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rails. On the roof of the second car
back of the caboose was a man, his
white face and terrified expression
chilling the blood and causing more
than one hardened railroader to turn
away sick and weak with fear.
There wasn't any earthly power
could add many minutes to the span of
ION Hand" Thompson's life here below.
Then the rushing, flying ears like
specters swept past the shops and down
Water street toward the depot. The
lucky little 'grasshopper, as the small
er switch engines were called in those
days, had had time to getin on side
track and throw the switch back for
the main line, but it was a pretty
white looking engineer that sat mo-
tionless 10 his cab watching the run
away sweep on.
Farther down in the yards, near the
big beer brewery, was a large shift
ing engine, with crew sitting on the
cowcatcher, lazily putting along. Hap
pening to look up the head switchman
saw the oncoming cars, heard the
shrill blasts of warning from all the
engines up at the Rock Island road
shops, and with yell, a curse and a
scramble he was on his way down the
little declivity towards the Illinois
river, or Peoria lake. as it is called.
Luckily the engineer and fireman OF
the shifting engine heard the yell and
they fell, rather than sprang, from the
cab, rolling to the foot of the embank-
ment and then tearing along out OF
dangers way.
There isn't much more to tell. Old
railway men said it was little bit the
worst wreck they had ever seen. The
eaboose struck the shifting engine,
there was report, roar of escaping
steam, pieces flying through the air,
then the entire mass of debris, splin-
tered cars, gnarled iron running gear,
wheels, pieces of boiler, and some
where mixed up with the rest, bits OF
ION Hand" Thompson. Six cars and
the engine rolled over and over clear to
the edge of the lake. and there was a
hurrying of railroaders and the search
began for the man seen a moment be-
fore on top the second car clingins te
the brake wheel.
After hard work they pulled the actor
out OF the mass OF wreckage, his facs
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made up by grim death for the miuor
role in the game of Masks and Faces
Blood makes sorry pigment ''Ca
Hand" wasn't quite finished. lie
couldn't respond to an encore, but he
managed to whisper something to
rough, fearful switchman who was
holding his battered head in his lap.
What Go YOU supposed it was?
On, no, not prayer. I'm afraid old
''On Hand" had left that out of his
repertoire SO long that he wasn't up in
the lines. Something about his family?
You are right.
When the blood-stained lips were
tenderly wiped, and his parched throat
revived by a swallow of cool water, he
softly. and with extreme4 difficulty.
said:
Observation-Disclosures - that - that
the printing and programmes -are-all
right. Up-by express-to-day. IL.
w. Buckley. in Banner of Gold.
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GERMAN SOCIALISM.
o. sgin and Growth OF This Powerful
Movement.

o. sgin and Growth OF This Powerful
Movement.
German socialism dates back to 1S40
With the accession of the romantic
Frederick William w. to the throne.
The social democracy owes its strength
to the labors of Marx, although Lasalle
was the originator of the idea. In 1864
there were only 4,610 socialists. In 1871
they cast in Berlin 6,695 votes; in 1878,
57,511. In 1884, in the elections to the
Reichstag, the socialists polled 100000
votes and returned twenty-four mem
bers.
Bismarck originated his anti-socialist
legislation in 1878. The progress of
socialistic ideas, not only among the
masses, but through the universities,
had become very marked, and the Iron
Chancellor professed to be greatly
alarmed as to the outcome of the move
ment. When in that year Hoedel and
Modelling made an attempt to take the
life of the aged emperor the govern
ment made it the excuse for legislation.
At first the law was directed only
against the propaganda of socialism,
and under it more than fifty newspa-
pers were seized. But the law was
gradually extended until the expression
of socialistic opinions, the holding OF
meetings or the oral discussion of mat
ters pertaining to it either in private or
public, were prohibited. In short, about
the only political right and possession
that were not taken from the socialist
.x-o. !, e Thoca low hnVyayar
were not permanent, but had to be re-
newed from session to session. In 1890
Bismarck conceived the plan of making
them permanent, and to give the police
administration the power to expel so
cialist from the empire at it's pleasure.
Surprisingly, though the government
was largely in the ascendency in the
Reichstag, the bill was overwhelmingly
defeated and Bismarck received his first
crushing blow. The decision of the
Reichstag was reaffirmed by the coun-
| try. and Bismarck's anti-socialist law,
| instead of becoming part of the per-
manent law of the country, was al
lowed, with the consent of Emperor
William, to expire.
| In 1871 there were 1865 dwellings In
Berlin that contained no room that
could be heated; 76,S32 lived under
ground in cellar dwellings; 95,423 peo
| pie had only one room that could b.
heated. In the poorer districts there
were 20 removals to 100 dwellings. The
great increase since then in the manu-
featuring element has swollen this pro
portion.-Boston Journal.
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Good gracious, Pete, we've broke in

