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Two 1-oxcs of Ayers Pills ef fected a complete cure." D. Uurke, fiai-o. Me. "T have used Ayer's Pills for the past thirtv vear and consider them an in valuable family medicine. I know ot no iK-tt.-r r.-n.edv for liver troubles, and have always foil nd them a prompt cure for dyspepsia." James Quinn, iJ Middle St.; Hartford. Colin. Havin"l-en troubled with costive Tiess. which seems inevitable with per sons of sedentary habits, I have tried Aer's Tills. In.piiiir fr relief. I am Clad to say thai they have served me belter than any other medicine. I krrive at this conclusion only after a faithful trial of their merits." - Samuel T. Jones. Oak t-. Boston, Mass. Ayer s r 1 1 is, PKKPARKD BT J. C. Ayer Sc Co.. Lowell, Mat Dr. nia k. ttil Oeaders In AleOlc riNEOI A : CKKAM : 1JALSAM If .r-ltent fo a' tbroat h fl inmalion anu or aihm. Tunsuinp- tlves will Inraria-iiy ri.rive leneni rroui Its ose. as It o,ai'-my hiitRS ne rtiuicii en.-.ers expectora- i.ou easy, assl.-tloif nature In restorlnir wasted tissue Th.r 1. a lantre p-r- centise ol toe who gopixu-e their cses to lie eonsamptlon who are only snne in Irom a chrtntc 1 . r. ik..ao . I t " " - . , h nn uirra7aiei ij catarrh r r caUrrh use Bly's tiaim Hotb remedies sre p I e ssa n J"'""" Oreini Halm iT. at lro;iclsU. 5-K5. perlxittie: i-ir-.., 1 quantities ol 5U cll ,er on receipt 01 amr.nv- k.,TIIKKS. U Warren St , New York noT.10 Wiy. Steei Picket Fence. CHEAPER 1 ! - ''frrjjt 5ri THAN f WOOD A ..... a a ft .- ii r s-n-r Th. ton eat . Fletst TmM tnt uim. I - -rT" b,Hlrau Wood f Wla wrltlos t 8l.bl.rHUn... Hr. Hh.urm ..4 t IK I 1 U w?0liS WLSIHJW CKKKS.4 .1 1 KlixlofW IRK U4. TAYLOR St DEAN. '01. 203 t 205 MarfcttSU FrtlaWt. Ta. mcb ZU.oa. HIDDEN TKEASUKES. Oolden Cavern in the tains of Utah. Moun- The Strange Story of a Convicted Wife Murderer Who Was Kxeeuted at ' Salt Lake City Taking the Secret with HI n. Many stories are told in the east aliout great hidden treasures in the mountains of the west. In some in stances those wild remarks are but the imagination of thoughtless brains, while in many cases the stories are true. The west is filled with treasure vaults whose gold and silver deposits are numerous, says the Chicago Inter Ocean. Old Spanish residences, now poing to decay, contain secret rooms lined with gold ami filled with precious stones and rich jewels. The moun tains contain dark canyons where mines of fabulous wealth have lain dormant for ages. The humblest sheep herder or range rider may accidcntally discover the greatest mineral deposit ever known, and the most timid ex plorer may find the treasured wealth of a French millionaire stored away in the caverns of the old dwellings. Utah was once Mexican property, and its fertile valleys were peopled by a wealthy class of men. The old cliff dwellers of the Colorado left most val uable homes containing gold ami silver bathtubs, vases and ornaments, while the workings of miners .living a cen tury ago show the vast wealth taken from the old arastras and sluice "boxes. A strange story of fabulous wealth was related by Enoch Davis, a wife-niur-derer recently executed in Salt Lake City. He found the most wonderful mines ever seen by man, and exhibited nuggets of gold from the sluice boxes which excited the curiosity of court officials so that his life was spared for many months. About sixty miles from Salt Lake City is an unexplored section of the Utah Indian reservation. No man lias ever penetrated the deep, dark can yons of this Indian land since the days of IJrigham Young, the well-known Mormon leader. After the California gold excitement it is said a gentleman named Ueorge Knowles came from the diggings of the Oolden state and set tled in Utah. He agreed with the president of the Mormon church to give him his weight in gold for one of the numerous women of the Young harem. The projxjsition was accepted and Knowles was given six weeks in which to produce the gold. Knowles, with a son about fourteen years of age, started from the Mormon Mucca M outlay morning and within two weeks returned with eighty-five pounds of gold nuggets. Young ac cepted the money, Imt swore his slave to absolute secrecy as to where the gold was obtained. At that time the church people were opposed to the opening of mines, and no man was per mitted to prospect in the territory. The old man Knowles lived and died in Salt Lake City with visions ot wealtli haunting his dcathled. but he never returned to the necret mines. In after years the son determined tr disoltey the orders of the church and seek the gold fields he had seen in hi youth. He was accompanied by Itnoe' Davis, the wife murderer. One dari night in the month of June the