CRIMINALS AT PLAY.
THE CRUEL WAYS IN WHICH THEY
"AMUSE" THEMSELVES.
The Ttnt In All Thrlr (Intra I the Ability
to ttrat Pain In Itnllnn ITIwn nrftrnnt
Are Altrny. In lrtnnnil to lntrh 1'p the
"Plnyrin."
Mnrlo Gnrnrti, n rtlsnlpln of Cprn
Lmuliroso, tliu Itnlinu expert iu rrimi
nul anthropology, hn mailo n ppcinl
itncly of tho portn tliiit crimiimH en
RiiKfl In. Tho limot'Piit pmiips of child
hood, In tlio cnnn of criininnlfl, nro tino
turod with cruelty ntirl mmictimit ac
companied by homicide.
Criminnln .kip tho rope, fcot pnrt of
tho Riune in to trip up tho jumper and
let him fall heavily upon the atone puve
mcnt. Criniidnln play leapfrog, but tho ob
ject of tho panic 1 tliiit ho who make
tho "back" .hall rise middeuly mid vio
lently jnstaMhe frog mount nnd throw
him to the irronnd.
Tho criminal, piny blind mnn'i buff,
bnt the man with tho bnntlaRcd eye
carries a handkerchief bearing in one
corner a jagged .tone, a pieco of hard,
hnrpencd wood or n bit of iron. With
thi wenpon he Htrikoi thoao whom ho
pin-Mien.
Another remarkable form of this
game in for the blinded ouo to be 'track
by ono or another of hi" cJnmpanionii if
he fails to name the one that louche
him. The penalty is not the innocent
one of the children' game, bnt a blow
o severe that a physician hai often to
be oallcd in after a game U over, and
occasionally the sufferer ia disabled for
some time.
It has been found in thoe Italian re
formatories where prisoners are not
kept in solitary confinement that pris
oners Rimes are often accompanied
with bloodshed, and that it is almost
impossible to prevent cruelties. This ia
espeoially truo whore prisoners work to
gether, for thoy socreto tools aud nsa
them as weapons in bratal sports.
In one of these games the player has
in each hand a stick, having fixed in
tho end a keen metallic point. He in
terweaves his arms, revolving tho sticks
with rapidity, and the game is for an
other prisoner to thrust his head be
tween tho arms and endeavor to follow
tho revolutions of the sticks without
being wounded. It usually happens that
he receives IS or 10 wounds and comes
ont with a bleeding head, while now
and then mortal injuries are received.
The victim in another game has his
eyes bandaged and places his palm upon
a table, with lingers spread fauliko.
Another criminal repeatedly strikes be
tween tho fingers with a pointed instru
ment. If he wounds a finger, then the
two change places, and woe to the man
who refuses the exchange. The game is
dangerous, although the criminals as
sert that the wounds to the fingers are
not deep or severe, because, they say,
tho metallio points mo too short and do
not penetrate far, a grim form of phil
osophy. The sport of criminals is accompanied
by characteristic craft. This is especial
ly shown in the methods in which the
newcomer is initiated into prison life.
The novice is conducted into an impro
vised court chamber, whoro the judges
are his fellow prisoners. Ho is placed
upon a stand and gravely tried upon a
pretended charge, and he has barely
been condemned when the stand is sud
denly drawn away, so that he is thrown
violently upon the earth.
Many games necessarily imply resist
ance to pain as an absolute ooudition of
success. For example, there is the game
of "noodles. ' One of the players places
his closed fists upon tho .table, holding
stoadily two needles, one in each hand,
the point being slightly exposed. It is
the game then for a -companion to
strike with his own fists thoso of the
other and becomes a question of endur
ance between the one who ia pricked
with the needles and tho one whose fists
are beaten by the other's knuckles.
There are contests in which the fin
gers and hands are deeply wounded,
and the scars are an honorable distinc
tion. The characteristic feature of all these
games, which are the recreation exclu
sively of criminals in prison, ia the love
of combat If, as is held tiy experts,
sports are the moans of working off the
superfluous activity of life, it ia evident
that superfluous aotivity, in the case of
prisoners, Is especially powerful It has
been noted In the case of prisoners that
there is a prevalence of great agility and
lithenesa, which Professor Liombroso
considers a negative evidenoe of mental
weakness, sinoe it testifies to a greater
development of the notorial centers at
the expense of the other cerebral centers.
