INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS. INFLAMMATION John. He now became dazed with the slightest information. I had offered Particularly the Ladies. in fear and excitement He left the home him his liberty and $1,000 TTj[e Repentance of his boyhood on foot and made his money as an Inducement, but he stubbornly way to Philadelphia, where he chanced refused. He seemed to have Not only pleasant and refreshing to to meet his step-father who %as a deluded himself into the idea that ^iie taste, but gently cleansing and sweetcnmg member of a gang of counterfeiters. treachery among a gang of criminals to die system, Syrup of Figs and ofHartz John, was easily persuaded and he suffered was much worse^ than the unlawful of Senna is particularly adapted himself to be led along step by deeds performed by them. to ladies and children, and beneficial in step until he was deep in the mire. I learned from the prisoner that he cases in which a wholesome, strengthening AND PAIN Our Civil war had brought a great had a family. When this was mentioned and effective laxative should be change in the finances of the country. he shuddered a little. Coming used. It is perfectly safe at all times and A TRUE STORY OF THE SECRET SERVICE Wild cat banks had gone out of existence to the conclusion that I could learn dispels colds, headaches and the pains and a new kind of money was nothing from him I was ready to lock caused by indigestion and constipation so By COL H. C. WHITLEY Former Chief United in use. There was a great deal of him up. Before doing this I suggested States Secret Service jxtxnptly and effectively that it is the one counterfeiting going on and John the idea of taking him to see his wife perfect family laxative which gives satisfaction Hartz was one of the number engaged and children. Early In the morning Cured by Lydfo E Pinkham's in it. Like the most of the men of to all and is recommended by I procured a carriage, and after a his stamp he was unsuccessful In accumulating Vegetable Compound. was sometime in the One day a drover came along tne 20 minutes' drive we stopped in front millions of families who have used it and wealth. fall of 1859 that a stranger pike with a long string of oxen and of a large tenement house which we Who have personal knowledge of its excellence. came trudging along stopped at the Black Bear Inn, and counterfeit beer stamp made A entered, ascending the stairs to the Creston, Iowa.—" I was troubled for along timft with inflammation, pains the turnpike. He was engaged a pasture for his cattle over its appearance in Philadelphia and I second floor. Its wonderful popularity, however, has "in my side, sick short and fat. His round night. The drover was new in that found it necessary to visit that city Knocking at a door to our right we led unscrupulous dealers to offer imitations headaches and nervousness. part of the country, and for safety he The night was dark and stormy and red face was covered with were after some delay admitted by a I had taken which act unsatisfactorily. Therefore, handed his pocket book, containing it was about the portentous hour of a stubby growth of blonde woman wearing a calico wrapper, and so many medicines when buying, to get its beneficial a. several hundred dollars^ to John Hartz 1:00 m., when ghosts are said to whiskers. He wore a we entered the room which was dark that I was effects, always note the full name of the for safe keeping, in the presence of stalk abroad in ghastly white array, broad flat blue cloth cap discouraged and and dismal as a tomb. Two or three "Company—California Fig Syrup Co.— Weisgarber. Shortly afterwards when that four detectives left their comfortable and a long brown linen thought I would broken chairs, a rickety table and a the drover was out attending to his quarters in the hotel with the expectation never get well. A plamly printed on the (root of every duster a little out of season. mattress spread upon the floor and friend told me of cattle, Weisgarber suggested the idea of making an important A bundle tightly roll­ package of the genuine Syrup of Figs covered with ragged quilts, constituted Lydia E. Pinkham's to John of changing the good money arrest. The man they sought was invisible ed in black oilcloth was strapped to and Elixir of Senna. the furnishings. Peeping from Vegetable Compound during the day time and a difficult his back. He stopped in the middle of in the pocket book for an equal beneath the tattered covering I saw For sale by all leading druggists. Price and it restored the road. Looking about, his eyes amount of counterfeit that he had on man to encounter at night. He the bright eyes and curly heads of me to health. 