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, 1891-02-28
FEMALE HERmlTS.
Two Feminine Eccentrics Live Alone In
Indians for Many Years.

Two Feminine Ecoentrics Live AIone In
Indians for Many Years.
FoS more than sixty years Mary and
Iizziu Harper have lived in a tumble
down log hut neal the village of New
Trenton, Franklin county, Ind. four
miles from the Ohio line. They are the
most remarkable specimens OF eccentric
ity in this country, and have been OBJ
jec-s Of curiosity for more than half a
century. They are old maids, and nave
been really dead to the world ever since
they were children. Mary, the elder. is
62 years old, and her sister Lizzie 90.
The oldest inhabitalt Of that locality
doesn't know WHEN the Harpers came to
the place. 1t Is only known that the
father and mother Of the eccentric old
maids lived and died in the miserable
log shanty from which neither Of the
two women has ever been away for
more than n few hours at a time. The
roof Of tine shanty fell in ten years ago,
and was only held mp from the ground
by the high posts of the old fashioned
bedstead in which they sleep. There is
no floor, and the ]grOun! has been worn
down into q regular burrOw. The sisters
own property, but they take no interest
in the care of it. The stock which they
used to have -dl died from exposure and
neglect.
An the efforts Of the neighbors to in.
duce the wom- To take some interest in
the care Of their property have been un
avaiIing. Mary only tries To pay the in.
tcrcst on the mortgage on their farm.
and once every year walks twelve miles
10 the county aeat sud settles the &C
C0unt. Her sister Lizzie has the pecu-
liar habits of the snake and ground hog.
Although she has no physical ailment,
she goes to bed On Oct. l every year and
is not seen again until April. There is
some mystery surrounding the strange
conduaf ot these old maids, but the ren.
SONS fur their hermit life and their al.
most complete retirement from the
world nave never been satisfactorily ex.
planned.
Recently the nrighbors erected a small
frame cottage adjoining the pen in
which they lived so long. but it was
only after threats Of having the tive
wonen removed to the poor house that
they could he induced to occupy it.
They are continually complaining about
their hard lot. and want to return to the
howell, which is the most squalid and
miserable place imaginable. The sis,
tiers are perfectly respectable. but know
nothing of what is going on. They
can even tell the day Of the week, and
are utterly indifferent to everything
ST. Louis Globe-D Democrat.
, 1891-02-28

Trough coated st. Bernardo
else than make better known the qualities
Of this splendid dog they would still have
served a good purpose, for no other dog is
so we'll qualified to be a guardian Of person
and property.
The mastif is imposing in appearance,
and one can fancy the fear which would
overcome the intruding tramp or nightly
marauder upon finding one of these mag
nifcent creatures on guard. He stands
about 81 or 81 inches high, and his natural
strength Is so great that he can, IL need be,
spring upon n would-be evil doer, knock
him down and subdue him.
Although once In a while a mAstiT Of bad
temper will be found, he is generally gen
tie, and with a strong disposition to pro-
tect his friend or master from attacks OF
any kind. 1t is said by authorities that
the mastih and the bulldog have a com
mon ancestry, and that long years ago the
mastif was kept to display his courage
and strength in the bull ring or in bear
batting, those gentle amusements with
which the EnglishmRn of IA century or SO
ago RECALLED himself.
II this be so. the mAstih of today Il an
example of the value Of long years of
breeding; for when well traine this dog Is
at once the best Of companions, the firmest
OF friends and the surest of protectors.
Though not given to quarreling, he is yet
quite capable OF so bearing himself that
being entered In a quarrel his opposer had
, 1891-02-28

