow evening —Bob." Both letters were in the same hand -writing. I think as soon as I read them I guessed the whole story. The letters were both written by the mur- derer of the so-called John Smith. That the murder was committed to get back that letter -'—which obviously had some extraordinary interest or John Smith would not carry it about with hirn—or to shut the mouth ot the man who had it, who knew a great deal more. The letter was probably harmless enough to its writer now that John Smith's mouth was shut. Yet I could not help hoping that he would try to get it back. I believed that he was a man likely to play a bold, reckless game. I could fancy him passing by the house where Smith lived and knowing that the fatal letter was there: He would make one bold attempt to get it I hoped. That was my one chance. I ought to have taken the letter to Scot- land Yard, but I should have been only mobbed and put in the baekground ; on the other, hand, without means to make an en- quiry in Australia, I was a. good deal Nandi - capped. I did not tell the tobacconist my suspic- ion, for he was a talkative sort of man, bat I asked him not to give up the bag without letting me know. For some days after that I had business of my own—after all the blackbagmystery was not my business—which took up my time and attentian. A few days afterwards the tobacconist's son came to my office and said his father wanted me. " Well, the Iodger has turned up," said the tobacconist, who was standing at the door of his shop with the black bag in his hand. - - " What, have you seen him?" said I thinking- that I had discovered a mare's nest. - I was -not particularly surprised or humil- iated, for one is always doing that sort of `thing in our business. It is not the detec- tive who never follows the wrong clue, but the one who never leaves one who is no use. "No ; but he has sent for his bag ; he is sick in the country, and the clergyman of his parish has come for it.- There the reverend gent le." He pointed. at.the. clerically dressed in- dividual who watt walking towards. ns: --I -had not taken fhe shopman into my confidence, so I could hardly blame him, but his conductaeemed fatal .to me, for the clerically -dressed man, on- seeing he was being Voluted at, turned and walked away. 1 should never catch him up for I had no licdto-call-to my assistance as a Scotland Pard iweonid have. Then an idea oc- mired to me which was rash' and unlikely to succeed, <hut brilliant flukes score in de- -teal/an e- = -tee eve work. I took the black bag from the tobaesonist with a word of explanation, heat Mini believed My finite going, to come off-. lI thought -he was not trying Iris hardest to get away. He had a stick in his band? "There is ablade in that stick, my cleri- cal friend," I said to 'myself ; "and if I am not mistaken, you put it through John Smith." - He got to the nark—was he going to start off and run ? No ; he stopped and doubled, and let me get within a few yards of him. What should I -do, for I had no power to arrest him ? but 1 hoped my fluke would come off. "Yes, it had ; for, like a flash of lightning, he was on me, hitting at me with his stick, and grabbing at the bag with the other hand. I had no stick, but I am not at all a bad man with my hands for an "old 'un" In tact, though I am rather what a pugilist. would call stale, I- ata better than most young men for ne round. Though I was bothered with the bag, I stopped with the hand in which I held it, and let out with the other hitting him under the jaw. He staggered back but did not go down, and then he drew that cowardly blade. I had a friend in my pocket,. and as soon as he drew I had out my revolver and fired, hitting him in the sword arm. We closed, and in a minute or two, as I hoped, a policeman came up, who was soon join- ed by a comrade. Of course there was only one thing for him to do, namely, to take us to the police -station. When we got there I sent for a lawyer whom I knew, and sent off a telegram to Melbourne, to the head of the police, asking if they knew anything of Miss Fanny Waring, Federal Road, St. Kilda. I had very ittle money in those days, but I was ready to chance it, for I believed that I was going to make a great stroke. After I had sent my telegram off, I set- tled myself for the night in my cell. I did not bother about bail, and was contented, for I knew my assailant wag next door. The answer to my telegram came the next morning " Fanny Waring found stab- bed in her house one morning, the 12th of June, 1887. " I sent for a Scotland Yard detective, who I must say looked rather pleased when he saw me in the cells. However, I soon took the swagger out of hirn when I told him I had got the murderer of the man who was found in the Thames, in the next cell. Then I told my story. He tried to make little ofit, but enquiries proved that my theory was the correct one. The sham Parson, alias Bob, of the letter, was the son cf a very rich A'istral- ian. He had made a disgraceful marriage, and Fanny Waring was his wife. He had murdered her to keep the story of his marriage quiet. "John Smith," who was a, friend of the murdered woman, knew the story, and had got possession of the letter which would have brought home Bob's guilt. The Scotland