THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. A FIGHT FOR LIFE. Maafnr tnvl lloldlnK HI" Own, Itnt In n Critical Condition. BT. PAUL, Nov. St. A quiet dny Kissed by United State Senator Dnvi. s condition yesterday nfternoon bcinjf Imported unchanged. At Pnuntor DnvU' iomc if wan stated thnt the physicians bad reported their patient n br-liur stronger tlinn for the lnnt two Any. The delirium. It In understood, continues, nnd this is hif worst symptom. Tlie respira tion Is right nbnvo normal nnd the tem perature slightly blither tlinn Mondny. The pulsp is exactly us it wan. Food mid A tonic were taken us usual nnd digested Without discomfort. This nliility of the stomnelt to receive nnd of the system to assimilate lionrishmcnt is the one. factor pon. which the sic!: stntesinnn luunt rely Id his prolonged li'lit with disease. The weakened condition of the senntor makes, recuperation more dillicult. Ills health, shuttered in the civil wnr, wus SENATOR CTSHMAN K. DAVIS, ever fully restored. However, his strong will is bnttliiiK with the disease, nnd ope has not been abandoned, although it is admitted that liis condition is very crlticnl. lie realizes his serious condi tion and, it Is Mated, has made nil ar rangements as to his estate. KENTUCKY BANK WRECK. The Shortage of Pi-own fWI.ROO. How lie .Mil hub I'd the Steill. CINCINNATI, Nov. 20. The experts who have been working: with Receiver Tucker on the books of the Herman Na tional bank nt Newport place the short age of Brown, the missing assistant cash ier and individual bookkeeper, at $101, 000. According to reports from those who were with ltrown when ho. left last Tuesday night, he had less thou $r00 with him. Brown's salary was only tl.NX) a year. Cases are now cited where be spent more than that amount in one toy. His bond was fur $10,000, and it Is Rood as far ns It goes. Brown's system required a wonderful memory. The experts say he carried in his head the figures that enabled him to eaJl oft correctly a lot of false entries in way to throw the clerks who were do ing the checking with him off the track. ARRIVAL OF BERNHARDT. Ike Great French Actress Comes to America to Tonr With M. Coqnelln. NEW YORK, Nov. 21. Angular as ever, but if anything younger looking than when she last visited the United States, Mine. Bernhardt arrived in New York on the French line steamship L'Aqultaine from Havre. The great French actress conies with M. Coquelin to tour the United Stntes. She is fresh from .new triumphs in the French capital. She brings her full company with her, and they made a merry party on board the big French liner. Mme. Bernhardt will play "L'Aiglon" for one week. She will ulso be seen in "La Tosca," "Cyrano do Bergerac," "Cu mflle" nnd "Hamlet." New York Horse Show. NEW YORK, Nov. 20. A few scores less than 1,000 horses nnd ponies will be on parade this week In Madison Square Garden before no one knows how many humans, a few of whom will look on with critical eyes for the equines only and more with a gaze wandering away from the arena to the promeuude, the boxes and the tiers of seats. The exhibition be gan yesterduy morning when the Nation al Horse Show association threw open the doors of the Garden, of which it had taken possession for its sixteenth unnuul event, and inaugurated what the associa tion believes will be the most successful affair in its history. General I.ee In New York. NEW YOKK, Nov. 2L Major Gen eral Fitz-Hugh Lee has arrived ut tlfls port from Cuba on the Ward line steam ship Mono Castle. He. will stay ut the Grand hotel for three or four days. Aft er reporting to his superiors in Washing ton he will then proceed to Omaha nnd lake command of the department of the Missouri, 'to which he has been assigned. "White Fish After n Hiowor. JOL1ET, His., Nov. 20. After show ?rs large number of small white fish were found in different purts of the city, ind local scientists are ut a loss to ac uitut for their uppcuruiicc. From the 'act That some of tlie fish were found on he roofs of tlie big buildings at the steel nil Is it is supposed that they must have lroppod from the clouds. New York Market. FlWR State and western (unsettled iml still weak, with buyers Indifferent; .llnnesota puti-nts, l.l.lxxnO.",; winter .tralghts, Jo. Uft-T.i.r, ; winter extra, iZ.Wip ' 90. WHEAT-Opened eusy with cables, but ecoverwl on strength In corn, a later o .land from Bhorts and lewned sixeculn Ive offerings; December, K'HUi'c.; J.uvj ry, 17 JMfic. RYE Btendy: state, ftKirttc., o. ). f., Kw Tork; No. 2 western, rule, f. o. t. alloat. CORN h'lrm nnd higher on poor null ng at th west and further covering; la ember, Vi a-Wa'i li-16c.; May, 41 1 13-Hie. OATS Pull, but steady: track, white, tale, 2SSj;;3,tc. ; truck, white, western, it isa&c. PortK