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Show THE SUNDAY MOIiXIXG report am sowesharp he uuiuce, dinging toe at c THEFT ORDER THAT CALLS FORCCASELESS VKHLAMCE now ACT,ON anZ EOV a' tec hhevis voek THEY ABE CADGflT --- !y 4 ,s,fv:i rrr: 1vi r ., e -- iiAAS m pkc-- 3&;s V--.J ISA . D. mni 5cvm V i WWH Mr? woaoa or test . . S-- SMS wv Ok. mm stkticm Am Instrument Hour after hour they have watched, certain of a call. Toward one o'clock of the morning the ehrlll bell roueed them like maater'a whlalle to a watch dog. The chief eeiaea the receiver. Yllkx Wliat'a (ha Superintendent! VH i3 V tha silent little trot station among mountain of Central Penney Ivaul elknt hour of midnight, five men IN the availing the word. They ere about the little room In their ehtrt come moving, one nodding ever a novel, tlie chief of the little hand rated beat de complication of telephone mat-er- f . Teat wlreo eight and nine!" come the command. The teat la made. AH O. K. both eant aad west!" he erica. "Good: Now croea eleven and seventeen!" They're crooned, air!". an ominous pause. The chief hearing afar and plainly command given aeroaa a room, mingled with an oath or two, to aubor-UnatIn the big teat room of tha home nation at niiladelphia. Then ouma tha long expected tiding "They're at It again, llarryl Tha Jako1 gang. Seven nillea weat of Peteratown th wire are down. Hurry over tbera!" Wa're off! Ooodbyl" The chief and all hla men are now on thir feet Tha latter regard their leader with aet fhoea full of Inquiry. "Seven mile weat of Peteratown the Jako ganr!" ha repeats In the silence of the little council room. "Come, up and at em, There la atralna hla ea . boyi!" The 1 XP J-.- 2s 5v ' Chut Begins Kvtn now In hla mind's eye each man aeema to lee the pole climber thief at the crossbars, hla nippers clicking, clicking, and with every snap la heard the awieh of another Krand aa it oats tha air aad flays the frosen ground. They know the ns weiV--the nttle band that haa made trouble fur thousands of people by Intercepting their meeaage aad which haa caused tha loss of so many thousands of tha company's dollar re Its whole layout how They tlinea have they captured It after thamany midnight workers had taken ahum and abandoned K to tha woods! Standing hard by. perhaps, la a two horse market wagon half full of wire, aom of It la large coils right from tha poles, others in smoking bunehaa from the rude annealing ovens made of brushwood In th ravines where, after the wire la hasted, it may be rollea up Into email bundles. hiding the Wirt, Perhaps bow men are foraging the neighborhood for cabbages and other garden truck with which to cover lover the "swag.1 so that It may be driven into Philadelphia, where, down in the elum district of the Second precinct, abounding in Junksliop "fences," the glowing cruclblea await It, and where within a few momenta It may he converted. Into e solid mass, beyond ell Identification by any possible apprebendera. Tea, the men aee all this pictured on the darkness, and gripping their weapons they Meanwhile the huddle closer together. Uttle man plunges down the valley, makea a turn across the meadow and leaps up through the fog hound wood. The chief strains hla ayes now along tha verdure hung road, now up to tha erase pieces of the tall, wire strung polea. Than ha whispers above th soft whir of tha cushioned wheels: Boys, let there be no fooling this time. Shoot at sight! This gang must be down Let her out, and out before daybreak. Joe; lt'a a straight stretch here." Presently the chief orders: "Make a halt hera in the open while Dick shinnies ap that pole with hie te, box. Out with yon, Dick!" .The lineman needs no commands. He is quickly out of tha straw boa, hU Instrument slung over hla shoulder, !1hg: steel climbers clinking about hla shlne av ha leaps toward tha nearest pole and notes the number. Then, like a chlmpansea up a royal palm, tha lineman mounts the pole, throws e leg over a crossbar, unallnga hla Instrument and snatches forth two wires at the end of which la a catch quickly snapped over the twin Trouble haa begun. There is a general for Jackets, pistol belle, cape end carbines. One seises a telephone teat lnatrn-mtand throws the strap over hla hou!