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"The fellow bas made his eacape by the roo A little band*of Parisian police bad paid a surprise fisit to a mean, dirty house in one of the most disreputable parts of Paris. It was about 3 o'clock in the morning when an officer tapped at the door and demanded adinittance of the trembling person who opened: it Slipping past bim, they crept swiftly and nolselessly up the rickety stairs to the door of a room, opened it and rush- ed in. But the bed in which they had expected to find their man was enpty. He must bave heard them stealing up the stairs and escnped by the window. The officer In charge of the party looked out. In-the darkness hé could distinguish nothing. the man must be there. His clothes still lay be- ut the bed, where be had cast them down when he had retired the night before. Some of the most daring of the off- cers crawled out after him, while oth ers went for ludders to reach the roof from the-street. The man must be caught! He wus found at last. Crouch. fog down and seeking to hide bimsclif among the chimney stacks, the officers pounced upon him A short time later he was before one of the chiefs of the police. "Good dny, M. Uenri," be said, phi ing the stern looking official, "Som one has once more betrayed me ate your bands, "You are accused of being in whey with colners and passers of bad m ey," said the official. to sa "Only that 1 am Innocent, monsieur, though the people in the house where I lodged were gullty of su¢h prac- tices. I had the bonor of calling on monsleur some time back and of say- fug that 1 could put It In bis power te clear Paris of such scoundrels." The man the officers had found caste the roof and who addressed words to the police official was eae . Vidocq, & a destined to become fa- nious as one of the greatest deter tives of eee tines. Vidoeg had been concerned for years past Jn all manner of rogueries, He 'had recelyed yarious terms of impris- oument. He was regarded as the most dangerous of the hundreds of criminals that threatened the hon- est citizens of Paris. He was daring. full of resource, a man of marvelous bbe strength and audacity, Upon wo previous occasions his accomplices aa knowing how much the police val- ned his capture, betrayed bim into their hands, This was the third time Vidoeq had ot esa Sak o could wey at that . Henri." sata Vidocq, "make me one i your agents, ae I swear to put | u in the secrets of half the crimin. 'ed 'bo a tempiieg one Tor ft" the Parisiag police were then baffled by criminals of all descriptions, and Parisians were crying out for more efficient guardians "Wo will see," replied the official. A short time later Vidocq found him- self in prison, condemned to serve a sentence of-eight years,. But that mis erable convict senten to that terri- ble sentence was really a police spy. Each night be used in bis cell to write out an account of the discoveries be had made during the day. The report was dispatched to the chief of tlre po- lice and proved remarkably useful. One day the criminal world of Paris as amazed and joyful over the mar As a matter of fact, the authorities had come to the conclusion that Vidocq outside than in that grim place. escape had all been planned. Vidocq returned to his associates as a hero. In fact, he was a spy--a spy witb the keenest eyes, the most alert ears, the most subtle braln, to learn all the vil- lainy golng. It was wonderfal what fl luck be- gan henceforth to dog the criminals of Paris. All their plans came in some inysteriovs manner to the ears of the police. wes it Videcq who be+rayed them? Some vf them were so con- vinced of it that at Inst Vidocq found it necessary to disguise himself and net the part among them of a new hand in crime. A consummate master of disguise, he went amoung them, still unsuspected, in his new role. e was certainly one of the most useful fellows that the police had ever bad as an ally, "Vidoeq." sald M, Henri to him one day, "we must find that fellow Fos- sard, the man who has escaped from the prison at Brest. He is in Paris, hiding somewhere. His lodging is in a bouse in a bystreet near toa market lace. And there are yellow silk cur- tains to the window of his room. In the same house there lives a woman with a bumped back. That isall- 1 can tell you about the fellow--all I have been able to learn." clew to work on. Vidocq, anxious to distinguish himself, set off. window with yellow cur- iin a woman with a humped back! For weeks be walked about Parts searching for such a window in a honse in which lived such a female, He found it at last. The hump- 4|BUGGIES. "What have rou, as one of He u a tle of eau de cologne in his t. was to prove his undoing. It is vot the only occasion t proved us to criminals who bave in- rd and fast asleep te was ned by a timid knock at his door, Calling out to know what he was disturbed for, he heard a tim- orous child's voice in reply. It inform- ed Fossard that the knocker was poor little Louis, the nephew of a woman of eau de cologne. 