Steady; mess, Jl:!frl3; family, .15.5011 It!. LAIUJ Firm; prime weutern steam, .7e. BUTTER Easier; state dairy, lCCi21e.; reumery. l'.iiie. C'HEKBE Steady; large. October fancy, OUe.; small. October fancy, lu ac. EGGS I'm ely steady; state und Penn ylvanla, SKiiSo. ; western. Ion off, 27c. BtltiAfl Knw 111 ni ; lair reiuung, 3e.; entrlfiiyul, test. i",n. ; rellneU steady; ;rushPd, fie. ; powd red, 6.70c. TL'KPENTINiO-Uull and euBy at H 14c. MOLASSES Steudy; Now Orleans, 42U 530. RICE Steady; domestic, 4fj6Hcj Ja pan, i'qyo. TALLOW-Sttady; city, 4o.i country, 4ft5c. WAY Fendy; shipping, "SViSOc.j good to cholco, Wipuc, FREE MAjUT FARMS Extension of Rural Delivery System Urged. PROVED A SUCCESS WHEREVER TRIED first Assistant roslmaaler flenernl Johnson (he Chnntte fn B Effected Without Kscesslve Cost to the Government. WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. An enthu siastic plen for n w ide expansion of rural free delivery is made In the annual re port of W. M. Johnson, first nssistant postmaster general. He says thnt the extraordinary development of this sys tem during the past 12 months under the Stimulus of appropriations of $450,000 for the fiscal year lM'.MMlHM) and $1,750, 000 for the Uscnl yenr 1!H)0-1!KH, is con clusive ns showing that hereafter it must be a permanent and expanding feature of the postal administration. The service cnu now be extended ns swiftly as con gress may direct or ns the menus permit, until it covers all those portions of the United States now rencbod In whole or In pnrt by the more primitive methods of tlie postal service, which hnve come down to us almost without change fropi colo nial times. Tliis change, Mr. Johnson believes, can be effucted without exces sive cost to tlie government. Under ordinary conditions a full route is considered to be 25 miles, so devised that the carrier does not pass over the same ground twice in the same day. The congressional representative controls the appointments. The pay of tlie rural car riers is now from $100 to $."i(M) per nu llum. There ure uo civil service restric tions, nor restrictions ns to sex, but it is inexorably required that appointees shall bo of good character. It is proposed to extend rurnl delivery in accordance with the demands made from all parts of the country, so thut each individual route may be dovetailed upon another route hereafter to be start ed, uud with this idea constantly kept in view rural free delivery is eventually to extend over ull well settled rurul com munities In the United Stntes. Bearing on the question of cost, a statemeut compiled from the books of the office shows that from December, 1890, to Nov 1, 1000, 4:t! star routes nnd mail messenger services hnve been dis continued or curtailed. Between July 1 and Nov. 1, 1000, the first four months of the present fiscal yenr, there huve been 1,338 additional rural free delivery routes' installed, supplying 022,307 people. No Klse In Ment Prices. niTTHAtJO. Nov. 1(1. Absolute ilenial is made by Chicago puckers of a report j vunced prices on all sorts of meat from ( 1 to 5 cents a pound and that there is a comMue of the firms to hold the price higher regardless of the price of live cut tle. "The reports that we have arbitrari ly swelled the prices of meats are un-. true," said B. F. Swift of Swift & Co. yesterday. "Supply and demand control the market now as they have always done. The election cut no figure whatev er in the price of ment during the week following it, nor will it affect it." A Long; Distance Photograph. MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 16. Professor F. P. Leavenworth photographed the as- , teroid Eros through the telescope at the State university observatory last even-, ing. Considering thut the diminutive planet is said to be 34,000,000 miles away, it wns a long shot. The professor said that the planet could not lie seen with the naked eye or through the tele scope. By a close mathematical calcula- . tlon he ascertained its exact locution, and ' the sensitive plute caught its likeness, even though it was beyond human ken. , STOWAWAYS THAT WERE PETS An Interesting; Pair That Came Abroad to City ot Rome on a Recent Trip. A pair without money, passage tick ets or luggage boarded the steamship City of Uome on her last trip from Glasgow to this port just at the clos , ing hour for sailing, says a New York exchange. They did not attempt to' conceal themselves as stowuwuys, but I deliberately moved among the passen j gers. As night came on they failed to ; go into a stateroom. They did not ask for a place at the table. As soon as their presence became known to most of the passengers they vied with one another in making this pair comfort able. As it grew darker they disap peared, but with the break of dny they were found upon the deck