« THE FATE OF SPIES.
CAUGHT IN TIMES OF PEACE,
THEY ARE JAILED,
Attempts to Secure Plans of Fort.
resses and Patterns of Guns—
Foreign Spies in This Conntry.
The recent conviction at St. Etienne,
France, of Jolin Cooper and Walter Run.
del, two English spies, who were caught
French and Russian carbines for British
trovernmont contractors, and condemned
to fiftecen and two months’ imprison-
ment, respectively, is of international
interest. Ton free-born American the
word ‘‘spv’' has un
meaning. it is an undeniable fact
what little espionage is done in
that
the
foreigners. Abroad, matters are differ-
full blast and well
Germany, VFrance and Great Britain,
All European Governments, more or less,
have so-called secret funds available to
keep a well-orgunized spy service going.
Itis generally divided into three distinct
brauches—namely, political, social and
military espionuge.
lutter alone.
The armed peace which European na-
tions maintain and the constant fear
among them of being attacked by a
neighboring power at any moment natur-
ally make it desirable for one nation to
know what the other is doing in the w ay
of offensive and defensive preparations.
Necret information of
for obvious reasons, be obtained through
the official chauncls of military or naval
attaches, who on account of their posi-
satisfi d wih what they can
for themselv ss or are shown
It is therefore evident that if a Govern-
ment desires *o obtain possession 0f %0-
called s ate secrets, such as plans of
fortifications, war fixed
torpedoes, samjpdes of powder, cartridges
on arms. it has to empl
or spies for this purpose.
Germany has been credited
ing the
VESROIS, mines,
Oy Sed rel age
with hav-
cient spy se
France, where it dates back to 1864. I
war I proved that the Gern
maps of F “© Were urate than
bv the French staff, and small
INOTre LC
those used
swamps. brooks, road snd
antage points
for an army were found the German
maps and did not appear
Furthermore, the equi
troops and fortresses
known to the
her own borders Germany defends her
ethiciently ag
and how
foreioner i
rests
the
the
poor vit
"my 4 pa i
skete
es
4
we
Lerman leaders
inst
Ovel
otten
uty in convinel
ties of their iden
All the ser
rifle fae!
Fiance
fries an
impossibl
to them
rog © nn ior
an infrud
while h
the gmail
nes ona
Aare empio
ploy £ ny
inflicted
from the
letters are
walls inside
Ap
into anascs, cack ol
year niier
a cartridge
mechanic or subaltern can
knowledge of the
rifle or cartridge
that the spy has
what he wants, It
that among such a large body of men as
trovernments employ a black sheep can
always be found.
With regard to France, malters
just ax bad as they are in Germany,
perhaps in some instances worse. The
frerman popul ikem, rule, leave the
apy-catching trade to their stubborn offi.
cials, while in Francs, where patriotism
is y very citizen of the
ti bisrlelis
the Duis
yar nn this
vear the same §
In this wav no Government
mrt of 4
obtain exact
cture of fn whole
No it «
bard work to obtain
goes without
Hes 10 Dass
saving
are
and
Hs nN
more fervent. «
third Republic thinks it his sacred duty
to look with a saspicions eye on every
foreigner who enters the country. In.
numerable mistakes are the result, wad
innocent traselers are often placed in
extremely annoying positions, Yet it
must be adwitted that German spies are
not only plentiful in France, but they
work very systematically,
In the United States the foreign spy,
as a rule, is a rura avis. The only nation
which ever has attempted to establish a
system of military espionage in America
is the English, In September, 1888, a
military looking Englishman arrived at
Washington. He carefully stdied the
Washington Navy Yard, then went to
N wport, Annapolis, New London and
Fortress Monroe, but he learued little or
nothing of valine. At Willet's Point he
attempted toobt (in the charts of submn.
more than perhaps four individuals out
of over sixty millions... However, the
more tne armanent of the United States
becomes efficient, the more the curiosity
of foreign powers will be attracted, and
it is therefore reasonable to expect that
in ten years from now the spy fever will
also have invaded these shores.—[New
York Recorder.
Busy Gladstone,
(Giladstone’s daily life at home is a
model of simplicity and regularity, and.
the great secrut of the vast amount of
work he accomplishes lies in the fact
that every odd five minutes is ocoupied.
