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Successful Escape From Prison.

Here is story of successful es
cape from prison. 1t was effected
from Dartmoor, England, by one of
the old prisoners of war. Many of
these men we're clever artisans, and
their services were frequently en-
ployed in building. Once a rectory
was being built by these prisoners,
and they adopted very clever ezpe-
dient for the escape of one of their
number. They had reached that part
of the work which consisted in fixing
q chimney hue, and when the stones
had been carried up certain height
an inner recess was left large enough
to hold a man standing upright. The
outer face of the fue was continued
upward but only with thin stone
especially selected for the purpose,
and easily removable. After six feet
had been gained the strong work was
thickness, and the stones rendered in
good mortar, Care was taken to leave
air and eyelet holes for breathing and
observation in the six ieet of thin
wall. One afternoon the intending
fugitive entered the flue, and took up
his quarters in the above mentioned
recess, while his comrades. went on
with THAR work ahoyo Thav ,yort a6
so we'll and with 80 much skill that
they were particularly commended by
their foreman, who complimented them
highly on the excellent face put upon
the fue. The man in hiding was not
missed until after the party had left
work but his absence was discovered
at evening roll call. A thorough
search was then made OF the rectory
house, inside and out, but the smooth
surface of the walls negatived all idea
of a practicable hiding place. A num-
Der of vigorous bayonet thrusts were
made up the freshly built fue, but
without betreying or injuring the man
inside, and the search WAS abandoned.
At nightfall the convict easily broke
through the thin facing and made good
his escape. The cavity which remained
betrayed his hiding place to- the
guards on the next morning, hut il
was then too late New York Sun.
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He Would Sell Himself for His Family.

A most extraordinary incident, in
dicative, no doubt, of the desperate
state of mind to which many have
been reduced by the prevailing hard
times, occurred at Emergency Hos
pital. A man about forty-ive years
of age called at the hospital and asked
TO see the superintendent or physician
in charge. When that functionary
was called and inquired the strangers
business, the man said:
"My name is Albert Stoner am
painter by trade, and have family
dependent on me at Flint. have been
out of work for long time, though l
have sought it constantly and done
anything and everything that was Of
fered to me, which was very little.
My family are now reduced to very
straitened circumstances, and want
TO sell you my body for S25 for dis
secting purposes.
The doctor was astonished at the
novelty of the proposition, and said
facetiously that the hospital might
have to wait good while before the
goods were delivered.
"Not at ALL" replied Mr. Stoner.
Just ~ soon as ] find that the money
has reached my family / will commit
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Bred an Indian.

