ASreRPIECES From the Art Galleries of theWorld Tills collection of tho lost Beautiful Pictures Havo bcon eolcctcil by a lover of pictures after years of labor and Brent expense They will represent everything that is popular In pictures. Thoy aro tho I Popular Pictures The Uteatal Artists ! Thoy aro given away to readors of this paper. They aro Issued in parts containing 15 masterpieces and ono page, of descriptive matter about tho pictu.ro and tho artist. Tho first of those parts is now ready lor delivery and will bo mailed to any of our readers who will cut out tho coupon on the fourth page of this paper and for ward it to us -with ten cents, oitber in coin or postage stamps. To city subscri bers it will bti dolivercd over our counter on receipt of One Coupon and ten cents. Succeeding parts will be sent on re ceipt of Six Coupons and ten cents. Every ono who has seen tho part says that it is well worth two dollars. 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A lover of pictures, a man of means, making a tour of tho art galleries of the world, realized that the luxury of Mi-lug all these beauties was limited to the very wealthy, and to them only by wearisome and cxponslvo traveling and timo. "Why not in tho present ago of porfect photogra phic reproduction, why not reproduce tho most beautiful, tho most popular, the input noted of these art treasures ?" was tho question ho asked himself. Why not indeed; no sooner thought of than ho applied his means and prestigo to Becuro largo photographs of tho choice pictures. Ths result Is "SIasteiu-iecks from rnn Aiit Galleries of the Would." Tho original idea was to Issue tho book in parts just as is now being done; but to charge J2.G0 a part or $100.00 in all. Now, a syndicate of newspaper pub lishers has purchased tho photographs and plates and is issuing them to "Boom Circulation." Now, every one may have this magni ficent work which was originally intended for tho rioh man's palace. 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The doaand ii to gnat that It to omotlmn impossible to luwp op with ordn, j M a Royal Introduction BUFCciU. Presentation of People of Renown To the People of Shenandoah and The Mahanoy Vnlleys. cjr maKC a voyage- around the wc rid and meet the crowned heads of Europo as well as tho most distinguished people in this country and abroad would cost lots of money, wouldn't it, even if you had tho entree into their society? But suppose you could sit in your own homo with your wife and children around yon and come face to iaco with splendid photographs of these people ol note, that would be quite a big step toward knowing them as near, perhaps, as you will over got. And when you begin to weary of studying tho features of this clnss of society wc will show you a good many places and things in far-away climes that many of your brethren have paid thousands of dollars to see. 1 You you and of Tho advantages of pictorial representation as a means of inform ing ana verifying can hardly be exaggerated. Wherever travel is practicable there tho lens, with its quick flash of light and swiftly caught imago of nature and man, has come in totupply tho deficiency and to transmit to homes in distant lands tho picture and visions of tho reality. Now if you will como with us on this 0 .round the World You will see many wonderful things, meet many celebrated person ages, and you will not lose any time from business. Tho first week we aro going to introduce to you: 1st. The venorablo Justices of the Supreme Court Zof the United States, in their black robes of office. 2d. The lovely Mrs. Cloveland. 3d. The President of the United States, Mr. Cleveland. 4th. Tho Cabinet of Mr. Cleveland's second administration with a splendid photo (by Sarony) of Mr. Cleveland in the centre. 5th. Vice President Stevenson and nineteen prominent members of the Senate. Gth. Twenty prominent members of the'House of Representatives. 7th. The Presidents of the United States since the formation of the United States. 8th. Twenty-eight Governors now in office. 9th. President Harrison and his Cabinet. 10th. Prominent Republicans Uth. Prominent Democrats. 12th. A dozen Generals famous since the War. 13th. Celebrated Union Generals. 14th. Famous Confederate Generals. 15th. Leaders of tho Navy. 16th. Foreign Ministers at Washington. The following week wc shall present to you bishops, archbishops, cardinals, newspaper men, authors, composers, millionaires, actresses, actors, Queen Victoria, tho Prince of W11I03 and his family and others Tho third week we shall present a few more royal persons and then begin our travels in foreign lands,, travels that will last twenty six weeks. 