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Extraordinary Caprices of Jo
siali J. White, Imprisoned
on Civil Action.
IN A BROOKLYN, N.Y.JAIL.
Devotes His Life to Making Things
Unpleasant for Fellow-Prisoners
and the Guards.
I JrHt lie Failed to Tell tl>e Truth and
i'linn !:.< Wouldn't Turn Over Certain
Money to the I'ubllc Adinlnlntrator—
sent to .lull on Contempt Vroceedlnpi
He Lscapes und Is l^eeaptured—Now lie
Actn I.ike n Maniac.
"Hetty Ureeu in trousers." This is
out.' of the epithets filing at the •mil
lionaire ami former broker, .loslaJi .1.
White. Ik- is the terror ol' Itayniond
street jail. Brooklyn.
Fifty nine years go lie was born in
Connedlent, at Pi rtlaud. they say.
Although a Yankee l»y birth, he has
lived in a brown stone palace on
HreoUlyn Height:- lor tweniy-five
years. The wealthiest ami most dis
tinguished linve b»cn his neighbors—
Henry Ward Reedier. I»r. l.ynian
Abbot. Congressman Simeon 1!. Ch't
temleii ami others.
A 1111111 well housed in a well con
structed, well cemented jail is sup
posed io be "caged" and harmless.
Thiscase breaks ;:11 rules and prece
dents. It is because White is ilierw
at' all that the warden ami keepers
waul to gel out of the business and
lice the country.
Lawyers are likewise at their wits'
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eml—the most eminent devising means
to make Ilie rich law evader disgorge,
while the more ipiiet practitioners
hope any pray tlie.v may escape him
altogether.
What lias the man done? Imitated
another wealthy man of history—one
Ananias, lie kept back - so il is al
leged ilie amount of wealth at his
command and thus iToceived the tax
gatherers.
It was told in ill" papers how that,
as guardian for his son Frederick and
administrator of his wife's estate. he
evaded the law aid the payment of
lTic full lax by dec]- ring the amount of
tile personal prope y to be only .sir>o.-
000. the amount it '• claimed the stocks
and securities aloii" are worth.
Il is a curious Mory from the be
ginning. Years ro. when White
wanted to inn IT./ »iss Trowbridge, a
rich girl in 1 lie s io of Connecticut,
she fancied lie hn ' at least one eye
tixed on her money. To convince her.
he signed a paper, renouncing forever
all claims to her wealth. Later they
moved into the br iwn stone house at
No. 1.3G Columbia Heights, Brooklyn.
His friends claim that lie was a gifted,
brilliant man, and made a fortune,
others say il wa Ids wife's money
alone that figured in business and so
clet y.
Three children were born to them.
Frederick, the surviving son. is about
fourteen years old, a loyal lad. of
genial disposition, who is said to be
fond of his father and a household
pet. He is a very fat boy. weighing
nearly two hundv I pounds. When
the mother died, a few years ago. her
property went tot .is son. His father
was both guardian and administrator
by law. Legal investigation showed
lliat the $30,000 personal property, as
scheduled by the father, was worth
$1.50,000. Then the Long Island Loan
and Trust Company was made guar
dian of the boy. ml at once began
proceedings to ror pel the father to
render a lull aceo' utiug to the court.
After a scries of long and repeated de
lays. trivial and extraordinary, the
Court removed him as administrator
of the estate, and Vnblie Administra
tor W. 11. liavenp.irt became his suc
cessor.
Thus the wealtl father was de
pt'ived of all legal ontrol of his sou
and his estate. Si , neither lawyers
nor detectives < Id discover the
whereabouts of ;1 • missing $120,000
worth of securili" Hi' refused to
turn over a book or a dollar to the
administrator. Then the rich man
was committed to jail and then his
deviltry began. Si-ice that hour life
behind Ilie bars !• ; not been worth
living. Not only i . -oners, bur jailers
and detectives, ju.iges and lawyers
have regretted th ■ day they tackled
former Broker White.