Yard and Australian people worked up the case very well, and if Mr. "Bob" had not been convicted at the old Bailey and been hung in Newgate on the English charge, he would have been con- victed in Australia. At the trial they tried to keep me in the back ground, but they all had to admit that I had distinctly scored. Last to Leave. The feeling which leads the captainof a wrecked ship to wish to be the last to leave her is one easily understood. In the inter- esting volume of reminiscences of the Siege of Lucknow recently given to the public by Lady Inglis, wife of the general whom the death of the heroic Sir Henry Lawrence left in command, an anecdote is related of the abandonment of the British Residency, in which a similar feeling is manifest- ed. It was the Residency or Bailie Guard of Lucknow which was the strong- hold of the besieged during theirtvender- ful defence of eighty-seven days against an enemy overwhelmingly superior.` It was there that they repelled the burrow- ing foe mine for mine ; there that again and again a resolute few turned back the ad- vancing thousands from the riddled and shaken walls ; there that they suffered, hoped, despaired and never faltered ; there that so many of them died and found graves. It was from their flag that Tennyson caught the refrain of his stirring poem of Luck - now : and there alone, during the crisis of the mutfnl, that "Ever aloft on the palace roof the banner of England blew." But after Havelock and Outram had broken through the enemy's lines and brought reinforcements, it became evident that the Bailie Guard, shattered and ruin- ed as it was, could no longer be occupied. It was decided to evacuate it in the night, —a most difficult and dangerous undertak- ing,—and to remove the troops, the wound- ed and the imprisoned women and children to another position at some distance, which was already held by a portion of Havelock's men. - At midnight precisely, in silence and darkness, the movement began, the garri- son nearest to the enemy first quietly with- drawing, and the others then falling in be- hind them—like the turning of a glove in- side out. At the Bailie Guard gate, watch- ing them defile past, stood tlenerals Outram and Inglis with their staff. It was a bitter momtnt to Inglis, who had defended the piece so long and so nobly. He had pleaded that the flag might be kept still flying upon the ruins, volunteering to remain and de- fend it with but a single regiment ; but he had been overruled. As the last company passed by, General Outram signed to him courteously with his hand to take prececence in following them, but he hung back, desiring to be the last. Outram smiled and held oat his hand, say- ing, "Let us go out together." So shak- ing hands, the two generals came down the elope aide by side. Their staff followed, and here again the place of honor was disputed. Captain Wilson wished to be the last ; Captain Birch, aide-de-camp to General Inglis, was determined to be. The two boyish young officers put it to the test of strength, and Wilson, being weak from hardship, as his opponent modestly admits, "could not stand the trick of shoulder to shoulder learned in the Harrow- football fields." He was. thrown and rolled down the hill, and Captain Birch triumphed. But a doubt arose whether all the troops had left ; those who had kept count differ- ed, and Captain Birch was sent back to see. This duty he performed, though with no enjoyment of it, for the danger was great and the silence and loneliness of the familial squares oppressive and terrible. He thought, however, that now beyond all doubt he was the last Englishman in the -place. He was mistaken. Another officer, Captain Waterman, had fallen asleep from exhaustion while the garrison was Marching out, and was left behind. - Weak and ill. the shock of wakingand finding himself alone was so great that thongh he succeeded - in escaping and rejoininghis comrades, he and followed the parson. I could just keep was for some time delirious ; but, he, him in sit, for Blank. Street is hot very though quite againsthis will, was the last - rowde* ' -After taking several turnings, man -to leave the famous Bailie Gusted before b1 of ► Bier Street. My heart- begaai it NI into the hands of the enemy. SHOPPING 1N TRE ROOKIES• business mast include a trade in ding since they would be demanded i tthe min A Palatial Store-in a Western Wilderness. ing and lumber camps and by the rete Sealers ata distance: The purchases of th company are upon such a scale, and -it buy so shrewdly, that the profit must be ver considerable. It is an indication of how th new Western cities are -cutting into Ne York's trade to know that all that th Missoula Company --buys here are carpets dry -goods , gentlemen's furnishings, cloth ing, hats and caps, and some cigars. It imported wines and liquors and its grocerie are bought in Chicago, its sugar and canne fruits in California, and its teas in Japan One hundred and twenty-five clerks salesmen, workmen, and department head comprise the force of attendants an managers of this astonishing countr store, and the capital it "swings," to us a Western phrase, finds outside chance for multiplication by investments in th Blackfoot Mining Company, a land com pany or two, and in a national bank. have mentioned this concern by name an described it, but it must be re-nembere that it is but one of many such trading ventures where one would least expect to find them.