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FB.FLUCK,
rvTv Surveyor
C
ITIVE MUTUAL FIRE
- iktULlX, PA.
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JAU. J. ZORN,
Secretary.
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cat enough, but keep thin and 3
w.... kiniiu iLdrij r vivp -
but have no strength. You
cannot say they arc really
sick-, and so you call them
delicate.
What can bedoncforthem?
Our answer is the same that
the best physicians have been
giving for a quarter of a cen
tury. Give them
I seoirs Emulsion
of Cod-Liver Oil with IIvpo- x
phosphites. It has most' re- 5
markable nonrishinT noupr 5
It g-ives color to the blood. It-
vhk auciiLii to tne mus- ,i
cles. It adds power to the
nenes. It means robust
auu iyur. r-ven aeii
cate infants rapidly gain in
flesh if given a small amount
three or four times each day.
oc. and Sr.oo : ) dninm
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wiik Fiii r Safi. Tueoaiy sate made auM
luteiv barslar-iro.l.
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Watchmaker and Jeweler,
Next 3oor West of Lutheran Church,
Somerset,
Pa.
Am Now
. prepared to supply the public
with Clocks, Watches, and Jew
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as the Cheapest.
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Stnf fK-aUy, Trid ram, Horary.
B'Hlcrni ;'wratM in iiurtxrj and ffy maa
vjirn, btaiaynu ittitdiD, teait arr vod.
Uli'rUiwt time, I -Ml rinif, Kt t i to to
Lut la i'ifrMa to rrutar e'rr,
weri ta otterd tn Mw: , Sb'trtiiaDd.TP
tr itin. hnd f'r iilartTMtwd chi-m.
4aH.9 ftUM, rrtHjw, Lac Man. F.
Trade Marks
Dcsigns
CoFYHtCMTa Ac.
Anton tenting rtHrt M flrw"n y
qn1-k''y acartii or ftaii'n fr w Li b n
tnMiii'ia pv.b!T wlmlml.l. Cc-Bin;unir-tk.u-i:Tinoiiik.
lii.otion Pwoia
k-nt i. o'ulen ir fur nrmir pn".
fni Li,-n tbrmiirb Km a tu. rcelr
Scientific Jitrcrican.
A bw1opi!T t!)itrlt wwktr. I.rt rtr
rulu.n of anr n;.ar ...mL wiUi
f.r: f-or nx-nibA L Wall ttea--in.
,f1UNN&Co.38,B'K8wycrl;
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J' T EXPERIENCE
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THE GOIUry AG2.
Til. To rt nil ,1jiV5 Uif l.yuie !
s" th!ok !h- .!iiif bear: ;
No sy thiTc- cr.- hk.- i.n. ient ray-i,
Non.' now ru.'li liUs. imp irt ;
For when ilia vW!t Iw's n cast
Ii a kM-Uh k . ;
Tliatliean tucn sighs for ail the past
And d'-eui Uio action sa?a.
Tile bri'bU'jit d.-.yH tr" roraius days.
Affirms thn yoa'.h In jjlee ;
And on the fmurf- is iii gar.e
Wbile pn-rnt moutenu lie;
Th-.' go! Jut, g? i yjt ta bniiu
Uk f-ire his eaj;er mind ;
And thus hit thoughts with lustre Kleam
As th-y Uielr vics uillnd.
But ti the Krnsual ej!ii:ure
The jroMk-n ae is now ;
W 1th plenty nei-.r his joy 1 sure.
And pleasure crown his Uiow ;
Wilhin the jireseii!. dy he tries
To tl the chii-Tot kkI,
Aviertiiis thai the ri' li and wise
Aifth e8upp!ie.l with rxKl.
The true philusophi-r is found
In looking upanl on,
Away from sordid, earthly ground
T jwarJ everlasting d ia-n ;
Th?be;tvr lift- b -yond u lis
Djrliirea thu u'-ro lpij;
And th,i who look with fci:th-lit eyes
Mnorn the golden age.
Rev. William 11. Ittincrofl In tiia PliiUJl
phi.: LcJger.
THE WROXG 3IAX.
Hiraiige itiileel are the unsolved mys
Uries of all great cities, and noue
straegtr, irluip-, tbau some of those
that might be told of the highways
and byways of Loudon. Murder, rob
bery and all the other deeds made
criruiual by a sensitive and egotistical
civilization these have taken place iu
the very eye of the public, with never
a clue, or, at least, but a faW clue, to
the pcrjietrator. Meu, woiut-u at.d
childreu have disappeared from crowd
ed thoroughfares, spirited away, as it
poems, none ever knowing hiihor.
One of the grim riuances of real
life came under my notice a few years
go. You may, prrhaps, reiuemU-r
reading of it iu an obscure corner of
ycur daily jiaper, for it happened at a
time of national sensation when the
fchooting dead of a miui on L'zate hill
was a mere epistnJe barely coLMd; rtd
worthy of mcntiou in a paragraph.
Cireumfttanccs not ouly made me al
luost a spectator of the crime, but they
have reeenily made me learn the
whereabouts of the criminal Acci
dent, in other words, ha acquainted
me with a fact which half the detect
ive at Scotland yard would, as the
saying give their ears to learn.
Iijt, before I tell you of the murderer,
lt me remind you of aome of the facts
of the murder.