Mysterious Murder OF an Old Woman.
The recent murder of the Widow Bazire
Is another Of those strange and inexplica-
BILE crimes for which Paris has become no.
torious. Veuve Bazire was an octogena-
rian living in a small room on the top floor
of a high building. Each morning she
went to mass, and after her return home
spent the remainder of the day in admir-
ing her array of carved crucihxes, marble
and alRbaster M~adonnas, dainty r~osaries
and images of saints and angels. She had
an income Of 700 francs. Her living cost
her three francs per week. The rest of the
money it had been her custom for many
years to spend in the purchase of "objects
of devotion"
One day the widow did not go to mass.
The neighbors visited her room, and found
her lying on the bed strangled TO death.
The assassin had taken none of the valu-
IL bric-a-brac ave a little old clock. A
man was seen to enter the apartment the
day before the discovery of the murder,
He went out after a short stay. Who the
assassin is and what was his object are
things the detectives are trying to ascertain.
, 1891-02-28

The parent of insomnia or wakefulness
is in nine cases out of ten a dyspeptic
stomach. Good digestion gives sound
sleep, indigestion interferes with it. The
brain and stomach sympathizes. One OF
the prominent symptoms OF a weak state
of the gastric organs is u disturbance of
the great nerve entrepot the brain. In
viEorate the stomach and you restore
equilibrium to the great centre. A most
reliable medicine for the purpose is Hos
letters Stomach Bitters, which is far
preferable to mineral sedatives and pow
ertul narcotics which. though they may
for a time exert a soporific influence upon
the brain, soon cease to act, and invariably
injure the tone of the stomach. The Bit
tiers, Of the contrary, restore activity to
the operations of that all important or
gan, and their beneicent influence is re-
Elected in sound sleep and a tranquil state
OF the nervous system. A wholesome
impetus is likewise given to the action OF
the liver and bowels by its use.
, 1891-02-28

The fortunate girl is the one who ha
n yellow garter given her by the bride Of
less than a year. And why is she fort
innate? Because it insures for her a lad.
die who shall be her own true love and
her husband ere another twelyemonth
has elapsed. The yellow garter must bt
worn day and night and never removed
save when the act Of cleanliness requires
it. During the first six months that il
is worn the young woman will see heI
own true love and become desperately
well acquainted with him.
The next three months sees them en-.
gagged to be married, and the last three
months of the year bear a wedding
chime in their echoes. Dear, sweet
match making young matrons give a
yellow garter to all the young girls of
their acquaintance whom they wish to
see welded, and then they do all in their
power to further the cause by introduc.
ing every eligible man Of dear Jacks nc.
luaintance.-New York World.
, 1891-02-28

A San Diego girl distinguished herself
at Pacific beach the other day. She wa
one of the three students from the Col.
lege of Letters who belong to the swim.
ming club. They went to the bath house
in the cove of Mission bay, got into bath
suits, and rowed ont to a little island q
half mile off looking down on San
Diego. The San Diegon has become an
expert swimmer, and she was so busy
teaching her girl companions that nont
Of them observed two of the college boy,
swimming over and carrying off theiI
oars. When it was discovered the San
Diegon girl remarked that she wouldn't
be outwitted by any sneaking boys
Her companions could not be trusted in
deep water, and they accordingly turned
pale. The San Diegon told them to gel
into the boat, as she would pull them
across. She then pushed the boat of,
took the rope in her teeth and swan
across to the boat house, having to float
on her back but twice in the entire pull
San Diego Union,
, 1891-02-28

niZed by bench show authorities, the rough
coated and the smooth; but these are not
distinct breeds, for often specimens of both
kinds are found in the same litter.
1t is as a companion that the st. Bernard
must now be chiefly considered in this
country and in England, for there Is
neither here nor there any practical work
for him to do; and it is rue that a dog, or
breed Of dogs, no longer called upon TO do
the work lie is adapted for soon loses that
adaptability; but to mention the st. Ber-
nard is to bring before one a vision OF vast
heights, of leaden skies and falling snow,
Of covered roadways and obscured land
marks, of weary fainting travellers almost
lost, Of four footed friends of man bearing
to them life and hope.
These two breeds Of dogs are the largest
and most imposing of all, and they are the
most kindly. With a sagaclty beyond that
of an unreasoning man-and, alasi how
many such there happento be In the world
they are gentle and kind and true, but
brave when 1t is a time to show courage.
Either of these dogs would be valuable on
n farm as a watch dog or the animal
to turn the churn. Their docility and af-
fection are most admirable when they
are pure, but II they be crossed with other
breeds they are likely to be savage at home,
providers by night and sheep killers when
ever opportunity offers. Pure mastiffs and
pure st. Bernards are therefore the only
dogs to be kept on the farm.
JNo. GILMER SPEED.
, 1891-02-28

