Highest of all in Leavening Power.-— Latest U. S. Gov't Report
ABQOLIJ‘EELY PURE
THE TROUBLESQME- HUNS
Their Unsightly and'Unruly Colo-
nies-in Pennsylvania.
Mining Towns That Are Like the Slums
of Our Great Clties—Lawlessness
and Bloodshed on Sunday-
and Pay Day.
A recent number of the American
Magazine of Civics contains an. interest-
ing . article on the Pennsylvania 'Huns
by TV. F. Gibbons. These troublesome
residents of the Keystone State are not
genuine Magyars, not, strictly speak-
mg, of the Ilungarian race, but Slavs,
like Russians and Poles. Their first
introduction .in Pennsylvania was the
work of employing corporations, which
imported them to cheapen labor. ' The
law soon interposed a barrier against
this importation, but the immigration
of Huns was not interrupted. The
wages they get in Pennsylvania, al-
though too small for Americans to live
on, are greater than they receive at
home, so they continue to arrive. Coal
miners meet them in New York and
offer them work in Pennsylvania.
Mr. Gibbons cites the census tables,
showing that at, the latest enumeration
Pennsylvania contained 24,901 Huns,
and the United States but 62,425. The
Pennsylvania IInns are mostly collected
in the comparatively small anthracite
coal regions of the l‘Vyoming and
Schuylkill valleys. A single county,
Lucerne, contained in 1890' as many
Huns as the entire state of Ohio. Since
‘ 1890, despite hard times and the return
of many immigrants to their own coun-
try, the number of Huns has largely in-
creased.
The mining towns where these peo-
ple live are like the slums of our great
cities. “The streets are filled with gar-
bage, and riots,often resulting in homi-
cides, are expected on the Sunday after
every pay day. Of course most of the
original inhabitants have left. They
did not stand upon the order of their
going,but got out with dispatch. In some
towns only a few voters remain. The
murder of a I-Inn by one of his own race
creates no demand for justice in the
minds of his surviving countrymen. “If
the survivors be approached,” says Mr.
Gibbons, “and urged to call in the law
they will grunt expressively and re-
mark with more or less distinctness:
‘Dead Hungari no good.’ ” Indeed, an
ordinary murder passes “almost wvitli-
out comment.” ’
But these people are not incapable of
learning some lessons in the school of
experience. They have been cheated
and blackmailed outrageously by dis~
honest officials at the mines and by
English-speaking miners, but they have
gotten their eyes open at last and are
extremely alert. They have learned
the art of saloon keeping and they are
getting into politics. Mr. Gibbons says
that already in some communities there
is “the shadow of the coming Hun-
garian political boss.” “In every list
of honorary vice presidents at the great
political meetings prominent places are
given the men bearing such names as
Arsenius Tsrnoievitch or Knbo Zlotlor-
zinski.” Hnns have been made post-
masters in some places and have begun
to elect their own justices of the peace.
It is noted as a hopeful indication that
they have begun to leave the company
houses and the boarding houses and to
establish themselves in homes of their
own. Some of them have grown rich—
that is, rich for Huns.
The second generation is not, in Mr.
Gibbons" ’opinion, an improvement on
the first; He states that the immi-
grants, with few exceptions, could read
their own language, but that their
children are taken from school and put
to; work before they have made much
progress in rudimentary education.
Few of them go to the public schools
and there is a slim attendance at the
parochial schools. These are the inevit-
able results of the great reduction of
wages in the coal and coke regions.
Almost every evil is productive of
some good. The IIuns are better off in
Pennsylvania than they were in their
own country. But it will strike the
general reader that Pennsylvania has
paid, is. paying and will long con—
tinue to pay a heavy price for the
' betterment of the Huns’ condition.—
Washington Post.
2..
Straightened It Out.