No man ever had an deeper sense of the
or misuse he makes of it. To such a
length does he carry this that at a picnic
a favorite Welsh mountain he hus
been seen to Hing himself on the heather,
a question of the day, until called to
lighter things by those who were respon
gible for the provision basket. His
It must have been a habit early asequired
in life, for after the double marringe in
to the sisters Catherine and Mary
Glynne) the two brothers-in-law surpris
ed their wives and awed them not a little
{at
of their pockets came the iney itable little
not, whether at
a railway station, or on any other of the
mortal is content to lose his temper ns
ill remem
+
Dome may si
ber the familiar sight of Lord Lyttleton,
ving on the grass in the Eton Playing
Fields, watching his sons’ batting,
ing, ar Belding, and reading
{The Young Man.
Dow
between the
Aquatie Burials,
Among the peoples of antiquity the
was not
throwing
them nn
uncommon of disposing
the
COUTseS
Te
he
so} t wi 13+
or fish eaters, who Ji
raced
f the dead by hem into
w, by sinkin water
i by setting them afloat in boats,
a regio ordering on the Persian gulf,
% 3 >
y mentioned Prolem
rin)
fom ofl avarab £
VY us having the
their
oimmittd
sex to the ocean, ing the
gations they had
Mortality Among Tralnmen.
When
MOL 000 ear
fins
couplers, pre
that
Yyers
: 1 3 $
SOI Dg il «BOYCOTTS, anda tho
is being increased « year
the effect of these
Apropos of this the fie sfions
Ring to
Switehmen's
the
of railroad
York last November
should borne in
min for the
obtaining from
managers, employes and others interested
in the matter ¥ appliances
that the committee could present a hil
to to hasten nnd
insure the cquipment of freight cars
with uniform automatic couplers and ai
brakes, In a of length
before the committee Mr. Sweeney
stated that he considered science Lad so
Humoer
figures is a» snewhat
starting
nat by Com sioner Cirnud
Master :
Mutual Aid Association at
of no
Sweeney of the
meeting
conumtiee
in New
mecting, it
COMMIS.
SLONCTS
This
1. Was ©
be
led purpose oi
information railroad
ol ifely By
congress calculated
sp ech sone
the condition of the switchmen by in.
troducing safer draft irons; in fact he
thought the various devices now in use
were an inposition on the men and only
made their daties extra hazardous,
Commissioner King, who inquired if he
considered the improvemenis made or
the devices now being adopted less dane
gerous than the old attachments, Mr,
Sweeney replied: “1 have just said
way lessened the accidents to switchinen;
in faet, has increased the dauger, —
{Chicago Herald.
unsuccessinl, documents of this kind be-
ing pretty well guarded.
sels and torpedoes, however, are
manufactured in America for army or
navy purpuses.
It may be stated here that all the di
tails of the new
const and harbor defense are in the
hands of a few superior officers. Mo
subaltern official has ncoess to then and
no contractor receives copies of them, so
that the secret is thomeughly guarded,
The plans, for fustance, of the new for.
tifications at Sundy Boston Har:
bor, San Francisoo many other
places are, | am , mot known to
Scoteh Proverbs.
woe,
Be the same thing that would be
Every man at forty is a fool or a
| physician.
A dog aus growl if ye fell him wi’
a bone. .
Far soufit and dear bought is god
for ladies,
He that winna when he may, shanna
when he wad.
Fair words breck never a bone, foul
words many sone.
& OR THE LADILS,
a——
DAINTY FICHUS,
The daintiest and most effective fichus
are not made just to pin on in front.
They have a collar or ruffle finish to go |
The fichu |
is broad, reaching almost to the shoulder |
narrow finish almost at the waist line, |
These little inexpensive bits of adorn.
ment vary one’s toilets delightfully and |
are within the reach of the most slender
India silk may be bought now |
for twenty-six cents an yard, and a yard
, : [New |
York Press.
PLAID
A
GOWN wit BODICE.
gown of green and black
cheviot, overlaid with narrow
in color, has a bodice of
VELVET
model
bouche lines
shallow point in front and edged at the
top with a narrow galloon. It is in-
visibly fastened under the arm. The
diagonal skirt is draped up over the
bodice, giving the effect of a princess,
It is bordered at the bottom with three
of green velet, ench two inches
set ciose together, one above the
The velvet should be bias. The
sleeves are mutton: leg, without trimming,
and closed tight at the wrist with three
buttons. —[St. Louis Republic.
