Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 787, Ed. 1 Friday, May 8, 1896 Page: 6 of 8
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broker's intention to sail for Europe in
a few days, and this fact was made use
of to keep that part of the transaction
HOW MANY
different advertisements ef
COLUMBIA
BICYCLES
of the safe after delivering the other .
diamond to the broker, and he was tbe i" a fog until the broker s returt
When Answering Advertisements Men-
tion this Paper.
3-3 Eti
The variety of Colum-
bia Bicycle advertising —-e-1
is great. All the good
points of Columbias,A «
all the delight of riding
says: “His secretary sat side by side
HE SET TO WORK TO FIND THE
COMBINATION.
obliged to go to London on Saturday's
steamer, and he requested the owner of
the diamond to have a detective lock
the matter up, and he would pay all ex-
penses.
"If the detective would call at his
office he would give him what informa-
tion he had, but he didn’t wish any of
the clerks to know about the matter,
as he didn’t want them to feel under
suspicion.
"As the owner had told me that the
stones in the two earrings were a’nost
similar, I asked him to let me see the
remaining one, so I might be able to
Identify the other stone in case I should
stumble upon it at any of the pawn
shops.
"The owner went to a small safe in
the corner of the room and opened it.
Pulling out one of the drawers he came
toward me, at the same time looking
for the diamond. He was unable to
find it, and thinking he might have
placed it in another drawer, he ex-
amined that also, but the diamond was
nowhere to be found. He was positive
he had placed it intone of the drawers
tion. Y
"Here were apparently two diamond
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fore, and leaving the owner in ignor-
ance of the fact that while he was
quietly eating his luncheon in the room,
below the combination of the safe had
been discovered and the other stone
was at that moment in the vest pocket
of the man who stood before him. Of
course the owner never saw the thief
afterward until he accidentally met him
as I have related.
“It is not hard to lose one’s self in
New York, but this thief took the
chance of meeting the owner of the
diamonds in the crowd at the opera,
and lost.”
Dog-skin is also much used and the
skins of rats and kangaroos are said to
be used for fine gloves.
It requires much care to prepare kid
leather for gloves. In the first place,
it is necessary that the kid be killed
while quite young, for as soon as it
begins to feed on herbage its skin is
injured for glove making. The skin is
first cleansed in running water, then it
is slacked with lime and orpiment and
i the hair removed from it with pincers.
Next it is steeped in limo water for ten
or more days, after which ft is thor-
oughly washed in pure water and then
soaked in fermented bran-liquor.
To soften it and make it pliable, amm.
yolks of eggs and flour are used. It is
then dried, worked upon the "softening-
iron,” stretched and then robbed with
numice to make it smooth. If intended
for colored gloves it is dyed the esired
color and is then ready to be cut.
Glove-sewing is done chiefly by worn- ’
en. Usually the sewer begins by put-
ting in the thumb with its gusset: next
she sews the long seem from the wrist
to the tip of the little finger, and then
puts in the finger gussets and sews
the fingers. Then she binds the slit or
opening at the wrist, puts on what-
ever kind of fastening the glove re- I
quires and then binds or ‘finishes'* It
in some way around th'1 wrist. Next
it is pressed carefully, the finger-gus-
sets are folded back between the st-
nerior and inferior surfaces of the
man cal
is easy enough if you look
for it in the right place.
This is the right place to
learn just what to do for
that debilitating condition
which Spring always brings.
Do you want to be cured of
that languid feeling, get
back your appetite, sleep
soundly, and feel like a new
man?
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla
will do it. It has done it
for thousands. It has been
doing it for 50 years. Try it.
was at his door. The story, again. is
told of Dickens, how once in a station-
er’s shop he was startled by hearing a
lady at a counter inquire whether the
next number of a certain novel, then
। appearing in monthly parts, was out
ye*. Little did the customer guess that
the next part of the story was not yet
even in existence and that the gentle-
man at her elbow, in fact, stood there
for the purpose of buying a paper upon
which he intended to go home and writs
the chapter asked for.—Chambers'
Industry and perseverance, “an nfin- |
ite capacity for taking pains.” If they
are not indeed genus itself, as has par-
adoxically been said, form at least the
indispensable aecompaniments to it.
