The Olneyville Times IS PUBLISHED AT ‘Olneyville Sq., Olneyville, R. 1. EVERY FRIDAY Subscription Price - $1.00 per Year E. ¥. SIBLEY, Editor and Manager Entered at the Olneyville Post Office as Second Class Matter FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1912. When the Democratic party split on Stephen Douglass in 1860, the party went out of power for twenty-four years, says an exchange in commenting on the Republican split that looms up large.—Westerly Sun That was the time when Abraham Lincoln, the rail splitter, came in. The clause in the Panama Canal bill making it unlawful for railroads to own and operate steamships has been killed, as it should have been. Why strangle enterprise by “fool” legislation? The Republican convention at Chicago next week promises to be spectacular, to say the least. It may be Taft, it may be Roosevelt, and yet it may be a “dark horse.” It must not be forgotten that Hon. William J. Bryan, who has had a large and varied experience as a presidential candidate, is still in the field. Whatever may be said in regard to Roosevelt—whatever way you may criticize him, it cannot be claimed that he is a “gum shoe politician”. Ex-Banker Morse, who is in Pretty good health, thinks he will tackle the financial game again, it is said. There will be no contest in Chicago over the Rhode Island delegation. It is "stand pat" to the echo. The weather thus far this summer has not been of the sort that the summer hotel man would order. The chances are that Col. Roosevelt may take a pleasure trip to Chicago the coming week. A great trouble with Socialism is that it never seems to get any nearer realization. Dr. Wiley will not accept the call to Boston. He is too big for a municipal job. If you do not think Roosevelt is good presidential timber, ask Clifford Pinchot. "The sweet girl graduate" is having her annual back in the June lime light. A nationwide preferential primary means death to the bosses. Senator Lorimer is sick. Nearly everybody is sick of Lorimer. The Brown endowment fund is nearing a successful finish. Some men's lives are as useless as unlettered sign posts. Odds and Ends. Great Britain is the pace maker of naval powers. Roosevelt is going to the Root of the matter at Chicago. They should have clean politics in the new Chinese republic. Think of the laundrymen votes over there. Of all the summer insects that around our pathway lie, the most Satanly pestiferous is the germ-laden old house fly. Mrs. Pankhurst, who is in jail, says she has done nothing to be sorry for. The price of frogs' legs have not jumped, they were high enough before. "Mr. Barnes of New York," should make the most of his present term in the spotlight. It may be his last. The Boston Herald seems to consider the tango controver in that... City as some. Something of a bore. DARING YEGGMEN, Ways of the Most Desperate and Cunning of Burglars. BLOWING OPEN A BANK SAFE. Nitroglycerin is the Explosive Used, and Wet Blankets Help to Deaden the Sound--Making the “Soup” Is a Perilous Part of the Business. Of all the thieves and crooks that operate in the country, the yeggman, or bank burglar, is the most cunning and systematic and in the majority of cases the most desperate, some people have an idea that a common tramp housebreaker is a yeggman, but that is far from the truth. In nine cases out of ten yeggmen are intelligent, educated men. There is a bond between them as strong as that which unites any brotherhood or union in the country. There are not more than fifty good yeggs in the United States. To be successful, the yegg must understand every little detail of the work, because a slip usually means a life. When a man becomes too old or is disabled or for any other cause, cannot remain an active member of his gang, then instructs the younger and less experienced members. In all the time that I have been connected with bank investigations, says a yegg hunter in the New York Sun, I have never known of a case in which one yegg man doubled crossed another, and I don’t think that can be said of any other branch of the kingdom. I will explain some of the methods used by the yeggs, also some used by the investigators. Four or five men usually make up a gang, and these gangs are scattered over the whole country, each having its own territory. For instance, one gang had the territory between Albany and Boston on the Boston and Albany road. If that case the members would be scattered out along the road between Boston and Albany looking for a bank or post office which may be easily blown. It sometimes takes them six months or even a year to locate the job and get everything in readiness for the “touch off,” as they call it. One successful job with these men equals a great many small hauls that other thieves make. When the job is spotted, the gang is called together, and every detail is gone over and the plans are mapped out. Each member looks over the bank, and the discussion of methods sometimes lasts a week. I once knew of a gang operating in Indiana who were in doubt about a job and who sought advice from a gang in Maine. That probably took three or four weeks. I mention this to show that they absolutely will not “turn a trick” if there is the least doubt about its success. After the job is located and their plans are settled, the next thing they do is to get the tools and make their preparations. Common yellow soap, fuse, caps, and nitroglycerin are needed. The soap, fuse, and caps are easily obtained at any hardware or grocery, but the nitroglycerin is not so easy to get. If no other method is available, it must be taken out of dynamite sticks, and that is almost an art in itself, being a very dangerous process. For an ordinary shot, they take five-pound sticks of dynamite to make enough nitroglycerin, or “soup,” as they call it, for the job. The utensils consist of two lard cans and a quart whiskey bottle. The bottom is knocked out of one of the lard cans and holes made all around the sides. A charcoal fire is then built and the lard can is set on it. Then the other can is filled half full of water and placed on the first. The water is allowed to become lukewarm, and then the sticks of dynamite are placed in the water. The whole affair stands about six hours. After that time, the water is allowed to cool and is