WOMEN AR
Wade, Chief of the Massa.
chusetts District Police, is strongly in
favor of ;
spectors,
Rufus B
having women
speaks in
their work. He
my report for 1890 | took
recommend the
for factory iu-
the
BAYS:
highest
“In
to
two
the
nnd
and
praise of
occasion
appointment of
fenale inspectors, in addition to
then present force of
stated that,
years in the enforcement of law
for the benefit of the wage «
wns satisfied that there
Detter
Las pe lors
from the experience of many
intended
arncrs, |
Were
cases where service could
rendered to
the male ins
the pa ix months fi iy
the
female operatives than
rience
Gemnon
strated
and the
those with whom they have been bn
their
testimony to the
confact in
added
manner in which they
aly Man
pocorded
er Wi
Langworthy b
to Nebraska for
desions. and a pr f ’
the casful
In order to I av for this ani jue
hammer a contril
1% Deen
this h
Mrs
titation
Hn
re of £4)
ven tig mud COM -
petitor
§
ution of ten cents will
ited woman of
the offering
and a fitting
The
by
§
ire
5
Nebraska in order to make
of the state
ribute of woman's advancement
nail to be driven will be contributed
Mrs. Rickards, one of the lady managers
of Moatana. It will be composed of
gold, silver and Altogether
Mrs. Palmer will bave sn expensive
hammer and a golden nail for completing
the work of constroction the
Woman's Worlds Fair Building
{Chicago Tribune
Iyer
copper.
ohn
HINI¥ ON SELECTING SILK Dassen,
If you will have a black silk dress |
select something “cheerfully” flowered. |
There is an extremely pretty silk with
tiny rosebuds growing all over it; i
another sprinkled with primroses; a third |
with buttercups, and others hate moss.
buds, forget-me.-nots and bachelors’
buttons all so closely planted that
there is but small waste in matching the
scams. Nilks of this sort are suitable
for women of all ages; a touch of plain |
silk will brighten it for the gay young |
girl, and the old lady ean tone down the |
flowers by using lace in the bodice. Old |
rose, violet and lilac are very attractive |
in this line of goods, but let the plain
buyer boware of them, as thoy are in-
tended for the raging beauty with the
clear skin and perfect complexion. 1f
the ugly woman would only take her
glass, look in it in the sunlight and not
try to deceive herself, judgment and
common sight would ena yo to look
considerably better than she does. Dark
colors und low tones never detract from
beauty and ever enhance plainness. And
there is no necessity, either, for weari
stuffy, depressing black. That is al
right for a nun or a mourner, but the
mother, wife, sister and daughter, who
make the sunshine of the home, need
brighter raiment. [New York World,
VABUHION SOTERA
Princess effects are very fashionable.
Blue and medium shades of green are
in great favor,
Giold and silver fillets for the hair are
quite fashionable,
“Trifles light as air are the new fans
for pasty use. The sticks are of open
work rose pearl, the fan of fine ganze or
flutters in a delightful manner.
Soft, white dressed kid gloves, stitched
with black, are considered quite the cor
The newest thing in cloaks has a yoke
of mink or sable terminating in a sharp
V back and front.
The English girl who is really up to
style wears a coat called the whole-back
There ute no curved seams in the
back, and the garment resembles not a
little the box coat of her older brother,
Black parrots are the most recent doo-
orations in millinery. They are even
more bizarre than their distant cousins,
the blackbirds.
A very popular new fabric ix called
crinkled cordarette. The spaces between
the cords have a puffed effect. and it is a
material that finds favor with slender
women.
most in favor
for evening wear is jonquil yellow, with
garlands of drooping purple
Palest water green with white hyacinths
is much affected by gulde i-haired wo
men
The color combination
Vines
According to a recent and very pretty
fancy, he back breadth, sleeves and vest
of a utility gown of plain wool goods for
a young woman may be made of plaid
and being cut
hias, and if a « ape of the dress go wis in
be the
goods, the sleeves vest
worn it will generally lined with
: :
plaid material,
A single.-breasted cont of three que
ter length is particulary stylish wh
of binck
WOT
mnde «ilk, either to complet
or to be 8 an independent
gurinent,
are wort
th
black and
ry near
eRDeCinlly
i
skirt of silk or
Waists Ww
he ribs are
3 vy oad
qumgonas
though © show
fozether
§
npses of a satin ground of color vel
or briiiiant red,
the German
BERG
and of
¢ ie
sis daar ad ot
BUIMDET OF pings,
in the negats
and called him “a
Fort Albeck.
ised 0. being
appear
Loves seul
ace (lOeR 108
the case
some
really been
He was, however, scrubbed by
the
blood ran
officers, in
the
same
non commissioned
sence of an officer, until
&own his body The
Oetober last year, when the weather was
cold, was taken, after some very hard
drill and steaming with perspir.
ation, to the pump, where all lis clothes
were stripped off Lim, and ice cold water
thrown over him by two noacommiss.