Mr. Rider Haggard declares he writes
his books simply by keeping at work on
them. And the industry of Mr. Rud-
yard Kipling may be measured by the
fact that he is said to have written ‘ The
Record of Badalia Herodsfoot" seven
times over and then to have made con-
siderable corrections on the proofs.
The late Professor Huxley was another
1 writer whose Industry in 1 effecting his
literary expression was only rivaled by
his genins.
---- revive eighteenth century fiction?"
-cd-hot iron will soften old putty -Well it's pretty low.”—Detroit
. it it can be easily removed. 1 Tribune.
erat times before lying down. This
idiosyncrasy is believed to be due to
the habits of the wild animal, which
found it necessary to turn around in
its bed of weeds or grass several times
in order to break the vegetation down
to make a comfortable resting place.
luncheon in the dining room below
when the confidence man called, and
the servant was directed to show the
visitor into the library. It was in this
room where the owner had met the
supposed broker on his previous visit,
and it was here that the safe containing
the diamond stood.
"The confidence man had carefully
watched the opening of the safe the
day before, and he had noted that it
was worked by a simple combination.
“When the servant disappeared from
the library the thief glanced around,
and, seeing that he would be unob-
served and could readily hear any ap-
proaching footsteps, he set to work to
find the combination. It was only five
minutes after he had been left alone be-
fore the owner entered the rooom and
found his visitor apparently highly agi-
tated over the mysterious disappear- |
ance of the diamond he had
taken away with him the day be-
s„ro CENTRAL office
//I( cective bit off the
II£ V <nd of a big black
/.04) cigar, as he sat at
)I335- one of the
«40e tables in an
Bd-m— town cafe a
nouace the supposed robbery of the '
day before, he had planned to secure
possession of the other stone for the al-
leged purpose of having a diamond ex-
pert make a careful discription of it—it
being almost an exact duplicate in color,
weight and shape—and by this means ।
the missing diamond could be identified
by any pawnbroker or diamond dealer
Their Ancient and Modern I se and Hou
They Are Made.
The ancients were not strangers to
the use of gloves. Xenophon, the
Greek historian, tells us that "the Per-
Eians wore gloves as a protection from
the cold.” In his account of his uncle’s
journey to Vesuvius, Pliny the younger
“there are others.”
At the close of the game halve your
winnings and multiply your losses in
discussing how you stand. All good
players do it.
Never pay any hold-over debts at the
beginning of a new game. Mercenary
men have been known to accept money
so offered and refuse to play.
When luck is against you call for a
new pack, grumble and claim more
trouble than ever mortal had before.
When you are winning Took at your
watch all the time with the remark:
“I’ve got to go pretty soon.” Go when
you get good and ready.
By following these instructions yon
will show an intimate knowledge of the
game, even if you do not win.
Sead for the "Curebook.” 100 pages free.
J. C. Ayer Co. Lowell, Mass.
Suggestions for Suecess, Which Iff Sare
to Follow If the Player Survives.
The whole object of poker is to save
your own money and to secure some one
else’s Win cash and Tose on credit is
a good general rule, says the New York
World.
Therefore, buy only one-half as many
chips as you think you will need. When
they are gone, ewe!
Ante only when you are reminded of
it. You’ll make a chip or two in an
evening by following this advice.
If any one has to owe for chips make
sure that you’re the first to do so. Then
bet against the ready-money players.
Get a look at the bottom card if you
can. It may alter your draw mate-
rially.
Always "salt away” checks in your
pockets. No one then can tell how you
stand and you can be “shy” from time
to time.
Watch the discards carefully but use
them sparingly Excess in these lux-
uries may beget trouble.
Sell your chips while you have plenty
of them but only for cash.
If there is a kitty take a few extra
them, cannot be fully AAXABNa
described in any one (MEei45
advertisement, nor in II ZKB
a hundred. 11 163
We with to know how WV
many announcements "
can reach any one person, and so offer a
COLUMBIA ppg
BICYCLE
to whoever shall send us the greatest
number of different Columbia Bicycle
advertisements clipped from newspapers
or magazines issued since Jan. 1, 1896.
Many advertisements differ only in a word
or two; others in the style of type; distinct
variations only, however, will be counted.
Each advertisement must have plainly
attached to It the name and date of the news-
paper or magazine from which It Is clipped.