NIX AND MRS. CLlNE.
feature OF the case is that the wronged
husband has been hunting the fugitive pair
in detective Euise, and his story is that his
wife was a pure and good woman till DR..
Long
Abused her delicate youth with drugs and
minerals
That weaken sense.
Cline was arrested a few days since by
the sharp eyed detectives at the Union de-
pot, st. Louis, who saw that his flowing
beard was false, and that he was otherwise
made up" though TO the Impractical eye
he looked like an ordinary ranchman.
After being taken to court and confronted
with the alternative of confession or i'm
prisonment on suspicion he told his story.
A year ago he, W. r. Cline, was living hap
PLY on his claim near Russell with a wife
and two children, when DR.. Long was
called to attend Mrs. Cline for some slight
illness. From that time she was a changed
woman.
Her fascination with DIR. Long amount
ed to a mania, and in "A little while the
two were m~issing-she leaving a husband
and two children, he a wife and nine chill
dren. Both had stood high in the com
munity. Yet the doctor took with him
every dollar he could collect, and left his
family destitute. Mr.. Cline sent his chill
dren TO his parents in Virginia, assumed a
disguise and started on the hunt. He at
length located the guilty pair in a mining
lamp near Trinidad, Colo, where DR..
Long had already built up a good practice.
The sheriff there arrested the doctor on a
telegram, but he was soon bailed. The
woman's condition did not admit OF her
Imprisonment.
Mr.. Cline, when released at st. Louis, re-
sumed his disguise. DR.. Long had threat
ened to shoot him on sight, and Cline did
not want his enemy to get the drop on
him" All he intends is to prosecute the
doctor to the extent of the law and take
his wife home, for, he adds, "she was q
good woman at heart before that man en-
tered the house" He does not doubt thai
she can be reclaimed, but Long must go to
prison. "All the guilt is his" Now 1t
would be interesting to know the opinion
of Mrs. Long as to which is the more
guilty.
, 1891-02-28

William W. B. Miller, Deerlodge, Mon
tana, writes:
Il have been using Brandreth's Pills
Tor the last thirteen years. and though |
have had nine children, l have never had
a doctor in the house except three times,
when we had an epidemic OF scarlet fever,
which we soon banished by a vigorous use
Of Brandreth's Pills. l have used them
for myself two OF three a night for a
month, Tor liver complaint, dyspepsia and
constipation. In dlarrhel, cramps, wind
collie, indigestion, one or two Brandreth's
Pills fixed the children at once. A box
oil pills is all the medicine chest we re-
quire in the house. We use them for
rheumatism, colds, catarrh, b~illiousness
aud impure blood. They never have
failed to cure all the above complaints in a
very few days"
, 1891-02-28

There are earthquakes and earthquakes
put San Francisco's experience is peculiar,
because she is a modern American city and
her list of breakables is large and varied.
So every earthquake there leaves some
curious mementos. In 1869 the peculiar
'clouded fracture" OF Thomas H~ouseworth
& Coz big window was of so much inter.
est hat photographs Of it went all over
the world, but the recent earthquake there
produced a fracture which reduces the
other TO a side show.
, 1891-02-28
HOW IT WORKN "a


