The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 26, 1900, Page 3

—— THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1900.°" G HRISTMAS FESTIVITIES |BODY FOUND IN THE WOODS AT HOME AND ABROAD IS NOT THAT OF WALDEN New York Résidents Spend More for Friends of Missing Man Make Positive Presents This Year Than Ever Be- fore in the City’s History. ¥ YORK Deec. 25.—One of the chief of Ciristmas day in New York ts ‘vicinity was the weather. was the sky clear in all direc- save 10 the southwest, where heavy ot s acted as a background to the glo- but the rays of the sun he morning were genial heay wrags were uncomfortable and could not be endured, except as fash- dictated are the proper In con- nglike weath- bt of the city were gs of men, women ar their Christmas nd went out for a e money was in New same is that of aring the foo r from Archbishop ruit, who dinner Sanita- Tarry- h presents and he 200 school tes ifts to the poor o-night. Vari- & of d been distributed by the past week, and were received by All of the hospitals and friends of an were guests 1 annual Christmas din- hine and Christmas miles {llumined the 1 maimed, the halt | the convalescents luxuries and unusual 3 —_— CHRISTMAS IN PARIS. g= Fill the Boulevards, While e Charitable Give Liberally. nce w right, cheerful ated the day ight masses ctions and the were overflowing. to-day were filled with little n continu- ed 1 and sea- ilies and out- to be used eedy circum- BRYAN'S CHERISTMAS WORDS. Bays Democracy Still Lives and Still Hopes for Success. g from Lin- g Standard, ns of the republic.” Cannon. %.—In Celebrate With some 1 Louievilie re- y celebration in | a ce with the Dainty Parlor Rocker Estimates on complete house~ furnishing cheerfully given. SPECIAL REDUCTIONS TILL NEW YEAR'S. within ‘200 miles on- $% worth and BRILLIANT’S, OPEN EVENINGS, 338-342 POST ST, pon Powell. Free de er. werting of children, grevel, gall Cropes diabetes, end rheumstism. —FOR BALE DAHLBENDER DEUG CO. —AND .THE OWL DRUG CO. Bend 25c in 2c stamps to W. £ Spring st treatment. ‘Prepatd $1 5. ywded with wor- | is of the city hospitals there 25.—Christmastide was fa- | The char- | as repre- | Dec. 85— | | Med usual custom cannon and firecrackers boomed ail day to the delight of small boys and the discomfiture of many grown people. Charitable socleties provided dinners and entertainments for several hundred children and deserving families regardless of color. s AR NOT ONE WENT HUNGRY. Charitable Institutions Feed the Poor of Chicago. CHICAGO, Dec. 25.—A feature of the Christmas celebration in Chicago was the bounteous provision made to bring -good cheer to the poor. If woman or child re- mained hungry it was not the fault of those wno distributed Christmas greet- | in’fs in the substantial form of food. | he Salvation Army fed 6000 persons in hall w 11;3 prige-fights have been fre- held. Pacific Garden Mission served din- | ner in the afternoon to between 800 and | 1000 men and women, most of whom were | { outcasts. All of the f'arir)us other charitable insti- tutions and hospitals observed the da: Special dinners were served, and in man: instances music and vaudeville entertai ments were given. t thousand men were given dinners in the fourteen barns of the Union Trac- | tion Company during the day. GUESTS OF THE PRESIDENT. Executive Entertains Friends at the White House. GTON, Dec. 25.—President and | ; had with them as guests | s evening Surgeon General | ternberg, Dr. and Mrs. Rixey, General Corbin and Secre- | ! | | | | | | Mrs. Cortelyou. tary a Statement on Seeing Suicide’s Picture. The President did not go to church, but | McKinley took two drives Secre- he and Mr into the c v _during the day. THE MISSING hem. | OMAHA, Dec. 2—A fine fall of snow made sleighirg good in Omaha to-day, the first of the season. The swell function of | | the day was a fashionable reception to | General Lee and Mrs. Lee and their two | daughters at the residence of Mr. and | Mrs. Walter Taylor Page to-night. About | 300 guests were present. ————— Elks Feed the Poor. ROANOKE, Va, Dec 25.—Roanoke Elks to-day fed 500 of Roanoke's poor in | Assembly Hall. Several long tables were in the middle of the building and 500 visi- tors looked on. The dinner cost over $1500. | SOME QUEER FADS | Curious Articles Collected by Well- EKnown People. “When talking a few days ago in these columns about the celebrated collectors and collections, I omitted to mention that | the E of 'Lonsdale takes a special | pleasure incollecting natural historyspeci- many of the animals to be seen at r Castle having been secured dur- his Arctic and BEgyptian travels s _Vera in the Pittsburg Dispatc Sar] is also credited with possessing —_———— an_extremely fine collection of historic | VIEWS OF PRISON OFFICIALS. whips, some of which having been valued | — as high as §1500. Miss Ellen Terry loves | Nothing to Lead Walden to End His Life. to preserve, in her many cabinets, royal SAN RAFAFEL, Dec. %.