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rw ^4| .i^- -*W r^J?*i itfiiii^liM2^i^^^^iaife: Curiously, there are on the New York polfce force two-awn-^a* *xperien^d_de-. tective and a patrolmanwfco, though not blood relations, resemble each oth er so much that many suppose them to be twins. These tvo men also resemble -:.a well known Philadelphia-'thief' knowa asv-'tRed Tim" and when either is identi fled bv victims of a robbery as their desponer detectives at once search or .Tim. In 1875. Mr. Boutillier rode down town '"'Jn^.a horse car to the custom bouse carrying a. canvas bag. filled with gold /-CQih. He was roobed by a- gang, and ^.wjjen asked to designate the supposed -thieves from agroup of men he at once selected the detectiye who resembled "Red Tim." But when Tim was arrested Mr. -Boutilller's confidence was so shaken that he could not identify the theif, and the fellow escaped punishment. In the summer of 186? the family of Mr. Levy, who occupied the house ta West Twenty-third street where the Na than murder was committed, advertised the house for rent, furnished, as they were about going to Europe. Among those who answered the advertisement were three men. who examined the prem ises with Mrs. Levy and a servant. By some device they managed to elude the attention of their guides and, after theh departure, it was found that diamonds be- 1-It aba*to publish 11 the news possible. SJItdoes 40 impartially, wasting no words*''' :,j 8Jtacorrespondents areable skd energetic* ^rtFrr tt 11 11 HI***'!!- 'MTr't"l"t"K"Mttt'+ STRANGE: COINCIDENCES THAT HAVE OCCASIONED INNOCBftT jPEOPfeE TROUBLE 4MAH THA& LOOKED T.TTTR HE* Enough of Them to Make life Mia erable for the Other Fellow Many of the Peculiar Oae.* engine: to Miss Levy and valued at near ly $3,000 had been carried away. The pol ice were notified and a description of the thieves given, which led to the arrest of "Stephen Brown," alias "Kid Glove Steve Mike Duval, a Frenchman, and Johnny /Gallagher. The three were taken into custody as they were about to enter the Olympic taealer in Broadway. Mrs. Levy ar.d her servant fully identified all three as the men who committed the robbery. INNOCENT MAN BUFFERED. When brought to trial Brown and Du~ *al pleaded guilty, and each was sen tenced to state prison for five years. Gal lagher, however, protested his innocence and was tried, the jury giving a ver dict against him. The late Judge Stuart rose in the court room, and striking the table with his fist exclaimed, "The jury has committed a greater wrong than my client." This led to a scene of confu sion, as Baldwin, the foreman, tried to strike the lawyer for his language. Brown and Duval then stated .that Gal lagher was not engaged In the robbery, the third, man being a notorious sneak thief named Sinclair. This fact being brought to the knowledge of Mr. Bald win, he and the Jury petitioned Judge Russel r* to receive the verdict, but the judge declined, saying the verdict was in accordance with the evidence. Gallagher served a sentence of over three years for a crime that he had not been guilty of, it being afterward learn ed that on the day of the robbery he was serving as a soldier undec Geri. Butler in Newbern, N. C. In May, 1887, Mrs. Margaret Alemsly, of No.--14 Gay street, New York, sud denly seised August Jansen by the shoul ders as she was walking up Broadway, and, wrenching open his mouth, .coolly, began 'to- e*afiufie'V:-^r:-~^^ -JanieW /T"' ^^"ii: W broke away from the woman and escap ed. A few days afterward Mrs. Alemsly saw Jansen at work in front of a store in Broome street, where ho was employ ed as a porter, when she caused his ar rest on the charge that he wag her hus band, who had deserted her two years before. The prisoner was arraigned De fore Judge Wandell, when the woman declared that in 1865 she had been mar ried to Jansen in Charleston, S. C. The prisoner denied all "knowledge of his ac- cuse*-, and said that he bad a wife and five children of his own. It then appear ed that the original Alemsly was a Scotchman, while Jansen proved to be a Dane, but Mrs. Margaret Scott eame for ward and also identified Jansen as the man who lived with Mrs. Alemsly in No. 235 West Twenty-first street. Mary Egerton, aged thirteen years, picked out Jansen from among forty other men as the o-.fi who had lived with her aunt in No. 114 West Eleventh street. Mr. Brooks, the employer of the prisoner, testified that Jansen had been with him,, seven years, and that he had never lived at either of the addresses given by the wit nesses. It finally was decided to be a Clear case of mistaken identity, much to the indignation and evident grief of the complainant. WHOSE CORPSE? In the spring of 1861 a barrel of pitch was stolen from a Jersey City pier, and the same day Ada Rlcard, a v/cman of (Teat beauty, but of doubtful character, suddenly left her hotel in New York. A few days later a porter employed on the pier saw the naked foot of a woman protruding above the water on North river. He at once landed the body, when it was found fastened by a rope around the waist to the missing barrel of pitch. The body was entirely nude, there was a gag tied In the mouth, and it was evident that the. woman had pos sessed much beauty. In due time the body was buried, with the exception of the head, which was preserved by the city physician. Sub sequently a man happening o see the