Said the head keeper at the jail yes
terday: ' In all my twenty live years'
experience I have never seen his like,
lie is a terror. The prisoners can't
sleep because ol' IV.- wild antics. The
moment the men begin falling off to
rest lie sets il]> a howl that would de
moralize Bed'-ini. It's pure fiendish
ness. lie is as sane as I am. He is
the meanest white man in America.
The other day he made a slung shot
of a towel with a big wet scrubbing
' rush t v'-tied up in one end of it.
Wit'.; il IK- 'pled to brain the prisoners
as they came along the passageway.
At any moment during the night ho is
! liable to yell 'Murder! Help! Help!
i They are killing me!' at the top of liis
j voice. The whole prison and neighbors
; for a block around are awake before
lie can be made to shut up. lie spends
hours inventing new schemes for an
, noying us and disturbing the prison
ers. inn il they want him thrown out
or killed."
I When lit" lowered himself from a
i gable window down sixty feet to this
j pavement recently and escaped lo
Connecticut, he put Ids new ad
: dross on his will, which was left
behind. No secret was made of his
destination, because he would be out
of the jurisdiction of Ilie Brooklyn au
. thorities. And if an attempt were
made lo extradite him lie would be
| able to defend himself successfully in
the Connecticut courts. But the
' Brooklyn sheriff and posse found him,
I snapped on the irons and carried him
! off bodily, and before lie could say,
"Help me. Orover Cleveland!" liu
i found himself in Ilie night express,
j booked for Brooklyn. •
When again in linyuioiul street jail
lie was ilie maddest man in forty
slates. For once all his plans liai\
failed. His palace home, overlooking
proud New York and the bay from the
Heights, did him no good. The very
; thought of his wealth, his friends ami
his Connecticut resources but aggra
vated his fury, lie shouted, scream
ed and howled until the prison was
like a Koiuan menagerie on fast day.
Between his paroxysms lie wrote let*
; ters and summoned lawyers. Soonet
or later they were denounced and dis
missed.
FEEDING THE WORLD.
America's CeiuarkabTe Fnocl Kxportntlon
a* Shown by lU'CPiit Official Report*.
The record (if the most remarkable
year in <inr export trade lias lieeii com
]>l et<■< 1 by tlie bureau of statistics so
far .1 relates to the exportation of
wheal, cm n ami oilier breads!uffs,
pork, heel and oilier provisions, cot
tou. and mineral oils. These articles
form a largo pen t nUige of the total
j capons aside from the manufactures
The figures show in most eases a
large increase in ouantity and value
lof the articles exported. though in
Some east's, notably mineral oils and
; cotton, the export price per unit: lias
averaged less during the year liian in
1 till- prcceiiing year.
! The cnirot! exported (luring tile year
increased from 0,103,754.949 pottnds to
3.341,332.800 nound?, while the total
I value last v ar was $230,890,971 and for
' the year jus elided 239.907.472.
The exportation of mineral oil in
creased from 973.014.946 gallon, to 1.
022.210.379 gallons, yet the total value
In tlie year just ended was only $55,-
171.000 against $1>2,C35.037 in the pre
| ceding year.
i In provisions, including licet, pork
and dair.v products the value of the
exporiations was greater than last
year, being $154,454,074. against $137.-
135.081 last year.
in wheat, corn, oats and rye the in
crease in both quantities and values
was strongly marked. The exportation
i of wheat for tin- year (flour included),
j amounted to 215.171.901 bushels, which
exceeded the exportation of any pre-
I ceding year except that of 1892 which
I amounted lo 225,005.812 bushels. The
I value of the wheat and flour exported
i during the year amounted to $212,891,-
| 039, a sum only surpassed in 1880 and
I 1892. the total in 1880 being $225,879,-
i 502. and Hint of 1592 being $23G,7f11,-
j 410.