It U now feme years ago that I was
walking down Ludgate hill with a
friend, a plum -clothes detective, to
w hom 1 have not yet dh'uled the f-e-cr.t
I am here making public. We
were on the north hide, and nearly at
the railway bridge which spans the hill
by Ludg&te circus, w hen from the oth
er side of the mad rang out the sharp
report of & pUtol. There was a fldsli, a
puff of tmoke, and, as though by mag
ic, at ohc a crowd.
Scott and I, he sceutiug a case and I
a new aensatioD, crot-sed the road and
rnished our way through the human
eddy, which swung around the body of
a man lyitg by the curbstone. My
friend, by the magic wcrd "Police,"
managed to work a way for us both
through the struggliug f-ightscers, and
we got to the centre at the came mo
ment that a burly policeman reached
the same goal through the opjtosite side
of the crowd.
He and Scott knew one another, and
the latter whiH-red to his colleague,
"I saw an elderly man darting at the
run round the circus corner down
Bridge street. You'd best take him for
safety's sake. tSiik hat, fur c:at; go
with him, llerni; you niunt have no
ticed the man."
This last sentence was addressed to
me, and, though tiot having the eeof
a detective ollhtT, I had not noticed
any one start at the ruu, I was by no
ircans unwilling to ace-ompany 1. C.
XXX 3
We got out rf the crowd; happily
without there being any general idea of
our mi."i n, or we nliould have bad the
whole mob at our heels. In Bridge
street there was no sign of such a mtii
as Seott Lad descriU'd. The constable
anted the first cabman on the rank if
he had noticed any one of that descrip
tion. Seed 'iru? I did; 'e jet took the
'finsom in front 'o me, an' otIVred Tom
Bings 'hlf-a crown to get to Waterloo iu
ten minutes."
"F'ive shillings to you if you overtake
him," said I excitedly, as the police
man and I got into the cab.
Off he rattled over Blackfriars bridge,
and dow n Stamford street. Our Jehu
turned into a narrow by-way to get to
the station, and had only just time to
pull his horse up, for there was a
"block" ahead caused by a brewer's
dray, the horecs of which could not be
induced to start off with their heavy
load. Our cab stoppe d close to another,
which was empty.
"Hallo, Rings!" sang but the driver
over our heads. "Where's your fare ?"
The other cabman pointed with his
hip U a gentleman hurriedly making
his way toward the station.
"Walt for me," said XXX. 3, and so
saying he jumped out of the hansom
and at that swinging trot peculiar to a
policeman in a hurry pursued his quar
ry. I did not have to wait many min
utes, filled with that curious, ba!f-r!eas-.ot,
half-.aiuful perturbation which
rajally attends a hunter at the ruo
mmt when he thinks himself on the
jioiut of securing big game. I had
never huuted human game before, but
could realize the excitement of it in my
'a-it ten minutes' experience,
I had not long to wait for the return
of the constable, who had secured his
man as be was mounting the steep In
cline that leads to the Waterloo main
line booking-oWce.
"I'll see Mr. Scott later," I ald, as
captor and capture ! got into the vehi
cle, and as I heard the "click" with
which the handculT were fast cued on
the w rists t f the unfortunate man.
I did not care to return to the police
station wkb the constable and his
('targe, for I had recognized in the lat
ter a fairly well known city man, one
who had an unenviable notoriety in
c rtain circles as a mai connected with
ill-starred C ttnpany coucerns, out of
which Le had ulwayacome with weli-
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SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY,
ined pockets. I had indeed ventured
and lost somo pounds in or.e of his
semi-swir-diing concerns, hut had no
desire to be present at his humiliation.
Wondering w hat could be the man's
reason fur com u i i t ! i n g m u rdersu ppos
liig him to be the guilty party I pur
sued my way cityward. At Blackfri
ars bridge I was hailed from a passing
hansom by my detective friend Soott.
"Hi! Herm, come with me and see
this thing through."
I jumped in befcide hira and was In
stantly driven once more rapidly to
ward Waterloo station.
"Well," I said.
"Well, indeed," said he, "seeing that
we're ou or.e of the most curious cases
that I've had to do with, you seem to
le mighty doleful over it. Why, this
murder ought to create one of the sen
eations of the day."
I then learned that the murdered
man was apparently a stranger visiting
London, pret-uma' ly from the north,
and supposed to I named John Lon
stick. The shot which had killed him
hud been fired so close that it had gone
right through his head, death being in
stantaneous. The man w ho had been
feen to leave the spot so hurriedly by
the ijuiek ej e of the professional detect
ive was, as I had surmised, Theobald
Baidwia, an uneuphonious came, fa
miliar, as I have said, on many a list
of company directors. Nothing had so
far been proved or even surmised con
necting the two men together; but
and Scott made uio feel the full signifi
cance of the position Baldwin had
in his possession a six-chambered re
volver, which he declared to be fully
loaded, but which on inspection at the
station proved to have had one of the
chambers recently discharged.
. The suspected man, it is true, had
shown considerable surprise ou this
discovery, but his surprise was, of
course, put down by the police clllcials
as a piece of well-simulated acting, and
Scott was sent ol" to make inquiries at
his place of residence at Surbiton, to
b arn, if he could, any facts associating
Baldwin with the murdered man.
