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Top Buggies $44.50; Buckwagons $33; Horse Collars, either buggy or t am, $1.00; Buggy Whips 10c; Rawhide Buggy Whips 50c; Whalebone Whips, one-half length, 50c. Two seat Spring Wagons S3B; Buggy Tops, good rubber, $9.50; Single trees, Shafts, Wheels, Sweat Pads, Check Lines and everything be longing to harness. Our Own Make Team Harness $22 complete, with breeching and collars. All kinds of harness and parts of harness made to order. We employ the best workmen and use the best leather. Come and see us. We never advertised a lie in our life and are not doing it now. S. B. Martincourt & Co. 128 East Jefferson Street, BUTLER, - PA. P. S. Price reduced on Kramer Wagons, the best wagon on earth and everybody knows it. Mr,mi ililil This Week At Fred H. Goettler's NEW SHOE STORE No. 125 N. Main St., Next Door to Duffy's. Men's Fine Dress Shoes, Lace or Gaiter, tip or plain toe $1.25. Men's Solid Working Shoes 95c. Men's Velvet Slippers 45c Ladies' Carpet Slippers 23c. 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Compare our work with any Standard Work mad*: or sold in the state. Our victorious motto, "Wc harmonize the finest work with the promptest setvice and the lowest \ rices for the quality of work." Beware of tramp artists and irresponsible parties and strangers. Have your work done by reliable and re sponsible parties that guarantee all work satisfactory. Call and examine our work and samples and read our many tes timonials. THE HARDMAN ART COMPANY. J. S. YOUNG. WM. COOPER YOUNG & COOPER, I MERCHANT TAILORS I Have opened at S. E. corner of Main and Diamond Streets, Butler, with all the latest styles in Spring Suitings. Fit and Workmanship Guaranted. Prices as low as the lowest. TRY US. DIAMOND* M"N,H.KA.MUNOH. w . AKfpISH WWW A > OICNTH' GOLI), LAWKS' UOI.I>, W JtX X ( GENTS'HILVKK, I.AUIKH'CHATI.AIN. Tli* HI H*T n V 1 (i " ld fi""- K - ir WW JwJUK*. M / ( hkiOH. Uncaleti. Etc. IJiTT T» WWW % <> . 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A business that keeps grow ing through a season of de pression, such as the country has experienced, is an evi dence that people realize they save money by trading with us. We know, and always have known, t!'e days of large profits are past. Without question we are giving more for the money than last year. Our stock is larger to select from than last year. CALL AND SEE US. Colbert & Dale. SPECIAL SALE OF PANTS. tg OO Pants for $5.00. $5 50 Pants for $4 50. $5 00 Punt* for $4.00. $4 50 Pants for s.'l 50. 14.00 Pan is lor s.'{ 00. # $3.00 Punts for $4.60, $ J 50 Paul* lor $1.75. $2.00 Pai.tß for $1.25. Warranted Jean Pants sold hy none for less than SI.OO, %» for 89c. :: %* THE RACKET STORE 120 South Main Street, Butler, Pp., WALL PAPER. SPRING PATTERNS HAVE ARIUVEI) Retail price lower tlian ever. Window Shades,etc. AT DOUGLASS, Near P. O. - - 241 8. J/aiu St* : ifcltopilil ■■ ■ —' ' <Sv^~ [COPYRIGHT. 1894.] "I.APORT, IIEBE'S A GENTLEMA.V WANTS TO TALK TO VOU." CHAPTER L In the early autumn of 18— a young man who was registered at the Lexing ton (Ky.) military academy as Surden Bench, aged twenty-two. got up about three o'clock in the morning and, tak ing eight hundred dollars belonging to the academy and his fellow-6tudents, dec—iiped. The significance of the circumstance at the time arose from the discovery of the deliberate and ingenious method pursued by Bench to accomplish his purpose. He had conceived some kind of a town celebration and induced the young men to write home for funds. He also succeeded in getting them to make him the depository of the money, which according to the books amount ed to eight hundred and fifty-four dol lars. He disappeared from Lexington and all the efforts of tho faculty and the authorities to trace him failed. It is now known that when he left the academy he struck across country to the Salt river, where he had a skiff in hiding and presumably a negro con federate. With characteristic Ken tucky impulse, the young men of the school held an indignation meeting and offered the eight hundred dollars to anyone who would capture him and turn him over to the authorities. This reward put upon his trail several western deputy sheriffs who tracked him to Cairo, 111., where it was sus pected that he had changed his boat, bought ammunition and supplies and set cT down the Mississippi, traveling generally in the night and hiding in the bayous during the day. IJeputy Sheriff Col. Abner Petingill, of Frankfort, published in tho Louis ville Journal a year later a communi cation setting forth that his party had tracked Bench to a bayou, somewhere between Tiptonville and Fulton, on the Tennessee shore, where the fugi tive