Bloomington Progress, Bloomington, Monroe County, 13 December 1893 — Page 3

A Hospital Car for Inaeala-mta. A hospital car, to e run in conneotion with every emigrant train and in case of the discovery of contagious disease to be switched off and isolated, is a needed improvement which is being urged by Eastern health officials. The Baltimore and Ohio, whicH carries a large immigrant traffic, is favorable to the plan and the other trunk lines will doubtless also adopt it. The attention which has been directed by the National Association of Railway Surgeons and by other bodies of medical men to the subject of the proper -and safe transportation of the sick has been of much value to the public and the railways, and the additional safeguard that would be afforded by a car In which sick immigrants coula be separated from the well ani properly "treated should not be neglected. -Railway Age. A Vortnnmte Acvtdesit. To break a mirror is considered unlucky by the superstitious. However, it was a very lucky accident in the case of a certain Mr. Roll of Newark. The mirror had been given him by his grandfather. One day. to his great consternation he shivered it to atoms, whereupon an old yellow parchment fell out from between the glass and the frame. This turned out to be a document for which Mr. Roll had been vainly hunting for years, and which proved his right to a large piece of land near New York, valued at six million dollars. a there were nearly a hundred persons seeking to establish their claims to the estate, the sensation caused by the lucky find may be easily imagined. The story reads like a romance, but it is true, neverthe-

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W0MAJ4 AGAINST W0MA1

by mrs. m. CHAPTER I. AHoe! Alice! Alice! The shrill tones resounded through the chill evening air. They reached the ears of a girl reading, curled up in a corner of a desorted old barn. At the angry tones, she closed her liook with a sigh, and rising slowly, made her way the stop-ladder that led from the barn to the yard. A woman stood there a coarse, stout woman with arms akirnho. "Where 'avo yo'.i been, idle vagrant that you are?" she cried loudly, as the girl crept down the ladder. "In the barn," Alice answered. "In the barn, indeed, indeed! I'll have that door locked that I will, or else I'll know the reason why. Doyou think I've got nothing to do but keep you in food and drink -to let you idle vour davs through as you .like? If you do, you're mistaken finely, I can tell you." Alice stood silent as the angry woman scolded on; her small hands were clasped tight together, a mute look was on her face. "What do you want me for?" she asked at last. The woman ceased. Never before in br remonibranoe had Alice taken her scolding so quietly. Get on your hat, and carry me this basket up to Mrs. Grey at the castle; it ought to have been there this hour past." "To the eaetle," faltered Alice, shrinking, backvto-nichl?- Oh, Aunt Martha'.,T "What, are you frightened?" said Mrs. Martha Brown with an angry laugh. What are you fit for, Alice? Your head's just stuffed with all the consense you can get out of books. Olf with you! Hero's the basket." 'It is so dark," murmured the girl, lotting her great eyes wander from the. yard to the deserted country lane, and then there's 'Madman's Drift' to pass. " "Well, what of it?'' asked the other, fastening down the basket-lid vigorously. "A place where a madman put an end to his life. Dead men do no harm, you poor fool !" Alice shuddered, but there was no sign of mercy in her aunt's face. "Give me the basket." she said, suddenly. "Any message?" "No; unless you ask Mrs. Grey when she wants the nest lot ol egg. iNow, don't stay long; there's the boy's supper to get. and I'm worked to death." Alice turned away without a word. She pulled her thin cotton jacket close round her supple young figure, for the autumn night struck chilly, and stepped into the lane. Her thoughts were a tangled mass as she hurried along: anger and wearieness of spirit, as her mind turned to her aunt, under whose care she had lived ever since she could remember: disappointment at leaving the beautiful story in her took, and fright of the dark lonely path which grew greater at every step she took. "Oh, if Sam were only here!" she said to herself as she hurried on, not faring to glance to the right or the left for fear of seeing phantom forms her vivid imagination supplied. Sam was ono of the farm helps. Under any other circumstances Alice would have shunned him, but now she would have welcomed him with open arms. She left the lane and approached an open waste of land. It was the dreaded Madman's Drift. A sudden break in the road at one side showed a steep incline and chasm, down which the unfortunate man who gave his name to the spot had sought his death. Alice crept towards the dreaded plfLca, .gjuivej-ing with tear. Although grown but of her childhood, she still lived in a world of fairies, evil spirits, and phantoms. As she stole through the dusk, with her pale face peeping from beneatlsthe mass of golden curb, her small band clutching the basket as if for support, she looked almost a fairy herself a strange frail flower to belong to so coarse and common - a woman as the farmer wife she called aunt. All the village girls regarded this frail, slender creature with contempt. She was so white and poor-looking beside their buxom charms fit for nothing but books. Alice heeded not their contemut. She would have been happy with her beloved books, but she had a hard life nothing but scoldings from Martha Brown, jeers from the boys and maids aoout the farm for her strange, quiet wr js, and heavy work for her young hands, which brought tears often to her beautiful eyes and a sob from her lonely heart. When work was over and she was alone in bed, she turned once more to her beloved books, and her mind was -crammed with weird stories of knights and chivalry that pleased and excited her. She creot past the Madman's Drift with closed eyes, and t,uvo a sigh of g-adness when she was ouce more safe from it. Her arms ached, her limbs trembled with her excitement and exertion, and hsr steps grew slower as she entered the wood which led to the back of the Castle. Suddenly, as her heart was growing more Bettled, it gave one leap into her mouth: she clutched her basket, staggered to a tree, and then waited and listened. The rapid thump, thump, of her h sart was the only Bound in her ears at first: then came more terrible onesmuffled groans and confused noises, then just before her she saw two men, one uttering faint cries, while the other's arms were wound round him. grasping him till he sank to the ground and lay motionless. Alice, leaning against a tree, saw all this, yet it seemsd to her like a hideous dream she was cold and sick almost to death. Her basket slipped from her arm she had no power to stop it and fell with a crash, causing i the man who was stooping over the body to start, utter a loud curse, then stride towards her. She had only time to catch a fleeting g'impse of a dark face, with cruel eyes, hot with anger, a torn collar, and marks of blood on his cheek, to hear his low hurried words, "A girl, by all that's execrable!" and she lost all remembrance, her eyes closed, her head drooped, and she fell into his arms in a swoon. "Good," muttered the man, as he placed her gently on the ground; "she will know nothing; as for you, poor fool," moving back to the prostrate form of the man, "you have served my purpose revenge for which I have waited so long has come at last. Ah, you move." He bent over the man and listened to the muttered words from between the pale lips. "Eustace give me -your hand; I do not believe it. You will not take my hand! What she is false you say you villain you black-hearted scoundrel take that! Good God!-ho is dead! Eustace - speak to me speak i he is dead I have murdered him!" j The listener rose: there was a curious light on his face. "What ha vyUlanacA tn Mmulf. "he thinks it was his hand. Could anything be better? He does not even remember me. Stay, let me think this is delirium: it may pass when bo wakes to his senses. I must impress this belief on his brain by stronger evidence. The girl does not move. Good in one moment more." He glanced round, and stole through the hedgr. In a few seconds a curious scund might have reached the ears of the two silent forms, but thev were dim. The man emerged again; he was