''Good gracious, Pete, we've broke in
two"
The conductor was only vaguely
alarmed. There had on other occasions
been similar accidents, but nothing Sc
rious had happened.
'Nosey's On the caboose. He'll. set
her slidin' en- then we'll 60 back en-
catch the old sash an blind factory
said the CON-" taking a bite frcm his
plug of tobacco and beginning to climb
down from his comfortable seat.
The forward part of the train had
shot around curve and the conductor
now noticed that the engine was pull
ing but five box and two fat cars.
Then he mentally ran over the full
train complement and declared that
eleven freight cars and caboose COM
posed the "cut off"
BY the time they had set several
brakes and reversed the engine, the con-
ductor learned that the forward part of
the train held his two brakemen. "You
idiots,' he cried, that train will start
backwards ard no power hereabouts
can stop its career until it turns bottom
side up somewhere in the yards"
On the run started the conductor and
his crew around the curve between two
high bluffs, and when ten minutes later
| they stood at the top of straight
stretch of down-grade track, they turned
| very pale and looked one at the other,
pretty much in the way fancy two
| telegraph operators might look after
signaling train wrong and knowing
that there would soon be disaster.
| This was what they looked upon:
Scooting down the track, laundering
over culverts, high-trestle bridges, and
at times seemingly to lift clear of the
iron rails, was the hind section of the
train on it's unbidden way to Peoria.
The break of link occurred about
five miles ont, and at the rate the cars
were going it would only be few min
utes before the railway yards, the
shops, the round-houses and the passen-
ger depot would be reached by the run
away.
Good heavens, there were scores of
switch engines, any number of passen-
ger trains being switched about the
yards, and all unconscious of the on
coming train. | was an attache of the
road at that time, and was up at the
shops on business when the shrill
shrek of little shifting engine stand
ing in front of the round-house called
everyone outside.
1t was a thrilling sight. The red ca
boose leading and rocking until II
seemed impossible for it to stick to the
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Quote it Correctly.

ga mistake that is verv generally
made" said Gen. Rosecrans, recently,
sis in the popular phrase Everything is
lovely and the goose hangs high. Now,
this is entirely wrong. 1t should read,
Everything is lovely and the goose
honks high This saying originated
away up in the northern states, where,
in rainy, foggy or stormy weather, it is
a well-known fact that the geese fly
low-skimming along over the very
house tops. In fine and pleasant weather
you will remember that they fly in long
strings so high in the heavens that
their peculiar cry, 'Honk, honk,' can
scarcely be heard on the earth below,
hence the old saying that everything is
lovely when the gosee' 'honks' high,
and not hangs high which is a Inost
nonsensical perversion of the origins
old New England sAying. ."-WAshinssez
Post,
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Giving evidence before the labor COM
mission, Mr.. E. Dyke, a London cab
driver, declared that cab drivers are, as
class, so poor that he did not believe
five per cent. of them had a second suit
clothes or were not arrears of rent; while
they were so much subject to vexatious
prosecutions that he had known ninety
cases before Mr. Newton, at Marlborough
street, in one day. Were it not for the
generosity of the public, he said, cab
men could not live. He was for trans
ferring the licensing of cabs from Scot
land Yard to the county council-Chi-
capO Mail
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A BRILLIANT PLAN.
1t Worked Once, But Failed on a Second
Trial.

1t Worked Once, But Failed on a Second
Trial.
"Big hats are certainly very annoying
for the unfortunate people who are
obliged to sit behind them," said man
the other day who is in the habit of at
tending the theater often. 81 heard
funny story once about a man who, by
smart device, was enabled to see the
stage and play after an hour of the
most energetic dodging and squirming.
The story told was about the man who
found himself sitting behind two women
who wore two large Gainesborough
hats. The man lodged first one way
and then another, vainly endeavoring
to get peek at what was occurring on
the stage, but with little success.
Finally brilliant idea struck him, and
putting on his own high hat he awaited
developments. He was not detained
long, for a dozen voices called out:
Take that hat off, The ladies, think
| ing the .houts were given for them, i'm
mediately took their hats off and the
man enjoyed the play without further
| interruption. Well, l found myself in
the same predicament one evening at
the Union Square, SO thought | would
follow the example of the man in the
story 1t took heap of nerve, l can
assure you, but at last mustered up
courage and put on my tile. Not word
did hear from behind me, but sudden
ly an old, white-haired man reached
over and gave my hat the most tremen-
dous whack with his cane. That settled
it. | took the hat off and laughed for
/ fifteen minutes at the reversal of the
! Joke ~ Chicar0 News
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PuNcENT PARAGRAPHS.

