(' WOMAN'S WORLD. WIFE OF A BOER GENERAL M EMISSARY ( r CONCILIATION. It l*a>» to lit- ( oiirlrout —When Wo mail IN U'euk-I he lute Annie Wit teniuyei-—Beautiful Madam Lr \ ert The Hutber'si Health. Mrs. Louis Botha, wife of tlie com mandant general of the Boer army who. report, says, has been for month: working for tin- peace of South A fries by trying to effect a conciliation be tweeu her husband ami Lord Kitchen er, commander of the British forces, li related to the family of Robert Emmet the distinguished Irish patriot. She is a woman of cultuK-, having passed hei girlhood days iu school in I'aris. Ii Pretoria she was recognized as a socia leader while her husband was a mem ber of the Boer parliament. Genera and Mrs. Botha lived on a farm so nit distance from the capital and were ii MRS. LOUIS BOTHA. Pretoria only during the raad sessions. In the early days of the war it was Mrs. Botha's custom to visit her hus band frequently on commando, where her presence always had a cheering effect upon the burghers. She was a dashing woman and a lit companion for the gallant leader. When Pretoria was occupied, Mrs. Botha remained in the city. She met Lord Roberts a few days after tlie capitulation and, being persuaded of the hopelessness of a con tinuance of the struggle, offered to try to mediate with her husband. A pass port was provided hef, and the meet ing was effected. "If it is to visit me you come. I am delighted to see you," said General Botha, "but if you come to implore me to cease this struggle you only shame me." Mrs. Botha said nothing more about her mission, and nothing came of the negotiations at that time.—Chicago Times-Herald. It I'ayn to lie Conrtroni. There is an old saying that "virtue is its own reward," and there is a girl in one of the department stores of the city who knows that to virtue may be add ed courtesy and kindness. There came to the counter where she stands a little old woman the other day. She was tiny and shriveled and not very well dressed in rusty mourning. She bought a number of little notions, all of the best, being very exacting and almost querulous, but the young clerk was more than usually attentive and cour teous in trying to please her customer. Once she said when the customer hesi tated about getting a certain article, "My grandma uses it,"and the bar gain was clinched at once. When the little old lady was through at tbnt counter, she started togo to one near by and wavered on her feet when she rose from her seat. The young lady was at her side in an instant and gave the support of her strong young arm for the few steps. When the counter was reached, the lady thanked the girl In tones tremulous with age. "I will remember you," she said. The clerk returned to her counter and had almost forgotten the incident when a voice at her elbow startled her, and there was the little old lady. "I for got to ask your name," she said in apology. "Theyoung are not so thought ful of old age as you." The clerk gave her name, and then the customer asked if she could have the strong arm to lean upon again to her carriage. At this tlie clerks about began to look in terested. They had been chaffing the girl before about her "mash," but a wo man who had her "carriage" was not to be made the subject of ridicule. The young lady spoke to the floorwalker and then went with the customer to the door, where a handsome coupe, with footman and coachman, was wait ing. "My maid was not well this morn ing, and 1 could not let her attend me," said the little lady simply, "but I am scarcely strong enough togo about alone. Thank you, dear. Your name is Martha . I will not forget." Nor did she. Wednesday the little old lady sent her maid with an invitation for the young clerk to spend iter time from Saturday night to Monday morn ing at the beautiful home In the sub urbs of northwest Washington, and the "carriage will call for and carry you back to your work."— Washington Star. When Woman la Weak. An amusing little incident occurred at the meeting of the Era club that will Interest women generally. The ladles were listening to the admirable talk of Miss Sadie American on the purposes of the Consumers' league, and after she closed her interesting explanation Miss Kate Gordon, president of the Era club, asked Miss American, who Is the first vice president of the Consum ers' league and naturally acquainted IWdth all the legislation that It has ad vanced and advocated, if any effort had ever been made toward securing equal wages for men and women. Miss American answered: "Well, yes, u lit tle at a time. The question of wages or equal pay for men and women is on» which ww have handled In so far as we ask equal pay for equal work per formed. Upon Investigating condi tions we find some very harrowing experiences," said Miss American, smil ing. "When a woman has just about rendered herself invaluable to her em ployer, ten chances to one she turns around and gets married. Women do not look upon employment in the same way tlint a man does. She is general ly looking forward to something that she calls 'better' in the shape of mat rimony, and once she lias embarked upon this .'■■ a her employer of course loses her services. Generally as soon as she knows positively she Is going to be married her interest in her work ceases, whereas when a man is contem plating matrimony his interest iu his work Increases, lie seeks to make him self more and mo.