e. Holmes.

dragging something with difficulty; it was a body, the misty light of the moon shono on u (load luce on a limp, in-; animuto form. "Now," muttered the worker, "now all is complete. Kustacc Rivers is dead dead by the hand of his friend, Hoy ; Darrell. There is evidenco enough to : damn an angel, and ho will dio for it. I Now, i must bo gone: ho moves aain, ; and tho girl will 'awakon. So. Hruco j Gardyuo. your revenge is complete." j He' stoic gently away, and gradually ; the form oi the man he had tailed Hoy ; Darrell movv;l from tho ground. With i trembling hatub ho raised his weak j body to a kneeling position, thon lot j his eyes, dazed with iuintness and hor- i ror, wander round. : They rested on the figure of Alico j with wonder and scarce comprehension: I then they moved slowly on till they rested on the dead man, and with a shudder of horror he covered his faco with his hands and groaned aloud. "It is no dream: it is tho horrible,truth! Oh, Eustace, my friend, my al-; most brother, dead, and by my Hand!" His hoarse whisper fell on Alice's j ears. Sho was recovering. ! She helned herself to rise by the aid ! of tho tree, then leaned ngtfiustit, faint and weak, to try und think. Her basket lay unheeded at her feet. She seemed yet to be living in a hideous nightmare, till, looking round, her eyes fell on tho kneeling man and the dead body. She uttered a faint shriek, and in another moment Roy D.irrell was standing before hor, glaring into her face. "Who are you?" ho asked hoarsely. I "Where do you como from? Answer ! at once!" i "I am Alice Dornton, " gasped rather ; than spoke tho girl. "Oh. do not hurt mo, sir! I was on my way to the castle for my aunt, when, when " Her voice faltered. He grasped her hand. "What?" ho demanded huskily. He would know the truth. For a moment a flash of joy went through his mind. This girl might have seen tho fatal blow struck, tho hand that took the lifo of his friend Eustace. She might have seen that phantom third form Jhat haunted his memory. "I saw you struggling with that man," Alice said, speaking almost with difficulty; "your arms were around him: you threw him to the ground. Then you came to mo, you said something to me, and 1 don't remember what else. I must have fainted." The man released her arm with a groan. He movod with Blow steps to the dead body. "Eustace."' he said in tones of acute agony, "my friend forgive mo. God have mercy! I was mad mad with your words. Yon tried mo so bitterly but I would give all that I hold dear to listen to them from your lips again, for then you would live: now'' he rose slowly, still gazing at tbo dead man. "Now, you will never speak again you are dead and I have killed you!" he drew Dack and leaned against a tree, then started suddenly "and they will trace this back to me, and I shall be be hanged as a common murderer! A Darrell on the scaffold! Oh, mother, forgive your son!" Alice stood in silence. It was night-timo now;tho,moon had risen, and was shining down in silver rays on the strange sccno. - The girl forgot cvetything in the flood of pity that came over her as sho watched the remorse of tho man. The lateness of tho hour, the fallen basket, he:- mission, her aunt's anger all were swept away as sho let her eyes rest on him standing with hands clasped together, and white haggard fuco. His lips moved, and sho could hear him murmur from time to time: "Murder! A Dirre'l hanged ior murder! Oh, that I could have died before I brought this shamo on your head, mother! For my life hencefort h will be death, for there is blood on my hands, but for you mother, it is different, and there is no escape." He glanced around in tho agony of his mind, and a sudden t bought seemed to come to him: he moved to her so rapidly that Alice shrank back. "Do not shrink from me," he muttered passionately; "but speak to me. Let me know the'worst at otico Wcro you alone when when death came to him, or were there others with you?" "I was alone." "You swear it?" "I swear it," Alice said, meeting his eyes bravely; "few people would come this way by night." she added softly, touched by the misery in his face. "They fear the path too