THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURtt, k-nAu TORTURED DU HYPNOTIC TRANCE While Under the Spell, Incredu lous Witnesses Put Pepper in His Eyes AGONY FOR HALF AN 's.-y Product Put on Young Man's .''see to Test the Genuineness of the Vivonotist's Power Pepper Ate Way .nto the Tissue. St. Louis, Mo. While George Schneider, twenty yt.ira old, of Col 7ijsvllle, 111., lay under the hynotic s-j-ell of Prof. O. L. Norwood, in a store window at Collinsviile absolute .'y unable to help himseif, some in- redulous witness to the exhibition iioured essenae of pepper into his eyes, nose and mouth. The youth suffered torment for naif an hour, not being able to arouse himself until a passing physician noted his suffering and had him brought to consciousness. When brought out of the trance by Norwood at the ulreetlon of Dr. J. A. Spiegel, manager of the Opera House in Colllnsvllle, Schneider fought for half an hour with four men before Teing subdued, such was his torture with the pepper burns in his nostrils nud eyes. The fiery product, put on the young man's face by somebody desirous of testing the genuineness of the hypno tic trance, had eaten its way into the tissue, and when Schneider revived lie thought he was burning up. Halt a days work on the part of the doc tor was required to restore him. Norwood haa been showing at the Colllnsvllle Opera House as a hypno tist and mind readei. Before going to Colllnsvllle he wad in St, Charles, Mo., where his exhibitions were con ducted with his wife as the subject for the trances. Recently Mrs. Nor wood became 111 after one of the ex hibitions, and was brought to St. Lou la for treatment at a hospital. Young Schneider was then chosen. Norwood announced he would keep the lad In a trance over night. Just to demonstrate his power, and that Schneider would be on view in the window of the Kluge hardware store. Doctor Spiegel paised by the win dow to see how things were progress t. and noticed In one glance at the ::nsclous lad tnat something was u ,f. Norwood was caKed and iiii,ht the lad out of the trance, 'ins horrible crime was probably - nmitted in thoughtlessness and : .-Ti sheer love of mischief, never theless the person who was guilty of :t should bo foun'1 cut and severely ijunlshtd. People who perpetrate practical Jokes without regard to the onsequpnees to thei. victims should t-jtner be sent to the insane asylum or punished as criminals. A joke is a Joke, but there is no Joke in cruelty. SURRENDERED 151 SKULLS. "Wild "ormosan Tribes Giving 'Way Before Steady Japanese Advance. Victoria, h. C News of the pro gress of the fighting and killing of natives in Formosa by Japanese troops hag been received here by ar riving steamships. A despatch from the Formosan capital to the Asahi of Tokio says that forces sent to sup press the revolt at Kwarenko, reen forced by 800 of the subdued aborigi nes, attacked the headquarters of the rebellious tribe and burned their houses, capturins the supplies of rice and millet and also thirty fresh human heads. The reenforcements sent from the capital arrived the next day and it was decided to attempt the final suppres sion of the revolving tribe. A tele gram received at Tokio from the Governor-General of Formosa says : Eight groups of the aborigines la the Glraa district have been block aded for many years and have at length had their supplies of salt cut off. Pressed by the advance of the .attacking line since April last, the .difficulties of the tribe were aggravat ed and on several ocasions they of fered to surrender. The authorities .doubting their sincerity ordered them .to turn in the human heads taken as trophies as a token of their willing .ness to surrender. Finally 600 of the aborigines, In cluding their chief, came down the hill to the guard station and surrend ered twenty rifles and 151 human skulls as ordered. BROTHERS UNACQUAINTED. Long Separation Necessitates an In- troductlon. Ishpemlng, Mich. Daniel and John Ole, of Ishpemlng, are entertaining their brother Ole Ole, of Eau Claire. It is thirty-live years since the broth ers bad seen each other and the two 'ishpemlng men did not know Ole when he walked in on them. Ole haa been located iu Eau Claire ever since he left Ishpemlng, and this is bia first I'lslt here since his departure. Deer Carried Off His Hay. Wlnsted, Conn. Visiting a barn In which be bad stored several ton of hay, situated a short distance from Che rest of bis farm buildings, Joshua Hall, of North Colebrook, found the door badly smashed and fully a ton r,t hay gone. He soon discovered it was the work of an antler, which had been broken by the animal when he smashed the door with his head. CHICAGO WOMEN GAMBLE Law ?nd Order League Scouts The ;n Playing Cards In Croups of 100. C'lilcnco. "Oh, we're pinched! They are cor;rrs!" Tills s'ui'.t from nn excited wom-iTi ;!:!. (1 r. liurri'.d ex v.l;' from lmla. Pit.i'.iun Hull, Co;t.)s tirove avca:. iiiid Thirty. !:fih street, as Detectives I'rnnk Hul-o and F. X. Hanchett, of !'