-- in valuable to his employer, and from the moment he gets married he generally applies him self far more steadily and earnestly to |iis work than before, because the I WmytwKßM i T /jl >', VVE No one needs to b« told to trv to curi a cough. But any one will be glad t< be tola of a means of cure which wil be thorough and lasting. Dr. Pierce') Golden Medical Discovery is a medi cine which can be confidently reliet onto cure diseases of the organs o: respiration. It cures obstinate, deep seated coughs, bronchitis and bleeding of the lungs. It cures when nothing else will cure, and the local physiciar savs: "There is nothing more that wt can do." There is no alcohol in "Golden Med ical Discovery," and it is absolutely free from opium, cocaine and all other nar cotics. The dealer, tempted by the little more profit paid by less meritorious medicines, will sometime* try and sell a substitute when the " Discovery "Is asked for. Nc substitute medicine will satisfy the sick like "Golden Medical Discovery." 11 always helps. It almost always cures. " Two years ago a ssvere cough starteJ on ra« anil I wa» also bothered with catarrh," writes Mr. F Skjod, of Danawood, Chisago Co., Minn. "I could not sleep nights, as the cough wbh worse at night. I tried several cough medi cine*. but to no avail, until a year ago, when I got so bad I could not breath* througn rav tiose at times. I then trisd Dr. Pierce's Golden Med ical I)iscov«rv After taking eight bottlea of Dr Pierce a Golden Medical Dis&> *ery, and at the same time using Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy, I auj a well man I can thank Dr Tierce for my good health, and will recommend his medicines to any one suffering from the same trouble." " Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure con atipation. | cares of a family demand extra laboi and higher wages to properly maintain It. "Many women have a true idea of the first two principles, but precious few have any idea of the latter. When the right opportunity conies, they will get married." At this all the ladies laughed, and a pretty young girl said, "And they will continue to do so as long as the world lasts, all efforts of the business world to educate them up to the idea of the value of permanence to the contrary." —New Orleans I'icayune. TSie I.ntc Annie Wittenniycr. Annie Turner Wittenmyer was born in ISJ7 at Sandy Springs, <). She came of a long line of warrior ancestry. Iler great-gn.'it grandfather was an officer of high rank in the French-Indian war, her great-grandfather was killed at Saratoga in the Revolutionary war, her grandfather was a soldier in the war of is 12, and her father gave three sons to the civil war. It needed only the firing of the gun at Fort Sumter to fan into a blaze the smoldering fire of pa triotism kindled iu childhood by the oft told tales of her grandsires. Annie Turner was married to Wil liam Wittenmyer in 1847 and became the mother of five children, all save one dying in infancy or early child hood. In April, 18G1, she offered herself to the governor of lowa, of which state she was at that time a resident, and was sent to the front to distribute sanitary supplies. She continued to act in this capacity and that of a nurse during the subsequent years of the war. When peace was declared, she became active and aggressive in pa triotic work. She was instrumental in establishing a soldiers' orphans' home in lowa, a soldiers' home in Kentucky and a soldiers' memorial home in Pennsylvania. She was a leading spirit in the organization of the Na tional Woman's Relief corps and a prominent ractor in estaousning iue j National W. R. C. home at Madison, O. Mrs. Wittenmyer served five years as the first president of the National \V. C. T. U. When the change of policy caused a she became a member of the Nonpartisan W. C. T. j U., serving one year as president. Her last public work, only two days before her death, was at a temperance con vention. She possessed fine literary ability and was the author of "Women of the Revolution," "History of the Woman's Crusade" and "Under the Guns." She was editor and contributed to many popular periodicals. On the platform she was intense, witty and persuasive, abounding iu telling illustrations of personal experience. Though above medium height, Inclined to full habit, she was active and vigorous. She died after a half hour's illness at her beau tiful country home in Saratoga, on Feb. 2, in the seventy-third year of her age.-Sarah E. Wilcox iu Housekeeper. Beautiful Mine. Lr Vert. "To no other woman of the south were there accorded so often the trib utes of poetic and romantic fancy that clustered around the name of Octavia Walton, or Muie. Le Vert as she was known after her marriage," writes Wil liam Perrine in The Ladies' Home Jour ual. "As a little child she charmed Lafayette with her brilliant conversa tion—she spoke the purest of French and later she was the friend of Clay, Calhoun. Washington Irving and, in fact, of nearly ail the prominent people of her day. Nor was her cleverness unrecognized iu Europe when she made the first 'grand tour.' It was there at a state ball in Buckingham palace, j whither she was escorted by Joseph R. Ingersoll, the American minister at London, that she was presented to Queen Victoria. Presentations on tlie occasion