much." "But you?" "I was sent on a message to tho housekeeper at the Castlo." "Ah! Do they know you are coming?" Alice shook her head. "I think not." Roy Darrell stood immovable, his face blanched with the burden of his sorrow. Cold perspiration trickled down his bagged cheeks. Watching him thus, the memory of that other faco that had been before her ,ust as she fainted came to Alice. "You are not dark," she said, almost involuntarily. He turned. "What do you mean?" he gasped hurriedly. A 'ray of moonlight touched him, glinting his warm brown hair and golden mustache. "You looked so dark before." the girl said, slowly; "and yes. 1 am sure of it. there wa, blood on your choek: you have none now." Hoy grasped her hand 'God bless vou!" ho murmured faint- : ly; "whoever you are, you have done ; mo the greatest hlessimru human enture can do for another -you have taken a load from my heart, a weight of deadly pain from my head. I w.is I right, there was another, but how did i he come? Where is ho now? Tell mo again.-' he cried, turning to her swiftly, "it was not my face you saw?" Alice looked at him i steal las' ly; she was growing faint and ill with tho horror of the scono, but sho forcod herself to sneak. "It was nut you," sho answered, with a shadow of remembrance: "it w: s a dark, cruel face, with eyes that looked like a beast's and blood on his cheek. 1 can see hi in plainly now." Boy released her hand, and covered his faco with his own. "What can I do? Ho is gono, and I must bear tho penalty of this crime. They know we left tho Castlo together: they will find his body; thy will bring his murder home to mo, und sho will swear mo to deat h!" Alice started, and pressed her small cold fingers on her heart. "What will they do to me?" she whispered. "To yon, child? Nothing; but your word will go against mo. There is nothing to save me. I shall die a disgraced, dishonored man!" "Die!" cried the girl, "Oh, no.no. You must not. The y will not do this, I will not speak." mcy will make you. i our friends know of your walk through tho wood, i You must speak "But," murmured Alice, white with hoiu'or poor child! hor strength Boomed last going "but that other; I will tell of him." "It will be useless. Where is he? No; he," pointing to the still, dead form, and sinking his voice to a whisper "he and 1 wore friends. Wo had quarreled. Kveryono knew thore was a coldness between us. "You saw a struggle. He lie murdered. 1 shall be convicted." Alice sank back against a tree. She had no thought, no remembrance of aught but the horror of the

moment. The fnint sound of a clock striking roused her. "It is getting late." who said, glancing at- him, standing with sunken head, "if I do not go. they will send to look for me. Oh, what can do? Do not let them make mo speak. I cannot bear to think of it: it is so terrible!"' Hoy Darrell looked at hor thin palo faco," out of which her great eyes shone like stars. "Poor child! you can do nothing -nothing!" he said slowly, then, us if a ray of light had come to him. he checked himself, and drew a deep breath. "Yos, there is one way." he said, thickly - "one way you can help me -not for myself, but lor my mother. 1 am innocent of this crime. 1 knew 1 feel it. O. for one instant's clear memory! But nil is dense and misty. I must have bt-en stunned, for 1 can recollect nothing, save that I knew that the death blow did not come from me. Hut all is dark against me. I shall be convicted. My mother will sink beneath the horror and tho disgrace. You arc tho only witness. You can savo mo if" He grasped her slender hand. "You arc free," he murmured. "It is u great thing, but '' "Whatever it is, 1 will do it," Alice said in a dream. "I am in your hands." "A wife can giro nocviacnen against her husband. Will you becoino my wife? " Alice staggered back, a blush gathered for an instant on hor cheek, then her eyes fell on his haggard anxious face, on the still dead body, and terror banished all other feelings. "I will," she answerd swiftly. Hoy D.irrell bent and kissed the girl's hand: she had spoken the words that gave him hopo and lifo. "Let mo think," ho said hurriedly: "we we were going to Nestlcy: I