-d- r with the practised awing of an old lineman grabbing up hla steel pole climbs'. following In the trail of hla fellows. The chief Is flrat to reach tha shed, with a low cel of alarm throws wlda anl the door. A wagon stands disclosed in light the dim lantern light, a suspended harness Move It, and a little pony, tha flee teat In iN that region, widens hla eyes from the making a restive whinny like a war here at Che familiar ainell of gunpowder. There la a rustle of straw, and a blinking ortler emerges from the shadows. Wltb-m- d a word every man does what ha is veined to do, and In exactly twelve aoe-Nfrom the alarm the boree la hitched, the men are crouching In the bottom of tha tUe wagon, one la smothering the lau-brglow with a blanket, and, with the In front beside the driver, who knows strands. wry turn of the devious way almost as Hello, hello!" be caHs, softly. Into the vUh the Itttla mare, tha rubber tired little mouthpiece. bb and tha cushion ahod charger are "Hello! Well?" hrtlag recklessly through tha solid dark-a- t "I want the superintendent quick! It's hla man. Bowen end Km a word la spoken. Every man knows "Well. I'm here. What to the news?" mifness of tha hour. The wire thieves "Stopped to teat. Pole No. Zt,4T(, Where it work again. In order to obtain ere weT" fm hundred pounds of copper wire they There to e pause. destroying thousands of dollars' worth "Fully two miles east," cornea th f the American Telephones property. dive nt "' mm r"- a'i arid. 1KW MEG, WE it. Lift -- ajtftaKflMr VKE TttiET : ilk Xv,r' v . r 1'XVX X. , ,e ' semi-eonaui- ' ' f m? h m VORkEft wk sxunrui t Right. Goodby I" Down cornea the lineman with agility. "How la It, Dlekt" calls tha chief. "We've two miles yet to go." "Only two mUea," murmurs tha leader: only two miles." Overitking the Men, But the little mare needa no lettlhg out She haa let heraelf out and taken a steep hill almost on a dead run. At Uia summit knuU of the the chief looks up, then utter a In Bat Pursuit. Tier gain the clearing, and afar from the summit of the polo cornea a shrill alarm In tha iwannsnt air: "Hun, pals, runl Thayre oa us low whistle. Judge from your appearance, I suppnra yon gave up art I'm ago. Whata your line, any way? Where did you get your money?" "I still paint, "a groaned Mlllal you have sever even heard of at" A NEW DEPEW STORY. a NEW Do pew story is going tb round wuich to an amusing variation 'if the ancient theme of the prophet In to good purpose. The fact to, I am hold- er and knows everybody. Why can't yuu his own country. The Konator, In ing them. Now and then I got to thinking appoint blmf" 'great basin, had boarded a Forlynmeond that I am not providing tha public with "Ye" replied the district autocrat, ntrcet car to catch a train from iha Hrawl aa good a paper aa I ought to. At such that's all so, and If it wasn't for two time I look up your article which en- things Jim would ba a desirable captain ynMnsmcnt he E)HOE BOHOFKLDT, head of able me to perceive how much worse the and a good fellow." a peony of ehang wholesale lias Arni, hsd.u,, sheet might be. Then I become real ehrtr-fu- l Two thlngHf What are tliey? the conductor- many an cxpcrlemv with his live I am CTisunocy Dr pew." he explained. again. Fleam don't take them tram "That he la not honest and he can't apevk aoma of which ai dred employe , the truth. me, he added, appealingly. That's all I know of against pushed a ten dollar note to tne treasurer jamusing. must catch train In four minute and I Urn." and said : Jt th custom of the house that esu:b,I haven't any sslramaal with the "Oi v me A veaea: for That wont go here." snarled tha BY ANY NAME. please. ihuyer lunch In him clisrgn, st tlie expense of idutlar. wasn't s rt left In the rack. ho ail for h.id Except the famous M3, been given the holme. PATTON, Princeton they I beg your pardon," was the good aw,y the whole eighteen hundred dollars' one dnv Mr flnrgfeldt colled an raprrt while travelling recently rejoinder, "llore'a my card. Com worth. WellI, we had to turn away tnatU rail called the porter to bring aaleahim held and overdrawn up to my nfl) always and I will give you HO. a table of soma sort. Aa tha colored to him. nun Av dollars." . . "Since official disappeared the reverend Doctor was It you "arhen j "SiMefer.' said he, New. Nothin doin." houie. took tram bis valira a bundle of papers I aee cut to took Mr. "Hut I sin Benator Depew. wU1 preparatory to sorting them. The porter have ua charged up wlfii a lunch Jor only returned at one eyed the Doctor know'him.'' 'Bra here, sold th conductor, "it won't 'Yesterday," replied the eal'.wnaui read- - work. I don't cere If yoa'r Chaunccy ingly, and Anally sought tha and of the BLACKBURN at one time or-lcar. When ha cams back, so tha story Olcott, you've got to pay your far on Hue his tailor to make him a pair . 