I In corn the exports for the year ex-
J ceeded both ill <iii:iiitity and value
; those of any preceding year, the liuiii
; ber of bushels (including corn meal)
being 209.859.102 bushels, valued at
$75,200,007. The largest exportation
j of corn in any preceding year was 178,
] 817.4 17 bushels in 1897. valued at $54,-
I 989. 213. while in no year prior to 1897
i did the quantity of corn exported
; ever reach half of the year .just end
i ed.
In oats, oat meal and rye. the expor
tation also greatly increased, the to
tal in each case fi :■ the year just end
ed being about double that of the pre
ceding year. The value of the exports
of oats and oat me; 1 in the tiscal year
1898 was $22,339,752 against $9,827,547
in the previous yea;-. The value of rye
exported was $8,795,820. against $3.-
.0(17.505 in the previous year.
Total value of brcadstulTs exported
| $324,700,000, against $197,857,219 in the
] previous fiscal year.
I'ennsylvaniii'* Forest Policy.
I Another important step forward in
tin; established forest policy of the
state of Pennsylvania was taken by
the Governor when he recently ap
point d the Forest Reservation Com
mission under the Act of 1897. He
named as members of this commis
sion l'rof. .1. T. Kothrock, the State
foreslry Commissioner: Major I. j!.
Hrown. Deputy Secretary of Internal
.Affairs: I >r. tieorge <i. (iroff. Presi
dent of the Stale Hoard of Health.
, and Albert Lewis, of, Hear Creek, Lu
■/A rue county. Another member is yet
to be chosen under the act. lie must
be a lawyer and conveyancer, and it is
understood the Governor has selected
•i man for the place.
The commission \\ ill fix and report
on three state forest reservations of
10.000 acres, each at the headwaters
of til. 1 three chief waters, the Dela
ware. S l ' i|ii:'hanna and Ohio. The act
provide: :i:st the land selected shall
have i" dtural or mineral value,
and tin niation proceedings will
1 ■ 'ins pursued in securing
Va'.!«•> •' • ! ','u !;
Hie • k i n:sl have some
wood I:.; ' ;a least 800 feet
I above so: j ■ :!.
HOW FELT HATS ARE MADE.
j Tbon«aiiils of Men. Women and Hoy*
Employed In tlx- liulnxtry.
One of the leading industries of this'
country is the manufacture of hats. At
the present time fur-felt hats are made
in eleven states —namely, Connecticut,
Indiana, Illinois, Maryland, Maine,
Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jer
sey, New York, Pennsylvania and
Khode Island, says the New York Com
mercial. There are in all more then
200 manufacturing plants producing
hats for men's, boys', women's and
children's wear, composed of the fur o!
the rabbit, beaver, nutria and other
animals. The industry employs up
ward of 25,000 men, women and hoys,
and the approximate value of the out
put is said to be $20,000,000 annually.
Speaking of men's liats and their man
ufacture. a representative of one of the
largest firms in this city said:
"Felt hats include the popular derby
and the various other styles of soft
hats, all of which are made from ani
mal furs, the natural coats of the
coney, hare, nutria, muskrat and
beaver. To manipulate the skins of
these animals so as to properly pre
pare the fur for felling purposes is an
expert chemical operation; in fact, a
trade in itself, entirely distinct from
that of hat-making, and is carried on
by 'hatters' ' fur-cutters in London, the
w rld's great center for that work.
The art of the hat maker includes a
knowledge of the particular fur or
combination of furs for making a given
quality or" hats. The proportioning of
the different furs requires the utmost
exactness. The quality of product
having been decided upon, the fur is
then cleaned and . ::;>arated from stray
hairs and all unfeltable substances.
This initial piwesa is accomplished by
a windy machine called 'the devil.'
"The next procr 'forming,' con
sists of distributing by means of aii
currents a light coating of fur upon ;h_>
outer surface of a revolving peri 'a
dicular cone, perfo ated nlth small
holes. When fur cover* tne cone suf-
fircnt for one h• ', it is tv rapped in wet
cloths and giv. • .. brief hot bath, then
stripped from t:i • cone, and, after the
'stopping' proee-s c.' adding a little fur
to weak spots. wrapped with oth'.T
cloths inside a woolen cloth to 'harden'
it for handling. Pv a process called
'sizing.' which consists of repeated im
mersions in hot water, together with
roilitig and unrolling, folding and un
folding, the cone-shaped mass is re
duced to one-third its original size. It
is wonderful how each fiber will twist
and intertwine, basket-fashion, with
ti e other, until the product is a closely
w;sven mass.