Separate entries cannot be combined.
Entries must be received by us at Hartford
on or before Tuesday, June 80,1896. In case
of a tie, the award will be made according to
priority of receipt and entry. Address
Department of Statisties,
cigars. If you don’t smoke yourself
ready to make note of whatever oc-
curred. and he had gloves on his hands
that the severe cold might not hinder
his business.”
Athenaeus tells us of a glutton who
always came to the table with gloves
on, "that he might be enabled to handle
and eat the food while hot, and thus
get more than anyone else.” In Greece
and Rome gloves were at first worn
only by husbandmen during the per-
formance of certain kinds of field labor.
Their use became quite common in the
early Middle Ages. Priests, knights
ami ladies wore them; and many sym-
bolical significations were given to
them, of love, challenge, submission,
etc. The custom of challenging by the
glove was continued down to the reign
of Elizabeth. It was not until the reign
of Louis XIV. of France that gio -*3 be-
came a part of elegant dress in general:
after that time their use became more
and more common. During that period
gloves worn by gentlemen were made
with gauntlets; those worn by ladies
covered the arms. Leather is used for
glove-making more than any other ma-
terial. the principal kinds being doe.
buck and calf-skin3. reindeer skin,
sheep and lamb-skins and real kid.
------- diamond thief is
abdut as sharp as they make em. He
doesn’t hold people up on the street,
and it isn’t often that he commits burg-
lary to get the gems. He may sneak
them, but that’s about as far as he
goes in the way of breaking the law.
“A short time after ex-Inspector
Byrnes reorganized the detective bu-
roau I had charge of a case which was
the cleverest piece of work on the part
of a diamond thief I ever heard of.
"One morning when I reported at
headquarters the chief said that a re-
tired business man, who lived on one of
the cross streets near Fifth avenue,
wanted him to send up one of his men
to investigate into the loss of a valuable
diamond. The chief assigned me to the
job, and in half an hour I was at the
house.
"This is the story as the man gave it
to me: He was a widower, and among
his deceased wife’s jewels was a pair of
large diamond earrings. Having no use
for them, he had tried to sell them, but
the diamond dealers would not give
him more than half their cost, so he ad-
vertised them.
"The next day a Pine street broker,
whose name he mentioned, and whom
I knew well, called on him and looked
at the stones He took que a fancy
to them, but said he only wanted one
of them, which he intended to have set
as a scarf pin. The owner fixed a price
upon it—something like twelve hun-
dred dollars. The broker did not object
to the price, but wanted to have the
stone passed upon by a jeweler, say-
ing he would send a check for it if the
report was favorable. He took the stone
away with him.
"The day following the broker called
upon the owner of the diamond and in-
formed him that he had been robbed of
the stone. He had placed it in his safe
at the office the night before, and when
he went to get it the next morning, in-
tending to submit it to a Maiden lane
-diamond dealer for his opinion as to its
value, he found it had disappeared. He
was positive that he had placed it in
his safe, and the only person besides
himself who knew the combination was
his son, who was west at the time. He
was willing to pay the owner for the
diamond in case it was not found, but
thought it best to let him know of the
robbery.
"The broker said that he was
robberies, each happening about the
same time, the purpose of the thief be-
ing to obtain possession of the pair of
earrings.
“I made the usual examination and
inquiries about the servants in the
house, and then went down to the of-
fice of the Pine street broker. The large
safe, to which the clerks had access. I
was not interested in, and quickly
passed upon it as being in a proper
position. In the private office of the
broker was another and much smaller
safe which stood a little distance away
from a window that looked upon the
street. This safe was so situated that
it could easily be seen by passers-by.
and as there were no shades to the win-
dow it was not likely that the safe bad
been tampered with during the night,
since it was in plain view of the police
and private watchmen who passed the
building every few minutes.
"I was not able to see the broker
when I called on the following day.
and did not visit the office again until
the next week, when I was told he had
sailed for Europe. M
"The pawnshops were searchef an 1
a report of the case was oat to other :
cities, but no clue to the missing dia-
monds was obtained.
“All efforts to discover the thief or
to ascertain the method by which the
robberies had been committed were
without result, and I was beginning to
fear that it was a case that could never
be cleared up wher one evening the
telephone bell rang, and I was wanted.
