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Show CHIEF T)F THE 'SECRET 'SERVICE cratic tplaoe, 'btR, teverffiSIess, 'the' bankers are recognized w the '"upper crust of the inmates. Here Is a list of the members of the 'Bankers' Colony, with the sentence of each and the work be Is required to 'da: Justus L. Brodrlck, Elkhart, Ind., clerk In chief clerk's office; April, 1904; ten yeans, December, 1910. Walter Brown, Elkhart, Ind., bookkeeper, custodians department, April, 1904; eight yeans, March, 1910. Wilson L. Collins, Elkhart, Ind., clerk in storeroom; April, 1904; six years, September, 1908. Cyrus E. McCrady, Seymour, Ind. photographer; June, 1904; b1x years October, 1908. Alfred C, Barker, Bedford, Ind., clerk deputy wardens office; June, 1904; five years, January, 1908. John H. Wood, Matthews, Ind., clerk, warden's office; January, 1906; eight years, December, 1911. Frank G. Bigelow, Milwaukee, Wis., clerk, record clerks office; June, 1905; ten years: February, stiff-backe- 1912. Henry O. Goll, Milwaukee, Wis., clothes marker, storeroom,' May, 1906; ten years; January, 1913.' Robert B. Taylor, New York city, clerk In storeroom; transferred from Missouri state prison, November, 1905, five years; April, 1908. Milton J. Fugman, San Antonio, Tex., runner for mall clerk; July, 1907; five years; February, 1911. Thomas E. Lary, Hillsboro, Tex., telephone operator; November, 1906; rram (terotrph, eopyrtvht, by Underwood Vndemeod, If. .Y. five years; July, 1910. Mr. Wilkie le a former Chicago newspaper man who made a specialty of Frank M. Mabry, McGregor, Tex., criminal Investigation. He wae appointed to his present position by Secretary clerk to superintendent of construcf the Treasury Gage in 1898, and during the 8panish-America- n war succeeded tion; March, 1907; five years; Novemin driving from this country the chief Spanish emissaries and arresting many ber, 1910. cf their spies. He le 47 years old. J. A. Erickson, Minot, N. D., coachman; March, 1907; five years; June, EX-BANKE- IN PRISON RS routes BSUrt ouU an FINANFORMER CIERS AT LEAVENWORTH. TWENTY-ON- ally non CsrSer Are E Serving Sentences In Government In Kansas Shown No Favors and They Make Penitentiary Model Prisoners. Leavenworth, Kan. Capt Flavius Tygard, the former Butler (Mo.) member banker, and the twenty-firs- t of the bankers colony In the United States penitentiary here. Is in poor health and has spent most of his time In the prison hospital since hla arJ. iitjf. 4 Set ING V(K prery 'ton. rival. The advent of Tygard has called attention to the number of former bankers now confined In the prison. There are 21 In all and they are rapidly becoming the most numerous class In the prison, being exceeded now only by the horse thieves and territory s. lRYI are the aristocrats The the prison life, most o? them being educated men of refined tastes and accustomed to polite society. But now they are shorn of all outward distinguishing marks of respectability by which they were Identified in the old of bawl I C. King, Scotland, S. D., clerk In electrical department; June 1907; five years; February, 1911. Charles E. Grotefend, St Louis, clerk to captain of the guard; June, days before high finance sent them be- 1907; five years; December, 1910. hind the bars. Thomas CoghtU, Seymour, Wis., clerk They wear the prison uniform, they In laundry; October, 1907; five years; walk lockstep In the convict march, June, 1911. Herman E. Haas, Chicago, assistant they eat prison fare, they are liable to be hustled Into the dungeon if they to mall clerk; transferred from Joliet become refractory. (111.) prison; December, 1906; six But the 21 bankers are not refrac- years; April, 1909. tory. They are model' prisoners, Flavius J. Tygard, Butler, Mo., In every one of them. Most of the col- hospital; November, 1907; five years; ony have attained the honor of being March, 1911. made "trusties and their work Is Francis B. Wright, Dundee, 111., runclerical In Its nature. They keep the ner at east prison gate; transferred prison books, check up the prison from Joliet prison, December, 1906; laundry and otherwise look after the five years; November, 1907. . records of the institution. Charles H. Thornton, Chicago, I1L, One long row of cells Is known as clerk In deputy wardens office; May, "Bankers Row. It Is on the second 1907; five years; January, 1911. floor of the prison, where the deputy It has been