pros pectors droppetl down from the high sandy niesas into the gold-lined cavern. Here they found thousands of nugget, with the mountain waters llowing ovci them. Every ptn-ket antl knapsack were filled with the valuable treasures When morning dawned they were mo; at the summit of the canyon by a ban. of Indians. The red men fired ami Knowles dropped dead. Davis feigned death and fell to the bottom of the cavern. The Indians could not get down the bluffs, and the white man lay there in an apparent state of death until nightfall, when he arose, and after two or three days succeeded iu es caping from the savages. When Davis escaped he made his way to Vernal, a wild frontier town near the Indian reservation. In this village he took up his abode, expecting some day to be enabled to return to the fields of wealth. He married and set tled down to the duties of a home life as the village blacksmith. His mind liecame troubled, he resorted to drink, and at last in a lit of "jealous despon dency killed his wife and buried her in a potato pit near the house. The crime was discovered within a day and Ihivis was arrested and imprisoned on the charge of murdering his wife. In the prison all the nightmare of golden treasures haunted the doomed prisoner. He drew a map of the coutf try and presented it with the facts to the court officials as a ransom for his lilxTty. Many thousands of dollars have since leeu expended in seeking this famous gulch, but nothing has leen fouud. Davis, after repeated iMtstponciuents, was finally convicted and shot without again realizing the fulfillment of his dreams. The losi gulch is yet a subject of much thought and prosH-cttrs seek the place as soon as the winter's snow melts from the mountain slopes. I .a re from Hark. The department of agriculture, for estry tlivi.sion. Washington, has a col lection of rare trees and plants only second to that lielonging to the famous Kew gardens, London. A recent addi tion to thU dendrological museum is a 'lace bark tree" from Jamaica. The inner bark of this queer tree is com posed of many layers of fine and intricately-woven fibers which interlock with each other in all directions. Caps, rattles, and even complete suits of this curious vegetable lace have been made. It bears washing with common laundry soap, and when bleached in the sun actpiires a degree of whiteness seldom excelled by artificial laces made of cot ton, linen and silk. This intricate web of this unique bark makes it compare favorably to the last mentioned produc tions for both lieauty and durability. 'Quirk Ketort of a Carpenter. A carpenter sent to make some re pairs in a private house entered the apartment of the lady of the house with his apprentice. "Mary," the lady called to her servant, "see that my jewel case is locked at once." The car Ienter und.-rstootlT He removed his watch and chain from his vest with a significant air and gave them to his ap prentice. "John," he said, "take tnese right back to the shop. It seems that the house isn t sale: REPTILIAN GRATITUDE. A Snake That Helleved That One Good Turn lettervea Another. A professor of entomology in the state university was searching the Herkeley hills for rare insects when he heard the blood-curdling rattle of a snake and found a big diamond backed pinioned beneath a large stone. He got a stick to kill the snake, says a veracious Californian, and then decided to release it first to see what it would do. He approached cautiously, and the snake watched him closely, but manifested no hostility. He rolled the stone off it, and instead of coiling ami stril ing at him, as he expected, it stretched itself, twisted its tail a few times and crawled slowly toward him. He put out the stick he carried, but the snake rubbed against it and twisted around it tenderly. The professor de cided not to kill it, and started on up the trail. He was surprised to see the snake following along, and when he stuck one of his heavy cowhide boots out it rublied gently against it. After considerable trouble he gave the snake the slip and returned with his bugs. The next j'ear the professor was up on the hills after some more speci mens when he heard a great rattling, and just ahead of him in the trail he saw a big rattler. It was not coiled and evidently was not angry. He looked at it closely and noticed a scar on its back. Then he counted its rat tles and decided that it was the snake he had rescued the year liefore. It seemed overjoyed to see him antl wagged its tail like a dog, making a terrific rattling. The snake followed the professor aliout so closely that he could not get rid of it, and it became a pet in his bachelor apartments. It used to coil itself at the foot of his bed and sleep there. The