had sunk his boat and struck through the wild tract of country ex tending to what is known as tho "High land Rim," in Henderson county. This communication is curious in one state ment. It says: "We discovered, after much tedious searching, the sunken boat and then struck his trail in the woods. We had not followed it far be fore wc came to the conclusion that he was accompanied by a woman." Col. Petingill then states that it was his belief and the belief of his party that Bench met with an accident some where on the Him, for all traces of him disappeared, and after camping out for two weeks in the wilderness and dis covering no new trail the party re turned. The fact is Bench had accidentally discovered the Laran cavc. In his endeavor to escape from iiis pursuers, he had struck straight up the rim and in jumping from one of the upturned cretaceous strata lie had landed upon a depression which gave way beneath his weight and he fell perpendicularly into a crevice twelvo feet deep. This crevice has since be come famous as the Laran portal. At its bottom he discovered tho de scent which led to the arena and hav ing exploited the place, he und his companion lived thereuntil the follow ing winter. As soon as he felt satis fied that the search was given over, he sent the woman out for supplies and built a brush house over the opening to conceal it from tho negroes who brought them game and provisions. They must have remained in and about the Laran cavo very nearly three months. In that time Bench mails a very thorough investigation of it und pre pared maps and topographical dia grams of the surrounding country. Home of these drawings may now ho (uscn at the Government museum at Hock Island, and, considering the rudo means at IJcnch'a command, they are singularly careful and accurate speci mens of cartography. In those three months ISench had conceived and worked out one of the most astounding and gigantic schemes with which the history of audacity and indomitable will makes us acquainted. CHAPTER 1L He is not heard of again until five years* have elapsed, and the second event of which it is necessary briefly to make mention here occurred exact ly three months before he came to the surface in the furtherance of his vast project. In the winter of 18— occurred the revolution in Venezuela known as the -gas rebellion. A Spanish bark, th- Valencia, carrying arms and sup plies for the insurgents which had been bought in Kngland, encountered a heavy storm while off the Gulf of Mar acabo, and springing a leak ran off past Point Oalllnaa, and the captain, in order to relieve hlacraft, threw over at flood-tide two four-inch breech loading rifled steel guns, at a polnl called the Itahiata Hank. The mate of this vessel claimed to be an American and when the Valencia was captured two days later he managed to escape by connivance of the authorities and went straight to New Orleans. Jt is ■upposed that he met ISench there. At all events, he went bade to Caracas as the revolution was over and is It no™ ti to have bought up, on some plea or other, the shells and ammuni tion originally shipped with the guns that were lost and for which the gov ernment had no use. The guns, however, were not lost. They lay in plain sight on tin; Itahiata banlt at lyw waUy, a ml, having been Carefully sealed, hud suffered little tUwwtc- BTTTLER.PA.,FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1894. CHAPTER 11L Three months later Bench comes to the surface at the Moyamensing prison, now a f deral penal establishment. He arrived there as the representative ■>f an influential New York paper with i letter to the governor—the officer that under the old system we knew as the warden. « And here the story of the great con spiracy properly begins. A card was brought to the official bearing the name of "Andrew Kent," with the title of the New York news paper in the corner, and it was fol lowed by a well-dressed man of about thirty, whose easy dignity and in formal heartiness impressed the warden favorably. "You are Gov. Ixtel, I presume?" The governor smiled and said he was. "I am from the New York newspaper whoso name you saw on the card. I fu~t\i libbrSbi ! §u "I HAVE lIKEX SENT ON AN ERRAND WHICH THIS I.ETTER WII.L EXI'I.AIN." have been sent on an errand which this letter will explain." The governor put on his glasses and read the letter that was handed to him. It ran as follows: "To tiik Ooveiisob or the Fsdcbal Pris on, Etc, Etc.: Tho bearer of thin, Mr. Kent, Is connected with the stuff of this paper and la sent to you to obtain, If possible, an Interview with the prisoner Jean I.aport, now under »en tenco for manslaughter. The Interests of tbo political party now In d° w " can be