must push on there now. Can you join me early? We will bo married at tho registry office, before before this secret may be discovered: it is a hard thinsr to ask of you, but lifo or death hangs in tho balance. Will you be there.' I will be there," repeated the girl, "early." "Now wc will part for a time." he said slowly, "and Go:l bless you for your promise!" Alico turned away; something urge! her to lookback as she left the wood with faltering step Roy Darrell was kneeling by the body'of his dead friend, and tho girl who had promised to become his wife rushed brave lv on -on to face the Ion' dreary road with all its dark night ter rors: on to race tho wratu ot ner aunt: on to sit and watch until morning came, bringing work for her slender hand and gentle heart in its golden sunbeam. TO BE CONTINUED. Woes oi a Millionaire. "Here arc those new a per cents of the Kcubenville Trolley Koad," said the cashier, us he laid a bulky package on Old JJonder's desk. "Why, there are a great many of them there; 1 thought 1 subscribed for 50,000!" exclaimed Old Bonder in surprise. "Ves, sir; we only took 50,00(1; but these are 500 bonds, '' "Five hundred doliar bonds! I don't want 'em! I want the thousands!" cried old Bonder. "I know that, sir; but the thousands were, all gone, and we had to take these. They made half the issue in 500 ti accommodate small investors. " "I don't see why we have to take them," said Old Bonder, severely. 'Well, the road claims wc d.i. We subscribed for $50,0.10 worth without, stipulating which kind we wanted; and as they have given ont. all the thousands, they forced these on rue. I didn't dare to kick too hard, because I thought you wanted the bonds, anywav- They're at 3 per cent, premium already," explained the cashier. "Oh, I'll keep 'em," grumbled Old Bonder. "But see what an extra lot of work that is going to make ' me. J lore are 100 bonds instead of fifty, and only representing the same amount of money. Now, every time I o!1;j me coupons, I shall have to cut oil twice as many as I otherwise would: and that is going to waste a lot of valuable time. And see how much extra room they lake up. You must look out, Clark ly, and see that I don't get aught in unv more such sna s, or I'm afraid I'il hare to hire another box in the Safe Deposit vault." And the unhappy millioaaire sighed heavily. Puck. Artificial Ire Surfaces. A successful sy-stera of producing artificial Ice surfaces has been inaugurated in Paris, and available in large areas at all seasons of the year. As explained, the machinery consists of two ammonia ice machines, driven by two flfty-horso power steaem engines: this ice apparatus has pumps which force nmmoniucal nas into water-cooled condeusers, liquifying the gas, which then passes into large reservoirs, where it expands with the production of cold, the same gas bcitii pumped Lack and used continuously, lu the application of this system for the formation of a skating surface, a rink has been constructed iiixl-,(i feet, having a floor of cor.; and cement, upon this being laid three miles of connected Iron pipe: through this pipe circulates a solution of cblor de of calcium, an tiucongealable liquid, which, by passage througn spirals in the refrigerating reservoirs ii cooled to some live to twenty d&grees below zero. The water ovor the pipe is thus kept frozen, and daily sweeping and flooding insures smoothness. Vale's Great, Growth. In point of numbers Yale will atj tain her highest mark and cross the ! :'.ooo lino this fall. Last year !,!) : students registered, and w.th tho as- : sined increased numbers of the freshi men classes of the academic and sci- ' entitle department, over ",ooo wili be enrolled, irrespective of the antici- : jiated increase in the law, medical and theological schools. An estimato by a leading professor of the ! University gives the probable iiumI bera this fall as follows: Academic, i 1,2 :5, against f, last year; scientific, o n, against 52:i last year; theological, ;r, against 10 ) last year; law : school, 2i'. , against 171 last year: ; medical school, loo. against 7 last ! year; graduate courses, loo, against 125 last year: art school, .'!", against 31 last year, and musical department, 10, against 7 last year. Total, 2,545, against 1,'iflU. 1'npopiilar. According to Marion Crawford, coquettes are very unpopular in Italy. "It is not easy," he savs, "to convey to the foreign mind generally tho enormous inmortanie which is t. tacbed in Italy to a distinct, promise o. marriage. It indeed almost amounts, morally speaking, to marriage itself, and the breaking of it is looked upon so:-fa;iy as an act ol gross infidelity to ihe marriage bond. A young girl who refuses to keep her engagement is caile I a civetta an owlet probably because owlets are used as a decor all over tho country in snaring and shooting small birds. Be that as it may. the term is a hitter reproach. It sticks to hor who has earned It, and often ruins her whole life."