professor's friends warned him that the snake would kill him or some one else, but he had every confidence in it. One night he heard a terrible racket downstairs in the dining-room. He struck a light and his pet was miss ing. Then he ran downstairs ami found the snake in the dining-room coiled around a burglar. It was hold ing him with a viselike grip, while it had its tail out the window rattling for a policeman. EXPERIENCES OF PRISON LIFE. Impressions Kvconlrd by One Who Ought to Know. The most important epochs in the life of a convict are the time of his arrival antl the moment of his departure from prison, writes "Debsy," in the Still water Prison Mirror. Of the first I can speak intelligently, of the latter from fancy only. When the iron door of his six-by-four cell is shut antl locked ujion him and he is left free to explore his new home, the first sensation is one of relief. Now it is all over. He has found the end. He can fall no lower, and. as I sa3 there is a certain feeling of relief iu that very thought. Strange as it may seem, his mind is, to a certain extent, at rest. The long strain of the trial, the tedious days and weeks of uncertainty anf -waiting are ended, and he knows and can look forward to a definite life. He knows, too, that here he will be carefully watched and guarded, that "no thieves break in ami steal," "that no moss will grow under his footsteps:" and that he will le expected to "stir" about and make himself useful at whatever indus try he may be employed. There are no drones in this hive; antl if he dtes not do his "bit" at hard lalior it will not be his fault. The first few days iu his new environment are apt to pass quick ly enough (providing he le a novice), for everything is so weird antl strange in his new life, and the sounds and sig nals are so foreign to hisother life that he has no time nor breath to spare in idle regrets and murmurs. lut then comes the reaction; he has settled down to his mutton, and now comes the strain. The deadly monot ony and sameness of it all, day in and day out. drag antl wear tin the mind and IhmIv, antl then, if the system lie not in the finest physical condition, the defect shows itself, antl, hastened by the rigid diet, the doctor will now en ter his life. Passing this stage success fully, the days ami weeks glide by, and the months literally turn to years, and soon he is lieginning to count on his fingers the mouths to his discharge. A CHOICE COLLECTION. Up to the end of last year Philadel phia's new city hall hail cost $ l.VO'.iy, IMVl.OT, antl it is not quite finished yet. It is said that on every voyage of a first-class ocean steamer about 3.000 pieces of glassware ami crockery are broken. The Iowa supreme court has decided that stock holders of a corporation have a right to examine the records at any time. Tiik supply of cedar, from which lead pencils are made, is alnnst ex hausted in Europe. Now the manufac turers are turning to California for their lumlier, ami find the sequoia (the big tree of that state) just as serviceable as cedar. Tuk Sailor's Snug Harbor at Staten Island, N. Y., has accommodations for l.(HK) inmates. It is for the care of aged and infirm seamen. Those of for eign birth must have served five years under the American flag to entitle them to admission. Citizkns of Taylorsville. Ky., are jubilating over the good work of a re form commission of street cleaning in successfully clearing the streets of hogs," which have been permitted by former administrations to pasture at large in the highways of the town. John White, a clerk in the post of fice at New Hrunswick, N. J-, put his hand in a mail pouch just received from Washington, and it came in contact with "something alive and warm." It was a healthy cat, evidently put there by a practical joker. Alexander Had a Tender Heart. Two weeks liefore the sickness of the czar of Russia took a turn for the worse, Miss Strutton, his former gov erness, died in the winter palace at St. Petersburg. Miss Strnston. who was an English woman, loved Alexander Romanoff as dearly as though he had lieen her son. The emperor and his two brothers attended the funeral, follow ing the hearse on foot from the palace to the English cemetery, almost two miles apart. His majesty and the two grand dukes had carried the coffin from f the deathroom to the hearse. nen the body was lowered into the grave the czar, it is said, wept like a child. CAPITAL. It Served si Wall Street linker In Good ' Stead on One Occasion. I know in this city a southerner who has made his way from nothing to a comfortable fortune, says a writer in the New York Pross. He was a broker in Wall street, plodding slowly along, living from hand to mouth, with a bank account that