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PHILIPSBURG, - MONTANA.
A FEW cigarettes, more oc lebs,wit1
a cup of black coffee thrown in, would
indc.ibtedly have averted that revolui
lion in Peru.
WE feel quite safe in saying thai
the Pacilic railroads will pay their
debts to the government-when apples
grow on blackberry vines.
FRoxM all accounts sonme of the sacred
concerts now being given in Nes
York are called sacr-u: because theie
is nothing sacred about them.
YAI.E' latest attempt to freeze out
the university of Pennsylvania arises
mainly from the fact that for several
years she has been doing her thinking
with her feet.
Tr is hoped Ihat the weather mar,
will take prompt and frigid measuire,
loJ discourage the spring poet habit,
which has developed alarmingly in the
last few weeks.
THE late Frederick Douglass was
undeniably a handsome old man. lie
had as much dignity and impiuessive.
mess as ('harles tiumner, who was the
ideal statesman in appeara.eee.
THERE is nothing French about the
Kentucky duel. LUsually the princi
y.als do not talk long before the en
gagement, and usually they are not
able to talk about the trouble after
he .shooting begins. The Kentucky
eluel, like the Savorite Kentucky iev
erage, is warm and does its workl
effectively.
TtrH: monarchist newspapers of
Brazil recently published a list of
twenty alleged victims of the re
public's brutality and when confronted
by the men, alive and well, refused to
reliact. 'I' is experience is a little
worse lt;,ju American papers are some
times subjected lo after publishing
obituaries of live men.
Ir is to be hoped that the pope is
not dependent for his livelihood upon
the new record breaking 971-carat
diamond that is said to have been
sent to. him by the president of the
Transvaal republic. It is not so
much the utter inappropriateness of
the alleged gift as the improbability
of the siory that prompts the hope.
1r is true, perhaps, that some
changes are needed in the base ball
rules, but what is more needed is a
set of umpires with nerve enough to
enforce the rules. Article I in the
mnpire's regulations should teach him
that his lirst and imperative duty is to
the game and the paying public. and
not to a band of angry .iRf lrling
players.
Ti'fE American oyster has been
slandered. An investigation shows
that he is not atllicted by the germs
of typhoid fever, but is a healthy a:ld
healthful creature, good in every
month with or without a:s "'r." The
discovery that the American oyster is
good in August was made by a man
who tried it undler the belief that it is
spelled )"Orgust."
THE desire of Cubans lo free their
Island from the yoke of Spain has
reached a degree of intensity that
means revolution. In the inevitsble
struggle for freedom that will place
the Cubans in line with most of the
peoples of the Western hemisphere,
money will be contributed by the
large colony of Cubans who are in
successful business in New York.
UNiDEi, the laws of New Jersey
flogg.ing is rohbibited in the public
schools. 'his, perhaps, is the reason
why the principal of a Paterson school
has been arrested for beating his wife
'intil she is black and blue. 'Ihere
are teachers who must take it out of
somebody, and if they are not allowed
to expend their irriiability on pupils
they are disposed to expend it on
members of their own family.
A FINANCIAL Offic.c of the univ-rs
ity of Chicago says that its capital or
endowment is $8,000,00) and its in
come $6(00.O00 annually. It transpires
incidentally that one of John D.
Rockefeller's large donations was in
Northern Pacific live per cent gold
bonds, then a gilt-edged security. but
the interest on which since has been
defaulted. Mr. Rlockefeoller makes
good the amount of the interest, each
year to the university. Standard Oil
can afford it.
NIT content with defaming our
modest oyster, quarreling with our
beef and excluding our pork and
wheat, our amiable British friends
have begun war on our cotton. The
only case that they can make against
it has nothing to do with its quality.
That is beyond their reach. They
pretend, however, that it is poorly
pressed and inferior in that respect to
cotton from India and Egypt. It is
evident that our neighbor is not wil
ling to lose a point against us that a
little mendacity can win.
T3HE discovery is announced from
Vienna that hypodermic dloses of
Koch's tuberculin will cure insanity.
What a boon it will be should it also
cure crankery. A remedy that will
extract wheels from the head would
be quite as serviceable as one to re
move tubercles from the lungs.