In a city within five hundred miles
to the west the trolley cars have a
board about eight or nine inches square
suspended at one side of the front plat-
form with one large letter upon it. A
means the car goes to Allentown, B to
Bowlersville, C out Brown street and
so on. Four members of a family that
recently moved here from that city
labored hard to tell a current joke due
to the signs.
“They have a colored E on the front
platform,” said one. »
“N o,” corrected N o. 2, “they have an
African sign.”
“You mean,” added No. 3. “that the
cars always have a negro on board.”
“That isn’t it,” asserted N o. 4. “It’s
something about the motorman being
colored.”
“Oh!" exclaimed the almost bewil-
dered listener. “I suppose you mean
they always have a darky on the front
platform?”
All in chorus: “Yes, that’s it. There’s
a dark E on the front .of each car.”—
Philadelphia Gall.
u. Lions and Bicycle.
It was an odd and startling adven-
ture that befell Rev. R. P. Ashe, a mis-
sionary in AfriCa, while touring on a
bicycle. He had'got far in advance of
his porters, and was spinning along at
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a pretty good speed,- with his eye on
the path, when suddenly he hearda
noise as of animals galloping beside
him. True enough, on glancing to the
right he discovered three magnificent
lions keeping him company. They
were twenty or thirty yards to one side,
and kept along with him for perhaps a
hundred yards. Then they stopped,
looked at him for a moment—a strange
being he must have looked in their
eyes—and bounded away at right
angles, still stopping now and then to
look back, till- they disappeared in the
long grass.—Youth’s Companion.
HE LOVED “SODY WATER."
With “Sassyparilly” It Just Made Him
Feel Like a Yearlin’ Calf.
I was just going into a confectioner's
on Fourteenth street'to’get a glass of
soda water when a man, who stood
looking at the door, beckoned me
aside. I
“Look here, stranger, I want you to
do me a favor, and it won’t cost you a
cent to obleege me.”
“Well, what is it?”
“I don’t know nothin’ ’bont New
York. I’m half dead fur a drink of
soda water, but I’m kinder scart to go
in and ask fur it. They hev it here,
don’t they?”
“Of course.”
“And with sassyparilly sirup?”
u‘YeS.”
“And you ask fur it same as in a
small town?”
“Just the same.
glass with me.”
He was a little backward at first, but
when he had emptied his glass his con-
fidence returned, and he queried of me:
“Hev another glass?”
“No, thank you.”
“I guess I will. I’ll take sassaparilly
again. She seems to git right down to
the spot. Dnrn my hide, but I’ve
walked around New York fur two days
and dasen’t ask fur sody water! Ah!
but that’s the stuff! Say! Do you .
know I feel just like whoopin’?”
“But I would’t whoop. You seem to
be fond of soda water.” '
“I jest dote on it when she’s sassy-
parilly. Suthin’ in sassyparilly which
makes me feel like a yearlin’ calf. IIcv
another glass?”
“No, thanks.”
“I guess I will. That’s the best sas-
syparilly I ever tasted in all my born
days. N eedn‘t be quite so much froth
on top, but I hain’t k-ickin’. Ali-um!
That beats hard cider outer sight. Say,
I wanter yell just once! I’m so ganl-
durned happy that I can’t skassly hold
mpself l”
“But don’t yell.” .
“I won’t if I kin help it. That’s
three glasses, but I guess I’ll take one
more. I’ve bin a dyin’ fur sassyparilly
ever since I left home. IIev a glass
with me?”
“Thanks, but I’ve had plenty.”
“Then here she goes! Yum!
She cheers but don’t inebriate. Here
them toes crack! See my ears begin to
work! Say, mister, I’ve got to holler
er bust!” -
I tried to stop him, but was too late.
He stood up and uttered a yell that
jumped the girl at the fountain a foot
high and brought the proprietor on a
run to demand:
“Now, then, what’s all this about?”
“Your sassaparilly has made me too
blame happy to live!” replied the old ;
man, as he knocked two glasses to the '
floor and tried to hug the confectioner.