again, as happy as could be, and they did not leave the ship the entire voyage. They were a pair of sparrows, and they became so tame that they would eat from the hand of a passenger while perched upon the passenger's other hand. The children of the ship became fond of them, and just as the vessel was nearing port one of the birds was killed by the fall of a little girl who had it in her hand. In the excitement of the near ap proach to land t he other was forgotten and the time of its disappearance watt unknown. Not to He Trnsted. Wife Let me send for Dr. Killman. You snld oiue one recommended him highly. Sick Husband I don't want him, dearest. The man who recommended him is un undertaker. Harlem Life. A Unlet Future In View. "Noiseless pneumatic tires are put on rocking chuirs now." "Well, let us be patient; maybe they'll ,et around to putting then: on piano keys." Chicago llecord. Artistic Periods of 'lime. "It takes four persons a whole year fo make a high-grude cashmere Khnwl." "That's all right; my wife bought one und It took tne four years to jiuy for it." Detroit Free I'ress. Failed In Her Allusion. "So her foreign trip wus not a suc cess?" "Oh, dear, no. Why, she didn't even become engaged to a mnn with a title and a bad record." Chicugo Post. A War Office Secret J it. I 7" ALLINGFOD shoot?" said YV Sergt. Harding-. "Of course he can. A man on the staff nt Hythe has n rifle in his hand nil day and every day. Kven you could shoot tin der such well, perhaps not you, for you never know vrhnt you can't do ttn 41 you try. Do 1 know the Rchool of musketry? I do know it lock, stock, barrel and denning rod, or, I should any, in these Lee-.Met ford cinys, clear ing rod, for the cleaning; rod's ns dead ns Queen Anne or the pig-tnils for which the Welsh fusileers still wenr the 'flash,' thotiph the powder nnd pomatum from which the 'flash' pro tected the coatee hns been gone for the best pnrt of n century. "Now, you nil know why foreign military nttnehes nre in England. They nre here to see the rights of all improvements in the nrmy In men, in tools, in the handling of either. They notice n new explosive or n new drill movement, nnd if the horse gunrds gave me n commission I reckon they would notice that, and would tell their respective wnr offices that they had better look out now. Our mili tary nttnehes nre nbrond for the snme purpose. They're just spies in pence time. Why, 1 remember when cordite came out how one of the continental war ofllces pent a gunner officer over here they Rnid to learn English. I know the mnn at Woolwich who gnve him the cordite, and how much he got for it. I know the Knglishninn who found the man nt Woolwich who would do the job. I know how much more he got for It. But would I breathe the nnme of thnt cotitincntnl power, to make international compli cations? Not me. 1 know better what's due to my country. All which leads up to this: When I whs nt Uythe qualifying for two guns nnd a crown over my three stripes there wns a great mystery about the Maxim; in fact, we who were, undergoing instruc tion ns instructors were never shown the mechanism of the block. The in structor of the Uythe staff used nl wnys to take thnt out of the gun and hold it behind him while he ex plained the other parts. And thnt wn what made me curious to see the block. I was working very hard in the even- I ings; yt tor my healths sake l una to walk now and then into Folkstone 0 young foreign person, who told me Rhe wan a lady's maid. How did I make her acquaintance? If you don't know a simple little thing like, that, you ought to. We lenrn in the army the art of mixing gracefully in female society. And the yonng foreign per son, who spoke English beautifully, said to me one evening as we were sitting in a quiet spot away from oth er people and from gas lamps: " 'I do love to hear about all that concerns you. Tell me all about what you do at the school of musketry.' " 'Oh, H'b all very simple, ma'mselle,' said I. Then, just to show her what a clever fellow I was, I begun to give her a full account of all the difficult things we had to do. And, of course, among other things I spoke of the machine guns. "Those are the horrid things that go crk-crk-crk-crk, are they not?' asked she, ns she Imitated perfectly the venomous spit of the beasts. "'That's it.' " 'Tell me about them. I think they are wonderfully Interesting. How well educated a soldier has to be nowaduys to understand such things!' 44 'It's quite true that a first-class certificate of education, which a ser geant is now bound to hnve, Is not got for the asking. Then I went on to tell her of the mechanism of the Maxim. " 'Ilut the funniest thing about it all is that they won't let us see the works of the block, although we are to qual ify for musketry instructors.' " 'And of the most important part of the gun you know nothing?' 