head declared it to be^that of Ada Hi card. On this clue the detectives found Charles Ricard, her husband, who had not lived with his wife for some time. He gave a minute descriptfcn of certain marks, suoh. as the loss of a tooth, the cicatrice of an old wound on her leg, the result of an accident, and the abnor mal development of her limbs. He was not at this time aware of the supposed death of his Wife, and when shown the "TAT* Z*. head was overcome with grief and hor- we are,well 'aware that many people will pooh-pooh the idea, but at the same time what unsurmountable obstacles would there be to prevent the United States an nexing Manitoba, the territories and Brit ish Columbia in, say 1&2, if 70 or 75 per cent of the population of those prov inces had not taken the oaths of allegi ance and were residents of Canada while citizens of the republic" and with their sympathies labeled U. S.? Now is the time to deal with the matter, and our legislators should see to it that the laws are so made that actual settlers cannot work for the interests of a foreign gov ernment except as rebels or revolution ists.Manitoba. Liberal. ror. Th police at once began to trace us Ada's history to discover the murderer, when they were astonished by the return of the woman to her hotel from a visit to New Orleans. The head was next rec ognized by Mrs. Callahan, of Boston, tut that' of her daughter, but next day the daughter was found in Bellevue hospital. he head has now been burled many years, and the identity of-the corpse" re mains a mystery. Forty or fifty years ago a forged check for a large amount was presented.at the counter of the Bank of America. For several days no trace of the forger could be obtained, and the sensation caused by the crime was almost forgotten when it wjaa "revived by the teller causing the ar rest of a inan lie saw standing at the door of the City Hotel. In roadway,, oo me j noiei sroaaway near Chambers street, _The prisoner..11'cok}'-: ~'f turned out to ne Mr. Keamond. t?e pro prietor of the hotel, and he vehemently denied" all knowledge or complicity in fhe la-gery. Ihe teller, however, per sisted in identifying Mr Redmond as the person who had presented the forged check and received the money. Despite his high character the grand jury in dicted Mr. Redmond and he was placed on trial, it was then clearly shown, de spite the positive testimony of the bank teller, that the latter was entirely mis taken, and the prisoner was acquitted. The real forger never was discovered. SERIOUS PREDICAMENT. In January, 1880, Leonidas Binne of No. 809 Hudson street, entered the New York postoffice, where he met John Sontag, a bookkeeper for the Gemuania Fire Insur ance company. Binns at once asked a policeman to arrest Sontag, saying that he was the man who, on a Sixth avenue car some days before, .had stolen his -watch. ^.f Are you sure, he is the- manT* demand ed the officer. -^~"ZZ- ""Yes I cannot be mistaken," was Mr. Binns',. reply. On their approaching Mr. Soritag, the accuser said: "I wish you to return the wateh you robbed me e\?w:C ^':kM^:{ Alter a stare of surprise Mr. Sontag laughed ar.d replied: "Your watch! What do I know about it?" As Binns persisted his accusation Sontag was arrested and arraigned be fore Justice atxby at the tombs, when the complainant repeated his statement. "You are positive that this Is the right man?" said the magistrate. 'Yes, sir- positive." "This is a dreadful mistake," exclaimed the priSoner, seeing that his position was becoming desperate. never saw ttte complainant before. I am a respectable man, and was in bed at home, in the Tremont, when he says the robbery took place." Sontag was held for trial, but before the grand jury acted. upon his case It was proved to be one of mistaken iden tity. AMERICANIZING OF THE CANADIAN "WEST. Remarkable Leader From a Mani toba Paper. The remarkable movement in Western Canada's fertile areas of, farm lartd this spring has been a subject of much com ment throughout the dominion, and here in the West has resulted in a feeling of buoyancy and increased faith in the great future awaiting this portion of the Brit ish empire. It is conceded that the impetus given to the West by these land operations Is al most entirely due to the arrival jof the en terprising and shrewd Americans who, ever on the alert for new fields to con quer, have crossed the line and found an empire of vast resources at their very threshold, awaiting only capital and en terprise to develog.it and make it what nature intended it* should be^-the world's granary. While Canada welcomes with open arms the arrival of their Southern cousins, the glag hand has been extended mainly be cause this movement has improved busi ness generally, while it is also a pleasure to have the English-speaking race the predominant element among"new arrivals. There is, however, another phase to be considered, in connection with the move ment from the United States. At present large blocks of land are being sold to American companies or capitalists, and it is the intention of these investors to sell these tracts in smaller areas to actual settlers. Within the past few weeks areas equal in size to a whole proviifee have thus been disposed of, one deal re sulting in the transfer of 700,000 acres, or a territory greater than Prince Edward Island province, being sold to United States buyers, while there is scarcely