sometimes grew as big as eight hundred dollars. He met a capi talist who wanted certain bonds, antl, with a commission of twenty-five hun dred dollars in view, he undertook to deliver them. He knew an old bond holder who had them, aud his purpose was to get them without causing a sud den rise in their value. The old fellow named his price, which was entirely satisfactory. The amount was twenty five thousand dollars for the lot." My friend went to his office, drew a check for that sum and handed it over. "Perhaps 3-ou know that it is cus tomary in transactions of this kind to give a certified check." said the bond holder. This was a stunning blow, almost a knockout, for a man with a bank ac count of never more than eight hun dred dollars, but my frier;:!, begging the old fellow's pardon for the oversight, started to get the proper, certification. He wciifcstraight to the cashier of his bank and stated the whole case to him, explaining that he was to deliver the 1 Kinds within two hours and make his profit of twenty-five hundred dollars. "It is an unusual request," the cashier said, with a smile of ha'f pity for the ignorance of his customer. "1 know it," said the broker, "but I cannot lose this chance of making two thousand five hundred dollars. You know I am honest. I have ticen a de positor here for two or three years, and have never liefore asked a favor. I will have the cash here within two hours to make good the check, or will deposit the collateral." The cashier hesitated. He who hesi tates is ltxst. He looked the broker straight in the eye and said: "I will do it. I know you are an honest man." With a certified check for twenty-five thousand dollars, the southerner re turned for the bonds, much to the amazement of the old liondholder, who declared that if he had known his abil ity to produce a certified check for that amount he would not have offered the 1k.ii.1s at all. Ill offered them as a bluff. Hut the bluff being called he had to yield. Inside of an hour and a half the liontls were delivered to the capitalist, aud a check for twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars was de posited at the bank. My frientl lias had many transactions with the old liondholder siuce then. and he never fails to ask: "Do you waut a certified check?" to which the reply is: "Never mind alitiut it; I'll take any sort of check you give me." MINKS IN AN ODD BATTLE. They F.iuclit Knell Other Vlriously intt Vociferously, in the Water and Out. An unusual battle was witnessed at Greenwood lake one day recently by Mr. Silas Pickering, of Newark, ami old Steve Garrison, the veteran guide. Steve was rowing aud Si was catching frogs for bass along the east shore of the lake, says the New York Sun. Suddenly they heard a remarkable squealing, and as they turned a point of rocks they saw on the shore of a little cove two full-grown minks in combat. The usually shy animals were so busy that they paid no attention to the approach of the btiat, aud Steve rowed up to within fifteen feet of them. The minks seemed each to lie fight ing for a throathold, and the way they sparred aud scratched was highly in teresting. Finally one caught the other by the back, and they rolled from the rock into the water, where they continued to fight as energetically as on the shore. Soon they emerged, separately, but clinched as soon as they were on the rock, aud the tight waged sharer tluwi ever. ltoth minks squealed al most continuously as they snapped antl scratched at each other. Three times they pitched from the sloping rock into the water ami crawied out to renew the fight ashore, but after another such dip only one came up. The other had evidently tired tif the fight ami sueuked uway under water. The victor crept upon the rock and, not seeing bis adversary, liegan to strut and fro as if much pleased with himself. Suddenly he caught sight of Pickering's striped blazer and fled into the bushes. FUNERALS HIS HOBBY. Tolled States Treasury Has a Man Who Kujtiys Them ICxreedinsly. In one of the bureaus of the treasury department is a man who has a chronic desire to help bury people and attend funerals. The other day, says the Washington Ptist, he was transferred to a new division. The first day he asked hischief for leave of absence dur ing the afternoon. "What for.'" asked the chief. "I want to attend the funeral of Capt. Smith." The chief had hardly pot acquainted with the man and sent Jiim Ujistairs to his former chief to ask if he had lioen permanently transferred to his divi sion. The man came back with the announcement that he had lieen trans ferred, and he was excused for the afternoon. The same day this chief met the chief of the division where he hatl formerly been employed. "Why