ASSASSIN IS ON TRIAL.

Case Against 1'riMiiforgast. Curler llarri hull's Slayer, llrfrim. Patrick Eugene FrenuVrgast was placed on trial for his life Ix-fore Judgo Brontano in the Chicago Criminal CourtWednesday for tho murder of Mayor Harrison on th- evening of Oct. 8. Tho anticipated public interest in the case was not manifested to tho extent of any great effort to fill the courtroom. Several people attempted to secure adini.-s.'oii to tho room and a few succeeded, but the number of appli-c-ants was doubt'es limited by the lact that tho "rial had ie mi one ost o:i d and the annoutuvmont that no ono who had ii" actual business in tho ease would be allowed to enier. That rnlo was enforced r-gidly by u strong body of policemo i and haililTs who guard ;a tho lower corridors und the stairways. Tho crowds that were present when tho anarchist- and the Cronin murderers were tried and sentenced in tho same dingy old court-room wero therefore lacking and tho silence was almost cc-mplote. Prendcrgast was ready for trill, and Jailor Morris brought him to the br.r of justice. A more unhappy and inconserjuentiallookiug wrotch cannot be imagined than tho prisoner when he was ma- e.hed into court by tho 1 ig jailer; It v -apparent that he feigned cnuposi ; but the attempt fai ed misorabh . Glancing tir.-t nr the Judgo on tho bor.ch he cast his eyes around tho crowded room until ho met the gaze of his attorneys, wher. be slightly hung his head and assumed a dogged manr.or. "The People vs. Prendergast" was iho announcement made by Judge Brentono at lo:.'!0 o'clock. Tho attorneys announced their readiness to proceed, and examination of veniremen proceeded at once. ESTIMATES BY MR. CARLISLE. The Secretary of the Treasury Ftguro Out the Appropriation Desired. The b.:ok of estimates for appropriations for the fiscal year 1S!U and 18!'5 has baen sent 1 1 CYngress. The amount estimated necessary to carry on tho government for the t-scal year is 41,879,041, as ftpftinst estimates for lS!Ki-i of 842J ,il:',2i5 and appropriations for 1804 of S4."i2.450.0-''i. Tho estimates for 181)5 are made up as follows: Iiccr.tlvo Wa,20 Legislative -,'.t:),72! Stfitc (icpar'mcut l.o-SO:)-? Tror.bii! y (lopattmeot 12v4o:v)so War apartment v. . SV'TTJ '.! Krvv di'iwtinciit iS.'sj.t"! Interior t'otuirtmeiit im: loio!;?? (lci)artrii(iit s,:'.Viti; IKliHrtniei!t- of ariedtnre 2,-.' :t,SIS Department of labor K-i.s;i Deir.itaiiitof jnnticc 6.2:a.:45 The sum of $i:i.0:ln is asked for to pay tho salaries of an examining forte of thirty clerks in t ;e civilservico commission. The work of the examining branch has been more than douolcd by the extension of the classified service. For the investigation of pens'ou cases SrXiOO 's asked, as a.a nt 8-00.,(.V appropriated for tho present fiscal year. . In tho pension appropriations the principal changes tro r. reduction of $5.;0l),000 for pension payments. .,n :'ncro'tso of $J,'ih,0 for "fees and expenros f examining surgeons, and an increase of 100,000 for clerk hire at pension agencies. For rivors unci harbors a total of $12,510,000 Is estimate! for. an increase of more than $.1,0of.',0;)0 over the appropriations for t'.io current year. Of this amour.t 8",CO ,00J is to be expended upon such w(rl:8 as msy be directed hy Cong'-ess. Some items in the list afo: Galveston, Texas, &00.000: St. Mary's Itiver .'si. the falls, Michigan. ft.'ieo.OW; improving flay Lake channel, Michigan, 150.00 '; improving Mississippi liivet from mouth of Ohio IUver to Minneapolis, M,&V"0. For the Reek Island : 1110 arsenal, $11,700 is asked: for Renieia arsenal. California, fi'V'uO; for arsenal ut Indianapolis, 'n.l., 3VJ72; for gun und mortar batteries. $l,).'U2ii; for sites for fortification and so i-eoast defenses, 500;0; for torpedoes for harbor defense, ?101,550. and for armament of fortifications, 1,-170,437, as against an appropriation of $l,(i3?,403 for the piwent fiscal year; a total of S7,4:i8,4i:t is asked for fo'riificationsar'" thcr works of defense, an increase oi ss,0tX,000 ovor tho present nseal year. Under thePestotTice Department $16,2,)0.0f:0 is u-ked for compensation to postmasters, r.n increase of $1,051,000; for free delivery, $12,327, ,;85, an inoreaso of over $1,000,000: railway postal car service, 2(i,f 00,000. an increase of 8-', 400, 000. H is estimated that there will be a postal deficiency of 5,071, 7;i for the year, for which an appropriation is asked . Anote accompanying the statement of ai.propri'itions made" for the present year to pay tho bounty on sugar says: The Settctsrv of the Tira ury having reonmmrneleu tbo of tlio fuicar-bonnty law, j,o estimate ulmii'!Wt lor tho Jiacal vear W lu case tb" law is i.ot repealed JIl.tob.ono vlll be ie(juir-:-d for itiii purvoMP." No estimate Issabmitted for the support of tho Uurer.u of American Republics. h'ntos i,f f'113'rent KvenU. The J'ow York Board of Education will try to put an end to cigarette smoking. The E:t metiitg of tho Afro-American Congress will to held at Atlanta, Ca. TrtK cutter Thomas Corwin at San Francisco has b.cn ordered on a fast trip of 2,500 miles, presumably to Hawaii. C:.ATM7SCi- that John C. Austin wa-i not drowned at New York insurance companies will fight payment of his policies. Oscak Ray w as fatally chopped witii an ax by his wifo while" asleep at his homo in ICndiu-nanolls. At Aseiand, Kv.. Allen Bowman was fataily :iu-.! Will Copley, Hauley Copley, aod ih'ivy levins seriously hurt by a sawmill boiler explosion. At A-rlinitl, Ky.. .fames R. Dills, a Oliesnpeake ami "hin train dospat-.'her. was taken swidnty insano while on du v, niiii teriotis results were narrowly n cried, Tilt: Western Union Telegraph has bio'.w.'ht -uit. to enjoin the Stat Audiio of Kentucky fiv-m collecting taxes on its ft.vichl.-c, tin. value of which is placed at W!2,00. C. M. Uri;i;i.l s, a ticlft broker of Denver. Col,, wtis arrested at St. Louis and will Vo taken to I 'envoi' to answer a charge of forging tho rames of San Francisco oliicials on railroa I tickets. Cx.M r.y- r. Mtriii'iiv, receiving teller of tho Sa'em Savings lUl'ik at Salem, Mess., tool: a package containing iHOO and left for J ai ts uiiiiiiown. Suspicion that ho was a defaulter caused his flight. RtiVEN indictments were returned &gain.-t Co-rity Tren-rro!' Lewis C. Arthi.r. of Bedford. Va , charging him wl h misau'- 'O'vt'!' v ' ; 1 ey and omul 1 : -i .... timated at Sit . 1