'ossard groped round for the bottle and witb oo A oe hand threw open the door. and bis helpers were on remy a fe re ei : "The most terrible man in Paris"-- such became the description among the dangerous classes of Vidocq, now ngent of the police. He was uot regarded with favor by members of the detective service. They might well, Indeed, look askance at a man with such a record. ._ "I have never caught any criminal who more deserved imprisonment than M. Vidocg," protested an indignant of- ficer to M. Henri one day. But Vidocq was too useful to be hastily set aside. egtrase had the crim- inals of Paris such a bad time as they 'Were now enjoying with Vidocq in the detective force. He organized the first really efficient ee service on the continent. a task of sel confided majority of. them from the cleyerest thieves he knew, Those that had been ckpockets he made wear gloves. It was impossible for them to indulge in their former bad habits while wearing those fashionable articles. ; Tall, of magnificent physique, with what is known as an "open" counte- laughter, Vidocq was perhaps the last Bis Be mend eee i oe "I always regretted," he agape disguising. my- idea up, Crim- inals would have sot to know that mus- tache of mine." So he remained a close shaven man to the end of his days. Perhaps there pled Was a more energetic than Vidocq. ay relied u his mar- yelous facility in making up to sad bewilder the Sr esitaasisoal criminals he -had-to deal-with. - In one day's hard "work he assumed no fewer than twelve wholly distinct He went, when he was not in dis- guise, constantly armed. A pistol lay "gai liallgadins geal pie arpa handsome clothes, and a dagger was coeheaae in the fr front of his coat. At the end of ten years' service he retired. " The news spread all over Paris. Vi- docq, who had made the police of Paris more feared than they had ever been before, was actually in the hands of the police! He had after his retirement from the force established a private inquiry of- fice, and clients of all kinds flocked to him. Then he opened an agency for the protection of shopkee d mer- chants against fraudulent customers. He had as many as 8,000 customers op his books when the police arrested him, and he was now accused of bay- ing In many cases become the ally of the very people from whom he was supposed to be protecting his custom- ers. He was found guilty and sen- tenced to elght years' imprisonment. When he at last got the conyiction re- versed Vidocg found himself a ruined an. One of the oer at a place of entertainment in Londop years ago was M. Vidocq. The great detective had taken to the stage! Enormous au- diences came to see the strange man, who related his extraordinary exper!- ences and seemed like a dozen differ- ent men upon the stage by his marvel- ous quickness in changing his appear- ance. , One day in 1857 n white hatred, fee- ble, mumbling old man lay dying in a bea in the garret of a house in a miserable Paris street. He was Vidocq, the marvelous detective! Helpless, in poverty, dependent on the charity of friends, the once terrible man lay there awaiting the approach of death. Al- most his last word, according to one who attended on him, were, "You are my prisoner.""