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.
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contains neither Opium, Morphino nor other Narcotly
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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.
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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
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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
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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.