But usually this physical energy is sot
properly used in the ordinary life of the
criminal and finds outlet and enjoyment
In sports.
Another charaoteriatio of the games
it criminals is the admiration shown
'for physical force, manifested in the
docility with which the vanquished in
uoh sports submit to the brutality of
the victors, a thing observed among
'lavages.
Finally the insensibility to pain ex
hibited in sports of criminals proves
ihat such men ore less acute in their
physical senses as well as loss sensitive
to the pains of others, since what seems
to .others uselessly cruel is only the
usual thing with criminals. As the
drunkard, his taste hardened by alcohol,
has need of a stimulant constantly
stronger, so in the cuse of the criminal,
the nervous system demands stimulants
so strong that to the ordinary steady
going individual they would be actually
painful. Feursou's Weekly.
PU Hot Bum oa Him.
"If you chose, you could be the ligflt
of my life," said he when they met at
the ball
" xes?" she said for wont of anything
bettor to say.
"Yes. But whenever I call, yon are
cmt "Indianapolis Journal.
ANDRE'S MONUMENT.
Vandals Have Chipped Hl Memorial la
Westminster Abbey.
Near the center of the south wall of
the nave is a monument to Major Andre
of Revolutionary note. The very long
inscription npon it begins, "Sacred to
the memory of Major John Andre, who,
raised by his merit, at an early period
of life, to the rank of adjutant general
of the British forces in America, and
employed in an important but hazardous
enterprise, fell a sacrifice to his seal for
his king and country, on the 2d of Oc
tober, 1780, aRed 20, universally beloved
ami esteemed by tho nrmy in which ho
served and lamented even by his foes."
About the base of the monument,
which is a panel set aRainst tho wall,
are several small fiRures. Tl ese project
from the panel, anil represent the presen
tation of Major Andre's lctt;r to Gen
eval Washington on tho night before his
execution. The ease with which tho
heads of these figures could bo broken
off has been too groat a temptation to
relic hunters, nnd most of tho heads
have been knocked off and stolen. That
such vandalism is not wholly modem is
shown from the fact thut Charles Lamb
writes of the defacing of this very mon
ument in this way in his "Kssnya of
Elio." Southey, the poet, when a boy,
was a pupil at the Westminster school.
Later in life he was exceedingly sensi
tive iu regard to his political princi
ples, and for a time a serious quarrel
existed between himself and Lamb, be
cause the latter, speaking in regard to
this injury to Andre's monument, de
scribed it as the "wanton mischief of
some schoolboy, fired porhaps with
raw notions of transatlantic freedom."
Then, addressing tiouthey, he added,
"Tho mischief was done about the time
that you wero a scholar there. Do you
know anything about the unfortunate
relic?"
There is now fastened npon the wall
of the nave, above the monument, a
wreath of oal leaves which Dean 8tan
ley, when he visited America, gathered
near the spot on tho bank of the Hudson
river where Andre was executed. Al
though Andre died in 1780, it was not
until 1821 that, at the request of the
Duke of York, his bones were exhumed
and taken to England to be buried iu
the abbey. The box in which they were
placed for the voyage is still preserved
iu tho oratory over St. Islip's chapel,
whore the wax figures are kept. Max
Bennett Thrasher iu St Nicholas.
Animals' Illusions.
Birds nro perhaps morecomraouly the
victims of illusions than other animals,
their stupidity about thoir eggs being
quite remarkable. Last year, for in
stance, a hen got into tho pavilion of a
ladies' golf club aud begau to sit on a
golf ball in a corner, for which it mado
a nest with a couple of pocket handker
chiefs. But many quadrupeds are not
only deceived for tho moment by reflec
tions, shadows and such unrealities, but
often soem victims to illusions largely
developed by the imagination.
