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. 5: BRIGANDS OF GREECE. Not ED CRIMINALS OF THE ONCE GREAT NA I it)N Your .dcrs Recently Captured and hut I.r tih hiigt.Iy Respect ed end 41:really I eared. 'they S elt Free trout • rrent. T Ls qow nearly 10 years suite the Greek government determined to take strenuous measures for the suppression of brigandage, which has flourish- ed for centuries in the little realm. Yet it has not been possible for the government, with a comparatively large -sized army and secret munici- pal police, to apprehend the daring rob- bers and outlaws. The reason for the failure is partly due to the system of espionage which the brigands them- selves maintain in the army and po- lice, but, above all, to the native shrewdness and diplomacy which they exercise in their dealings with the peo- ple among whom they reside. Strange as it may seem, these men are highly respected and greatly feared In their owe towns, and they can rely upon the municipal authorities, for protection, notwithstanding that the latter, who PAPAISIRITZOPOULIS. KOSTAS, Are expeieell to arrest and punish crim- inals. are well aware of their nefarioas vocation. The brigands constitute the best customers of the merchants and they are liberal to the poor. As regards the city fathers, they are not overvir- tuous. and bribery is not such a heinous offense in Greece. Neither force nor strategy could avail against these dip- lomath higpwaytnen. Finally the gov- ernment determined to adopt different tactics against them. It was learned that thert often reigned great jealousy between the different bands and also Internal feuds between the leaders and the men. So it was thought wisest to set a price on the heads of the sc-calle.1 captains of the band. This had the de- sired effect. Not that the extermina- tion was a rapid-one, but gradually dur- ing the decade one leader after the other has been caught and their bands dissolved, so that but one or two remain to this day.. In each case it was found that the reward was paid either to one of the subordinate brigands belonging to the heed whose leader was appre- hended or to one or two members of a rival organization. In no case did any of .the townsmen of a brigand •captain betray him. On the contrary, his fel- low citizens put all possible obstacle - In the way of the government officers This interference on the part of the e townsmen may be ascribed to the pro- verbial conviviality of the criminals, who made themselves exceedingly pop- ular with the people among whom they lived. They never robbed any of their own people. but conducted their opera- • tions far from home, and their victims were most numerous among the many tourist. who either visit or pass through Greece. Papakiritzopoulis was known as the brigand gentleman. He grouped around him a hand of the most intrepid motto - ' NITI. STRAVOZALOS. country. Thanks to his .•1 a Lion and suave breed- , •e•ii unmitigated.. control lie was an Inexorable hie accomplices I 'Hally one -dog barked , see% and delivered him with his corn- leoetss. Alvenitl and Illustrations repro. ken while thes were s t s ,sa th by the 501 ( neve , were guilty of innumerable crimes. :•.rid ha.' hundreds of murders on their conscii‘nees. An authentic anecdote is told of ihitiakiritzmapulls: One day an English lord desired the adventure of speaking with the famous brigand. Ile determined to obetin an _ . audience and succeeded. A guard vol. I Is A unteered to conduct him to his hut. Ts the astonishment of the English gentie- man he was rpeelved in a sort of tabor- nacie, elegantly equipped, in a deep re- cess at the foot of a picturesque moun- tain. The host was a young man ap- parently hot more than 20 years old, who addressed him in perfect English and offered him a 6 o'clock tea with Havana cigars, of the best quality. The guest was feted like a prince and re- ceived a sort of passport through the cOuntry which insured him against mo- lestation from the other bands. There are still two bands at large, and the government is using all possible means to detect them. Recently the police of Athens has been fortunate enough to obtain a life picture of the Tsekouras, but they have to date not been able to get further on their track. They would be more than willing to surrender the pietures in their posseelon for the origi- nals, and a big reward of 25,000 dram besides. SAYS SHE THROWS KISSES. Wisconsin Woman, Aged 69. Seeks DIvore• from a Jealous 'Husband. Jane Taylor, of Linden, Wis., aged 69 years, has begun an action for di- vorce in the circuit court from her husband, James T. Taylor, who is also about the same age, alleging as cause of action cruel and inhuman treatment, In that the defendant is jealous of her and is constantly, accusing her of throwing kisses to other men and of trying to entice another married wo- man's husband away from her. She says that he has threatened