of a state ball were not fre quent, and the southern beauty was de lighted over the unexpected eompli- | ment. When the dances were over and the queen was again seated, the lord chamberlain waved his hand, and the company moved back, leaving a vacant place around the royal chair. Mine. Le Vert, with all eyes upon her, ap proached and was presented. Victoria advanced and graciously gave greeting, smiling sweetly as the American cour tesied low before her, and then passed to the group that encircled the throne. About 2 o'clock in the morning the queen bade adieu to her guests. Then one of the noblemen escorted Mine. Le Vert around the picture and sculpture galleries and presented her to many eminent persons." The Mother's llenltli. The child's dress should be plain and ■ t elaborate. This makes a saving on The Hector's Prophecy, A party of gentlemen, including Pro fessor Railey and Rector Roberts, a divine widely celebrated for his wit and the audacity of his puns, were crossing the campus of a well known university. The reverend gentleman, comment ing on the fact of his recent elevation to the greater dignity and tlie assump tion of the more resounding title of a canon of the church, exclaimed, "And now that I am a canon I suppose I shall be a bigger bore than ever." liTRSTBOOK PRINTEIi MEXICO CLAIMS THE HONOR FOF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT. Sboc<'»* niiil tli»* I)i HII st«• i«* 'Miai A (tended the ENtabliahuietit ol I I'rlntiiiit Throughout the \ gul El | tent of This Country. I The first printing press on the Amen 1 fan continent was set up in the City ol I Mexico in the sixteenth century. So 1 much is known regarding the commence | ment of the art preservative in the west ! ern world, but when details are looked j for different accounts and conflicting j statements are found. < >ne author claims , that the first Spanish viceroy of Mexico, Antonio de Mendoza, who went t<> that i country in 1535 and who was distin -1 guished for his devotion to literature, established a printing house some years I before 1551, and that the printer employ j ed by him, whose name was Joannes | Paulus Brissensius of Lombardus, a na I tive of Brescia, Italy, was the first man to handle type in America. For a time | one of his books, a folio volume executed | in 1540. was cited as the first book print !ed on this continent. Another and per haps more correct version is that printing | was first established in Mexico by the ; Spanish missionaries, and the fact seems i to be established that under their aus pices a book, one mutilated copy of which is still in existence in a private library iti j Madrid, was printed in 1540 by Julian | Cromberger, who died about 1544 and i who was in all probability the first print er in America. ! It is quite certain that the printing i press was actively employed in Mexico j in less than a century after the new art j became generally known in Europe and ! for nearly a century before a printing j press was introduced into the present limits of the United States. The second American city in which a printing office was established was Lima, Peru, where j a work designed to assist the priests in j the study of the language of the natives appeared in 1580. At Cambridge, Mass., as Isaiah Thom i ns asserts, in January, 1G39, printing was I first performed in that part of North I America which extends from the gulf of | Mexico to the frozen ocean. The beginning of the work of this first I printing office in our country was a sor j rowful one. Rev. Jesse Glover, through ! whose exertions the press had been se : cured and who contributed largely to the | purchase, died upon his voyage to the | new world, and his sons had afterward to sue their stepfather for the possession of the press. This primitive establish ment was subject to the authority of Cambridge college, the president of which was censor of the press and re sponsible for all publications until spe cial licensees were appointed by law in 1652, the press never being enfranchised in Massachusetts until as late as 1755. One Green became the second printer In the United States. Three hundred acres of land were granted him in 1058, but Mr. Green, it would appear, could not find a suitable location for his grant until 1007, when it is recorded that 300 acres of land were laid out to Ensign Samuel Green of Cambridge, printer, in the wilderness on the north of Merrimac river. In 1059 an Indian boy taught at the charity school of Cambridge to read and write English was apprenticed to Samuel Green and took upon himself subsequent ly the name of James the Printer, or James Printer. He printed Eliot's In dian Bible, the first copy of the sacred Testament made in this country. lie rendered such efficient service on this work thnt Eliot said he "had but ono man, namely, the Indian printer, that was able to compose the sheets and cor rect the press with understanding." A copy of the Indian Bible is to be seen in the National museum. The negro appears first in an American printing office under the direction of one Thomas Fleet, who fled to this country for refuge from the rage of an insensate London mob. In Boston he established a printing house with the sign of the Heart and Crown, and here his sons suc ceeded him in the business, although with the advent of antiroyal feeling the sign was changed to the