a 'day. that transfers do not take place, and the number of acres sold in this way al ready reaches the millions. When this state of affairs viewed from a Canadian or national standpoint ,-W^ *^^^^^#-^^^^^,:#SP^ ^^^P rtir.vafR)% 5* tfmservatrVfe'--^estfinajte*"of the"* movement of actual settlers from the United States this year places the number a 50,000 souls. This, however, is but the first wash of a great wave extending north westwards from the great republic, and in ten or twelve years we believe we are safe in saying that 1,000,000 tp .1,500,000 people from the United States will have made their homes in Manitoba and the territories. This means that the combined Canadian, British and miscellaneous pop ulation will be outnumbered by a ratio Of perhaps 3 to 1, and of course the effect this will have in questions of polit ical interest to Canada will be of great importance. The majority of the United States settlers are not taking the oath of allegiance to King Edward because they are not homesteading their farms, but are buying from American coloniza tion concerns and therefore do not have to take the oath as would be the case were they taking up public land. It is true that they will not be entitled to the ballot unless the oath is taken, but It is not to be expected that a majority of a population intelligent and well-informed would tamely submit to being ruled by a minority. .The present war in South, Africa is the diract outcome of such a condition .of affairs. It is therefore the duty of the government at the present time to enact legislation making it neces sary that newcomers taking up land un der the present system, either securing public lands or buying for settlement, should be compelled to take the oath be fore they are given a clear title to their property. It would be no hardship to the new arrivals and it might save much trouble in the ^future. Western Canada must look .to. the United States for the sources of its prop er and rapid development. Ontario and the other Eastern provinces have fur nished us. our best blood, but it is evident that the outflow from the East cannot continue as in the past. Eastern men of mony are slow to recognize the business advantages of the West,, and in fact it appears that by a great-' many in the East we are regarded as a portion of the dominion that has to be tolerated. British capital, while It has helped build up the states has neglected Canada, with the result that to-day the big republic has become an important world power and is casting about her eyes seeking new possessions, and as the enormous possibilities of Canada are becoming more known, Americans 1 naturally con sider the advantages of having Canada, and particularly Western Canada, under the folds of the Stars and Stripes. We do' not believe for a moment that there is any plan formulated or being worked out directly with this object in view, and rS: A Cause for American Catarrh:.--7 It is a well-known fact that modem changes of temperature Induce catarrhal affections, and I also evident that the beaiprevention of & already, adaptattwT STSIrSJr-a! Defective Page conumona 01 an uncertain climate. The latter implies a certain resisting quality of the respi ratory mucus membranes which must be neces sarily developed along rational linesv The hardening: processes thus become questions of vitality, habit and environment. The, old Indian explained his immunity against low temperature by explaining that he was "all face." It was with him the habit of exposure to inclemencies and its reactive pro tecting tendency. The other extreme is seen in the coddling"process which our modern meth ods of civilization encourage. "When houseR were made of willow, the men were made of oak." Our superheated houses reverse these old-time conditions. The dry-hot air of the modern dwelling is. un 4oubtedly the most prolific of alL the predis posing causes of catarrhal troubles. The mucus membranes are thus placed in the worst pos sible condition for resisting the impression of the outside atmosphere. Their natural pro tective secretions are not only decreased, but the blood supply of the air passages become relatively superabundant, congested and slug gish, and' the beginning of the end Is evident enough. Persons who are luckily unaccustomed to these high temperatures often experience a sense of oppression rrom the same cause. It W the protest of healthy, resistance against arti ficial enfeeblement..- Foreigners, .say with- truth that Americans literally bake themselves in their houses, and there is in this connection slso much reason for their opinion as to the eause of the American catarrh.Medical Rec ora Jouard Plainer iifing One result of the munificent gifts to solleges, libraries and the higher edu 2ation of the people may be plainer liv ing. It, always has gone with "high thinking." There may appear a protest against the mere vulgar display of wealth. It is true that the fashionable follies of the very rich among us have Dften made our own philosophers smile. Doubtless the strong, good sense of our people, not to speak of the fact that most Df our rich are church members or church goers and dominated to a large degree by that fact has prevented any Saturnalian riot of display. Yet we must acknowledge that a cer tain reign of extravagance in living is now attending our prosperity^ It is in BO far as this has laid hold of