7 Cents By this time you will doubtless 4 -f- v EACH day fourth pago you have saved aeyen of tho coupons cousooutivoiy numbered, bring thorn to us with seven cents and pou will reoolvo Portfolio 1 of "Tile World and ltd People Uy Sunlight," tho famous work introduced by that noted traveler, stholur and writer, John Clark Kidpath, LL. D. Each portfolio will contain 16 pages and tiro re will be 20 portfolios. The wholo series will mako tho mostalu ablo art collection each as canuot bo met with often. You should have tho 00111 plcto sorles, and you should seize tho opportunity now. If you aro already gotting tha Herald all you have to do Is to mvo your coupons and pennies. If you aro not gotting the Hehald send us your, uamo and address, and tho paper will he loft by oarrler for you every day. T he Coupons l55fRaniT)1la Of tllfi TlhntOCrfinhlft Mrlpa mnv hn conn nnnn nnJ. cation to Hooks & Brown, 4 North Main street; O. IL Anderson, traveling correspondent, Mahanoy City, or at the Hbrald offioa. can take Your Family w'th without EXTRA COST, without the discomforts Travel to you all. a Week, bo curious to know tho conditions. cut out tho art coupon printed on the and put it aaido with Jono cent. After will appear -Commencing January 13th. mm yjT'iiiii devil Mrs. Williams Thinks He Dwells In the Vermiform Appendix. Tin: ruACKwis and ci,ai:i:t cct,t. The "llndy and Itlo.xl" TjplfliMl Ntrangc Itetlglnus 1 'nrui t li Um of Mrs. (lonrtte II. Willi iiiiis. Wlut Was Once ii Hello In Washington ninrlnl Society. Portland, Or., hat given to the world now religion, the cardinal principles of ! wiiicnnrotiinttlie devil h tho vermiform ' appendix, mid that. purlficHtion comes through 40 days of claret mid ernckers. The high pilcstcss of the creed Is nn Itin erant wanderer of the wilderness, no under- i fed, scantily clothed, draggled denlwn of the slums, but the buxom wife of George H. Williams, who has been judge, presi dential elector, congressman, United States senator mid United States attorney general, who was nominated by President Oram for ehlef justice of the United Stntes supreme court, and who Is now Oregon's leading law yer. Mrs. Williams hns everything that wealth can buy, anil the meetings of her Kin converts and fnnatical followers are held in the great hall of her splendid home, a hall capacious enough to Bent thetn nil. Twenty years ago .Mrs. Williams was a woman of national reputation in Washing ton society. There am many who well re member tho stout, dark, Imperious, brainy woninu who wils nt the head of the house hold of Cregon's famous senator and Grant's attorney general. In Washington Mrs. Williams displayed a personal magnetism nnd a tnentnl bril liance that nt once made her a social lead cr. Her entertainments wero attended by the greatest meuof the nation. She was an important factor in her husband's advance ment. President Grant was one of those who came under her magic spell, and to her Influence with him hns been ascribed the judge's nomination to the supreme bench. There is little doubt also that the jealousy of other (society leaders, especially senators' wives, had much to do with the light made In the senate to defeat ills confirmation. The very qualities that made her promi nent then are the ones that give her such it strange influence over her deluded follow ers, now that she has iilwudoned society and its dissipations to become the special MTiS. WILLIAMS. mouthpiece of the Almighty, and subsists on a diet of "body and blood whilo lead ing Iter followers "through the wilder ness." That is tho phase by which tho puriflca Hon of the body by fosting'lOdaysiscalled. Half a dozen persons have already starved tu death in attempting this feat, possible only to a person with a vigorous constitu tion. Of such ns these, tho high priestess I of this new cult says that they did not 1 keep faith with God, and lie killed them. Tho police have inquired into these cases I several times, but only where parents bavn j nndertakui to starve their children have they interfered, j I.iLe Professor Totten, Mrs. Williams ' rtf.ulir.fu ll.it (mlT. n.i.l l... Cl. claims that God has told her that diro ca lamities nro to precede tho final event, of which tho present "hard times" are a mild beginning. Before tlte close of winterthere will be a bloody war between labor and capital. Anarchy will triumph. Society will bo overthrown and evil will succeed evil until the end comes in tho spring. Shu makes the luckless city of Portland tho starting point for theso multifarious ovils. Great conflagrations will destroy it nnd n plague will fill its streets with rot ting corpses, whoso stencil will fill the air. To shut out from the eyes of tho holy few such sights she has had window blinds mado for her house, in which the select band will gather in their pure robes nnd be prepared to ascend when the final cata . clysm shall come. Meanwhile nil must pu , rify themselves by "going through the wil derness" on the "body and blood." From I now on nil fleshly longings must be sub dued and not stratified. Already there