to knock her down and trample her under his feet; that without cause he _threw her to the floor and bruised her black and blue. The defendant has made no an- swer to the charges. HE IS KING. harry Villiers Occupies That Positlan - Over the Knights of the Road. - Harry Villiers has for years been the most picturesque character in Maine. He has been known ever since the close of the civil war as \King of Tramps,\ and seems to feel proud of the title. He is no common tramp, however, but rather a genteel, easy-going idler, possessing some education and a re- markable fund of general information, highly seasoned with entertaining ro- mance. Villiers claimed to have seen long service in the British army, and be can tell stories of the Queen's men that are every bit as good those of Rudyard Kipling. If Kipling had known Vil- liers, then it would have been Soldiers Four instead of \Soldiers Three.\ He Would have made a fit companion for Private Muivany. All over Maine, from Kittery to Keino, Villiers is known to everybody as a happy-go-lucky wander- er, a man who never did any hard work A taint\ i \ - exceil , Ins hi over 1.1 , tyran • . • like sla‘ , at th , to he pan Iii Htra%., duce •r,.,r being These 4111 7, 1, 7 4 HARRY VILLIERS. and who yet always looked clean well fed. The warm months have al- ways found Harry afoot, Out and about, while the cold weather has always driven him to the best jail he could get into. lie is - a great reader, and can repeat long passages from \Paradise Lost,\ litigo's novels and the standard poets. The redeeming feature of Vil- liers' worthless life Is that he was never known to steal a cent's worth of areything or insult anybody. Begging and drinking aside -and he never was Much of a drinker—the King of Tramps is regarded almost as a gentleman. Now, at the age of 60, he is dying in a Waterville Almhouse of a lung disease, brought on by exposure during one of his long tramps, and hundreds who know him are sorry. Electricity as Fuel. An astonishing discovery in regard to the production of electricity is an- nounced, which, if genuine, will do away with the necessity of burning coal Dr. Borchers, of Driesburg, Ger- many. says that he has found that elec- trielts is generated by the conversion of hydro -carbon and carbonic oxide into carbonic acid, and aesibia is the same thing that takes place in burning coal he hccompliehe the same end by chemical means, by what he calls the , wet process. While a steam engine utlizes about 12 per sent of the theor- etical energy and.a gas engine 20 per cent, Dr. Borchers claims that his new. process gives no leas than 38 per cent. Just a Hit 5'117•1041. Interesting Young Lady (who ins been lurking a great many questions of aged fisherman) --Oh! there's a great worm got hold of your hook: Aged Fisherman (a little hit tired) -- I know: I put It there. I. Y. L. (puzzled hut peralsten'e But, excuse me, how can the fishee see te bite the hook? Could N0014 Heseneeei \Music baths charms,\ she said to her country cousin. Hit can't charm me.\ was his reply, f..r I've use a rabbit foot in my pock. -Atieta's Constitution. i MIMICKY GIRL PEARL ANDREWS RIVAL OF CISSY LOFTUS. Daughter of a ortner street Commis- •Ioner of New ot Ilan Created a Sense( ((((( as all Ink Or of Nota- bles. ISS PEARL AN - drew., the original 1 Bowery Girl, is the 1 (en 1 y daughter of W. S. Andrews, former street com- missioner of New York city. Miss Andrews' most. en- thusiastic friends declare that noth- ing is too difficult for her successfully to imitate, and she certainly has demonstrated that her field has a very wide range. From Ade Rehan's velvety notes to the heroic chords of Maggie Cline's voice Js no mean feat, but Miss Andrews accomplishes it with an ease that makes it seem natural. She went on the stage three years ago, not without con- siderable opposition from her father. She had shown great talent in private entertainments, could sing most win- ningly, and dance in a way that made dancing a revelation. One of her ad- mirers declared that each of her steps was a sonnet. This may or may not tn smooth forehead over -hanging a pair of eyes that sparkled so one might think that life to their owner was one long holiday. Her lips were full an!, red not artificially so --and when she smiled she showed the evenest and whitest of teeth. Arid she smiled often, a confidential, friendly smile, that made you feel at home and at once in sym- pathy with her. Her next imitation was of a scent, from the \Old Homestead.