then strained through a piece of cheesecloth, after which it is again allowed to stand. In a short time, the nitroglycerin rises to the surface and is skimmed off and placed in the bottle. The yeggs call this process: “making soup.” Several times it has resulted seriously, and in one instance when it blew the operator's arm off, led to the capture of two of the best men in what was known as the E. and T. H. gang. It sometimes takes as many as three shots to blow a safe. Four holes are drilled around the combination knob. and the nitroglycerin is poured in the holes, soap funnels being used. A dynamite cap and fuse are then attached wet blankets are thrown over the safe, and the shot is touched off. The meningide throw themselves face downward on the floor. After the smoke has cleared the safe is sometimes found ready to be rifled. Often there is a strong box which the first shot does not harm, in that case a second and sometimes a third shot must be fired off in the same manner as the first. In case the citizens hear the explosion, the men who are watching outside give the inside men the alarm and endeavor to hold the town at bay, giving their inside pals a chance for a clean getaway with the plunder. "You must always be nice to your little playmates," said the other. "I know I've got my lesson alright, ma. I'm just beating them around a bit trying to teach them that they've got to be nice to me too." - Detroit Free Press. Liberty will not descend to a peopie's como must raise themselves to the top of the world. Mark Twain in an age. The Great Humorist Was a Volcano When He Broke Loose. Famous authors are usually poor business men, but Mark Twain, according to William J. Ring in his many Celebrities and a Few Others, saw his own value and had no unkindness like indifference to the substantial recognition of it. The only "wonder" ever listened to with pain. Once and respected and obeyed was a wife. Underneath his banner lay a very serious nature. Mr. Riding, "How mistaken were the people, not knowing him, imagined that everywhere and on all occasions his attitude and point of view were those of the jester! I never knew a more earnest man than he was or one whose rooted indignation was so overwhelming. When anger moved him, you could see his lean figure contract, and his eyes ominously screwed themselves into their sockets. Every fiber in him yielded, and for the moment his voice became acid and sibilant and out of tune - almost a whine. "Then he would let himself out in a break, like that of a dam unable to hold the flood, in language as candid and unshrinkable as the vernacular of the Elizabethans. Epithet would be filled on epithet, one following another with enmulative vigor and distinctness and the disclosing and luminous effect of explosives. "And not a word missed its mark; not a word seemed superfluous or exchangeable for any other word. Each fitted the use he made of it as a cartridge fits a rifle or a revolver; each told." CURIOUS BATTLEFIELDS. An Indoor Attack and a Cavalry Charge on a Naval Force. At the battle of Monterey, in the Mexican war, our troops were able to command the streets of the city with their artillery, but they experienced much difficulty. In driving the Mexicans from their houses. Accordingly, as the city was built of stone or adobe, the Americans broke through the walls from one house to another, fighting and driving out the enemy as they proceed. ed. Thus, it appears, the battle of Monterey was largely fought indoors, in the time of William the Silent, when the Netherlands were flying the Spaniards, a number of Spanish vessels became frozen in on the Zuyder Zee. Out came the Dutch on horseback on the ice to attack the Spaniards. This is probably the only battle of record wherein cavalry was employed directly against a naval force. There have been battles fought underground. Chiefest of these was the fierce encounter pertaining to the siege of Haarlem in the Dutch wars. The Spaniards mined and the Dutch countermined with equal industry, and below the ground a terrific conflict ensued. When, after the commune, the Versailles troops took Paris they chased certain of the communist forces to the great sewers of the French capital, and in these more than one sanguinary battle occurred. —New York Press. What Is Happiness? Happiness is the greatest paradox in nature. It can grow in any soil, live under any conditions. It defies enfronement. It comes from within. It is the revelation of the depths of the inner life as light and heat proclaim the sun from which they radiate. Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is the warm glow of a heart at peace within itself. A martyr at the stake may have happiness that a king on his throne might envy. Man is the creator of his own happiness. It is the aroma of a life lived in harmony with high ideals. For what a man has he may be dependent on others; what he gains is growth. Happiness is the soul's joy in the possession of the intangible. —William George Jordan. A Practical Husband, Surely the Monmouthshire man who caused his wife's wedding ring to be Inscribed, “If thee doesn't work, thee hag not eat,” was determined that there should be no mistake in what he required In a wife. The only wonder I see how any woman could be induced to marry him with such a threat before her eyes. The exact date of this ring is not known, but it is previous to the eightheenth century.—~Chambers' Journal. The Last Word. Bobby—Is every word in this dictionary, pa? Peckley-Oh, no, my child. Every little while a new word comes into the language. Bobby- What's the latest word, pa? Peckley ~Your ma will tell you. She always pass the last word A Mob, A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from or whither it goes, few men can tell. As sembling and dispersing with equal suddenness, it is as difficult to follow to its various sources as the sea itself, nor does the parallel stop here, for the ocean is not more fickle and uncertain, more terrible when aroused, more un reasonable or more cruel.—Dickens. Thin as the Mist. Scene, a town in the north on a very -misty day. Sandy McKay (coming out of a public house and meeting his minister face to face)—Losh, sir, it's an awful deceiving thing, this mist. 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