di.l you send the man to me to inquire if lie had been transferred?" '"He asked for leave of absence, and I wantetl to find out whether I had any authority over him," was the reply. "Did he want to attend a funeral?" "Yes." "I knew it." said the other. "It's a regular thing with him a disease. He has a mania for attending funerals." American Extra vagance. It is no wonder that foreigners scoff at the whims of rich Americans when one hears of such a piece of extrava gance as is here related: Lady Ueres ford, formerly the duchess of Marlbor ough, who was liom here in the United States and who married a rich New Yorker, who afterward died, has just returned from a trip with her husband. Lord l'.eresford. They traveled away off alone into Norway, paid four thou sand dollars for a fishing stream and caught two fish. As it is Lady Beres ford's money, the devotion must be on her side of the house. CREDIT IS CRUSHED THE SNEERER. An American Teacher Who Was Very Patriotic. . An Italian gentleman whom I met while traveling disclosed a most de praved inappreciation of the wonderful vastness of the United States, says a writer in Scribner's. He spoke English very well, for he had lieen many yearN in London, antl, as we were enjoying the sea-coast view liotween Pisa and Via Iteggio, he asked politely whether I w-as not an Ameri can from "the states." tin learning that 1 was he ln-ggetl me to tell him something of our government. "You have a president of the country, the whole states, is it not?" he inuuired earnestly. I nodded assent. "Va licne! If a man kills murders, you understand who tries him, the federal or state courts?" "The state courts." I replied, "unless it is a case of treason." "If he is convicted, who can pardon him the president, of course?" he asked, with calm assurance, and a slight emphasis on the "of course." "No, indeed; the murderer is tried in the state courts; he can lie pardoned only by the state Imard of ardons. if there is tine, or by the state's chief officer the governor. The president has nothing to do with it." "Well!" Hashed my comjianion. sar castically, "in Italy the governor t f a little petty province has not the par doning power." "Sir!" 1 thundered, now thoroughly angry, "Italy will go twice into the petty province of Texas." It was very naughty to get angry, ami esjiecially with such a jiolitely sar castic little Italian. I know it. IZut who could sit still and hear the sheer, unapproachable nay, glorious im mensity of our country assailed without getting angry? No one except the audacious fop, who every now ami then annoys us with a brazen assertion that bigness is, after all, not such a virtue. THE PERSIAN HORSE. An Animal That In ery Fond of Iteins; l'etleil. Persian horses are to le admired and liked. Their lieauty Is a source of tt in stant enjoyment, and they are almost invariably gentle and docile. It is in vain to form any resolution against making a pet of any one of them, writes Mrs. ltishop iu "Journeys in Persia." My new acquisition, I Soy, insists on 1k--iug petted, and his enticing ways are irresistible. He is always tethered in front of my tent with a rope long enough to give him considerable liberty, antl he took advantage of it the very first day to come into the tent and make it apparent that he wantetl me to divide a lemon with him.- Grapes were his pre ference; then came cucumbers, bread and biscuits. Finally he drank milk out of a soup plate. He comes up to me and puts down his head to have his ears rubbed, ami if 1 do not attend to him at once, or if I cease attending to him. he rives me a trcntle but admoni tory thump. I dine outside the tent, antl he is tied to my chair aud waits with wonderful patience for the odds and ends, only occasionally rubbing his nose against my face to remind he is there. A friendly snuttle is the only sound he makes. He does not know how to fight, or that teeth and heels are for- any other uses than eating and aud walking. He is really the gentlest antl most docile of his race. The point at which he draws the line s being led. Then he draws back, and a mulish look comes into his sweet eyes. Iut he follows like a dog, and when I walk he is always with me. He comes when 1 call him, stops when I do, accom panies me when I leave the road in search of flowers, and usually puts his head on my shoulder or under my arm. To him I am an embodiment of melons, cueumliers, grajies, peaches, biscuits and sugar, with a gnsl deal of etting and ear-rubbing thrown in. A CLOSE TRADE. An Instance of "Nmruns" That Is Hard to Heat. The close-fisted and the absent-minded serve a similar use they amuse their ncighlmrs. The New York Sun quotes a man from the rural districts as telling a story of a