It did not take much ersuaslcn to
iuduce me to accompany my friend on
his evidence-seeking errand to Surbi
ton. We soon reached that pleasant
centre of villadom and were not long
iu finding the handsome house built
and maintained out of the hard eirned
and easily-lost savings of credulous fools
like myself.
My frieud asked to see MUs Baldwin,
and the surprised domestic half doubt- j
fully showed us into a room opening off
the spacious hall, while she went to in
form her mistress of the arrival of vis
itors. "What name shall I say, sir?"
"Say I want to see her at once Mr.
Bsatt I have a message from her fa
ther." The young lady very quickly made
her appearance. Hhe looked little more
than a child was, in fact, I believe,
only about 1 years old, and the only
child of her widowed father.
"You co.ue from papa?" she said,
and theu added in a half-shriek, on
catching sight of serious faces. "Is
anything the matter with him? What
Uitr'
"Your father is quite well, Miss Bald
wii, said n:y suave friend, "and will, I
do not doubt, Ik; home at his usual time
to night; but he is in a little difficulty
in the city to-day and sent me to get
some papers from his private room."
The girl looked startled, as if doubt
ful as to our errand, but Hcott add
ed, taking a bunch of keys from his
pocket:
"These are your father's keys, given
me lo get these paers w 1th."
The girl appeared somewhat surpris
ed, hut at om led us to her father's
sanctum. Diligent search revealed
in. thing whatever to show Theobald
Baldwin as having any corresjiondence
with John Lonstick, and Scott half re
gretfully turned lo question the girl.
"Miss Baldwin, do you know If your
father has had any serious quarrel with
any one lately ?"
"Xo; why?"
"Nothing, nothing; but, you know,
he carries a revolver, and I thought he
mght have some reason for iL"
' Oh, something has happened, I am
surt-tell me, please."
"Your father is quite well, Miss Bald
win, but you will help him la his pres
ent difficulties by answering my ques
tions simply."
Yes."
"You do not know f your father hav
ing lately had a serious quarrel w ith
any one?"
"No; though a young man, a tier
man, I think, who culled himself Her
manu L' lien burg, came to see papa this
m- rniog, jut after he had left for the
city, and spoke very excitedly and silly
about papa having done him some
wrong."
"Tnank you. And you know that
your father carries a revolver?"
"I did not know it until last night.
I felt quite frightened about it, for I
know he sometimes gets very angry
and might use it."
A quick gleam of triumph flitted
over Scott's features at this statement.
The girl continued:
"I was so frightened that I I did a
dreaiful thing. I took the pistol ofT
papa's desk and fired it otr la the gar
den last night to see if it was loaded,
and theu put it back in his study."
Scott's face felL
"And how often did you lire it off?"
"Why, only ouee, for I should not
know how to load it agalo, and I didn't
waut papa to carry it loaded."
Scott saw the whole of his little mur
der case crumble to nothing before a few
words spoken by an innocent girl who
didn't know the difference between a
six-chambered revolver and a pistol.
We took our leave and returned to towu,
where Scott duly reported the result of
his Investigation at the police station,
and where he further learned that the
revolver had been examined by an ex
pert,'' who declared that several hours
must have elapsed siuce it was fired.
In the face of this evidence Mr. The
obald Baldwin was, of course, dismiss
ed, and by mcaus of au Interview with
one or two police court "penny-a-liners"
he so managed that all mention of his
name in connection with the Ludgate
hid murder mystery was suppressed in
the brief notices which happened to ha
accorded to it iu th publie journals.
a
ESTVBLISETED 1827.
I had almost forgotten my slight con
nection with the mystery of which I
have written when I was reminded of
it in a very startling fashion on my re
cent holidays. I was sitting ouUlde a
gasthaus In one of the smaller Uerinan
cities, drinking my lager beer, when
my atteution was drawn to a neighbor
ing small table where a couple of young
Germans were discussing the prospee'ts
of employment in England- as clerks.
"They are fond enough of getting
Germans as clerks," said one of them,
"but how they treat them! Look at
poor Uffeuburg" I started at the
name "Illmmel, see how he was
treated there! He went to London to
escape military service and was so bad
ly treated by the man that employed
him that he declares he shot him down
in the street and then got back to the
fatherland, where Le was arrested as
a dese rter and is now doing a long term
iu a military prison. No London for
me after that experience of Hermann
Utfenburg!"
I could scarcely believe my ears. To
think that chance should thus make
plain to me after several years the fact
that John Lonstick, a harmless stran
ger, had been shot down by a German
clerk, the bullet having been intended
for that same clerk'a w hilom employer,
Theobald Baldwin, who continue I his
career of legalized roblry up to the
time of his death, a few months ago.
Chicago Daily News.
Points in Tomato Culture.
A writer in the Ohio Farmer gives
the following:
Having grown both, I find that the
tomato vine is similar lo the hop vine
in regard to the use of the same ground
every year. The longer either of them
is raised on one k.tnd of soil and in the
same spot, with good care, the better it
seems to thrive. This is something
worth remembering, though, of courw,
it might not work in all cases, since the
same plants often present strikiug dif
ferences, even when grown on soils only
a few rod apart.