—[Julian Ralph, in Harper' Weekly. 1• s fl e $ y e w e s 9 d a y e s e I d d s I am going to the Rocky Mountains to do my shopping ! If anyone in the East heard a lady say that he would certainly take a second look at her. But he would scarcely be more surprised than I was to be in .the thick of the Rockies with Lieutenant Ahern, U. S. A., for a companion, hearing his modest recountal of adventures in the most magnificent wilderness in our country ; and then on the westward slope, among the foot -hills, to step from the cars to a. store like Whiteley's Necessary Store in London, or one of our "shopping stores" on the Sixth Avenue, New York. That was one of the surprises of my experiences in the far West. It was in Missoula, Montana, that I found the unexpected great bazar. It is only fair to say that Missoula has had sly hopes that she might become the capital of the new State of Montana—if the rivalry between Butte end Helena and Great Falls necessitates a diplomatic tendency toward the choice of some place apart from these. But Missoula, though beautiful and kept almost evergreen by the soft winds from the Pacific, is rather the capital -of the thorough- ly un -Eastern strip of Montana on the other side of the Rockies than of the imperial eastern half of the State. When I left the cars at- this place I found it a typical Western town, with one street of shops, with a fine hotel, some business- like banking -houses, a club, and a great scattering of dwellings, sufficient for a popu- lation of about 4000 or 5000 •souls, if my memory serves me right. I noticed one block of stores in particular. They were distinctly "citified" in appearance. They had great plate -glass fronts, and the win- dows were shrewdly and attractively used for displaying the goods within. One was a dry goods store, the next was a boot and shoe store, the next was a grocery, and the last was a hardware and agricultural imple- ment; emporium. All were brilliantly illu- minated by electric :amps. Recovering from the first surprise at finding such mod- ern shops in such a place, I next noticed that all of them were alike and of a piece, and then I saw that they lacked the usual sign -boards of different merchants over tate windows. They were, in fact, buta few of the many departments of the Missoula Mercantile Company's stores, and before I tell more about that, I will intrude a note with regard to such places in general. The first of these great- trading companies' stores that 1 saw in the West were in Butte, the great mining town of Montana, and the liveliest, " wide- openest town it has yet been my lot to run across—one in which the barber shops never closed, and sixteen licensed gambling saloons flared open on the main street. Two of these great trading establishments have their headquarters in that city, and a tour of either one reveals an enormous stock and great variety of goods, "cash railways," lines of young men and girds behind the counters, crowds of elbowing and goods - handling` shoppers, and more of the atmos- phere of Sixth Avenue than one feels in any stores in the generality of Eastern cities that deem themselves quasi -metropolitan. Those who have done me the honor to follow the reports of my wandering will re- call that 1 found great general stores of the kind in Winnipeg and Victoria, British Columbia, and that they marked the de- velopment of the original trading -posts of the Hudson Bay Company, wherever great townshavegrown uparoundthelittleoriginal forts of the corporation. These Montana emporiums are not of the out -growth or fea- ture of any fur trading operations, but they are the result of the same necessity that has developed the fur -trading posts. Here in Montana have come big lumbering com- panies, raining camps, army p)sts, Indian reservations, railway divisional headquar- ters, and one form or another of settle- ments by or collections of men to be supplied with food, clothing, implements, and what- ever. The more enterprising traders have extended their business, until such a bulk of trade has come to them that they can buy in enormous quantities at large dis- count, and have no competitors except one another. This Missoula Mercantile Company is capitalized at a million and two hundred thousand dollars. - I. transacted a business of more than two millions of dollars last year. It has four branch stores in addition to the great central one at Missoula ; one being at Corvallis, one at Stevensville, one at Victor, and one at Demersville, at the head of navigation on Flathead Lake, in northwestern - Montana,near Kalispel, a divisional point on the route of the Great Northern Railway, the last trans- continental trunk -line that is being pushed For every person there is some one thing to the Pacific Ocean. The Missoula com- in life which is paramount, and this absorb. pany does a large jobbing business with ing, dorninating thing, whatever it may be, storekeepers and lumbering and mining comes at length to write itself all over the camps. It is a country A. T. Stewart con- man, in