4' t , . I CHARACTER IX SCRAWLS. it Is a Fad to Describe the Writer from His WritincA om Satiawt Point. GIM T Thorn W J-rofMS to Ba -pect-DIr Cor rwpaadvse Benders 3f r Interesting. A fashionable fad just now is C-bw cter-reailing- from handwritinp. nd il is rea'.ly astoni-shinff what clever hits, in the ivav of personal skits, an tipert In that line frequently deduces froir half a bheet of note-paper coTtred itb the writing of the person whose rir tues and foibles are under di-usiion, says the Sew York Tribune. Whethrt it is chance or a?tuai knowledge it is impossible to say, for these wizards ot fioeictv are very loath tocommunicaU their "methods, and take pleasure in enshrouding themselves in mystery a much as possible, reeof nizing the fact that to impress people with their wis dom and to keep up their prestige they must affect the occult. While the majority of charactei readers confine themselves simplT tc the salient characteristichexpressedb? the writing, some po even further and profess to read past events by the writer s method of combining his let ters and words. This, however, is of course mere jugglery but that a cer tain amount of one's disposition and character is legible to those who "read between the lines- seems to be almost an acknowledged fact. Certainly, when one hears a clever exponent of urt give a brief synopsis of the differ ent distinguishing qualities that he res expressed in a handful of notes and letters, and one recognizes many of the peculiarities and qualities which lire mentioned, it is impossible not to feel interested. Many of the deduc tions drawn are wonderfully true; and, ti't.T all, when one considers that the written characters are direct emana tions from the brain, it seems a plausi ble enough theory that these queer lit tle shapes and combinations that we call letters and words should mean much more than at first meets the eye. -How can I tell?" said one of these experts, when interrogated about his theories. "I cannot explain it to you; it is the general appearance of the writing, and it is almost impossible to analvze. There are a few salient joints, however, that I can give you. 'or intance, even letters that is, a vord written so that the two copybook lines, one above and one below, touch the edges of each letter; this means honesty. A hopeful disposition shows hsclf in the tendency of the lines to go upward The way people cross Iheir tV is very indicative indeed; where Uitc is a firm stroke witn a sort of slight hook at the end. it mrafis te nacity of purpose and will power. Ex ecutive ability is often shown by the words running themselves out into a f-.rtof scrawl, but the merest devia tion will often change the meaning of one line into quite another character istic, so that it is quite impossible for anyone to understand all the various t-'.ia.les of meaning unless he has t-tudicd the Bubject for a longwhile. J;ut when you do understand it more vr less and can discover the hidden meaning of it, it is quite wonderful how interesting one's daily correspond n;ce becomes far more than the writer ever dreams of." DOES ITS WORK QUICKLY. Tbe TerrtbU Olerttj wltn Which tha CuMlotlna Takes Haitian Life. The striking tiling about the ex ecution of Vaillant was the appalling Cjuickness of It alL Action was so rapid, says a writer in the New York World, from the instant he appeared in the doorway of the prison to the moment the knife fell that it was al most impossible to distinguish the t.'ir.-ht chain of incidents. He flung himself eagerly against the plank, was Mnpp-d to it, and in the flash of a fiance the plank was pushed forward on the platform of the guillotine. An Instant's vision of a recumbent figure, face downward; in the same moment a head, vith two staring, wide open ryes, whirled almost defiantly, as it seemed, and with a slight zigzag movement, to the right ward, while himultaneously the pinioned body rolled inert, convulsive, into the caiucioiis basket, also at the right-hand side of the guillotine. The swiftness, the mechanical prompt ness of the business fair!-stupefied the -Iectator. It was impossible to real j.'.e that a human life had ended in less time than it would take to draw a full breath. The guillotine had done its work welL There was scarcely a sense tit horror in the sight. Twenty-four hours later no one could have associat ed Paris with perhaps the most im pressive vengeance society has ever taken upon the revolt. The Mardi Oras f.-siival was being kept upas no Mardi -ras known since the bonanza days of tlie empire. In spite of the "Loudon weather," as it is called, all the gay elies and graces known to trench f un making were ostentatiously visible in .-very quarter. 1'ageants of revelers f iled tiie streets in theatrical garb. The concert halls contributed a cava rude immensely successful in merry making. Scores upon scores of high chariots bedecked with every fantas tic device known to stage management and crowded with the ledizened houris of the scene kept the population in open-mouth delight from early mora fc ;r to midnight. TEXAN HOSPITALITY. The raiwlng FtranEer Aliil Invited la and Taken Care Of. "The latch string hanrrs out" ex pressed the hospitality of the southern frontier in the days "before the war." If a traveler rode up before the fence f :zt separated the lo? cabin from the road he was greeted by ""Light, i.tranger. Tight!" Without this salu tation no one dismounted, but it was rarely withheld. Mr. Williams. ii:ejis recent book, "San Houston." thus de scribes the impulse of hospitality, which made every traveler a guest during the early settlement vf Texas: The traveler who rv!e up to the front fence was iustamly invited to clight. His horse was staked out or hobbled to feed on the prairie grass and the visitor sat down to exchange the news with his host- The coffee Mill was set going, if there were any of the precious grains in the house, and the hopper in the hollow log to grind ing the corn. Tha venison or bear meat was j,ut on the coals and the ashcake baked. After the meal and the evening pipe the visitor stretched himself oa a buf falo robe on the floor with the inem-U-rs of the family and slept the sleep of health and fatigue. Ju the morning the response to any inquiry as to the charge was; "You can pay me by com ing again." The story that a certain hospitable settler used to waylay travelers on the road and compel them to vUit him at the muzzle of a double-barreled shot gun wasonly a