—The prison of- autographs, as well as “‘pinces-nez’” and | | monocles belonging to famous men, while | ficlals at San Quentin can hardly believe that the body ‘found in Contra Costa Madame Patti owns hundreds of superb and historical daggers and other_sharp- County is that of C. J. Walden, the miss- ing accountant at the prison. The descrip- | pointed weapons. As far as sclentific col- i are concerned, tion sent by them this afternoon does not | exactly taily with that of Walden. No | lections that which Dr. Luys of the Salpetriere Hospital in Paris that would lead the missing man | 6 Suicide can be found at the prison. His recently presented to the faculty of medi- cine, and which consists of 200 human was strictly a clerical one and Do ey or its equivalent evor passed brains preserved in methylated spirits, through his hands. Up to the time he left | | may be honorably mentioned, for it is the | result of thirty years of patient study and the prison on his week’s vacation he was Icumgmed and cheerful, and gave not the investigation. A well-known barrister | and member of the British Parliament lightest evidence of trouble of any kind. | *'He was a splendid marksman and every |is the proud possessor of 3000 menu | cards. Detatls, however, are not given as | to whether he still retains his digestion | °d afier the gastronomical feat v such a collection Indicates, The Found him at Schuetzen Park, | collection of warming pans owned by 3. | Suniayy (40% 1 Revoral clubs of which Nestor Roqueplan, which includes speci- | he was a member. At the prison he was | mens ysed by such illustricus ladies as| a valuable and highly esteemed man. As | Mary Queen of Scots, Catherine de|an gecountant he had few equais. It is| Diane de Poictiers, Marle An-|gaig that it will take several men to do | Loinette, (Queen Gerberge = of France, | yis work as the books kept by him called | Queen Caroline, Empress Maria Theresa | ynto play the bookkeeper's highest ability. When he failed to return at the expira- tion of his vacation, the officlals at the Potnt thought that he might have been snowed in in the mountains of Nevada, and Empress Catherine of Russia, is & Where he said he was going to inspect graphs of the suicide were shown t ARTINEZ, Dec. 2%.—The body of an unknown man was found hanging to a tree near the town of Crockett, in Contra Costa County. From a description telegraphed here from San Quentin it is believed the suicide is C. J. Walden, the missing accountant of the jute mill at the prison. There were no papers on the clothing by which the man could be identified. In his pockets were found an empty purse and a pipe. Coroner Curry at once started for the place and cgt dcwn the body. He notified " | 'Walden’s relativ but will not hold an . | inquest until he hears from them. | SKETCH OF THE MAN FOUND HAN! ETT. IT WAS AT FIRST BELIEVED THAT THE BODY WAS THAT — GING TO A TREE NEAR CROCK- SAN QUENTIN ACCOUNTANT. The finding of the body of an unknown man hanging to a tree near Crockett created considerable excitement in Marin and Contra Costa counties yesterday. For a time it was thought the body was that of C. J. Walden, the missing clerk of San Quentin. After mature deliberation friends of Walden scouted the suicide theory. Later in the day photo- 0 men who knew Walden-well. They all declared positively at first glance and after a close examination that the picture was not that of their friend. some mining property. They also feared that he might have met with foul play at the hands of some ex-convict. Walden, while having nothing to do with the pris- oners, was generally disliked by them for some unknown reason. Walden was a pe- culiar man. He came to the prison years ago to serve a sentence for embezzlement. ‘While there he made his ability known and when his term expired was put on a salary. Many changes took place at the prison, but Walden retained his position, each administration realizing that no one could be found to take his place. He lived down his early shortcoming and en- Joyed the friendship and soclety of a large number of people. Near the prison he had a pretty cottage, where he lived with his wife. He drew a salary of $140 a month at the prison. RESEMBLANCE VERY SLIGHT. Friends of Walden Examining Pho- tograph of the Suicide. A photograph of the remains found hanging in the woods near Martinez, sup- posed to be those of C. J. Walden, wus shown D. B. Faktor, a prominent German marksman of this city, last night., Mr. Faktor, after a careful study