50 cents per bottle. rested upon a weather-beaten sign hand. John was easily ^persuaded. He had frequently been heard of but had two young children. I have no more So thought his step-father knew best. In seldom been seen by the government board upon which had once been ain, my nerves are stronger and I can "Is this, your home, Mr. Hartz?" I WONDERFUL! the morning the drover received his detectives. When the officers reached my own work. LydiaE. Pinkham's painted the picture of a black bear Inquired. Vegetable Compound cured me after pocket book and proceeded to count the appointed place they scattered resting upon its haunches. For more "This, is where I stay," he replied. everything else had failed, and I recommend its contents. He at once saw that and took up their positions where they than a hundred years this sign board I saw at once that I was up against it to other suffering women." the bills were of a different kind than would attract as little attention as had been swinging to and fro as if —MRS. WM. SEALS 605 W. Howard St., a species of affliction for which I had those he had been carrying. He possible. Their mysterious mission beckoning and inviting passersby to Creston, Iowa. no ready-made speech of condolence, enter the little Inn that was standing pulled a counterfeit detector from his had been fully explained a deal was Thousands of unsolicited and genuine and I was just a little embarrassed. pocket and examined them. Having some 15 or 20 feet back from the expected to be pulled off. One of the testimonials like the above prove There was a depth of seriousness in satisfied himself that they were bad, road. It took Mr. Herman Weisgarber detectives was rotund of person. He the efficiency of Lydia E. Pinkham's the affair that I had rarely met with. several minutes to decipher the he charged John with having substituted had, through one of the counterfeiting Vegetable Compound, which is made I was confronted with the genuine inscription beneath the faded picture. them. The accused man's face gang, been introduced as a beer dealer exclusively from roots and herbs. woes of humanity and at a loss for When he had succeeded, as he thought, turned red and he began to stammer, who said he was willing to take his Women who suffer from those distressing the moment to know Just what to do chances with bogus stamps, and he ills should not lose sight of he muttered audibly, "Dish ish de but his step-father who was standing or say. After deliberating a short these facts or doubt the ability of Lydia had bargained with one of the counterfeiters blace. Der black bear vas inn, und by, came at once to the front and commenced time I came to the conclusion that it E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to for five thousand counterfelt I shust myself vill walk in mit him." to talk in German to John. was best to explain all to his wife. restore their health. lager beer stamps, and was to Turning to the drover he protested in Bracing up a little and stroking his She looked like an intelligent woman a receive them at a certain hour at If you -want special advice write badly broken English that the young chin he stepped with a lengthened and I proceeded to acquaint her with to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. man was honest and hadn't even designated place. stride into the little front room that the facts concerning her husband's arrest She will treat your letter as opened the pocket book. Between the When the man put in an appearance served as an office for the Black Bear and the punishment that was sure strictly confidential. For 20 years two the drover got a tongue lashing to make the delivery he was to Inn. Here he found himself in the she has been helping sick women to follow. I likewise pointed out the She—I wonder if the waiter speaks for his accusation that so completely be arrested. This individual, owing to presence of a pleasant-faced woman in this way, free of charge. Ion't door through which he might escape. the new language—what do they— upset him that he was none too sure the darkness of the night, was unable hesitate—write at once. who smiled coquettishly. I demanded a clean breast without that he ever had any money. He was to see the detectives stationed about, •call it—? Esperanto? reserve. I was to know all the particulars He greeted her in his own tongue, now in a bad fix a long ways from and he walked with his carpet bag in He—Oh, yes! He talks it like a WHEN SHAW WAS SECRETARY in regard to the conspiracy, and in which she replied, and the conversation native. he was to act in good faith and to assist was now carried on briskly in Statesman Preferred Lunch of Apples the detectives in plans to capture the German language. It was a buxom I TTHE YOUNG BRIDE'S ep AND WON In His Room to Dinner in the engraver and all others connected widow on the one hand and a rascally \i TN£ FIRST DISCOVERY Hotel Restaurant. with the affair besides, he counterfeiter on the other. He was, if it became necessary, to go upon was a long-time rogue, but she was Their wedding tour had ended, and Leslie M. Shaw, formerly secretary the witness stand and testify honest and unsuspicious. With her they entered their new home to Bettle of the treasury, is in Washington for down to what they hoped to be one long against his confederates. Counterfeiters the world was good, with him it was uninterrupted