"The 'body' is then 'shaved' to re
move stray hairs in tlio fur, and then it
is stiffened with a coating of shellac,
thoroughly dried and then subjected to
stoim, which softens the shellac and
dr: ws it. into the f;''.ric. When dried it
i ; ; immersed in a h::t alkaline solution
LLUN'T 1 IIIHMTO >pit it lift Mlii'kr lnur I.llt- Anuy*
To quit toha-eo e:vsily :ui<l forever, be mntr
netic. full of Jile. nerve ami vijjor, take No-To-
Bac, the wonder-wnrlier, that makes weak men
strong. All dnu'c'sts, 50c or SI. Cure e»;,ran
teetl Booklet. ami sample free. Adilrefss
Sterling Remedy Co., Olilomoor New Yorlc
• ' [rJO'OW are the ciiil- \
/ g I dren this summer?
i 1 I9 I Are they doing \
% U . e l|p J3 O
\ get all the benefit they /
T should from their food? /
4 Are their cheeks and lips >
/ of good color? And are i
/ they hearty and robust ins
J every way? c
j If not, then give them g
< Scott's Emulsion ;■
,' of cod liver oil with hypo- ',
_» phosphites. <
! It never fails to build !
up delicate boys and girls.
» It gives them more flesh <
\ and better blood.
', It is just so with the ( '
1 baby also. A little Scott's »
Emulsion, three or four
,' times a day, will make ',
» the thin baby plump and <
'i y, It
furnishes the ( "
'» nW&jPyoung body with ■
i rt r>ir ' ust r^e mater ' a ' '■
■' i iTI necessary for
/ \i \ growing bones <
'> *£s=2* ant * nerves. <'
?All Druggists, 50c. and sl. {
SCOTT & HowNK, Chemists. N.Y. L
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CURE CONSTIPATION
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ELKHART CAKBIAWK AND lIAKNKHB MFU. CO. W. U. I'UATT, ■„>. KUiUAKI, l*D.
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y.w lien, pilis, p<l«r, s'.iich, irrit: iht ,
I" .:i.:ne ile:. I iciie. torpid ii e;\ 1,. .11t-
Ir.'.rn, i'-ml ifreath. sieojj!e.i.?iie <t:- >v ,-i
--nt'.-.v hot skin, crump.!, throbbing head.
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Ss & ffl Bt 'or Constipation
Dr. .1. C'. Aver's Pills are a specific for
all diseases of the liver, stomach, and
bowels.
"1 suffered from constipation which as
sumed such an obstinate form that I feared
it would cause a stoppage of the bowels.
After vainly trying various remedies, I be
gan to take Aver's Pills. Two boxes effected
a complete cure."
D. BURKE, Saco, Me.
"For eight years I was afflicted with
constipation, which became so bad that the
doctors could do no more for me. Then 1
began to take Aver's Pills, and soon the
bowels recovered their natural action."
\VM. H. DELAUCKTT, Dorset, Ont.
THE PILL THAT WILL.
10 rree tne surrace rroni snei.ac, ana
then i«i cold water to remove the alkali.
" 'Blocking' succeeds stiffening. The
fabric is dipped in boiling water aftd
placed en a block patterned for the
final shape of the haLAfter the dyeing
process comes that of finishing, which
consists of steaming, blocking to shape
the crown, drying, coating with a s'lf
fening solution, drying again, irouing
out wrinkles, after which it is pounced
with emery paper and singed to re
move the long nap, and oil applied to
smooth the surface. The 'curling' de
partment cuts the brim to the desired
width, rolls up the sides and pitches
UlO front and rear as the style de
mands.. With the process of trim
ming, consisting of sewing 011 the bind
ing and band and cementing the lining,
the derby is finished. If a soft hat is
desired the stiffening process is omit
ted."