According to the figures published yes
terday in THE LEADERS Geographic col.
umns there are in Arizona 1913 irrigated
farms averaging about sixty five acres
each. The average price per acre Of these
farms ~includinC purchase lrice, fencing
and water right is $40. 81, the water rights
costing on an average sos per acre.
The average value per acre OF this same
land is $4s.6s. The average cost of irri-
cation per acre is Sl.25 AMI the average
value of the product per acre is sl3.92.
Here we have in very compact and
practical shape an illustration of what
might be accomplished in Wyoming were
the state in possession of the arid lands as
It is Of the water. What an immense
source Of production would the reclaima-
be arid lands represent, what an addition
to the assessable valuation, population and
actual wealth. We are informed by Mr..
Andrew Gilchrist that the Wyoming De-
velopmeut company's lands alone
would furnish farms for 300 families
representing perhaps /, 500 people. From
this some idea may be formed OF the al
most inconceivable advantages which
would accrue to Wyoming under an in
t~elligent and extensive System of irriga.
ton.
There is only one thing which stands
10 the way Of achieving these results: il
is federal ownership of the arid lands
Give these lands to the state aud reclaim
alton will follow as if by magic.
, 1891-02-28

Age has little effect on the hopes, aspi-
or disappointments of the human
heart, and elderly lovers, 1t seems, are rs
tickle as lads and lassies who stand at the
OF mature existence. Alexander
Johnston, of P%ittsburg. Pa, aged 20, finds
made defendant in a breach of
promise suit. The plaintiff is Rose Ann
Henderson, who is ten years his junior.
She asks $4,000 damages, and asserts hat
Alex has transferred his affections to a
lady who has seen but fifty summers.
, 1891-02-28

A notable retirement from the wrestling
arena is that of William Muldoon, who
has informed Stranger" Evan Lewis
that he will never wrestle for the cham
pionship again, for the reason that he is
nearly forty years of age, and has had
enough hard work in the wrestling line.
Muldoon, however, offers to match Ernest
Roeber. OF New York, against Lewis for
The Police Gazette medal, $1,000 and the
worlds championship.
, 1891-02-28

Grow fewer yearly. By the recent ex-
tension of the Union Pacific, the old trail
from Cheyenne, north to Douglas aud
the Black Hills country is now occupied
by we'll equipped trains. This new line
makes easy OF access the rich mineral
lands of Wyoming. Fast trains, good
service, and low rates.
, 1891-02-28
NotIcc.

George Perry, convicted of grand lar
ceny at the November term 1889. Of the
Court of the First judicial District 10 aud
for Laramie county, Wyoming. aud SEN
fenced t o -four wears 10 the penitentiary,
sentence beginning on the 5th of Decem
Der. 1889, will apply to the governor Of
the state of Wyoming for pardon on the
10th dav OF March, 1891.
Mas. MARY JANE PERRY.
Cheyenne, Wyo., 18th day OF Febru
sry, 1891.
, 1891-02-28

\ Canadian unknown van to meet the
great distance skater, Joe Donoghue, Of
Newburg, for a prize of 500. The un
known wishes DUnoghue TO come TO Mon.
treal aud skate from one to five miles
, 1891-02-28

al dEc hCAA
of all headquarters is DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery. But it's
different from all of them. What
ever is claimed for this, it's gudrdn-
teed to do. The money is refunded
In every case where it fails to bene-
fit or cure. It's because it IS differ
ent that it can be sold SC. All
diseases originating from a torpid
liver or impure blood yield to it.
1t cleanses and purifes the system,
freeing it from all manner of blood
poisons, no matter from what cause
they have arisen. For Dyspepsia,
Bliousness, Scrofula, Salt -rheum,
letter, Erysipelas, or any blood
faint or disorder, it is an unequaled
remedy. Nothing else a take its
place.
"Golden Medical Discovery"
contains no alcohol to inebriate,
and no syrup or sugar to derange
digestion.
It's a concentrated vegetable ex-
tract put up in large bottles ;
pleasant to the taste, and equally
good for adults or children ; works
equally well all the year round.
, 1891-02-28
MAs1rFFs AND ST. sGRNAR0s,

R~o FAvorite Breeds of Big Dogs De-
sorfbed by John Gllmer Speed.
The English mRstif is the ideal watch
dog. Had the dog shows held annually in
various cities in this country done nothing
, 1891-02-28

VISIONS Violet Cream will keep the
skin proof against the effects Of severe
weather.
, 1891-02-28

In the Judgment of the New York
World THE Light ofthe World is much
better told by Matthew, Mark, Luke and
John than by Sir Edwin Arnold.
, 1891-02-28

Jack Frost -four is the best.
, 1891-02-28
HUNTED BY HER HUSBAND.
Mr.. Cline. Long Chase Ansr III. VIII.