'I hnve a general idea." " A man who is as clever as jou In mechanics arid mathematics ought to know all about It. I should be curious to know if I were you.' " 'I could easily find out a-t about it If I cared to take the trouble.' "Trouble! What Is trouble to a scientific man? If I were you I should think nothing of any little trouble. Now, I will spur you for your own good and to advance you in the serv ice. I am curious, for your sake, to know about this gun. I'll bet you what you like you don't expluin the mechanism of the block to me within a month. Your explanations make even dry old figures interesting.' "'And can I name the stakes?' "'Certainly.' '"A xiss, then.' "'I can't bet you that?' "Tut I was to name the stukes.' ! " 'Oh, I couldn't think of it.' I "'There's no need for you to think of it, ma'mselle. You've only to do it. I have your word, you know. If you are honorable "'Birl "Then the bet Is off?' "'No, I give you my word. It la an noying. Ilut I will keep my word.' "'And I can give you my word that I shall win. So, perhaps, In case you chonge your mind, I had better have the kiss now.' "The rest of the evening bus noth Vng to do with the story. "Now, I hud been working hard ut the mechanics of guns before 1 went to tlie school of musketry, so thut I might do well. And I hud a natural tuste for such things in the blood, probably because my aunt married a riuith, to whom I was to havo been bound apprentice, only I would none of him nnd his smithy. Bo you only had to show nie the cocoainit In gun ' ii cry mttbunlus, and I tumbled to vrhnt Wrid of milk was Inside. The next Mnxlm dny we wore gathered round the instructor, who was red ing out his Mnxlm yarn. He hud taken out the block, and was holding it in his fingers behind bis back. I had my notebook In my hand, tt ml I slipped behind him. In a very few moments I had a sketch of nil that appeared on the surface, nnd u very good idea of wliut was beneath it. "Thnt very evening I was sitting imong n lot of other men who were swotting for exam. I had n sheet of foolscap and wns busy milking a sketch of the action in Indian ink. "'Hallo, young mnn,' said the in structor, who hud been looking over my shoulder, unbeknown to me, 'wbnt hnve you got there?' " 'You ought to know ns well, if not better than I, senrgrtit-instriictor.' " 'I do know. But. where did you get it?' " 'Thnt's my business.' " 'Well, you must give it tip.' " 'Oh, no, 1 shan't.' " 'But you must.' '"It's mine, and you can't take It from me.' " 'We'll see what Lieut. Brown says about that '"If Lirtit. rirown says I must give it up, I will, lint not unless. " 'Come along, then, to bis quarters.' "'This Is Pergt. Ilnrding, duke of Cornwall's light infant ry, sir,' said the sergrnnt-inst ructor, when we reached Lieut, llrown's room, 'lie has n sketch of the Maxim secret action nnd refuses to give it up.' " 'How's this, Sergt. Harding?' nsked Lieut, ltrown. " 'The sketch Is my own, sir. I re fused to give it up to 11u sergeant -instructor, but snid 1 would give it tip at once, if you ordered me. Hut I have made one sketch, nnd If you take that nwny from me, I hnve the net ion in my mind, nnd enn nlwnys make another sketch.' " 'That's quite true. Yet such things had better not be knocking about. You will destroy the sketch, Sergt. Hard ing?' " 'Yes,' thought I, 'when I hnve shown it nnd won my bet.' "'And how did you get hold of it?' " 'Must. I tell vou, sir-." " 'Yes.' "'I took it down In my notebook while the sergeant-instructor held the block behind his back.' "Thesergennt-Inst ructor looked fool ish, and Lieut. Ttrown drawled: "I think, sergennt-instruclor, you hnd better hnve settled this little mat ter without appealing to me. (iood night, both.' "The sergeant-instructor was too up set to want to see the sketch destroyed. I lost very little time in strolling down to thnt cftiiet spot where I might light on mnm'selle. Not that, in view of what is to come, I wish in any way, to say or to hint, or to Imply that sha was French. Far from it. I used the nomo 'Mam'selle' as meaning young foreign person, as a sailor uses 'Dutchman' to mean a foreign sailor, usually a Nor wegian or a Swede. She wns there. " 'Good evening, mam'selle,' said L 'Had you any idea of going on the pier this evening, or do you prefer to stop quietly here?" . " To stop here, I think; thnt Is,' she said hurriedly I wonder wh'y 'it you're going to behave yourself prop erly.' " 'Well,' snid I, 'as I've won my bet, I think 1 may as well collect the stakes.' "'You've won? Y'ou know all about the Maxim?' asked she so excitedly that her words tumbled one over the other. " 'I have told you so.' "'Yes; you are quite sure?' " 'Quite. I have an Indiun ink sketch of It on me.' " 'Let me see it let me see it,' she repeated, and her eyes gleamed. " 'Quite so,' said I. 