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rcss, head. throat and caest. tnsomuch that
within fourteen hours she becan to speak,
and he next day talked and prayed heart
iiv." Durin~ the time Of her recovering the
officers concerned in hcr execution would
have had her away gam 60 have the exccu-
tion completed. but by the mediation Of the
worthy doctors and some other friends
with the thcn Governor Of the city. Colonel
Kelsey, there was guard set upon her
to hinder all further disturbance tail be had
sued out her pardon from the powers then
IN being, thousands OF people in the mean
time coming 20 see her, ard magnifying
the just providence of heaven in thus as
serting her innocence Of murder.
In 1863 Walter Wynkeburn was hanged
at Leicester. When cut down he was car
ried in a cart 10 the cemetery of the Holy
Sepulcher in that city. He gradually re-
gained sensibility while the cart was rum
bling along and escaped with life. Sim
ilarly in the fifteenth century DIR Platt men,
tons the strange case of a Swiss, on the au-
thority Of DR.. Walker, master OF University
College. This man ig said to have been
hung no less than thirteen times without
losing his life, his windpipe having been
converted by disease iuto a substance
almost IS hard rs bone.
Hanging in chuins has been for 50 many
years discontinued that the manner of it IS
no longer generally known. and many might
imagine that cham was really used for
the execution Of the criminal instead of q
rope. But this wa 70. so; he was in the
first instance hanged in the ordinary way
with hcmpcn cord, aud after he was dead
End cut down On tho gibbet a stout canvas
dress was put "a tho body, wei saturated
WITH tar th's face, hands Sud feet were like
wise daubcd with %, and then light frame
OF hoOpirpn was fitted round the
legs, body and arms with the object Of caus-
ing the gh hastly remains 10 hang together as
lonsas pos sible. AZ the top OF this frame
WORT was "a iron hoop, which went over the
head, and 10 this was secured the chain by
which the corpse was finally suspended to a
lofty gibOet made Of oak. and studded with
tcnter-nOOks TO prevent any one from
climbing up 70 remove the body. The last
OF these hfdeous spectaclCs might have
been seen ia England rs recently as the
y0ir 1916 on tho point formed by the curve
OF the River thames, a mile below Green
wich, where the wasted corpses of four
Lascars, hanged for mutiny and the mur-
der OF the captiin and most of the crew of
an lndiaman, were stIli hanging in chains
from lofty gibbct.
Assumed that It is necessary to put an
end TO the earthly career Of a certain class
OF criminals, thar object Is fully gained by
the quickest aud most merciful means.
Life should be cSt.nguishcd without tort
ure. In the future il will seem odd to
hear judge when giving an order for the
execution OF criiaiuul TO say: "YOur
sentence is death by aG electric shock"
Man makes death which natdrc never made.
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SOME RARE BIBLES.
Curious Editions Lately Acquired by the
British Museum.

Curious Editions Lately Acquired by the
British Museum.
Among the most important acquisitions
made by the trustees of the British Museum
during the year are the following works A
Bible in the Georgian language, in folio,
printed at Moscow in l543 at the expense of
Prince BalIar, the son Of King Fachtang,
who made csc of materials collected by his
uncle, King Artcdyl This book is exces-
sivcly rare, as nearly the whole impression
was destroyed in the burning of Moscow in
1912 Only ten copies are known TO exist,
and no other edition Of the entire Bible has
ever been printed in the Georgian language.
Another rare Biblo is the one in Armenian,
printed at Amsterdam in 1856, quarto, illus
trated with numerous NgOod-cuts, as also
psalter in Armenian, printed at Venice in
1865, octave. This book was thefirst produc-
ton of the Armenian press, established by
Abgar at Venice, and is believed to be the
first portion Of the Bible printed in Arme-
Man To these should be added Archbish-
op Parker's rare work, entitled "De Anti
Quitate Ecclc5iH BRITANNICA, printed IN
Lambeth Palace, by John Day, in I572, folio,
and intended for private distribution among
the friends Of the Archbishop 1t is be-
lieved that no more than twenty-five copies
Of this work exist, and no two copies agree
entirely in their contents. Four copies are
now in the British Museum. Finally, the
missai for the use OF the Diocese OF Seville,
printed at Seville by Jacob CrHmberger in
1907. folio; service book OF the greatest
rarity and printed on veilum. Itis a mag
nificent example OF early Spanish typog-
raphy and issued from the press of the
first Of a family OF German printers who
worked at Seville until the middle Of the
sixteenth century. Only one other copy is
known to exist and that is in the Casanati
Library ut Rome.
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CLEANING TOMeSToNES.
Queer Business Carried ON In the Eek
Smoky City.