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THE HIGHEST AWARD. Royal Hailing Ponder Has All the Honor In strene-th and Valne !SO Per Cent. Above Its Nenrrdt Competitor. Tho Royal Baking Powder has the enviable record of having received the highest award for articles of its class greatest strength, purest ingredients, most perfectly e unbined -wherever exhibited in competition with others. In the exhibitions of former years, at the Centennial, at Paris, Vienna, and at the various Stat? und Industrial fail's, where it hm been exhibited, judges have, invariably awarded the Koyal Making Powder the highest honors. At the recent World's Fair tho examinations for the baking powder awards were directed by tho chief chemist of tho Agricultural Department at Washington. The chief chemist's official report of tho tests of the baking powders, which was made for tln specilie ptirprsi of ascertaining which vi&i tbo bjst, shows the leavening strength of tho Royal to be K'O cubic inches of carbonic gas per ounce of powder. Of the cream of tartar biking powders exhibited, the next hieiie-it in strength tested contained but I. 'CI cubic inches of leavening gas. The other powders gave an average of 111. Tno Royal, therefore, was found of 20 per tent, greater leavening strength than its nearest competitor; and 44 per cent, above the average of all the other tests. Its superiority in other respects, however, in the quality of the food it makes us to fineness, delicacy and wholesomoness, could not bo measured by figures. It is these high qualities, known and appreciated by the women of the country for so many years, that have caused tho sales of the Royal Baking Powder, as shown by statistics, to exceed the sale of all other baking powders combined. Tho Wine Fly.