I first select ground suitable for the
purpose such as ean 1 em ployed year
after year without any danger of inter
ference for other uses and then, at an
interval of about every ten feet, I drive
strong stakes into the soil, arranging
them in long rows two and a half feet
apart. Along these rows the tomatoes
are planted iu hills, and as the vines
commence to spread stout twiue is run
on nails from one stake to another, sim
ilar to wire on posts in the construction
of a fence. On this twine the tomato
vines are then trained, much In the
same way that grapes are trained on a
t rdJis. Thus arranged, the rays of the
sun exf erienp little r r difficulty in
reaching all the tomatoes, und in con
sequence nearly every one of them ri
pens nicely and in due order, a thing
that could not occur were the vines left
to sprawl upon the ground. New to
matoes will keep coming on vines train
ed in this way much longer than they
otherwise would, affording thereby jut
as many green ones iu autumu for pick
ling as if only a small amouut of ripe
fruit had been realized during the sea
son. Should a drouth come on at any time
during the summer, as there often does,
the tomato hills ought to be watered
properly, and all branches beginning to
die pruned off, so that do further vital
ity of the plant will be alsorbed by
them. In dealing thus with the vines
they will keep green continually, and
alo produce fruit which commands a
ready sale in any market and is a grace
to any table. I consider it proper to
prune considerably, and especially If
large, line tomatoes are to be produced.
Pruning the vines will make them
stocky, and for this reason the vitality
of the plants will go into a less num
ber of tomatoes. Therefore, if large
fruit is desired, advantages can tie de
rived by pruning heavily, but for gen
eral field culture there uhould be only a
little pruning, and sometimes almost
none at all. The fact is, an ordinary
plant, properly traiued will usually
produce tomatoes plenty large enough
for market without a great deal f prun
ing, further than cutting off dead
branches and where the vines happen
to be too thick.
House Cleaning Hints.
House cleaning seems to tie a di Hi cult
problem in mauy families, it leing a
se-ason etf worry and hard work, espe
cially to the housewife. But there is a
right time for lL First we must make
preparations to go at It systematU-ally
before throwing the house in c infusion.
Don't ha too busy to cook the usual
good dinners. Better prepare before
hand such foods that will enable you to
make quick aud tempting meals, thus
saving at least an hour or so every day
while the cleaning lasts. See that you
have everything at hand, ammonia,
furniture oil, brushes, soup-bark, soap,
tacks, etc. These things are absolutely
necessary. A change of the furniture
about the rooms w ill sometimes add to
a belter effect, Perhaps my recipe for
cleaning soiled carpets will not come
amiss here. We have used it on fine
moquettes, as well as the cheaper grades
of carpet with excellent results. After
the carpets hav been removed, well
beaten and returned to the floor, take a
dime's worth of soap-bark, pour over it
about two gallons of boiling water, let
stand an hour on back of stove (this
should have been prepared before) then
take one or two quarts (at the time) of
this warm soap-bark water In a small
vessel, and with a stiff scrub-brush dip
lightly in and go all over the carpet,
bl ushing it very eveuly. Open the win
dows and doors so as to let plenty of air
id to dry it thoroughly. You will be
surprised at the bright, new appearance
of the carpets. Even If water fades
your carpet, tMs will not iu the leant
injure the color. "Joe's Wife."
Working Uigat and Day. -
The busiest and mightiest little thing
that ever was made is Dr. King's New
Life PilL. Every pill Is a sugar-coated
globule of health, that changes
weakness into strength, listlessness in
to energy, brain-fag into mental power.
They're wonderful in building up the
health. Only 2c. per box at J. N.
Snyder's Drug Store, Somerset, Pa.,
and G. W. Brallier'e Drug Store, Ber
lin, Pa.
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ADVEXTURE OX
AX IRON HORSE.
Thrilling Experience at the Throttle.
From the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road comes a thrilling tale of an ad
venture on the Iron horse, the story of
which has probably never been dupli
cated under similar conditions siuce
railroading has reached the great stage
of development which it now occupies.
Engineers aud firemen lead at all times
a life filled with the most perilous ad
ventures, and from their endless varie
ty they learn to look oa danger the
mere recital of which would appall the
reader whose lot is cast in easier lines
as commonplace.
However, iu the case about to be re
lated the Incidents were of a nature so
dramatic as to even impress the case
hardened nature of the engineer and in
one single night to sprinkle his head
with gray, twenty years before its ad
veut might reasonably have been look
ed for.
The knight of the throttle and lever
who relates this most novel and Inter
esting lnstauce of the dangers which
betet that occupation 14 William II.
Markey. who is at present running one
of the big "1:100" locomotives hauling
the Royal Pdue Line between Wash
ington and this city. Mr. Markey
went into the employ of that company
many years ago as a freight fireman ou
the division between Baltimore and
Marti nsburg, W. Va. He was promot
ed to be an engineer, and later became
a substitute passenger engineer on the
main line via Washington. I fe is nn-
sidered to be one of the most trust
worthy men in the employ of the Bal
timore and Ohio Ituilroad, and his
variety of experiences makes him a
most interesting telker. Ho told his
story in the F.fty-eighth street round
house a few days ago.