of the fea- tures of the dead man, sald positivelvy that the remains were not those of the missing jute mill accountant. Mr. Fak- tor said: “I know Waiden very well, hav- ing been a member of various shooting societies with him. Only a few days be- fore his disappearance he was a visitor at my place of business. The photograph you have shown me ig not a picture of | my friend Walden.” Other friends of the missing man ex- pressed no hesitation wwhen shown a pho- tograph of the dead man in declaring tha remains to be those of some other than the prigon official. Walden's face wat a | great deal stouter than that of the sui- cide, and he wore no spectacles. His forehead was more bald than the one shown in the photograph, otherwise the suicide bears a slight general resemblance to Walden. the statues in her garden during the sum- mer with garlands of follage, while dur- ing the winter they were swathed in | warm woolen garments, and when not en- gaged in these odd pursuits, she caused erself to be wheeled all around her na- tive village in an ordina ‘wheelbarrow propelled by a female servant, whose task wee by no means an easy one, for the lady was not a lightweight and was very particular about the manner in which the wheeling was done. ——————— MONEY IN SHIPBUILDING. Encouraging Results From the In- dustry in This Country. That the shipyards of the country are in a generally prosperous condition is indi- cated by the fact that during the last six months of 1599 and the first four months of 150 there was only one fallure among firms operating plants of any m: itude. On the other hand a number of shipbuild- ing establishments which had been closed | for some time were reopened, and there | | was scarcely one of the more prominent institutions which did not inaugurate en- largements or improvements, these exten- sions amounting in some instances to a virtual doubling of the capacity of ths yard. Most significant of ali is the fact that in the interval mentioned there were projected ten new shipbuilding torpora- mms. which propnsle muelrechz plants en- tailing outlays ra: the way from $500,000 to ssnooooon‘ ngome of thesye new projects are already well advanced, and if all are carried out on the lines made out the aggregate expenditure will exceed $20,000,000. The contracts in the hands of the Amer- ican shipbuilders afford an equally satis- factory showing. There are now building or under contract in the shipyards of the United States mercantile and naval ton- nage which represents an aggregate value, exclusive of the armor and armament for the naval vessels. of $63,000.000. Of this total the naval vessels building for the United States Navy Department foot up in round numbers $34,500,000; the two Rus- slan war vessels building at the yard of Willlam Cramp & Sons Company, $5,000,- 000; the mercantile vessels on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, $15,000,000; the mercan- tile vessels on the Great Lakes, $10,000,000, and the mercantile craft on the inland rivers, $1,500,000. Comparing this showing with the volume of businese on hand in the early summer of 189% we find a distinct gamn of $7,000,000 in the value of contracts, inasmuch as the commissions in the hands of the builders CHRISTMAS FARE | FOR THE POCR is at least strikingly original. Original- Salvation Army Feeds More B e oy, SNy Than a Thousand People. CLEVELAND, O., Dec. %5.—The Salva- tion Army fed 1500 people to-day in the Grays’ Armory. Twenty-five long tables were used, covered with paper and fur- nished with tin dishes. A large squad of police had a busy time keeping the men and boys in good order. Senator Hanna, who is a stanch friend of the Salvation Army, was present and was greeted with cheers. He made a short speech, in which he said: “Christmas should be a happy day, con- secrated to the highest sentiments of true happiness. It should be confined to no class or sect, but be consecrated to hira who came to earth for all men. It is a happy day. made happy by these kind and noble women, whom 1 call practical Christians. 