face, habit, action, in his mental cern, wholesaling and retailing all neces- and moral constitution, in everything that series and luxuries to the people of what he thinks, or says, or does. may be called Montana -west -of -the -Rockies. - After one gets to be forty years old, it is This whole territory is in one county of im- not hard to tell what is the chief thing in perial size—a5out 300 miles wide and 600 life for him. If it be money, you see the miles long, with a population of 20,000 grasping money -greed in every expression souls. Not satisfied with reigning supreme of the face, every glance of the eye, every in that field, the Missoula company does action of the body. If it is pleasure, or business in the Cceur d' Alene mining region self -gratification, the fact is written in weak in Idaho. uncertain lines upon the countenance and Mr. A. B. Hammond, the president of the shows itself in the unconsciouseselfishness company, was born on the St. John's of the slightest acts. But if, on the other River in New Brunswick. He went band, the chief thing in life be something West as a young man, and worked as a high and worthy, it will be reflected in a wood -chopper for a time. He reached face full of lofty character, and a demeanor Missoula in 1868 as poor as -he was am- which bespeaks the sincere and noble mind. bitious ; but to -day, at forty-four years of It has been well said that a man's face is age, he is a wealthy man, with spare time the only necessary ticket of admission to enough to have become a student and a heaven. Character is written there in lines lover of literature. Indeed, it is said of which cannot be mistaken. him that when he had his fortune to make What is it that is molding each one of us " he used 'io work all day and read all —this paramount thing in life, by the con - night." He is more - than just to his em- templation of which character and destiny pll-ogees ; has made presents of stock to thooe are being determined ? If the object of life who have displayed the most enthusiasm be base and unworthy, nay, if it be even and©enterprise, and now numbers among the temporal and worldly, it will surely degrade, stockholders twenty ne who are employees. belittle and deceive us. It will consume Each of the many departments of the big soul and body in the pursuit of an ideal concern is managed by its own headman, whose very realization is a mockery and who has sole charge of it, buys all the goods disappointment. But if it is the spiritual sold in it, and reports upon its condition life which affords our ideal, the chief aim once a year. of all our efforts, a new and ever widening The stores or departments are nearly all world of divine possibilities will openbefore together in one long two-story block, and as us. That life is the only truly progressive all are thrown together by communicating life. There are no reactions and retrograde passageways, the reader will understand movements in spiritual evolution. The thing that the effect upon a visitor is that of one attained never exhausts the possibilities of general shopping store. The various stores development, but leads on to higher and or . departments are these : a gentleman's better things forever. Earthly crowns crum- furnishing and clothing • store ; a wine and ble, earthly prizes fade, earthly pleasures spirit, tobacco and cigar department; a pall. Attained, they are neither in them - dress -making and tailoring department ; a selves what we dreamed, nor do they lead on dry -goods and carpet store ; a boot and shoe to better things. What a failure is the life store ; a grocery store ; and an extensive which has made such things its chief desire ! department for the sale of hardware,cutlery, But how joyous, how rich, bow noble, bow agricultural, mining, and lumbermen's im- eternally progressive is the life which has plements, harness, saddlery, wagons, car- been fixed upon eternal things ! Make the riages, and blacksmiths' supplies. I noticed love and service of God the chief thing in that there were displayed large assortments your life, and your face will be glorified with of crockery, upholstery, - furniture, and the beauty of saintly character, your deeds made" up gowns, wraps, and cloaks for will breathe the undy ing fragrance of sin - the women; so that, speaking widely, verity and truth, and your soul will rejoice and at this distance in space and in the consciousness of eternalrectitude and memory, 1 - do not recollect that eternal progress. those trades Ieft unoccupied any - field of barter in Missoula except. jewelry, Yon can not do wrong without suffering drugs, and fresh meat. And I fancy the wrong,—[Emerson, Dishes For Fall. One advantage of our fqur seasons is the necessity they create for a change of food. The dishes given below will be found agree- able in early fall. CALF'S TONGUES FRICASSEED. —Boil the tongues until done—about an hour—take off the skin and trim neatly, then cut into slices half an inch thick ; roll in flour and fry for a moment or two in hot dripping, place them in a saucepan, add parsley, celery and sliced unions and cover with gravy, broth or water ; simmer, closely covered, for thirty minutes, slightly thicken the gravy and pour it around them. NEW TURNIPS.