humorous exaggeration of the instinct for hospitality which characterized the community. The -isitor was a living newspaper, who brought the only news obtain able, and was a welcome relief to the lu. .colony and loneliness of the wiiatl1 Doctor &!s ia ftasala. The Eusslan government, ia order tc prevent th" abuses cauaod by physi cians' bills, has Just published a regula tion fixir.g the fees to be claimed by doc tors. The cities arc divided into three classes thoe with more than City thousand inhabitants, those having from five thousand to fifty thousand and those of less than fivo thousand. The patients are also divided in three classes: The first including capitalists, proprietors, manufacturers, etc; the second, members of the liberal profes r'.ons. and the third the rest of the pop ulation. The fees are of three trades: l ive rubles for the patients of the first class, three rubles for those of the sec ond and thirty kopeks for people of the Viira cUm. CONGRESSIONAL REPORTERS. nomographers AtMm te Make Bt Money Unr ( Debate la the Houses. It is true that there are twenty or thirty more member In congress than there were a few years ago. but a the spirit of de bate. Long-winded speeches are rarer; men talk quicker ana say more. Incessant agitation of the tariff i.n an education in flirurc, and The hi as if man makes a wild statement he mni ! v contradicted. A stenogra aph- er who can report the house deba to is at the top of ins proiessjou. Rmtno Transcript, and there is the w.ore promotion fur him. The men -K.1.ia snrli earn incomes tl at would make the average professional . a T- man turn green wttn envy; ior ur n nim.u ia not in session tnev am in ml at the hichest figures, to re- port the most important imiicis. There wa a man in Washington once, a good many years ago, w ho through bad habits had lost every faculty he had except that of writing shorthand not only as fast as people could talk, but as fast as they could think. In his intervals of sobriety he could make money hand over fist as a bouse stenograher. He generally kept fairly sober during the session of con gress, but as soon as it was over he would deliberately drink himself into insensibility. His services were so much in demand that men who knew his powers and wanted Lis services would come to AVashington, bring him out of his fit of dissipation, get him sobered up, take him off to the scene f action and watch him like a hawk while the case generally a great lawsuit- lasted. Then, as soon as it was prer, he would go back to his evil ways. I!ut as long as he Uved he could write shorthand, and as long as he lived he made a fine income. There is a superstition that every tariff bill calls for the death of one of the house ste nographers. The McKinley bill, the Morrison bill, both had their victims, and if a man has a headache now among the stenographers they all look blue and feel black. WAR-WORN SICILY. It Baa Bean the Battle Ground of En rope for Many Tear. The insurrection in Sicily, which has caused so much alarm in Italy, is not something that is new to the island. lWlgium has been called the cock pit of northern Europe, but Sicily has been the most remarkable of all inter national arenas. Ancient geographers called it Trinacria, meaning "Triangle Land," which was a rery appropriate name. One of its main capes stretches out toward Greece, ano'ther toward north ern Africa, and the third toward the mainland of Italy, thus, as it were, ins riting invaders from as many different points of the compass. Three thousand years ago, and long before the foundation of Home, Sicily was the scene of fierce struggles be tween the aborigines and people whose home was somewhere on the other side of the Straits of Messina. Seven centuries before the Christian era, great cities were built in Sicily but a series of civil wars covered the island with ruin, and seaport after sea port full into the hands of the Carth- ajrinians. Lventuallv the island be came a Roman province, but in the year A. D. 440, it was conquered by the Vandals; they, in turn, being expelled by the Ostrogoths. Saracens and Normans, Spaniards and French have fought for the do minion of the island, and in the era of the first French empire Sicily proved fatal apple of discord. England claimed the island; France insisted that it was a part of the kingdom of Naples, and the war that ensued only ended with W atenoo. The present agrarian insurrection may spread across the Straits of Mes sina, or even to the gates of Koine, and possibly fulfill the prediction of an Italian deputy, who recently warned hiscountrvmen that ttfe revolt was but the beginning of the end for the dy. lasty of Victor Emmanuel. t:neonra;lne Tree Planting In Florida. Tree planting on the streets of Or lando, Fla., is encouraged by a bounty of lifty cents for each tree in good con dition, after one year of growth. The work Is being done under an ordinance passed two years ago. It provided that the ranety to te planted must be the water oak, in size not less than two inches in diameter at a point two feet above the ground. The trees must not be less than ten feet in height, and thev are to be set out at stated dis tances apart and seven feet from the street bound of the adjacent lot. Thir ty daj-s after planting the trees are in speeted by a committee, and for each Due in good condition twenty-five sents is paid in city warrants upon the treasury. At the end of the year a sin ilar sum is paid if the tree still flour ishes. Larger trees may be planted by the property owners, provided they areuuiform in size, but the city pays no more for them. There seems to be no difficulty in finding men who are willing to make contracts with prop erty owners to put out and care for tho trees, assuming all risks, and relieving Uie owners of the labor and care. LEGAL LOVERS' VOWS. il F.aellib Paper I'rupoeee to Simplify Ureach of Proinlae Suite. The London Spectator, moved by the painful spectacle of the modern breach of promise case, proposes a novel ex pedient in order to overcome the diCi I llties which such suits present. It says: There would be one very simple method of lightening the task of the jury, which would also afford to young wonx-n and their guardians a means of ascertaining whether the lover had any serious intention of developing into a husband or not. Let no promise of marriage be held valid unless it is made in writing upon properly stamped paper. If the plaintllf could produce a formal