--London Tit-Bits. Why He Was Excused. At the Dublin city sessions une moru- ing a juror prayed to be excused and said he had a doctor's certificate that he was not fit to serve. He handed up a closed envelope to the recorder, who found it contained a letter from a well known Dublin medical Amid great laughter in court the recorder read this letter aloud: "This man has been asking for a cer- tificate that he Is unable to serve as a ang be reeks of porter." | backed lady - Vidocq made- ber that the lodgers"in the bul! under another name, ed a room at fhe top of the bullding. How. was be to be got at? He was a "man of pri ligious strength, a man who had vowed be would never be taken alive,-a man who always carried fire-_ arms, ready to slay gny ohe who might to take him. j "Such a is best taken in bis bed, 1H rele ? i fice r of duty sand oblige time of the ma Haydn was aria haved in a reasonable way. Unfortu- nai 'Maria had neither rhyme oa in her-composition. The perc of ladies married to men of nins are 80 Vain of the abilities of quite immaterial whether he were a posit or an artist Nay, she even itted the incredible a. = ear the composer's man: Ip for /eurling paper, as cidavlaye va and similar things! She was gay enough with it all too, When Haydn went from home, she would send him the most cheerful lit- tle notes, "Should you die today or to- morrow," ran one of these missives, "there is not enough money left in the " At another time when Haydn in London he recelved a letter in which Maria wrote that she bad just seen.a neat little house which she liked very much and that he might do himself the pleasure to send her 2,000 guiden with which to buy it so as to have in future a "widow's home." Pleasant reading this for the genial composer! In the first case he wrote without a trace of anger: "Should this be so take my manu- scripts to the music publisher. I guar- antee you t they will be worth money enough to defray my funeral expenses. " In the matter of the "wid- ow's home" he thought it would be best to arrange things himself. Uitl- mately he bought the house, and fn spite of Marla's frequent suggestions of his coming dissolution he lived in it for nine ycars after she had been dend. * out her seventy best way of ending a union which had proved utterly unbearable to the com- r. The Penalty of Curiosity. Among the packets received at the Birmingham (England) postoffice one ly was one containing.» palr of hand- cuffs, which were being sent from Der- by to a manufacturer In Birmingham to be fitted with a key. The paper cov- ering of the parcel had been torn dur- ing the transit, so that the handcuffs were exposed to view. They were an object of curiosity to the clerks, and presently one of the young men jocu- larly clasped ope of the cuffs around bis Jeft wrist. It was then that he dis- corered that there was no key to un- fasten it. The handcuff was on his wrist "to ate T went to the orice "Key't he thought would fit, but in turning 1 it round drilled out or handcuff filed through before the clerk could get it off. The day was Sunday, and all the shops, including the manufacturer's place, were closed. The clerk returned to the postoffice and explaincd his plight to the superintendent. This offi- cial ordered him to take the first train for Derby the néxt. morning, explain the whole circumstance to the owner of the handcuffs, apologize to him and then return to Birmingham and go to the manufacturer's and have the hand- cuff filed off, A Holiday With Joy. "Life isn't so full o' trouble but that we kin sometimes steal away an' spend a holiday with Joy," said the old phi- losopher. "But the minute Joy shakes hands with us we go to celebratin', an' the next thing we know the town mar- shal runs us iu fer gittin' too bappy on the highway, an' we git $10 or thirty days more' we bargained fer! 1 once knowed a ole brother who wuz one 0° the best fellers In the country when he wuz In low grounds, but h'ist him to the hilltop an' be thought that the sun wuz a silver mine an' be owned It, an' the moon wuz a thirty dollar gold piece, an' the sturs waz small change an' all made fer him! Satan hisse'f would 'a' been flyin' roun' in glory to this day but fer the fact that he couldn't stand to Le prosperous, Still, it's a good idee to risk a day with Joy whenever si ble. Even ef we git into more trouble by it our consolation will be that we had a high ole time gittin' pro = man natur' continues curious contraption on the top 'side o o the yearth!" a Making It Useful. The many blunders in statuary in- scriptions recall a story of one whick a worthy citizen of Glasgow was ready to perpetrate the city's statue to Nelson. Nothing florid was wanted, but something the merit of which should consist in its-brevfty and sincerity. "Glasgow to Nelson!" was the - vice given by a distinguished visitor when appealed to by the Jocal fathers. "Aye, a very guid suggestion," sald one of the councilors. "And, toon o' Nelson's close at hand, we no' julst eay, Glasgow to Nelson, «nx nifles,' that so it micht serve for a nonument and milestone too?'