is ono divorce case In the courts because of this injunction, while several other families havobeen broken up. Mrs. Williams has just finished her sec ond sojourn of 40 days in tho wilderness, having undertaken it because site feared site was losing her power with God because of fleshly gratification. She has announced that she has been in long personal commu nication witlt him and will have most im portant levelations to make. Tho fact Hint she has not yet made these, one of which is supposed to be the exact time and nutute of tho end of the world, has led timid people to fear that she will confide only in iter fa natical followers nnd that they may be come the net ho Instruments of the Loid in producing the coiillngatiousand otherevils she predicts. Tho most remarkable claim of Mrs Wil liams is that the devil is resident in the human body In the vermiform appendix. This is a tiny organ of the stomach, con- ' cernlng whose functions scientists have ever been mystified. "The form is very much that of a snake the origlunl tempter," says Mrs. Wil liams. "When the body dies, tills snake is compelled to crawl through hell, the dark and dreary caverns of the center of the earth, through all eternity. "Now, the scientists say tills portion of tho body is superfluous and injurious, and that it should be removed. This Is a master stroke on tho devil's part. Wns such sub tlety ever equaled? The devil gnys to his people, 'I, the devil, have dirtcted the doc tors how tocut the devil out of you.' My medical friends, don't you do itl You, would have nothing mnru to do, "My friends, they may cut the devil out of you, but ho will come back when you die. Do ns I have done, aud us the 300 people in this city who have passed through the wil derness have done. Sturve the devil out of you. He cannot live on the body nnd blood of Christ for TO days, as I have done. You can starve him to death." PERaEVE iA-iCE AND tiRiT.; If"r 'I'm ImtrM Mlnrri, Ami T. 'Iriftht, 11 l.lnmln Oilier, Mulii', ( Ittrrtt by lio ,' f o Stmilr ltrmnl)illln ultiit iii llVmf of t!rfttr;iliniMiiny Other ll'nrfilti;! hf irAilllin .llrrni., I.incolx fa.vrxic. Me. "I thank God that 1 use.1 Dr. IHvId Kennedy's Favorite It.'iii eily." Such were tlto wonliof As T. Orirllti, of lids phee, mid any one sctpi ilulH with tho benefit he derived from Its tiw. knows that he hso irrent renson to fwl ilmnkfttl. T e history of .Mr Cliiltln's caw is "I s I. Interest thut your ounvspuuileiil obtained full particulars. "Cor ten yom psnt," to in Sir. Griffin's own wunis, "I hive sutlVred with lomtant piiti In my back which ww brought abmt by a illsoiwod condition of my kidm js. Tito surteriiiK I endured at timed is beyond words I doctored ami took all nimiuar of inulieiuer, hut to no purpuM. I liegtii to be .iex,ndcnt for haylug wasoornhn ou and I wanitit t., get to work. One liny I was resd ngof In. David Kennedy's i'uvonto Itemedy, and I told my wife I would try it, and I am thankful that I did so. I had mnd It inn a sh nt white when the pain dlsiitwral;Hnil thousiiirted l.i ami worked all through hsyiuaud helkd to get in twenty-three acres of (train, and am feoilug better thuii I have for years My wlf. who has also taken Favorite Itemeily for tho slckno women are usually troubled with, has induced many othors tn try this valuable medicine, aud in ovcry easo it lias cured, wliero a cure was possible " One of our local physicians recently jatid : "Dr. Kennedy's Favorite Itemedy has enrol more people of dypepsia, rheumatism, kidney, liver and uri nary tionblos, and women who are sutl'ering from illness .pocullar to their sox, than any known treatment. Tho great valno of Fa vorite Remedy lies in the fact that it dissolves the excess of uric acidjiti tho blood, expels it from the system, thus curing tli disease." "In diabetes, llright'sdiseasoand gravel, it has cured whero all elso failed. Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Itemedy can bo in reinsert of any dealer of medicines at $1 a bottle Up Towu Olllce. All orders for advertising, job work and inscriptions can he left at lteese's Miction id Commission rooms, Dougherty building, VV Uculro stroet, where they will receive prompt attention. A PECULIAR CASE. A Ilralti Transfer That Ilesulird In Astnult mul (lattery. The city editor of a newspaper liicb em ploys the services of nn enterprising young innn n friend of mine ton small amount asked him one day to investigate a strange story which had come down over the tele phone from the Fourteenth Ward hospital. He gave tho young man an order ou the cashier for bis cur faro. Ilnviiigvxchnnged thnt for 10 cents' wortli of malt extract with a gentleman on William street, my friend walked up to tho Fourteenth ward. He passed his credentials in to the chief surgeon at tho hospital and was admitted. "What is this case you told us aboutf" ho asked, borrowing the