'Yes, we meet many strange perils
in our lives, although the mauy pre
cautions which have been thrown
arouud it are said to eradicate the
d-inger. This is true iu regard to the
passengers who are carried, for I really
believe that if by any mischance two
trains would crash together head-on at
the rate of a mile a minute the loss of
life wotdd be confined entirely to the
two engine and possibly the mail and
baggage cars. I can tell you of one
casa in connection with collisions
where we 'dashed apparently head-on
into the rear of a freight train ou a
side track at a speed of seventy miles
au bout Duriug that brief time my
fireman and myself passed through a
few momenta of susjene, the agoni
zing nature of which, can never be de
scribed, an i the m st remarkable feat
ure of it all was that the train which
we expected to hit was gafeouasiJe
track aud we dashed by iu safety.
"The circumstances leading up to
this, for us, appalling tragedy, were
simple in themselves; but they never so
niarlyco.t two humau lives. It was
uight at the time and the entire affair
originated in the omission of the con
ductor of the freight train wuic'u we
had to pass. He forgot to turn the tail
lights otr on his caboose indicating that
he was in to clear.
"Probably you are ignorant of the
fact that when a freight traiu is run
ning on the road at uight it displays
on either side of the rear platform of
the last car a red light. These lights
indicate the dreaded 'hind end,' the
the terror of the unlucky engineer,
who after thundering around a sharp
curve is suddenly confronted by them.
A sight which means utiles then I-
time to stop, which seldom is the cose,
a hind-end colliiion with all its hor
rors. The red lights must always, by
the rules, be kept displayed while the
train is ou the main track f r ths bene
fit of other traius which may be fol
lowing.
Now there is another rule which
states with equal poKiliveues that when
the freight train takes the siding to al
io another train to pass these lights
mmt be turned in their 8ekots, allow
ing them to show green instead of red,
otherwise the engineer of the traiu
thuuderlng down upon them and ex.
peeling to pass in perfect safety would
be uncertaiu whether the freight was
on the same or another track. It is
very difficult to distinguish the actual
1 tie of rails you are up )ti, pjrkicilarly
on a dark night. Of course, after the
train he has waited for has goue by
tho conductor restores the lights men
tioned to red ag-iiu before he pulls out
ou the mai u track. In the case, how
ever, which I am alnut to relate he
forgot to do this and that is what caus
ed all the trouble.
"The night iu question was soma
years agr. I was running engine S!i
on train No. 1, the Cincinnati limited,
west to Martlnsburg, aud would return
from there that night on train No. !,
composed entirely of express cars
which ran through via Washington
and Baltimore to Philadelphia. We
had made the western run all right ou
No. 1 to Martiusburg, and there re
ceived No. 4(1 trom the west nearly an
hour late.
"We alwayj tried when late to make
up a few minutes on this run. Wnen
on regular schedule time it was not ex
traordinarily fast, so when Martins-
burg was left about tweuty minutes
lateor mrre it was not a uiatterof great
difficulty to make up the time before
reaching Washington.
"That night was a fearful one. It
was only a day or so of Christmas aud
the weather was very warm. A driz
zling rain was falliug in the afternoon
and the evening was foggy and dark.
When night carae it was ushered in as
the blackest one I hav ever passed
through In my career. From the time
when we crossed . the Harper's Ferry
bridge on our way t Washiogtor,
with that bard-pulling traiu of eleven
cars, I never saw one fxt aheal of the
engine pilot The headlamp gleam,'!
fitfully upon a m)isture-laden air so
thick that it was with- difficulty that
the white light of the semaphores in
the signal towers could be seen, indi
cating that all was clear. We made
up twenty-two minutes between Ma r
ti nsburg and Washington. Forty miles
mire and we would be home.
"At Washington, as we were to brinj
O Ti
our train straight thro.igh to Balti
more, where we would give it up to a
Philadelphia division engine, we ran
around tho 'Y.'
"While I was oiling arouud, stand
on the 'Y,' I noticed a freight triii
pull out of the yard and start toward
Baltimore.
To this I attached no importance.
We were virtually lu the cht-sw iiha
fast limittsl passenger train when run
ning "1," and nil freight and extra
trains were required to clear us without
any orders iiciug issued to us that they
were iu existence. This feature all
railroad meu understand 'a freight
traiu has absolutely no rights ag-dust a
passenger train.' So he went out
ahead of me aud I thought no more
about iL
' I was delayed agaiu leaving Wash
ington by the breaking of au air hoc
and lost in the yard the time I had
made up. Naturally I was put cot by
this occurrence, and made up my mi'id
to w hip the eld mill X'y't from the Capi
tal to Locust Point, Baltimore, 4 ! miles
in 5- minutes or better, despite the
raging of the elements. In the mean
time the freight ahead of me had
reached Hyaltsville, sit inii-.-s from
Washington, and hercomluctor, think
ing that it wad as far as he could g-t,
backed off on the siding there, with a:
least twenty minutes to spare lfore I
could reasonably be expected to beavj
in sight. But lie forgot to change those
caboose lights w hich I told you about
after getting safe lu on the switch and
locking it free again for the maiu line.
"I got my signal to pull out at 1-1
p. in. As the conductor got tiff the
engine he said: 'All right, Bill, make
her cut her ashes, there is nothing
ahead of us.' Running slow out of
Washington, as the regulations cu!l for,
I did not got the heavy traiu goiug on
the wet rails until wo had pa-sed Ivy
City, three iuiks out. At Lung-Ion,
two miles further, we were going fifty
miles an hour and when wo turned
over the hill on the down grade lead
ing to Hyattsville she was thundering
through the inky blackncssof the night
at a speed which a near as I can judge
must have been seventy miles au hour.