ined officers, He w as then serubbed
all over till the blood came again, as well
as kicked and cuffed unmercifully. A
of appears to have
used most degiading language 0 his
men, and one day paswing by a sentry
who did not. as he thought, present arms
smartly enough he cat the man across
the face with a riding whip. Chicago
"ost,
pre
an, In
when
colonel engineers
Immense Oranges,
There are on exhibition in this office
a couple of oranges that escel anything
in the orange line seen in Thomasville,
They are of the navel variety and were
grown in Florida. The largest of the
two weighs seventeen ounces and meas
ures around 1:4 juches, The smaller
one weighs fifteen ounces and both
togethep two pounds. Many would
think they are of the grape fruit variety
is they are wrong. They are
by growers. The skin is
very thin, and another remarkable fact
is that they are purtestly seedless;
[Thomasville (Ga.) Enterprise.
yet petfoc
The Regiment Must Pay.
It is reported that the Czar has issued
an order that a certain regiment stationed
at Charboff must pay a yearly sion
of 82,500 to the widow of a merchant of
that city who met his death at the hands
of certain unruly members of the regi.
ment. The Czar says that the officers
of the regiment are responsible, as the
loose discipline for which they were to
blame made the crime possible. [New
Jet bonnets are very fashionable.
®
Orleans Picayune,
2
An Ancient City Found,
eb ——— a
Cities, dend and long forgotten, dot the
canyons of the West. From tine to time
they are discovered, and scanty and un-
reliable reports of them are brought to
the East. Prof. W. R. Lighton is the
Inst to have accidentally come upon one
of these prehistoric villages,
It lies more than 100 miles wast of the
odd little Spanish-American town of
Socorro, N. M., aud over seventy-five
miles from the nearest railroad, up inthe
hourt of of the numerous short
ranges of bleak pinon and cedar covered
mountains, which run purallel to each
other throogh the Southwest, His story
is as follow 8
One
“It was in a canvon whose eastern side
sloped gently down to au little rill. As |
raised myself from drinking | saw a frag-
ment of light brown in
color, with an artistically porked Greek
border in black pigment. It wos o frag.
ment but half the size of my hand,
“Quickly I turned to scan the sides of
the ocnnyon.
earthenware,
Not 500 vards away a little
above the strewn I saw a low wall of dull
gray masonry, crumbling and broken,
but showing distinctly, even at that dis
tance, that the builder was human.
“The wall which 1 had first esxpied was
a little than fect high in its
highest place and nearly thirty feet long,
losing itself ut the en
debris which had w
since the
nore Rix
the earth and
| down around it
time of its desert
mie
contur-
feet thick
and there were
five feet in
wills were of beautiful
hewedl $e
on,
This wall was three
throughout
by
’ : *
I'he
built of
Bl ¢eYen six ii 1
108 ago
¢
and
Ang ol si
ne
others ciose of vet
thickness,
EVimnmetry
t locks of
mortar beds
indstons
sirong
and with 16 jini
“hroken
Phe ruins covered several aeres, The
houses were built around a large central
square Many of
Wihaovw
Phere wore mans
fi
ing around
ang went
The Mexican Soap Weed
Tanght his Dog to Steal,
There ar many anasuthenticated in
stances of animal intelligence and de
Ihe story
the Philadelphia Record. and is
wavity following ix from
as neat
authentic as such a story well can be
“Magistrate Hackett vesterday held
Charles Blan:v, Port Ric] m ud, in $500
bail for a further hearing charge
of being By owner of a dog which he
has taught to
while some boys were skating ou a pond
near the Aramingo Canal. Blaney ea so
along in a wagon, stopped in the middle
of the bridge and liberated a large black
dog. The dog dashed down among the
children and seizel ¢ bag containing a
veiv of rabber shoes belonging to Jerry
velly and started toward his master
(fMicer Holland saw the trouble and ar-
rested Dlauey.”
$i ihe
stenl. tn Wednesday
Loapivs’ big ha's, worn at theaters, are
at last the basis of a lawsuit, Heury
Hilbert of Berwick, Pa.. has just brought
such an action agaiust the management
of the Berwick Opera House, Mr. Hil
bert alleges that the manager received
from him an admission fee upon the false
und fraudulent pretest that the plaintiff
should soe the show, or at least the stage.
An usher seated Mr. Hilbert directly be.
hind Misses Laura Gorton Greisimer and
Libbie Greisimer, her sister. Each of
these ladies wore a hat of twenty-one and
one-half inches diameter across the brim.