“You must go out—g0 right out!”
“I’ll do it, but you can’t take this
happiness away from me! Gimme an-
other glass!”
“N o, sir—no, sir-out you go!”
“I’ll go, but whoop—whoop-ee!” .
I got him out and walked him down
to Sixth avenue and chided him for be-
ing so enthusiastic.
“Gaul-dnrn my buttons, but I can’t
help it!” he replied. “Talk about cider
and beer and lemonade, but they ain’t
in it with sassyparilly. She cheers,
but—whoop-ee! Good-by, old man—
good-by. You are white, you are, and
if I don’t make this old town howl afore
night, then my name ain’t Abraham
Scott and I don’t banker after sassypa-
rilly with wings on itl”——M. Quad, in
Detroit Free Press.
Come in and have a
Yum!
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WAR AS A CIVILIZER.
Times When Battle Was the Only Ef-
fective Means.
Merchants, undoubtedly, in early
times penetrated foreign tribes and na-
tions, and brought home, in addition to
their wares, stories of what they had
seen and learned abroad. But the
merchants were too few, too ignorant
and prejudiced, and too little given to
observation. to spread much useful in-
formation in this way; and their peo-
ples were too self-satisfied to give up
any customs and beliefs of their own
for those thus brought them.
How, then, could any effective result
from national contact be produced? In
primitive times the only effective agency
must have been that of war. Destruc-
tive as this is in its results, it has the
one useful effect of thoroughly com-
mingling diverse peoples, bringing
them into the closest contact with each
other, and forcing upon the attention
of each the advantages possessed by
the other. The caldron of human so-
ciety must be set boiling before its con-
tents can fully mingle and combine.
War is the furnace in which this ebulli-
tion takes place, 'and through whose
activity human ideas are forced to cir-
culate through and through the minds
of men.—Char1es Morris, in Popular
Science Monthly. ' .
The new woman now has her shirt
waists made to order just as her father,
husband and sweetheart have their linen
measured.
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.1111 CUBMBELLIDN
Another Serious Blunder by the Span-
~ish Government’s Troops.
' THEY FIRED AT EACH OTHER
Fifteen Were Killed. Outright and Several
Score \Vounded—Rigid Investiga-
tion to Belinda—Gomez and
Maceo’s \Vhereabout’s.
HAVANA, March 25. —-—Anotber terrible
mistake attended with loss of life and the
wounding of many soldiers has taken
place. For some unexplained reason two
columns of Spanish troops opened fire up-
on each other at midday. According to
the few details received here the columns
commanded by Generdl Godoy and Cole-
nel Holguin at the Santa Rosa plantation,
near Esperanza, province of Santa Clara,
mistook each other for insurgent force‘s,
owing. it is said, to the thickness of the
sugar cane. Each detachment opened fire
upon the other and for 10 minutes shots
were exchanged, resulting in the killing
of. 17 soldiers, among them being Lieuten-
ant Colonel Fuenmaycr of the Navus bat:
salion. Five officers and 84 soldiers were
wounded. Two of the latter have since died,
3 others are mortally wounded and 32 are
seriously injured. Lieutenant Colonel
Fuenmayor was killed at the head of his
troops. Owing to the fact that the meet-
ing between the two columns took place it
midday, the explanation furnished by the
Spanish commanders is considered unsat-
isfactory and a court martial will follow.
Insurgents’ ‘Vhereabouts.
Maximo Gomez has returned westward
from the province of Santa Clara and was
encumped at the plantation of Moralitc.
near Union De Reyes, province of Matan-
zas.
Antonio Maceo is supposed to be at
San Diego de los Bajos, province of Pinar
del Rio.
Enrique Porro Mata, an insurgent lead-
ar. has surrendered to the police of Carde-
nas. province of Matanzas.
The authorities of Cardenas have cap—
tured Rafael Torayo and Casimiro Ponce,
who have been accused of conspiring
against the government.