\ Uncle Josh has his experience with the \Hoboken Terror\ and turns the tablet' on the bad man. The fair mimic's Yankee dialect had all the flavor of hard cider. The imitation was good. But as the \tough\ man Miss Andrews form a ; brief but faithful portraiture, not los- ing one detail of the swagger, cyni- cism and humor of the character. Her 1 work as \Happy Jack\ was more con- ventional. Then followed in succesion imitations of Gus Heege, the Swedish character actor; the late Harry Kernell, John J. Kelly, whose Irish brogue is thick enough to serve in slices; Frank Bush, 'in his Hebrew stories, and Maggie Cline. Aln her mimicry of Bush Miss Andrews hid her face under a set of heavy whiskers and wore spectacles and a high hat, just as Mr. Bush him- self does when he tells his stories at the footlights. The Maggie Cline imitation was prob- ably the most exhausting, but it was the moat popular, for the audience ap- plauded delightedly, and she was com- pelled to sing again \Throw him Down, McClusky!\ TH LATEST PICTURE OF JOHN ts. SULLIVAN. have fully determined Miss Andrews to go on the stage, but the fact is that she did so shortly afterward. When her father finally relented in his ob- jection he did so with the proviso that she would not go into burlesque. Miss Andrew's made her first appear- ance in public at Tony Pastor's on May 9, 1892, as \Miss Amy Swain, the Society Belle,\ and sang and danced like a professional. The debonnair manaeer beamed on her and said all sorts of nice things, while her father, sitting eight rows back from the stage. tried to ',Ask serious, though he was PEARL ANDREWS. (The original Bowery Gir1.1 quite proud that she had coolly eat ried out her performance without a hitch. Since then Miss Andrew. has ap peered at rare intervals, and litter (-eased to be \Miss Amy Swain,\ and devoted time and study to a new line of work, to which she felt that she was fitted. The results have amOi , Justified her. She Is probably the only American woman now in her partici' lar line of delineatfon. Chitty Loftus was sweet, demure and childish, and these qualities suffused all of her impereonations. You would say, \Oh! she is artistic.\ but the fact would never leave you that it was Cissy who was doing it all. She was pleasing personality, and .,also clever one, nobody will dispute. Miss Aeferewe is likewise pleasing, bet she ii of another mould. She appeared at a New York theatre not long ago. as Miss Pearl Nnilrews The audience ilia a buxom young wo- man of medium height, with a hr0114. A Progressive Clergvnian. We quote the following from a ser- mon by the Rev. J. F. Elder of Albany. N.Y.: \It is not for us to condemn the riders. The wheel has come to stay but people can not' yet bring it to church with them. Let us encourage them, and provide places for the wheels In church. Let them come In, filen and women alike, in their bicycle clothes and let us do away with the style of petting on our best clothes to go to church Nothing keeps so many peo- ple away from , church as the bad style of putting on expensive clothes. Many people do not go becuse they can not afford to so good advantage as some- body else. bet us do away with this custom. Let us invite bicycle riders to bring their wheels to church. Let us have good roads. The influence. of the wheel would then have a most bene- ficial effect on social and religious life. i would not prescribe nor proscribe the style of dress for women, that must be regulated by custom. If women want to change let men change back to the knee breeches. The wheel is a wonder- ful contrivance and its influence is mar - felons. BASE BALL. Davis is the only man on the New York team possessing all the qualifica- tions for A first-class captain. There are four Ciarkes in the Nation- al League, two in New York, one in Baltimore and one in Louisville. - Brooklyn has resurrected Buster Burrell from a three months' sojourn on the bench, and put him behind the bat Gi Mira of the Brooklyns. is one of the hest waiters in the business. He has reached first seventy-five times on balls Roger Conner, until recently first baseman for Si. Louis, will manage the season.Waterburs nine the remainder of the The Cincinnati Club has lines out for out -fielder Leidt of Lancaster, and pitchers Callahan lint per and Rudder - ham. There does not seem to be so much said about the League umpires of late, and the absence of disorderly scenes is noticeable. Arlie leatitam says that for a player there la no middle ground in base ball He is either a wonder or he Is rotten. The worhrl's a bubble and 'the life of marl Loss than a span Bacon. I THE SAME OM) STORY. SOCIALISTIC IDEA IS LOVELY BUT IMPRACTICABLE. At Least In MIK %a\ of the World When Selfish 'Roth,. Rule Collapse of Another Starred S.,,,? ore In Far A uftiralia. _ HE FRENCH FOR- Ij Office has re- cently issued a re- port on a . social- istic experiment begin two years ago in Paraguay. The Paraguayan government con- ceded to a colony of discouraged Aus- tralians just gone through the panic of 1893 a rich tract of 900 square miles on the river Tibiquari, upon condition that within six years 1,200 immigrants families should be settled there. Col- onists presented themselves in large numbers, and 9150,000 was raised in subscriptions of $300 each. Any colo- nist withdrawing