It may be the "invisible spirit of wine, wtiien stuiKspeare speaics oi, that materializes in the worm and subsequent fly, called the bibio, or wine fly. These worms are born in tho sediment of wine, in empty casks and in drippings from wine vessels and presses. They grow for about seven weeks, and then enter into the nymph state. After about ten days their shell breaks, and the fly comes out. The insect i3 extremely small, when its wings are not extended, not exceeding the size of a pin's head. The breast and body are yellow, tho reticulated eyes are red, and the wings possess all the colors of the rainbow. They prove very interesting to microscopists, and are found to have all tho regular parts of common flies. Their antennae are oval and flatter, and their legs and every other part are perfectly formed. nabr's Profession. A Parisian stroller has picked up the following particulars of a conversation which pasted in an emigration office. Tho father of a family presents himself and asks for tickets. 'How many are you?" asks the agent, Three I, my wife and my child." "Good: your age, your profession?" 'Thirty years, carpenter; my wife, twenty-four, noodle-woman." 'The boy?" asks the agent. "Seven months." "His profession?" The father's eyebrows formed gothio arches on his forohead. "His profession, I say?" repeated the agent, angrily; "we have no time to lose." The father reflects, and at last replies. "Bachelor!" The Book lie Wanted. Odd demands are made on the busy editor's time. A Scotch member of the fraternity recently received a letter, the envelope bearing a request that the contents should I o handed to any bookseller in Edinburgh. The letter ran: "Tho book that i want is a Courting b::ok a book that will tell me how to talk to tho lass that I love, a book that will tell mo tho words to say to ber and the words to ask her when i be courting her is the sort of book that I want. No matter how few or how little tho words may be." Ambiguous. A New York clergyman, who wa9 preaching in a neighboring village, astonished tho egregation by siying: "I wish to return to New York by the first train, as I have a wifo and five children there, and have never seen one of them." This declaration oxcited the most painful curiosity among the good people, which was allayed, however, when it became known that the "ono" which the clergyman had never seen was one that had been born since he left home the day before, The Difference. One of tho stories of the Midway Plaisanco is of the mosque there, where prayers were said daily, at regular intervals, for the natives. A pious woman passing accosted a young Oriental and chatted with him, finishing wit h a nod toward his prayer-house and the remark: "I hope you go to church every Sunday, like a Christian." "No," was the quick reply, "t go every day, like a Turk." Burial of a Tope. With much pomp and befitting ceremony the remains of Pone Alexander V., who died in 1410 at lialogna, have at length been dofiiiitelyentombedina monumontal crypt constructed at tho expense of the present Pontiff in the Church of San Francisco at Balogna. This is the fifth time that the unfortunate Alexander V. has been moved since his demise. Winter Tourist Rates. Rates lower than usual to all points in Florida and tho South. In effect from all points on or via the Claoinnati, Hamilton and Dayton It. B, D. G. Edwabds. General Passenger Agent, Cincinnati, U. Thero Are I4mlte to Blan's Knclnraucc. Excited Citizen I want a man arrested ! I've been assaulted, and I wasn't doing a thing but-walking along the street in a quiet, orderly, and inoffensive manner, and whistling. Policeman Km-er-what tune were you whistling? USE BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES for Coughs, Colds, and all other Throat Troubles. "Pro-omlnontly the best." llev, Henri Ward Bencher. Parents aro having anot her rainy day; school books have to be bought. A MAN is always looking for a chance to go a little farther. Autoke would be just I lied In recommending Beecham's fills for all n flections of the liver and other vital organs. A wise man is ono who appreciates the bright things you say. What You Read About Hood's Is So The testimonials published in brhalf of Hood's Barttaparilla are i,ot purchased, nor arr they written up in our onic nur are they from our employes. Tuny aio simple statements of facta from people whom Hood's Sarsaparlllo haa cured, published without sensationalism or tiotitlous headlines. They prnro positively that Hood's Haraoparllla possesses absolute merit and that HOOD'S Sarsaparilla CURES Bold by all druggist. $1 per bottle; six tor $3. Hood's Pills cute liver ilia, jaundice, 1,11laaaasH, ilok beadaoie sad indigestttnrSM,

Queer Pete. An animal which makes a most agreeable pet, but is rarely tamed on account of its fur value, is the North American beaver. A well known Indian trader, some years ago, tamed several of theso hard working fellows, so that they answered to their names and followed like a dog. In cold weather they wero kept in the sitting room, and were constant companions of the women und children. When the Indians wero absent for any great time tho boayers showed great uneasiness, and on their return discovered equal signs of pleasure by fondling them, crawling into their laps, lying on their backs like a squirrel, and behaving like children in the presence of pa cuts whom they seldom see. In tho:r wild state beavers feed on hark and herbage chiefly, but in their case they food for the most part on rico, plum pudding, partridge and venison, and they liked all of thorn extremely.