Heart and Bible. Fleet owned several negroes, one of whom he taught not only to work the special profit in printing small books for children and popular ballads, and such publications were rendered more at tractive by the wood engravings cut for them by the negro artist. Cx-sar and Pompey, sons of this negro, also became printers and remained in the office of their master's sons. The first firmly established newspaper in North America appeared in 1704, but full 14 years previous to this date one number of a newspaper had been pub lished in Boston, which was instantly suppressed by the authorities. To the publisher, Richard Harris, this appears to have been no novel experience, for he had in his native land been fined for sell ing a Protestant petition during King Charlee' reign and had also coine to grief through printing a book with the revolu tionary title of "English Liberties." Be sides, he was once set in the pillory, on which occasion his wife is recorded to have stood by him to defend him against the attentions of the mob. Boston was early distinguished as the home of letters. James Franklin, an older brother of Benjamin, established in 1721 a periodical which he made the organ of a company of literary gentle men whose common characteristic seems to have been total disagreement with each other. The object of the journal was ultra revolutionary in tendency, be ing generally to show the world the events of the day by assaulting all estab lished beliefs and conventional manners and customs. Attacks were leveled in discriminately at the British government, the preachers and finally inoculation. The aged Puritan minister, Increase Mather, protested publicly against the iniquity of the vile Courant and warned its sub scribers against being "partakers in other men's sins." James Franklin was putin jail for a month and forbidden to print or publish the Courant or any pamphlet or paper of the like nature except it b® first supervised, and he was finally oblig ed to leave Boston, like his brother Ben jamin, and journey to a more liberal minded community.—Washington Tims. Romance n la Mode. "I shall be at the opera tonight," he wrote. "I can bear the suspense no lon ger. If you love me, wear a red rose. If I may no longer hope, then let it be a white rose." That night uhe wore a yellow rose.— Bmart Set. The Metropolitan museum of New York is In a rather unusual predica ment. It cannot accept some extreme ly valuable gifts in the shape of be quests because it has not sufficient money to pay the inheritance taxes. On the C. I'. Huntington collection alone, which is willed to the museum, $350,000 must be paid unless some thing Is done by the legislature to ward making the institution an excep tion to the rule. The state lawmakers have consequently been asked to pro vide for the relinquishment of the in heritance tax on these particular be quests. The Metropolitan museum of New York is practically in the anoma lous position of the philanthropy that cannot afford to accept the favors of philanthropists unless they are pre paid. ' Tis Easy To Feel Good. Countless thousands have found a blessing to the body in Dr King's New Life Pills, which positively core Con stipation, Sick Headache, Dizziness, i Jaundice, Malaria, Fever and Ague and | all Liver and Stomach troubles. Purely I vegetable; never gripe or weaken Only 25c. atJPaules and Co s. drug store. t T " . t | lav NO EXCUSE FOR IT. ,Q 1 | Deaths occur every day for which there t |is no excuse. The lives ot loved ones go, v « | out needlessly. In the graveyards are | thousands ot bodies that ought not to "J, j jbe there. Death comes and conquers mfi j : when it could be driven away. | | DrDavid Kennedy's 1 liiiorire Remedy | has stayed the hand of death in cases I • without number. There are people dying *ll,* r David Kennedy's Favorite Rsracdv makes the wh->!e body well It purlfi. s the Hood, and J cures erysipelas, salt rheum eczema, ulcers, rheumatism It regulates the bowt Is. and cures I headaches, biliousness, constipation. It it a tonic and builds up the system. It is the t st cer- J tain cure for kidney diseases that the world ever saw t Judga Clancy, of HoriMllsvtlle. N. Y., had liver trouble and blood disorder. He says the Favo- I rite Remedy built him right up and greatly Improved his health. It will build up tin. m: :s i ! if they will TRY IT. J $1 B BOTTLE; SIX DOTTLES, $5. ATRNY DRUG STORE. I A LIGHT IN THE YARD MRS. GALLUP RECOGNIZES IN IT HEF SUMMONS TO HEAVEN. Hot She I'uiln to Get Any Informs lion From ll«»r l!u*l»:in«l (into t!i« ."Manner fi» \Y2ii<»li Sin- Shoul«l Act When *■»!»