After leaving Langdon, the next sig
nal tower I was to pass was Hyattsville,
where I would see the red or white
light which would deter .nine whether
I wa3 to protvesl or stop.
"As we spun down the grade to
Hayattsviile I caught sight of the target
showing the white light that all was
clear, and as we shot around a sharp
reverse curve to the left there gleamed
upon me at the same moment those
terriblo blinding red lights showing
the hind end of'a train into w hich we
must crush with no prospect other
than ahorrible death staring us iu the
face.
"Bob Rogers was my fireman. He
saw the terrible danger at the same
moment that I did, aud I can hear now
his frenzied shout above the rattle of
the engine over the rails: 'My God,
Bill, look, it Ls all over !' Imie!!ed ly
the instinct of ail engineers in less
time that l takes to tell it, although I
was sitting down I threw the reverse
lever iu the extreme back notch of the
quadrant, and threw ou the airbrake
to the emergency stop with all the eu
ergy born of frantic despair. But
there was unstopping that train in the
short distance intervening between it
and that dread 'hind end.' I can se;
now th.fcte terrible lights, each cue
seemingly as big as a cart wheel, and I
can feel agaia those horrible sensa'ions
of the events of a life tiin glidiug
through the brain ia au instant.
"Suddenly there was a horrible crash
and all was over.
"I recovered, they say, about fifteen
minutes later. My first sensation was
of some one rubbing my wrists and my
eyes opeued upon the faint t! ashes of a
lamp held by the shaking hand of my
conductor. My first .thought, was of
that sickening crash au J of the dead
aud my terrible experience at the m h
inem of coutact. I rapidly recovered,
however, and saw to my surprise that I
was lying on the tender of my own en
gine and that she was still in her nor
mal position on the rails. To my in
epiiries they told me that the freight
e):id'JCtor had not changd the lights,
which caused the fearful scare that we
had experienced. My frautic efforts
to stop- the engine resulted i.i bring
ing it to a halt after we had ruu by the
caboose I had expected to telescope, a
distance of seventeen cars. After a
few moments we started again for Bal
timore. 'The explanation of the dreadful
crash which I had remembered at what
I thought was the moment of collision
was very simple. It appears that my
fireman, Rger, when he saw the sup
p wed bind end, made up his mind at
once to take chances on jumping off
the engine. He did not, however, care
to leap from the locomotive at fif;y
miles an hour without a light aud ac
cordingly he made a frantic clutch for
an ordiaary hand lamp which was be
tween my feet on my si te of the cab
and under the seat.
"The seat was an ordinary swinging
affair which when not up rests against
the side of the cab. It is held in place
as a seat by a simple prop fitting Into a
notch. It aeems that Rgers, when
reaching for th'j lamp, knocked the
prop from under the s-?aL Dwnit
went, with me on top of him, and of
course, to my overwrought imagina
tion, it was the collision.
"This was the most dreadful expe
rience of my life, although it was, as
you see, absolutely devoid of dager.
We couid have passed that freight TU,
OU) miles an hour iu safety. It was all
the conductor's crimiual carelessness
with those lights. Notwithstanding
his long experience he was immediate
ly discharged by the Inquiry hoard,
which was no more than just, for had
we had time to jump we certainly
would have done so and would have
lost our live for nothing other than his
neglect,'" Philadelphia Su nday Times
Accidents come with distressing fre
quency oa the farm. Cuts, bruises,
ting', sprains. Dr. Thomas' Eelectric
0:1 relieves the pain Instantly. Never
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WHOLE NO. 2-181).
JJo Surrender at Harrisbarf.
From ti.a IViiuid-lpiua Iu-jairer.
The lTinn-Martiii-Wariamaker news
bureau at Ilarrisburg is still In business
at thet old stand, and is continuing to
send out matter intended to brace up
i thee-ours-'eof the insurgents. It needs
; bracing up badly, for the attempt that
the insurgents are- making to show
ti .it their cons! ituents are back of thern
lias thus far proved a dismal failure.
I They are now talking very loudly
; about the danger of split in the Re
j publican p:rty if a United States Seti
'ut irsh tll not l: elected. They fear
I that gr.-at trouble will come np-il the
I p irly, or rather they auine to fer it,
f r, as a matter of fact, they have been
trying from the mi'set to destroy party
oi'.,siii. iti'it:. John Wana maker and
his fiicuds I'-ug ago went Ufs'ii the
stump and made deals with the Demo
crats i:i order to eeurc a fusion legisla
ture. Thc ilisiirelits stirred up so
much strife throughout the State I hat
seven Congressional districts were lost
to the Republicans. They were as a
rule opposed to the election of Gover
nor SLme. They have carried their
personal spite into the Legislature, and
they have done l heir very best to de
stroy majority rule.
