K DICK CHOKER'S BOYS. WHILE they received so much newspaper that their father was annoyed, but Mr Croker says that the reason WILL SOON BID FOR FAT CON- - wa that , the bo were rur down, and he wanted to take them abroad with him. After returning to this country the a Qurr; Ho la Ala (hkul boys were sent to Brown rnlvera'-tyMadytaf Ilwirlcll;, oad Hath of th and there, as iu other colleges they Awlli l.w t ruk I Baja attended, they were received as good RalMlag Coacara. students. Richard was regarded ws one of the best full backs that Brown had ou its varsity eleven. He (Sew York Letter ) While Richard i'roker 1st indttstrt-ousl- y plajel tenter field on the 'varsity ball team aT.l Frank nlayed first base. engaged in the task of ovene-ithe government of the city of New Although the) are now busy with York, his two eldeat sons. Richard b tstness interests, they are" both two hours a day to the study end Francis H.. 22 and 20 years old, respectively, hare started in to carve ont of lav and intend to attend special their fortunes on more prosaic lines. lecture courses at the New Y'ork I aw School together. They say that they Mr. broker's associations abroad evidently have not caused him to frown do not expect to practice law, but both want tty gain admittance to the bar upon trade,, fur. although it was. hi desire that one if not both of his big and to possess all the legal knowlboys should enter the law, yet when edge w hieh they may need in conducthe found their Leaning was toward ing their business affairs. business, he brought them hack from eollege, told them to go ahead, and BROKE THE BANK." Eaid that he would stand back of them. 80 now young Richard is in Pitts- The Me Whe Did It. Charles Bills VVelle, Jest Oat of Vrtaoa. burg with the Westinghouse company, where he la making a study of elecCharles Hills Wells, "the man who tricity, not with a view to becoming broke the bank at Monte Carlo,' one an expert, but simply so as to get suf- of the most accomplished swindlers in ficient knowledge to be of advantage the world, was released from Portland to him In the business he Intends to convict prison, in England, recently. follow. What the general line of that He was sentenced In 1893 to seven years' penai servitude for obtaining $150,000 on false pretenses. Eight years ago the whole world waa talking and singing songs about the luck of The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo. Wells' phenomenal winning began in 1891. In July of that year he is said to have won $100,000, and In the following November $140,-00- 0 more. On one night in November he broke the bank five times and won Casino frequenters gave him $50,000. the name of "Bonne-Chanc- e Wells. (Good-Luc- k Wells, that means.) Wells claimed to have an Infallible system. To operate with it a capital of $30,000 was required. Its chief point was to catch runs" or "series and then bet the minimum stakes of 5,000 0 francs or the maximum stakes of francs. With luck against him he bet the minimum Btakes. In following this system on one occasion he took all the one hundred and all the one thousand franc bank notes supplied to FRANK CROKER. business will be Is Indicated by the the trente et quarante table, and the fact that he Is "now considering the croupiers had to pay one deal In small organization of a company to purchase notes and gold pieces until the cashier 1200,000 quarry in Pennsylvania, had brought another $2,000 to the tawhich Is said to produce a fine quality ble. He Insured himself against the of foundation stone, and as the quarry banks odd chance or refait" by setIs within four hours of New Y'ork City ting aside a special fund of 1 per cent on his stakes. This cost him $5,000 by rail, young Mr. Croker might a day. figure by and by as the successful bidder on gome big contracts If he Wells lived in and every gets his quarry. day he sent his winnings to his LonThe other son, Francis H-- , has cast don bankers. Whenever he encounhis lot with the Roebllng Construction tered a period of ill luck he went home He and to company of New Jersey. England for a season. At play he Ferdinand W. Roebllng of the famous was quick and cool. Winning or losg family are really the ing, he never lost his head. whole company, for they control all At the height of his success', he of the 500 shares of stock except seva yacht of 2.000 tons the Palbought comThe the stock of enty. capital ais and fitted it out most luxRoyal Is Its business Is to $250,000, and pany Its uriously. appointments were suerect buildings, using as much as posFour stewards attended to head sible the products of the Roeblings perb. of the gamblers