II is said that the veteran newspaper
man, Colonel Frank A. Burr, who
died recently at Camden, n. j., was
brought mp by the Indians, and did
not know word of his mother tongue
until he had attained the age of four
teen. While he was an infant band
of Chippewas raided his fathers house
in Michigan, murdered all the family
except his mother, and carried him off,
He was adopted by childless squaw
Colonel Burr never told his most init
mate friends how it was that he came
to return to civilization. He was fif-
teen years old when he first saw his
mother to know her. Before his
seventeenth year he had mastered the
English language, and, having phe-
nomenal memory, he soon acquired
good education, but it is said that he
never quite overcame the nomalic
tastes acquired in his youth, and To
the day of his death retaineda restless
desire of change. He was soldier,
surveyor, railway engineer, steamboat
pilot, theatrical manager and news
paper interviewer by turns. Senator
Cameron, of Pennsylvania. said of him
that he could remember an interview
or a conversation for month, and ut
will reproduce it verbatim.
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one bag is found to eke out a perfect
bag by the aid of a bottom from q
second bag, one sido from another and
second side from a fourth bag. So
expert are these foremen in fitting
salvage bits together in almost in
Vulnerable combinations that very
large majority of the material from
hopelessly damaged bags is utilized in
the production of combination bags
as good as new.
This mending of leather bags Is per-
formed entirely by men who are ex-
perienced workers, men who are COM
petent harness, saddle and beltmakers
thoroughly acquainted with the quality
of leather and the cutting of it, and
who know all there is to know about
stitching and riveting thereof. These
men work eight hours a day, earning
from $15 to s1S week.
Perhaps the most interesting feature
of the entire establishment is the lock.
repairing shop, department so com
plete in all its resources that, should
occasion require, it would be possible
to make any portion of any lock in
use by the postoffice department The
full value of the establishment. as To
it's efficacy. may be better understood
by the following: In the mailbag
lock now in use there are twenty-five
different pieces. the production of
which requires fifty separate opera
tions, and in the letter boxes used
there are twenty pieces, needing pro.
portionately as many operations for
their production. As AN adjunct to
this department there is an admirably
equipped machine shop with Isthes,
shapers, milling machines, splaners,
drill presses, Hlotting machines.
benches and machinists sufficient to
do any sort of work needed Detroit
Free Press
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Many times women call on their family
physicians, suffering, as they imagine. ono
rom dyspepsia, another from hear disease,
another from liver or kidney disease, another
from nervous exhaustion, or prostration,
atotner with pain hero and there, and in
thi9 way they all present, alike 60 themselves
ana their easy going and Indifferent, or over
sy sSusy aoGtor, separate and distinct diseases,
lor which he prescribes his pills and potions,
assuming them to be such, when, in reality,
then are all only symptoms caused by Some
womb disorder: The physician, ignorant of
tnc cause OF suffering, encourages his practice
patient gets no better, but probably worse
by reason of the delay, wrong treatment and
consequent complications. A proper medi-
cine, IKE Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription,
removed thu disease, thereby dispelling ali
those distressing symptoms and instituttng
comfort instead OF prolonged misery.
Inc lady whose portrait heads this article
II MT. Ida Coventry, Of Huntsville, Logan
County, Ohio. She had an experience which
we will permit her TO relate in her own
language. IL illustrates the foregoing. She
writes "I had female weakness very
bad-in bed most Of tho time, dragging
sope, sowa no ts1ouEh my back % and hips no
was treating me for liver complaint I
did not get any better under that treatment
so thought would try Dr. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription and his Golden Medical Dis
covery.' j felt better before | used one
bottle OF each. I continued their use until
TOOK six bottles OF each. In three months
time ! felt 30 well did not think IL necessary
10 tako any more In childbirth it does
what DR.. Pierce recommends IL to do
lessons the pain and perils TO both mother
and child and shortens labor would like
70 recommend DIR. Pierce's Extract Of Smart
Weed to those who have never tried it il
surely is the best thing for cholera morbus
or pain In the stomach ever used Il works
like charm. 1 try never TO be without II"
The following Is from Mrs Harriet Hards,
ter health since began treatment with DR..
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Itt0 Bus. PoIatoe. Per Acre,

This astonishing yield was reported by Abr.
Hahn, OF Wisconsin. but salzer's potatoes
always get there. The editor OF the Rural
New Yorker reports yield OF Tss bushels and 8
pounds per acre from one of salzer's early po-
tatoes. Above lilo bushels are from SAVERS
new Seeding Hundred-fo HIS new early
potato. Lightning Express, has record OF 500
bushels per acre. He offers potatoes a. low ~
$40 barre, and the best potato planter in the
worlI for but g..
lF You Will cur THIS OUT AND SEND IT with
&c postage to the John A. salzer SEED Co.. La
Crosse, Wis, you will receive free his man.
moth potato catalogue aud a package Of six
tsen-day Oct There, Eli" radish-
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The readers Of this paper viii be pleased 10
earn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able TO euro In all its
stages, and TINT II catarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now known 90
the medical fraternity. CRtarrh being a con-
stituttonal disease. requires q constitutional
treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure IL taken In
tcrnally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucOus surfaces NJ the system, thereby de-
stroylng the foundation Of the disease and
giving the patient strength by building up the
constitution aud assisting nature In doing it's
work. The propYietors have so much faith in
it's curative powers that they offer One Hun
dred Dollars for any case that II fails Co cure
Send for list Of testimonials. Address
". J. CHsHEY & Co, Toledo, q.
IN Sold by Drugeists T5c.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1894-03-21