"The person at the other end of the
’phone was the owner of the diamonds,
who wished me to meet him in the
lobby of the Metropolitan opera house
as soon as I could get there. I went up
at once, and on entering the lobby
the first person I caught sight of was
the owner of the diamonds, walking
nervously up and down and evidently
in an excited condition of mind. He
spied me while I was a dozen paces
away, and with a smile of recognition
beckoned me to approach him.
“‘I've found the diamonds and the
thief at the same time,’ he said excit-
edly.
“‘That's good,' said I; "where are
they?'
" ‘Come with me and I’ll show you.’
“He led the way down the aisle on
one side of the building until he nearly
reached the orchestra. Handing me his
opera glasses, he said:
“ ‘In the eighth row, near the cen-
ter, sits a stout, blonde woman wear-
ing a pair of large diamond earrings.
Those are the earrings that formerly
belonged to my wife, and the man who
is talking with the woman is the Pine
street broker who is supposed to be in
Europe.’
“I turned the glasses toward the
couple and gave a careful look at the
people he had pointed out.
“ ‘Pine street broker?' said I. lower-
ing the glasses. ‘That’s no more the
Pine street broker than I am. That
is—’
“ ‘But recognize him positively as the
man who called on me and presented
his card as the broker?’
“‘Oh!’ said I, ‘that’s the way you
obtained your introduction to the Pine
street broker, is it—gave you his card,
did he? Well, I am not surprised at
that man there presenting somebody
else’s card, if there was anything to be
made out of it. That fellow is one of
the sharpest confidence men of Chi-
cago and this is the first I knew of his
being in New York. And as for the
woman with him. she's a notorious
Tenderloin character who has gotten
the better of more than one moneybag
in this town. If that man is your Pine
street broker, you can be pretty sure
those earrings she has on are your
property.’
“I gave the tip to one of our men
whom I found in the lobby, and as we
didn’t care to make a scene during the
performance, we waited until it was
over and then gathered the pair in and
took them down to headquarters.
“It was easy enough to hold the con-
fidence man. but it was hard to get the
woman to give up the diamonds. She
finally consented to surrender them
under protest, but, of course, she never
made any more fuss about it and the
owner kept possession of them.
“This confidence man died in prison
about two years ago, and I never learn-
ed the solution of the mystery of his
getting both of the diamonds until a
few months ago, when the story came
out.
“The impersonation of a well-known
broker by presenting a card with the
broker’s name on it was a simple de-
vice to get possession of one of the dia-
monds. The thief had learned of the
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A Large Sum.
An enterprising dentist of Philadel-
phia. taking as the basis of his calcula-
tion the amount of gold used up by hit
profession in that city, figures that the
people of the United States are carry-
ing about in their teeth the vast
amount of 280 tons of gold, worth
something over $107,500.000. It is a
big reserve fund.
Any girl who will use musk, is liable
to dye her hair.
F. J CHENEY tl CO.. Toledo. O.. Proprs. of
Hall's Catarrh Cure, offer $100 reward for any
cane of catarrh that cannot be cured by taking
Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for testimonlal3,
free. Sold by Druggists, 7SO.
Times are never hard so long as there
are any fools left with money.
If the Baby Ie Cutting Teeth,
Be sure and uso that old and well-tried remedy. Man
WinNLoW’s soorHExe STBCr for Children Teething
Oh, we are all so horrible when we
are dead!
Piso’s Cure for Consumption is the only
cough medicine used in my house.—D. C
Albright, Mifflinburg, Pa., Dec. 11, ’95.
People do not go crazy; cranks drive
them crazy.
If Troubled With Sore Eyes
Jackson’s Indian Eye Salve will positively
cure them. 25c at all drug stores.
People get too old to dance, but
they' never get too old to sing.
48 evenings ago, and
me as he struck a
Fy" match to ignite the
K79 weed be said:
»- "A professional
short of two miles. A fabric woven of
spiders’ threads is more glossy than
that from the silkworm's product end
is of a beautiful color.
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Strikingly contrasted with this neces-
sity for industry have been the personal
inclinations of some conspicuous writ-
ers. Thackeray confessed that his be-
setting sin was laziness; he could nover
write, he said, until the printer’s devil
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