The explanation given for the capture
of the three boats loaded with arms and
ammunition at Varadero, near Cardenas,
is that Collazo, who is understood to have
commanded the expedition, mistook the
landing place and went ashore at Veradero
instead of at the San Anton canal.
General Bernal, in pursuing a band of
insurgents near the Gran Cienaga Occi-
dental de Zepata, south of the province of
Matanzas, captured four and killed one of
the enemy. This band had burned three
barracks, some bridges and a number of
huts. -
A skirmish between the troops and in-
surgents has taken place at the Union
plantation. One thousand Spanish caval-
rymen were engaged. The insurgents
lost 12 killed and retired with many
wounded. ,
The authorities of_Cardenas have found
six more boxes of ammunition abandoned
by the Collazo expedition.
Fillbusters Successful.
KEY WEST, March 25. —— Indications
point to the successful departure of the
fllibustering expedition under
Mcnzon which left here Saturday night.
Vessels arriving today report that the rev-
enue cutter Winona, which started in pur-
suit Sunday, anchored at Indian Key,
having failed to intercept them. The ex:
pedition is said to have effected a combi-
nation at Turtle Harbor with a steamer
awaiting there several days. .
\Vealthy Coal Operator Arrested.
PHILADELPHIA, March 25.—Samuel P.
Langdon, a wealthy coal operator. was ar-
rested todav on suspicion of having been
implicated in the death of Annie McGrath,
who was found lying dead on her bed in
the house 2926 Girard avenue last night.
Lang-don is 54 years old and the girl was
18. Although he has a residence at 3400
' Powelt-on avenue, he and the girl had been
living in the Girard avenue house for
about a month.
_ Salvation Troubles In Maiden.
MALDEN, Mass, March 25.—Tbe con-
troversy between the police of this city
and the local branch of the Salvation
Army over parading the streets with
drums and musical instruments is assum-
ing a serious aspect, in view of the avowed
determination of the‘authorities to put a
stop to such proceedings, and the equally
emphatic assertion of the Sulvationists
that they will parade.
Steamer In Distress.
NEW YORK, March 25.—The Hamburg-
American line steamer Moravia, from
Hamburg, reports that on March 21 at
10:15 a. 111., in latitude 41.20, longitude
61.44, she passed a two masted schooner
rigged B‘i‘itish steamer preceeding west-
ward at slow speed with boilers leaking
and showing signals of distress.
Yarnmakers In Trouble.
PHILADELPHIA, March 25.5—Executions
on judgment notes aggregating over $20,-
000 have been issued against Hugh J.
Hamil, trading as B. Hamil 8; Bro., yarn
manufacturers. with a mill in German-
town. The oreditors’ claims are princi-
pally for money loaned.
Granite State Association.
PHILADELPHIA, March 25.—Attorney
Josiah B. Adams has been appointed re-
ceiver in this state of the Granite State
Provldent association, 3. New Hampshire
corporation, which is in the hands of an
assignee in that state. It was alleged the
association is insolvent.
Says Pauncefote Is Going to London.
LONDON, March 25.—The Birmingham
Post asserts that Sir Julian Pauncefote,
British ambassador to the United States.
is coming to London to discuss the Vans
zuelan question with Lord Salisbury.
“Pennsy's” Officers Re-elected.
PHILADELPHIA, March 25.—The annual
election of the Pennsylvania Railroad
company was held today. There was no
opposition to‘the present officers of the
company, and all were re-elected.
Alleged Bunk Robbers Arrested.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 25.——Two more
men have been 'arrested for alleged com—
plicity in the robbery of the State bank of
Savannah, Mo. The police refuse to dis-
close their names.
Train Robber Cuts His Throat.
VISALI... Cal... March 255—L0vern. tl.
leader of the gang of train robbers wlu
. attempted to hold up a train lust wees
cut his throat in Jail here and will pron
' ably die.