'Seeing's believ ing; but I should like to collect my stukes.' "No longer coy, she flung her arms around my neck and kissed nie till I hod no breath with which to repay her kisses. Hut she herself hud brenth enough to gasp: " 'Give me the paper.' "I put my hand in the breast pocket of my serge, which I always used to wear under my greatcoat. I began to pull out the drawing. Just then I heard the drawling voice of Lieut. Ilrown come from the darkness for we were In a very quiet and cosy cor ner: " 'I thought as much, Rerpt. Hard Ing. You are under arrest. Follow me to quarters.' "I turned toward the voice, nnd then toward mam'selle or toward where she had been, for she was gone. "I rose and saluted. " 'May I ask you, sir ' " 'You're a lucky man thnt I hnd suspicion of the facts. You're fool enough to do a lot of harm, bu too big a fool to know you're doing it. You Cornish chough, do you believe one of the prettiest women in Folkestone and one of the cleverest women In the world Is in love with you? You were just on the point of giving a drawing of tho secret action to the smartest unofficial military attache and that is u spy of' "Shall I nnme the country which he named to nie? Not T. No strained re lations, no wnrs nnd rumors of wars, shall come upon Knghind through me. I want no secret dossier whatever thut may be. Hut so long us I live It shall be a secret fur which w ar office mam'selle wus collecting Information "Her profession was bud, but her VIskcs! ah, they were good." Corn lull Magazine, Motlier Crav'sSwc't I'nwil-i for Chi dren, successfully used by Muitier Cmv nurfe in tne cniiiireirs none, in iew York, cure fi'verishne3, bad sti niach, teeth ing Iih nlers, move mi l regulate tlie bowel and destroy worina. Over o.ooo tes'.iaioni ali. 1 liry never fail. At all iliugiiMa, 25c Address Allen S. Olmsted UKoy, N. Y. 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They reexamined the two lenders, who are the Chung brothers, and occupied nearly the whole day In trying by dif ferent tortures to make these fellows confess to their guilt. One proceeding rather amused me, although It was bnrbnrous. The lending mandarin had asked one of these brothers several questions, to which he would not an swer to the satisfaction of the court, so the mandarin wrote out the evidence as he thought the criminal ought to speak It, und then told him to acknowl edge that It wus correct; und when the poor fellow refused to comply with the court's request, he was tortured until he fainted in the courtroom nnd hud to be removed. ISy the Chinese laws they cannot punish a person until he con fesses to everything. If the court thinks the prisoner is telling lies they torture him for the truth; or, if he does not speak as they wish him to and will not confess his guilt, they torture him In the most cruel manner until he does as they wish. As soon ns he con fessrs, he is behended, frequently in one hour. I wus told In court thnt very often n criminnl would die under his tortures rather than confess himself guilty. These, I suppose, are rare cases, where the man is really Inno cent of the crime charged. I huve seen enough of Chinese jurisprudence to disgust me with it for the future." Birth Rate In Europe. The most recent statistics show a decrease of the hrt rate in every European country, the avernire de crease being three per cent, since 1891. This is a curious fnct nnd seems to sh ow that the Multhusiun theory failed to tnke Into account certain con ditions in nature that tend to prevent the overpopulation of the earth. For some time it bus been known thnt th birth rate In France has been unsatis factory. But it was not susnected that every country In Europe was in the Mme declining condition, though to a less degree. 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America and l'.ngla.id alike rejoiced in the refined and subtle hu mor, tlie clear insight, the pervasive human interest of these conversations. McCluru'i Magazine for December will contain the first in a series of "More Dolly Dialogues," in which all the charm of the earlier work is continued. McClure's Magazine for Decemlier will contain an intimate account of the fall of Richmond and the flight of the Confederate Cabinet, at the close of the Civil war. This article is fiom the pen of Stephen R. Mai lory, who, ns Secretary of the Navy ;n the Confederate Administration, shared in the stress of those last diys. The narrative gives a picture strong and true of the clos ing scene in the South's tragedy. Fiction of remarkable intei est will I abundant in McClure's Magazine for I'ecem her, with illustrations by tin: best artists. 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