Talk of dang- r to the Republican
party from such a source, therefore, is
not ouly. ludicrous but impudent They
care nothing for the party. Indeed,
they would like to break it up In order
that they might liad profit to them
selves In the ruins, but they fear to have
the people charge them with their
treachery. Hence all this hypocritical
ta!k from Fliuii-Martin-Wanamaker
sources regtrdiug the party's tl.au-g.-r.
if they reaiV care for their party
why do they not lis.teu tn the voice of
the mj ri?y and elect a United States
Senator. They must know that the
o jop'.e- of Pennsylvania have u- sym
pathy w itii th-'ir personal pi;e move
ment. Tell counties have elected dele
gates to the coming State Convention,
rtnd in ail o tiue counties not one sin
gle FIin:i-M:trii:i-Wanamaker delegate
has b-en ch ksen. In several of these
counties there have been pitched battles
at the polls, and In every instance the
insurgent have been overwhelmingly
defeated. Therj are members of the
Legislature from Blair county who are
voting against 'iay, and yet Blair
county only a few weeks az gave a
pronounced vote in favor of 2'Jay. Two
members from Delaware county for
jiersorjal reasons have broken away
from the m i j irity, and yet Delaware
county has elee'ed liay delegates to
the State Convention without aripp'.e
of opp:siti3n. The voice of tiie people
in behalf of rgalarity is being pro
elaiaied wherever primaries are held.
There is but one less in to be learned
from tiie.-r. primaries, and that is that
the Republican of Pennsylvania will
not support giierriiLtisrn. They believe
m ist heartily iu majority rule, anfl
th insurgents are everywhere beiug
warned that when their time comes
th-y will bj overlhroA-n and repudiat
ed. Tiie principle of majority rule is para
mount, and this principle is represented
by S -n itor i lav just as it w-il 1 be by
Smith, Jones, Brown or Robinson had
eith-r oue of them lieen the party
candidate. Umh-r such circumstances
it is positively absurd for these insur
g nt to sprea I the stories that tj-iay is
a'KMit to withdraw. He cannot with
draw, for the great m j rity of the R
publk'a i party of Penusylvatiia will
not permit itself to be placed in the
fa'sj position of surrendering to a small
and malicious minority.
Titer-? is b it one thin? for the major
ity to d , an I that is to m tin tain the
priuelpies-of the Rp.ibliiMii party aud
d'jfy the insurgents to do their worst
if these iusurgents refuse to permit the
majority to elect a Senatoe at this ses
sion tho insurgent theunelves must
assam ? the responsibility. It i.s not im
probable thai, the new Congress which
meets in IVcemV-r will so change the
lav r-jlatiug t iie election of Senators
as to provide for a plurality election,
and under such circumstances tlie'u
s'lrgonts would be powerles.-. If tois
change is not made, then the Repub
lic in unj riiy cm appeal in all confi
d "in? to the people at the November
election in IM ), when a new Legislature
will be ch sen. Tue m tuner ia which
the primaries rs reflecting the views of
the people shows that the insurgents
can have no hope.
We do not fear a split in the pary
becausj of their animosity. They did
everything they culd to overthrow the
party last N.n-emb-er and they were
routed. They can accomplish nothing
more in the future. They cannot fplit
the party because the splitters in turn
will be split by the overwhelming sen
timent of th ? people.
A Thousand Tongues
Could not express the rapture of Annie
K. Spriuger, of HJ" Howard t., Phil
adelphia, Pa., when she found that Dr.
King's New Discovery for Consump
tion had completely cured her of a
hacking cough that for many years had
made life a burden. All other reme
dies au l dnclor could give her no
help, but she says of this R yal Cure
"it s-kin removed the pain in my chest
and I cau now sleep soundly, some
thing I can scarcely remember doing
b.-fore. I feel like sounding its praises
throughout the Universe." So will
every one who tries Dr. King's New
Discovery forany trouble of the Throat
Chest and Lun. Price ode. and f 1 1.
Trial bottles free at J. N. Snyder's
Drug Store, S mursvt Pa., and G. W.
Brallier's Drug Store, Berlin, Pa.;
every bottle guaranteed.
A Spring Daj ia Billvil.8.
" Whar is the postmaster at?"
"Under the cbiny berry tree, a playin'
of checkers with the mayor."
"An' the sheriff w bar's he?"
"Sliootin' marbles with the coroner."
"An' w bar's the storekeeper?" .
"That's him yander, diggin' bait"
'When does the next train leave ?"
' No telliu'. The couductor an' the
engineer ha tied up aa' gone fishin.
They'll be Ittick, m V lik', 'fore sun
dwn. Jest make yeret'.f at homer
' A'.lauta Coutitutiuu.
Hav Wood Sui pre-:i;4 a Riot.
Willie th Americans wete cleaning
the street and court- and house end
jails of Santiago, and were taking care
of the siek and wounded and starving,
ud were administering all the a!!'.iii
of the city work: us sixtieii hourt-aU
day the Cuban residems held aloef,
negieclicg even to call and pay their
respects to tba occupant of the pdace.
There were no public met-M ,;?, uocon
tributioui, no private eff-. ts of assist
ance, no mov. nient fi r tiu- s' i of Cu
ban rey Cuc?, mvc by a ferniem
lers of the local i han;' r e.-f atuuieue.
The church, represented ly au areh
bishop, whose salary under tiie -M
regime had been Jls.ixn) a year, and by
a number of Spanish priests aiid differ
ent orders, did not turn a band for the
relief cf the city or f the province.