guests. comforts the Sons company, which includes the that Wells was winning wire cloth that Is used Instead of All the time was be engaged in gigantic laths In fireproof buildings. Richard, at play Finally Labou-cher- e operations. swindling eldest six of the Croker children, the of London Truth exposed hint. Is a rather stocky, muscular young was examined in the Bow and of agreeable When he man, manner. He has rather a long head. Street Court his total stealings were This Included $150,000. rather Berious estimated at Miss His eyes are gray-blufrom Mary Phllllmore of in expression, and yet with a merry $90,000 London and $45,000 from the Hon. Willight in them. His hair is dark and liam French of Ireland. His method reheavy, inclined to curl. He has a was simple. He represented that he served but not forbidding manner. had taken out valuable patents and He and his brother Frank have alinvestors to assist him in deInvited ways been inseparable chums, and them. On his trial it was veloping and both have unusual filial affection. beeu takAll during their student days the boys shown that for years he had out on all ing provisional protections never let g day pass without communikinds of absurd inventions. Floating cating with their mother, either by anchors, sunshades, foghorns and hotAlletter, telegraph or telephone. air motors for obtaining power from now from home away though they are in waste steam much of the time, they share together the heat contained one floor of the Croker town house. were some of his alleged patents. He was so plausible In his methods and Francis H Croker. or Frank, as everythat his victims were many. body calls him, is of lighter build than promisee bis brother Richard, and very much When his swindling was discovered he fled on his yatch. intending to land at more boyish in manner and appearance. He has shown talent as an Portugal. On his way he stopped at 300 tons of surplus coal. orator, and he is the boy that Mr. Havre to sell was arrested He there, returned to to become desired Croker particularly a lawyer. If either of the boys ever England, convicted and sentenced to enter the political arena it is much the term of imprisonment which he more likely to be Frank than young has just concluded. Richard, but at the same time the fact that ready speech Is not essential to World' Lsrcnt Paper Mill. ' The capital stock of the Great Northern Paper Company has been increased from $1,000,000 to $4,000,000, and has been, taken, says a dispatch from Ban- gor. Me , to the BoRtotl Transcript-Wor- k on the companys new paper and pulp mill at Mllllnocket, Aroostook county, has already begun. It will be the. largest mill of the kind In the world. The mill will be supplied directly from the 250.000 acres of spruce country already controlled by the company; these lands lie to the north of the site. The company has a grip on enough spruce to furnish a full supply for more than 30 years of steady work. 0 the Daring the winters of companys lumber crews will cut and drive to the mill or to Its rail Connections .from 40.000,000 to 50,000.000 feet of spruce. In order that the stock may be at hand for the beginning of work tn the summer of 1900. In the erection $2,000,000 of, the mill and water-powe- r will be expended. on GIRLS AT HOME ARE WELL MEMBERED. tracts. Wtt What Mu 1)M th Kyolld in Ctrrootoc Mmum -- 12,-00- bridge-buildin- good-lookin- g, e, end.-Tbncf- VV haa Fictare I adar Which lhdltad. Whan to Shako Hondo. Here are some simple rules for a hostess to observe in the matter of shaking hands; A hostess should shake hands with every guest who comes to her house, .whether her .own..friend .or the friend, of her friend, both on arrival aud de. parture. A young girl Introduced to an older woman should await the action of the elder, who, If kindlv disposed, will shake bands. Any man presented to a woman, unless he is decidedly elderly or distinguished, must wait for her to make s movement toward shaking bands, and when one woman presents to another the man .accompanying her, It is the duty of friendship, as well as hospitality, for the man to be met with a cordial hkndshake. Ordinarily, however, women are not supposed to shake hands w'tb men when they are presented tq them. This holds good even at a dinuer party, where a woman for the first time meets the man who Is to take tier to dinner. 