'What timer ear." -goes, ha carried with him a bottl a glass trouien. Jn middle t'rf) the day.' ,f and decanter. Make them akin tight, he said, aulusman without lion. "Whata tbUT" said th reverend gentle(ln due time the tnuim-r- i were eeut home, Mr. Uorgfeidt shook his liead uuoompre-an- d THE POLITICAL ASPECT. man. tried on, wbereupan th Benator senl'hendlngly, fcMlTlI. former Congressman for th tailor and pruretded to oicn Are. The porter grinned from ear to oar end 'That Is remarkably strange, declared What ln the blanket blank blank have; he, "because H was y't'i"i lay In the Kentucky, was telling the story winked. MARK him I out to lunch Kansas Senator who appeared .dlc of the day that nok done with tlicse trousers?" be "I told yen to bring mo a table or someIn Washington with a long beojrd, mid the clergyman. no matter how bad a play1!,liC,3eil.t?.,,miW' jn!IW ' that ago ALDEN enjoys telling thing," U cut It off. sudden! then You said sir. 'or told me to make them akin tight, "Ye air. Exactly, WILLIAM the troublous you have. It I never wise to paper I , If you must know, said tha Senator experience of something. I know what you wanted all FAME. trnior. taltrad the IS aald SUCH th McKee, iV well who was ' a weekly K K " o Ye upon being asked, why. It waa like this. but by the great horn spoon, you' rantkn6-;r'r ln ,h WLrunning n day there name jr. ' MiLJoAJS when at the height I was ln the Senate one day, working roared th Senator. "I can ' C IR into the basket, when the tlcker ,0Trl.11 ilia tape Mrof m.att A,an' f hi popularity chanced one day to awa jf, when two pages earns up behind " kin Ljl 1 In ceased Its rattle, and became reminiscent. JJnt?" " 1 foe lndu-i'- f coramja to every town rnH-- t an oiu achOMliuate named Pop-- i roe. Thla lesson was taught ma several "ho has suggestions to of- - ONLY HAD TWO FAULTSwnom he bad known well In Die " 'lie's a populist, whlrpered one, from herd Ul Periodical year ago," he continued, when I mao' hJTOowHmh may be (lays of poverty. He called lu him by name. Kaunas.' KiNbW of the district captains In the interested in a play that did nut make i UAMc. not so sure.1 " 'No,' laid th other. The strar.ser turned. 1 Twenty-thir- d Assembly district was hit They just wouldn't come to It fnm , ln, a complaint that We'U prove It.' declared the flrat page. wa a very rich old man In And who may you be?" askd Fopberd. to Prtr certain arti- - V urging Leader Thomas F. JfcAvoy to1 tb start, but we had two weeks' time on ' iTbAM him and give him a TU go up behind who looked like a tramp. Washington," M.d Jack" man wail known; Broadway, and I made up my mind to. ?hn,1ed to him. "What ' appoint e waaln iove"wRh'a ' '"Don't'you remember me? 1 am Millal'-Th- e good, hard kick. If a Jock rabbit don't aiC tS!SlvlW Wllh them? be Inquired among local pohticians on BasMngton keep the theatre full, anyway, for the ef- heVreat out hla b'nrJ a of you win,' then, rtiat. town 't old mid 'jump Heights to a captaincy and a position aa, feet. So, we 'papered' and 'paiwred' and man "My fir1 A ,. u Hi tie Johnny Millais. sur I'll leave It to auynody," concluded the ,ufo,r m luri"ar In h tail scat n foank cart the house, ere i,her wl,nt empty editor, "I miiet he had any had habits 'eaouKhi" said the tramp, noting the dis-- ; Senator, "If It wasn't time to cut uff tha for .r111 those bits; they have served, "Ua to a hard worker and a good apert-- j at any perftrmane although thor. wo. to"AR wentTJil ifunUl t- i- foirt raurra! figure of the artist. "Well, to i heard." u I brie-t-hr- 'I far' f''il DR. eon-Th- er I ly-i- u y, JOE ' i mld-yo- e, of availability. 1 ; thc - J!' rur E rl Ta I Cfln th mementos of many midnight encounter. Many times it haa been necessary fur Mr. Bowen to wander down Into th lower quarters of Philadelphia, prttend to be wire stealer himself and adroitly bring out tb truth about the wire thieves end their contemplated raid where they have ready I" Tha sentence to never finished. There to praottoelly disponed of the wins before U a euriout twanging sound, e plunge end a wee cut end where the Brae era built uncrash, and live men dud thamaelves pro- der th eruc Riles hi anticipation of n big jected bodily through apse, one landing Instalment of cupper to bo brought In oa on of the three market days whan the on hla head In tha bushes, another on the soft roadside, a third wire can be serried Into the city under e stunned and bleeding on tha rooks, tha load of stolen cabbage and other produc chief