chief surgeon's knife to.sharpen Ids pencil. "Ymt haven't nmde iifuceeHsrul operation, have jimf" "Worse than that," replied the chief sur geon. "Infinitely worse. A young man 1111111111 Drown was" "(Jot his first nniuof" queried tho re porter. "Xo. lie was" "A(io" "Didn't letirn. Ho wns brought in here a week ago" "Address?" "Can't say. lie was brought in here n week ago witL a had wound in his head. Ho had been struck by n brick which had fallen trom a passing building, nnd" "A passing which?" "A building which ho was passing, aud a part of his brnin was missing. It looked like a pretty serious matter, and so I took hold of the case myself. We found that it would be necessary to supply tho deficiency In brains We have none to spare here, so got that?" "Yes." "Sii we sent out. After awhile wo found an Irishman who had been mortally wound ed in a prizo fight, and who had no further use for his brains. We operated ou him and made the transfer. Our patient was an American, and he seemed to get along first rate until yesterday. Then he got upout ol bed and assaulted his physicians, throwing four of them dim n stairs. He doesn't recog nize his wife aud claims that he, alone aud unassisted, can layout any seven men in the hospital if ho is not molested by the po lice. He also speaks with a strong Irish accent and hits gone back on his politics. He claims his name Is Dolau." The chief surgeon reached behind him for his handkerchief and wiped lliepcn.pl ratiou off his face, with the nir of a man whose confidence had been abused. "How do you account for the change?" the reporter asked, recrosslng his legs ou the window sill. "We don't account for it nt all," the chief surgeon answered. "We find nothing In history like It, aud only nn autopsy will reveal the secret. I regret that we cannot perform au autopsy now. Will you havo a cigar?" "Thank you! Hut how is It that" A tremendous fall and a wild whoop of defiance from above stairs interrupted the reporter anil paused the chief surgeon to rise and remove his coat. "That's hltu," ho said. "You'll havo to excuse me for a few minutes. If I call yon, I wish you'd come up to assist mej I some times" As the chief surgeon disappeared, tho sound of a scuffle came from above, accom panied by the words: " "Tak' yer corner, yo bald headed inick tak' yer corner, cr (Ji'll busto the face off yezl" I'uck. In Posltu. She looked upon the pale, slender youth kneeling before her and was moved to pity. There was tender sympathy in her bearing as she told him sheoould never be his wife. Ho heart! her answer with a bowed head. "May I," he asked simply, when she hnd spoken, "propound to yon ono other ques tiou hufoiu I rlso from my knees?" "Yes." His glittering eyes wero fastened upon her face now. "Have you" He was terribly earnest. "any corus, bunions or Inverted nails?" She shrieked as It dawned upon her that he was, after all, a chiropodist. When he strode away forever, the snow crushed beneath his feet with a merry, mocking sound. Detroit News-Tribuno. thf bTi,rer ca,i .potur. He Keeps Tab mi llii- ( m.lartor liy Mean of h l'ueket lU'Kt-rer. The-p are men who hnhitnally stand on the rear plntfnrtn of strei tears That Is the spotter's position. I'nifessinn.il spot ters never give "tliemsehcs ow.iv" by counting passengers. The spot t, r enrrim II siniill linisele register in one of the lwckets of his overcoat, lie h t in-t likely to appear on a cur that Is to o n n big load. lie takes his (dace on t lie n .ir plat form and always npNiiis to hi i lie most unconcerned luiiii on the car 'I'.e first thing h dues Is to glance at t lie n . i-f ,-r In the front nf the cHr. lie makes mental ltotcof the mini her nf fares that have been rung up. Fvry rime n passing, i mis on he presms tli button of thelutl. register III his pmket. He never nppt. is to bo watching the persons w ho me g. King In the ear, hut lie must beean ftil in it lo miss one. lie ri lis on the platform tint 11 tha fares of all the persons who bnc got on the ear slnro lie took his position havo limi collected. His last net lief. .1 e getting off is the mental registration of thu num herof iai-es indicated by the register in tha car. If lie has another test to mako beforo making his rt-iort, ho will probably stop under the first electric light, write down on the blank furnished hltu tho number of fares registered when he got on the car and tlie utnnhfr registered when he got off lie subtracts one a 'in tho other and has liet'ore him the mj.islirr of fares the eondiii toi should have registered Then ho looks nt his Indicator, and If there Is a discrepancy lietween his couut nnd tho count the conductor registered he reporto the fact to Mie company. A conductor who is discharged is never nccused of having stolen money from tha company, 'l'ne charge is "improperly collecting fares." It is not often thnt a conductor Is