promise of this kind there would be no need to go into all the history of a doubtful courtship or to consider any other factor in the esse ment of damages than the respective incomes of the contracting parties. Of course, it will bo objected that such a proposition is Injurious to ail the romance of courtship and mar riage, nut w ne re, we would rlt, is the romance in nine out of ten breach of promise coses that find their way into the law courts? These cases are hardly ever brought except by people whose auections have not been deeply engaged in their acceptance of a suitor. For one young woman who now brings tn action for breach of promise, at least nine are jilted and suitor in silence. The more their affections have been engaged tho less can they bear to tell tne pitiful taio of their di appointment, and witness the poor lit tle romance of their life exposed to the ridicule and laughter of to unsym pathetic world. If it once became on understood thing that the ardent lover should offer buch proof of his good faith, then a girl would know well what to expect from a lover who with held it. At any rate, parents or guardians cf the lower middle class would not allow a voung man to grow "too particular in his attentions" as their phra.se runs unless he showed I disposition to furaUh this guaranty. l'hen, if the promise were unfulfilled. even the most modest and sensitive maiden could proceed againsthcr faith leas lover without losa of pride or dig nity. Then lie ffa Tamona. The inJucnce of American traveler! In Europe is well known to be consid' crable, but a correspondent of the Ilos- tou Transcript records an iistaiice as L which there must have been some fsargeration. A crippled old woman whuia I tuc-t ia Leamington often cmustd tne by her original speechc a. One day I spoke of Shakespeare, and remarked that I wanted very much to visit Stratford-on-Avon. "Law." aaid tho eld woman, in a scornful tone "who v.-os he? Oa'y a plowboy, and he was cever tl caght nothiu' of till them -American ca ne over and took him up. ARE YOU A SUFFERER Fraa Rhnnatita ar Ncw-al'ItT E. P. Tiyftr ana Solomea Davit, I peak to Vic tims or These TarriDis diimm. E. P. Taver. of East NaaBU. Xew York. Bays: "I wish it possible to speak per sonally with every rheumatic victim, for I would tell them of my terrible experi ence and the relief and core I found in a simple remedy. When I first saw in the newspapers. 'Rheumatism can be cured,' I was loath to believe it, but when I found that the statement was made by Dr. David Ken nedy, of Kondout X. Y I inquired into it, and upon his advice I began to use Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy. My condition at that time seemed hopeless. I had suffered for fifteen years with in flammatory rheumatism. My physician aaid I would be a cripple for life, but it was not ordained that way, for I bad not need Favorite Remedy long, before 1 was convinced that it was the right medicine, and in a shoit while I was cured. That was three years ago, and I have not felt a trace of the disease 6ince." Solomon Davis, of Xorth Kortright.X. Y.. suflered awfully from neuralgia and loss of sleep, as is frequently the case with elderly peopie ; in speaking to the writer, he said : "I found that Dr. Ken nedy's Favorite Remedy relieved the bowels, improved the circulation or the blood, and the old pain left me altogeth er." As one of Somerset's physicians recent ly said. " There is no reason in suffer ing with rheumatism or neuralgia, for Dr 'Kennedy's Favorite Remedy will cure them." All druggists sell it An Exciting Role. HL friend What part did you find the most difficult when you were on the stare? Footlightn- Trying to live up to the salary I told my friends I was drawing. Two Valuable Friends. 1. A physician cannot be always had. Rheumatism, Neuralgia, l'ruiee and Burns occur often and sometimes when least expected. Keep handy the friend of maty households and the destroyer of all pain, the famous Red Flag Oil, 25 cents. 2. Many a piecious life could be saved that is being racked to death with that terrible cough. Secure a good night's rest by invesiinz 23 cents for a bottle of Fan-Tina, the great remedy for coughs. colds and consumption. Fan-Tima sold at G. AV. Renfotd's Drug Store. Editor What can I do for you miss? O, please may I examine your waste paper basket? I know a man who sends you poems, and whose feelings toward me I should like to ascertain." Bucklen s Arnica Save. The beet Salve in the world for Cute, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chil hlains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Tiles, or no pay re quired. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by J. X. Say del. O'Rourke Teddy, me boy, oi want to propose to Norah Shaughnessy, but oim that bashfiil oi don't know how to do iL Gilligan Mebbe if yel w ere to send her an anonymous letther it would do! Electric Bitters. This remedy is becoming bo well know n and so popular as to need no special mention. AH who have used Electric Bitters sing the same song of praise. A purer medicine does not exist and it is guaranteed to do all that is claimed. Electric Bitters will cure ail diseases of the Liver and Kidneys, will remove pimples, boils, salt rheum and other affections caused by impure blood Will drive malaria from the system and will prevent as well as cure all malarial fevers. For cure of headache, constipa tion and indigestion try Electric Bitters. Entire satisfaction guaranteed, or money refunded. Price -VI cte and il per bottle at J. X. Snyder's Drug store. She "You told me I was the only woman you ever proposed to." Ih -True." "True, U it? I've heard that you've been engaged to three women "All of them were widows, rey love. They didn't wait fcr a proposal." It Should be In Every House. J. B. Wilson, 371 Clay St., Sharpsburg, Pa., says he will not be without Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, that it cuied his wife who was threatened w ith Pneumonia af ter an attack of "La Grippe," when vari ous other remedies and several physi cians had done her no good. Robert Barber, of Cooksport, Fa., claims Dr. King's New Discovery has done him more good than anything he ever used for Lung Trouble. Nothing like iL Try iL Free trial bottles at J N. Snyder's drug store ; large bottles, 50c. and $1. "Are you still working for the dry goods firm?" asked one very young man of another. "N3. I am not working for them. I am now in their employ. My salary