materially advanced If this man can be Induced to talk, and. If possible, furnish some Information con cerning his confederates In a vast scheme to rob tbe government It Is asaumeil that tne pris oner, who Is virtually under a life sentence, can have no good reason for longer keeping silent, and It Is thought by the managers of tills paper that an adroit man, like the bearnr of this, If furnished tho facilities, may succeed In eliciting tho Information, which will bo of great service In thfrcotnlng campaign to tho administration, of which you are a loyal adherent ' Respectfully, etc., etc." Gov. Ixtel, a plethoric aud good-na tured man when not dealing with con victs, let his hand drop to his side with the letter in it. With tho other he took off his glasses and looked at Mr. Kent with a broad smile. "Why, bless your enterprising soul," ho said, "that old alligator won't talk. You couldn't pump ten words out of him if you worked a month." "Nevertheless." replied Mr. Kent, "I am here to inal<o the attempt with your kind permission." "Take a seat," said the governor. "I never heard that Laport was mixed tip in politics." Mr. Kent sat down. "Well, sir, it isn't generally known But he is nevertheless the depository of certain secrets which to hold will no longer l»e of any service to him and which if he will give them away, as we say, will secure for him the influence of a num ber of powerful friends who can, if they set to work, get him a commuta tion of sentence." Mr. Kent was evidently a clever talker: lie was thoroughly posted in the political situation; he brought with him from New York a good deal of Inside news and several rattling stories that w»re new. lie candidly confessed that In; hail no stomach for this job and wanted to be back in the metropolis. But duty was duty and he'd have to make the attempt. He did not think he'd get much out of it, but if he did it would bo a feather in tho cap of the pr<*v-nt administration anil an additional plume for himself. Mr Kent talked so long that tho governor invited him to take dinner with his family, and the guest proved such an Interesting talker that Mrs. Ixtel late in tin* aft'-rnoon promised to the governor that it would lie far more hospitable to have the gentleman staj with them than to go off to a hotel. lie played backgammon that night with the governor; sang the latest songs for Miss Ixtel and accompanied himself on the piano; und he t at up till twelve o'clock talking politics and drinking the governor's whisky. The next day about nine o'clock ic the morning, the prisoner, a round shouldered ojd man with a great deal of character In his square jaw and massive chin and deep-set scintillanl blaek eyes, was brought Into tlif office of the prit.on. No one was pre* ent but tho governor and the riqxirter "Laport," said the governor, "hcrc'i a gentleman wants to talk to you. 1 hope you'll treat him with inoro con sideration Kin you do me." Tho old man looked from one of tin men to the other with a sullen do fiance. "You can save yourself tin trouble," he said. "I've nothing to say.' lie folded his arms and stood looking at the ceiling. "Well, sit down and be comfortable if you can't be human," hald the gov ernor. a chair.'' - "~rr ■ ivent tfien beg-an a free and easy explanation to which Laport paid very little attention. He approached the subject of his inquiry, the governor thought, with great tact, and then asked one or two unimportant ques tions. The only answer the man made was to turn to the governor. "Is there anything in my conduct" he said, "to warrant you in inflicting this extra punishment on me? Send me back to my work." "I'm inclined," said the governor, "to put you in a dark cell for a week to punish you for your infernal obsti nacy. I've treated jou altogether too well, old man." The old man gave a slight shrug of his shoulders, but was silent. Kent began to apologize for him, and, as coaxingly as he could, asked him several more questions. To one of them he growled out a sullen "no," and was on the point of saying some thing else when one of the guards came in with a message for the gov ernor, at which he relapsed into si lence, and no further attempts could induce him to say a word. When he had been taken away the governor said: "You see I was right when I toldyou it was a hopeless task." "On the contrary," said Kent, "I feel quite encouraged. I've only been feel ing of him." "I think I'll lock him up for a day or two. It will make him civil." "I wish," said Kent, "you'd lock mo up with him for half an hour. If I don't make any headway then, I'll give up the job and go back." The next day the governor's family went to a church picnic and Kent ac companied them. He proved on this