—Peel and slicea quantity of turnips and cook in salted boiling water to which you have also added a teaspoonful of sugar ; when done drain in a colander and press as free as possible from water, then press through the colander, add a spoonful of butter cut in tiny bits and rolled in flour, a spoonful or two of cream and salt and pepper to taste. CHICKEN FRITTERS. ---Trim every bit of meat from the carcasses of a pair of roasted chickens—that is, after you have made one dinner from them ; put the bones on with a quirt of cold water, an onion and parsley and stew for an hour and a half, when it should be reduced to one pint. Chop the meat fine, wet with the gravy, if any, and one-third as much bread . crumbs or cold boiled rice, season to taste and mix with a beaten egg, If there was no giblet gravy left from the day before use any kind of stock or gravy, failing any of these, cream or milk to moisten the crumbs and meat. Make a thin batter with two eggs, a gill of milk and prepared flour and having made up the mince into tiny balls, dip them in the batter and fry in boiling dripping. Pile them on a dish and pour around them the gravy made from the hones which bas been strained, thickened and seasoned. BROILED POTATOES.—Serve these with the first sausages of the season. Cut large cold boiled potatoes in thick slices and brown on both sides over a clear fire, laying them between the liars of a double oyster boiler. Season with salt, pepper and a little melted butter. Broil the sausages, splitting them if too thick end sprinkle each with a few drops of the juice of an orange. BEEF SOUP.—A very good and cheap soup can be made from a pound of lean soup meat cut into small pieces; fry it with a little dripping made very hot, add a teaspoonful of sugar; fry at the same time two onions -cut in rings. The meat and onions must only get nicely browned and must not be allowed to scorch. Then add three quarts of hot water, a couple of small turnips cut in dice, a few stalks of celery, if at hand, cutting them in dice, and the usual soup herbs. Cook slowly for an hour and a half; add six tomatoes peeled and sliced and two large tablespoonfuls of rice; simmer an hour longer, season to taste and turn alt into the soup tureen after skimming it free from fat, which spoils the appearance and taste, • CUCUMBERS FRIED. —Peel and -cut in slices lengthwise, and about an eighth of an inch thick; fry tender, brown in butter, and dish each slice on a piece of buttered toast. They are also nice fried as above, seasoned with salt, and laid on a hot dish, under a broiled steak or a nice mince of beef or mutton as a substitute for egg plant. •- The Chief Thing. NECK AND NECK. The Ridiculous Encounter of Two GiralTe for the Control ofa Herd. There is a deal of human nature in a gir affe —in his native state. The old fellow insist on ruling the herd as long as pos sible, and never give it up till the young ones whip them out, and as the weak one are whipped out in the start, the result i that each boss giraffe is a polygamist on large scale. This leads to sad age fights and as the hunters penetrate into Sout Africa they occasionally witness these du els. A hunter gives this account of such a combat between an old and a young gir- affe, witnessed from an ajiacent thicket : " Presently the belligerents came within a few yards of each other. Then commenc- ed a scene that baffles all description. Some people might call it ludicrous ; it was far more, it was side-splitting, and but for my desire to see the end I must have given way to convulsions of laughter. Although the giraffe possesses a certain beauty when at rest it loses its grace when in motion, and the greater its speed the more ungainly does it appear. But when two mature bulls begin to waltz and dance violently around each other, each endeavoring to outdo the other in agility, at the same time mumbling their jaws and emitting fearfully discordant roars, it is certainly one of the most absurd sights human eye ever looked upon. I have often seen a crane dance—a function com- mon enough north of the Vaal River. It is more than funny—it is ridiculous —but can- not for an instant be compared to the an- tics of these two mammoth brutes. - They begin rearing as if to bear each other down, their months all the time open to grip if opportunity occurred. At length the violent exercise began to tell upon the older beast. He made some mistake in a parry, and the younger seized with his teeth the foot of the vetern who in return laid hold of his opponent's ear. For some moments there was a pause. It was very brief, and then the struggle was renewed. With a gigantic effort the younger giraffe threw the old hero upon his haunches. He looked very much as if he had played his last card, but there was pluck in his aged heart yet, though the battle was not for him ; years told against him, and victory lay with the youngster, who celebrated it by trying to drag the vanquished after him. This operation must have been painful, for the shrieks the defeated warrior uttered were heartrending. After a final worry the hero of the hour walked off, mobbed the two harems of ladies together, and will- ingly followed by all, took the lead. Not one of the zenana of the fallen chief turned the head for an instant to see what had be- come of him." After such a defeat the old fellow usually becomes a " solitary," and lives ,and dies alone.