has been raised from ceven dollars a week to ten." Entitled to Confidence. Mr. G. W. Benford, Druggist, should have the confidence of this community His calling is one of responsibility; very often precious lives are entrusted to his care; taking the agency for selling the celebrated Red Flag Oil should be a guarantee; it will do all that is claimed for it, and no remedy excels it for the quick cure of Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sprains and all bodily pain. Price 25 cents. Wife You don't seem to care much for my literary taste. Husband Why ? w ife 1 ou never ask what books like. Husband I don't Lave to, my dear. I know the pocket-book is your favorite. It is a Good Thins:. I say this for Tan-Tina : I have been in the drug business many years, and this is one of the most successful Cough remedies I have sold. A case in point, a neighbor, Mr. Lewis Nicodemus, had a chronic Cough of six years' standing, which no medicine would relieve. I rec ommended Pan-Tina, and its effect was magical. It is a good thing. J. RUS.S MATHER, Altoona, Pa. Pan-Tina is sold at 25 and 50 cents at G W. Benford 8 Drog Store. Husband Don't you think that you are rather unreasonable to expect me to take you to a ball, stay awake until 4 o'clock and then get up at 8 to go to work ? Wife I may be a little unreason able, but it's perfectly brutal of you to mention iL Marguerite "Since she bas married gain I don't believe she deplores the death of her first husband at alL" Melita "No, tut her last husband does." ; i i THE FIRST IN AMERICA. A Genuine Chinese) Wedding Held In Ban Francisco. An Impreaalr Ceremony After the True Oriental 8tJe The Proiy Court ahtp or the Sfoug-o Ilaa Lovera. There was great excitement in China town. San Francisco, the other day, caused by the marriage of a Chinese belle in strict accordance wiui ne om ental customs, a Cho Fa Queo, or flower sitting-chair, being used for the first time in this country. Expense was not spared in the construction of the sedan, which is described by the Chronicle as a handsome piece of workmanship. It is about five feet high, with a space of about four feet square for the accom modation of the passenger. It is lux uriously upholstered, while the exterioi is trimmed in red and black silk, held securely in place by strips of gold mold ing. Ti Ti, a comely Chinese maiden, secured the honor of being the first tc use the new sedan, and the event caused hundreds of Chinese to assem ble in the vicinity of the bride s resi dence to get a glimpse of it. It is cus tomary in China for two male relative of the bride to carry the sedan, but in this case there were none who wanted to convey the chair through the rain and mud to the ferry. So it was securely fastened in a wagon. Ti Ti's courtship had been carried on in true oriental 6tyle, and, although the marriage ceremony has been nearly completed, she has not yet seen the man whom she must soon call ncr lora and master. The bridegroom is Ah Yo, a prosperous fruit grower, residing near Sacramento. For weeks a go-between has been negotiating with the family of the bride and the bridegroom, and at last the dot of each was satis factorily arranged and the marriage preparations began. For several daj-s there had been feasting and pleasure at the home of Ti Ti, which were later continued at the home of the bride groom. At last the time for departure had arrived, and lor several nours tuo brido sat in her room dressed in the bridal robesof red silk and surrounded by her female friends. Her face was closely veiled and she kept crying and wailing aloud while tne women about her chanted doleful songs. Uile Uiat scene was being enacted a large ex press wagon was being filled with fur niture, clothing and sweetmeats, which the bride must take to her husband. When the sedan was ready the bride, astride the back of a female member of her family, was brought down the 6tairway, all the time giving forth loud lamentations. Amid shower or rice and the shooting of firecrackers she was bundled into the sedan and the door tightly closed. Several carriage loads of Chinese accompanied the bride to the 6tcamer, but only the go-between and a few members of her fam ily accompanied her to the waiting groom. Upon her arrival the groom gave his friends a great feast, and that completed the ceremony that made them man and wife. NEARLY TEN MILLION MEN. Tho Army from Which rorle Sam May Draw Should Occasion Require. An army of 9,900,000 menl now Na poleon's legions dwindle beside this, and the hosts which Grant, Sherman and Sheridan led shrink to pigmies, says the Boston Journal. This enor mous figure represents the number of able-bodied men in the United States available for military service. But of course no such swarm of fighters could ever be mobilized in this or any other country. It would overtax even Amer ican energy and resource to clothe and feed and arm them and maintain them in idleness. The figures have no prac tical military Talue, but as a sugges tion of the mighty war potentialities of the young republic they are not without their interest to the world. But when we come to enumerate the men actually under arms in the United States as trained and disciplined soldiers we realize our present military significance. Besides the little regular aiyiy of 2i,000 men there is a more orJss thoroughly organized and equipped force of 112, 190 men In the national guard and militia. That is, only about one man in a hundred of those of our citizens liable to bear arms ia regularly en paged in mastering the rudiments of the soldiers profession. New York, as might be expected, has the largest military organization 737 officers and 12.073 men. Pennsylvania has 8.CH ofiicers and men; Ohio, 6,125. Then comes Massachusetts, well up in the list, with 5,0(10. Fiery South Carolina, with 5,410 ofiicers and men, has an armed force ont of all proportion to its wealth and population. Tho New England states, outside Massachusetts, have respectable little armies ranging from Vermont's 784 to Connecticut's 2.7CL The southern states have !"irc militia organizations as a whole; the western states very small ones. But the national guard is steadily growing everywhere in numbers as in efficiency. It is fulfilling in a satisfactory way its purpose of perpetuating a knowledge of military art, and it would be found to be a respectable rucleus for a host of volunteers to rally on in an emer gency. FATE OF A BOOM TOWN. Cnder the Hammer It Bring. About Three Ceata for Kvery Dollar Invested. The boom town of Fort Payne, Alx, where millions were invested by New England capitalists, was sold under the hammer the other day to E. N. Cul lom, a Birmingham capitalist, for the small sum of SOO.O00, says the St. Louis Republic The purchase includes 80, 000 acres of mineral lands. 