reported from time to warden has his office. Many of the time by guards who have been disbankers occupy cells In that row, but charged and by that the the same rules about locking up, lights have what is termed in the out, and hours of rising, prevail there prison "a fat snap, but suoh Is far as elsewhere In the penitentiary. fromk being the case. Regarding this The are not required to report Warden McClaughrey says: eat with the mechanics and other con"These men are held to the same revicts who do manual labor. But that quirements as to uniform, table privIs not because of any sympathy. They ileges, marching and other regulations might get their clotheB dirty sitting that the other convicts are bound by by laborers and dirty clothes would and in no respect have they privileges soil the books on which the bankers that cannot be earned by any othei work. prisoner; be be a borse thief or a The penitentiary Is a very demo murderer. . Simple Simons Part in a Christmas Dinner F ANY of old Speckle queerly assorted brood were stepchildren or only adopted she never betrayed it by even so much as an upward roll of her eye. Truth to tell, old Speckle knew aa well as any one that her Inclination "to set bad come at a slack egg season but the maternal Instincts thrilled her, and with a touching trust In human providence she submissively turned every egg In her nest each day, and sat a week longer than any other ben would have thought compatible with ber dignity. Most of Speckles offspring came In twins. There were two fluffy white chickens, two pert black ones, two AUTO FOR FIRE CHIEF MAKING OF MATCHES i 1909. Charles ABOUT 3.0C0.00O A MINUTE USED THROUGHOUT WORLD. od by I uriog Wood 8upply aaodt vitbin I wunl sands I ft iesl Co. mat Irit I r1 for Enormous Demand a Burning 8ubject Hundreds of Factories Engaged in the Industry. Washington. The nations of the world strike 3.000,000 matches every minute of the 24 hours. Nearly one-hal- f of these are Ignited In this country. Americans use up the enormous total of 700,000.000,000 a year. Hundreds of factories over the country are engaged In this Industry. One on the Pacific coast covers 240 acres, with 32 miles of railroad which supply the match machines with 200,000 feet of sugar pine and yellow pine logs a day. For the manufacture of the match the best grade of wood Is necessary. timSapwood. knotty or ber will not do. ; The match manufacturers are as much concerned over the timber supply question as any others. It might be supposed that because matches are small the makers of them would This Is utilize scraps and never the case. The mutch machine takes the finest timber aud what It reyard. jects goes to the turned out by Among the the large Pacific coast factory are 1, 000 doors and 800 sashes dally. As a matter of fact. It would be Impossible to carry on the match business at all at present prices If the rejected lumber were not worked Into something else. This country, although It has the most abundant material and the finest machinery In the world, docs not manufacture enough matches, to supply the home market Thousands of dollars worth are annually Imported from Germany, Austria, France, Sweden and other countries where they are made by cheaper labor and poorer machinery and uaually from higher-pricewood. The Imports are largely safety matches which can be struck only on the bo or other specially prepared surface. comNearly every manufacturing pany haa machinery made apeclally for Its use, and covered by patents, and It also employs processes discovered or devised by Its own chemists and mechanics, and kept secret to ore- cross-graine- nil llah d left-over- d pfy. ii'clt & jv fc, awful scarce this year and prices big. I 'low mebbe wed better sell ail ourn and eat Simon for our Christmas din ner. One goose ain't any good and be eata more than any hog on tbe place. "Pears like Simon was just made to die young, anyhow, agreed Mary. "La! the times Ive reskewed him! Fully a month before Christmas city people began to send out to engage one or two of Farmer Martins well known turkeys. A week before the' day Mary Ann shut up all the salable of large turkeys and Simon In a carriage crales which served aa coops. They must have the choicest food ard be ready to deliver into the hand, of - the many coachmen who came for them daily. The gobblers spread tbelr fine young tails and grew red wlih indignation; but Simon took