There was some activity, however, but
of a different kind. Among the Cu
baus the fact that certain Spanish
officials bad beeu retained iu cttiee by
the Americans very w isely retained,
j too, a subsequent events have prove. I
had created a feeling of positive dis
content and antagonism. This came
to a climax on the evening of Septem
ber 23, the day on which General
Calixto Garcia paid bis niemor.ib:
visit te Santiago.
Surrounding the Plaath Anna's are
four prominent buildings the e! hedra',
the paN'V, lh club Sau Carlos, which
is the Ciitiau stronghold, ntd the Spai.
isli fhi'. The two I.tUcr (s- upy cor
ners triangularly opixs.it", with th
plaza between them. On t lie ui',iit in
question, alsml s o'eio k, ( fi tei ui Wood
was w riting iu his office in tiie palace.
At the outer d'r stood :t si.! -try sen
tinel, armed with a ri'.l-. Suddenly
there b.irst ai-rs the p!;,a from tho
Sin Cario chil", a n:t K of Cuban -probably
olio. Within a f- w minutes a
shower of stones, bricks, bottles and
other missiles struck the Spanish club,
smashing windows and doors. A man,
hs.tless and out ef breath, rushed up to
the sentry at the palace? entrance an. I
shouted: "Where's the gei:eia!'.' tuick!
The Cubans are trying t take the?
town!"
General Wood was lei-anvly folding
up his papers when the sentry reach
ed him. "I know it," he t:d l-efore
the man had time to speak. ' I have
heard the row. We will goevtrond
stop it."
He picked up his riding whip, the
only weapon he evr carris. and, ac
companied by the one American sol
dier, strolled across to the scene of tl.e
trouble. The peplo in the Sptni-li
club had got it pretty well clos-xd up,
but the excited Cubans w re still lie
fore it, throwing thi'it;- i'd shouting
imprecations, and evi-u trying to forc
a way in by the m.iiu en:rar.-e.
"Just shove tiu-i.n ha--', sentry," said
General Wocd quietly.
Around sw;ing the riile, and iu much
less time than is taken in the telling a
way was cleared iu front of the door.
"Now shisit the tirst ma.i who places
his foot upon that slip," added the
general in his usual dditie r-te manner.
Then he turned and strolled back to
the palace and his writing. Within an
hour the mob had dispersed, subdued
by two men, oue rille and a riding
whip. And the le-sou is still kept in
gixnl memory.
Condition of Porto Rico.
The American mis.-im; try associa
tion, through its secretary. Rev. A. K.
Beard, D. D , whom i: wut to Porto
Rico as its special commissioner, ha
issued a statement of the conditions in
that island ; as related to population,
education, homes and opportunity-
for a new Americanism. In part, the
statement is as follow :
A census of Porto R:c lately taken
gives the population as s:i i,;i, which
may be divided in round numbers a
follows: Wltite, .-hM:M; colored .".!,
Or), of whom atoiit !!,0 l) are black.
This gives a d mse p emulation of nearly
WJ to the square mile. The peasants,
orgibaros, with theinesti.-isaiid blacks,
together form ti.e c!a-s cf unskilled
laborers. They are ihSm r.lly pr, and
literacy live from hand to mouth.
Their cabins, or "shacks," arc set on
poles driven into tiie ground, the tl- or
being raised a few feel. The average
household furniture consis's of a few
dishes and utensils made of calabash
shtlls or gourds, wPh some rude
earthenware. A little patch of laud
for the plantain grave or some corn or
sweet potatoes, possibly a cow, a pig
ami a diminutive houso of Gothic
architecture, form the property and
provision for life. The people se ldom
get any meat, aud but little bread, for
food, as none of the cereals grow well
there. Their staple food is the ba
nana. Out of VK,nn there are lll,.:s') wh.v
can read, but .f the4; lioi" cannot
write. Nearly sxmum are without
knowledge lieyond that f tht ir own
hut.
- One-ha!f of the pi'i!al:oii is in
towns. All of the towns are built on
the same general plan, and in most of
them four of tiie fle sens- are con
stantly offended. Odors are always iu
evidence. A to feeling, the opportun
ities for the study of entomology are
unbounded. As to ta.-te, everything is
saturated with garlic.
Robbed the Grave.
A startling incident, of which Mr.
John Oliver of P.iilalelpnio, was the
subject, Is narrated by him as follows.
'I was iu a most drea iful condition.
My skin was almost yellow, eye sunk
en, tongue coated, piin coulinually in
back and sides, no appetite gradually
growing weaker day by day. Three
physicians hail given mo tip. fortu
nately, a friend advised try in ' Elec
tric Bitters;' and to my great joy and
surprise, the first bottle made a decided
Improvement. I continued their Use
for three weeks, and am now a well
man. I kno- they mv. ruy life and
rohtied the grave of an '.iicr victim.'
No one should fail to try them. Only
50 cents, at J. N. Snyder's Drug Store,
Somerset Pa., and G. W. Erallier's
Drug Store, Berlin, Pa,
He Should Learn.
"Bryan's forte Is speech making,"
said an ardent silverite.
"In other word, his forte is hi.
tongue," said a gold b'ig.
"I suppe you cuild put it that
way."
"But he needs to learn to ho! this
forte."
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on earth. 2"ct.ahx. Care guaran
teed. Sold at J. Snyder's Drug
Store, Somerset Pa, and G. W. Bral
ller's Drug Store, Berlin, P.