The liorso, for instance, is one of tho
bravest of animals when face to face
with dangers which it can understand,
such as the charge of an elephant or a
wild boar at bay. Yet tho courageous
and dovotcd horso, so steadfast against
the dungots he knows, is a prey to a
hundred terrors of the imagination due
to illusions, mainly those of sight, for
shying, the minor effect of those illu
sions, and "bolting," in which panic
gains complete possession of his soul,
are caused, as a rule, by mistakes as to
what the horso sees, and not by misin
terpretation of what be hears. It is no
ticed, for instance, that many horses
which shy usually start away from ob
jects on one side more frequently than
from objects on the other. This is prob
ably due to defects in the vision of one
or other eye. 4
Iu noarly all cases of shying the horso
takes fright at some unfamiliar object,
though this is commouly quite harm
less, such as a wheelbarrow upside
down, a freshly felled log or a piece of
paper rolling before the wind. This in
ststuly becomes an illusion, is inter
preted as something else, and it is a cu
rious question in equine neuropathy to
know what it is that the horse figures
these harmless objects to be. When
Russian ponies first began to be shipped
to Harwich, thoy usually objected to
pass near a donkey. This reluctance
was explained on the hypothesis that
the ponies seldom saw donkeys in Rus
sia and mistook them for bears. Lon
don Spectator.
The CoraaLnt Bonrboaa.
Where does tho Duo d'Or leans get his
fat? From the Spanish and Neapolitan
Bourbons, of whom he is unquestionably
descendant, even though Louis Phi
lippe were a ChlapplnL I cannot think
of any French Bourbons, except Louis
XVI, his sister Clotilda and Philippe
Egalite'a father and the Com to de
Chambord and his sister, who were very
fat The two latter were, however, de
scended from the Neapolitan and Span
ish Bourbons. Obesity has been an oft
recurring malady of the Spanish royal
family ever sinoe Elisabeth Farnese
married Philip V. She was the heiress
of the fattest Italian that probably ever
lived. He was a prince for a Barnum
ahow whose legs had to be propped up
by buckram and whalebone case to pre
vent them overlapping his feet. Fatty
degeneration impaired the usefulness u
Charles III of Spain and destroyed the
activity of the lute Queen Christina,
grandmother of the Com tense de Paris.
Queen Isabella strongly inherits tho
family fulling. The Comtesse de Paris
makes a brave fight against the heredi
tary diathesis by Bantingizing at Mar
i en bad and on the Aubergne moors,
where she tires out all her gamekeep
ers. Loudon Truth,
Ctut and Kffbet.
"Did I hear that your mule was
truck by lightning, Ephf"
" Yaas, suh ; dar was a powahful bolt
bit de mule right ahiud hia eahs. "
"Did it kill himr
"No, suh; but it done broke up da
sto'in, "Detroit Froo Press. .
First National Bank
OF R K YXOLliS V1LLK.
CnPITKL 980,000.00.
'. nitrliell, Prrialdeiitl
Scott MXiellnnri, Vice Pre.
John It. Knnrher, faultier.
Directors)!
(!. Mitchell, ft-ott McC'Icllnnd, ,t. C. Kins,
John II. t'nrlictt, t). F. Ilrnwii,
O. W. Fuller, J. II. Kniieher.
Incn a genera I Imnltlnp IhimIhcshii(1 solicit s
the ni'tMiunlH of merchants, rnfrlimtl nient
farmer, mcchntitcH, miners, lumbermen nml
nt hers. prumHnK the miwt eiueful attention
to the uuhIiichii of all person.
Safe lie prnlt Boc for rent.
Flint National tlatik titilUlintt, Nolan tilocU
Fire Proof Vault.
m. w. Mcdonald,
FIRE,
LIFE and
ACCIDENT
insurance.
I have a largo tino of Companies nnd
am prepared to hnndlo large or small
lines of Insurance. Prompt attontion
glvon to any business Intrusted to my
care. Ofllce In Nolan Block, Roynolds
vllle, Pa.
Bing & Co,
Jnst received from the
the Finest and Largest
Goods ever brought
beauties and the latest
BiacK Dress Goods,
Forty pieces to select from. You will find
them very handsome and at prices to suit all.
Ladies,' Misses and Children's Jackets and
Capes. Do not fail to see them.
A flash of lightning
coming from
is a very rare occurrence, but one day last week a
lady and gentleman received a welcome shock. Yes,
they had gone to the lleynoldsville Hardware Co.
to buy
Carpets, Furniture
and General Hardware
and the great values shown them caused a noticable
expression of joy and gladness to shine upon their
faces. They purchased a' complete furnishing for
their home and departed, saying:
"The immense stock, at such low prices!