.. Chiea"o Law and Order LeuMH'. I broke In upon more than one hundred women preparing to sit down to card games. Ab)ut half the crowd had departed 1:. n II'.!. i said to Mrs. Richard K. riiin, who was lu charge: "We don't claim to be policemen; we are con- i . . - -1 1 with the Law and Order ! Le.i';ie." "Well, what are you doing here?" demanded Mrs. Finn, and Hulse re tlk'd: "We are here to see that the law in not violated." "Oh, please go away and let us I'.r.y again;" and similar pleas were made by a score of women who f.innid a semi-circle around the two ;let f. tlves. We dou't play poker; Just euchre and bridge whist for china." IV.it Hulse was obdurate. Finally, he women got their heads together and decided to play anyhow. And they did. The detectives were given a lot of Jibes. "You fellows would soon go out and lose yourselves if we hand td over five spots," all of which they j t'n't g.icd-naturedly. At No. ."441 Weutworth avenue they entered a hall '.v'.ieie fifty women were playing whist. "Iinn't stop the games" urged a tall auburn-haired woman. "We have Just a much right to play cards as the lliC'.l " "And I heard that the stock yards rn!ice said they couldn't touch us for iust playing for prizes" cried another. '1 'h"V quit. "This gamullnz among women of all classes here," said Arthur Burrage Farwell, of the league, "has taken such a strong hold upon them that they neglect their homes and families. Pome of them play both afternoon and evening, and we shall be com pelled to arrest some of them before they will stop." CATHOLIC STATISTICS. Directory Gives Catholic Population of the United S'.-.tes as 14,235,451. Wilwaukee, Wis. There are 14,23."). 4."1 Hjian Catholics in the United j States, according to advance sheets of the IMS "Wiltzius Catholic Direc tory." The directory figures include adults and children. According to tne directory there are 16,01)3 Catholic priests and 12.!'.'o Catholic churches in the United States. There are eighty ecclesiasti cal seminaries, with 5,687 students. There are 213 universities and col leges for boys and 708 academies for girls. The directory shows 4,703 paro chial schools, witu the number of children in attendance rated at 1, li'7,013, and 2!0 Catholic orphan asy lums in which 41,000 orphans are cartd for. Including children in paro chial schools, orphans in the orphan asylums and the young persons in the Institutions for higher education there are 1,3'j7,343 children being edu cated in Catholic institutions. The Catholic hierarchy of the coun try at prjent consists of the Apos tolic Delegate, one Cardinal, thirteen Archbishops, uinety Bishops, two Aie'.iabbots, slxteeu Abbots and one Prefect Apostolic. The Catholic popu lation of the twenty leading dioceses, according to the latest statistics, is as follows: Xew York. 1,219,920; Chicago, 1, i:m,"O0; Boston, 850,000; Brooklyn, Ti'i.U'OO; Xew Orleans, 525,000. Phila delphia, 525,000, Pittsburg, 425,000; St. Louis, 375,000; Hartford, 365,000; Newark, 305,0oo; Cleveland, 330,000; Springtie'.d. 32.121; Detroit, 267.000; Si : rat; ton. 265,000; St. Paul, 260,000; 11 iltir.iore. 255,000; San Francisco, 2.: 0.000; Buffalo, 244,739; Milwaukee, 2..T.."jO; Providence, 222,000. KILLED A GIANT BEAR. .'-.orsas Hunters Bag a Beast That Weighs 650 Pounds. !.!::'.'? Hock, Ark. A bear weighing O.v.i pounds was killed by a party of :n:::t-rs from Little Rock on the north ; ik of White River in Desha county v.-intly. 'f'.ie boar measured 32 inches .. .i l l tl.e neck and 7 feet 9 inched .!'... I tip tO tip. Tie bear was killed by Ed. War .:i:,tun. The animal whipped elev . i i:i fifteen minutes and tore ., of the hounds to pieces. END OF A LONG EXILE. f.ere-al Who Helped to. Defeat Max! mllian Returns to Mexico. Mexico City, Mexico. Gen. Rafael !; n: vides, who was in command of '..e Mexican forces which recaptured the port and city of Vera Cruz from Maximilian in 1807 after a siege of P.O days, arrived here from the Unit id States. He bad been there ever tinee his victory at Vera Cruz, forty o:;e vears ago. He bad not visited Mexico during that period. Y5c:uis Taken Into Mexican Army Mexico City, Mexico. Gen. Torres "'iiv-mor of Sonora, telegraphs that ', nl f liulo. of the Yaqul Indiana, with . iial hundred of his followers, have .