himself and bla hostler thrown over He hlmoelf haa Joined In these raid th men up to th very part tha dashboard and down upon the prostrate end panting form of the Uttle pony, of the country where (ho who cutting enmesh a with of copper terprise t to taka place, aad at a signal already struggling wire, which, stretched tightly across the haa had hto man leap from ambush, round road from pula to pole la the thicket, up th thtovoa and make arrests before Thera exploit a brought down th little beast, with men, any damage eau be doa wagon, guns, lantern aad all la horrible hero required iho nloant diplomacy, Judgconfuaioa on top of her. ment of human nature "We might have known they would work nerve. wera Th amount ef money received frvnetha Arst to n words the ua," that trick break the silence. "Joe, Turn, Billy! Uey. ale of copper wire to tnalgnlllcaat whoa compared with th low of patronage-whicboys, era you aU sliver In aoma ease amount te thouI fur one, thank Oodl" sounded a voice Tb American Telephone sands of dollar from the bush. control which end Telegraph Company, I for another, badly need up, but still hi for business," falters anothar from tha hundreds of thousands of mile of wlr baa of late years given severest atmil ruU. to wlr t Moves. It le its proud "Billy doesn't aaove; I gueae he's hurt,1 tention however savers tb can the says anothar, th hostler, bending ever a claim that, public cannot be tnaonvmienead for more prostrate form. few hour for within e Short dto-then "Htay with him. theo end Nellie, every teat station thara Jn ns beaut. We who can wUl go on afoot emergency corps ready ta mend breaks Hurry, hurry I Not a moment to loae I' from whatever cause as speedily Heavily, bruised and bleeding, th three human ean devise. For this reaplunge down Into the ravin end across son, andIngenuity the efficient defective service "Thank heaven, hirti hasfor toward the clearing. had n deterrent effect upon thla they never heard uat" says the lender at branch of erookdoi wire thievery la oe last "Bee I There tluy are, all of them, the decline. , and at work. Murry!" cV'.fST f TUICC Just at this climaa th chicre prauttoed eye cat dies a glimpse of e human eliape on tha lop of a pula afar, tha Mack form against a dim, starlit glow along tha There they as lads I Oat hurison. jam, v.vr;T j Clara of criminal He haa had many hair-brearace pea end to covered with acars "WiwT7en",eVyw ' when tha old man needed aoma salt. He asked for It, whereupon tha young man pressed hto thumb and second Anger gently but firmly around the bottom of th aliaker, laid hla flngiv aa Brmly on the l'i), act It rarafully down ln front of the old man, then gave It a little push tpward himrin the way In which piactlacd hands manipulate the pile of poker chip "The old man watched the performance Intently, then broke off tha match. Ha was a poker player bliiinelf, or bad been." m j in the Put. For many years Deteettv H, IL Bowen, manager of the Corporation Auxiliary Company, whoa headquarters are la tha Browning Building, New York, has carried on an estiva crusade against this JTorA dew-slippe-ry Question hi nu-n- I1 f-j- hollo, X ,i. So 5 X: 'X 14'jTLT, to the uveri-wiif- vf-- 1 -- and Mm short, men. by suddra Weaknwi, falls tue looer half Way and ! enabling on the turf. "I've winged , biro, aag ihe leader, Juvt as a rifle ana clip by hi ear ami La frt i i:, hot breath of a anunla on hie iierk. In at on of the thieves dashing to eo flrirg r the fellow elruth la the rear has alm-e- t kil'ed his dor. At any rate. I've brought him llj"rn," he says triumphantly, auml a per- feot fuaiUada of bubals, seeing the m--1 stsggur forward e few atepe and then Tna trio advance. "Barrend'irl" calls nut the chief to tha shape crouching MB pain at the base of the pule. "1 surrender. Don't about!" to tha waak reply. The thief to disarmed, the ether also captured and disarmed, both ate shackled and a further anarch la mads, luon at last tha lineman gate hie Instructions and huirisa eastward to the place where tne wire cutting began. Ifemnging up tha pula he attaches tha clip "Hello, helm! Bupsrlntendvnt!" " lleilu! All right! Wuat newer "Four men. 'Jako' gang, all rlgot. We'v bagged two 'Jsku' himself and hla cLief IliiKinaa, bath wounded, but not fstaliy. On of tiur men to hurl 1 dont know how bad end Uuwrn'e arm to broke. Tight wires drawn across the road. Horae dead. I'm afraid." Too bad, too bad!' says e vole afar. Thn after a paua "Hint damage t" 'Mrven pole two tbouaand pounds of copper at least. No aealuig ovon in no wsgons found yat, but wbl sigut, end ararch. Fifty wire down on somo pole Better aeud emeronly a few wa other gency nita with two three hundred fuot cables at leant, each with twenty to thirty strand to repair the service HU your tha damage." Unoinen ran AU right. 