These combined brims measured forty.
three inches across, The late were
slightly tilted, in keeping with a pre.
valent style, to the back of their wearers’
heads, so as completely to shot out the
complainant's view of the stage. In his
formal complaint Mr. Hilbert alleges that
he politely asked the ladies thus oh.
structing his view to remove their hats,
They not only refused to do so, but one
of them giggled at him. He then ap-
poaled to the usher to have the obstrue.
tions removed. That functionary de.
marred, saving that they were ‘nice
Indies, visiting the bank cashier's family,
and it would te too bad to offend them by
urging a matter of such delicacy.
*
aos SO A ARS 5 A ES SA PNET AI HAAN
PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS
EPITOME OF NEWS GILEANED FROW
VARIOUS PARTS OF THE STATE.
Execurioxs for $400 in
Brooke wus issued against
fayor of Alfred
the Norristown
Eleetrie Light, Heat and Power Company.
Mus GEORGE CUNNINGHAM, aged 15, died
at Huntingdon of the Frip fitieen hours after
her wedding.
GEORGE D, KELLEY, 8 Western
vania fron manufacturer, eommitied suicide
works Eharpsville by
shooting himself through the head.
Pennsyl-
at the company’s in
A CHARTER has been granted to the Potis-
ville & Minersville Electric Dailway Com
pany. The company starts out with a capital
of $10,000, interested
| Congressman Charles N.
The parties are Fx.
John 1}
| Finney, D. I, Phillips, and others who sre
Brumm,
connected with the Shenandoah, Ashland &
Mahanoy Fleetrie Railway. The rond will
be built by a circuitous route between Potis
! ville and Minersville, a distance of about ten
{ miles,
»
CRIMINALS sre searce in Adsms County.
pr
The jail has been without a prisoner for
inst month. Adams does not follow the ex
| pensive practice of some of her sister countics
nd boa re 11 48 : y
and board all the tramps that the police and
{ 1ustices can Hind in their bailiwicks, co
Line
{ Guently this place is not & popuiar resort for
{ the tramps,
0 1Coll
Bya premature blast o ark NX
near Ashls Vebb had bi
| broken and back md! ured. A fe
workman nsmed Brown was badly
| about the face.
Wins
x 4
Webb may die.
return
ng on the FROSYIYELIA railroad track
Hawkios Station, near Pittsburg, Alic
Milton Zeigler, and Wilh
F 88 eX press re
m Dewar were
¢
bave died and the third is fatally
ALLVGHEXY Cliy's Lo
serve until Aprii
i #l 8 specin
L1x% receiver of the Manes
pointed Daniel B. DyKins clerk,
Afi Work on the Sooks.
He
way b
had been at Way
Ome when
producing well
Mayor WyYMAX, 0
i
1
their assistan
MagTiN
pasoning here
new trial nnd se
pon him.
WASHISGTON =
Alles
Adte
pring ipal &
nounced u
tow Greliivaburg,
sin, and other points
by parades and 1 eliug
of
Mechanics sud
iwrder o
Ura
tse auspices the Junior
can Yalriotic
t Amerioa.
Te
\ 8
MASKED visited
Hanzleton, who was accused
men
David
of wife beating,
and at the point of a gun made him premise
to reform, secure work and sapport hisfamily.
Tux body of Sarah Joyce, a domestic, wus
found among the rocks 100 feet below Evivan
Avenue, Pitthburg. Henry Cottelle, colored,
is charged with the murder of the woman
Tig library building at
t of Andrew Carnegie, was dedicated,
Mus Eraza Ronixsox, who is supposed to
Johnslown, the
live in Pittsburg, is heir to an estate in Phils.
delphia, but she cannot be fou d.
Fraxs HirressTern, of Centre Valley, a
married man, 48 years old, was bitten by a
dog three weeks ago. Rabies developed,
causing frightful spasms. Te cannot recover.
BR Joses Moxamas, who mysterionsly
disappeared from West Chester four months
seo, arrived in San Francisco on the stramer
Mariposa from Australia, He will visit West
Chester ana then remove to Spokane
mss III i
A Common Expression
“Well, I never,” exclaimed
Snaggs.
‘You mnever what*”
husband.
“Here's a piece in the paper that
says it is possible to become intoxis
cated on rarifled air. Did you ever
hear of such a thing®*"
“Of conrre 1 bave, The expression
‘sirtight’ obtained its origin from
just that fact. Pittsburgh Chronicie.
Mrs.
asked her
Wheres Horses Were Cheap.
During two months in the city and
vicinity of Voronezh more than five
thousand horses were killed for their
hides because their owners had no
food for them. The
good horses has contin at even a
larger rate since that UUme. :