wage earners, the salaried men and families of small income, that it increases social un rest. It makes for unhappiness in a land^ where all the other conditions of human life are the most favorable of any place on the globe. Butrura i-emirc mux Tne tnousanas of young college women set a new fash Ion of intelligence and refinement, it would sharply effect society in the next twenty-five years. These women may simplify dress, household style of living, the character of amusements demanded. They may prefer culture to family pride, rhey may. make men content to earn less and read more, to value mcr-ey less and manners more. These American col lege girls are now numbering up in the many, hundred thousands. Our women's olleges give remarkably wholesome in rtruction.. It laughs at all extravagances exalts mind. Something is to result that possibly the real estate men and dry goods stores have not thought of. It may be that, as every tenth man shall have a1 liberal: education the. happi ness of mind, as independent of matter, will increase. The modest revenue, whose earning does not kill the quiet expense* that leave^ieisure for reading, esthetics md the ministries of the affections the appearance of social circles, where, in de ightful community of "not rich, but lice" neighbors, men know each other as nl educated, men. can^the^braye.^epen^ onfesefenof- tfcotreands on thousands^ qf, trpung men of culture- that- .they arV not 'in it for what they can make," all these nay revolutionize- things. At any rate,' :he future is not to grow toward the sor lid. Thanks to the gifts to colleges ft*- that. Astronomy, chemistry and the revel**., lions of the microscope things contem plated in the physical research foundation if Mr. Carnegie, may assume such start ing aspects as to attract leisure. The fascination of a geometric problem from Mars flashed to earth may yet prove nore exciting than a poolroom. To vfatch the flames leap up from the sun na make the race track, seem tame indeed. The delight of photographing in colors, :he phenomena of life in micro-organisms, die unity of substances by the new chem stry, what a world cf healthy happiness, far beyond beefsteak and feathers, may 30on be within the reach of, people who will live simply' and think on higher things.New York Mali and Express. xpe srl^ .afcr-*/. iph Road to Fortune. v'*^ "There's a mint of money in it!" exclaimed the man with tousled hair and restless eyes "a taint Df money!" "Got another idea." asKed the Invester. "Yes, sir and it can't lose! It's a same!" JJHow Is It played?" Oh, haven't got jlown to details yet Any kind of a simple pastime will do.- All that*s necessary is to fix up spine sort of a game with .a simple outfit and call It 'Sbodledydoo' or Ittllibedaxa' or some-other fool tame, and then sit .down and wait for society to go crazy over it.""Washington star. $$& The city of Hextoo has a poptfattoa ofnearly 870.0001 ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS. MIJfN.. SATURDAY.AUGUST 2/1902.1 TOY WITH ETERNITY MEN WHO ARE COMPELLED TO USE J9YNAMITE j^AVE NAR -ROW ESCAPES HOW THE STUFF IS HANDLES Few Unintereatlnjr* Moments Uvea of Thwte Wna Are Engaged in Handling Explosive*. in takes some nerve to toy with eternity jvetw day and go to wdjrk every morning with the thought thai you may come home a$ night to yta sorrowing iamily in a basket. rJT"nere,^ vill men in this city says the Springfield BpAilican, who face death six days out'oot seven, and think nothing of it, and it Is. death of the most horrible kind. These men handle uhe dynamite and nitroglycerin which 'are used in blasting rock In the different quarries, and they pay, but little heed to a handful of the i'dim beyond in the shape of a stick ofPhigh explosive done up in yellow wrapping-paper. These men are experts--in their trade, and hold the position of foreman of the various gangs who do the drilling and blasting in East Longmeadow and Wil braham. They are young men mostly, the trade not being conducive to old age. They begin as assistant foremen and re main such until a premature crash causes a vacancy. At first the feair of high explosives is drilled into them until they regard the sawdust-lined boxes with hor ror. But in a few months they become accustomed to their trade and handle~the sticks of dynamite as a boy handles a big firecracker. They claim that dyna mite is not such ai5 terrible thing after all, unless you eat Tit, and then it will give you a violent Iheadache. Men have often done this, and it makes them very for a short tirrfe. A new assistant foreman is almost ^always broken in in this manner. f"' Dynamite is an ^uncertain quantity, JOHNNIE BULLED. noweyer, ana acts aurerentiy at airrerent times. It burns without explosion, and can even be dropped on the ground with out going oft, but this is not a safe ex periment to try. Let a stick be stroked with a piece of-metal, (however,. and if the man who does It wishes, to com municate with his.friends he will have to use a long-distance telephone. Nitro glycerin is almost an unknown quantity, and even the most hardened quarry man handles" it with the utmost care. Any thing will explode it, and many men have been strewn over the landscape through its offices. A Wllbraham quarry, gang is an inter esting study in humanity. The foreman Is usually an-American/iJpf ,more 0 than average intelligence and courage, and the