TIpE cost of administration of the
Gould estate is $200,000, and the ex
ecutors are to receive ,40,000 per
-annum each. The poor Goulds seek
-,o deduct these sums from the princi
pal before the estats is taxed.
TAKING OF VAN LEERL
THE STORY AS TOLD BY A DE
TECTIVE.
HIS WOND)ERWFUL METHOD OF HID
J~G CRITME.
Stole 6200,000 from the Bank Btefore
the Stockholders Became Aware of
the Truth---Flew with a 1'ariet.y IPer
former--lsnded in lMexico.
OM ETIME S IT
happens that when
you get a perfectly
fair and easy start
on a case that you
will run into c'ondi
tions which seem
like a stone wall
raised agailst. fur
bher investigations.
''o go into all office
and look at the
wreckage of a safe
on thIe floor and
listen to the jabbering of a lot. of pIeople I
who knows it all,does not do a detective
a bit of good, because he does not see,
find or hear anything that points to
crooks, and that is all he is after. But
you catn never tell what will turn up.
I have gone into cases which I thought
would take years to clear up, and I
went to the bottom in a day; and again
I have been put to work upon cases
which it seemed would only take a few
hours to get to my man, and I have
some of these easy things on mny list
yet, which had never bceen run to earth.
What I thought was about the easiest
tlilig I ever struck was the robbery of
the New York banking firm of Loomis
& Iatch by their cashier, Jackson Van
Leer. The thief was a young fellow
who had always been on the level, so
far as the firm knew, and that he had
robbed them onlly came out froml his
flight. But the bold Jack Van Leer.
W1ho gives in his right name because
his family deserted him when he got
into trouble, and he thinks it tends to
disgrace them, has been in sonme of the
slickest bank and store burglaries
which have been turned off in this coun
try. Wihen I was put upon Van Leer,
he was young and innocent, and after
I had a consultation with the firm I as
sured them that he could not get away,
and I would get him in a couple of days
sure. H-1e had been robbing the firm
systematically by means of bogus ac
counts and queer bookkeeping for
about four months, and with hiis last
gI And flight of about $150,000 he got
away with somethirg over $200,000. It
knocked the firm silly, for the times
were ticklish then, and their only hope
was that he could be captured before he
could get rid of all the money. There
was an association at that time of
banlkels and brokers for nlutual pro
tection, and ill case of any robberies
each member would put up his share
of the money to be spent in landing the
thief. 1 jumped in with high hopes, for
rewards went in those days without
question, but I soon found out that the
innocent Van Leer knew a thing or
two. H-le had gone out of sight as com
pletely as if lie had been lifted up to
the sky in a clou0d, and there was noth
ing left but blank space. I hustled to
get some information about his com
panions and habits, and, no matter
where I went, I got the same story
Jack was a good boy; no one ever knew
hint to do anything wrong, and every
body was surprised to learn of his
astray. I-Ie was a regular attendant
at chlllurc, was home at r'egullHar houlrs,
was occasionally out all night at a ball
or reception, and that was all I could
get. Whisky is a pretty bad thing, as a
rule, but in this case it did a great deal
of good for me. I found out that the
most intimate friend of Van Leer, out
side of his club and church friends, was
Charles Lydecker, a genuine sport,with
a fortune to keep him going. I haId met
Charles several times and tried to get
some information from him, but he was
as tight as a clam. I was satisfied that
he had some information which might
be useful, and I cultivated his acquaint
ance. He kept a guard on his tongue
all the time. I ran across him one even
ing after he had attended a blowout in
the Merchants' club, and he was quite
mellow. I followed him up town and
was surprised to see him drop into a
Broadway concert garden, near Prince
.street. The place was crowded, and 1
`went in and took a seat in a secluded
JACIKSON VAN 1LEEr,
corner. Charlie set the champagne
corks flying and his partner was Clara
H-eller, one of the p)erlformers. lHe
stayed until the show was over, and I
picke'd up one of the dames in the place.