—[London Graphic. Mechanical and Scientific. A contrivance for removing the hair by machinery has been invented by a French- man. In speaking for the solidification of a body by cooling, Professor Dewar says that water can be made to become solid by the evapor- ation of a quarter of its weight. The cost of raw material in a watch is infinitesimal ; 99.99 per cent. of the cost of 1 production is paid to labor. Five cents e worth of steel wrought into hair springs would be worth $150,000. A rapidly revolving brush, which gets its motive power through a flexible tube at- tached to a small electric motor, has been found to operate practically in the groom. T ing of horses. s The amount of coloring matter in a pound a of coal is enormous. It will yield enough magenta to color 500 yards of flannel, ver- li milion for 2,560 yards, aurine for 120 yards and alizarine sufficient for 155 yards of Turkey red cloth. w' Feorn "Science" we learn that a cunei- t form tablet has been found at Tel Hesy, the d ancient tachisb, by Mr. J. F. Bliss, who is h excavating for the Palestine Exploration tl Fund. According to Prof. A. H. Sayce, of e Oxford, it contains the name of the same E officer who is mentioned on tablets from o Lachish, found some years since at El Am- h arna in Egypt. A JACK THE RIPPER CRIME. Remarkable Mutilation of A Murdered Woman's Body. Buried in Places in the Garden of a el'as- gow Suburb—She Was Killed by aGardener in His Room. The most horrible murder in criminal history was committed recently at West Lodge, a villa on the Albert road in Pollok - shields on the outskirts of Glasgow, Scotland. A woman was mutilated after the method of " Jack the Ripper, " was dismembered, and the pieces of her body were buried in thevillagarden. McEwan, the gardener, is guilty of the crime. W est Lodge is in one of the finest suburbs of Glasgow, and is surrounded by a garden some 125 feet deep op every side. McEwan, with the assistant gardener, M1iacDaugall, lived in a separate house, and when not busy at the village he did odd jobs in the neighborhood. He is a native of the coun- ty Down, Ireland, is about 30 years old, and, although occasionally a heavy drink- er, be had borne a good reputation. He is a man of great physical strength. At 6 o'clock in the morning McDougall knocked at McEwan's door to wake him, as he has done for the last six years. Mc - Ewan responded with unusual promptitude. "All right, Tom, I won't get up yet; I'm tired.' McDougall went away and worked in the garden until 9 o'clock, when he return- ed to arouse McEwan. His knocks were not answered and he forced open the door. He found the walls, ceiling, furniture, and floor spattered profusely with blood. The clothes from the two beds were scattered over the floor and were sprinkled with blood, Red finger marks streaked the Fides of one of the beds and the door. There was not a piece of furniture or an article of clothing which was not blood stained. Mcuougall ran coatless, hatless, and crying in his terror to the police, station and told his story. After fortifyin') him with brandy the police took him to West Lodge with them. From the room they followed a bloody trail to four fresh -made mounds in the garden. In a flower bed, from which the plants had been removed, they found about two feet under the ground the muti- lated head and unjointed arm of a woman. In another,similar bed they un- covered the trunk. It was absolutely de- void of all internal. organs. Beside the trunk was the woman's left arm, also un - jointed. In another flower bed they found the missing organs and the legs, unjointed, as were the arms. The trail le.l from this last bed to a tool house. There under a pile of rubbish and tools, was a biscuit box containing a fragment of a large saw, the teeth still dotted with flesh and blood, and several smaller pieces of the woman's body. The police say that the box was used by Mc - Ewan in transporting the iambs and the organs from his room to the garden. A search of McEwan's room revealed several razors, apparently- -unused for some time, and an axe, recently washed, but still show - ng slight blood stains: McDougall was unable to give any in- formation as to McEwan's deed or the dis- osition of the body, for he was working, t the time, on the opposite side of the rouse, as was shown by the fresh -turned arth. He believes that when he knocked at 6 o'clock McEwan was carving up the body, as 11McEwan's voice indicated that he was wide awake. MiEwan was engaged to marry a respect- able girl, who is maid in a Glasgow family. he mother when she heard of the murder, upposed that the daughter was the victim, nd ran to West Lodge. She could not dentify the clothing as her daughter's, owever, and this evening the girl was ound. Afi-er several measures had been adopted ithout result to establish the identity of he woman, the police of the city were or- ered to look at the remains and see if they ad ever seen the victim before. Several of iem recognized her as a person of loose haracter. The detectives learned that Mc - wan had been seen going in the direction