It all as philosophically as was his wont, contentedly eating more than was hla share of food and on warm days wallowing in the basin of drinking water. Soon all but two of the turkeys were carried away. One of the two, a handsome young gobbler. Col. Robertson and hi grandsur. would call for on Thursday. Proudly and Btlffly the young turkey strutted up and down the now roomy cage, and gobbled his protest from morning till night at the top of his voice. Simon lay at his ease In the basin and blinked at his Irate companion as If the air around him did not fairly reek with garlic. Whenever the turkey came too near in bis swollen pride It was only necessary for Simon to open bis mouth and extend hla tongue. At last the Colonel came for his turkey and bore him away, still protesting volubly. Only Simon and an undersized hen turkey remained. It aint much of a turkey, thats a fact, acknowledged Farmer Martin as he and Mary Ann passed tbe pen Friday evening. "She aint worth much. Wouldn't you ruther Id kill her than Simon tomorrow?" tentatively queried Mary Ann, with her eyes on Simon, who ran to the bars to see If more food was forthcoming. Goose Is good enough for me, and Simon ain't no money value. Mebbe that turkey will fatten up gainst spring and make a right respectable mother hen, replied Farmer Martin. "She's not likely to unless she makes a better fight for her victuals, Mary Ann returned. "PearB llbo Simon gets most of em In spite of all I can do. He's slch a fool be dont know when be's got enough. Most seems a pity to kill such a silly critter. That night Mary Ann bad everything in readiness for tbe morrow, planning to rise early and prepare Simon before breakfast, for even Mary acknowledged that a goose Is bard to dress. About four oclock In the morning she was aroused by an unearthly quacking and hissing. Hastily throwing a quilt around her sbouldera and plunging 'Into her shoes, she rushed to the chicken yard. A man fled toward tbe fence with a bloody turkey in one band. "Drop that, drop that! yelled Mary Ann, burling the cloths stick at blm and bearing down upon him at full speed as he neared the barbed wire fence. The thief threw blmself over, but his trousers and a turkey wing caught on a barb. Gaunt Mary Ann, in her motley quilt, loomed up before him, armed with a chicken trough. With a desperate wrench he freed himself, but be lost his prize. Mary Ann grabbed up the turkey. Its head had been wrung off. She ran frantically to the coop. It. bad been overturned. "He's stole Simon, he's stole Simon! walled Mary An as Farmer Martin appeared, hitching up bis trousers. Suddenly a familiar Bound smote ber ear. Glancing up, she caugbt a glimpse of Simon quacking merrily and waddling rapidly through tbe rusty weeds in the direction of the corn pen. "Well, I reckon wed better hava turkey for Christmas after all. Ain't no use of lcsln' two fowls," said Farmer Martin, after relieving hla feelings. "La!" muttered Mary Ann, as she watched Simon blissfully quacking and gobbling In tbe middle of tbe I do believe Simon ain't corn pen. such a fool after all." N. Y. Herald. . . The Thief Threw. Himself Over. sensation the gosling had then. He seemed born for paddling, and as be ' paddled he kept bobbing his bead down into the white substance and fetching up tbe most appetizing things. Evidently the world had been made for nothing except gobbling and paddling. By and by be began to feel tired. He determined to Jump out on the steps again, but strange to say all his jumps turned to paddles. He couldnt seem to get over a hard, brown object next to the steps. He decided to try no more but just to sit still, so he doubled bis short legs up under him and floated. After a while be felt himself sinking, but he paddled twice or thrice and got up again. Still it was pleasanter to drift, so he rested once more. Lower and lower he sank. Strange odors floated up around him. Drowsiness besieged him. Not much except his head was now above surface, but somehow, as be rested his bill on that cool substance the gosling didn't care. Just then Mary Ann came out with a pan of peelings and dashed them In. "Peep! peep! murmured the gosling, bobbing up and down. "La! ejaculated Mary Ann, and ran for tbe shovel. When ahe had shoveled him out on the grass she finished her exclamation. "La! alnt that fool goose got no more sense that to go swlmmln In the slon bucket!" "Peep! replied