I pretended to be drunk and asked
a lot of foolish questions. This
girl knew Charlie, and after a
bit I began talking in a maudlin
way about Charlie's friend Jack. The
girl told me that Jack had disappeared,
and at the same time Irene Hudson,
the stage partner of Clara Heller, had
flown the coop. It was the common be
lief that they had gone away together,
but no one seemed to know anythingu
about it. The girl had not heard that
Jack was a thief, and I did not tell her.
I became very friendly with lhe girl
and learned that Irene had a lover
named Dave .iohnson,who wVas a train
er of prize fighters. She told me that
Irene cared more for Dave than any
one else, and the money she got from
the guys and Jack she turned over to
Dave to blow in over the gaming table.
It had taken rne something more ihan
a month to get t his information, and as
I sized up the game, it appeared to me
that Irene would some time or other
commumete with Johnson or send hlim
money. That sort of a woman never
sticks to a man who treats her well and
pays. her bills. So I and my partner
kept watch on D- ve day and night, and
I made connections to find out if any
letters were received in the postotlice
here in his name. I don't renmember
how long it was, but it was perhaps
three months when a letter came to
DaveJohnson in a woman's writing. It
bore the post mark of Mexico, and I
saw Dave get the letter. lHe fairly
danced with joy, and I surmised what
it contained, besides a money order.
Jack bought a new outfit, and the same
night bought a ticket for New Orleans.
I went with him, but did not tell him
about it. HIe kept pretty drunk during
the entire trip, but I thought it better
to await developments than try to win
his secret. When he reached New Or
leans he went to the Planters' hotel,
and after being there several days he
got a letter which caused him to move
to Prince's Cottage. There he mett the
sweet Irene Hudson. I had her picture
with ime. I took a room in the cottage
and put myself up as a guy with money
to burn, which was just the gait to
catch Irene. She took a fancy to tIe',
for my money, although she had a big
hank roll herself, as I soon learned.
While her lips were loosened, under the
influence of wine, I got from her an ac
count of her travels with a man she
called her husband. She said she found
out that he was untrue to her, arid had
left him in the City of Mexico several
weeks before. .t put a watch on l rene
and her partner and went to Mexico as
fast as I could. I had Van Leer's pic
ture, but it took me several days to get
any trace of him. I had imagined that
he would be in hiding, even in Mexico,
and hunted for him in secluded places.
If I had taken the other course, and
looked for him in public places, I would
lhave got a line on my man much quick
er. I found that Van Leer, under the
name of Alston, had gone into partner.
IiEN, HUtDSON.
ship with one of the most influential
gamblers in the city, and was a higlj
roller. The chief of police told me that
the gamblers ran the town, and ii
would be useless for me to arre4t him;
The gamblers' ring would set him at
liberty in an hour. By the use of money
among the right people I put up a job
with the chief to get Van Leer. We
took in a clever woman whom Van Leer
had taken a fancy to and got her to
give him drugs to put him asleep in her
room. Then I removed him to a wagon,
and before his disappearance was no
ticed by his friends I was over a. bun
dred miles from the City of Mexico. I
had no trouble then in getting Van
Leer to New Orlians. He confessed to
everything,and, through his assistance,
I recovered over $100,000 from him and
Irene. He pleaded guilty and was sent
to Sing Sing prison.
T. E. BUTLER.
Troublesome Widows.
Empress Frederick of Germany and
Quen Pia of Portugal, have. since they
became widows, been a source of no
end of turmoil and unpleasantness to
the courts of their respective sons.
Both ladies are renowned for their
cleverness, and pride themselves on
being what the French so graphically
describe as "rnaitresses femmes." But
neither one nor the other is renowned
for the possession of much tact, and
the result is that there has been a
good deal of friction and unpleasant
ness between the dowagers and their
successors on the banks of the Spree
and on those of the Tagus. At Berlin,
the Empress Frederick was ill-advised
enough to comment in such a manner
on what she was pleased to consider
the intellectual dulness and density of
her daughter-in-law that it came to
the young emperor's ears and created
some very bad blood.
Walked to Her Death.