«» Kntera lli*r Home Aiunny the Aitftela. [Copyright, 1000, by C. B. Lewis.] When Mr. Gallup sat down for the evening, he had his newspaper on his knee and Mrs. Gallup was singing "Rock of Ages" and clearing away the supper table. lie had been reading for a quarter <>f an hour when she quietly entered and sat down and said: "Samuel, I don't want to disturb you nor make you feel bad, but I feel oblig ed to ask you a few questions. Last night at midnight Mrs. Watkins saw a light moving around in our back yard. It was a light which bobbed up and bobbed down and dodged this way and that, and when it finally went out it gave a great wink and a splutter. It was what they call a ghost lantern, Samuel, and it meant that there would be death in this house within a week. It'll be my death, of course. I've got 27 different ailments, with heart dis ease throwed in. while you are as healthy as a cornfield. Yes; it'll be me, : but I'm not weepin over it. I'm sittin j right here as calm as catnip, but I ' want to know some few things." Mr. Gallup must have known of her ■ pi t senee, but lie was too deeply inter ested in his paper to recognize it. He had found an article which said that a bedbug could be boiled in water for four hours and then come out with his ambition undaunted. "I shall goto heaven when I die, of course," continued Mrs. Gallup as her voice broke a little. "I orter go there. Any woman who has whitewashed the cellar every spring for 27 years, be sides makin soft soap, cuttin carpet rags, dyein over old clothes and makin one corset last her for 13 years, will go to heaven on the jump. What bothers me, however, is how I'm goin to act arter I git there. You know how com pany alius tlustrates me. If three or four of the neighbors come in, I'm al most sure t<> fall off my cheer or knock over sunthin. llow's it goin to be when I git up there and meet a hull pasture full of angels? There'll be millions of 'em, Samuel, and they'll all be lookin at me and wonderln who 1 am, and I'll be so upsot that I'll fall over my own feet." She paused to wipe the tears from her eyes with the palm of her hand, but as she had asked no direct ques tions Mr. Gallup finished the bug arti cle and turned to one on the care of clotheslines. "I don't want to be looked at and p'inted out and made fun of up there," said Mrs. Gallup as she sat with her eyes on the carpet. "All night long last night 1 couldn't sleep for thinkiti that some of the angels would turn up their noses at me and want to know what on nirth I was (loin there. You remember Sarah Jane Rixby, who died two years ago? Sarah was snippy ai d sassy. If she went to heaven, it would be jest her way to want to know why I'd come llyin up there, witli my rheumatiz and back aches. I'd have to sass her back, and then what would happen? Angels do sass each other sometimes, don't they, Samuel?" If Mr. Gallup had ever given the mat ter a thought, lie was too busy to dis cuss it. The statement was right be fore his eyes that 1,000,000 miles of clothesline went to destruction every year for want of being hung up in the wood shed when not in use, and lie was reflecting on the carelessness of hu manity in general. "I may git up to heaven in the night, when all the angels are asleep, and so I'll slip in all right. I hope that'll be the way, because it'll give me a chance to kind o' git usetl to the place before duylight. I»o you think they have any breakfast up there? Mrs. Watkins says they don't, but I don't really see how they git along without it. I know 1 should feel i goneness all day without breakfast. And I want you to look at me, Samuel, and see if I'm the liutu blyest woman ever born. 1 have read that when we die ve are changed as in the twinklin of an eye. I hope it's so. If it ain't, then I can't expect no good times up there. Them angels will be p'intin out my lop shoulder, my big feet and my wabbly knees and whis perin to each other that I'd better staid down on airtb among the cabbages. Nobody as knows me can call me obsti nate or sot. but I'll be snummed if 1 propose to die and become an angel to be made fun of. You'll be on my side about that, won't you?" ! . Mr. Gallup heaved a long sigh and I seemed about to speak, but no word came, lie had finished with (lie clothes line and struck an article about the ' reasoning powers of the crow, and the | most direct question from Mrs. Gallup I would have passed unheeded. Iler ] tears fell for two or three minutes, and j then she asked: "Anil how about the beds up there? • You know we've slept on a feather bed i ever since we was married, and I ve alius bin particular to smooth it down from head to foot. I've got used to feathers, and if I changed off I'd jest lay there and kick around all night j long. Do they hev beds, Samuel, or do | they keep on fly in around all night long and singin "I've Reached Mv Il<>me at [Y Last?" Seems to me that llyin and | sinj.'n all day wntihl !><• enough unless 1 I feel strong! r than 1 do now. You R orter know tin se things. Samuel, and I you orter tell me so I'll know what to ; depend on. I might stnml sass from a thousand angels, but I do want my e ' own bed when night comes, and if one ,i j of my headaches comes on onexpected ly I want to know that I kin hev a cup of tea. Mrs. Watkins says they don't drink tea in heaven, but I don't see how she kin know." e Mr. 