-.urrendered, and that in considera t::n of that surrender Chief Bulo has '.ren made an officer In the Mexican -m ;v n-ul provided with a body guard n' ''xty-flve of his former followers, equlppel and maintained at the gov ernment -xpense. Find .r. Of Interest to Women Clara Morris' Views On "Vfomai Speaking In Public" Tfce Th'nI.iuJ Wot in Wilh a Sincere Mc:.3a Should B Heard The Aud'cnco of To-Day Influenced Ly lior Drcsa. V It Is hard to believe thnt at thin late day there me tlio-e who, bein;; sorely perturbed In mind, ask u;ic:rt lly, "Should woman speak In public?" and straightway the old wolf cries of "boldness vanity womi.n m.-x-ed!" rise upon the air. Ah, la-la la! I Some of woman s rights came to her after long waiting: some she work-d i hard for, and some the asked for prettily; but the right of free and un limited speech was seized for her away back In Eden, when Kve filled with light, chattering persdHage the long silences left by Adam's heavy, slow moving tongue; and '.nce s!:u practices free speech by right of pre cedent so why not let her speak In public? Of course the public Is human and should not be caused needless , suffering, so that a woman with notb ! Ing to my should really not be per j mitted to climb upon a platform and say It at agonizing length. Hut when ""8 sincerely uei.eies 1 sue nits a message lo ueiiver, or a ! promising plan to offer for the better- ment of those who are In sore need of help then "In God's name" let her speak as publicly as she pleases! "Bold vain unsexed!" Oh, la-la-la! What nonsense! The woman Who becomes a good public speaker learns to think more clearly, reason more closely; ceases to converse al most wholly In adjectives; conquers the Inclination to describe her hat as perfectly grand," a broken sic'e-co.u'j as "perfectly awful, a headache in- terrific," and Xiagara as "Just too weet for words!" So you Fee a wom an can benefit herself hy public speak ing. It Is surprising how the puhl'c's Judgment as to the propriety or im propriety of the woman, who dares, is influenced by the suitability of l er toilet, and her personal attractive ness while daring. The moet e!(M;;:e-;t woman on earth would be utterly flouted, jeered and condemned If s he presented herself on the platform in bloomer or some other reform rai ment, such as "common sense shoes weight all from the shoulders; health-waist, without bones, etc.. etc." Xo, no! Woman must first please the eye, then the public will lend her their ears, and probably end up with giving their hearts. Have you seen her? Have you sat in front and waited the coming of some woman, who Is to speak agrdnst a cruel wrong, or plead for the passing of some new law; and no one cared very much, and every one was indifferent and cool? And then she conies rather hurriedly Into view; charmingly gowned, a big, plumy hat, making a soft, shadowy frame for burnished hair, and a flush ing and paling face, a touch of rose ointment on her lips because excite ment drys and pales and cracks them. A little ripple of applause greets this satisfactory first view. She lays some notes on tho desk or table; her hand trembles, she shifts uneasily from one foot to the other. Then the hand sud denly goes up to the nape of her neck and nervously feels for any escaping scolding-lock. Then she smiles, n shamed, deprecating little smile, and every heart thumps understanding!)-; every face smiles back, hands clap cheerily, ana every one Is ready and willing now to listen earnestly. And If, by and by, should feeling get the upper hand of calm argument, and a mist come Into her eyes, and a little tremble to her lips, so that white teeth bite down hard on it for a mo ment why It only wins sympathy for her cause, and people will say, "How much It means to her!" "I I must look Into this thing she may be right!" and there you are! Is she unsexed by an hour's earnest talk to a listening crowd who can't talk back? That being the only dif ference between public speaking and private argument. La-la! The ques tion Is not, "Should woman speak in public?" but, how the dickens are you going to stop her? And who wants to, so long as she looks well a-dolng it? The American Husband. The American masculine claim of absorption In his work does not In the least Justify such a