1 am glad to have occasion to express my appreclation of the Salvation Army. It is the kindergarten of Chris- tlanity. It fulfills the needs that other in- stitutions fail to flll. It gives an oppor- tunity to those who have none. It lays the foundation of law and good order; it advances higher civilization, and the cnz of Cleveland is fortunate in having suc a band of Christian workers. This labor to be entirely successful should have the support of all good citizens; therefore, my friends, renew vour allegiance and give your support to this grand work. “May God bless all those in this labor, and may all join In the fulfiliment of hlghar romises.” . ‘he food disposed of comsisted of 2500 pounds of turkey, 2,000 pounds of chic 1,200 pounds of pork, seventy-five bus of potatoes, 1&0 loaves of bread, 150 heads at that time amounted to approximateiy | of cn.bb:e;:. gallons of coffee and 800 §62.000,000. That the growth of the industry | mince ples. s A e is, ‘moreover, even greater than evidencel by these figures may be appreciated by a comparison of the sundry items which to make up each total. It will thus E: seen that whereas the volume of naval work fell off $8,000,000, without t: into consideration the Russian contract, the value of the shipbuilding on the inland rivers was aimost double, the aggregate of contracts of the Great Lakes yards was more than trebled and the piants on the families. I ing in th b A R two Christmas trees loaded with presents for poor children. 5 Ome on the Bishop. A London newspaper tells a good stor; about the Bishop of London and his suf- fragans. At a public dinner the three lead- coast . | ers of the church in the dlocese happened :rs:nn:lgf-g‘:n?w cent }: :ll::'&::m“:~ e Do jgussts. s Dishap of kfi:'n;’ ar- + bookS.— eering Maga.- | TV and aga 5 = by e As Soon as the latter were announced the - - Bishop stepped forward warmly greated them, adding: “So we are all three here, eh? Falith, Foot-binding in China is in obedience to UNKNDHN WOMAN UNDER SUSPICON May Be Connected With the Disappearance of Mag- gie Hoel. PUEBLO, Uolo., Dec. %.—The police have failed thus far to unearth any clew to the whereabouts of Maggie Hoel, the young lady who mysteriously disappeared three days ago from her uncle’s home, near the city. The impression is growing that she left of her own accord. One the- ory is that the girl fled to avold fulfilling her marriage engagement, which was set for two or three months ahead. Another is that she has fallen into the hands of the proprietress of some bad house. In either case, however, it does not seem that Maggle would have gone without either her hat or wraps. There is a probability that the unknown and well-dressed woman who was in that vicinity in a coach drawn by white horses on the morning previous to her disappear- ance had some connection with the mys- tery, though the strange woman gave a sharp and repelling rerly to Miss Hoel when the girl inquired if she could assist her. The house ig In an isolated place in the river bottoms, surrounded by thickets, and the presence there of a fine coach and richly dressed woman is something very unusual. AN IMPERIAL TROPHY. How the Chinese Emperor’s “Black Eagle’”” Came to & British Officer. Cl.g{aln Potts of the Maxim Company of the Hongkong Volunteer Co has 3mt secured an ex inary trophy of war— nothing less than the Order of the Black Eagle, set with precious stones, which the German Emperor sent out by Prince Henry to the ror of China. He has also the mtotr‘;y letter from the Kaiser e cap s B able relic of war in a quite haphazard fashion. Recently at Tientsin he came across some Russian soldiers who had been present at the looting of Peking. One of the Russians had the rarely bestowed order among his share of the loot, but he was too 0T recognize its at value. Captain Potts had no mmcufi;'m erriving at the correct conclusion when he set eyes on the ins| and the Emperor William's letter, anc sum he secured for a triflin possession of the two. at Shanghal and custom merely, and not to law. The may be said about wi queues. No gentieman in China would go without a queue any more than a gen n would wear one in this country. It is not true that Chinese who cut their queues are are not punished in an: £ m:d. 'l‘hbt,y ot e ¥ | you Cl 5 .S,gepney. because you are al . “Well,” was the tty mmhmmu.ww it Mtto‘:‘ uo“%’i turhasd te. Tos Ereitest o the thres 1s - and Charity!” “Yes, we are here,” was the answer, “and I suppose we may designate your Lordship Faith?" “Of course,” u&lled the Bishor. “I am Faith, Earle i Hope and we shall call | 5 ! \ERICK ST IMORG HATION Paul L:i'oy Beulieu on This Country’s Growing Resourcss. PR e Says Yankee Superiority as Regards Industrial Advancement Will Become More Evident Year by Year - LONDON, Dec. 2.