occasion to bo the life of the little party. There seemed to be nothing that he could not uo, from making an omelette in the woods to making a speech to the children. The governor was really quite proud of his guest. Kent had now been three days in&ido the prison jurisdiction, and how well he had improved his time appeared afterwards. When they were coming home from the picnic he told Mrs. Ixtel that he had overstayed his time and must finish up his business on the morrow. If the governor would lock him up with Laport he thought he could make the fellow confidential. The upshot of all this was that on the fourth day Kent was taken to La port's cell, carrying nothing but a pencil and pad which the governor had furnished him, and jocularly remark ing as he was going through the cor ridor that they ought to search him first,for he might have some files about him and let that rascal out to teach the world a golden silence. The governor laughed, as he now did at almost everything Kent said, and only remarked: "If hegetsaway from me, I'll take all the blame." "All right," rejoined Kent, "but, as you value a human life, don't forget to let me out inside of tho half hour. Make it twenty minutes." They entered the cell together. La port was sitting on the stone floor with his head between his knees. He neither rose nor looked up as they came in. The place was dimly lit by one embrasure. It was furnished with an iron pallet and a pail. Kent went toward the light and looked at a large gold watch. "It is ten minutes of ten," he said. "Give me till a quarter past." Laport looked up and addressed him self to the governor: "Arc you going to put this lunatic on me?" he said, "till I knock my brains out against these walls?" "The best way to get rid of him," replied the governor, "is to treat him civilly. He doesn't want to annoy you, and he comes from some of your friends." "Yes," said Kent, "you can treat me confidentially. Tho governor is going to leave us together for a few moments. If you will answer some of my ques tions I can be of service to you." Laport dropped his head between his hands. Tho governor gave a shrug and turned to the door. "I've heard of squeezing pig-lead out of a sponge," ho said. "It's holiday work to squeezing that old bundle of scrap-iron." "For God's sake, don't forget mo when the time's up," said Kent, and sat down on the iron bed. Tho governor then went out. Kent heard tho great bolt shot with an iron clang. "Now then," ho said so that tho Governor could hear him on tho other side of tho door if ho listened. "This Is the last chanco I've got to talk to you, my friend. If you will tell mo what I want to know it will secure you the influence of powerful friends." Fie listened. He heard the retreat ing footsteps of the governor in tho corridor. He sprang softly but quickly to the iron door and put his ear down. The governor was some distance away. Laport looked up with something like a momentary Interest in the strange actions. "Now listen to me, Jean Laport," said Kent, dropping his voice, "I've just twenty minutes to say all I've got to tell you. 1 have come here to liber ate you. All this business of newspa per and politics is a blind to get in here. I can stay here three days more. In that time I can free you. You must follow my directions minutely. In three interviews I can get the tools to you. I have made all the arrange ments to take care of you when you are outside the walls. Is there any chance of their changing your cell?" Laport looked at Kent suspiciously. "What do you want to free me for?" he asked. "I know your whole history," re plied Kent, "and I sympathize with you. Hut sympathy has nothing to do with my actions. I want your help. You are the best mechanician in the country. I have work for you - let that suffice. If they do not change your cell within livedayayou are a frco man. Now, listen. The first thing to do is to get a stone out in the darkest corner of the cell so as to hide the tools I bring you. Here is the thin steel knife to do It. ami here is the muriatic acid and syringe to soften the mor tar." Kent took from an inner breast pocket as he spoUe a tool which he screwed together, a small phial and a little syringe. "You are to gather the mortar in this handkerchief and I will take It away when I next see you. The wall on that side Is part of the old wall of the original penitentiary. It was built by contract and is only faced up with blocks; the center Is filled in with cracked stone. You can loosen one of those blocks before to-morrow and I will bring you the Implements to cut that bar and the wire to make the descent. I have made the measure mentof all the apaces outside, watched the system of gna'd