eidi»-"4:DAILY REFLECTOR. |;")They Maanfacture the Finest Implements| of Their Trade." When Dutch Gus, one of the mostSubscription 25 cents per Month. ex : and user eae er. was captnr & few years ago, eEntered as second-class mail matter. most complete set of burglarsT toolsever madve was found in his posses-sion and it now lends added interest: _ | to the collection of burglarsT imple-There are now 358 patients in| ments on exhibition at police head-theinsaneasylum at Raleigh"the quarters. .largest pumbersince it was estab- _ Dutch Gus suid he made his toolsE himself and could rival any tool-yal pbere are 154 males and maker in the country. In followingemaies.The great majority 4» the suggestion given by himof them are country people of! when he was put through the thirdmiddle age. Wake has the largestT degree, made famous by formernumber and Cumberland the next Chief of Police Byrnes, the policelargest. Since December Ist last Jearned that all the cracksmen of= ~the higher class depend entirelythere have been 101 admissions. upon themselves for tools they re-quire in cracking safes.D. J. WHICHARD. Editor.EVERY AFTERNOON (EXCEPT SUNDAY )ba """Isadt not strange that a man The police were for many years at.worth a million doilars should be o loss to learn where burglars se-|so greedy for more that he woulda, cured the tools so necessary to their,trade. Althcugh compiete sets oftools were repeatedly captured whena noted safe worker was arrested,stoop to the grossest kind of!fraud just to add a few dollars to!his pile ?John B. Manning, who is 65 years, the discovery of an equally valuableold, a millionaire and a Wail set of tool.. It was not long before: - - Steve OTBrien, Phil Reilly, -Jakestreet speculator in bank stocks! Von Gerichten and Charles Heidel.and bonds, has been charged with poro discovered, quite by accident,using chemicalsto remove the g small cellar shop in Bleeckerendorsements on the backs of street, wherein an old German tool-bends he!d by him and selling �"�aker ground out the finest imple-them for pew bonds. The old; �"�e�"�* of the burglarsT stock in trade.. oy. | Down in a basement near the cor-man had better been thinkingT yer of Mott street, and within aabout dying. | gtoneTs throwTof police headquarters,eS _this German toolmaker conducted a'gmall and apparently unprofitable~business. Finally the headquarters. . | detectives, whose duties took them. Some little time ago the min". down around headquarters at night,ister from Scarboro, Me. ex noticed that the old German hadchanged pulpits with the minister many customers after the tenementfrom Sacarappsa, in theState. When the Sacarappa,minister arrived at Scarboro he The detectives ade a quiet inves-was met by a deacon, who said tigation and reported their discov-tohim: oMr. Jones, I do hope/eries to former Chief of Policetoday in your prayer yoa wil!) Byrnes, who was then makimg theA Unique Prayer for Rain.ior wols, out now the bank burglarcan stow away in a corner of_ hispocket tools encugh to crack anysafe in the country.oOf course, when they requiresome tovul of intricate design, theygo toa toolmaker. but the generalrun of tools they are thoroughly ca-pable of making themselves. Mostof the fine work on safes nuw isdone with the diamond drill anddynamite. A holo is drilled in thesafe door, just above the combina-tion lock, a charge of dynamite isinserted and then the combinationis blown apart and the door opens.The diamond drill and dynamite canbe carried in amanTs pocket. Safeburglaries and vault robberies havebeen few and far between of lateyears, as most of the really cleverworkers are in state prison, whereYet such isthe case-! the next arrest would be followed by.they are out of the way of tempta-tion.TT-"New York Herald.FranceTs Mission Among Nations.The true mission of France amongthe nations is high enough if shewould bunt see it. She should leadthe world in the arts of peace. Weremember Renan expressing it oncein conversation in those rooms ofhis in the Collese de France.~*Strange,TT he said, ~~how we Frenchwish toshine in wars and foreignadventures, while, in truth, we lovethe ideals of peace. Our true workis in the advancement of the artssame house dwellers had forsaken the| sidewalks and sougbt their hard and || ancomfortable couches for the night. |make an especial! effort for rain.Our crops are being destroyed,and I can see nothing but des-olation here.