men^under him are Italians. These. lat ter men drill the holes in the rocks and make all ready for^ the blast, and tfnen the foreman puts in the charge a*nd fuse and lights it off. The Italians fear the high explosive, yet they are extremely careless in handling it, and the death rateamong them is correspondingly large. How the dynarotte 'gets to this fcity te a mystery", and 'one- that will not be di vulged. The foremen say that when they want it they notify the people they work for and the next morning a box of dynamite, or "jelly," as the nitrogela tine is termed, is found beside the tool box. It is against the law to carry such' high explosives on trains, for dynamite ranks 60 and "Jelly" 90 per cent. Both come in what are termed sticks and weigh about one-half pound each They are packed in boxes holding per haps twenty sticks, each stick being carefully packed in loose sawdust. The sticks are about eight inches long .and one inch in diameter, covered with yel low paper. The dynamite is yellow, and looks like a mixture of. vaseline and. sawdust, and the "jelly" looks like a thick vaseline. Before using dynamite is crumbled up in the hand into, pow aer, but the "jelly" -is quietly and gently unrolled and placed tenderly in the hole which, it is to blast., course the quan tity used depends on the size of the rock to be blasted, and It is necessary to "tamp" or pack either down so that the full force of the explosion will not go out -and up. When it is tamped the force will go down to a great extent In loading rock- with dynamite vari ous methods are used, but.the most pop ular one'is to put the explosive Into the hole quietly and then press it In even more gently with a stick. When the hole has been almost filled the-'percussion-cap attached* to a tlrirty-secqnd fuse.Is put hi and then^a_blt Wore dynamite nut^ in on top or it. wnoie cnarge is men covered tenderly with a little sand and a match touched to the fuse. While this is being done, the innocent softs of sunny Italy have been seeking the long grass and tall trees for safety. Each one yells "Fire!" at the top of his lungs as he runs, and just before the blast goes off there is nothing to-be seen but the flee ing foreman. After the crash and when the shower of rocks has subsided to. some extent the sorrowing forejnan: most interesting that tne irate son or spaghetti-land has ever passed. When he emerged from the fray he passed a unanimous vote that he would rather be blown up by dynamite than by the fone man. There was less physical discom fort in it. Of course, as dynamite and'''jelly?' are not allowed to be carried on the trains, they never are, but there are some in teresting times for men who sit in a seat holding a bag in their arms during the entire journey. One local foreman said he took a trip awhile ago in a crowded car, and if anyone had hit his travel ing bag no one oh the car would have reached the next station collectively. When he got to the end of his journey he went to a hotel to get luncheons and while he was registering placed the bag on. the desk beside him. A,man came In while the foreman was presenting his autograph to the clerk, and was hurt because the bag was on the desk. To assert his rights as a true citizen of a free country he grasped the bag and threw it on the floor. The foreman, when he had stopped a hastily thought-up prayer, explained the contents of the bag. How "jelly" is taken about no one who knows will tell. It is never placed on the seat of a wagon, even while being moved from-piace=to place, ^hut .is, always held in the. arms .of .thej^oreTnfto-^It-.is, a pleasing-way to traveC-'an'd-!'te-nearJ as exciting- and uncertain as touring! .'in an automobile. The life of a dynamiter Is eventful, and there never is a quiet or uninteresting moment in his business until the time when he is representing a Chinesepnzaie and the Undertaker is trying to sorthInK' ^'"r*i-^\,H"''^. ttlilbelmitia's "Convolutions" BY NANCY SCOTT. "You may let the young ladies come right upstairs when they arrive, Bridget." It was a little girl not, more than ten years old who spoke. '^4% "Yes, miss," said the-'new girl. "Is it them childher as was here yesterday ye do be spakin' of?" Eleanor nodded, and tucking her best big doll under her arm, she ran upstairs to the "flat?' Eleanor Sidney and Gertrude and Lor raine Ashton were bosom friends, and every afternoon the three little girls were together, ^sometimes out of doors romp ing like tomboys, and sometimes at play in their 'tflat." They "lived In the coun try, and one big room on the top floor of the- Sydney house bad been given to 1 them' as a playroom. This they called ^*r goes in search of his Italians. He finds them peacefully slumbering or talking' in the woods, and when told to go back to work each asks in a curious tone, if the blast has gone off. It was heard in the three adjoining counties a few minutes before. It takes some hours to drill 4 "hole-for blasting, and that is the sad part of the whole game. After the blast, there is nothing left of the hole and no example of .handiwork to hand down to posterity. The local foremen are very careful of their high explosives, yet strange "things are apt to happen to the little tin box in which the sticks are kept. This box is placed carefully in the big tool box each night and the keys of both boxes are placed, deep in the pocket of/the foreman during