Gutta percha was first introduced
into Europe from Malaga in 1852.
The annual consumption now amounts
to 1000, 900 pounds.
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Nest of All

To cleanse tho system in gentle and truly
use the true and perfect remedy,Syrup of Figs.
One bottle will answer for all the family and
costs only 10 cents; the large size 81. Try II
and be pleased. Manufactured by the Califor-
MIA Fig Syrup Co. only.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1894-03-21

- HAVE BEEN AFFLICTED with an affection
ot the Throat from childhood, caused by diph-
liberia. and have used various remedies, but
have never found anything equal to 'BrO,pn's
bronchial I'n"h'S w. RCr. g. VI I. HdmDtor,
PiIC'Oli, EP. Sold only i'm boxey
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1894-03-21

Smile and save money. Mail your orders for
ton, s. e. Free catalogues. Vests Nerve and
Brain Treatment, 67c.; Liver Pills, 12c.; Hat
Dye. lOc; "2oOj," Best Worm Powders, Rc.;
Porous PlaSters, l2c.
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Many persons are broken down from over
work or household cares. Browns Iron Bit
moves excess OF bile and cures malaria,
splendid tonic for women and children.
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cM c%Ms MI IL

For "worn-out," run down." debiltate,,
school teachers, milliners, dressmakers, seam.
stresses, general housekeepers, and over
Pierce's Favorite Prescription is the best OF
all restorative toncs. IL Is not "cure-all,"
but admirably fulfills singleness of pur-
pose, being most potent specific for all
those chronic weaknesses and diseases pecu-
liar TO women. 1t is powerful, general as
we'll as uterine, tonic and nervine, and i'm
parts vigor and strength TO the whole systen--'
II cures weakness of the stomach, indiges-
ton, bloating, nervous prostration, hysteria,
debility and sleeplessness Treatise (l6S
pages, Illustrated), on Woman and Her
Diseases" sent sealed in plain envelope, on
receipt Of ten cents to pay postage Address,
Worlds Dispensary Medical Association.
Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buff
falo, NJ Y. IL contains vast number of
testimonials with half tone, or phototype
portraits OF their authors and gives the full
address Of each.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1894-03-21

Browns Iron Bitters cures Dyspepsfs, Mala-
tia Rili0usnea- and General Debility. Gives
strength. aids Divesttou, tones the nerves
creates appetite. The best tonic for NQTring
Mothers, eak women and childreu,
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( Coon horses have recently sold at "a. so
ahead I'm the w est at sheriffs sale.
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500 Reward, Al ,0.

On. RoUBIS has found n twelfth century
copy OF the Pentateuch In San Francisco.
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F., AN estimate shows Italy's deficit to be
about S35, 400. 600
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1894-03-21

THE capital OF Iceland has 1900 inhabi
tants.
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Impaired digestion cured by Beecham'
Pills. BceCham's-no others. 25 cents box.
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Ruled By a Planet.

One of the newspaper curiosities OF
the world is salled lie Passage de
Venus tthe transit Of yenus). and Is to
be published whenever that astronom.
ical phenomenon recurs. It's first is
sue bore the date Of December o, 1882 ;
the next will be dated June g, 2OO4.
The subscribers of this unique journal
mot possibly hope 10 get the four.
teenth issue before the year 2ss2.
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IL az lictei with sore eyes use DR.. IIa,c Thcmp
sonSEvs water Drug Psts sell at CSC per hottie
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ELEVEN THOUSAND Cinnamon have regis
tered on the Pacific coast.
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m'~ HaAte< f6aA~

:. The following Is from Mrs M. A. Meal
lister, of Linn Rock, jackson Co, Ala. II
was in bad health ; age was working upon
me, and l had liberation of tho womb !;
could not ge: about. / took DR.. Pierce'Y
Favorite Prescription and it cured me ; I
felt ten years younger l have not had any
return of my trouble. am the mother OF
thirteen children and am fifty three years
OLD, have never seen better woman's friend
than your medicine / have recommended
it TO my friends here, and it has never failed
in any case, so let me thank you for tho
good IT did me-" Yours truly,
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1894-03-21