—The Times' Vienna | correspondent says: “Under the title | ‘Buropean Econgmical Alliance,’ Paul Le- roy Beulieu in the Neusweintaghlatt, after reciting America’s immense resources and growing population, says: - ““They may henceforth be regarded as the first industrial nation, and their su- periority will become strikingly evident year by year. The United States will, moreover, soon have a considerable mer- cantile marine. Americans are already accustomed to regard Europeans, more particularly Continentals, in about the same light as Orientals, who vegetate in dreams of the past.” | He points out that European states in-.; dividually are comparatively restricted as | to markets, and cannok carry a «division of labor. America’s Trade Expansion. The Times this morning prints another | London, article upon the. progress of | American steel and fron competition, con- | cluding as follows: | | _“How much of the world's expansion | | will America take from us? How much | | will she leave for.us to struggle ovér with | other manufacturing nations? Apparently | | the problem will be solved far sooner than | has been generally expected. e abnor- | | mal demand of the United States for its | engineer products is fast slackening, thus | | bringing the marvelously large increase in | | American manufacturing capacity for the |last five years, and especially ghe last | | three, to bear upon foreign markets. It is paramount to all others, even the effi- | | ciency of the navy subsidy.” | Dowager Lady Churchill Dead. | LONDON, Dec. 2.—The Dowager Lady | | Churchill, Senlor Lady of the Bed Cham- | ber and an intimate friend of the Queen, was found dead in her bedroom at Os- borne this morning. DISCOVER CAUSE OF HEART BENTS Chicago Scientists Claim They Are Due to Salt in the Blood. CHICAGO, Dec. 2.—The Record to morrow will say: Experiments on turtles have convinced D. Jacques Loeb and Pro- fessor D. J. Lingle,. paysiologists at the University of Chicago, that common salt | in the blood makes the heart beat. What | is more, they ciaim that not only does | salt keep the heart in action, but that it | possibly may cause the heart to beat again after it has once .stopped. For several months Dr. Loeb and Pro- fessor Lingle have been experimen to obtain the necessary resuit to prove their theory. They have conducted a series of | delicate sclentific tests bearing upon the | | pulsation of the heart, and to-day made | public the announcement that the results | they had obtained verified beyond a doubt thelr theory that the presence of salt ihn '.(rI:e blood caused the beats of the e | | | In the experimental work by the two physiologists turties were used almost ex- clusively. After snipping off the head in | as humane a way as possible the lower | gut of the shell was removed and the | eart take possession of. Instead of | taking the organ as a whole, a small strip | | from one of the ventricies was used. The | | blood was removed and the piece of flesh | suspended in different solutfons. In this way their conclusions were adduced. Dr. Loeb and Professor Lingle claim that the fallacy of the early belief that the heart beats because it is full of blood was quickly shown when a strip of the turtle’s heart was suspended in a solution of sodium chloride and a regular series of beats began. Separated from all nerve connections, the lifeless strip of heart muscle responded perfectly to the pres- ence of the salty solution. For weeks the experimenters worked to ascertain what qualities salt possessed to cause this rhythmic beating of the heart that were not possessed by calcium or Fomsalum, the salts of which enter into he composition of the blood. They found a solution of the problem in the fact that the action of sodium chloride was due to the peculiar character of the sodium. In making the investigation they discovered that pure sodium chiloride solution was destructive of heart tissues, and by mix- ing calcium and potassium Solutions with the sodlum solutions they found that the poisonous effects of the chloride were de- stroyed. e | | BOTTLE MESSAGES. Method Used by Uncle Sam in the Study of Ocean Currents. The Gefman Government intends stitute a special department for messages,” after the example of the Unit- ed States. They are to be used for scien- tific purposes, as they have proved of the greatest service for navigation. They were first employed for this object in 1502 for the investigation of the great currents of the ocean, particularly the Gulf Stream. Berghaus compiled a chart of 16 bottles found on the North Atlantic Coast. In 1843 Belcher published the first chart constructed® on the 119 finds. Such bottles are now protected by international law. A systematic study was first begun by the United States.y Since 1895 bottles have been thrown out by speclal Govern- ment officials under the supervision of the Sea captains are given ng the following items in ge: to in- ‘bottle seven languages: ‘‘Currents, name of ship, name of captaln, day of dispatch, name of finder, day and place of the find.” The captain fills up the first t of the form, and throws in a care- fully sealed bottle. filled up the second part of the form, he sends it to the Naval Office in Washington, or the nearest American Consulate. st vear 103 bottles were picked up in the mf-.nuci stxteen in the Pacific and two in the Indian Ocean. The length of the bottles' voyage varies. One was thrown out on September 13, 1895, between Newfoundland and Iceland, and firs covered on a sand bank of the Bahama islands on May 22, 1898. It had made 4560 kilometers at the small velocity of eight kilometers a day. The quickest voyage that has yet been observed was made by a bottle thrown out on May 7, . near the mouth of the Orinoco, and found on the 13th of the same month 190 sea miles to the northwest, having been driven at a speed of fifty-six kilometers,a day. Paris Messenger. 