the night. Wild adventures often take place'hear the boxes, and-one of-the Wllbraham foreman told of a narrow es cape which a gang of men under ha had this spring. The dynamite was used freely during the day, and some loose sticks of it were left in the bottom oi the big tool box. When the 6 o'clock Whistle blew the Italians flocked to CTle tool box like homing pigeons. The men began to throw their picks and crow bars into the box at long range. Just then the foreman came on the scene and yelled at them to stop, as he dove behind the nearest tree. No one knows why the whole gang was not blown into bits. It was just one of the strange freaks ol dynamite. This same foreman had rather a blood curdling escape last fall while at work in the hills to the east. As he came up. to the tool box at night he found an Ital ian cuddling a stick of dynamite to his manly, chest. The foreman gave vent to his feelings more emphatically than politely. To show that his wrasth was roused, the man lifted the stick of dy, namite above his head and let drive at the foreman. If it had hit the mark there would now be another assistant drawing more pay. Fortunately the stick went wide and fell- in .some soft grassj The next five minutes were probably the -*Wfc*- i their "Jlat," Waving divided It off in their minds Into parlor, dining room, bedrooms and kitchen, like a real apartment. None of. them had-.^ever lived in a flat, but Eleanor had once spent the night In her aunt's little flat in the city, and it seemed so cosy aijd like a doll house that she would always remember it. The three little girls were married sis ters when ,they lived in the flat, whose husbands were traveling on business. Eleanor was Mrs. Winthrop, Gertrude was Mrs. Malcolm and Lorraine Mrs. Williams, and there were a number of lit tle Malcolms and Williams and Win throps who kept the young mothers Quite busy. Each took care of her own chil dren, and part of the flat, and Mrs. Will iams taught school while her sisters planned the meals. On this particular ^fternoon Lorraine and Gertrude were quite early, and a splendid game of "house" was soon in full swing. Mrs. Malcolm and Mrs. Win throp were hurrying and scurrying to get the beds made and the rooms dusted, as they expected company to, lunch, while Mrs. Williams was hard at work teach ing a large family of dolls the three Rs. .Harold Eleanor's sailor doll-^-excuse me, I.mean-Mrs. Winthrop's eldest sonwas* unusually trying, and she was just-won dering whether his mother would "be mor tally Offended if she should make him stand on the dunce stool, when a noise in the corner attracted her attention. Wil helmina Malcolm had fallen from her bench and was lying stiff and rigid on the floor. Wilhelmina was delicate anyhow, and school was too much for her nerves. "Sister! Sister!" screamed Mrs. Will iams. "Come quick. Welhelmina has convolutions!" .Mrs. Winthrop and-sMrs. Malcolm wer there in an instant, and there was great S^ 1 wa ement quickly dismissed.e Scn Wllhelmina's mother immediately had -hysterics, Mrs. Williams had an attack of nerves, and Mrs. Winthrop was walking UP and down, wildly wringing her hands and mopping her eyes, when Bridget opened the door. "What's all the matter?" she asked seeing all the little girls so upset. "Oh!" gasped Mrs. Winthrop. "Oh! oh' oh! Poor Wilhelmina has convolutions! Send for the doctor quick," and she buried her face in one of the children's dresses she had hurriedly picked up instead of her handkerchief. "Faith, an' it's sorry I am," said Bridget, as she closed the door and went clattering down stairs. Each one of the young mothers pre scribed a different remedy to relieve th* sufferer, and poor Wilhelmina had her feet-m an imaginary hot mustard bath her head tied up in red flannel and a dose of castor oil from an empty cologne bot tle forced into her mouth. Just as the excitement was at its height quick steps were heard on the stairs and the door was opened hurriedly. There stood Bridget, out of breath, and behind her a tall,-solemn-looking gray haired man. "Where is she?" he asked. "Mother's out, Dr. Bruce," said Eleanor politely, stepping forward. "I'm sorry." "Who has convulsions?" asked the doc tor, looking searchingly at each of the little girls. "You are a healthy looking lot." "Convulsions?" repeated Eleanor. "Why, we're none of us sick." "Shure," interrupted Bridget, "yez said won av the little girls had 'em and to send for the doctor quick." The little girls exchanged glances of amusement,^ and then they, laughed, and they laughed" so hard tSat^ they could not explain to the doctor. "It'sit's Wilhelmina!" gasped Eleanor at last, as she pointed to poor Wilhelmina, still with her feet in the bathtub. Then the doctor understood, and in stead of being cross he looked carefully at Wilhelmina, felt her pulse, asked her to stick her tongue out, and then said the very best thing was molasses candy. By this' time Bridget saw through tne joke, and she disappeared down stairs to tell the cook about her mistake in not knowing that Wilhelmina was the doll's name. "And if one or all of you want to come over to the house to get the medicine," continued the doctor, "I'm quite sure Mrs. Bruce made a big supply last night." .And a,big pro.cess.ion followed thedActpt, h^eT'alrdv re^rned 'later wiSfHarT&l^faii cer ol Mrs.' Bruce's delicious iiholass'e! candy for the invalid. x", COAL IS