blissful honeymoon. a few days visiting his old friends at as a general thing are treacherous dog eat dog and the devil take the But, alas! the young bride's troubles the capitol and in the departments. towards one another when in a tight hindmost. The widow Hartz was altogether begin, when she tried to reduce the WOOD, "Shaw," said a cabinet officer, "was place it is anything to save themselves. too unsophisticated to penetrate cost of living with cheap big can baking one of the mysteries of the Roosevelt powders. With John Hartz it was different the dark recesses of the hollowhearted MM/ms Mmfy /fr Bhe soon discovered that all she got administration. From the time he became he preferred to sacrifice himself man that had by chance come was a lot for her money, and it was not secretary of the treasury until rather than to give away his confederates. suddenly into the affairs of her life. -all baking powder, for the bulk of it was he went into the banking business we cheap materials which had no leavening She judged him by her own heart were unable to decide whether he was power. Such powders will not make light, and little dreamed of the misery so When the wife was made acquainted wholesome food. And because of the absence a second Russell Sage in the matter soon to follow her chance acquaintance with the proposition that had been of leavening gas, it requires from of personal expenditures. I ran across with Herman Weisgarber. made to her husband she appealed to two or three times as much to raise cakes Shaw in a big western city, and for or biscuits as it does of Calumet Baking him in language that seemed irresistible. Her husband had died about two the sake of spending a pleasant evening JPowder. years before. At this time her heart Thus, eventually, the actual cost to together we got a suite of rooms was centered on her son, a young man He hung his head. There was an iron, of cheap baking powders, is more at the same hotel. than Calumet would be. nearly twenty years of age. John expression on his face that was indefinable. "At lunch time I proposed that we Cheap baking powders often leave tha Hartz, thanks to the training of his A fresh link in misery's go down to the dining room, but Mr. bread bleached and acid, sometimes veltlow father, was honest and industrious. chain had now reached his heart. and alkaline, and often unpalatable. Shaw could not be induced. He said The scene was absolutely painful and The Black Bear Inn and the little They are not always of uniform strength he thought he would eat in his room. ^and quality. farm adjoining was a sacred inheritance I soon saw that he was weakening. Thereupon the secretary of the treasury Now the bride buys Calumet—the perfectly from his paternal grandfather. A man's character varies in accordance opened up his traveling bag and wholesome baking powder, moderste with the position in which he Is The Inn was now somewhat out of in price, and always uniform and reliable. extracted a couple of apples. He offered Calumet keeps indefinitely, makes placed. Criminals are human, like date, but was still doing its part towards me one, but I declined and cooking easy, and is certainly the most our selves, and if we would learn the furnishing the mother and son hastened to the restaurant. ^economical after all. dangers lurking in our pathway, we a living and a little to lay up for a "Cabinet officers who served with should know how they chance to rainy day. John's father had taught Tasted Good. Shaw discovered that it was a regular stumble and fall. Some men are 1 rfrfrr,t him to stand firmly for the right in "I saw John, the butler, smacking habit with him to fill his bag with apples weaker and more prone to vice than all things. "his lips, just now, as he went out. before starting on a journey."— others. There is a never-ending battle Had he been taking anything, Katie?" Mr. Weisgarber's. gray blue eyes Washington Times. between right and wrong. I never •asked the mistress. were shining brightly beneath his Reason Enough. yet found a man so bad that there "What was he doin', ma'am?" asked overhanging brows as he stood explaining A negro near Xenia, O., had been was not something in his character 4he pretty waiting girl. to the widow Hartz regarding arrested for chicken stealing. He had "Smacking his lips." upon which to base a hope. I never himself. The word tramp, now so stolen so many that his crime had become "Sure, he'd just been smacking yet saw a man that was so good as to aptly applied to the tie-path tourist, grand larceny. anlne, ma'am!"