Mr.. Cline's Long Chase AMER his Wife
and n Companion.
The Clines and the Longs, of Russell,
Russell county, Kan, have supplied all the
elements of a sensational romance which
may yet end in a Zolaesque tragedy. The
dramatis persona are the gay deceiver, DR..
w. Long, 50 years old, II he is a day; the
faithless wife, Mrs. Cline, and the Aban-
doned family, which consists of Mrs. Long
and nine children-only. And the odd
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1891-11-30
Noticias de Ia IsIa

h Nuestro amigo companero On la prensa
el senior don Luis B. Yelazquez, Director de
EI Pals de Ponce, SO halla enfermO con la
grippe por dicha causa no ha apareoido el
numerO del peri6dic0 correspondence aver
Hacemos votos por el pronto restabeci-
uiento del companero y amigo.
Ha fallecido en- el pueblo de las piedras
la distinguida senora dona Maria Diaz, digna
esposa del senor Antonio Marquee Lopez.
r. l.. P.
"a
En- el puerto dc Ponce quedaban aver los
mismos buques que relacionamos en- nuestra
ediei0n de anoche, con escepci0n de CGrmelita
y TyiwsVo desrachados y del Alfred JGcson
cate ron son los mismos senalados en- nues@
ira revista de aver.
Han tornado possession de sus cargos el Sc
nor Valenzuela comandante militar de Ponce.
el Sr. Sanquirico administrator de la Adua-
ma de dicha ciudad.
Dice =, Impartial d a. nay.gues tsonado
"Hoy no sc ha verifcado 81 juicio oral de
la causa instruida por supuestas asociaciones
Nfcitas, q causa de que Sc halaD pendientes
varias documentac aci0nes. -
Mahana reanudara la Sala sus tareas.'
k III
1
Leemos en- Ell CYitcri0 de Humacaos
La vecina de esta localidad Victoria Medi-
ma nos ha manitestadO qua hacienda el espaciO
de tres meses que Sc separ6 de ella su hljo
Andres Rosa de Is amos de edad, con destino q
la Capital de a provincial sin que durante d.
cho periodic le haya escrito una letra, desea
saber su paradero, al efecto nos ha suplicado
estas lfneas cuya reproduction encareeemos a
los colegas, q fin de que, llegando conocimien-
to de Rosa, escriba su madre indcandole gu
paradero para sacarla, del cuidado On que SO
encuentra por gu silencio.
Los velocipedistas que esta madrugada sa-
lieron para Cayey, nos han dirijido 81 siguien.
to telegramas:
"CoRREsPoNDENCIA.-1 -1legamos esta q
las diez de la mafiana. Fuertes lluvias On el
transitD.- .--Regresamo esta nochs.-T Te1octps-
EistGss
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1891-11-30
SCI VENDE

Una hermosa casa situada en- Ell barrio de
de Puerta TERRA frente los barracones. al
lado del solar de don Eudardo Iglesia, con s
aposentos en- los bajos, un algibe de metros
cuadrados, una letrina idem mas 13 metros y
medic de fundo sFn fabricar El d desee COM
prafla puede dirigirae s Ii Relojerfa de Musa.
aap Francisco, u0m. 81. don Pedro sohira
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1891-11-30