General '
~ '1' "BOSTON MYSTERY. ‘
A ' Womb-n Found Dead With 'Finger
Prints on Her Throat. ‘ '
'BOSTOX, M arch 25.—Iiiram H. ‘Morri-
son of lid-Cambridge street reportedcto
police station-No.- 3 that his wife was 1y-
ing on the floor of. their bedroom. appar-
ently dead, and a policeman was sent to
the place. ' ‘
In a dark room. lying face downward
upon the wreck of a mantel bed, the po-
liceman found the woman dead. with the
upper part of the bed crushed down upon
the lower part of her body. 011 picking
up the back of the bed a fire was found
smoldering.
A physician soon arrived. and upon the
woman’s throat were found two deep im-
prints, as though caused by human fin—
gers. Meantime Morrison was taken back
to the station, where he said that his wife,
another woman and a. male friend had
been on a drinking bout all the afternoon,
but he himself had left the house. and, re-
turning, found his wife in the position de-
scribed.
He could not account for the fire unless
it, had been caused by their 2-year-old
child, who was playing about the room at
the time. The police discredit his story
'and he will be heldpending further devel-
opments. .
The police succeeded in finding the
woman wanted. She was Elizabeth Lip-
penc, 38 years old, and formerly lodged
with the Morrisons. The man in the case,
Richard Nolan, also lodged with the Mor-
risons. Nolan said that he left the house
shortly after 2, leaving both women there,
and his story was corroborated by the
Lipp‘bne .woman.
She says that she remained in the Mor-
rison house until nearly 5 o’clock, when
Morrison came home, and then she left.
Morrison went into the shop, she said,
and his wife, who had walked out into
the hall, also went into the shop, through
which she had to pass to reach the living
room.
- Whether or not she stopped to talk to
her husband the Lippene woman could not
say.
FRIENDS OF MES. IIAYBRIOK.
DeSpito
and Steadfast as Ever,
Their Recent Reverse.
CHICAGO, March 25.—Dr. Helen Dens-
more, president of the Women’s Interna—
tional Maybrick association, is at the An-
ditorium en route from California to
England. Dr. Dcnsmore was asked what
the intentions of the association are re-
garding the Maybrick case. It will be re-
membered that the English home secre-
tary, after reviewing the (elebratcd case,
declined to release Mrs. Maybrick.
“The Maybrick case has come to have
an international aspect of no small inter-
est,” said Mrs. Densmore. “When the
facts of the case are fully understood by
the English people, there will be such an
outcry for her liberation as the government
will not be able to withstand. The friends
of Mrs. Maybrick do not propose to let
this agitation cease. There is no finality
in the star chamber decision ofabomc
secretary. It will be reversed whenever
the voice of the people demand it. Ali
Stanch
'rei'i’dy the agitation which we have waged
has accomplished much through the Eng-
lish press in changing public opinion in
England and has caused the home cllice
no little uneasiness. '
“The friends of Maybrlck who see her'
iconsigned to a living death and her lov-
ing, devoted mother. whom Gail Hamilton
has characterized as ‘tb'e ideal of mother-
hood, the Mater Dolorosa of our time,’ re-
duc'ed from wealth to penury by the strug-
gle, are determined not to leave a stone
unturned until Mrs. Maybrick is vindi-
cated and free.”
A lVIexican Pleasantry.
GUADALAJARA, Mexico, March 25.—-A
riot took place in a lumber camp west of
here and resulted in three Mexicans being
killed. George Roberts, the American sn-
perintendent, was seriously wounded. The
riot was caused by a demand for higher
wages, which was refused. A numb r of
the workmen sustained Roberts in big re-
fusal and protected him from being killed.
Affairs In the Transvaal.
LONDON, March 25.—A dispatch to The
Pall _Mall Gazette this afternoon from
Johannesburg says that the Transvaal
burghcrs are assuming an alarming atti-
tude. It is added that strong feeling ex-
ists among the Dutch throughoutSouth
Africa, and that they are nerving them-
selves for a supreme struggle with Great
Britain.