condition. Frenchmen support their wives and still find time to go shopping with them too! Englishmen do likewise, and find energy left to place their sons In school, energy to watch keenly the love-affairs of their daughters, unhesi tatingly bidding this or tluit man be gone; moral courage and physical vitality left after the day's work to be in fact, as well as In fancy, "the head of the house." They have the wisdom to leave hours for play, for pure boyishness of living. And all this may be observed in the same middle class that with us turns the whole Issue over to the wife, expect ing of ber all wisdom, though know ing her sheltered youth; and all vi tality, to run unceasingly and unaided the whole machinery of the family. No wonder our women have "nerves"! No wonder they are becoming more and more restless (one of the first evidences of strain), more and more discontented as time passes. Mascu line kindness to our women is some times so tangled up with selfishness that there need be no surprise that there is some confusion regarding them. KJ UECOFtATIM GLAS9. Fl,i;tic Vatrri.il Fun-n Thereo" Any C'M!ine DsreJ. A ij- t.-, ,,1 i- ) :; M i.i . ' it':' t i:.-: il" , ., u'r'i : I'.a.- I'vcii . . lit. i. In 1 I " I'i - i 'l I'lie 1 o.'im-1 ii i 1 '. ' ; r i ' - ' ' .)' pi u. iteria! t in ;;lltie ol v. I, .. I e cl . : : :i : .- 1. I l.e .- !.. ., i 1 ii. with l' " t ir ri.ii :.: ., fj 'i clear i'e -;i;'i. (. n- '.". f.; p!'cd to the glass wherever d. c:i . 'lis civlm 'He effect ut s''.l, i:':i.-ii-, ;s in church windows, t.": iluor lights, etc. Or the process ii out coloring can be made to resem! Quick and Inexpensive. leaded glass. It will he readily no-...i that this Is a very quick and simple method of decoration, ns pompar-il with the old process. Leaded border effects can be secured in the s,i::'e way, though the chief value of th' new method Is the facility with wliic). floral or figure designs can be p-i duced by any person who Is a o'Uli clently competent draughtsman to outline them in the plastic material. Washington Star. JUROR WITH WHIS.KER3. Why He Is not Favored by Lawyers for Defence In Criminal Cases. Is a Juror with whiskers apt to be old fashioned In his Ideas In a crimi nal ense and "souk" the defendant upon the principles embodied in the ancient Mosaic law? Or does tho fancy of the old Greeks that a man with whiskers naturally was endowed with bravery still exist, and are beard ed Jurors feared as pitiless? The remarks of Judge Willard M. McEwen before the State's attorneys" convention In Chicago to the effect that lawyers for the defence in crimi nal cases do not trust whiskered Jur ors' decisions called forth these sug gestions by State Attorney John E. W. Wayman and Attorney Charles E. Erbstein. , "It Is true that a feeling exists among lawyers to the effect that a man with whiskers Is un undesirable Juror," said Mr. Wayman. "I confess I don't know the s-peclllc reason for It, and in fact must admit that the best case I ever won w3 a case where the foreman of the Jury had whiskers all over his face. So did the man who hung the Jury for the defence in the first Cronin trial. The ancient Greeks believed that a man with whiskers was endowed with bravery, and perhaps tho present superstltution Is traceable to the ancient belief." "All men wore whiskers In the old Bible countries In the days when Judgments were unrelenting," s--:.id Attorney Erbstein. "A strict adher ent to the ancient laws of Mo.-cs might be unyielding and be stern. It Is on the principle thnt a Jew with whiskers Is likely to be orthodox. I don't want men with whiskers on Juries that try cases for me." The Jury experts went far In the way of sweeping aside the lmpres slon that benevolence goes with "old gentlemen with whiskers." A SURPRISE PACKAGE. But Please Dont Send It to a Nervous Person. It's very pleasant getting a surprise sometimes but It would not be v.x-1 to send this kind of a surprise to aii.r The 3u33er is K&slsz one who is very nervous. It's Just tho thing, however, to spring on someone who can take a good Joke, You take a piece of heavy pasteboard and cut small enough to go into an envelope easily. Then cut It Into the shnpo shown In the diagram, that Is like the letter E. with the middle left out attach a rubber band to the pasteboard and Insert In It another piece of pasteboard, and finally foid the whole thing In a single leaf o paper Just large enough to conceal It but not to confine It too closely, nnd Insert It Into an envelope. All that Is now