relief—and will furnish you a plan for every foot of your way." Laport was turning the tool over and inspecting it with a workman's ad miration. Kent continued: "Yoti are to escape by the window. It is twelve feet above the laundry shed. Th« window bar is iron, not even cas« hardened. You are to work at It on Friday when the engine in the laun dry is running. Kroiu the corner of the laundry to tin- angle of the prison wall eust i-. fifty feet. The guard can not see you till you get to the wall, and if you get there at the right time he will lie on the eastern stretch and you will l>e In tin- shadow of the main building. There will he a wire over the wall In the far angle. Once you are over 1 will ttfkv care of you- £U Bt»c you further directions to morrow. You must clearly understand that to carry out this scheme you must remain in this cell and. to insure your stay ing here, you must assfcit me in deceiv ing the governor. I shall tell him that you complained of the confine ment and shall advise him to keep yon here till I get all the information I want." Kent stopped and listened. He saw that the prospect of freedom had awakened a (lash of interest in the old man's C3*e. "What do you want me to do," asked Laport, "that you take all this trouble?" "I want to employ your genius," said Kent, "and pay you handsomely. If you don't like the employment, you are at liberty to go and do as you please. But you will not object to it. There is no time to discuss that now. I will tell the governor that I am get ting the information I want from you. I have already invented a plausible story. He will let me come back here to-morrow Do your work to-night so that when I bring you the tools you will have a place to put them. Every thing depends on your loosening one of those stones to-night in case they examine your cell. Follow my direc tions and I will give yon your liberty. Stand still a moment and let mc meas ure you." He took a little piece of paper and a tiny tape line from his pocket. "You understand," he said, "that it is to get a disguise ready that will fit you. To morrow I will bring you two blank checks to sign. You will understand later what they are for." A moment later a step was heard in the corridor, and Kent was sure the governor was listening. He was not mistaken. What the governor heard in part was this: "Now then why not tell me the rest of it? These men can do you no serv ice now, and the friends of the ad ministration will secure your pardon if they are furnished with all the facts. You have told me enough to make it worth my while to stay here another day to (ret the rest of it and I'm anx ious to get back." The governor shot the bolt and open ing the door looked in. "Time," he said. Kent appeared to be so engrossed in his interview that he did not instantly perceive the entrance of the officer, but went on talking to Laport. "Think it over," he said. "Your own personal comfort if not your freedom may be in volved in it." Then he and the governor left the cell. The first thing that Kent did was to tell the governor that he had succeeded 77'. \ j "I HAVE COME IIKRE TO LIBERATE you!" in unsealing Laport's lips and had al ready got from him some intimations of the political gang which had at tempted to use him. Ho then narrated a story of his own invention which was so ingeniously fabricated that the governor was deeply interested and himself proposed that Kent should stay until ho had got the whole of it and this Kent at last consented to do, merely remarking: "I'd keep the fel low in that cell till I get it, if I were you. The confinement galls him and I have no doubt he will sooner or later give away the whole matter in order to get back to the workshop. Keep him locked up twenty-four hours longer." The next day there was another interview. The moment Kent was alone with the prisoner, he asked: "Hid you get tho stone out?" Laport took from his breast where it had been concealed under his woolen shirt, a small folded packet. Kent took it, fingered it a moment, and put it in his hip pocket. The two men then went to the. dark corner of the cell ar.d Laport, getting down on his knees, showed him that he had loosened one of the small flagstones in the flooring. Kent looked closely at the work, saw that no one could perceive the differ ence in the seams unless he brought a light to it and merely said: "Good." Then tho two men sat down on the edge of the iron bed. Kent hail brought with him a circular steel cutting saw which fitted into the case of his gold watch. The brace and other appliances ho took from differ ent parts of his person, and Laport, with the instant divination of n me chanician, fitted them together. They were slender and