We'll call again."
REYNOLDSVILLE HARDWARE CO.
i Few of
Golden Sheaf Flour, $1.00 per sk.
Perfection Flour, ' .95 "
Corn Chop, 80c. perewt.
Corn and Oats Chop 80c.
Rye Chop, $1.00
Rye, Corn and Oats
Chop, .90 "
PurewhiteMiddlings.80
"We also keep baled hay, graham
flour and chicken feed.
MEEKER BROS.
HALF A CENTURY OLD,
Is a sine remedy for
Coughs, Colds, V loop
ing Cough, and all Lung
diseases when used in
ccason. Fifty ycar3 ago,
Elder Downs was given
up by his physicians to
die with CouBcmptlon.
Under these clicutnstan- E
ces he compounded this!
KXtxir, wns cured, and
lived to a good old age.
SI You can try it for the
v H l ... I
I price
of one doctor'
visit I
ror
ywhere.
rimCO AMEL'ALLY.
For Kiiln by II. Alex ftoke.
Disemer's huvo a small quantity of
tliat 2.1 cent all wool sorgo left, similes
nro brown, green, old roso, nllo and red.
JSTUAY NOTICE.
t'nnio trcMpimMlnff on tlui tircmlwc of tho
iinileriliineil In llriidersnn township, about
tliuHilmf Oct., INM, a .lersey heifer about,
years old, nnd on the IJitli of Oct. a dark red
milk cow. The owner are requested to come
forward, prove property, pay i-harpc and
take the cattle away or they will bu disposed
of nccordlna to law.
Oct. IU, 1MW. A. J. RPHAOIts.
Eastern Cities one of
Assortments of Dress
to the city. They are
style.
BING & OO.
a clear sky
Our Prices
a
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ti
Snyder & Johns,
FASHIONABLE TAILORS.
B have just received a large line of Piece Goods
nnd pamples, embracini the very latest styles
t f Foreign nnd Domestic Suitings for Fall and
Winter wear, which we are prepared to make at
Hard-time Prices. We cordially invite the public
to call, examine our goods and get prices. Special
attention to Cleaning and Repairing.
Next Door to Hotel iMcConndl. ' Main Street.
FIliST-CLASS
KESII
INE '
W. R. MARTIN
Has a large stock of fresh groceries, consisting of Sugar,
Tea, Coffee, Rice, Canned Goods of all kinds,
Potatoes, Rutter, Eggs, and everything
usually kept in a first-class
Grocery1 Store.
W. II. MA.HTHN",
MAIN STREET,
Capes!
AT OUR STORE
You will find the most complete stock of General Merchan
dise in town. Prices never were so'low. Our line
of Capes and Jackets includes the
LATEST STYLES
and prices away down. We have just received a New
Stock of Clothing, Hats and Caps. We are selling
GOOD Shoes
cheaper than any one in this vicinity. Full line of Staple
and Fancy Groceries. We invite all to
call and see us.
Jefferson Supply Co.
A. D. DEEMER
Blankets
We got a whole case of Cotton Fleeced
Blankets. They are not what ive ordered;
they are jnst a shade narrow, wide enough
for single or children's beds. They'll do for
covering or sheets. We have marked them
way down. The price will sell them. Lots
of other blankets that are full length and
ividtlp. You will get them at a trifle more.
Another Blanket Special is
"Our
all-wool blanket. When we speak of "Our Fac
tory" we mean the Reynoldsville woolen mill.
No shoddy goods from them.
UNDERWEAR
For Men, Boys, Ladies, Misses and Children, in
fine wool, part wool, cotton, fleeced lined, all
styles and sizes.
Oneita Union Suits, cotton and wool, two
garments in one. These cold days will make
you look out for heavy underwear. You'll find
this store is all right m quality and price.
Flannels
All gradoa, price and quality, from the fine French flannel to the
heavy lumberman's.
COATS fVND GfPES!
We've lota of wrap and will receive more soon as tbey are made, -The
most correct Htyle and latest cut.
fl.
Groceries,
REYN0LD8VILLK, PA.
Jackets!
& GO.
and Haps
Factoru "
D. D86mer & go.