2 —_——————— One Name Too Many. George R. Peck is here, which is not a eat importance, because he gfrfesozto Ng'uhmm:olreuumuy. but it is | a to hang a story on, 'S g i tin the Chicago Record, atterson of a correspone t winter the Hon. Henry }(‘::xtuckyd:fikiln a ;e’gm‘ (l:lornar :xi Cham- lain’s s, so they say, géen Senator ‘%lurflon ‘walked ‘over to table. . W ha the matter, Watterson?" tnguired :-"‘You lok doten in the A (o day You can o count them on the fingers g‘t three me:, 'l;ll\t“he Ummt:-’ i to be called orators.” | onial troops surprised 300 ALL CAPE COLONY ON THE VERGE OF REVOLT Dutch Element Only Awaits the Ap- pearance of a Resourceful Leader for Rebellion. » - LONDON, Dec. 2.—The position of Cape Colony is hanging in the balance. Aceord- ing to the Morning Post’s Cape Town cor- réspondent, everything depends upon the quantity of ammunition in_possession of the disloyal Dutch residents, 100 of whom have joined the Boers in the Philipstown district only. Erergetic meagures have been taken to stem the invasion, but there is unquestionably danger that parties of Boers will-get through Into parts of the Colony and gradually raise the whole Cape in rebellion. Reinforcements can ar- rive none too soon. Most of the dispatches from Cape Town describe the raiders as doing little harm and as being ‘rapidly enclosed by Lord Kitchener's combination. Lord Kitchener is in the heart of the disaffected districts. He has the advantage of being personally acquainted with local conditions, Last Mareh he supervised the suppression of the rising -which_occcurred then He is bringing down thousands of troops from the north. The Standard’s Cape Town correspond- ent says the Loyalists demand that mar- tial law “shall be proclaimed throughout Cape Colony, but adds: “Such a step is now impossible, owing to the lack of suf- ficient troops to enforce it.” The correspondent of the Daily Mail at Cape Town says: ‘“The pro-Boer press is singularly quiet. They have been made uneasy by the promptness and ghorough- ness of the mlitary action, but reports from various parts of the western prov- inces foreshadow perilous possibilities. A responsible Colonist who recently made a tour of the Colony declares that ninety r cent of the Dutch are simply waiting or the appearance of a resourceful leader to reoel. Civil rallway traffic has been suspended largely in all parts.of the Colony, and the movements of both the Boers and British are almost unknown in Town. It appears that one Boer column at- tacked S!eynsburf. but was repulsed and fled, intrenching itself in the mountains. ty of police at Venterstadt. Boers fifteen A BANK CASHIER IN TROUBLE He Worried for Years Be- cause of a Most Peculiar Mistake. The way Note Teller Alvord covered up his stealings from day to day reminded | old railroad detective of a little story. found out about this case t'other end to,” he said; “getting on to the wind-up first, then the middle part, and then the begin- ning; but I'll teil it to you in the order that it happened. Back in 'S5 or 8§, when 1 was working for a St. Louis agency, a very decent kind of a man—call him Clark for short—was cashier of the prin- cipal bank in a good-sized near-by town. Country cashiers get mighty small pay, and although Clark had been in service almost from boyhood and was then mid- dle-aged, with a big family on his hands, he was drawing a year. urally he was very anxious to lay by somethl for a rainy day. One of the customers o the bank at that time was a Colonel Pat- térson, manager of the local opera-house, president of two or thres land companies, nd an all-around hustler and good fel- ow. Patterson had been in town only a few years, but he was one of those men who “will drop into a small, sleepy place and take the community by storm. He was a big, jovial chap of the silk-hat and solitaire shirt-stud type, and it was gen- erally supposed that he had oodles of money. Clark, who was a shy, simple- minded man, admired him immensely and went out of his wni to do him small fa- vors, In return the colonel took him asidé one day and offered to let him in on a St. Louis gas stock deal that promised to be a big thing. Clark mortgaged his house, raised