THERE is great destitution In star County,
Texas, as a result OF the long drought.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1894-03-21

Az the beginning OF the century
English sas sroken by abunt - O0O,-
go peopie, but nov u Is asedby fully
loo. 900. UuJ.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-09-26
DruEEists. queer Customers.

did you see that man who Just
went outl" asked a druggist yester-
day. 'sWeIl, he is morphine fiend.
There Is nota day passes that he does
not come In here and plead for NOR
phine He knows he will not get it.
yet clnging to the fond hope that we
might give it to him he never tires
In his persistency. I suppose that
man goes about from drug store to
drug store pleading for the drug to
set him free for the time of the trou-
bles of this life Are there many like
himI Well, we have a number who
come In. of and on-as many as five
day-but none are as persistent as
this man A well dressed fellow. too.
If you heard him begging me to give
him some of the drug, you would i'm
agine a mendicant was asking for
aims
.-Oh. yes, we have strange people
come here. often wonder when I
consider the number of wild eyed.
excited, nervous people trying to
buy pOisons of one sort or another
why there are SO few suicides. OF
course we cannot and do not sell such
drugs to any person without a doc
tors prescription, and perhaps this
Is the saving point. "-Pittburg Dis
Mann
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MiIIs on the TariR.

alt is the best bill that could have
been passed by Congress, and while
it is not the bill wanted by the Dem
ocratic party, and does not give the
country true tariff reform, yet it is
a step in the right direction. 1t is
better than the Mckinley bill, and
viii encourage Democrats 20 further
efforts. 1 think that Mr.. Cleveland
did right in not signing the bill, as
it was not the bill wanted or recon-
mended- He is honest and sincere
in his efforts to give the people a
tarif that will meet the demand of
the party and requirements of its
platform. L believe that he will
recommend further legislation at
the next session of Congaess, and
that the present tariff bill viii be
greatly improved in many ways T"
In regard to the next national
election, Colonel Mills said that it
was too early yet to offer an approx
imation as to the results in sew
eraE States that are considered as
doubtful, but that he hoped for and
anticipated sweeping victory for
Democracy.
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Senator Faulkner, who is in

Senator Faulkner, who is in a
position to gauge accurately the in
fuenee which the Louisiana sugar
gIanters WELD with the rank and
file in the State, said the other day
be felt confident the bolt of the
planters would not cause the loss of
IA single congressional district to the
Democrats. He was not at all wor-
ried over the action of the planters.
General Catchings, of Mississippi,
who is thoroughly acquainted with
louisiana affairs, declared that he
wasrather glad the sugar planters
had bolted, as it cleared the way
for free sugar. "The boiling plant
ers cannot in my opinion. he said,
leeIect Republicans to the House,
and the Democrats who are elected
in spite of their opposition will be
under no obligations to watch after
their selfish interests. The de-
mands of the Louisiana planters
have been an embarrassment to the
Demoeratic party and Ishall not be
at all grieved to have them cut
Moose.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-09-26