KINO. How tlie "World's Output Compares Willi Tbat of Other ProdnctN. An official of the Britlbh home office, Dr. Neve Poster, has compiled the mineral statis tics of the world for the year 1900. This was done with the aid of government reports from almost all the civilized countries. In fact, he states that he was able to obtain government figures from alsout all the principal countries except Argentina, Turkey, China and Persia. To make up the figures for these four countries he was obliged to use estimates which he him self could take from books, pamphlets and newspapers published in these countries- in re gard to their mineral industries. According to his figures, some 4,45,000 persons and employed throughout the world in mines, quarries and other mineral industries, and' of this number nearly 1,000,000 belong to the United Kingdom, while, if the British colonies are included, the British empire has upward of 1,500,000 'workers, a number exceeding that reported for any other nation. Germany came second with abont 33,000 laborers, with the Potted States in the third .place, with? just oyer half' a' million, though Dr. Foster points but that" in this coun try machinery, is used to a greater extent than in any other. According to his estimates, the quantity of minerals raised throughout the world in 1000 was as follows:'--, Coal .767,636,204 tons Iron 40,427,436 tons Petroleum 18,653,060 tons Salt 12,672,076 tons Fine silver.. 6,874,284 kilos Lead" 787,841 tons Copper 634,736 tons Zinc 446,373 ton Fine gold Tin .v.......- 80,643 tons Of the coal the British empire produces more Laeky. ChollyBeen shooting for a week, old chapI Had great good luck! ,r- AlgyWhat did-yon bring back? '*l"i\ -Coolly.^ (proudly)The dogs'.Plttstnjrg x\t- oaten. $2.40 PEB TEAK. A NUMBER OP RECENT INSTANCES- OP SKILLFUL WORK IN THAT LINE GOATS FOND OF GREENBACKS. Hardest Tak Presented by Money Tbat Has Been Nibbled by MiceCharred Bills Difficult. 1 The receipt on Friday of the fragments* Of six live-dollar bills, which had passed through the stomach of an Iowa goat,, and were offered atifche treasury depart ment-for. ademption, has revived inter est tri that -division of "the department, which concerns itself with the redemptiort of mutilated money, says the St. Leu-far GIobe-DemOcrat. The bills were the property of Charles J. Allen, a farmer living at Ogden, Io. The affidavit which accompanied the mass of pulp gave the circumstances under which the bills pass ed into the stomach of the goat. It appears that Mr. Allen became warm while doing some manual labor and re moved his coat and vest and placed them on a fence. The articles of wearing ap parel fell from their resting place to he ground and an inciuisiltive goat happened along and nosed the six live-dollar bills out of the pocket. No one saw him eat the bills, but when Mr. Allen replaced his coat and vest he found they had disap peared. A companion wagered that the goat had eaten the bills, and it was agreed that if Mr. Allen did not find them in the goat's stomach after it was killed the price of the- goat would be forthcom ing. The goat was killed and the bills were found in a little lump in he stomach. When received at the treas. ury department two days ago the ma ss had hardened into a little dark brovyn lump that resembled anything but mon*iy The experts took the mass in hand aria soaked the whole until the minute parti- cles separated. Then skilful fingers ac customed to the work separated each. piece and in two hours the entire six live, dollar bills had been pieced together and were ready to bo sent up stairs to the United States treasury for redemption. Mr. Alles, assistant secretary oi he treasury, says that the occurrence was anything but a novel one lor the govern ment. The task of the department ex perts in this case in separating the bills was a comparatively easy one, and not to be compared with others which the department has had to handle. But a few weeks ago a case parallel in nearly every particular with that of the Iowa, case was presented to the department A Michigan tax collector, who had little faith in banks, stored something like- ?S0O' in a tin can for safe keeping over ni^ht and placed the can under his house. It appears vhat the house was elevated, so that the family goat was able to walk under it. The next morning, just as the tax collector started to crawl under the house and bring out the money owed to the county, .he saw his goat emerging from under it slowly, chewing on the remnant of a new twenty-dollar bil*. The excited collector caught the goat and forced the portion of the bill from hi& mouth. This was the largest piece found. The collector was a poor man, and was faced with the necessity of making good the amount of funds due his county. He killed the goat, secured the contents of the stomach, made the necessary affi davits as to the circumstances, sent the matter on to Washington, and within ten' days had bright, new, crisp bills for he entire amount. The regulations of the department re quire that at least three-fifths of a bill, shall be recovered before the government will pay for the mutilated bill. Each' mutilated bill is carefully pasted on a. bach^r of iWHWr theorise et^aie cowHete _..