Senator Davis \Vithdraws.
MINNEAPOLIS, March 25,—Just before
the state Republican convention was call-
ed to order this afternoon it was announc-
ed that Senator Davis had wired Congress-
man Tawney withdrawing from the presi-
dential race. This action was due to the
refusal of three of the five Minnesota (lis-
trict conventions to iudorse his candidacy.
Schooner Ashore on Cold Spring Bar.
CAPE MAY, March 25.—During the
SDOWStorm the three masted schooner
Charles L. Mitchell, from Port Spain,
Trininad, ran on the outer end of Cold
Spring bar. A heavy sea running at the
time caused the vessel to spring a leak.
The vessel has sevemfeet of water in her
hold. She is in a dangerous position.
Canadian Copyright Question.
OTTAWA, March 25. —The Dominion
government has decidedpfiot to accept the
compromise copyright bill drafted by the
Toronto publishers and Hall Caine. One
great objection to the measure is that it
prohibits the importation into Canada of
British copyrighted works for three
months after publication.
Three Boys Killed by a Train.
ATHENS, Tex, March 25.—The north
bound passenger train on the Cotton Belt
picked up the bodies of three boys who had
been killed by the north bound Cannon
Ball. They were aged ll, 12 and 10 years,
sons of William Smith, F. A. Shiflet and
Charles McLain respectively, all citizens
of this county.
Oleomargarine In Germany.
WASHINGTON, March 25.—-The German
reichstag is now considering a bill framed
at the instance of agrarians to restrict the
manufacture. and sale of clccmargnrine.
The purpose of the bill is to prevent the
imposition of oleomargarinc upon pur-
chasers as butter.
_Disturbances In Korea.
YOKOHAMA, March 25.——-’I‘l1e rebels re-
cently attacked the Japanese near Fusan.
After several days’ fighting the rebels
were repulsed. Many Japanese have been
murdered, and Japanese warships have
« been sent to the scene of the disturbance.
Dr. Kayser Has Not Resigned.
BERLIN, March Eli—There is no founda-
tion for the report circulated in the United
States that Dr. Kayser, director of the
colonial department, has resigned.
SCIENCE AND, INDUSTRY.
—The fruit growing industry in Ore-
gon is growing very rapidly. The state
secretary of horticulture estimates that
this fall there are 565,000 acres of pears,
peaches, apples and such kinds of fruit
in the state; 35,000 acres of prunes and
1,500 acres of berries.
—Experiments made by the Italians
at Massowah in raising European crops
on the Abyssinian plateau have proved
very successful. Grain yielded espe-
cially good results this year. Plans
are made for a greater extension of ag-
’ riculture in the colony next year.
-—Sllk has been made of the threads
of the Madagascar hal’ab’e spider which
has very nearly the same resistance
as that made from silk worm cocoons.
Experiments made with ordinary
spider’s web have proved failures ow-
but the chrysalis of the common moth
has yielded silk strong enough for a
lady’s neckerchief.
——The ,temperature of the earth’s
crust increases at the average rate'of
one degree Fahrenheit for each' fifty-
fivc feet in descent. At such auniform
rate of increase we find that we must
only descend to a depth of something
like thirty miles into the bowels of the
earth to find heat sufficient to melt any
deeper all rocks and metals must be in
a state of white-hot fusion.
—There is a variety of the caterpillar
of the European Saturnia carpini, with
pink tubercles. The moth bred from
this larva, by Dr. Dixcy, produced cat-
erpillars of which ten per cent. had
pink tubercles. In this connection
Prof. Poulton remarked, states Nature,
that he had found caterpillars of
Smerinthus occllatus, with red spots,
and that this peculiarity had been
transmitted to their descendants.
——“The accuracy of finger prints as a
test of personal identity is well shown
by some recent photographs of Mr.