—Yonkers Statesman. be free from danger.. There is a had not been coined in that day and He was tried and convicted, and thread of gold running through the men of his like were little understood. brought in for sentence. Down With 'Em. character of the worst of men the He said he was just out on a pleasure MJarmPAm Met "Have you any reason to offer why Young Lord Fairfax, in a brilliant difficulty Is to reach it. tour and that he traveled on foot as the judgment of the court should not •fter-dinner speech at the club house The prisoner's eyes fell and were a matter of choice. He was moving be passed upon you?" he was asked. T0S7WZ££ 4n Tuxedo, praised women. filled with tears. We have no pity for leisurely along that he might better "Well, jedge," he replied, "I cain't "Down with the misogynist," said the tears shed by criminals. They enjoy the lovely scenery and pure go to jail now, nohow. I'm buildin' a home with a pocket book full of counterfeit hand bravely up to the officer in waiting Lord Fairfax. "Down with that cynical mountain air. His words were well are deserved, but they are tears just shack out yonder, an' I jus' cain't go money as his only wherewith at the place agreed upon. type of male brute who says with chosen and deeply impressive as he the same, and sometimes come from a till I git it done. You-all kin sholy see to pay his expenses. the Cornish fisherman: On a given signal the detectives cautiously worked his way up to the heart unjustly pierced. His wife now dat."—Philadelphia Saturday Evening "Wimmen's like pilchards. When After everything had cooled down, hurriedly closed in. The counterfeiter point of offering to remain for a time approached him and said, Where is Post. Ws bad 'em's bad, and when 'em's Mr. Weisgarber, in a burst of generosity, did not readily submit and the officers the money to come from to pay the and assist in the work about the Inn sood, 'em's only middlin'.'" was good enough to loan the soon found they had tackled a A Cautieus Answer. and farm. He had a smooth tongue. rent for this miserable room we are drover one or two hundred dollars to rough customer. For some minutes "Now, Johnny," said the geography living in? How am I to obtain food The turn-pike, winding its way For constipation, biliousness, liver disturbances pay his way until he could reach the scuffling and twisting was furious teacher, "what is the capital of Portugal?" and clothing for our children when and diseases resulting from impure along up and down the sides, over Strasburgh, a little town at the foot and he was not fairly subdued vntil a blood, take Garfield Tea. you are in the penitentiary? and across the Allegheny mountains of the Three Brother mountains. The pair of glistening handcuffs was "I dun'no' Miss Flanders," said Accustomed as I was to scenes of was then the popular highway for drover was silenced but not altogether slipped upon his wrists. The cold Way of Getting Even. Johnny, "but from what I hearn tell of A drovers and wagoners upon their way this kind my heart was deeply touched convinced. His money was all right Hewitt—When I asked the old man steel took the fight out of him and he the extravagance of the late king they to and fro between Eastern Pennsylvania and my hand went almost involuntarily the day before, but he wasn't quite was at once escorted to the Bingham for his daughter's hand he walked all ain't much left."—Harper's Weekly. and Pittsburg. The people to my pocket. I pulled out a roll of sure it was of the right stamp when house. over me. along this route were principally Germans. bills. It was the government's money. he handed it over to the young man Jewett—Can't you have him arrested It was one of the kind of conspiracies Some of them could neither Peeling off five twenties, I handed for safe keeping. Here was an exemplification for violation of the traffic regulations? that are a direct fraud upon the The Taste read nor speak English. They lived them to the woman. Take this, my of the little difference between government, and I was very anxious mainly on what they produced and good woman, I cannot save your husband, the truth and a lie well stuck to reach its source, which particularly had little occasion to spend their but I will give you something Test— to. Time rolled on and John Hartz* FIXES CURED IN TO 14 DATS meant the engraver of the plates from money. Almost anything that looked with which to supply your immediate Tour druggist will refund money iaf PAZO OINTMENT career in crime became more and which the stamps were printed. I was Post fails to cure any case of Itching, Blind. like money would pass. In those wants. Buy these children some JMeedinjz or Protrudina Piles in 6 to 14 days. 50c. more firmly fixed. not a little surprised when I learned days much of the paper money clothes." Shearing Papa. One day the sheriff came with a that the wholesale dealer we had In circulation was of the wild I handed her an additional twenty. She—I believe you would rather warrant for the "Flying Dutchman," caught was John Hartz. This was the cat kind. Between the counterfeit The counterfeiter and his wife stood -play poker with father than sit in the which meant Herman Weisgarber. first time I had met him. He had for Toasties and genuine issue there was but little looking earnestly into each other's parlor with me! "Gott en Himmell! Vot ish dish?" several years maintained a reputation choice. One passed from hand to faces. Both seemed well nigh brokenhearted. He—No, I wouldn't, darling, but we among the