1899-190- Znaptla. RICHARD CROKER, JR., the field of politics Is amply illustrated in the case of Mr. Croker. The boys have always been chums and schoolmates. They first attended the Manhattan College In this city, where they hegafi lo develop their love of athletic sports, and where Frank won Ka Oatward Sira. the gold medal for oratory when bnt 14 I am told that Squaljinger baa beMr. sent old. Later .Croker years I dont believe them to Amherst, but they remained come a Christian. there only a month. The reason given it I saw him throw a banana skin on tor their withdrawal by some was that the sidewalk the other day." POPULARITY OF KITCHNER ,IS WANING. HU Compel Critic! Soailan la Barit Shop-Taporta I ItaaalU Ar H I IrUh. e Affair at FomIIU How H In th Mo e. ' CHURCH SALOONS. Englaad Posaa Several Thrlvioff BoAtiMia Delag Warwickshire, England, possesses the chief of a class of anomalies of which America can exhibit no par. It is nothing more nor less than a minister of the gospel who The esopenly runs a public house. tablished church is far from being teetotal In its doctrines, as teetotallsm, even among the more rigorous of the sects, haa never been popular In England. The public house came Into the possession of the parish of which Rev. Osbett Mondaunt, the gentleman In question, was the rector, through thd will of an eccentric old miser, who, perhaps, as much in irony aa good faith, left It to the vestry In charge for the benefit of the poor of the parish. When this was made public the reverend gentleman consulted several temperance reformers, who, of course, advised him to sell Immediately. The majority of the vestry, however, were In favor of running the place on equitable terms, and devoting the proceeds to the purpose prescribed. The result hag been successful beyond expectation, an appreciable income being each year derived for clothing, coal, etc. The principles are as follows: 1. The sale of pure beer. 2. No profit whatever to an Individual. 3. No credit allowed. Since the success of this plare several English ministers have taken out licenses on the same plan, and In each instance are reaping a harvest for their parish poor. te A New Legal In real lea. Some Missouri lawyer has Invented brand-nebasis for a claim tor damjfi ages against a railway compny. He haa a client who was a member of the staff of one of the volunteer regiments enlisted for the war with Spain. While the army was being concentrated in Florida the soldier, by reason of alleged negligence of the Fort Scott and Memphis Rail-wsfell from a car at Jacksonville, sustaining- - Injuries that necessitated his discharge "from- the army . Through-hi- a attorney he has now brought suit 0 against the railway company for damages. The peculiarity of the case lies In the fact that plaintiff sets forth In his complaint, as one of the principal damages for which he seeks recompense, that by reason of defendant's negligence, plaintiff was deprived of bis opportunity to win glory and honor as a soldier in the war with Spain, to his loss and damage. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. y, $25,-00- Holding Hlautir High The Chicago Poet tells of who hurried. Into a drug store. "Ive been called to attend the Croesus baby,- - he eaid, and I've given a prescription that calls for nothing but paragorlc. When they send it over here yon must tell them it will take at least an hour to put It up, and the cost will be $3,50. That's the only Orlfta of SllhoaettM. Silhouette, a profile in black, is so way to make them think I'm any good, called from Etienne da Silhouette. the medicines any good and you're Controlleur des Finances, 1757, who any good, and I want to keep their made great savings in the publte ex- bulsensa." penditures of France. Spine say the Doe Gioo, black portraits were called silhouette Weary Watkins If I waa to find a in ridicule; others assert that M. Silhouette devised this way of taking dollar an buy a lottery ticket an win the capital prize I'd first take a bath likenesses to save expense.. Take a Hungry Higgins What! Field rats are esteemed as a table bath. I'd play the whole string out. You bet! Indianapolis Journal, delicacy, in Cuba. -- i a PAWNEES CALL. Kapoatod th Hwr aa Snttoal A la goua (London Letter.) It Is impossible to deny mat I xml Kitchener is ispidly losiug imub of' that popularity which caused him to be so extensively lionized when last in England. Scarcely a week passes without some new point being raised against him, and it must be confessed that- - in the majority of Instances he haa found himself, so far as It is possible to see. In the wrong. Several years ago the English government, with a great flourish of trumpets, abolished throughout Egypt the iniquitous corvee, or forced labor system, by means of which peasants and artisans were torn from their homes and forced to labor on public works for months sometimes years together, without pay, and