� So when theminister was about making hispetition, he said, oOh, Lord! Ipray Thee that thou wouldst sendcopious rains upon the soil ofSearboro, that it may bring fortha bountifal harvest, and that thepeople will be made glad, aud,Oh, Lord! they will bless youforit. I desire, Oh Lurd, tostate that I make this petition inthe name of the people of Scar-boro, for, Oh, Lord, I know thatThou, in thy divine wisdom, willsay it is got rain that the soil ofScarboro needs. It is more top~record for the detective bureau ofthe New York police force whichhas made it famous the world over.Byrnes was not slow to realize whatwas going on, and although the lawgave the chief ofithe old manTs business moral sua- |i, sion was used ard the trace pursuedby the Ger:unn toohnakcr was bro-_ken up and nobody has since tried to~build up a business in that particn-lar line.| George McCluskey scid, when I| asked him where the barzlurs of the| higher class secured their tools, afew days ayo: *~Tle burglars maketheir tools row, although formerlythey were made by various toolmak-ers about the city. Thetools in useteday are far different from thosewhich were used to crack a safe 20dressing.�"Boston Budget.years ago. Then it would almost@ba o tennk tn carry tho e-.artmantthe detective |bureau no si:sht to interfere with |and letters and science. If I werejasked to tell the difference between~Frenchmen and other nations, I| should say it consisted chiefly in this|"that with us to be impolite and|unlettered is a reproach; that we,|more than other people, cherish a| human ideal.TT Surely, too, this iswhat Heine meant when he spoke of~the French as thechosen people and |of Germany as Philistia."SaturdayReview.Color as a Shield._ Moro than 25 years ago Mr. Alfred|Russe]l Wallace predicted that it| would be found that brilliantly col-;ored and conspicuous caterpillarswere not among the favorite food ofbirds, although dull looking cater-pillars are devoured by them withgreat avidity. Various observationsand experiments sinco then havetended toconfirm Mr. WallaceTs con-| olusion.| His idea was that the bright colorsof certain caterpillars are the resultof natural selection, the caterpillarswhich originally possessed such col-ors baving also possessed some pe-culiarity, such as the secretion ofacrid juices, which rendered themdistasteful to birds. Asthe conspic-thus let alone by their enemies theytheir less brilliantly colored rela-tives.Experiments have shown thatbirds actually do avoid the brightcolored caterpillars as arule. Andthis seems almost to have become &uously marked caterpillars were! ~~.tended to increase at the expense of | -"""second nature, for a jackdaw, ~whichhad been raised ip captivity andhad had po experience in judgingthe edible qualities of caterpillars,was observed to regard the brilliantcaterpillar of the figure of eightmoth with suspicion and aversion,although it eagerly devoured dull,plain caterpillars placed within itsreach. When it was driven by hun-ger to attack the other, it finally re-fused to eat it, giving plain evidencethat there was something distaste-ful about the prey.Thus, according to the theory, na- "ture has provided a warning, ex-pressed by color, which serves &double purpose, since it both pro-tects the caterpillar possessing itfrom attack and also saves the birdwhich sccs it from the disagreeableconsequence of seizing prey that isnot suited to its taste."Youth'sCompanion.One of the smallest denominations,in this country reported to the enu-Tmerators of the eleventh census isithe Reformed Presbyterian (Cove-nanter). It has four societies, onechurch, three halls and 37 members.Dogs and Matrimony.Wonderful tales have been told ofthe marvelous instinctive intelli-gence of dogs, but the idea of con-sulting a canine oracle when a manis contemplating matrimony is oanew one. A French writer, how-ever, says that before committinghimself a man should note carefullyhow she whom he loves conductsherself toward her parents andfriends, and, above all, how shetreats ordinary domestic animals.~*Beware of a person whom childrenand dogs dislike,TT he says. ~~Dogsmay be our inferiors, but their in-stincts rarely deceive them, and apronounced antipathy on their partmay well be considered as a dangersignal. No compassion should befelt for him who marries a girlwhom gogs snarl at and dislike, forhe has had fair warning of domestio orms.TT"-New York Advertiser.GREENVILLE TOBACCO MARKETREPORT.BY O-. L. JOYNER.| QUOTATIONS.Lugs"Common 8 to 4o Good 4to7o Tine 7 to 10Cutters"Commcno 8 toll= Medium 11 to 15. Good 15 to 27Barbers.AMES A. SMITH,TONSORIAL ARTIST.GREENVILLE, N. C.@ Patronage solicited.he ERBERT EDMUNDS,FASHIONABLE BARE EE.Under Onera House.Special attention given to cleaningGentlewes Clothing.