- hill. The expert has. a- ptece-of-gfesr-of""' the exact size of the bill. This glass is* divided into forty squares. When placed over the bill, if the expert can find that the remnants of the bill fill twenty-four of the squares, or three-fifths of all r them, the bill will be redeemed. A case within the last throe weesk came from a farmer of. St. Clair county, Mo., who vtfiile stooping over to feed his hogs dropped his purse inside the pens. An* hour later, when he missefl bis purse, he found the leather receptacle inside, the pen, but nothing of Is contents. There was a slaughtering, which it had been his* Intention not to have until several days later. What resembled the remains of the money was found and sent on to Washington. Three hundred dollars waa returned to the Missouri farmer. It is now the custom of the department, to return mutilated money found by any person to the finder if it is reasonably certain the case is a bona-flde find. This' was not the case formerlv. Two negT'io* Who found J3.600 in bills torn In'to small bits on the lake front at Chicago six years ago turned it into the sub.-streasury at Chicago, for redemption, confessing that' they" had found the amount. It was forwarded, to Washington, but the ruling of the-department was that it could only be redeemed when one estab lished possession of it., The finders got nothing. More recently two negroes found several hundred doU' lars near the Meramec Heights hotel, not far from St. Louis. They turned the money over to the St. Louis sub-treasury and it was sent to Washington. The money was sent backe from ther with tructlon that th 38&lsklios in th than any other nation, her output being almost 248,000,000 tons. The United States, raised some to give it to the finder. This was the And 245,000,000 tons. This was more than was mined in the United Kingdom, and, as may be seen, only a little less than was- mined, In the entire British empire. Germany Is the third, nation, minings about. 160,000,000 tons, 'whUei-A ntrhi-HtnjBary, whtchVianks fourth, -prddueedh^rt^ly* seme*-^^OWMftO tons. jTbe Ui*ited States and' GreiV Britain produced, 'therefore, very' considerably 'more tnan._ half .the total of all the coal mined in the world. Taking all the colonies together, the British gold output was the largest In the world, 188,491 kilos out of the total of 393,198, or about 386 tons. Great Britain also produces half as much tin as do all other nations, while the United States Is far in the lead In the production of, copper, iron, lead and zinc. The Glasgow Herald, In commenting on this report, finds much satisfaction in Dr. Foster's figures regarding the safety of coal miners. Deaths from accidents in coal mines ail over the world during 1900 amounted to 1,012, and of these 933 occurred in the United Kingdom and 1.144 in the British .empire. The best way to figure this is the death rate by accident per thousand for all persons employed in the coal mines. This was 1.92 for the World and only 1.29 for the United Kingdom. Belgium shows the lowest rate of all, 1.05, while Bosnia and Herzegovina head the death rate list with 7.96. Figures for. the United States are given as 3.29 and for Germany at 2.19. Although the' greater use of machinery the American mines may make the work more hazardous, there would seem to be no good reason why our accident rate should be. so much higher than that of Germany or Great Britain, par ticularly with so many deep mines in the latter country. But when the enormous total of coal mined In 1900 Is considered, the total number of deaths by accident is not' large, in fact, rather surprisingly low.Boston Herald. departmene held that unless some one came forward and established beyond question proprietor ship In the money it had been the custom which was connected by some with a sen sational assault Which occurred near the resort. Where the money was found. Burned money is the hardest for the government experts to work on, with the exception of the money which has been gnawed by mice. Saturday afternoon* there came into the department a cigar" box full of money which had been sent from Philadelphia with the necessary- alBdavlt showing that It had been inside of a poorly constructed safe and had been, burned to the condition in which ft waa. forwarded. Evidently with the idea that the original package ought not to bev broken, the sender inclosed the eharredf pieces with some silver coins which had ilso been badly burned in the same safe. During the passage of. the money through the mails the heavy silver was shaken through the charred bills until there was hardly a piece left big enougfe to cover more than the head of a ptn Each of the pieces looked as though taken from a grate.into which papers had? been thrust. Mrs. Brown, who is ins charge of the experts who handle the mutilated money, all of whom are women, did not despair, although she deplored the thoughtfulness which had allowed silver and charred paper to be packed together. She 1 called two of her assistants and the threc, by he aid of magnifying glasses,. soon brought out four $60 bills, and with in an hour recommended that they be re, deemed by the treasurer. The mice-chewed bills make puzzles for the experts which can only be solvtsdl with infinite patience and. care. Each of the pieces Is carefully laid out on a hard,' flat surface, and then with the assistance of strong glasses magnified BO it can to placed JC proper position in relation to all of tic others. Th? experts have a. cenv of .evr bill which has spar beep* %5U i. -m 1