receiving nothing but their nourishment. The 8ues canal was constructed almost entirely by means of labor of this character, thousands of the perishing under the whip of the taskmaster. Indeed, whenever any question haa arisen aa to thejiature of the reforma instituted by the English In Egypt, the abolition of foreed labor has always been cited as the most important It would seem, however, that it has been revived by Lord Kitchener, for the latter is building the extension of the Soudan railroad, aa well as rebuilding Khartoum, and fortifying the various points in the Bouden, by means of forced labor. The forcing of the labor .1 done in a slightly different fashion namely, by means of military conscription. The civil governors and provincial authorities of Lower Egypt are called upon to furnish a certain quota of men for military service, and it Is Impressed upon them that artisans and me chanlcs are the men of whom the army ataude in principal need. These men are torn from their families and from their homes, where they have been making from 16 to 20 piastres a day at their respective trades, are sent up the Nile thousands of miles away for a term of several years, and when they reach their destination are set to work at their trades for the benefit of the government, receiving ae sole remun-erstlotheir military pay of one piastre and rations. Of late the demand of Lord Kitchener for recruits of this kind is more excessive than ever before, and the natives tre gradually becoming convinced that Englands much vnunted abolition of the corvee labor was merely a sham, and that It continues under another name. The true eAe Sw be ' aWy- - Wbaa-e- gainst the khalifa until next autumn la because of the ,000 Egyptian troops that Lord Kitchener haa now under hia command at Khartoum, who are the only onea available for a march upon the khalifa. Closeupon 7.000 are entirely fresh and untrained recruit, who have never been under fire before, nearly all of the Egyptian and black regiments that were present at the battles of the Atbara and of Omdur-ma- n having since that time completed their term of service and been mustered out of the army, in addition to this the condition of the Nile and the absolute Impossibility by reason of climatic conditions of employing English troops until autumn renders any move against the khalifa Impracticable. This Is most unfortunate, for every day that passes without bis being attacked and Kitchener tends to crushed by Increase his power and prestige among the nations of the Soudan, who naturally ascribe his immunity to fear on the part of the English and to hia alleged supernatural powers. No little comment has been excited by the fact that when Lord Kitchener encountered the khalifa he will be without nne of his former chief officers and principal lieutenants by his .aide. Archibald Hunter, Gen. Rundle, Col. Macdonald. Gen. Hailampart and the English chief of the Egyptian cavalry have all left him, and accepted employment in England and In India. Col. Sir Reginald Wingate haa ceased to be the chief of the Intelligence department and, as chief of staff, is en x, po9-alb- ly success In !. W -- Taar When danger to eucompasses a man th death stares him In the facewell-b-at every turn, all his thoughts might expected to be of himself; but si such a crisis he generally thinks less of his oo peril than of the wife or sweetheart whom he has left behind him. A graphic Illustration of what a awn will do for love waa given during the Kaffir wars of half a centur ago. A small advance party of while men were cut off from the thaftt bodv-ba horde of natives, who seemed to grow magically out of the adjacent bushes. Realizing that they were In a death-trap- , the alx men fired steadily Into the thick of the advancing Kaffirs, but one by one they dropped dead, and finally a young fellow named Dixon was the only man left standing. While the air around him sang with the flight of assegais, he scribbled something In bis pocketbook thrust the point of a spear through the leaves, and threw his message far out over the heads of the Kaffirs. When, five minutes later, the other white men rode up and scattered the natives right and left, they found that pocketbook on a rock and marveled that their comrade could have written such a measage. It was a prettily worded letter to bit sweetheart, In which, after telling her how much he loved her, he said that she waa on no account to stop away from the ball for his sake. Leave one dance blank and I shall be there tn spirit to take It, he concluded. Then came a few quiet words of farewell to his comrades, and a request that they would deliver