Mrs. Eugene Cross of Charlevoix,
Mlich.,has accomnplished many seem
ingly inmpossible things while walking
in her sleep, but her habit was her
death. The other morning she arose
from her bed unbeknown to anybody
and left the house. When she was
missed searching parties were sent out
but she was not found until the after
noon, when a boy going to a fish hole
which he had cut in theice found the
woman with her ]lead and shoulders
under water, frozen stiff and two inches
of ice on the fish hole. She was cut out
and the body removed to her home. It
is supposed she stumbled on the loose
ice and fell into the hole.
Together in Death.
Mrs. (C. Ward, mother of the Macca
bees, returned from the north of Michi
gan to Muskegon recently, and related
a tragic story of the finding of a pair of
young lovers in a snowdrift, frozen to
death. They were locked in each
other's arms and appeared to be asleep.
A farmer in Benona was awakened
early in the morning by a noise about
the house. Ile found a horse outside
hitched to part of a cutter. This caused
a search to be made, when the bodies
were found. The man was identified as
a teacher of the Marshallville school,
and te woman, though unknown, was
supposed to be his sweetheart, who had
come to visit :mim.
Will Forgive the Worthless Prince.
It is stated on authority of friends of
John W. Mackey that a reconciliation
between the princess and Prince Colon
na is being arranged by Mrs. Mackay,
the princess' mother. In explanation
it is added that the pflce's exchequer
needs replenishment, aud the princess
will consent to a r eunion for the sake of
her eaildren.
A PRINCELY SPENDER.
MEN WHO HAVE GLORIED IN
THIS TITLE.
THEY ALL LOVED WOMEN OF TIlE
STAGE.
Howell Osborn Put His Immense Fort
une at the Feet of Fay Templeton
The Marquls of Alisbury and Dolly
Tester.
p IIE RECENT
death of Howell Os
borhe recalls the
stories of otthe
men who have giv
en life hope and
'wealth to worth
less women of the
stage. There are
scores of them but
the most notable
case is that of the
. Marquis of Ails
bury, whose squan
derings are calculated by the millions.
Many were the establishments that
the Marquis of Ailesbury ran to the de
pletion of his paternal estate. He scat
tered money right and left upon his
gallantries and left it behind him every
where, behind the doors of private clubs
and public houses. Upon the whim of a
petticoat he would spend thousands,
and he persistently sought the society
of the flashiest women in all London.
Half out of spite towards his family
and half because he thought that mar
riage was the easiest way of possessing
the most popular woman on the music
hall stage, he wedded in 1884 Dolly Tes
terl, born Dorothy Julia Hasely, a wo
man of the lowest class. Once mar
ried to her, he kept on in his old ways,
with more dissipation and prodigality
·- ·~
M'LLt CLEML UANE DEpt)
MIARION DCLLORME ttlLICNNE D'ALrNCON.
even than before. Earl Cardigan, Earl
Bruce, Baron Brudenell, Earl of Say
ernake, the head of one of the leading
houses of the English nobility, and
wedded to a dancing girl of the people!
Yet Dolly Tester seemed to be the bet
ter of the two.
In the true sense he was not a sports
man, yet he was fond of the turf. But
he was nothing more nor less than a
blackguard on it, and in 1887 the Jockey
club ruled him off the race course for
life. The friend of gamblers and the in
timate of thieves and thugs, Ailesbury
dressed like a costermonger, and would
have been taken for one by people who
did not know him.
"A princely spender" was the best de
scription ever given of George Abing
don Baird-Squire Abingdon - the fa
mous gentleman jockey, whose colors
of green with a plum cap were recog
nized on every prominent race course
in England. Only 32 when he died (on
March 18, 1893), he -was yet one of the
best known men in Great Britain. A
conservative estimate of his wealth
puts it at a little under half a million
dollars per annum. Some say he was
worth $50,000,000, but the probability is
that it was nearer $30,000,000.
The squire was a spendthrift, and yet
he was not. lie was certainly not of
, r
ABINGDON BARI).
the class to which young Lebaudy and
young Call belonged, four he had busi
ness tact and ability in him to manage
a fine stable-one of the best in Eng
land-and to make it pay from a finan
cial point of view. During the seven
or eight yearl. he ran it he won $388,000
in purses, thus making it a handsome
property.