Mr. Putterby. an old-time townsman of his, whose repu tation for "nearness" was evidently well deserved. I.cally he was thought to tie almost a prodigy in this resjiect, but no story of this kind is so good but that another can Ik' found to iK-at it. tine of the coins current in those days was the old Spanish silver-piece, which passed for twelve ami a half cents, and was variously called "nine pence," "York shilling" ami "bit." It was the existence of this coin that en abled Mr. Putterby to achieve his crowning triumph iu the way of a close trade. A farm-lioy came along one day with a had tif pumpkins, which he was ped dling about the village at a cent apiece. Mr. Putterby looked at them, concluded to buy, but wanted only half a pumpkin. "Hut a whole one is only a cent," said the lmy. "How are you going to jiay me for half a one?" "Easiest thing in the world," said Mr. Putterby. The pumpkin was cut, he took one half under his arm, and handed the boy a shilling. "Now give me the twelve cents change," he said; antl taking the twelve copjiers from the astonished loy, he walked away with his pur chase. I'nhappy Comparison. Ministers cannot lie "answered back" on Sunday, but on week days, some times, the case is different. ' "Why weren't you at the kirk on Sunday?" asked a Scotch preacher of one of his parishioners. "I was at Mr. Dunlop's kirk," was the answer. "1 don't like your running about to strange kirks in that way. Not that I object to your hearing Mr. Dunlop. but I'm sure you widna like your sheep straying away into strange pastures." "1 widna care a grain, sir, if it was better grass," said the parishioner. Queer Comment Ttiy a Ilishop. Of Bishop Bathurst, who was a great whist player, it is related that on hear ing the name of a new appointment in the chapter there was wrung from him the passionate exclamation: "I have served the whigs all my life and now they send me down a canon who doesn't know clulis from spades!" OF DECORUM. Influence of the Fine Manners of the Olden Time. In the days of our grandmothers, William of Wykeham's motto, "Man ners maketh Manne," was held to aj ply to the making of woman. In those days the imperative law of a lady's in ner life and outer" habits was expressed by one word, "decorum." That music al word ruled every movement of her lKtly, and dictated the training each girl sluuld receive to qualify her for what Miss Cobbe calls "the great Art of StK-iety." It did not beget, says Youth's Com panion, the abrupt-speaking, courtesy neglecting, slouching, slangy young "damosel," who is never called "blessed." But it did produce women gifted with old-fashioned suavity, and with the tact which made evcrylnidy in a company, even the humblest, happy and at ease. Miss Cobbe, in her "Life." describes a trivial incident which illus trates the kind of influence exercised by women of the old school of "de corum." A hale, genial young fellow, named Warburton, was a guest at the house of Miss CobWs father. One rainy day he was prompted by a silly young lady guest to sing several comic songs in the drawing-room, the point of the jokes being the advances of women to men. Miss CobWs mother, old and feeble, fter listening quietly for a time, slowly rose from her sofa, walked jmin fully across the rtHim, and leaning over the piano said in her gentle way a few strong words of remonstrance. She could not bear, she said, that men should ridicule women. Kespect and chivalrous feeling for the m, even when they were foolish and ill-ad vised, were the part, she thought, of a gen erous man. She would beg Mr. War burton to choose some other songs for his fine voice. All this was done so gently, with her sweet, kind smile, that no one could take offense. Mr. Warburton was far from doing so. He was touched with tender reverence for his aged monitress, and rising hastily from the piano made the frankest apologies, which were instantly accepted. The incident illustrates the kind of influence exercised by the fine man ners of women of the old school. But it Ls also an illustration of Emerson's aphoristic sentence: "Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others." If Mr. Warburton had Ik-ch" an ill-mannered "cad," he would have left the piano in a huff; but Wing a gentleman of the old school he re ceived the merited rebuke with rever ential humility. AMERICAN STREET RAILWAYS. Immense Sums Invented In These Means of I'rban Transportation. The great importance of the street railway interests of this country is shown in a striking manner by some of the statistics. While incomplete, says the Street Railway Journal, the figures are believed to lie accurate within 5 per cent, antl are surprising in many respects. New York has the greatest amount of track. 