1.-THE whirled is mine," exclaimed
young Saply when he proposed to Miss
Angel during the waltz and was ac-
cepted. Jester.
-Smith-"Did your son pass his col
lege examination without conditions?'
Brown-'Yes; they said they'd take
him under no conditions" Boston
Transcript
No Laughing Matter.-''Lovel laughs
at locksmiths,' she said to him encour-
agingly. 'Yes, darling, know" he re-
piled sadly, ''but not at No. IL boots
Detroit Free Press.
II thought you were going to make
fortune out of the manufacture of
India rubber cigarette holders" +" Didn't
work. Fellows would smoke the hold
ers right up before they noticed the diff
ference. indianapolis Journal.
-Upstart-'I have made up my mind
to become a journalist. What kind OF
paper would you advise me to go to
work with?' Gruf1y-'Well, l think
you are best fitted to work with piece
of sand d-paper"-Boston Courier.
-Disproportionate.- it is too
much to expect that the man who uses
big words should furnish big ideas with
them. Not 50! He usually has the most
tremendous idea of fhimself.-Argosy.
Aunt (severely)-"As glanced into
the parlor last evening, l saw you with
a Joung mans arm around you" Niece
(calmly)-''Yes, aunty, l was waiting
for you to pass the door and see us.
Young men are very slippery nowadays,
and one can't have too many witnesses"
An Questionable Pair.-''1 think
Mr. True and Miss Goodheart have con-
cluded to withdraw from society"
what makes you think SOP 'Why
they've been engaged for three weeks
and there is no talk yet about the affair
being broken off,
Plenty of Time.-Husband-"
mistress went upstairs little while
ago to write letter, Mary. Please go
up and see if she has finished it, as
want to go down town" Waitress -
'She has finished the letter, sir, and is
just beginning on the postscript" Hus-
band-''Then can go to the Office for
an hour or two before she finishes" -
N. Y. Press.
All Pulling Together. - ''Who is
that long-haired young fellow who
seems to have nothing to do?" inquired
the casual stranger. That's our poet, !"
said the squire. Town chips in an
pays his board and clothes" where
are his works published?" ''Ain't never
been published. He's arranged to have
'em printed arter he's dead. That's wy
we are tryin' to keep him alive longs
we an."-Indianapolis journal.
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IN a RESTAURANT.
Judging Girl by the Food She Eats Ii
Public.


Judging a Girl by the Food She Eats in
Public.
There is just as great an opportunity,
if not greater, to judge a woman's So
cial standing by the meals she enjoys
when in public eating-place as if you
undertook to arrive at the same conclu-
sion through the medium of her dress.
Fashions in eating change as well as
in everything else. The quiet, well
groomed girl in the cloth suit and plain
little Jacket who is putting away two
great slices of underdone beef with evil
dent relish is the soc ETY. girl par excel
lence of to-day. She belongs to the
very elect, the circle wherein physical
training has become wise and health
full fad and the roast beef and fine COM
plexion is the result.
At an other table girl who has not
the opportunities of her more favored
sister to indulge in foie gras, ices and
champagnes every evening, is doing JUS
tice to salads, ices and olives with a
rare appreciation of each one. Roast
beef she has IN plenty every day of her
! life. but it is not often she can indulge
| in dishes she knows the names of but
seldom has an opportunity of tasting
She belongs to the upper middle class,
as they say in England.
| In corner shut out from observa-
ton, but where she may see and hear
all that goes on, the shy country mouse
in antiquated finery takes sandwich
and ice cream, the two being the only
things she is quite sure of on the bill OF
are.-Philadelphia Times.
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VOLUME 81.
.,,esy WANTS A CORNER.