Queer Business Carried On In the Ex-
Smoky City.
'no you ever have orders to clean
old tombstones?" asked "a reporter at
one of the largest marble-cutting shops
in Pittsburgh yesterday.
30, yes, that is big part OF every
monument builder business" replied
the proprietor. Until the introduction
of natural gas as fuel. Pittsburgh and
Allegheny had the name OF having the
dirtiest tomhstones and monuments in
the world. The smoke from the iron
mills flooded in clouds over Allegheny,
st. Mary and Uniondale cemeteries,
and begrimmed ali marble. Tomb
actually get black. The business of
cleaning them nourished then. But
natural gas has changed all that. Still
we are called upon frequently to shine
up headstones and shafts which are
age-stained or soiled by the elements.
If care is taken like this the life OF a
tombstone in this climate can be pro-
longed twenty years longer than If il
was left to itself"
''How do you clean tombstones and
not spoil the enamel?n
''By very simple process. We mix
one-fourth of a pound of soft soap with
the same amount OF pounded whiting;
one ounce soda and piece of stone
blue the size OF walnut. We boil
these together for quarter of an
hour, and while hot rub it over the
tombstone with a piece of flannel and
leave it on twenty-four hours. Then
we wash this off with clean water and
polish the marble with a piece OF coarse
flannel.
Il originally got this recipe from an
old colored woman in Baltimore.
Marble steps to houses are very popu-
lar there and she had made the mixture
during lifetime to clean the steps.
This old lady also told me what she
said was good way to paint on marble,
SO that it won't rub of. 1t was to use
the ordinary gold paint sold by art
stores, consisting Of powdered brass
and oil of turpentine. But all such.
paints, / have found, will wash of in
time. y Pittsburgh Dispatch.
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MENTA:. ABsRRATION.
How One Can Contradict Himself and
'Nst Ise Truthful.

81 can understand perfectly how a wit
ness can toau@diC, him. elf point blank and
yet be truthful 10 the best of his know
ledge and ability" said a. very intelligent
lady to a Chicago Jy' nal reporter. ''lSow,
/ myself should dothat very thing iD court.
l win tell you why. I havc a very accurate
and vivid memory. Tue ouly trouble with
it is that, like an otherwise perfect ire
arm, it hangs fire. IL always seems TO
act moment or so too late ana as / an Of
an impuislve temperament. | have often as
serted or dcuicd before my memory has had
time 10 shove into view the right mental
photograph. The mrcmonical pcculiarity
by which a name, uurccall bic when
wanted, viii fash with Iightning-lille sud
dennoss and vividuess into the mind few
moments later, is we'll known and illus
trative trait J have often emphatically
denied tiIat | have been apprisci Of some
domestic happening, and little while
after, when the verbal controversy had
passed from my immediate notice.
the remembrance Of the time, place,
speaker, AM all the details of the
implrting OF that disputed informa-
tlon rose before me with appalling
distinctness. / use the word appalling be-
cause it seems TO nc that in some future
existence that will be the way cur memory
will present mental reproductions TO our
consciences. One morning when l was
dressing in the room with my little three
year-old girl took up a bureau ornament, a
bisque dog, and found ii broken cleanly in
two. leaped TO the conclusion that the
damage was the work Of the chld's med
dlesome fingers, and reprovingly asked /:
'Oh, how could you break this after all l
have said about letting it alonel Now,wh
did you do it, Thereupon the little one
made a plausible confession. (And, by the
way, the subject of false confessions made
by weak minds is in itself study A few
hours later, standing again in front of the
bureau, it was as if "a voice said within me /:
Don't sou rememberl You were hurrying
10 find YOUR gloves. Your husband called
you. Your sleeve hit the jewelbox cover
and knocked It of. You found the gloves,
picked up the box-cover plush held
the broken pieces togethcr-and you saw
they fitted perfectly, and thought you
could mend them so the break would not
show. Then you put it on the bureau and
ran down stairs, because your husband
again called TO YOU to hurrv'n -
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NO. 26.