2.000 town lots, and various large industries, in cluding rolling mills, furnaces, facto ries, hotels and the like. In July, 1S1T3, the entire property of the Fort Payne Coal & Iron company was placed by order of the United States court in the hands of a receiver upon the petition of A. It. Loyles and others of New England. These were afterward Joined by the Old Colony Trust company of Boston, trustee, who asked for foreclosure of a mortgage for $300,000. The receivership, though hotly contested in the United States court9 by other New England stock holders, was sustained. Fort Payne was the first attempt of organized New England capital to found a city in the south, and it has proved a flat failure after several mil lions have been squandered. The town was built to order. In the fall of 1SSD W. P. Rico and associates of Boston floated 40,000 shares of Fort Tayne Coal & Iron company stock in Ver mont, Maine, New Hampshire. Massa chusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York city at per share of C100, realizing a clean $1,000,000, which was taken in a lump to Fort Payne. Afterward 10,000 shares of stock re served in the treasury were sold at C37 per sham. This soon went and a blanket mortgage with bonds btc gating 8300.000 wasexecutcd. Immense sums were obtained from tho sale of town lots which were ahjO expended upon the town in waterworks hotels railroads sewer system, furnaces, roll ing mills and all the accoutrements of a commercial and manufacturing city. Then came the bogs of financial de pression in 1390, and Fort Payne re tired and has remained in retirement ever siuce, private and corporate ex penditures having amounted to 5S.003, 000. The expenditures of the Fort Payne Coal & lrcn company amounted to 52.000.000, all of which bus been sold ior S'M.OOO, or for 3 cents on the dollar. The result of this enterprise has been disappointing to both eastern people and to southerners th one in losing their money and the other in the check that is given to eastern in vestment. Fort Payne was the first of a series of boom towns that came to the front in the south in 1SS0 and t03, Middlesboro, Ky., and Ilarrinan, Tenn., being other examples All have pone the way Fort IHiyne went. A HUGE PENAL" SETTLEMENT. The Andaman hlanda, Where Elfht Thea - sand -LUors" Alone Are Imprisoned. : Thirteen thousand convicts are lir ing at Port Blair, in the Andaman islands which is probably the largest penal settlement in the world, says the New York Sun. The Andaman islands are in the Bay of Bengal, and to Port Blair is sent the refuse of two hundred and fifty million people. The worst criminals of British India and Burmah, if they incur long sentences of impri 011 ment, are sent to Port Blair. Ovet eight thousand of them are serving lif a sentences. The attack upon the chief 1 fticuil of the island is all the more noteworthy because, since the settle ment of Port Blahr was started in 157, with the mutinous Sepoys as the first colonists there have been only two murderous assaults on Europeans by convicts; and yet to guard this army of evil-doers only one company of Brit ish infantry and several hundred Iunjab police are employed, a very small force when it is considered that there are no prison walls and that the convict barracks are scattered oil over the settlement, which is several miles square. The hundred or more boats and canoes required for the work of the settlement are far more carefully guarded than the prisoners them selves There is 110 chance to escape, except by capturing these boats Even then there would be little hope of free dom, for the Andamans are far from land and lie in a region of tempests The only refuge is the forest, where runaways are sure to die of starvation, if they are not shot by the natives The authorities therefore, have so little fear of any attempt to escape that as many as five hundred of the convicts are often sent ten miles away without any guards except their own ofiicers Even in this isolated place a remark able incident occurs now and then to vary the monotony of incessant road making and forest felling. Nearly eleven years ago sounds were heard like the firing of big guns, and, it was thought a warship had gone ashore on South Andaman. The station steamer was sent to carry relief to the crew, but no wreck was found. The noises came from Krakatoa, one thousand five hundred miles away, where the most tremendous volcanic disturbance of modern times wao in progress. Years ago the ship Eunnymede sailed from Australia and the ship Briton from England, each having on board a battalion of the Eightieth Foot. The regiment was to be reunited at Ran goon. One dar'.c ni ht a terrible storm caught both vessels near the Anda mans and a great wave carried them high on the shore. Next morning the regiment, without a man missing, was reunited on the island. The battalions had traveled around the world to meet, and a stranger meeting never occurred. The administration of this penal col ony is a remarkable system of rewards and punishments Invariable good conduct secures better food, increased comforts and finally wages for day's work. Twenty years of oledience to the rules secures a pardon for life con victs Fardons are often granted for deeds of gallantry, rnd murderers red-handed and with weapons ready, have been seized by their fellows, who risked their lives to gain the coveted freedom. The attempt to assassinate the chief official of the colony may re sult in restrictions that the convicts have hitherto escaped. ROSA BONHEUR'S PETS. Her I.loas Lot Her and Are Fondled nd Caressed with Freedom. Rosa Eonheiu loves the animals she paints, and is in turn adored by them. She showed her recent purchase, a magnificent lion, who purred and writhed like a gigantic cat when his owner fearlessly stroked his m:;-V.?y head. Then, says the New York Com mercial Advertiser, showing the head of a most superb specimen of the African lion transferred to canvas with start ling realism, sho tells the story of Nero. He was her first pet lion and was reputed untamably ferocious and lived for several years in the garden at By. At last one day Rosa Bonheur was about to travel and disposed of Nero to the Jardin des Plantes Sho parted with him reluctantly, for he was a great pet, and would greet her always with a peculiar little note of welcome. When she returned from her wan derings two years later, she went to see her Nero and beheld a sad sight. The poor creature had not been so carefully tended as he was used to be at By. Ophthalmia had set in, and the splendid brute lay blind and ailing, unheeding the curious crowd that stared at him. Rosa Bonheur watched him for a moment and then called; "Nero!