r,;s life is like monstrous plank
ir n,t in mid-ocean sailing,
Al crowded full of living men,
o. nd ne'er a foot of railing.
ro all are struggling for the BEST
And each one 10 his notion;
:. tbis great struggle often some
- 20 nushed of in the ocean.
,.d some will find the lucky plum,
rJte little Jackey Horner;
e,,e always struggle for & place;
@tror missy wants corner
came have the claws to hold on tight,
EoWeyer rough the sailing;
"a bold the PLANK through all the fight
with ne'er foot of railing.
Came things are very light to bear,
AZ light as ocean bubbles,
~ hear with greatest fortitude:
Tis other peoples troubles.
ecre get very liberal streak;
Thouph you may deem ii funny
rTis very easy to be free
With other peoples money
We often get the lucky plum,
through some poor brothers sorrow;
Tbe failure he endures to-day
Brings you success tomorrow.
rTis such complicated world,
Where you and 1 are staying,
We feel inclined to think bit:
Now, brethren, let's be praying.
IN. you, who've found the lucky plum.
Like little Jackey Horner.
Make room for some poor starving one:
aPoor pussy wants corner"
M. A. Sutfin, in N. Y. Sun
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sure to Sell.

Business Man-Ah! you are the athlete
known as the modern Hercules?
Giant-Yes. You wrote to me to call
and see you. Are you Snowman?
Business Man-N-No. You see, am
introducing a patent improved stone
breaker to be worked by hand. People
can macadamize their walks, drives and
roads without a cent of expense. See?
Well, want you to travel around with
me and work the machine, 10 sAcw how
easily 1t aoes.--Pusk.
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IN HAND" THOMPSON.
me Last Tragic Scene in an
Actors Life.

J R lou S a p
pellation for a
citizen of this
great common
w e a | t hon
Hand" Thomp-
son. 1t came
to him quite
naturally. His
mother called
him John away
back in t h e
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Her Acknowledgement.

Briggs presented Miss Tutter with
a volume of my poems and wrote my
name on the fy-leaf.
Griggs-What did she say to it?
Briggs-She said she read my name
with much Internationally Life.
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Followed Advice.

Tom-Where is the man who followed
everybody's advice?
Jackie is in the lunatic asylum.
To1n-And the man who followed his
own?
Jack-o, he Is In dime museum
Yankee Blade.
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--Fussy-'' Sir, the bowling of your
dog annoys me dreadfuily." McGuff-
ut do, do it2 Maybe yez want me to
get a trained haste thQt ear play on tn
Huteln--Truth,
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The anarchists in Paris are found by
the police to number not over two hun
dred, all told They are divided into
small bands and nearly all of them are
abandoned criminals. 1t is probable
that the entire number of anarchists in
Europe is not over three thousand or
four thousand. Yet the methods
adopted by them have thrown every
European capital except London into
more or less of a panic, and German
and French papers are urging that by
an international agreement the use Of
dynamite in blowing up buildings be
made an offensa whose perpetrators
shall be excluded from the asylum
usually granted to political refugees. )"
The anarchists claim to have political
ends, brt it is plain that civilized
countries will not long give this form
of social warfare the protection granted
to opolitical agitators. What is needed
is both legislation and treaties outlaw
ing the use of dynamite in the destruc-
ton of buildings and the killing OF men
and women, whether the object be pri-
vate revenge, political agitation, OF
anarchist hate.
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The Kind of Belle She Is.-Hunker
-'.Miss Bond is quite belle" Goslin
Yes, but can't say admire her ex-
essively. Sac told me to go home at
1880 last night" Hunker-''Then she
afire belle. . Detroit Free Press.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1892-06-08

repetimos que aa honrosfsima para el amigo
Tambi6n hemos vsto una manifestation sus-s
crita por 80 vecinos propietarios, agricultores
oomerciantes etc de la Cidra, declarando que
Zsno ha serVidO durante 10 amos & satisfaction
de todos Ia Administrator de Comunicaciones
v que solo SO concibe haya podido ser separa-
do de ese cargo "por que alguna entidad on
venganza de agrav'os snpueatos abrogandose
tacultades que no le competen hayan podido
sOrprender la buena t6 del Limo senior Adm1-
nistrador Genital de ComUnicaci0nes.p
Han sido remitidos informe del Tribu-
nal Contencios0 Administrative, los expedien-
tes relatives 81 camino que pasa p0r la hacien-
da zMsis0 en- 10 jurisdiction de San German.
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Fl MEDlCO
Practice Domestico
7 ENCYCLOPEDIA DE MEDICINAL,