from the scheme was to lose all. The settlement was bap- tized New Australia in advance. The colonist arrived upon the ground in September, 1893, and found themselves in a wilderness. Tibiquari proved to be a miserable little stream, dry halt the year and in the wet season navig- able only in fiat boats. Equality of pay for all was a principle of the orgiiiiiza- tion, and each was to live uporT the goods of the community. The abroga- tion of all authority was declared by the constitution of the colony, but the managers took upon themselves the right to regulate the community and to exclude without the' formality, of a vote drunkards and idlers. They also sur- rounded themselves with a strong no- tice force. The colony at once divided itself into two camps. Onenunporied - the energetic, though very moderately intelligent, old man that had made himself master of the colony. The other, made up of dissidents, eventual- ly quit the colony and returned to Villa Rica, the pott of debarkation. This took eighty-five persons from the com- munity. The' reported that mutual fear and inteasant strife made New Australia an inferno rather than a paradise. The dissidents were on the point of returning to Australia in great distress, when the Paraguayan govern- ment conceded to them a new territory in the department of Gonzales. Here they began to prosper, though with small regard to the original principles of the colony. Meanwhile there had occurred a sec- ond schism in the colony at New Aus- tralia. This time the director yielded to the schismatics, and, with fifty com- panions, settled in another part of the country. What was left of the original colony was a prey to continual bicker- ing, and in September, 1894, twenty- five colonlits went to Buenos Ayres, where they became a charge upon pub- lic charities. Those left behind reor- ganized the community and dropped the socialistic features. They chose for leaders the men they took to be the most intelligent and broad-minded, and settled down with the determination to succeed by the use of the best agri- cultural methods. without attempting to present to the world a society formed upon the socialistic ideal. Nortbern Lakes. . 0 Little Shusway lake is stated to have a flat bottom, with a depth varying from 58 to 74 feet. measured from the mean high water mark. says Vancouver Her- ald. The deepest water found in the Great Shusway was 555 feet, about six miler; northward from Cinnemousin Narrows, In Seymour Arm, though the whole lake is notably deep. Adams lake, however, exceeds either of the Shusways, as its average depth for twenty-nine miles is upward of 1,- 100 feet, and at one point a depth of 1,900 feet was recorded.. In the north- west corner of this lake, at a depth of 1,118 feet, the purpose of the scientific explorers was defeated by the presence of mysterious submarine currents, which played with the sounding line like some giant fish and prevented any measurement being taken. It is a com- plete mystery how the currents could have been created at this depth, and scientific curiosity will, no doubt, im- pel either public or private enterprise to send a second expedition to the scene this summer to endeavor to solve the riddle. As the height of the surface of this lake is 1,380 feet above the sea level, Its present bed is, therefore, only 190 feet above the sea, although 200 miles distant from the nearest part of the ocean. Dr. Dawson and his asso- ciates believe that the bede of some of the mountain lakes in the region are many feet lower than the sea level. Milk Famine in Pennsylvania. A milk famine now threatens the northern portion of Pennsylvania. Grasshoppers are eating upethe cows' food and Texas flies are literally eating up the cows. The milk prodncers of Greenfield township are unable to get half the supply they ought to have this time of the year. t milk and cream dealer drove thirty miles and, outside of those with whom lie has con- tracts, he could not get a pint of cream At Lewisville the creamery is only doing one -tenth of the business It has capacity for. hes:Inge It can't get the milk. A few sr the farmers have al- ready gone to feeding grain, and that help. the milk suppl) SOTTIO An agri- cultairlst us MINI Morgan In the Welsh settlement. has; twelve COWS which ought to glue nearly ten gnarls apiece to a milking, and he milks all of them In one ten roart nail, tod that holdil all the miik COOLEY AIR SHIP A SUCCESS Maintains Its Position Aloft and Would Wall If Not Held Stark. Rochester, N. Y., Specials—Two tests of the Cooley air ship were made yes- terday in this city, the second one be- ing suceessful. After drawing all the ropes tight Mr. Cooley gave the signal and the ship shot up with surprising rapidity. A strong west wind was blowing at the time and the pet and pride of the inventor sailed in a mo- ment across the meadow to a tree and entangled one of the ropes in it. This