'Jallup was not directly appealed s to, and as he was reading that a crow S had been known to feign death to avoid e having a crowbar thrown at him he r made no sign. y 1 "Waal, I've made up my mind to a few things," said Mrs. Gallup as the si -11 lenee grew painful. "I'm goin up to '■ heaven to do the best I kin. I'll be t nayburly with all the angels I meet a and let 'em understand that I don't I- want no niore'n my share of harps and ' wings and things. If I don't find any- I thin to eat or any beds to sleep on,l t shan't raise no fuss nor go into liyster- II les, the way Mrs. Taylor did at camp . meetin last year. Yes; I'll put up with 1 tilings as I find 'em and make the best • of it, and I won't be jealous if a few of ' 'em hev better clothes on or kin sing - bittern me. That's how I'll act, Sam ' uel, and then if they pick on me they'll . git as good as they give. I kin lie 1 sassed and picked on jest so fur, but 1 arter that they want to look out. Would it put you out any, Samuel, if I died at night instead of in the daytime? As I said, if I died at night I could slip • . into heaven without any fuss, but if t it's goin to make you any extra trouble I'll perish by daylight. What will be 1 the most convenient hour fur you?" There was deep silence. Mrs. Gal lup's tears made no thud as they fell upon the carpet, and Mr. Gallup was reading with bated breath that an os trich covers 13 feet of ground at every stride when in full flight. The clock ticked, the silence grew deeper, and the cricket on the hearth fell into a doze. Then Mr. Gallup suddenly laid ! aside his paper, stretched his arms and legs, with a "110-htim!" and looked around to find Mrs. Gallup asleep in her chair. She hadn't gone to join tlie angels—not yet. M. QUAD. THE KING OF HANDCUFFS. Hon Hurry llomlini, American, Snr |iri«ed the llriti.nh. When Harry Houdini, the American king of handcuffs, arrived in England, he tried to arrange for an exhibit of his skill at Scotland Yard, but the authorities refused to allow him an ; opportunity of putting on or taking off official handcuffs, says London M. A. I*. So, accompanied by a skeptical London manager, he paid an ordinary call as an American visitor to the police headquarters. Mr. Houdini, after making the usual remarks on everything he saw and heard, casually crrtTfC rnf* (iifiii'uuAu uuu answered: "Oh. these are handcuffs impossible to remove." Iloudinl was greatly interested, and the incident closed by the Vmerican visitor requesting his guide to lock the handcuffs on his wrists. Then he turned his back aud succeeded in get ting them off in a couple of minutes. One of Iloudini's strangest adven tures happened at a big hotel in St. Paul, Minn., where he was very well known. To his surprise, he found that a couple of men occupying tlie rooms on either side of his own appeared to be mounting guard over him. At first he only suspected this, but after a few days he was perfectly sure that one or the other of his neighbors shadowed his every movement. One afternoon, when Houdini was sitting in his own room, he heard the sound of scuffling outside the door. Flinging it open, he discovered his two unknown friends grasping a third man, who had evi dently been wearing a long dark cape that was dragged on one side, showing that he was heavily handcuffed. "We're a couple of detectives, Mr. Houdini," panted one of the men. "This fellow made his escape from jail Some days ago. We knew that he wouldn't dare togo to a locksmith to get his handcuffs removed, and we suspected that he might come to you." Neither differences of organization In animals nor in the constitution of the poisonous substance generally afford any clew for interpreting an exc ption al want of effect, rnaccountable i:> : the immunity of rabbits against bella donna leaves (Atropa belladonna, dead ly nightshade). You may feed them with belladonna for weeks without ob serving the least toxic symptoms. The meat of such animals, however, proves poisonous to any one who eats it, pro ducing the same symptoms as the plant. l'igeons and various other herbivora are also to some degree safe from the effects of this poison, while in warm blooded carnivora it causes paralysis and asphyxia. In frogs the effect Is a different one, consisting of spasms. The meat of goats which had fed on hemlock has sometimes occasioned poisonous effects. Chickens are near ly hardy against nux vomica and the extremely dangerous alkaloid, strych nine, contained in it, while in tho smallest amount it is a fatal poison to rodents. More remarkable yet in this respect Is the Immunity of Cholu>pus hoffman nl, a kind of sloth living on the island of Ceylon, which, when given ten grains of strychnine, was not much af fected. Pigeons are possessed of high Immunity from morphine, the chief ill kaloid of opium, as well as from bella donna. Eight grains were required to kill a pigeon, not much less than the mortal dose for a man. Cats are ex tremely sensitive t<> foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), which on tho contrary may be given to rabbits and various birds In pretty large doses. Job Couldn't Have Stood It If he'd had itching Piles. They're ter -1 ribly annoying; but Bncklen's Arnica salve will cure the worst case of Piles ' ou earth. It has cured thousands. For t Injuries, Pains or Bodily Eruptions its ]' the best-salve in the world. Price 25c.a j box. Cure guaranteed. Sold by Patties l; and Co. druggists. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Of till- Htles ha vitrg over lOH.Hfto-pop. ! illation onl\ 13 hud a, postollice in lSoo. 'I in* lirst lectures evcr given l>y n wo man w ere «!