-' Tho effect was magical. The lion rose to his feet, uttered his accus tomed note of welcome and sprang toward the wcll-bcloved voice with such impetuosity that the 6hock against the bars 6ent the sightless brute rolling, stunned, back on the Boor. The great artist took him back, soothed his last days with attendance and petting, and finally he died in her arms at the foot of the staircase at By, his huge paws clinging to his mistress is if imploring her not to forsake him in his death strucgle, and his last mo; mcut being a feeble attempt to lick the hands that held him with such in finite tenderness. "You see," said P.osa Bonheur, as she meditatively ruf fled her new lion's mane, "to be really beloved by these wild beasts you must eally love them-" HE CAN FEEL NO PAIN. A West Indian Who Ma'.es Nothing ? Being IMerred by Wire. Three reputable physicians of Mobile recently made some experimeats on the person of a man named Lartado, a na tive of Trinadad. This man seemingly is a wonder. He appears to be utterly oblivions to the sensations of heat and cold. and. in fact, experiences no feel ing of pain, even when undergoing treatment that would cause an ordi nary man nntold agony, lie is twenty four years old, is five feet seven" inches in height, weighs one hundred pounds and is perfectly sound mentally and physically. His father was a Spaniard and his mother an English woman. A correspondent of the New Orleans Times-Democrat witnessed the man run through his neck down to and grazing the trachea a piece of steel wire one-eighth of an inch in diameter, to which a most powerful galvanic bat tery was attached and shifted from one current to another without any perceptible pain, but with considerate acceleration of pulse. He passed an other large steel wire into his month and through his cheek, in all directions and no blood flowed. Another large tviro was passed through and through the largo muscles of tiio calf of the leg and between the bioeps muscle, in line with the brachial artery, and through the arm above the wrist, between tho two bones of the arm, and other like experiments la different parts of the body, all of which with seemingly T19 pain and no bleeding from any place but a drop from the neck. In fact, each of the openings made by the In strument closed up as bloodless and as easily as if the man was constructed of India rubber. The physicians present declared that It was the most wonder ful exhibition of freedom from all pain they had ever witnessed. The man never flinched during any of tho ex periments whilo tho instruments were jabbed into him with no more consid eration than if he bad been a water melon. Its Xme Condemns It. A new competitor of the silkworm has been found on tho Dalmatian coast, according to a report of the French consulate in Trieste. This is the bom byx lasiocetnpa otus. The moth of this is similar to that of tho silkworm, but the cocoon is much larger and the silk finer and snow white. The worm feeds on the leaves of the evergreen querens ilex. Experiments are being made with the intent of raising this newly discovered worm for commcrcicl pur pte . . THE OLD-FASHIOED STYLE of PiU gives yoa a fet-fing of borr,-r when you sxe it and when you feet it. Like te ' blundVrtiUM " of a inner decade it ia big eliinmy, but not el- -VfT ot enlightenment you "v Dr- tierces I'leaaajit 'I - pellets which cure ail liver I trouble in tho most effective I way. Tbev're not eaiily aenn for I they're small as grains of mus I tard K-l. twit the effect is lnt I in and the cur mmrilete. For InllJ:'WM'n.t'onsII,,tl",, Hilious Attacks. Sick and Bilious H.i arhe, imthimr has been found to equal these pi'ls of I- Pierce's Yla-v ive siK-h complete rtlief invention. that tlieir makers promise that they'll Rive satisfaction or your money will be returned. A plain statement of fart made by the pro prietors of Pr. Sack's Catarrh Remedy is this: "If we can't cure your Catarrh, no matter how bad your case, we'll pay you tM) in rash." . A VERMONT SILVER MINE. Tradition Saya There ! a Rich Store White Met U In the state. The western slope of the Green mountains is prolific of legendary lore, says the Rutland Herald. E-pecially ts this true of a radius of ten miles from Lake Dunmore. From the time of the earliest settlements in town vague traditions have floated in the air that at some earlier period a fabu lous amount of silver had been mined, hidden and abandoned somewhere among the foothills that skirt the east ern border of Brandon. When, where and by whom, was the insolvable enigma. These traditional myths be gan to assume a concrete form about the year 1S20, from the advent of a stranger of some three score years who had been wandering for a long time over the hills in Chittenden and Brandon. By topographical memory he was convinced that he had approxi mately located the object of his search near the cabin of a mun named Rogers about three and one-half miles cast from the village of Brandon. The stranger engaged board with Rogers and disclosed to him his per sonal history, that of the mining com pany, and the purpose of his visit. Ut represented himself as the youngest of a party of fourteen, all Spaniards one of whom was a woman and his mother. He said that he was born in camp and remained with them till their removal, when he was about fif teen years of age; that they mined about two and a half tons of silver, wMch was deposited in a subterranean cavern of great depth, and that the approaches to it were carefully filled and concealed, and, so far as pos sible, all trace of their work effaced; that they were driven away by the hostility of the Indians and intended to return at some time and reclaim their property, and that for the pur pose of identification they had buried three iron wedges marked with certain symbols that would indicate the opening of the avenue to thei hidden wealth. He invited Rogers to Join him in the search