Ocurrdo ca Ia persona de FaustinO MILAN, Gu
yO articulo ha prOducido la cOnsecuencia de
que como en- ninguna de sus parties contiene la
sufi ficiente verdad de los hechOs que SO refle
re-, Sc ha visto on la necesidad dc establer una
uuerella de niurias calumnia ante el Juz-
gado Municipal para asi dejar salvo su res
pOnsa bilidad y no maltratar por ningun con-
cepto el buen nombre del cuerpo de Orden ph-
blicO.
~ CreemOs cOnveniente hasta necesariO que
por quien corresponds Sc haga una inspection.
q varias pulperias tiendas, donde segdn nos
dicen, Sc vende cafe adulterado.
Las noticias del Brasil son graves. Un
despacho de Montevideo, del II, dice que 81
cuerpO diplomaticO no ha querido recOnOcer
como Dictator al General Fonseca.
Otro despacho del II, de Buenos- Aires,
anuncia que ell DR.. Assiz Brasil, de la Junta re-
volucionaria brasilena, dice que tiene $4,000
hOmbres equipados, que aumentara $4,000.
Rio Janeiro Sc halla en- estado de sitio. Sc
habla de varioS fusilamientOs y muchas prisiO-
nes. Ell General Fonseca ha autorizadO un Gre
ditto de trece millones- de milreis con destino
material de, guerra isa
Despachos tambi6n de Buenos-Aires del 1S
y 19, dicen que nuevas ciudades buques del
Gobierno Sc han adherido los revolucionarios
del Brasil.
Aver SO ha celebrado en- esta Audiencia el
jucio oral pdblico en- la causa seguida contra
Natala Ortiz, por hurto en- Rio-Grande
R,oortamos dc Ea 3 Rerazao & de Madrid:
"El probema dc la prostitution y de los
soMteneurs, que ha obligado recientemente a
Guillermo II dictar un rescripto recomendan-
do a los tribunales que procedan con todo RI
gor, preocupa tanlbi6n los tranceses, 81 MI
nistro de Justicia del pals vecino acaba de
presen5ar la Camara un proyecto de ley rela-
two este asunto. Consta do seis art1culos,
y en- 81 SO establecen penas de tres meses q
dos amos de prisi6n, Y de 100 l.OOO. frances
de multa, para los duenOs de casas amuebla-
das cafes establecimientOs de bobidas que
faciliten la prostitution. TOdo el que sufra
condena pOr esta causa no pOdra, On un plazo
de cinco amos despu6s de cumplirla, tener un
estabecimientC de bebidas nj desempenar lego-
clio alguno en- esta clase de tiendas. La infrac-
ci6n de estas disposiciones sera castigada con
multa de 50 a 500 frances y prisi6n de seis
diaS un mes.
Seran considerados como vagos todos los
individuos que exploten la prostitution en- la
via publica (sOWtepearS). Los individuOs que
sean cOndenados por esta causa, despu6s do
extinguir su condena quedaran sujetos q los
cinco de destierro que senala la ley de 81 de
Mayo de 1875.
7 ~ ,,Aqui serfa tambi6n -conYeniente hacer al
70 en- este sentido, no solo contra los soute-
sseatrS (chulos) de chaqueta y gorra, sino igual-
mente contra los do levita ysombrero de copa"
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turo rey de Baviera ha dado 4 luz SUI. 9. undo.

clmO MO.
EN- TODO CAsO de bronquitis cr6nica, en-
fermedades de la laringe, resfriados y debilidad
general, siempre ha 0btenido maravillosos re-
sultados los enfermos la toman sin la menor
repugnancia.
Ahuachapan, Salvador, Enero, 6, 1889.
Sres. Scott y BoNne.-Muy Sres. mios !:
TeDgo 81 honor de participar ustedes que
durante tres amos consecutiyos que llevo de
conocer la famosa Emulsion de Scott, la he
empleedo con frecuencia en- mis- enfermos, y
que en- todos los casos de bronquitis cronica,
Intermediates de la laringe, debllidad general
y resfriados, en- que la he empleado;- siempre
he obtenido maravillosos resultados, agregan.
do que su sabor tan agradable como la !ata
dc olor del bacalao la hacen deseada de los en-
fermos, quienes la toman siempre sin la menor
repugnancia. De ustedes alto. g. 8.
SirtO A. P0dilLG.