detectives as a person who he exclaimed. hand almost as readily as the other. He stepped towards me as must have money to get married on. could not under any circumstances be A long explanation ensued and the he said: "You are the only decent Herman Weisgarber, as he called made to squeal. I could well afford sheriff was greatly puzzled regarding man I have ever seen in the detective himself, had for many years been dodging Urn. Winslow's Soothing: Syrup for Children to turn him loose if he would furnish his duty. He was convinced that Have a dainty, sweet flavour teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, business and I am going to tell you about from place to place making the Information leading to the capturing the accused man was innocent, and allays pain, cures wind colic. 35c a bottle. a living by shoving the queer. all about it." that pleases the palate and of the important men behind he thought it might be a safe thing to Under pretence of his inability to understand I have seen crime in its many phases Intends to Be Boss. him. leave him at his home and go back to satisfies particular folks. the English language he was and have noted the effect of a long Maud—Do you intend to marry or the county seat and report before making The squealer in cases of this kind able to deceive the officers and escape term of imprisonment upon men as to retain your liberty? The Fact— the arrest. When he reached is usually the most powerful adjunct arrest. It was always "Nichtverstehe" they received their sentence, but John -Ethel—Both. there he was told to return at once to the detective art. While these officers with him. "He shust didn't Hartz appeared as the most repentant that each year increasing and bring his man. When he got back have little respect for him they know notting 'bout baper monies." criminal I had ever met. He had "Dr. Pierce's Pellets, small, sugar-coated, to the Black Bear Inn Mr. Weisgarber are delighted to avail themselves of thousands use this delicious been caught red-handed and could have •easy to take as candy, regulate and invigorate To the widow Hartz he appeared a was out. He had saddled up and his services* I was well acquainted Do not been easily convicted, but the result food is good evidence of its stomach, liver and bowels. man of honor. She measured his rode away and might not return for with the inaost.' prominent feature in «ripe. of his confession and assistance was character by her own and could see several days, perhaps never. But the the prisoner's past career. Ha laid popularity. many times more important to the no farther. Six months had scarcely good-natured sheriff didn't see it that claim to the possession of a principle The test of whether you are edu«eated government. It led to the breaking passed from the time she met him Post Toasties are ready* to way. He would come back again, or to which he had steadfastly adhered. is, can you do what you ought, up, root and branch, of an extensive until he became her husband. he might present himself voluntarily He had been arrested several times -when you ought, whether you want to serve direct from the pkg. group of dangerous counterfeiters. When John Hartz came in contact at the sheriff's office. for passing counterfeit money and had 4o It or not?—Herbert Spencer. with cream or milk—a convenient, The engraver, procurer and six others with his step-father he was honest, on all occasions persistently refused The mother had now experienced were arrested with the evidence wholesome breakfast and had he followed in the footsteps to squeal on his confederates. He enough to satisfy her that she had A cup of Garfield Tea before retiring of their guilt in their hands. All were of his own father he would have remained preferred rather to sacrifice himself made a great mistake and that she dish. -qril! insure that all-important measure, the convicted and sentenced to serve tV so. It did not take long to than to assist the government in any •daily cleaning of the system. was tied to a bad man. Her life became rlous terms In the penitentiary. "The Memory Lingers" prove that he was susceptible and a burden to her. One day she manner. I had up to that time never My promise to Hartz was r«ligiouftly Common sense in an uncommon decree easily drawn into ways that were dark suddenly disappeared. After a long met a man under like circumstances kept. He was suffered to go at large. is what the world calls wisdom.Coleridge. and forbidding. Step by step he'was search she was found dead with a that could not by some means be induced What became of him I am unable to led along and craftily Initiated into to squeal, but I pounded John rope tightly drawn about her neck FOSTUM CEREAL CO., Ltd. say. Hartz up one side and down the other the mysterious doings of counterfeiter#. hanging to a stout hook in the smoke Battle Creak, Mich, at but •Vi—. Home women are good to look (Copyright, Mio. by w. O. ChapmaaJ The until broad daylight without eliciting bouse. scene was Jtoo much (or 6a4 to be tied to. Wbmmm