the gosling, placidly turning over on the grass In the warm sun with a deliciously filled feeling. Lazily tbe summer months drifted by. One day and another that fool goose, as every one came to designate him, figured continually before the public eye. So entirely devoid of sense did his escapades seem that the hired man named him "Simple Simon, for short. With the coming of the snappy December days people began to think of , When to Moralize, Christmas feasts, and the farmers to We will not expatiate upon the evil look over their poultry with an eye In Christto the markets. One frosty duy when and folly of Mrs. Martins kitchen breathed spicy mas glftmaklng until after Christinas. Such moralizing follows the "dark odors her husband slouched In. taste of the morning after.": brown over the Ive Just been looking , Atlanta Constitution, are drawled. he "Turkeys poultry," Wee striped bantams, two long legged peevish turkeys, and two perpetually The fire department of the District of Columbia haa recently purchased hungry ducks. But when It came to several automobile and their practicability will bo given a thorough trial the twin goslings there was only one Tht above photograph ahowa the special auto for the use of the chief pf the of them. Of course, the different twins associated together and told each othdepartment In responding to alarm. er their trials and Joys, their fears vent rlvala from obtaining and profit- them cut easily. By some machines and hopes; but the gosling was the sheep of the family. He knew ing by them. A single machine has a boiled or steamed log Is revolved on yellow no troubles but bis own, he wanted thick a the axis and own shaving been known to turn out 177,926,400 its happy-huntinmatches In one day boxed and la- ness of a match la cut round and little, and when he found a had of he all to It same bugs ground is at tbe This round. shaving beled ready for shipment Some matches are shaved with the time cut Into lengths and split Intc himself. He had also a little habit; of wabbling In while two chickens grain from sawed blocks, some are match sticks. Round matches are cut both ways by saws. In some fac- made by forcing them through dice fought over a bug, quietly gobbling up the insect and calmly turning his back , tories tbe blocks are boiled to make Tbe Japaneio make paper matches. without even so much as a reminder that theq no longer existed a enuso for quarrtdHng. Others might have sharp bills to dig and fight, but be had a broad one to grasp and retain. ous twist and withdrawn, and out Burrowed Into Grave and Made Home with It came a big, fat opossum. The In his Independent. he waddled through the world, . In Coffin. old varmint had. burrowed Ido the way slrango friends, and having making the and coffin grave, gnawed through feather-breadtescapes known only to Dickson, Tenn. While some col- there made Ita nest Tbe grave was himself and the Martin family.. ored men were digging a grave let a a Uttlo less than a year old. The old May Day dawned waftn and sunny. was almost white, and gave burying ground out In , the country fellow Worms had fairly wriggled themselves from DIckHon, an incldont happened evidence of having been an Inhabitant into the Roallngs mouth that morning, that ha completely severed the friend- of tbe tomb for some time. and he felt more thnn content as he ship of people of their race and the quattrd In the sun on the back kitchBuys Saloon to Gst a Drink. Tennessee opossum In this neck of en step Suddenly, In turning hla head Wallace, Idaho. Jack Frederick, the woods. Some dogs that accomto the left, ho spied a templing red panied the diggers bayed at a nearby mining promoter, Invited prospective peeping up from a great, round, object grave. Investigation revealed that a Investor to have a glass of beer. Ho whitish looking aurface. The goaling smoothly worn hole extended from found the barroom locked, ao bought made a dash, and splash! he went the aide of the mound to the Interior. It for (3,000. The party drank five under the shining white surface. He Into the hole a switch was thrust, and glased of beer and then Frederick had that red bit, however, and as he was answered by a hideous, sepulchral told the aaloon back to the original swallowed It he instinctively struck growl. Tbe twitch waa given a vigor owner for 34,500. out with his legs. What a dcIlgWul POSSUM LIVES IN TOMB. happy-go-luck- e , |