up TO the surface some of the lost Ter
tility of past ages. l found to my
great surprise that before the frost had
gone out of the ground the trenches
were deeper or the ridges were higher
in the spring than the fall, showing
that the frost had penetrated from the
trenches sides into the soil OF the
ridges, heaving and loosening it much
deeper and refining it as l had never
before observed under any other con-
ditions. / found that | had been util-
lzing the forces of nature to do my
work free and far better than / could
do it at great expense myself with
teams and subsoil plows.
subsequently it was shown that as
the roots of the vines spread out and
grew the feeding roots at the ends
gradually rose a little as they ap-
preached the centers of the rows, and
that occasionally the plow in the sub
sequent tillage OF the vines cut off the
end of a few of these feeding roots,
but | could not perceive that this was
~ SCAAONo lOA hCN oiO lklOi .
branching roots We're sent out from the
severed ones the next season, and |
sometimes imagined that it had rein
vigorated the vines, and caused them
to grow more luxuriantly, but / could
not express a positive opinion as to
this, without more experience and OBJ
servation.
Another point gained was. that in
the spring l did not have to dig holes
to set the vines at busy season of II e
year. The holes were already dug
just the right depth. The fine top
soil had fallen in from the sides
of the bitches, making the very best
possible conditions, after strewing a
little phosphate. ashes and bone dust
in the trench, for the fine subsequent,
healthy and vigorous growth obtained,
and found that | could work the soil
some two weeks earlier than that un-
trenched. | actually set the vines
while there was yet frost in The ridges,
the soil working dry and mellow
Cor. PhjlGdelpbia Gardener.
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sUBsoiLINe FOR GRAPES.
The Best Way of Making the Roots of th
Vines SDread ONT.

Vines Spread Out.
Judging from my own experience ]
think that the roots of the vine need
to penetrate the subsoil. am aware
that of late it has been recommended
and practiced to set out vineyards up
on cheap scale without trenching or
subsoiling.
This in my judgment is the chief
reason why the vine suffers so much
from sporadic diseases. The roots be-
ing too near the surface are subjected
TO all the changes and vicissitudes of
climate conditions. while If set deeper
they would receive the protection of a
deeper soil against sudden changes.
An experiment that 1 made few
years ago saves so much of my heavy
expense of subsoiling, and has proved
so satisfactory, that / can recommend
it to vineyard planters. 1t is so sim
pie, and applicable TO all varying con-
ditions that no one need hesitate about
adopting it. / simply plowed
and cleaned out trenches in the fall as
steep as their sides could be made
eight feet apart and twenty inc hes
deep, set the vines in the trenches in
the following spring and filed them in
again mainly with theplow.
Tho reason for success in this exper-
iment OF fall trenehing is found in the
action of frost during the winter being
enabled to penetrate the subsoil
deeper than it could otherwise do
through the means of these open
trenches, thereby fining and commin-
uting the soil and subsoil and bringing
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THE STEAM HAMMER.
Something About a Powerful Machin
and Its Inventor.

Something About Powerful Machine
and Its Inventor.
The roll Of modern inventors contains no
more attractive name than that of the
sturdy Scot who invented the marvellous
steam hammer. The life of James Nasmyth,
says Harper Y0aBg People, was romance.
His achievements we're noble, his success
was brilliant and his character was 80
cheerful, sunny, upright and happy that 1t
is delight to dwell upon il.
He himself has told US, in words of simple,
hearty enthusiasm. the story Of his boyhood
and one OF the triumphs of his manhood. II
IS surious that his very name had history
in striking coItrast with the actual facts of
his life One Of his ancestors. il is said. in
trying TO escape from the enemy on battle
field, assumed the disguise of blacksmith.
he was caught, after sharp race, when
his captor, perceiving his disguise, ex-
claimed; ''Why, You are noe smyth' mo
SMITH whence came the family name OF
Nasmyth- Now no greater smith ever lived
than this James OF the contrary name. who
made the steam hammer. The old warlike
family motto, too, '.Non arte, sed marte"
Not by art, but by war; was 50 entirely
contradictory to Jasaes NaslHyth's pursuits
that he turned it entireiy around, and made
1t mon marte, sed arte'' Not bv war, but
by art). II was, indeed. by his masterful
art that he achieved triumphs more endur-
ing for TIE good Of Inankind than any war
has ever been Let us see what an IN
usual KIND Of boy James Nasmyth was.
he soon conceived great interest in
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THE PLUMBERS.