apparently fragile, but had been made by a surgical instrument manufacturer, anil were of the finest material. Laport examined them with unconcealed admiration. Kent, however, did not allow him to waste the fraction of a minute. "Put it away at once," he said. Laport touched tho flat stone with his foot on one corner; it tipped at the pressure; he inserted his finger and, lifting it up. placed the implements in the space be neath. lie also received from Kent a little coll of steel wire. "It is to lot you down from the window to the laundry roof," he said. "Every inch of it has been tested up to live hundred pounds. But all this mechanical assist ance is of no sort of avail if you fail to follow out my schedule of time and scrupulously fit every move to my arranged programme. You will cut the bar to-inorrow while the engine in the laundry is running. How long do you calculate it will take you?" "If it is an iron bar, I can do it in two hours with that saw." "Very good. You arc to leave u seg ment of iron to hold it. in it* place un<l rub the runt into tho fresh cut. You are to get out the window on Naturday morning at exactly half-past two to the minute. I will bring you to-mor row u tiny duplicate watch set to one I have myself, and a little box of wax matches. I will also bring- you a pair of kl<l gloves padded, MI that you can lists tin- loops in the wire without cut ti nff your bands. You must he at the far ungle In the vtall exactly ten min nU'ii later and you will find the other wire thrown over for you. It will not do to have it there before and you aro to pull it after you when you aro on the other side. One other thing: You must manage in some way to wt tho bar baclc lu its place. No ouo will look into your cell till five o'clock from the wicket in the door, but the absence of tho bar might be detected by the patrol on the wall, lie carries a bull's-eye. Can you do that?" "Yes," said Uport, "if I have any foothi*' 1 on the wire and you cau bring me '.ail an ounce of gum shellac soft ened in alcohol." "Very good. You will have eight minutes to get over the wall and you will land In a high clump of jimson weeds. I want you to remember the rest of my direction*. It is necessary that you commit then to memory. At time you ftriid in the wcvdg* thcrv will be a man on a horse in the road and he will start east at break-neck speed. You are to give no heed to him, but cross the road, drop over the b&nk —it is shale and cinders and will leave no footprints—and turn to the left and follow it west for on* hundred feet where you will come to a culvert and brook crossing. You are to take to the middle of this stream and follow the bed five hundred feet, rolling your trousers up so as to keep tliem drjr, un til you come to an outhouse painted red, which overhangs it. Light a match and if there are two crosses in chalk on the lowest clapboard, you will know that is the place to turn. Then follow the path from the outhouse up to the dwelling, but be careful to walk on the gravel and not in the grass. There is a hack kitchen with a side door and a common latch. It will be open. There will be a hot fire burning in the large kitchen stove. You are to lock the door and divest yourself of every bit of clothing and burn it there before doing anything else and see that all the shreds are de stroyed. When that is done, go to the second story, front room, where yon will find the disguise you are to wear. In the breast pocket of the blouse are three photographs of the man who has been wearing it. Yon are to be care ful about-the wig and mustache. You ought to be in the upper room not later than four. The alarm will bo giveu about five-thirty. That will give you an hour and a half to complete the dis guise and the sun will be up. At that moment yon will take a paint pot and brush which are in the room and get upon the ladder in front of the house and proceed to paint the siding at the place where the job is left unfinished. You are to speak very little English. You will be fifteen feet above the street. You are to answer all ques tions in a guttural and unintelligible manner. The main entrance of the prison is nearly opposite that house. The men in the prison office are ulready familiar with your figure on the ladder and regard you as a stupid Alsatian who has hired the place and is fitting it up as a saloon. At five-thirty I ex pert a wire will be sent from the near est hamlet (fifteen miles east) that an escaped prisoner has passed through on a horse. You will be able from your perch if you are quick-witted, to discern by the movements at the prison entrance if the chase is taken up in that direction. If it is, you will hare twenty-four hours start, for they will