«•! i vei<•«! by IaMI \ Wright j lu 1828. The Swiss cabinet consists of seven | members, each ol' wliom draws s2,4'>o per aiiuum. A century ago farmers reaped their ! grain with sickles, two acres being a | good day's work. It is stated that, there are 80,000 bar . maids in England, whoso hours aver age 1 I daily for a wage of lit shillings : per week. i Many Londoners insist that their np j petite has improved since electricity | was applied to sonic of the under ! ground railways. It is believed to gon j erate ozoiio. I The door by which the president of I j (he republic, the king of Sweden, the j shah and other distinguished visitors | were in the haliit of entering the Paris lj exhibition has been sold for S6O. Sardinia is celebrated for the fombs ! j which prove that prehistorically it was inhabited by great giants. Uecentl.v four new tombs have been found which contain skeletons over nine feet long. 1 he skylark that Shelley has immor talized was not, it appears, the Eng lish bird it has always been supposed to be. It has been discovered that the blithe creature in question was heard in the lanes of Leghorn. The circulation of The Congressional Record has now reached the 20,000 mark. This includes numbers deliver ed gratuitously to members and sena tors and newspapers and those sent to regular subscribers, of whom there is a small but select list. James Parsons, a Philadelphia law yer who died about a year ago, owned an estate extending for a mile and a quarter along the ocean front of New Hampshire. Following out his death lied, wish, his children have given to the state a strip of this land along the shore 100 yards wide to further the project of a boulevard along the coast line of the state. STAGE GLINTS. Florence Kahn will be lending wom an with James Iv. Hackett next sea son. There is an organization of chorus girls in New York called the White Mice. A play founded upon the life of Tom Moore, the Irish poet, will be used by Andrew Mack next season. "Ilen-IIur" will remain in Roston for the remainder of the season, as its hit has been something remarkable. Laurence Irving expects to bo in New York in the fall to see his play, which Mr. Sot hern is to produce. There will probably be live versions of the French novel "Manon Lescaut" j seen on the American stage next sea son. The story first published some months ago to the effect that William Gillette was to play Hamlet seems more than likely to be true. Mr. and Mrs. Seymour Ilicks (Ella line Terriss), according to a London announcement, will appear in "Alice In Wonderland" in New York in the au tumn. Joe Murphy, the well known Irish comedian, has closed his tour togo tarpon Ashing. Mr. Murphy is a mil lionpire and appears on the stage for his own amusement. Miss Marie Hates, the well known character actress, will support Mr Da vid Wartleld next season in '"The Only Levi." She is to have the role of an eccentric old Irish woman. Miss Minnie Ashley, who made a hit in "San Toy," will be unable to re torn to the stn"e this season The her eyes that she must remain In a darkened room for a long time to come or run the risk of losing her sight alto gether. Borers In Fruit Trees. Cut them out and paint the bodies of the trees with lime whitewash col ored with Venetian red. CATARRH CATARRHpIIIS Ely's Cream HAY FEVER It opens and cleans, s the Nasal Pass ages. Allays lnfiamation. Heals and Protects the Membrane. Restores the Senses of Taste and Smell. Large Size, 50 cents at Druggists or by mail; Trial Size. 10 cents by mail. ELY BR< >THERS, 56 Warren Street. New York. Rod Suppressed Menstruation KsTOSS PAINFUL Menstruation 1 aIISV And a PREVENTIVE for " ■ ■ W FI MALE 11 -J 1 ■% • I I IRREGULARITIES 111 Are Safe and Reliable. I IB > {3T|^erfe£t|2_Harinless TheTadies' Zgs ?RicEsi.oo Sent postpaid on receipt of price. Money refunded if not as . wy - Yin de Cinchona Co. Des Moines, lowa. H jj ( CHICAGO " p» < M . . I ~ll m T5 |1 i <> 2 *•, s- a -) Hr 0) JO fj d jI I 'J> S3 2 j V z ii *? - 5 ? ; rn • ° : I I fTJ * ps :r 2 ~ 9 S * ° n ~sa ; 'fin £ —I ;II C/> Si IN ng ' mi BAILROftU, TIMt TABLE. In Effect September Ist, 1899 GOING WEST i- \ » |PAS I : ■ •\ KW OKK. P.M. A. M. M Barclay SI. I,v. g -JQ' ,0 00 .... Crlstoplier St.. y .1 10 oo' .... Hobokcn.... y 4fj u scran ton Ar ■> ; M ,. ~~~ v»fs SniANTO* ~| 1000 ">&. 340 ■* ;' M . ISellevue 3 45^"^ Taylorville i. jA": 2 03 1 3 521« "Jj Lackawanna ! m•« 'lu 365" [0 I'm yea !! „ £ 2 i;{ 3%« '» Plttston | jU y, 217 402*» H Susquehanna Ave...l m ,r. 220 405• •• West Plttston « 3,', 224 109 Jf Wyoming ; {ot 229 4ia c t Forty Fort 4Hi •> 38 Bennett .-•> a3O 42j Kingston 110 501 242 * '' *2 Kingston 10 h« 2 11 4iJ " f' Plymouth June... . j 247 4 :,i> [! ' r w H'ymoiitb "ii'u.V 2 52 5 V® Avondale.., 2 57 .... i iV Nanticoke.... u 13 302 .... 4 Hunluck'u jl iy| 310 .... Shickshinny j a 3 24 .... Hitk'sFerry ; fa 43 335 .... Beach Haven 1 11 4S 842 .... Berwick a 51! 349 .... Briar Creek ; If 3 56 .... Lime Kldge ! 0 fii 0# 404 .... Espy 83. ia 15 411 ....j Bloomsburg *4 | 12 22 417 ....; Rupert 8 £ 12 27 423 \ Catawissa j 86t ia 32 429 . Danville ! it loj la 47 442 ! Chulasky ... .. 44y ... 1 Cameron «a "ia'67 464 .... K4U NOKTHCMBBRLAKD a ;;£| 110 508 9oy Ar.! A.M IP. *. F. M. : P. M.IH.M GOING EAST. f-.TATIOM. PAS. PAH. PAH. PAB NBWYOU II in: P->«■ a.mj a.m.|am Barclay St, Ar. 3 80l 5 00' le 40 Christopher St... 3 4 65' ..<0 35 Hoboken .j 4- 44s ... 9.^5 Scran ton 1005 la ;V>; ■ 140 | daily j j jp.ji A.M. P.M. P. M.j P. M.jdly Scranton y42 12 35 456 535 907 Bellevue y3* 4 60! 5309 03 I'aylorville y H3 1 445 6 25:8 57 Lackawanna Da: 4 371 6 147 Duryea «2H: I 434 6 84b * Ittßton ylOl2 17 429 5 814 Susquehanna Ave.. 915 12 14 424 5 830 West Pittston 912 4 21, 6 836 Wyoming 9 Ob' la Ob! 4 ltil 5 U 922 forty Fort 9 0S 1 4 10! 