Tho light OF day was wan ng fast,
As up the cellar steps there passed
4 man and boy with pot ami kit,
And throu sa the hall made Their exit
Tho Plumbers.
Their hands were black. their faces, too,
Got dirt bccrimed whore fungus grew;
For they lad toicd with might and main
All day TO clear the choked-up drain
The Plumbers.
Down through the grating poured the light
or outside sunshine warm and bright;
Above their heads the cobwebs hung,
While leaky drains they dug among
The Plumbers.
" BE not too Quick" their master said.
As 20 tho joO that morn they sped,
THE landlords purse is deep and wide;
Wen drain II well," they both replied
The Plumbers.
"Oh, stay!" the housoma.d said. 81 think
The pipes arc breaking az our sink"
4 smile 10 up their faces black,
"We'n come aga Il" they swered back
The Plumbers.
beware, root maid, aud do not speak
OF every Lcty, tri1ing leak"'
This was tho landlords last request,
As man and boy vent on TO rest
Tho Plumbers.
NcKt morning promnt 70 The hour OF eight
They both appeared AZ Tho basement gate,
And stiil tho hcartlcss public say:
They work an hour and charge a day
The Plumbers.
who IL 70 then who promptly sends
A hurly bill % odds and ends;
OF lcadcn pircs with hooks aad screws.
And other stun they never user
The Plumters.
There IN the cash-dra yer, fat ard thin,
The iandlord's purse - lving IN:
" VINO was u drained tbs man so dryf'
The landlord answers with q sigh:
The Plumbers.
The Hdsp.
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You may hear ali sorts Of stories about
Mr.. Gladstone and mis- talk; not al OF them
gOod-natGred. for society does its best to
dislike him, and succeeds when he is alb
sent viii repeat one which gives you an
other side OF him. While Prime Minister
he appointed q well-knoU-n man 70 a certain
diEicuit post abroad. requiring great deal
of special knowledge and personal ac-
quxintance with the country and people, all
Of which this young man had acquired in
the course Of several laborious years. Mr..
Gladstone sent for his commissioner to
come and see him before he set out He
came. aul next day friend congratulated
him on the impression he had made 'tMr.
Gladstone says he never met any one who
knew 50 much about the Caucasus.r Lord
K. laughed: Il was with him two hours and
never opened my mouth"
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CHURCHES.

DAITtSr.- Preaching every sunday evening
- ut o'clock, ut the courthouse. sunday
school az 40 O'Clock. o.. m. prayer mCD 'tuH
wednesday evening uf Cuch week. over store Of
Nycrlcy, UfrL N Ruuygu. Erv. W. y. OHtn.
paTtur Residence uu North Walnut street
CtnRfsTI AF.--ItCutaiug cycry sunday at
- ~ O'Clock, a.. IN. and 1aD y. m. hy Elder
". A. inhrcy. Prayer meeting every We'd
nnsduy night. sunday irhpoi 1t 100 c.u,s %. iu.
every sunday.
aEETulUtsw tOPAt.-Scrviccsc every
At4 sunday ut il.Ol o.. 90. 0u1 $40 n. m. sum
t1t school every SUNDAY at ~ n. IN. Prayer
.I| Ur'f. NI..H. IIUi |. 100 t..
stumgcrs invited. 70. SASDERsON, Pastor.
T1RTsHY. .rEiLfi iE.-E.rti.. .t.ry sunday VI
r ~ %. u. and I:IO y. m. sunday school 100
1nHu. tiEv. MCELUuY, Pastor.
CATHOLIC CU"UcU-s Services ou ''1
f'uuaHy ul UNcty month Ht S1.ruc'ts BAN, 20
~ u1 n. 'r. IEN. 'lrrsf p. tnr
nEuNAc BAPTIST BHrrUBEE-Iio'l r.Q-
" u.ur services Ht NiH-IUu. Blr.' 'r county,
fNo second Grt fourth Sundays in nlch month.
AZ Forrest school hou~c on thc second SUNDAY /,
Cedar Creek school huu-c on tl" third sunday.
By Elders SbdmhCrgCr, Smith md Nchcr.
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Take Care of the Tools.

It may take moment more to lay a tool
up carefully after using, but the time is
more than equalized when you want to use
it again, and so it is time saved. Habits,
either good or bad, go a long way in their
influence on mems lives, and 1t is far better
to establish and firmly maintain good hab-
it, even though that character has no special
bearing on the moral character; yet all
habits have their influence.
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Moman,s Rirnt. in nIIssnnri,

Judge Davenport, of Kansas City, has de-
cided that women can wear trousers when
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ufLruIA LOsar, $50. lH, IS. NJ F.. i'',i- nu
aiDudHv oven .rr uf cfcr week.. ut o1l 'riinw
ball. Visiting ku.ghts '9 tol -innn."t ',,,'F
sUd tn nttru1. f.I. " iNG.N'' ~ ''
mAnE pIA.NAN. X. nI Do. y !.
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9 KoCIELL,
iiONuEOPAr Physician y SURGEON.
Onioo East aide Maia street,
MEDICINE LODGE, KANSAS.
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Medicine Lodge oHesrs
rnrTZTIwc