f Paisley and they followed close on his eels, and found him lying beside the road alf way between Glasgow and Paisley. He ad evidently found the chase becoming too ot for him and, fearing arrest, had attempt - d to kill himself. Particulars of McEwan's -capture are hese : Some gamekeepers on Sir John Max - ell's estate saw a stranger trespass - g on one of the fields. They stopped him nd questioned him, but he refused them an answer. He made anattempt' to escape, but the gamekeepers' suspicions were now aroused and they made a move to detain him, when he jerked out a small knife and began hacking away at his throat, but was deterred by the gamekeepers from complet- ing his suicidal intent. He soon became exhausted by his struggling and by lass of blood. The men overpowered him and stopped the flow of blood so far as they were able and took him to a police station, where it was found he agreed with the description of McEwan, and, in fact, he proved to be the man wanted. The murdered woman has been fully iden- tified. Her name was Elizabeth O'Couuor, and she was of the class who seek their livelihood on the pavement p a It is said that we are indebted to the h Pompeiians for our knoll ledge of fruit can- e ning. When excavations were first made on the site of the old city jars of figs were dis- t covered by a party of tourists. When these w were opened the contents were found to be in as perfect as when poured into the jar nine- a teen centuries before. Investigatirn showed that -the fruit had been put into the jar when heated, and sealed over after the steam had been allowed to escape. The following year saw the establishment of canning fac- tories. . The original patent for the electrical tele- phone was granted to Alexander Graham Bell, of Salem, Mass., on March 7, 1876, for the term of seventeen -years. c t g 6 n a t a n 0 t it is h n u m in b th g di ca a pa cu fe es n gi mi a dr in m n Social Selfishness. A witty and miserly gentleman who ac- epted many invitations without returning hem, but who contributed greatly to the eneral entertainment by his bright conver- ation, once defended himself by saying : "My friends give the dinners, but I fur- ish the salt." If he was parsimonious in the matter of inners, he was generous with his best houghts, his most cheerful and entertaining tories, fulfilling one social duty although he eglected another. This social duty of giving in conversation ne's brightest and best, of making an effort o be interesting, and being cheerful when is not possible to be brilliant, is of ten self- hly neglected. Life is an affair of mutual obligations ; we ave to thank most of our friends for kind- ess and patience and encouragement, and we owe it to them to remember that often, nknown to us, they are in need of being ade to forget some trouble or grief, or are need of so re fresh, cheering thought, and when we give them our conversational sst, we are doing what we can to supply at need. Many persons who would not think of oing anywhere with a bandaged head or a sagreeable coldora disturbing cough, rry a gloomy face, a fit of the blues, or n ill-tempered mood, on a visit or to a rty, without thinking that there is no ex - se at all for their being a skeleton at the ast. They disturb their hosts and host- ses by making it evident that they are ot having a good time, and they have a epressing effect on every one else. Those who have a bright conversational ft should use it generously, bearing in ind how effectually it counteracts depres- on, differences, lapses of tact, and other awbacks to enjoyment. The anecdote of a famous and brilliant Frenehwoman who gave dinners at which ere was little to eat is worth remember - Her butler once whispered to her, "one ore story. madame, and the guests _will ot notice that there is no roast." • Seed Thoughts. Earnestness of purpose can spring only from strong convictions. A quiet conscience rests in thunder, but rest and guilt live far asunder. A true Christian, like an electric street car, is governed by the power from above. It is not so much what we see as the thing seen suggests.—[John Burroughs. Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day and at last we can not break it. An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid. If you were to take the conceit out of some people the remains would defy identifica- tion. If contentment is to come from some end to be gained, it will vanish in desire for a greater end. How far that little candle throws his beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. —[Shakespeare. Blest is the man who dares to s -y, "Lord of myself I've lived to -day." —[Horace III, 29. Sorrow comes soon enough without de- spondency; it does a man no good to carry around a lightning rod tc attract trouble. No matter how many of our laden ships may come into port, that one which was lost at sea will always seem to us to have carried the richest cargo. With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes satin. What difficulty is there at which a man should quail when a worm can accomplish so much from a leaf. We need peace, but not the peace of the stone, for it is dead; nor the stagnant pool, for it is corrupt. 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