A I torso 'Mint Snores.
Sno' ing men are as plentiful as whis
key in Kentucky; they are nearly as
numerous as_ women with cold feet.
However, while these two evils are pre
dominant with the human race, yet it
is indeed seldom that a member of the
animal kingdom becomes afflicted with
the snuing habit. There Is just one
case ci the kind known to exist, in
Kansas f'it.r, Kan., and while there is
no question about the existence of this
one case the afflicted animal contracted
the habit from man.
Prince, the oldest horse on the Kan
sas City, Kan., Kire Department, has
the snoring habit, and he's got it bad.
All of the "laddies" at Fire Headquar
ters have good records as snorers, but
Prince can allow them all a bad cold
and then beat them out, pulled up.
Snoring Prince, or the prince snorer, is
the horse driven by Assistant Chief
William tlcConnell. lie generally
minces away at his food until after 12
o'clock each night, providing there are
no alarms.
At about this hour he lies down In
his stall and in a few minutes his eyes
close and soon thereafter the snoring
begins. The noise produced by the
sleeping horse is similar to that of a
snoring man. Before it became known
that Prince actually snored several of
the firemen, who take turn about
watching at night, were accused of go
ing to sleep 011 duty. The only founda
tion for the accusation was the snor
iug. in order to prove their innocence
it became necessary for them to peach
on Prince.
How I 1tn4.11 I.onkM.
Ibsen, the Norwegian dramatist, is
an extraordinary looking man. Almost
a dwarf in height, the upper part of the
body is immense, compared with his
lower limbs, lie has a huge head,
covered with bushy white hair, and his
keen blue eyes glare at his interlocu
tor with a piercing glance.
P. is impossible to run at an altitude
3f 17.000 feet above the sea.
Keep Cool!
SCREEN DOORS,
Window Screens, Poultry Netting
Hammocks, Porch Chairs Jti.; o and up, Coal Oil
Of Nickless make, Gasoline Stoves.
HARVESTING TOOLS in abundance.
Brick for chimney* always on hand. Nails, steel
~ R ? M e r keg ' X WeStern WaSher ' #MO, best
madt, Bu Iding papei,W c per roll, 900 sq. feet;
Poultry Netting, 1 ft. to wide, i-2ct. sq. foot.
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Jeremiah Kelly,
HUO^ESVILLE.
Onr Declaration of War
Has been in effect for a number of
years and our
Bombardment of High Prices
Has created havoc of late in the sale of
MOWING MACHINES, DRILLS, HARROWS,
PLOWS, LUMBER WAGONS, BUGGIES,
and ROAD WAGONS
all at the lowest cash price.
PHOSPHATE, rhiity tons of different grades will be
sold at a low figure.
W. E. MILLER, Sullivan County, Pa.
Reasonable
Bargains
FOR THIS MONTH.
We alway* carry out our promises to the verv letter. Our promises to
the public is to 112 ell high grade merchandise at lower prices than anv other
store in the country. <hir constantly increasing business is proof. Positive
that our promises have always been kept, we have determined that more
than ever we shall keep on increasing and increasing our reputation for
being the greatest popular priced store iu this section.
We give you special bargains in
Clothing,
SHOES and Ladies' Coats and
Capes.
We have a very large stock on hand anil will sell this month at cut
prices. It will pay you to make vour purchase now. We have a full
line of Indies' Slippers at bottom prices. Also Ladies' Skirts, Wrappers,
Shirt Waists and Corsets. Prices cheaper than you can buy the material.
Ladies' Capes at half price. Come ami see them while they last; it will
pay you.
Come and see: it will be to your benefit. The prices we are ottering
now when you see them you cannot help buying.
Da* The Reliable Dealer in Clothing
JdUin 1 VI Boots and Shoes.
HUGHESVILLE, PA.