1.5S1 miles, or more than in all New England. Pennsylva nia comes next, with 1.4-22 miles; then Ohio, with 1.077 miles, Massachusetts, with yO'J miles antl Illinois with O.jI miles. The order of states arranged with regard to the uumlK-r of cars is: New York, 9.115; Illinois. 5.S15; Penn sylvania, 4.021; Massachusetts. :5.s'.ti. and Ohio 3.254. But this order is en tirely changed when the numWr of cars per mile of track is taken into con sideration, for on this basis of arrange ment the District of Columbia heads the list with .41, followed by Illinois with C.12, New York with 5.7ti, Missou ri with 4.i4 and Massachusetts with 4.02. The greatest capitalization per mile of track is flll.-joo in New York. It is f"I.7'.H) in Pennsylvania ?7:!.4t0 iu Rhode Island. .Coo in Illinois ami ftis.loo in Louisiana. The funded debt per mile tif track is largest in New York, where it is ".Ci.7oo, ami other high figures -are $72,400 in Rhodc Island, fol.soo in New Jersey. ?5s,shi in Illinois and f."il."oo in lioth Missouri and Maryland. The total capital lia bilities per mile track are $2ti7. 100 in New York. ( IVi.nihi in Rhode Island, fl.. UH in New Jersey. ?1Js.5(H in Illinois, $ll"..7tK) in Missouri and tl 13.400 in Iouisia:ia. The banner states in the matter of capitalization arc Mississippi. Florida. South Dakota ami New Hampshire, whose combined capital stock and fuuded debt amount to less than lti.noo jkt mile of track, while enormously valuable metropoli tan projK-rties in New York naturally gave that state its leading position. Ill Little Mistake. A young farmer who had great con ceit, little discretion and scarcely any education presented himself at a Presbyterian conference and said ht wished to Ik- ordained as a preacher. "I aiu't had any great learninV li said, frankly, "but I reckon I'm called to preach. I've had a vision three nights runnin"; that's why I'm here." "What was your vision?" inquired one of the elders. "Well," said the voting man, "I dreamt I see a big. round ring in the sky, and in the middle tif it was two great letters P. C. 1 knew that meant Presbyterian conference, antl here I am." There was an uncomforta ble pause, which was broken by an elder who knew the young man and was well acquainted with the poverty of his family and the neglected condi tion of the farm in which his father hatl taken such pride. "I haven't any gift at reading visions." said the old man. gravely, "but I'd like to put it to my young friend whether he dtK-sn't think it's possible those two letters may have stood for 'Plant corn?'" Fortunately this version was accepted by the appli cant. Crafty Itlrds. Woodpeckers in the mountains of Southern California do cabinet work that cannot be equaled by the most skilled artisan. The crafty birds gather acorns, drill holes in the trunks of pine trees, into which they fit the nuts so closely and snugly that squirrels are unable to pull them out. Hundreds of these nuts are implanted in a single . tree trunk. The question has arisen as to how the birds get tlie acorns out, if a squirrel cannot remove one of the im plantations. It is discovered that, after lieing implanted, a worm appears in the acorn, and it is for the purpose of getting this worm later on that the crafty bird stores away acorns in this unique manner. SCHOOL TABLES. The I'nf ortanate Lawyer d His Client, the Nurse. The extent to which lawyers can "ex ercise their imagination when pleading in behalf of their clients is almost le vond lK-lief; but sometimes the tables are turned in a very unexpected fash it in. On one occasion, says the Florida Times-Union. Mr. Swan was engaged in presenting the case of a woman who petitioned the court to grant her a judicial separation from her huslind, a workingman, and urged that as she was in extreme poverty she was en titled to alimony according to her hus band's means. With a voice broken in its pathtis the lawyer dilated on the imperative neces sity tif the ease, declaring that his client was utterly destitute, not having a mattress to lie iqxin. and not possess ing the means to purchase a crust of bread. When the evidence had lieen heard the judge, who well knew the counsel's unlimited powers, of exaggera ion. turned to the apjK-llant and addressed to her a few questions. "Have you. then, no tiecupation?" "Yes. my bird; I am a nurse." was the incautious reply. "And where are you employed?" '"I am at Mr. Swan's," she unwitting ly rejoined, pointing to her counsel. It was wi'.h the greatest ditliculty that the judge refrained from joining in the shout of laughter with which this admission was hailed. FEMININE VANITY. lt Crops Out F.vcn Amour Women "Be hind the liars. Vanity in a female prisoner would lie merely laughable if