a few hundred, gave his note for a few hundred more, and went in. About two weeks later Patterson came to_the bank in a tremendous rush and asked for a statement of his account. Like all speculators he sometimes had a very large balance and sometimes nearly noth- irg, and on that particular occasion it was less than a thousand. “The deuce!” he said, “I'm going out of town this even- ing and I'll have a sight draft coming in to-morrow for $5000 that simply must be protected.” In five minutes he convinved oor Clark that he would positively have e cash there the following day, and, to make a long story short, the cashier Tuckly paid the draft and made a private ticket for the amount. Patterson didn't return, and in a week his disappearance was the sensation of the town. “I will leave you to imagine Clark's feelings,” the old detective went on. “The thing was so incredible that at first he couldn’t belleve it; otherwise he shounld robably have made a clean breast of the Sm!t affair at once. But he was confldent that the colonel would turn up and ex- plain evergthlns and so he concealed the shortage from day to day, until it was gut 1 explaining. tn.n‘sto-%no- ody else had suffered through Patter- son’s abrupt departure, but e hada ro; - lolbe lnflvofl up 'rct’h the hilt, and he left nothing behind wo taking. With that it dawned upon Clark that he was stuck irrevocably for the $7000 deficit on the and then began a season of martyrdom that must have been infinite- ly worse than death. Had it not been for his familyel am satisfled he would have taken a short cut out of the dilemma by utting a bullet through his brains, but e couldn’t stand the idea of leavi to pauperism and du'frlee, and, many another man in desperate stral he started in upon a systematic course o concealment. hoplng against ho some miracle would happen to en: to make good the sho: “He kept that ur for actly how he did it is of - ortance. It was a small b and he ad complete run of its affairs. so the mere mechanism of making falsé entries and ca ng fictitlous balances over from day to day was comparatively easy; but the frightful part of it was the mmu& covery. and knowled, -ufi;‘ to forts to save and his became Erovarbh.l. but fate seemed to be against im and he was never able to scrape to- ther enou, an uction-in “Whes fainted, but he the private office. he demanded Clark, ‘the money for that Sy enve * repli ve it to ol LI I left it for you in an the C¢ ‘olonel: ‘T night it A porte: the | miles from Bur{befld«rp on December 21 and after a brisk exchange of volleys, re tired with a loss of two men. The Cape Town correspondent of the Times telegraphs that searcely any Cape Colonists have joined the invaders. BRITISH OCCUPY BRITSTOWN. Burghers Retirs Northward Without Opposition. LONDON, Dec. %5.—Lord Kitthener, tel- | egraphing to the War Office under date | of Naaupoort, December 24, reports: “Thornycroft's Mounted Infantry have occupled Britstown without opposition. Th gsgen Tetired to the north in the di- e rection of Priorska. They will be foi- lowed up.” FIGHTING IS IN PROGRESS. | Engagement of British and Boers Near De Aar Junction. CAPE TOWN, Dec. 25.—Fighting is go- | ing on near De Aar. Particulars are un- | obtainable. Two hundred Boers have left | Britstown after commandeering all sup- | plies available. New Zealand’s Loyalty. WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Dee. 25.— | The Government has asked the Governor, | the Earl of Ranfurly, to inform Joseph | Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the | Colonies, that it does not wish the New | Zealand contingent in South Africa to be diminished; that drafts will be forwarded |to fill the' ranks and that additional | mounted men will be sent. -— Railway Service Restored. CAPE TOWN, Dec. 24.—Regular railway | service betweén Cape Town and De Aar { has been restored. The report of the de- struction of a bridge south of De Aar turns out to be incorrect;-only a culvert was damaged. Trains are running from De Aar to Kimberfey irregularly. There are considerable delays elsewhere as the result of heavy rains. @ttt et il oo @ | @ittt e i @ ; ) a long. dirty enveiope. It contained seven $1000 bills. For five years of heart-break- ing worry and distractions they had been resting literally under his hand. After the first revuision of feeling was over the Colonel made a few side explanations. Between ourselves he had skipped out to avoild a threatened prosecution for big- amy, but the woman had since dled and everything was all right. He is now in California running a hotel. This is a true story. got it ?rom Clark himself.”"— New Orleans Times-Democrat. —_———— TELEPHONE NUMBERS. 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