Francis Galton,” says the Photographic
Times. “In a case of twins, their pho-
tographs and measurements were
closely alike, but the minutiae of their
finger prints were quite different. An
enlarged photograph of the print of the
hand of a-child eighty-six days old
shows the development of the dis-
tinctive little ridges on the skin even
at that early age.”
-—What we .;_~.ll light is a wave mo-
tion in the ether. and is a transverse
movement, too. Molecules have noth-
ing to do with it except to produce it.
The waves of ether which affect the
eye range from about four hundred
millions of millions per second to eight
hu n d red millions of millions per second,
the longest wave being what we call red
waves, while the shortest is called vio-
let, though it is well known that waves
much shorter than those in the com-
mon Spectrum can be seen by some
eyes.
—-—M. Raoul Pictet, the French chem-
ist, who has long been experimenting
with intense cold, finds that phosphor-
escence ceases at very low tempera-
tures. Glass tubes filled with sulphides
of calcium, strontium and barium were
exposed to the sun and then taken into
a dark room where the intensity and
duration of the phosphorescence was
noted. After being again exposed to
the sun the tubes were put into a mix-
ture where by rapidly lowering the
pressure their temperature was re-
_ du ccd to minus one hundred and forty
degrees; they then showed no sign of
phosphorescence, but after a time the
upper parts of the tubes which had
been least cooled began to glow, and
as the temperature rose the light ex-
tended, becoming at last as bright as
in the first experiment.
TORTURE IN PUNISHMENT.
Barbarous Treatment of Malefactors in
the Colonial Period.
The constitution of the United States
and those of thevarious states in prohib-
iting cruel and unusual punishments
were not fighting an absurdity. The use
of torture in legal processes was not,
when these instruments were framed,
so remote as it is now.
\Vhen Sir Thomas Dole came as high
marshal to Virginia he crushed a con-
spiracy by killing the ringleaders by
torture.
One had a bodkin thrust through his
tongue and was chained to a'tree until
wheel. It is quaintly stated that Sir
Thomas was “a man of good conscience
and knowledge in divinity.”
Dole's date was 1611. The next nota-
ble instance of the'use of torture was
in 1692, in the Salem witchcraft ex-
citement, when Giles Cory was pressed
to death—the “peine (lure et forte"—
the most horrible of deaths. A far
worse instance was the burning of the
negroes at the stake in New York, 1741.
as already described in these columns.
Throughout the early colonial period
the use of the stocks, “cage" and pillo-
ry was common, but these were torture
onlv to the sensitive spirit. A similar
device is the cangue, or plank necklacc,
four feet square, which Chinese prison-
ers still carry. - ,
Executions were in public through-
out the east until comparatively recent
times. When Quelch, the pirate, and
six others were hanged in Boston Sew-
all wrote in his diary: “When the scaf-
fold was let to sink there was such a
screech of the women that my wife
heard it, sitting in our entry next to the
orcharc ," though the gallows was a
mile away and the wind unfavorable.
The use of torture to wring the truth
from witnesses is said to have been
recognized as legal in Austria until
well within the present century—N. Y.
Recorder. _
Quite Secure. -
“I want to consult you on a certain
point,” said Miss Cash to her lawyer.
“I am at your service, Miss Cash.”
“You know Mr. Squildig?”
“Very well, indeed.”
“He has done me the honor of pro~
posing marriage.”
“All!”
“What I wish to ask is if, you_ thihk
my. money would be safe in his hands
if I were to marry him?”
“It would be so secure you could not
oev‘en get it yourself.” —=— Pittsburgh
Chronicle-Telegraph.
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Sl-lE USED THE PASS. :' :
The Ingenious Scheme of a Woman on a.