caused the ship to shift Re position so that it no longer faced the wind, and it made a dive to the earth amid the laments of a thousand spectators. When Mr. Cooley reached the ship he (mind it, to all appearances, a complete wreck, but he set to work with a will and soon found that he would be able to use but a single set of sails on the next trial, for the cross spars were broken in several parts. The useless set of sails were accordingly removed, and with the help of several men the ship was again placed in an erect po- sition, the ropes tightened and fastened, and several extra braces added to as- sure stability of the two parts. About 5 o'clock all was in readiness for the second trial and the ship was carried far out in the meadow away from any dangerous trees, and ten men held the ropes preparatory to the signal from the inventor. When finally the signal came the ship arose slowly in the air to the height of 200 feet, and instead of darting downward it stayed right where it was, It was evident too, that It wished to go higher, for it tugged At., its ropes, and then finding that' it could not go farther began Its course downward 'With great ease. It alighted about 500 feet from the spot of its flight upward and settled slowly to the earth without damage. A FIRE SCARE. Made Memorable by an Accident and Relly's Remarks. • Accidents have hapened on the stage. The skirts of ballet dancers have caught fire, and the unhappy dansettses have died from the effects. The story will not soon be forgotten of Michael Kelly in \Lodoiska.\ The last scene represented a castle on fire, and the beautiful Mrs. Croueh, as the Princess, was to be seen at a • window. The draught carried the flames toward her and Kelly, seeing her danger, rushed up a stage bridge to save her, but the sup- ports of this bridge had been removed prematurely by the carpenter and Kel- ly fell to the ground. \At the same time,\ says Kelly in his \Memoirs \the fiery tower in which was Mrs. Crouch, sank down in a blaze with a violent crash. She ut- tered a scream of terror. Providentially I was not hurt by the fall, and, catch- ing her in my arms, scarcely knowing what I was doing, I carried her to the front of the stage. The applause was loud and continued; in fact, had we rehearsed the scene as it happened it could not have been done half so nat- urally or produced so great an effect.\ It was not the escape which made this incident memorable, but Kelly's bull. He was furious at the accident, and rushed at Kemble, who was the manager, saying: \I might have been killed entirely, and who then—who would have maintained me for the rest of my life?\ The Widow's Way. The following story is told about Su- perintendent Floyd of Evergreen cemetery in Deering, Maine: It wasn't long ago that a certain Portland citi- zen died, his widow purchased a lot In the cemetery, but did not pay for it. Mr. Floyd told her it was contrary to rules to bury a person in the cemetery until the lot was paid for. This Ilia4113 no difference to the widow. She wont ahead with the funeral, and had her husband's body carried to the cemetery, and the coffin left on top of the lot, where, of course, no grave had been dug. Then she went to Mr. Floyd, and, with tears running down her cheeks. said: \Mr. Floyd, there is S , you can bury him or leave him on top, just as you've a mind to,\ and away she went. Of course Mr. Floyd had to bury the abandoned coffin. Thiel was no way out of it. Salvation on liorseliack. The Salvation Army of Denver has organized a cavalry corps of yonng women. They present a striking ap- pearance in their uniforms of dark blue skirts, regulation red waists, with wide, rolling collars and regulation bonnet. The vorps enjoys the distinrtion of being the only mounted Salvation Army fighters in the world. It starts out Im- mediately for a tour of the mountain towns. -- WORTH KNOWING. — California has a new law, which per - nits three-foiu•ths of a jury, hi idyll rases, to render it verdict. About 10,000 murders are annually committed in the United States Th• number of execotione Is less than 200. Goggle. are worn by the officers and sailors on the fast English torpedo boats, because the high FILIPP , 1 is hurt- fol to the eyes Tricycle cabs are in 1141` in London. They are propelled by two men, one in front of the passenger, and the other beh I nd him. An elevated bicycle track, between Chicago and Milwaukee, has been pro- posed. A toll of ten cents will be charged for the mos of the entire road. Telegraph poles made of paper ptilp are coming into use in Copenhagen. They are hollow, and a coating of sili- cate of potash protects them' frotn do coy liiavnooth college. Ireland, receives the Income of an endowment of 050.000 • pro he rep ing can hea ma and was La dw to bol neo gra \W erf ena kin an wi tha rati I is apt cra hit strl opt CUE an Ha SCE SOE WO tel fee let If to kJ 'UI It In Pe wi fl a be •