discharged the first time it is reported to the company thnt he is "im properly collecting fares." The t-nt Is ap plied to him frequently, and if it Is found that he is habitually not ringing up fares for all the persons who take pussfgoca his cur he is dismissed. Conductors be lieve that the menus emplojed by spotters are unfair. They say that it Is often im possible for any man to get all tho fares on a car; that it is mi easy matter to get all the fares w lieu a car is not crowded, hut when fiO or GO persons board a car hound up town it is next to impossible to collect without nn error. Often persona will get off the car before the conilucor has reached them, nnd hampered as bo is by tho crowd, they say, ho cannot prevent this. Then persons nro getting on and off, exchanging seats and doing other things that mystify the conductor ns he pushes Ids way through the crowd in senrch of tho nickles that are due thocom pany. Persons who travel regularly on tho care nre sometimes surprised that conductors do not lose their temper oftener. They nro not permitted to "talk hack," no mat ter bow great tho provocation mny be. Recently one of the old conductors on the Illinois street line lost his temper. Tha next day ho lost his position. A woman, got on his car at Illinois and Washington streets. She offered him a transfer ticket, which, lie said, had expired. "It cannot be so," said she, "fori got this ticket just u few minutes ngo." "Madam, you lie," said the conductor, who maintained that the woman had re ceived tho ticket from a representative of tlic company nt another crossing nearly an. hour earlier. Ono nf the company's de tectives overheard tho remark of tho con ductor and reported him. Indianapolis News. I'immI Ilefore -Sleep. Many persons, snys Dr. W. T. Cnthell nu eminent physician though not actual ly sick, keep below pnr in strength and general tone, and I am of the opinion that fasting during the long intervals between supper and breakfast, and especially tho complete emptiness of the stomach during sleep, mills greatly to the amount of ema ciation, sleeplessness and general weakness we so often meet. Digestion requires no Interval of rest, and if tho amount of food during tho 24 hours is in quantity nnd quality not be yond tile physiological limit it makes no hurtful difference to the stomach how few or how short nro the iutervnls between eat ing, hut it does mako a vast difference in tho weak and emncinted one's welfare to have n modicum of food in the stomach, during the time of sleep, thnt infcndof being consumed by bodily aettou It may during the interval imprint- the lowered system, nnd I am fully satisfied that wero the weakly, the emaciated and the sleep less to lightly take a light lunch or meal of simple, nutritious food before going to lied for a prolonged period nine in ten of them would lie thereby lifted mto n better standard of health. New York livening World. Tho lUocutlunlst's Lnmcnt. When I am reciting in a hall which con tains a clock that strikes or near to whiah the trains pass, I know for a certainty thnt just at the moment when I requiro breathless silence that clock will strike or a train will come rushing past. I once composed a piece of poetry for recitation in which I wns so foolish as to Insert the passage: "Hark! What is that?" I might easily havo conjectured what would hap pen during the pause of expectancy. Clocks struck, doors wero slammed, en glues whistled, old gentlemen coughed, young gentlemen sneezed, dogs came from all directions for tho express purpose of barking, lamp shades fell down, waiters dropped their trays, babies screamed, or you heard a deaf old lady say audibly to her neighbor, "Half an onion will do as well." Taught wisdom by all these bitter experiences, I finally decided to erase that passage. Chrouik der Zelt. Trlul by J ury. Trial by 12 compurgators, which was of canonical origin, existed in Anglo-Saxon timos'iind only rtwem bled what is known ns trial by jury In tho number of persons sworn. Under the name of wager of law it continued to be the law of England un til abolished Aug. 14, 1833. Traces of trial by jury aro found in the reigns of William I and II, Henry I and Stephen, but it was not fully established until the reign of Henry II. Trial by jury was first adopted in criminal oases in the reign of John ltsti-dll and was the established mode of di aling with them at tho end of the thirteenth century. Witnesses wero examined nnd evidence first laid before Juries in tho reign of Henry VI U23-61 hut this chauge wns not fully carried out till the time of Edward VI 1547-53. The laws respecting juries in I.ngland were remodeled June 22, 1625. Brooklyn Eaglo. Those lints. Man (in theater, tn wop i in front) Madam, I paid (1.50 fur it, and your hat Woman (oalmly-Thnt coat (10. Boston Courier.
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