4 828 Bennett 900 1 4 Oil! 4 824 Kingston, S 57i 12 021 4 04] 821 Kingston 8 ooj 12 00 4C2 4 810 Plymouth .lunction 850 36> 4 1 81b Plymouth 8 15 11 62 361 4 41.801 Avondale s 40! | 3 40 |s titi Nanticoke g 35; 11 46; 3 42 751 Hunlocks 8 27 3 34 7 46 Shickshinny 815 11 30 324 7 :|8 Hick's Ferry 8 04 3 13 7 25 Beaeh Haven 7 53! 3 07 7 12 Berwick 745 aO4 301 706 Briar C'reok 7 38 7 00 Lime Ridge 7 301 2 48 852 £fl>y 7 2:1 10 46 242 845 Bloomsburg 715 1041 238 .... 839 Rupert 709 10 30 231 #33 Catawissa 703 10 32 220 828 Danville 650 10 21 212 813 Chulasky 6 07 Cameron 6 38 ,; 03 NoBTHUMBUBL'D... 625 10 00 I*so 550 Lv j A.M. IA. M. If. M. P > M. |p. M Connections at Kupert with Philadelphia & Reading Railroad for Tamanend, Tamaqua, W illia msnort, Sunbury, Pottsville, etc. At Northumberland with F and E. Div. F. R. R. for Harrisburit. Lock Haven, Emporium, Warren C'orry, and Erie. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. TIME T4BLE 111 Effect Mch. 18th, 1900. A M |A. M.| PM.F: MT Scranton(D6cH)lv g 6 4.">| ?9 38 alb ii i'ittston •' " 7 08jfl0 00'§ 2 42 ( 4 52L]]]]" A. M. A. M.!P. M. P.M Wilkesbarre... lv § 730 §lO 3T>' 308 j8 001 Plym'th Ferry " 1 7 37 flO 42 I 3 16 f6 07! Nanticoke " 746 10 50j 326 617 Mocanaaua .... " 804 11 OTi 346 637 Wapwallopen.. " 8 13 11 it; 350 647 Nescopeck ar 824 11 2(IJ 407 700 A.M. I P.M. P.M. Pottsville lv § 5 50 sia 01 i Hazleton " 7 I 200'6 50 Tomhicken " 7 22 1 1 218 ti 10 Fern (Hen " 7 2!' 227 ti lb Rock (Hen "| 735 j a 34 625 Nescopeck ar| 800 | 300 050 Catawissa.. .ar j 'A.ma.M p.M. P M Nescopeck lv §8 24 ill 20 40757 00 r,. niwuiiiuurK) i o 10 30 ; Lock Haven.... '• 125 735 11 25i 300 ' A.M ! P Mi Williamsport.." 210 830 il2 40 4 001 Milton - 2 22! 919 127 4 Vij ".. Lewisburg 905 1 15| 4 47i'.... Sunbury ar; 310 9 4(i) 1651 6 20r".... A7\I A M P M! P M Sunbury lv ; 7 42 II 9 55 ; 2 00 : 5 48 Snuth Danville"! 7 13 iO 17 2 21; 6 09'*.. Catawissa 733 10 35 2 86] 627 E Bloomsburg.. " 7 391 10 43 243 632 "" Espy Ferry.... " 743 flo 47 t6 36 Creasy '' 7 .VI 111 66; 2 .V> li 46 Nescopeck 803 11 o.*>j 305 6 66; "" A 51 A Mjl*. M. P M | Catawissa lv 7 3s, Nescopeck lv s.ll 35 S 4 10 5 7 05 Rock (Hen ar 820 12 Olj 430 731 Fern (Hen " 8 Sttj 12 07| 442 737 "" Tomhicken " b42 12 15 151 T45 Hazleton " 902 12 35 512 , 806 "" Pottsville " 10 05 220 0 30, 9 05 ; ::t: jAMAM P M P M " I Nescopeck lv ; 8 03 11 06 i 3 05 i 8 55 Wapwallopen. .ar 818 11 20 319 709 Mocanauua " 8 '-'8 11 32 329 721 Nanticoke " 84S 1154 34b 742 .... P Ml Plym'th Ferry 1 112 b57 12 02 357 i 7 62 Wilkslmrre ... 9 06; 12 10 405 800 .... AM P M P M P M PittstotK DiVH) ar 959 12 49 <4 66 836 Scranton " " 10 08 1 lb 524Zv 05 I Weekdays. I Daily. 112 Flag station. Additional Train leaves Hazleton 5,15 p. in., Tomblcketi 5.35 p.m., Fern den 5.48 p.m., Hock Olen 5.50 p.m., arriving at Catawissa 0.25 p. in. Pullman Parlor and Sleeplns Cars run on through trains between Sunbury. Williamsport and Erie, between Sunbury and Philadelphia and Washington and between Harrisburg, Pitts • burir and the West. For further information apply to Ticket Agents 1 J.li. UUTCHTNSON, J. II WOOD. (rf).'l Manager. Gen'l Pain*a'r Ay. I Shoes, Shoes St^rlien! Clieap ! jßeliatole 1 Bicycle, Cymnasium and Tennis Shoes. THE CELEBRATED Carlisle Shoes AND THE Snag Proof Rubber Hoots A SPECIALTY. .A.. SCHATZ, SKEINS nv! A Floiiam© TIN SHOP Tor all kind of Tin Roofing, Spouting and CeneVal Job Work. Stoves, Heaters, Ranges, Furnaces, eto- PRICES THE LOWEST! QUALITY TOE BEST! JOHN HIXSON NO. 116 E. FRONT BT. JHN W. FARNSWOETH I INSURANCE $ Fire AcciAent and Steam Boiler Office: Montgomery Building, Mill Street, >anville, - - Penn'n PHILADELPHIA & HEADING RAILWAY IN EFFECT MARCH 30, ltfOl TRAINS LEAVE DANVILLE (weekdays only) For Philadelphia 11.35 a m. For New York 11.25 a HI, For Oatawlosa 11.25 a. m„ 6.04 p. m. For Milton 7.32 a, m., 4.00 p m. For Williamsport 7.32 a. m., 4.00 p m. Trains for Baltimore, Washington and th« South leave Twenty-fourth and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, weekdays—3.23, T. 14 10.22 a. in., 12.16, 1.33, 3.03, 4.12, 5.03, 7.26, 8.88 p. m., 12.21 night. Sundays 3.23, 7.14 a. in., 12.16 1.33, 4.12, 6.03. 7.28, 8.26 p. m. ATLANTIC CITY RAILROAD. Leave Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Whaif and South Street Wharf. WEEKDAYS —Express 6.00,9.00 a. in., (Satur days only 1.00) 2.00 4.00,5.00, 7.15 p. m. Ac commodation 8.00 a. m.. 5.30 p. m. Sunday Express, 6.00. 9.00,10.00 a. m., 7.15 p. m. Ac commodation 8.00 a. in., 5.00 p. m. Leave ATLANTIC CITY DEPOT-Week days—Express7.3s, 9.00, 10.15 ji. m., 2.50, 5.30, 6.00 p.m. Accommodation 8.05 a. m.,4.05 p, m. Sundays Express—lo.ls a. m., 4.30, 5.M, 8.00 p. in. Accommodation—7.ls a. m., 4.05 p. in. Parlor cars on all express trains. LEAVE PHILADELPHIA. For CAPE MAY and OCEAN CITY -Week days—9.lsa. m„ 4.15 p.m. Sundays—9.lsa.m. South St., 9.00 a.m. Additional tor Cape May—Weekdays—s.oo p. m. For SEA ISLE ClTY—Weekdays—9.ls a. m. 5.00 p. m. NEW YORK AND ATLANTIC CITY EXPRESS. Leave NEW VORK (Liberty Street) 3.40 P. M Leave ATLANTIC CITY, 8.30 A. M. Detailed time tables at ticket offices. W-G BESLER, EDSON J WEEKS Gen. Superintendent Oeneral Agent. New Coal Yard! R. J. Pegg, Coal Dealer, has re moved to his new COAL YARD. OFMCE:—NO. 344 Ferr y Street (near D. L- & W. R. R. Crossing ) ♦ YARD — In rear ofOitice. Robert J. Pegg, COAL DEALEjR. Tel ephone No 158 - -—j