and offered him one-half of the spoils. The invitation was declined through distrust of the man. He then secured the cooperation of one Field, and they searched one or two more seasons in vain for the hidden wedges. During a temporary absence of the stranger Field found the wedges but concealed the fact from his partner on his return. At length the stranger became dis couraged and disappeared from the scene. Field prosecuted the work with untiring tenacity until oil his re sources were exhausted. Without a knowledge of the key to the symbolic wedges they were of little avail. Two of these wedges have been lost; one is now in tho possession of a gentleman in Rutland vi ho was among the last to abandon the scheme, though his con fidence in it is unshaken. SEIZED BY DEVIL FISH. A California Ttuy Keeroed with DltBcoJty by Ilia I'locky Comrade. Among the many pastimes enjoyed by the inhabitants of Pacific (trove, CaL, says the San Francisco Examiner, abalone hunting is one largely indulged in, both on account of the beauty of the shell of this niollusk and also the delicacy of the meat. A few days ago two boys about seventeen and eigh' teen years of age, thought it would bj a profitable undertaking to go out by the Point Tinos lighthouse and try their luck among the large masses of rocks there. They arrived at their destination at ebb tide, and proceeded to hunt for the shells Abalones as a rule, fasten themselves to the under surface of large rocks While the boys were scrambling among the rocks they came across a large crevice filled with water. Kelp or seaweed was Coating on the surface of the w ater in this black pool, and amid the tangle of tawny whip-like stems bulbs and masses of leaves bubbles arose in quick succession as if the water was boiling. The curiosity of the boys was thoroughly aroused by this apparent phenomenon, and after watching the bubbling water awhile they decided to investigate. One of them leaped over the pool, and leaning over the edge closely examined the kelp. What ho finally espied in the brown floating mass of weeds he thought was the tail of an eel. Reassured by his conclusion, and with the knowledge that eels are perfectly harmless he grabbed for the moving object and his hand closed firm ly on it. Like the long lash of a whip curling at the end of a stalk wielded by an ex pert driver, swiftly uprose from the dark waters a purplish, mottled thing which fastened itself like a snake about the outstretched arm of the boy. With impetuous motion he attempted to withdraw his hand, but the slimy thin? clung to him, end the boy was dragged into the pool. Then more of those horrible snake-like appendages thrust themselves up and waved in the air, clutching at the frantic victim, and from a hideous barrel-shaped Ixxly two bead-like eyes over a wicked-lookinjr beak watched the struggles of the boy, as it tried to fasten more securely to its rrey. The boy was in the grasp of the tentacles of a huge octopus, which had been left by the tide find was lurk ing under the kelp. The boy's com panion dashed into the water to the rescue, and, seizing the tentacle that still gripped firmly, he succeeded in loosing its hold, and both boya scrambled upon the rock into safety. Rich Women's Charities. Miss Helen Could is said to spend one hundred kllars a week on private charities which no one knows about. Her latest offering at charity's shrine is a gift of land which lies back of Lyr.dhurst, the Goulds' country home at Tarrytown, to the Kindergarten and Potted Plant association for the build ing of a summer homo for poor chil dren. Mrs. John Rockefeller and her daughters spend an immense amount annually on charities of every descrip tion. 21Iss Alta Rockefeller supports and superintends a small private hos pital of her own for delicate women, at which she has entertainments given every week to interest the invalids. A physician tells the Cincinnati Times-Star that the widespread fear of disease germs Is entirely groundless. "Everything," he says "is full of germs or cnisted with them, but every germ is not harmful. Every disease pvria on the body does not produce a disease. If it did there would not be a crson oa the face of the earth to-morrow. People lived before disease germs were known and were as healthy as they nru to-day. They lived as care fully as we do perhaps more so. We cannot avoid contact with disease germs but we can do what is better strer.jthen the body so that it resists them as easily as a lion can a flea. Some scientists protend to deplore a lack of precaution people take against germs It is simply because the people see, despite thcori.-s that every genu docsu't produco sickness any more than every man ia a murderer. Every mr.n may possibly be one. but wc would net be jusl'ilc J in going armed ou that fCt9'lRt.n - r -- r and CONDENStO TIME TABLES. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Somerset and Cambria Branch NORTHWARD. Mxun JTnfl Erarrm. Borkwnod I "-, aumtnvt 4 10, Sioyraloan 1 nowmni 6:06. J ub tutus a. :1S Joawrfam MnU trrtm. Rnrkvood ' a. la.. Hunienvt I:!, surrtwiowa i ouuiw.u. li7, Johiutown P at. JtJnukm AftvmmodatUM-Rorwood-0p. as. HooTefvrille 1-21 P- oil, JuttosUiwa Mi p. m. StmiiTf ArrommadatUmZaci.DOcA l-:36 a. m. bumanet, LIS. SOUTHWARD. Jfoff-Johnswiwii 7:40 a. B., Hoowsvtllo t Knyestown S:i, Bomtniet :U, Kocxwood a -t. Jiaren Johnstown & p. m.. BoorereTllle 4. is. am Hnmwi int. Kockwood Saarfoy Ony Johnstown : a. m., HopTerwrille -16 a. m., swyemown . a. m., liM s m., Rockwood lth.fi a. m. Sunday Aemwnuytiitm Somerset fcOl p. m- Kuckwoud &2i p m., Daily. T3EXXSYLVASIA RAILROAD. BCHIDCLE IN EFFECT NOV. 19, ISA C ASTIR N STANDARD TIMC OOitDKXSXD SCHKDCUL Trains arrive and depart from tba station St Johnstown as follows : WESTWARD. Southwestern Express Western Ex press Jubnalown Accommodation.. . 6 flea, m . 4.;a. m . 6 57 a. El Accommodation- . 10a.ni Pacifl Expresn.. .'4 a. m 3: a. D) ... 6. lo a. m ,J 0 p. ta , :(X p. m. Way Psmengcr JobQstowa AccouUDodalion.. Fast Line, EASTWARD. Keystone Ei press- . S:SSsn . 5:40 a. m . 9 :i!4 a. m . 10:1,'. a. m. . 11:10 a. m . lift! p. m Sea-Shore Kxpruss. altoona Aceommo-ialioiL... . Main Une Expre s . Day Expres - A 1 toons Accommodation.