--Duo- fee Advertiser. to show that not even the first bitter- neas of the struggle between the north and the south could put out altogether the fires of friendship. fate of Btephen D. Ra Carolina to fall in the Confederate service. His last bours' bad a close with West Polat, where he had been-enrolled as a cadet. When in the darkness after the battle of Ce- dar Creek the Union cavalty charged troopers the driver whom he had in bis ambu- lance. Do not tell him," commanded a weak, husky roilce. Whereupon Custer, who recognized the voice as one he had so often heard at West Point, exclaimed: "Is that y ur?' Custer had him taken to Sheridan's eve' 'last. He died about 10 o'clock the next Bunsen's Pocketful of Orders. Professor Bu tokens of honor that were showered on 'htm during -his long life. He was.apt te forget to put on his crosses and rib- bons when invited to afficial ceremo- nies, and his housekeeper tried to re- mind him of his duty by putting his 'various orders in the pocket of his 'dress sult trousers. On one occasion he was invited with the other Heidel- dere professors to dine «with a Baden rince. He entered the room late, 'after the guests had assembled, and one of his colleagues turned to him and said: . "Excuse me, Herr Geheimrath, but feel have you done with your or ders a was taken aback. He thought for a moment, and then plunging his for a moment, and then, monene his ed out a fist full of stars As soon as they dina on their laugh, but Bunsen sai ly, "Oh, I have a lot more," another handful it of the right hané pocket of his trouse ~ Diplomacy. Delia--Te can get a sult just like your misslis' velvet wan for tin dollars In Bargain Brown Brothers. No Yes, an' I can get wan fur nothin' by telling me misslis about the wan in Bargain Brown Brothers. 's First Bank Note Forger. Whether the trick of forging notes was Indulged in within tbe limits of China, Venice, Spain and otber coun- tries where banks first bad thelr exist- ence history does not record, But the man who first forged a note of the Bank of England was thereby, to quote n phrase too often misapplied, * 'damn- ed to everlasting fame." It was in 1758, sixty-four years after the Bank of Evgland was founded, that Richard Ste Vaugh, a linen draper, of Staf- Was most unlinppily led by min- ged vanity and affection into this crime. He was then passionately in love with a young Indy of his city, who, however, would not Ilsten to his pleadings because, as she frankly told lim, +his worldly wealth fell short of ber desires. He, therefore, forged a number of bank notes, which he show- ed to her to prove that he was very much richer than sbe bad supposed. Had he not allowed the avaricious England' young Indy to bundle the uotes all might bave been well, but she ab- stracted one of them and passed it, with speedy calamitous results, Vaugh was arrested, his plea of lis lack of dishonest Intent in making the notes not allowed, aud he was con- demned to death and hanged. Pleasant For Ja When Mr. Ransom wou vas bride, be felt properly bumble at securing such a prize, aud tv the after years Mrs. Ransom never allowed hiin to lapse into forgetfulness of her condesceuslon. "You really cared for me, I'm sure, sald Mr, Kansom. "That Js a great comfort--to think 1 _ didn't urge you against your wishes. "James," sald Mrs, a ip a tone suited to her Imposing and somewhat massive appearance, "how could you ever doubt my affection? Have 1 not told you that I bad proposals from men who were brilliant, handsome and tal- ented and passing them all by, James, I chose you!" = eesaw and Saw Weary Walker told this t io Bathless npbamdiogy whom he met ou top of a hays ~ rae a 'lady says ter me: 'Go Inter de hack yard an' yer will see a wood plie. Saw a couple uv cords an' den come git yer breakfast.' After awhile J comes up to de Louse an' asts fer mr breakfast, an' she says, 'Did yer see dé wood? An' | says, 'Yes.' An' she 'Did yer saw de wood? An' L s, 'Yes.' An' sbe says, 'I didn't see yer saw It.' An' I says, 'Well, yer saw me gee It, didn't yer? An' she says, 'Yes.' 'Well,' I says, 'if you'd 'a' seed wot I snwed you'd 'a' knowed.' "--Lon- don Scraps. Listowel Sash and Door Factory. BAMFORD BROS. Por Over Sixty Years. =|FOR SALE eat Mpls * bes been , while teething. If disturbed at nightand broke Top Buggies, with pain of Gotting Testh send st tace and gets O : of "Mra. Winslow's Soothing Syrup' for pen Buggies, Children Teething. 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