1 11 start em off before day break, t'oiigraiulats Bowen sad tb boy I'll send help to bring In prisoners. Burry anybody to hurt, but I guess that's in suit of the Jako gang, abT" Tlie flulah sure, judg Ooodtqr.1 . The Net Sesults. And flulah Indeed It was for th two raptured wire thtrvee who participated Ih the thrllllug events of this night in th mountains of th Keystone Biai for they, are now in Uia Hum Penitentiary of Peaw sylvan la, oonvioted for a term of year Three hundred twenty thousand miles of wire! Enough to reach many times around tha earth. And ovary foot of this enormous aggregation under Inspection, with a general superintendent In Now York who gets a detailed report every morning of every asperate strand, th crossed wire the break th grounded wires and evaa th noisy" ones through some meteorological cause or Induction. A vast army contrail this wonderful eye tern brought to to Anita dated. It to natural that when property of oooh value to stretched all tha way from Taaao to Mlunaaota and from Main to Omah when wire commando th price Of fourteen cent wherever there eaa bo found a "fenoe bold enough to make a purOhaoo and molt th who Into a solid mass wire For some unthieves will bo la evtdeno explained reason th win gtealer Is mere in evidence in Pennsylvania than elsewhere lu the East. Tb roaaon generally accepted to that In Philadelphia It to castor ta dispose of tha stealings than perhaps any where east of lb Mlsaiaalppt Hirer at toast such to the obeervatloa and belief of one of tha beat author! lira connected with th telephone service In Naw York. In the (agios of Iho Becond district of th Quaker City there abound numerous place whar so deteetlvra affirm, tbera era oractblra over reedy to eon vert Into a solid mass any metal of value that oomeg their way, i , , . Hint, yourTn . . . of HOW IT FEELS TO STARVE the flrat two days through which aad healthy man to doomed ealet upon nothing hto euffertnge ,ara perhaps more acute than In th remaining stages; he feels on inordinate, unxpeakabl craving at the stomach night and day. The mind rune upon beef; broad and other substance but aUll, In n great measure, tha body retains Its strength. On th third end fourth day hut especially on th fourth, thla incessant craving give piaoa to a sinking and weakneaa of the stomach, accompanied by nausea. Th unfortunate sufferer etlll desires food, but with a low of etrength he lose that eager craving which he felt In tb earlier stage .Should ho chance to obtain morsel or two of food, ha swallows it with a wolAah avidity, but flvo minutes afterward hla Buffering are more Intense than ever. He feels as If be had swallowed r,OR e living lobster, which to clawing and feeding upon th very foundation of lus existence. On the fifth day hla cheeks euddenly appear hollow aad sunken, hla body attenuated, bis color to ashy pal aad hto eyes wild, glassy aad eonnlbaiieilei The different parts of th system now war with each other. The stomach calls upon the l' s to go wllh It in quest of food; tho leg Tlia sixth day from weakneaa. ref ties. brings with it Increased suffering, although the pangn of hunger are lost In an overpowering languor and sickness: The head becomes dizsy, th ghoata of well remembered dinners pass In h.Jeuut processioa through the mind. The seventh day come bringing Increasing laraituds and further prostration of strength. The arms hang listlessly, tha The desire for food leg drag heavily. to still left to a degree, but it must be not sought. Tho miserable rembrought, nant of life whloh still hangs to the sufferer to a burden almost too grievous ta ba borne, yet hto Inherent love of existence Induces a desire etlU to preserve it if It can be saved without a tax oa buuily Tha mind wanders. exertion. At one moment ho thinks hie weary limbs cannot sustain him a mite, tha next he to endowed, with unnatural strength, and If there ba a certainty of relief before him. dashes bravely and strongly forward, wondering whence proceeds hto new and sudden Impulse. Th day of tha brass megaphone to over. Tha latest thing In a megaphone mouthpiece Is one built like a big morning glory and colored accordingly red, white or blue. They arc very showy aad dealers expect a Mg sole of them, |