necessary Is to send or hand the letter to your victim, who on open Ing It will be very much surprised When the bustier begius operations he will think someone has sent him nest of bumblebees. Try IL I Tlio Kind You Have Always Boughtf nnl which has been iu xiao for over 30 years, lias borno tlio nitrnatttro of 0 and lias been mido under his per- , jffl-f-J? sonal supervision ulnco its infancy. WuZfTK &ACUAZ Allow no ono to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations nnd " Just-ns-jrood" nro but Experiments that trifle with nnd endanger tho lienlth of Infants and Children Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare frorie, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphino nor other Narcotly substance. Its ago is its guarantee. It destroys Worm and allays Fevcrishness. It cures Diarrlura and 'Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation nnd Flatulency. It assimilates tho Food, regulates tho Stomach nnd llowels, giving healthy nnd natural sleep Tho Children's Panacea Tho Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS JO Bears the The KM You Haye Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. THI o(ntaun eeMran. TT auMK t-it. new TOUR orrv. BIG OFFER To All Our Subscribers The RiCAa3 FAR Indianapolis, Indiana. The Leading Agricultural Journal ot the Nation. Edited by an Able Corps of Writers. The American Farmer is the ished. It fills a position of its place in the homes of rural people in every section of the United States. It cives t'.:e farmer and his fnmi'lv enmn. t. tvnl- about aside from the humdrum Every Issue Contains an Original Poem by SOLON G00DE WE MAKE THE EXCEPTIONAL OFFER OF Two for the Price of The Oldest County Paper BOTH ONE YEAR FOR $I.OO This unparalleled offer is all old ones who pay all arrears THE COLITMB1AX, DOTMK KKJHT THIN'il if vnn lmvo Nasal Ciitarrli. Oft Kly's I'rt'uin Huliu nt once. Don't touch t lie catarrh pow ders mill sun Us, for they contain cocaine. Kly's t'reimi Jtul'iu releusi the secret ions t hat iulhinie the nasal jiassages and the throat, whereas nierli eines made with mercury merely dry 1 1 me secretions and leave yon no lietter than von were. In n won't. I.'lv'u ('ream H.ilm is a real remedy, not u ueuiHion. ah arn'ihts, oil cents, or mailed hy Ely lirothers, oli Warren Street New York. No very large additions will have to be made to forest lands of Penn sylvania iu order to bring the total up 10 i.ooo.ooo acres, which it is the ambition of Commissioner Conklin to attain. The present holdings amount to 925,000 acres and negotiations now pending with owners of land in three counties would, when completed, give the State title to more than the desired total. CASTORIA For Infants and Children, The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears tho Signature of S7 D Signature of Great ER onlv Literarv F.irm lnnrn.il rnK own nnd li.is t'it-tn tin u.-wUna- of routine duties. One: THE COLUMBIAN and THE AMERICAN FARMER made to nil and renew within thirty days. Blooinsbunr. Pa. The Four D't, Charjes Suri;eon once said 'hat there were three nieut enemies to man "dirt, delit and the devil." Jle miflht have added one more d and included dysiesin. The evil results of this disease could hardlv he exuberated. I t'u ..tr.,,.1... ...... I-. .1 , 1 1. ...I. ......... n- n-ji U llllllll Itlltl tl."l J . and are so far readmit: as the etl'ccts of 1 lie curse mat was l;u,l on the Jackdaw Of lilllilllS Wllil'll M'liu rmr.,iil ill '..HlillL' and drinking ami sleciiiiiu. In standing aiiu sitting ami lyln " The jrood ei fects of Dr. Pierce's Ooldeii Mi" I leal it . . . and lylnj " The tfood ef- 1 iscovtry are hum marked in anra vated and chronic cases of dym'!!" It enables the stomach glands to neciete the necessary ijuitntiiy of digestive fluids, and this at once removes that iiiniiigiir ifnawini; sensation so cum niou to certain forms of Indigestion. It niiien nun regulates ine Hioiiiacu, i vlirorates the torpid liver and Riven the blood-niakiiiKKlandH keen assimilative lover. "Ooldeii Medical Discovery" cures ninety-eight per cent, of those who use it. Ir. l'ierce'a Pleasant Pellets urn sujierior toull other laxative medicine when the bowel are obstructed. Moutour is a moral couuty or its jail-birds are at large. There are sixteen prisoners in the Columbia county jail, oue iu the Montour bastile, seventy iu the Lycoming county prison, 157 iu the North umberland county jail, and 200 in the Schuylkill county prison.
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