Born in 1861, he began to take a prom
Inent part in sporting affairs before he
was 24. His sensational 8,600 guineas
bid for the 3-year-old filly Busybody
in 1884 made him at once the cynosure
of all sporting eyes. The next season
he had a fine stable, with Necromancer
at its head. In 1887 he won the great
event of the English racing year-the
.Derby. Busybody, by the way, won the
Oaks just after her purchase and the
One Thousand Guineas stake.
Few could compare with Abingdon
Baird as a jockey for the reason that
he made it a science. He would get up
at daybreak to ride, and he never found
|a mouth that was too hard for him.
With anything that concerned the turf
especially he was most lavish in his
expenditures. His backing of Charley
SMitchell and his journey over here with
him are of recent memory.
Seven years ago Howell Osborn was
the greatest plunger and spendthrift
New York had ever seen. He was very
young when he came to the front, and
at once earned the sobriquet "King of
the Dudes," the mantle of which des
cended upon Berry Wall. Fay Temple
i F "
IHOWELL OSBOIRNE.
ton appeared upon the stage with her
trim ligure. and the warble of her lat
est song, "I Like It-I Do." Young
Osborn was captivated, and lie made
no denials of his fascination for the
lady of burlesque, She had her own
establishment in a comfortable little
apartment at Fifty-second street and
Fifth avenue, and Howell paid the bills.
It was rumored a year later that he
would marry Lillian Russell, and that
"Airy, Fairy Lillian"' was the passion
of his life. It was furthermore said
that he proposed to settle $750,000 on
her. But despite these asseverations
the aftermath proved that his heart
was true to Fay.
The pyrotechnical career he had been
running came at last to an abrupt turn,
when William L. Stow, a partner of his
in a Wall street brokerage business,
sued him and got two judgments aggre
gating nearly $60,000. These judgments
were returned unsatisfied, and then
Stow tried to get at a portion of the
$500,000 left in trust for his son by old
Charles J. Osborn. Stow's counsel ar
gued that the income from this trust
fund was at least $30,000 a year, and
that young Osborn could well afford to
give up part of it until the judgment
was satisfied.
Osborn's counsel in rebuttal gave a
part of their client's "necessary" ex
penses. As showing what young Os
born really did spend at this time these
figures are interesting to-day: Clothes,
$2,500 to $3,000; clubs, $2,500; cabs, $2,000
.to $3,000; theaters, suppers, etc., $3,000;
subscriptions to charities and benevo
lent institutions, $2,000; doctors and
dentists, $500; keeping up yacht Cor
sair, $10,000; keeping up city house, No.
587 Fifth avenue, exclusive of food,
light and repairs, $9,000; keeping up
country house at Mamaronesk, $16,500.
The outcome of this was that the
judgments remained unsatisfied and the
trust funds were not touched. The bulk
of these judgments, together with a
number of others, are said to stand
even to-day, despite the fact that in
addition to the trust funds given to
him under his mother's will Osborn had
an additional income of $40,000 a year.
He had cared little about these dis
turbances, however, and was mindful
of the clause in his mother's will that
he should not marry an actress. After
all, his follies were rather mild ones,
and he was not involved in any sensa
tional escapades. The most startling
thing he ever did was to give a dinner
for ten people at a total cost of $5,000.
Ilis two penchants were "mashing"
and drinking cham,.. gne. When he
made his famous little speculation in
Wall street in 1892, and won $200,000 in
Chicago gas, he had a table spread in
his broker's private office, that was lit
erally loaded down with wine.
The best anecdote told of him as to
"mashing" has reference to Billie Bar
low, when "Les Manteaux Noirs". was
running at the Standard theater six or
seven years ago. He had been ogling
Miss Barlow from a proscenium box all
the evening. Just before the curtain
fell he sent her a little note, saying that
he was having supper served for her
at a ;iear by hotel, and would she
please join him directly after the play.
The supper began to get cold--it got
very cold, in fact. Then a messenger
boy came in with an envelope directed
to Mr. Osborn. The note within read:
"My wife regrets that she has not the
pleasure of knowing Mr. Osborn, there
fore the invitation must have been in
tended for some other person of similar
name." The note bore the signature of
Ei. M. Stuart, the manager of the comrn
pany.