ne Girls Who Fascinate on the Stage Are
High strung when on.
The skirt dancer has most of the
MS to which flesh is heir to combat
with. Perhaps the most common Of
the fitful aches and ailments is a gen
eral arrangement Of the breathing
apparatus Any comfortably situat-
ed person who views her spaznodic
nction from the audience can realize
why the writing. gasping, convul-
sire celebrity should be the most
short winded creature ON earth. It
seems q marvel that some of her
cords do not snap and the whole ten
Gion suddenly give way and let her
down in a realistic heap IN the mid
die Of the stage
To get comprehensive view Of
her in collapse and she does collapse
lit is necessary to take a peep be-
hind the curtain At the ecstatic
moment when the audience sees the
last bow, the farewell wave of the
hand, the retiring convulsion of the
hip joint, at the same moment the
overexerted, breathless and painting
artist falls exhausted into the arms
of a faithful attendant, who bears
her gently away to- bottle of brandy
and one Of horse liniment favored
with turpentine.
It is when the skirt dancer reaches
the seclusion of her own apartments.
however, that the really interesting
part Of her performance begins.
Electricity Is one of her modes of
treatment, but she naturally eats
something before she starts up her
battery. Eating and drinking are
prohibited by her code of digestive
ethics, both before and between
dances, for obvious reasons. When
the embargo is raised and the cur
tain goes down, the hungry celebrity
repairs to thenearest hotel and there
follows the prOclivities that nature
has endowed her with. IF all this
occurs after matinee performance.
the dancer next takes nap, the dur
alton of which IS IN inverse ratio to
the amount she has eaten. When she
wakes up again, with her head
cleared and her wasting tissues re-
paired, there are interesting baths.
messages and applications of electri-
city.
There is a noticeable something
about the Overstimulation to which
the skirt dancer is subjected that
makes this grade of terpsichorean
temperament an interesting psyche
logical study. The jealous and en-
terprising high kicker invariably has
a.neryous constitution that is strung
many degrees higher than that of
the well behaved and orderly young
woman She is irritable, hysterical,
spasmodic, fretful and has an over
wrought sensibility and tempestu-
business of emotional capability that
make her vicinity dangerous one TO
an but the initiated. Philadelphia
Prass
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Four Big Successes.

Having the needed merit to more thar
make good all the advertising claimed
for them, the following four remedies
have reached a phenomenal sale. DIR
Kings New Discovery. for consumption
coughs and colds, each bottle guaran
teed-Electric Bitters, the great remedy
for liver, stomach and kidneys. Buck
lens Arnica Salve. the best in the
word, and DIR. Kings New Life Pills
which are perfect pill. All these rem
edies are guaranteed to do just what il
claimed for them and the dealer whose
name is attached herewith will be glat
to tell you more of them. Sold at Hooff'l
Drug Store.
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ReIferin Six Hours.

Distressing Kidney and Bladder dis.
eases relieved in six hours by the sNEw
CHEAT SOUTH AMERICAN KIDNEY CURE.
This new remedy is a great surprise on
account of its exceeding promptness in
relieving pain in the bladder, kidneys
sages in male or female. 1t relieves re-
tention of water and pain in passing il
almost Immediately. Ifyou want quick
relief and cure this is your remedy.
Sold by A. G. Van Glider, druggist,
Point Pleasant. [nov. 29-1y
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A Million Friends.

A friend in need is a friend indeed,
and not less than one million people
have found just friend in DIR. King &
New Discovery for consumption, coughs,
and colds. If you have never used this
Great Cough Medicine, one trial will
convince you that it has wonderful cur
alive powers in all diseases OF Throat,
Chest and Lungs. Each bottle is guar
anteed to do ali that is claimed or mon
ey viii be refunded. Trial bottles free
at Hoof7s Drug Store. Large bottles SOC.
and 81 90
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.Buckien,s Arniea SaIye.

The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi-
lively cures piles, or no pay required.
1t is guaranteed to give perfect salts
faction or money refunded. Price 25c.
per box. For sale by q. w. NJ. Hooff,
Druggist
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-09-26
Republicans say that Mr.. Cape

Republicans say that Mr.. Cape
hart declined to run for congress
because the Republicans nominated
Miller. This is not true, Mr.. Cape.
harris letter was written two days
and published in a newspaper one
day before Mr.. Miller was nomina
ted
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DE-. D. W Pettr. Dentist.

of this city, has now one of the best
fitted offices in the State. Every
apparatus and appliance in Office
and Laboratory is new and of the
latest improved. Ifyou want your
teeth SAVED go see him. If you
have to have an artificial plate, he
can make you the best.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-09-26

A year ago the total number of
industrial workers idle in Chicago
was estimated at 100000. The
number idle now is estimated at
only $4,000.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-09-26

The question win be free silver
until decided. The people will de.
mand it and viii get it. See the
grand old party, that has SO loudly
demanded @honest money!, quake
in their boots, and equivocate and
shuttle.