the letter to the girl of his heart. Every year pathetic letters telling of disasters at sea art washed up in dozens on our coasts, but the stone bottle found by a Yorkshire fisherman last autumn contained lines of more than average Interest Cheer up, sweetheart Hannah I was never good enough for you, said this curious billet-douand It would appear that the mariner had barely had time to finish It and cram It into the bottle before the ship went down, for hie, signature was broken off In the middle, and Hannah's address was Hot given at all. Tears sting the eyelids when one pictures the circumstances under which that touching message must have been written. One can almost see the rough seaman laboriously printing the words which were to convey the sad news to his sweetheart and patiently wetting his thick- - pencil no that the marks it mads might sot be easily washed away. Not good enough for her! Why, a queen might take the hand of auch a fellow Wad consider herself ennobled by the match. Proud Britons are wont to wrlggla,ln their chairs when Majuba is mentldved; but they should bear In mind that, even In the midst of their humiliation, many soldiers bore themselves gallantly. A Pretnrla man tells how one young fellow, when disabled by wounds in the thigh and the arm, eat down in full view of the triumphant Boers and scribbled a letter. While bis comrades were pelting past him to safety, he wrote endearing phrases to his sweetheart In England, and carefully prevented the blood which was oozing from his arm from falling on the paper. That letter was picked up after the engagement, and would have been dispatched to this country long ago had the finder known where to send It; but the gallant young soldier was shot dead ere he had finished writing, and his message wasBo trampled on by ruthless feet that it was scarcely readable. One sentence, though, stood out plainly from th mud that smeared the paper. It was this: Theyll down me soon, pet, so for my sake, look after the old mater; father doesnt care. Alas! that that pet and the old mater should never have known' how their beloved soldier laddie sacrificed his life in writing to them! Rival. g A Wer far Turtaiaa Who Aaeaat- bat Foot Attempt. A titlegioup of veteran turfmen seie it'ing in the lobb) of the SL t haiUs hotel at New Orleans, La, tnlkmis a Ikhii people and things. !'leaking of neive." said one of the Psrtv apiopos of a story that had Just hern told i he nerviest, coolest, most elf man I ever knew in my ! Haivev Ct ittenden, who died 1,1 92 at Saiatoga. Harvey waa a nauiliei of i he lelebrated Crittenden familv f kentiukv, and was a finely hi'il hutiih film ated, polished gent1-nia- ii inn le had a streak of natural dcviliM limning through him that he no Bane help (ban he could hvlp the olor of hl wes. lie was the rt practical joker that ever lived, hut hi.-- tool ness and presence of mind sed to invariably get him out of his m rapes I a wjth him at Louisville in the fall of 86. and he offered a crowd of ub at the Galt house a bet of $50 that he would kick anybody lu the ut) and not get into the least trouble over It. He kept the bet standing for two days, and kicked seven or eight different people some of them elderlv men and men of prominence. In each iase he apologized so suavely, claiming he mistook the victim for hlB brother, who had kicked him the day before as a Joke, that the victim became mollified and assured him It was all right. I have often heard since of other people doing the kicking act, but I am sure Crittenden Invented It. At another time I was walking along the street with him when he noticed a masher posing on the corner. He was exquisitely dressed and bad a flowing blonde moustache. Watch me surprise him, said Crittenden, and turning suddenly to the dude be seised both ends of his moustache, pulled them violently and said. In a loud, serious voice: Pret Pretty bird! ty bird! Then he walked off rapidly and was out of sight before the fellow could recover from his amazement It seems foolish to tell, but It was one of the most ludicrous scene I ever witnessed. When Crittenden pulled the mans moustache his mouth flew open like a trap, but he was so paralyzed with astonishment he was unable to lift a finger. pllh4 RE- has now set in, and U, daily becoming stronger. FAME A FICKLE JADE. CfilTTENDENSAUDASITYr ime-ece- er Remember, said the good man, tlait there are sermons in stones. Not in those that you run against with your bike. retorted the cynic, gnd the argument was necessarily at CommercW-Trlb-unan facinciTveatii Western humor is overcharged and frequently recoils into caricature. For Instance, remarks