Peter Vallalie, a hackman, gave
damaging evidence against Harry Hay
ward in the murder trial at Minena.
OUR WIT AND HUMOR.
CURRENT SARCASM AND SATIRE
LAUGH AT.
Trage dy on the Ball and Sequel--An
Accomplished Artist - A Practical
Mind-Flotsam and Jetsam From the
Tile.
ER C H EEK K
flushed with an
ger, her eyes
flashed with
scorn,,
He wished-how he
wished that he'd
never been born)
His blunder he
knew was absurd
and insane
He had stepped
on her train!
He'd loved her so dearly but loved her
in vain;
Ilis carelessness seemed like the crime
of a Cain;
Forgot was the inusic, so great was
his pain
lHe had stepped on her train!
He felt like a yokel, for torn was her
dress,
That night he left town on the light.
ning express,
HIe knew that his courting was side
tracked and vain
When he stepped on her train!
-Earle H. Eaton in Truth.
What's in a Name?
Jess-Wonder how they aver came to
call the place Sioux City?
Bess-Probably because so many go
there to Sioux for a divorce.
Narrow Escape.
Toots-What made that man sneak
out so quickly?
Dentist-We had a row the other
day; but he didn't know I was a dentist
until just now.
Natural to Ask.
She-I hear that you play poker four
nights a week.
He-Yes, and the other three e en
!ngs I call on you.
She--When do you sleep?
Poor Binks.
Editor-There was genuine, genial
warmth in that poem you submitted,
Binks.
Binks-I wish now I had made more
of it.
Editor-So do I; it would have
burned longer.
Simplifies Matters.
Herdso-What in the world does a
Aformon with a hundred wives do when
they all get in his hair?
Saidso-They never do. In all well
regulated families I sup;pose the wives
bind themselves to stand by the result
of the caucus and adopt the unit rule.
On the Avenue.
Hattle-What was that you bow)ed so
coolly to?
Marie-That's my ex-fiance.
Hattie-To what does the "ex" refer?
Marie-To the $10 he borrowed of me
and never paid back.
A Day So Marked.
"Yes," said the solemn man in black.
"mine has been a life of worry, sadness
and sorrow. For ten long years I had
never known a happy hour till yester,
day. It was then, for the first time,
r tasted happiness full and complete.'"
"Ah," remarked the young-man
with-his-hair-parted-in-the-middle, "It
was one of those days, which, as Du
Maurier says, we mark with a white
stone?'
"Yes! Yes!" said the solemn man ex
citedly, "that's it! It waS the day I
buried my wife's mother," and at the
memory of the shaft of polished gran,
ite that cost him $90 he broke down
and wept again for joy.
She Was an Artist.
Chimmey-Say, Maggie, you're a
wonder when it comes to cooking-you
oughten ter be wasten yer accomplish
ments here, fer the way you kin cook
fancy dishes like liver and bacon, is a
Derfect dream.
Very Mluch Occupied.
Witherby-Did you sew the buttons
on those shirts I laid out this morn
ing?
Mrs. Witherby--I'm sorry to say I
didn't.
Witherby--And I don't suppose
you've had time to crease those trous
ers I spoke about.
Mrs. Titherby-N-o, dear. The truth
is
Witherby-How about those socks at
mine that needed darning. Haven't
you touched them?
Mrs. Witherby--No, I
Witherby-Exactly. And I don't sup
pose you've given a thought to to tat
hole that is in the lining of my dress
coat.
Mrs. VWitherby-Oh, yes, I did. eut
I've been so busy.
Witherby-Busy! What on earth
have you been doing?
Mrs. Witherby-I've been downtown
getting fitted for a pair of bicycle
bloomers.
Te Clean Plaster Casts.
Plaster casts in their natural state
are best freed from dust by covering
them with a thick layer of starch.
Vhen the starch is dry brush thor
oughly "i.t.h a stiff brush and it will
be found tfi;rt the dust ha 'orn "e
moved with the starch.