A. r s. 4. ~, Dcltu Lodge No. ',.-,
~ Vrrti1r communication, first and
- - th,rt SATURDAY, evenings tn ccch
M r..utr l. ". STOUT, ". n
AynitOsF NfIEv. Secretary.
CYPWUs CHAPTER 80. t3, ". y W meets
IA Ne.,,,,ir ttrn every 30 ana ith Thursday.
Nisitina brethren cordially invited.
Gro. u. STuNr, ". II.
r. 4. CNuuuIEts, SuCN.
n y 9 L8HtAiNE SHAr,EEH'' ~ 10 ~ ~,
al t1ird Nolduv evenings boz each muuth.
Nra. T.. II STOUT, ". ".
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PHYsIcIAYsGH MEDICIvE IOD0s
7 D. xAaR, y y.

MEDICINE LODGE. KANS.
OrrtCF-In Narl's drug store, wood n Vim
ccut hui,iug. An calls promptly hncd. Par
euata ulrulIHrfu woman.
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w r. MOORE,
PHYSICIAN MD sCRCCOS.
Medicine lodge, Eua,
Fast side Mnin %. dours south of Lcrr' chts.
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fnrrN Enwtul2 y t. NothA'
Towards 9 NoD-T,
Ef~.OgNvYs s COUNvFrIOVs AT LAW.
ume. over First Naucnai stut,
MEDICINE LOnGF, KAN.
~ WI l -.----- Id III - L.-L
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N A. 1lcNEAf.
twrpuNEv z CoUNsgr foR At Law.
omeo. East Kansas Avenue, near Courthouse.
MEDICINE LOulE. NANs.
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D A. cAME ,oV.
ArrUWNEt
Oner up pstairs--itoom
tiouiti
nf>r 20 gs
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Tho light % day was wan ng fast,
As up the cellar steps there passed
man and boy with pot AMI kit,
And through the hall made Their exit
Tho Plumbers.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-10-31
PERSONAL,

BARON HIRsCH has donated IL 900, O0C
francs for the education of Jows Ia Gs!icis.
JOHN CoNLIN, OF Chester, Is heir TO q
bequest OF Sl,000OC0 by the death OF al
aunt In Philadelphia.
MRS CHARLES N. THORPE, wife Of the
president OF the keystone Watch Case
company, OF Philadelphia, on behalf Of 1850
women employed by the company, on
Tuesday presented to Mrs. Cleveland, al
Oak View, q watch, the case Of which was
made by them.
JUDGE d X, EoK LES died at his home In
Greencastle. Indiana, on Monday. He was
born In 1906 He was tho first mayor oi
Greenclstle, q csptain In the Mexican war,
circuit Judge for 10 years, and chief jus
tioe Of Utah, under President Buchanan.
He was leading Democratic politician, and
WAS highly respected.
REV. J. J. MURPHY, =. j., formerly REQ.
tor Of GonZaga college, Washington, and
more recently Of 1T. Francis Xsvier's col.
lege, New York, has been appointed tC
the chair OF philosophy In Georgetown
college, District of Columbia The former
occupan o! this chair, Rev. Edward H.
Welch, y. j., becomes project Of studies
assuming control OF all the classes OF this
department of Georgetown University.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-10-31

THE nation has been talking about the
tariff for ten months and q half, since
Grover Cleveland sent his famous message
TO Congress and no orator or writer has
produced anything moro forcible, sensible
and true, than the following lines from
that message: "Our progress toward wise
conclusion will not be improved by dwell.
Ing upon the theories OF protection and
FREQ trade. This savors too much OF handy.
ing epithets. 1t is condition which con.
fronts us-not theory. Relief from this
condition may involve slight reduction
OF the advantages which we award our
home productions but the entire with drawal
OF such advantages should not be contem.
plated. The question Of free trade Is abso-
lutely irrelevant; and the persistent claim
made in certain quarters that all efforts TO
relieve the people from unjust and un-
necessary taxation are schemes of so. called
free.traders, Is mischievous and far re-
moved from any confederation for the
"publio good"
The simple and plain duty which we
owe the people is to reduce taxation to the
necessary expenses OF an economical
operation Of the government, and to restore
to the business OF the country the money
which we hold In the treasury through the
perversion OF governmental powers. These
things can and should be done with safety
to all our industries, without danger to the
opportunity for remunerative labor which
our workingmen need, and with ben efit 10
them and all our people, by cheapening
their means OF subsistence and increasing
the measure OF their comforts"