A Hardy Little Cactus. There grows uion the sands of the Atlantic coast, at least as far north as the Virginia line, a little cactus with a pretty yellow flower. It nourishes in the driest seasons and where naught but bare sand is visible for many square yards. Tho secret of its sturdy growth amid hard conditions is found perhaps in the character of its roots. They are loilg and tough, like twine cords, and radiating in several directions they convey to tho plant whatever moisture the ground contains for yards around. Oddly enough, too. this cactus, when torn up' by the roots and conveyed north, seems to live on indefinitely under entirely new conditions, its roots cut short, planted in clay soil and abundantly watered. What Re Tlionnhfc, Down in South Carolina (said the Hon. V. J. Talbort of South Carolina, in a recent speech in the Housel.there was a raan who hired a lawyer to conduct a case in court. As the lawyer was not talking exactly to suit him, he got up to make a few remarks himself. The Judge, of course,- made him tako his seat. He got up again, and t he Judge made him take his seat again. A third and fourt h time this happened, and, finally, the old farmer got up and said: "Vell, Judge, if you won't let me talk, won't you let me think?'' "Why, certainly," renlied the Judge. "Well, Judge," be said, "I think you and all these lawyers are a set of rascals." An Incomplete Offcrlns;. The late Sultan Burghash had a very savage chained lion, and, as a happy thought, offered it to Sir John Kirk, then British Consul-General at Constantinople, reminding him that the lion formed one of the supporters of the royal arms above tho gate of the British Consulate, and that the presence of the reul brute would, therefore, bo highly appropriate. "I am sure that your highness would never make an incomplete present," he replied, "and when you are able to accompany the lion with a unicorn I shall be delighted to receive your munificent offer." Boarde'd bj an Owl in Mldocean. A large and curious white owl held captive on board the Red Star line steamship Pennsylvania, which has just arrived from Antwerp, creates a great deal of interest among all having any business on lioardthe ship, and has become quite a net among the sailors. The strange visitor camo on board the Pennsylvania Oct. 24. whenabout 1,400 miles off from the Knglish coast. It flew into the rigging of the Pennsylvania early in the morning in an exhausted state, and had no doubt been carried off from the coast in a gale of wind. Philadelphia Press. A Straight Line ot Railway. The longest roach of railway without a curve is that of the New Argentine Pacific Railway, from Buenos Ayres to the foot of tho Andes. For 211 miles it is without a curve and has no cutting or embankment deeper than two or threo feet. THK MOD K UN MOTHEit Hn found that hor little ones aro improved liiuru liy the pleasant lavativo. hyrup of Figs, iriwn in neod of thu laxative effort of a gentle remedy than by an v other, and that it is miro acceptable to ' hem. Children enjoy it and it benefit i hem, Tho true remedy, Syrup of Figs, is aianufa stured by tho California Fig Syrup Co. only. About the rarest thing in tho world is the divorced woman who wouldn't get married again if she could. Saxti.v's Jury to lagemoU. This beautiful png. (words and music, regular sheet mus size.) will be mailed to anyone enclosing o cents in. stamps to D. G. Edwabds. General Passeneer : Agent C. H,& D. B. It., Cincinnati, Ohio. A man always feels abused when he goes home and finds, the house locked up. For weak and Inflamed eyes use Dr. Isaac Thompson's Eye-water. It is a carefully prepared physician's prescription. Almost every woman looks better dressed in mourning than in anything else. Hatch's Universal Couph Syrup moat prompt, pleasant, and effectual. 35o. The most stupid person in the world can say some very funny things when he abuses his kin. Sb "Colchester" Spading Boot ad. other columu. The trouble with letting love in, young man. is that when you open the door, it lets ambition out. FITS! All liti-topped fr ot- Or. Kt o'- Great Serre l:ftiorer. .No nt alter tire: rtio'i un;. AUrv-el. ua cures. Tre.--i r-li,1 $1.00 trial Ifcte fnvtoF.t rates. Seatfto Dr. Kline. 931 Arch St.. Itilla.. Va. The smaller the man, the larger the badge be weara.

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svrui Judge J. B. Hill, of the Superior Court, Walker county, Georgia, thinks enough of German Syrup to send us voluntarily a strong: letter endorsing it. When men of rank and education thus use and recommend an article, what they say is worth the attention of the public. It is above suspicion. ' I have used yourGerman Syrup," he says, "for my Coughs and Colds on the Throat and Lungs. I can recommend it for them as a first-c'ass medicine." Take no substitute. Try rj-i j i nil It Cares 0old,Ceoirl Sore Throat,Crrap,Tiitts sa,WTwpi& Causa, BrencWUsaa Asthma. eertaia ears for Consumption in first stages, torn a sura relief in advanced stages, TJs at ensa. Ton will sen tlia sicellent effect after taktae the first dose. Sold ky dealers sWMywhsisi Large bottles 50 -tnta aai $1.00, . &9. EWARD F XH id M WILL B PAID To ANY MAN or WOMAN. Toth or Maidfti, tvetwc-ti the of 16 and 70, who 1 can .ippiy in- mn it si oi wrre- i nn -wera io uut roiInviDC FoilK SKB1.KTON' ;Ru-aWlilBfi and oropop-1 tionato award (or A M.SliLiv VtNNLi A&SWEK to I Aiix OMS ot ibo C?ur. HERE ARE THE 4 BRAfN-BORNISHERS : i TCltat mas; poU-I ttictans, Bolittc&lj R...o.NT orators ana otl

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