it were not so sad to lK-hold. It is. however, the one touch of nature which proves the hu man kinship, and there is perhaps some hope for even these, poor, degraded creatures, if they are thus swayed by such harmless emotions. Prison ma trons, says the North American Review, would Ik perpetually busy if they checked every attempt niade by their charges to adopt the last fashionable coiffure. "Fringes" are "going out." Jierhaps. in general society, but they are still amazingly popular in prison. Criminals will trim their hair as it pleases them, and the w isest disciplin arian affects to see nothing of the fringe. In the same' way, once, when chignons were in vogue, the female felt happy whose locks escaped the prison scissors and were long enough to fold over a pad of tiakum. The ingenuity. again, with which some prisoners will twist and turn their unlH-comiug uni form into some faint notiin of the fashions of the day might have ea rued these artists good wages in a dress maker's atelier. I have seen iuiinicrs counterfeited and polonaises, skirt, draped or tied Iwick. dress improvers manufactured out of whaleTnmes or horse hair; no doubt when the present "1k-11" skirt is fading out of fashion it will lie largely patronized in jail. The craze for personal adornment leads women to skim the grease off their scanty allowance of soup, with which they plaster their hair. I once knew an aged prisoner who was caught scraping the dust from the red brick cell wall to serve her as rouge. ARMOR IN MODERN USE. KoE"lish OlBeers in Forclcn Semic to Pro tect ThrDiM-lrm. In discussing the modern use of armor by officers antl men in the for eign "little wars" of to-day. an English accoutrement maker, as reported by Itmdon Tid-Bits. says: "I give you my assurance that an immense numlier of the officers of our army antl navy who go on foreign service, especially w hen one of our "little wars is expected, pro vide themselves with certain easily recognized protections. "These, mind you, are well-known articles of trade to the service. The com mi mest antl most usual type of these protections consists of tine but Wauti f ully tempered sin-rle chains, inclosed in in soft leather, which run along the shoulders, down the outer side of the arms aud over certain parts of the Imdy. These can either Ik- sewn into a particular tunieor they can be adjusted separately antl put on like harness. The mtist valuable of all chains, in con nection with accoutrements, are thtise which guard the head, ami in cases where the regulation cap or helmet is not suiiiciently protected in this way, sjK-cially made chains are sewn inside the same and covered by the lining?" POWER OF A PIANIST. rounds of Strenc-th Expended In Striking; a Note Heavily. It requires more force to sound a note gently on a piano than to lift the lid of a kettle. A German coniptiser has fig ured that the minimum pressure of the finger playing pianissimo is equal to one hundred and ten grams a quarter of a pound. Few kettle lids weigh more tha two ounces, says the Musical Courier. The German's calculations are easy to verify if one takes a small handful of coins and piles them tin a key of the piano. When a sufficient quantity is piled on to make a note sound thev may then lie weighed and these figures will be found to Ik? true. If the pianist Ls playing fortissimo a much greater force is needed. At times a force of six pounds is thrown upon a single key to produce a solitary effect. With chords the force is generally spread over the various notes sounded simultaneously, though a gr-nter out put of force is undoubtedly exjiended. This Ls what gives pianists the wonder ful strength in their fingers so often commented on. A story used to lie told of Paderewski that he could crack a pane of French plate glavs half an inch thick merely by placing one hand upon it, as if upon a piano keyboard, and striking sharply with his middle finger. Chopin's last study in C minor has a passage which takes two minutes and five seconds to play. The total pres sure brought to bear on this, it is est i matetl, is equal to three full tons. The average "tonnage" of an hour's piano playing of Chopin's music varies from twelve to eighty-four tons. (rrmum in Chill. - Forty years ago a German built his hut on the shore of Lake Llanquihue in Chili. To-day there is a colt my of three hundred Germans at this place, and they are entertained every night by fireworks on the volcano Calbuco, which has been in activity for a year and a half. TURNING THE - t i c . t ex r ' I: fi i r 1 t c i f I r - r: t t - I rr . a'-- I I t: X- I ttv ft I f:.. r 1. t t tr K -K ' E? iuaa sw "--iniaa.n, t I 1 1 i i Y i I f T II II
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