not catch my man inside of that time, and when they do, they will be unable to identify him. In the blouse will be a small pocket compass and a little map. At exactly twelve-fifteen, when all the farm hands are at dinner, you will take a basket on your arm and set out leis urely across the stubble-field, south of the house. You are to follow the path across the field in a southwesterly di rection. When you reach the stile at the stone wall, two paths are seen on the other side; take the path that goes down to the wood. The moment you are in the densest part of the grove, you are to make the most speed you can, fol lowing the path by the brookside until you come to an old and ruined mill a mile west. You will sit down off the old mill stone in the grass and wait till you hear some one singing "Home Sweet Home." It is the signal that all is safe and it will be a woman's voice. You are instantly to enter the old mill and follow exactly the directions of the lady you will meet there, bearing in mind only this, that a woman haa not a man's sense of time, and you will be missed and inquired for some time during the afternoon and everything will then depend on your speed of movement after you leave the mill. The arrangement* from that point are perfect. Delay alone may make them miscarry. Can you repeat all these points to me?" (TO BK CONTINUED.) fflitn to Ha Happy Th»Ofh Married. Mrs. De Style—There were ninety dobutantes in our set last season, and only nineteen young men. Isn't it horrid? Prof. Graybeard —Possibly the other young men have emigrated to Mexico. "Mercy! What can be the attraction down there?" "The girls are very pretty, their fash ions seldom change, and they never wear bonnets." —N. Y. Weekly. Not Very Encouraging. Johnnie Masher—l dreamt last night that 1 proposed to you. Ksmereldu Longcoffln—There is evi dently a bond of sympathy between us. I, too, dreamed last night that you proposed, and that I rejected you uud then my big brother kicked you down the front steps, and the dog bit a chunk out of you.—Alex Sweet, In Texas Siftings. No Evidence. "I understand that the deceased was a man of very nervous disposition and given to petulance," said the old lady to the undertaker. "I didn't notice It, ma'am," replied the undertaker. "I've been busy with hi in for the pust forty-eight hours, and he showed no signs of petulance — but then most corpses Is quiet."— Judge. PATENT APPI.IED fOR. Mrs. Muldoon—llggobbs, neclsslty be tlirr mother of invention, but It's mesilf thot Invlntcd this to dthe Invy av me nayburs.—l'uck. Tba War It Will Ha. "I'op, how aru they going to collect the income tax when it goes Into force?" "They are going to leave It to every body's honor, Hobby." "Pop, will everybody that has an in eome have honor?" "Yes, Hobby, but in inverse ratio. The bigger the income, the less honor they will have."—Life. Tita Uaclialor'a WUI. There «ui Jolly bachelor Who died at eighty eight. And by till will the good man left The whole of hl» em ate To women who bad answered nay. When anked by Ulm Ui wed, Tor he declared he owed to them The hai>t>y Ufa he'd lad —Helen W Grow, In Ltfs. A ItrquMt. Wilbur lsn't It the yeast that makes the bread rise until It Is half a foot thick? Itridget—Yes, Wilbur. Wilbur--Then I wish you would put uuie In the pies, aud make them half a fuutr UiiUt, toy—XVway 'jrtc- NO IB TO PRESERVE ROADS. Wagon Manufacturer* Kqst Ctopmt* with Hold Kulldtrs. The subject of good roads is one of great interest to the community In general aad to farmers in particular. Good roads enable the farmer to mar ket his produce at all times in the year and secure his supplies at less expense for iiauling, with less wear and tear to vehicles and injury to animals, beside* which thev result in bringing together more closely the members of the agri cultural community, and thereby in crease the social intercourse of farmers. Of course, the building of good roada is expensive work, but it pays. If it did not would we find England, France, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Swed en and manv other civilized countries PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEW OF ▲ BTKEKT IX AJt ILLINOIS TOWN IN SPRING. building the best roads they can in the face of difficulties which to us would be appalling? The poor Swiss have built roads through gorges and around preci pices which would seem impassable, and which must have cost over $1,000,• 000 per mile. These nations are all eminently prac tical. They have not gone Into the business so extensively simply for the purpose of t>eautlfying the land. That is a very subordinate one. It is a ques tion of hard cash. It Is estimated In England that In the mere saving in cost by