Obra escrita con todo esmero especialidad
por varios facultativos de los mas celebres de
Norte Sud America, con 81 objetb de presentar
una guia adecuada para
el trGtamiento de todas las enfernsedGzes,
y, muy particularmente, aquellas que son
PecssEIGres Il Cos tT6p5cOs.
Esta obra contiene la historic, causas, sfate-
mas medios de precaverse de todas las
Intermediates que ataCan a los h0mhreS,
Las MUJEREs Los NINoS,
ademks los m6todos que mas Sc han aprebado
para ell tratamiento de elias asf como instruccio-
mes claras sobre ell cuidadO
QUE Sc DEBE TENER CON LOS ENFERMOS.
Trata tambi6n de una manera clara v conci-
sa sObre Ia question de las grandes attitudes de
las diferentes inhuencias que 6stas ejercen las
Intermediates; da igualmente las lnstruccioDes
mas cOmpletas que SO requleren para el ira samien
to de
/ HERIDAS, LESI0NFS, ENVENENAM IENT0S, ETC.
AL principle de esta obra Sc encontrara un
pequeno Tratad0 de Anatomfa, el cual da CO.
nOcer
Ia estYMctxrG fstNcioNes del caerp0 humane
como tambi6n todas las reglas que prescribe la h-
giene para la conservation de Ia salud.
Sc HA ADoPTADo
tanto el Sistema Metrico de pesos medidas, CO.
mo el antique para la preparation de tOdas las
recetas.
Ell estilo de la obra es tan claro, que SO en-
Cuentra al alcance de tOdas las 1nte1genclas pues
para clio Sc han eliminado tadas las frases ter
minos t6cnicos de la ciencia, y ha sido escrita
castellano, con claridad, pOr m6dicos de gran ex-
periencia, que son reputados como autoridades
muy competentes en- cada una de sus diversas es-
pecialidades
0bra i.ustrada
con numerosos grabadOs nu minados al natural,
otrOs muchos de gran imp0rtancia.
World Publishing Company, Nueva. York,
E. q. A.-Guelph, Canada.
ARTEFTN YHA AMPRETT
E. Hurtado G. J. B Bellini, agentes para
Puerto -Rico.-Hotel BOneta.
NoTA -Nuestras obras no SO pom
dram la venta en- ibrerfas nj otros si-
tios prop6slto, sino 1nica y exclusi-
vamente por medic de nuestros agentes,
quienes estan autorizados para recibir
6rdenes.
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DON j. q Cidra. - Recibido el saldo de
Mayo, con gracias. Van los ndmeros que pide.
Supongo no habra devoIuciones. Todo 10 de-
mas, conforme.
Don B. F. q. LuQuillo.-Con su grata del
recibf Ia orden por 81 So le quedan su fa-
vor eentavos. Gi8cias por tOdO.
Don }. =. NJ. Manatf. LIE quedan acredi-
tados los $11 83 que entreg6 a don F. B. Agra
decide por su puntualidad.
Don J. r. s. San Lorenzo.-Enterament
cOnforme CON su 8tenta del 3.
Don Al Cayey.-Hs cargado en- su cuen-
ia $1-30, imp0rte del comunioado de don e. G.
que usted remiti0.
Don J. M. Piedras.-Ne fueron entrega-
dos los s so de Mayo. Gracias mil.
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/" Ell Buen Gusto y

Ono de 1os nsejores q as6s ezegasstes sazoses
de BGrbeF5G estGbJecidOs eN Puerto Rico.
Pf0paetdrSO: j. Apellaniz- Direction: s. Justo l6
Sc admiten abonados.-Se complace los
parroQuianos Hay siempre un complete sur
lido de perfumeria de las fabricas mas renom-
bradas.
gaB Los sen0res viajeros que visiten la
Capital de PuertO-Rico deben solicitar la bar
IBERIA Ell BUEN GUSTO.
LA EMULSION DE SCOTT tiene grandes
propiedades curativas y reconstituyentes en-
casos de enfermedades del peeho, cEscr6fula,
RaQuitismos, etc.
Sahagun, Colombia. JUNO 8, 1884.
Senores Scott q B0a0Ne. - Muy seiores
mios Acabo de reclbir su muy atenta fecha
Mayo 8. La afamada preparation Emulsion
Scott que tanta reputation ha adquirido, aun
On estas remotas regiones, me era va conocida;
La he usado y continuar6 usandola en- todos
los casos para que esta indicada, guiado Dor Ia
experiencla de sus exelentes resulGados. de mo-
do que su nagnifico prepsrado tiene desde lue.
60 mi humilde, pero enthusiastic acogida.
Soy de ustedes con la mayor consideration
= graoias, por su hnura, atento s. s. g. B. s. M.
DR.. Casansiro Vega,