Train. ’
A genial Chicagoan, who for obvious
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dianapolis a few days ago and as he was
about to pass through the gates was sur-
prised to hear himself acCosted in fem:
iuine tones with the somewhat startling
questiom “Please, mister, could I bor-
row you. for awhile?” Looking around
he found two buxom women, whb hesi-
tutingly explained that they were rid-
ing on a pass made out in the name of a
gentleman and his wife, and as the gen—
tleman was not present, they wanted
the genial-looking citizen to place his
bought ticket at the disposal of one
lady, and take the other one under his
wing while he personated the absent
owner of the pass. _
“Which is my wife?” he inquired,
with an inward-qualm lest his own ab-
sent better half should ever hear the
story. _
“You can take your choice, sir,” said
the lady in search of an escort, and he
promptly did so by taking the arm of
the younger fair one under his own and
leading her into the car. The couple
proved. to be right jolly traveling com-
panions and the citizen’s only regret in
he transaction was due to a fear that
the story might leak out and get home
ahead of him.
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THE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE
COMPANY or NEW YORK
RICHARD A. McCURDY PRESIDENT
STATEMENT
For the year ending December 31 1895
‘" - $21,213,72133
394,347,.ij
Surplus . - . - . ’26,81L£-,5t2 7'5
._______————-
$18,537,-L;.3 .21
.-lssets - - - ..
Liabilities - - . .
Total Income - - - -
Total Paid Policy-holders in ..
1895 - - - - - $33,126,723 4-.)
Insurance and ”Annuities in _ _
force - . - - - $899,034,“; .3
Net gain in 1895 - - - $62,123,643 23
NOW—Insurance merely wwztirn is discarded
from this Statement as wholly mtslending. an'.
only insurance nctual'.y issued and paul 11;: Li
cash is included.
I have carefully examined the foregoing State-
ment and find the same to be correct _
CHARLES A. PRELLER Auditor
From the Surplus a dividend Will be apportioned
as usual
Report of the Examining Committee
Office of The Mutual Life Insurance Company
of N cw Ycik
February 1:, 2896
At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of this
Company, held on the 18th day of December las:,
the undersigned were appointed a. Committee to
examine the annual statement for the year ending
December 3t, 1895, and to verify the ("216 by
comparison with the assets of the Compa:.- .
The Committee have carefully performed no
duty assigned to them, and hereby certify that
the statement is in all particulars correct and that
the assets specified therein are in possession of the
Company. '
In making this certificate the Committee bear
testimony to the high character of the investments
of the Company 5nd express their approval of the
system, order, and accuracy with which the ac-
counts and vouchers have been kept, and the
business in general transacted. I
(slouzu) H. Given Pos'r Poesnv 01.vre....r
, CHAS”. R. Henosnsou WM. P. 01x0"
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COMMUTEB
Jmss C. HOLosN
ROBERT A. GRANNISS VICE-PRESIDENT
General Manager
2d Vice-Presiden;
Treasurer
Aetuary
WALTER R. GILLETTE
ISAAC F. LLOYD
FREDERIC CRomwnu.
EMORY McCuNTocx
Jclm Vi . Ii‘c. ols,~ General Agi nt.
Address ,‘
NICHOLS & GILBERT ,
New 11.».sz .co 5 N.
a. H. CAMP, Agent,
NORWALK, CONN.
__
lSTB-CT of Nor-walk, ss. Probate (‘ourt
M," ch 25th A. D. 1 9 ‘v'
Whereas, W! itten applies tiqn has been made
t \ lh‘fl (‘ourt for administration of the estate
of J AMEs (l’BrIEN, late of Ncrvsalk in said
District. deceased: . .
()rdei ed. 'l but said application be hearu and
date-mined at the Probate office mulsorv al
on the 3131: day of March. 1896411; 10 o'clock.
forenoon: and that public notice thereof be
given to all persons Interested therein by pub-
ci“cu1ation in said District, at .least five days
befoie said day of hesnna.
ASA B. WOODWABD. m... -
lishing this order-in a, newspaper havinv a‘ ‘
Norwalk Chronicler