- - Mail fcxpreM - 4:11 p. m t 'iS p. m 7:16 p. m lo. jo p.m Jobtiatoan A ccommodatioo- f hi lailelpbiaattm ranti.iae. For rates, maps. &.. yo to Ticket Apnt or ad dress Tbos. K. Watt, I. A. W. 1), 110 Filth Ave nue. Pitt't.ureh, t- 8. M. PKRVOsT, J. K WOOD. Gen t Manager. Oeu'l hs. Agt- It is to Your Interest TO BUY YOUR DRuuo nftd MEDICINES OF J. K. SHYDER. tcorcusoR to Biesecker & Snyder. None but the purest and best kept in stock, and wheu Drugs become inert by stand ing, as certain of them do, we de stroy them, rather than im pose on our customers You can depend on having your PRESCRIPTIONS L FAMILY RECEIPTS filled with care. Onr prices are as low as any other first-chus house and on many articles much lower. The people of this county seem to know this, and have given us s large share of their patronage, and wt shall still continue to give them the very best goods for their money. Do not forget that we make a specialty FITTING TRUSSES. Wt guarantee satisfaction, and, if you have had trouble in this direction, give us a call. SPECTACLES AND EYE-GLASSES in great variety ; A full set of Test Lemwa. Come in and have your eyes examined. No charge for examination, and we are confident we can suit you. Come and see us. Respectfully. JOHN N. SNYDER. CURTIS K. GROVE, SOMERSET. PA. BC0GIX9, 8LXIGH3, CARRIAGES, PEINO WAGOSS, BUCK WAGONS. AND XA3TE&3 ASD WESTERS WORJC TunUsoed so Short Notice. Painting Cone oz. Short Time. Hy work Is made out M THanmfUy Sauomat Wood, and the Bat iron a4 Serf, substantially Constructed, Neatly Finished, and Warranted to fire Satisfaction. Enploy Only F-rst- Class Tcrfcten. Repairing; of All Kinds in Ky Line Done oa Short Notice. Prices REASONABLE and All Work Warranted. Call and Examine my Stock, sad Learn Prtoee. I do Wagon-work, and fumlth Selves for Wind ttllla. Remember the place, and call in. CURTIS K. GROVE, (East of Coon Boose SOMERSET. Pi. 190 DOI-LARS BSU PER MONTH In Your Own Locality made easily ami lioaonhly, without capi tal, dnrins; your spare hours. Any man, woman, Ixi.r, or girl can do the work hand iiy, without experience. Talking nn uccensary. Xotiiini? like it for money making ever offered lefore. Our workers alwnvs prosper. No time w:ited in learning the business. We teach you In a nlyht how to succeed fnm Hie first hour. Yon can nuike a tri:d without ex pense to yourself. We start yoa, furnish everything needed to carry ou the busi ness successfully, and puarantee you against failure if you hut follow our 6imple. plain Instructions.- Header, if you are in need cf ready money, and want to knot? all aKMit the best paying business before the public, send us your address, and we will mail yon a docu lueut giving you all the particulars. TRUE & CO., Dox 400, Augusta, Maine. THERE IS SO SUBSTITUTE F0.1 EXPER1ESGE." Their Ta'te Cleanliness TT will pay -- fore yoa teed to be mam tiara Lesscns ppg Saves Labor. Money. you to examine the tiLth.N LlMhUhLI.A RANGE be buv. it has au laies uuprofiin.-u, una 13 o.l piat-i a good baker. It has the direct draft damper, by firo in nn.--ha!f the time renuircd with the ordirnrv p. This is a valuable feature wheu you want a quick tire for early Lreak-t. T T has an extra large high oven, thoroughly ventilated. The voIUie lof inflowing and outflowing air can be regulated at will: this insJ a perfect baker, and no burning on the top. It has the Triplex s!.a;E. grate, which is the perfection of convenience and cleanliness. U -u pecially durable, having three separate sides, or the advantage of re. grates in one, and not easily warped by the action of the tire. KEMEMBER ThinKS done well and with a care, exempt themselves from j, Manufactured by DeHAVEN 4 CO., Ltd . Pittsburgh. Sold and piaranie,) by JAMES B. H0LDERBAUM, Somerset, Pa Krissinger & Kurtz, Berlin, Ta. and P. J. Corer fc Son, Merersdale,pi. New York Weekly Tribune Somerset Herald ONE YEAR. TWO ZDOXjLjAJRS. Address all orders Louther's Drug Store, Main Street, Somerset, Pa. This Model Drag Store is Rapidly Eeccaing a Great Favorite with People in Search cf FRESH AND PURE DRUGS, Medicines, Iye Stuffs, Sponges, Tram, Supporters, Toilet Articles, Perfumes, &c. TH DOCTOR GIVES PERSONAL ATTENTION TO THX COHFOCSDIXQ OF LOAMS GRSAT CARS BEIXQ TAKES TO 1K OSLT FRESH ASD Pl&X ARTICLES SPECTACLES, EYE-GLASSES, And a Full Line of Optical Goods always on land. From eucI large assortment all can be suited. THE FIHEST BBAHBS OF CIGABS Always on hand. It is always a pleasure to display cur good to intending purchasers, whether they buy from us or elsewhere. J. M. LOUTHER M. D. MAIN STREET - - SOMERSET. PA "Somerset Lumber Yard KLIAS CUNNINGHAM, MijrcTiCCSia aB DsaLU aKD Waouuu aso Rztailis o LUMBER AND BUILDING MATERIALS Hard and Soit "Woods, 0AX, POPLAR, BlDUfGa. FlCKXTS, MOULDINGS, ASH, WALNUT, FLOORING, SASH, STAIR RAIL3, CHXRRY, TELLOWPIXK. SHIS'iLM. DOORS BALC8TZR3. CHESTNUT. WHITI PISE. I ITH, BLINDS. VTL KtT A General Line of aU grades of Lumber and iBclldlnf Material and Roofing Slats laiw Also, can famish anything ia the line of oat busineaa to order with reaaonsbia promptness, such as Brackets, Odd-sued work, etc. ELIAS cxjjsrisaisroiLNi, Office and Yard Opposite S. &C. R. R. Station, Somerset IT . WILL PAY YOI1 TO SCT T07B Hem o rial Work WM.F. SHAFFER, 8OMERSET. PENN'A Manufacturer of and Deaierln KQittrm fork FurnitKtdon Short 'otu ; ta I'.l Ot mm mi cmiiis Aim, Avet for 0u VBITB BKO.SZEI Persons In need of MONUMENT WORK will find ll lo their inu.Ti.-st tu tali at mf Qop h .-rs a proper showing will be given them. rri fartum Onnimiftil ta A'r t.kme, and t-ki' LS YMH t LO W. I invite speual attention to Uie whit Bronze, Or Pur Zino Monumen Introduced by REV. W. A. RINJ. a a PrcM1 ImproTcmrr.t In the point of MATERIAL AND fONsTK;"CTION. and wbich is doomed to ba the Popnlar M'mnmeut f,ir our Chaiigeawla Cli mate. -CiVI MI A CALL. WM. F. SHAFFER. r". l 1 "s3 f y - Inqtiwuir 4 . ta. t w: .H ti, yr h .uiil,Uu..ulor"jr.uujr. ,ol uj Conriit inn Vg,-' it you uant Get it Near Home, Send to Us. ask r-- Their AND to The IIep.ald. LwOiwZD BY SCESTS'iSiS T7 dutiful lljm'PricwL!. o Be Designs. - MONUMENTAL bCKZ- CC PresGriptionsiFainily Receipts EZTTIRT nAfefKeepChickensStrons: A 4 Jind hca;ih-: it gets your pu'.xts to c; - ai misiT earlvt'it is wort a itswcW'.t m S- -aUwwiten hens moult : it prevent ail - . cholera. Roup. Uiarrhna. Lcsr-ej-. ull W a powerful food lise'. Oh, -..a.' . i:ke ....nmnil PQWiJ Therefore, r.o matter what kind cl i W use. ir.ix Ttith it tia..y fall an J wir.ttr wi:i be !.t 3 pries (or es.'s is very hh. K,8-" rerfe-t assitivUinn of the ioni e.f Eec'i'j to prctiuce nea.'.a ' - n. - . ... w .! i - .mlZ u. grocer, Jnn S utfca .
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