Y th's Companion, an officer, characterizing General Duncan, a Jolly, blustering old fellow, but No In good Indian fighter, said: dian bullet can hurt him. He 'has been shot in the head with a cannon ball, which did him no .berm, but glanced off and killed the toughest mule in the army. The general himself was the rause, on one occasion, of a bit of humor so grotesque as to set a camp laughing. He, In 1870, led an expedition from Fort McPheraon into the Republican river country, and the famous Pawnee scouts accompanied it, .The general ordered that in camp the sentinels at the different posta should call out the hour of the Post No. 1, oclock, night thus: all la well! The Pawnees took their turn at guard duty, and were ordered to call the hour a the white, soldiers , did. This was a difficult task for them, ae few of the scouts could express themselves tn English. Their commander, Major North, explained to each one that when the man on the adjoining post called out the hour, he, the scout, must call It also, copying him aa nearly aa he could. Th attempts of the scouts to Imitate the white sentinels wers amusing. Forln-stanc- e, a whits soldier would call nlno out: Post No. 1, half-paoclock, alls well!" The Indian standing next to him would sing out something like tl)l$: Tos. number half-pas- s five cents! Ugh! I don't care!" The general, seeing that his system wee more ludicrous than beneficial, countermanded the order. st REWARD FOR A RAILWAY HERO (Edwardsvllle, 111., Letter.) John F. Dickman, the hero telegraph operator at Peters, near here, will he substantially rewarded by the railroad company which he served to faithfully n John f, dickman. ? . and to such good purpose one night Dickman waa employed aa night telegraph operator at the Peter station. While crossing the 'railroad yard to deliver aa order- - to- - the engineer of a freight train he was struck by a through train and thrown' forty -feet from the track. He lay unconaclous a few minutes. Lut when he came to that the order he was to have delivered to the engineer waa to detain the train at Peters. . He crawled up the embankment to see if the train had gone. Ilia progress was slow, as both hia legs were broken and he had sustained a deep wound in the head. When he reached the top of the embankment he saw that the train had departed. He knew that unless he could reach the telegraph instrument in the .station and stop the train In time it would crash into the regular passenger train soon leave Madison, It d was a bard race, but the man won. It was believed that Dickman would die from his Injuries, but the strong constitution that stood him in good stead that night promises to triumph over his injuries, and he la now well on the way toward recovery. that-woul- Cost of enonsoat An Ingenious Englishman has figured out the cost of an hour of government slnpe the beginning' the century. In France the figures show an alarming tendency to increase. Under tfftffifiBLrosI Napoleon. 115,000 francs; under Louis Philippe, 150,000; under the second republic, 103- ,- , 000; under Napoleon III., 249,000; from J870 to 1880. 307,000, on account of the aising of the average by Ura cost of ; the war with Germany, but from 1880 to 1890 the cost was 403,000 francs aa hour. A French paper remarks that this seems to prove the undesirability of paying a government by the hour or Payment by the piece, by the day, to the work done, is the only according r ,way, it thinks, - v - -r- i a o Qlaot Jopoaa .mr- Soldtor. Japanese paper says that a soldier gigantic stature and enormous strength recently had the honor of Ho being presented To tbs emperor. is Private Yamasblta, of the Third ' regiment of fiagoya field artillery. Ho ' enlisted in December last, and la now GEN. KITCHENER, now forced to remain permanently at 22 years of age. His muscular strength Cairo, while Slatin Pasha, who spent is to great that he can carry a field so many years as a captain of the derpiece on bis shoulder and climb up a avail- haa at thrown Omdurman, vishes up mountain when horses are not receive Yamashlta regularly Ala commission in the able in disgust Egyptian juw,- - his - cautious remark two mens rations, and hia uniforms , week Lord Kitchtre mad to order. last concerning her ener and hia policy making it clear 1 Goto ufc low that he did not part on altogether seem to with wife his terms comdoesnt Your former Improve friendly manding officer. Lord Kitchener when la health." No; as fast as she gains last here, was so much lionized that strength ale uses It np tellbag peopl' there was bound to be a' reaction.- - If what la the matter with her! A of -- - m ' - ,