reducing their roada to suoh a condition that three horses can do the work of four there has been an econ omy of 9100,000,000 effected annually. But the roads are not entirely at fault In some parts of the country they have been nicely graded only to be rapidly destroyed by the narrow tired wagons heavily laden. The move ment In favor of wide tires for draught vehicles needs to be encouraged. Re peated experiments havo proved that wheels with tires 3H inches wide cause double the wear of wheels which hare 4X inch tires The wide tire has a ten dency to roll the roadbed and keep It smooth at the same time, while the narrow one cuts it up and requires more hauling force for the same woight of load, besides spoiling the thorough fare. Most of the European countries have laws regulatincr this matter. Iu Franco the market wagon* have tires from three to ten inches in width, usually four to six inches, and the rear axle Is the longest, so that the hind wheels run on a line outside of the fore wheels, the vehicle being thus a road maker instead of a road-destroyer. In England it has not been found profit able to Increase the width much beyond four and a half inches, exoept in case* of waprons without springs, where they are somotlmes made as wide as six Inches. It is essential that some action be taken, for narrow tires will soon ruin the best road ever made.—N. Y. World. ROAD CONSTRUCTION. The Subject Discussed by an Inftueatlal Missouri Journal. Th£ road question in the different states continues to excite a good deal of attention, and has given rise to muoh discussion concerning the best way to carry forward tho improvement Is some states which huve taken charge of the building and keeping in order of the public roods, there hat been some controversy about Ihii policy of employ ing convict labor for the work. It la reported that the experiment in New York stato has been a success. The largest item of cost there has been the expense of guarding tho prisoners, and recapturing those who escape. It has beeu troublesome and costly to main tain camps, kitchens and supplies. The answer is that it costs a good deal of money anyhow to keep the convicts in idleness within the penitentiary walla, and that the dlfferenoe between that cost and the expense of putting thonl in camps on tho roads is more than counterbalanced by the Improved con dition of the men and their exemption from slcUnetts and hospital charges. They must be carod for and supported; they cannot be allowed to oome in com petition with artisans and skilled work man in factories and laboratories, and altogether it is perhaps about the beat use that can be made of them to put them at work on the public roads. We do not think the convict side of the question will cut any figure in thU state. When the legislature meets next winter, publlo opinion will have been pretty well settled us to the beat plan of carrying forward the publio road improvement. The matter has been thoroughly discussed by the country proas, and tho principal point already gained is that a thorough system of road-building must bo undertaken In every part of the state. If there la to bo uny state legislation in regard td the matter, it can be easily obtained. Many ot the counties are already fore handed In the work, and feel able to carry forward all that may be neoee sary. There U a willingness on the fmrt of the people to be taxed for the mprovemont, and, no doubt* many (it tho counties will issue and eell bond* to raise the necessary money. It la, al together, about one of the best move ments for the development of the state that has been Inaugurated for many years, and we hope it may be pushed In qt^Baylngs. rail of FraspscU. Paterfamilias—Hare yon any proa pcctit of being able to properly support my daughter? Youthful Suitor—Ohl ves. In fact, I might nay that everything In that r» spect is purely prospective. —N. Yi World. Ho«w from Eiftriot*. ( The Teacher—Johnny, you may teU ua what you know about the season of spring. T»»e Chioago Iloy—Spring it a short season coming between the first and last parts of winter.-—Chicago Kecord. aha Had llim Tried. Father—ls the girl you are going to marry economical? Son (enthusiastically)—l should say ao. Last year she spent five hundred dollars in bargains.—Brooklyn Life. Abottt tho Hons*. Chspple—There's one thing abonl Miss Finder's new house I don't lUte. Naopie—What's that? Chappie Her father.—N. Y. coriler. •I ho I'M miliar Sorrow. Ho got a typswrltor, It'* doing quits well In thr matter "f spoea— Hut it won't lnsrn to spall Rnrourft|lii|. He-What If I a tea I u kiss? She—l hope you will never be gully of kccpUw ttWlUfl BHrnmti*
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