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from his face. And when the place
again grew dark / saw it still standing
out alone in the surrounding gloom,
with the suppressed grin of cruel and
unrelenting fend.
l hid my face in my hands. threw
myself on the floor until the vision
slowly faded away, leaving me trem-
bling in every limb. dare not get up
nor open my eyes for fear that should
see it again.
Suddenly a peculiar sound of jan
Cling and creaking fell ON my ears.
What could it be2 1t seemed to come
from the corner of the chamber where
the instruments of torture were ar
ranged for exhibition. The thumb
screws, tongue pinchers, branding irons,
masks and cinctures, the gressilon, the
moltiere, the cubitoire-all seemed to
my excited imagination to be in move
ment and rafting one against the other.
Thoughts came into my mind of all
the unspeakable agonies that had been
inflicted by those diabolical inventions.
This place would kill me. l felt l was
going mad. Let me get free somehow
-anyhowi sprang to my feet and
rushed like maniac in the darkness,
striking wildly at everything in my
way in search for the door. Figure aft
er figure hurled to the ground as it
came in my path.
All at once felt strong arms close
around mel was struggling madly
for life with this terrible unseen some
thing that held me by the throat and
was strangling me in the dark. now
saw again that fearful facet Was it
that of my antagonist2 l tried to cry
out, but was choking. Gradually I
relaxed my hold, and everything be-
came a blank.
"You have been very i'll, George,
dear, but you are better now
looked around me. / was in a
strange bedroom, and my sister Lucy
was bending over me. l convinced her
that it would be best for her to explain at
once all that happened, for my terrible
experience in the dark chamber now
came back to me.
She said that the night Waterman,
thinking he heard sounds in the cham
Der of horrors, had descended to the
place, when Immediately ran into his
arms in the dark. In the struggle /
had tainted. Brain fever followed, and
l had narrowly escaped with my life.
My address had been found in my
pocket, and my friends communicated
with. The peculiar sounds that / had
heard and exaggerated were doubtless
produced by the keys of the Waterman
as he unlocked the door of the chamber.
London Tit Bits.
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Soft words.

One of the most curious of current
beliefs is that of hypocrisy lurking in
pleasant manners and sincerity in those
that are rough or stern. 1t seems a
relic of our Puritan forefathers, but 1t
certainly is out of place today. One is
foolish, very innocent, to give heed
to more than the letter of society cour-
tesies. But, on the other hand, the
wish to please is good sign in itself,
and the Willingness to hurt, by word
as well as by deed, is bad sign in it
self. Selfishness is, far more than hJ-
pocrisy even, usual failing. And
there is small hope for the habitually
self absorbed rough speaker, while there
is always chance that the soft manner
may sink into the heart. To those who
tell us that soft words butter no pars-
nips, we may retort, oil is also better
for q wig than vinegar. If proverbs
mean anything, it is because there is
one for every side of a question. -Ex
change.
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Long Talks.

Parliamentarians and orators in gem
eral claim that no man could talk CO.
herently ON single subject for more
than six hours, yet hundreds Of cases to
the contrary could be cited. When De
Cosmos defended the settlers land bill
in the lower house of the British CO.
lumbar parliament, he talked contin-
ually for 28 hours. The act confiscat-
ing the property of De Cosmos constit-
uents had to be passed by noon of GER
tain day; De Cosmos was the only de-
fender. He took the floor at 0 :55 O'Clock
the day previous to the date when the
law would become dead letter and
kept it until 12 :05 the following day.
II is said that his tongue and lips were
cracked in hundreds of places and his
shirt front covered with blood. A
speech II hours longer than the British
Columbian's famous argument was de-
livered in the Roumanian chamber OF
deputies in 1887. 1t was on the occa-
sion of the impeachment of ex-Minister
Bratiano, the leading deputy support
ing the articles of impeachment talking
continuously for 81 hours. Exchange.
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Leather Like Velvet.

The manufacture of leather is reach
ing what must be almost the highest
perfection Of the art. A new process
has recently been patented in France for
the production of leather which both
to the touch and eye has striking re-
semblance to velvet. feathers of this
description hitherto manufactured have
been obtained by treatment of the flesh
side of the hide or skin. The flesh side
of the skin being always coarse, the
patentees claim now to secure better
results by treating the hair side. They
scratch or rub the hair side with a rub
Der of strong erosive qualities, OF with
emery or glass, when working small
surfaces, and use grindstone for heav-
Ter work. In this manner downy nap
is brought out which they throw and
lay in different directions, thereby
bringing out varied designs of changing
hue and appearance. The velvety sur
face produced is said to be similar to the
down Of peach skin. The fiber is very
fine, soft to the touch and has all the
appearance of silk velvet shorn very
close. Shoe and Leather Gazette.
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The rallest of All Animals.

There are few groups of living
large mammals whose existing members
appear never to have been surpassed in
size by their fossil relatives. Foremost
among these are the whales, which now
appear to include the largest members
of the order which have ever existed.
The so called white, or square mouthed,
rhinoceros of South Africa seems also
to be fully equal in size to any of its
extinct ancestors, and the same is GER
tainiy true of the giraffe, which mary
even exceed all its predecessors in this
respect Whether the fossil giraffes were
or were not the equals in height of the
largest individuals of the living species,
there is no question but that the latter
is by far the tallest of all living man.
mails, and that it was only rivaled in
this respect among the extinct forms by
its aforesaid ancestors. Moreover, if
we exclude creatures like some of the
gigantic dinosaurian reptiles of the sec
ondary epoch, which, SO to speak, gained
an unfair advantage as regards height
by sitting ON their hind legs in kan
garoolike manner, and limit our COM
parison to such as walk on all four feet
in the good old fashioned way, we shall
find that giraffes are not only the tallest
mammals, but likweise the tallest of
all animals that have ever existed
Knowledge.
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Cracking OF Trees.

The catalpa never shows the "sere
and yellow .eaf'' in autumn like the
sumac, hard maple, etc., for the rea-
son that its leaves are caught in a
green, unripened state by the first severe
frosts. In one night their bright green
is turned to dingy black. This sud-
den check gorges the cambium layer
and new wood of the stem with water.
An excess OF water swells the proto-
plasm of the cells to such an extent as
to rupture the inelastic bark, and in
trees where the cell structure of the
wood is not ripe the crack will extend
into the wood often with noise like
an explosion. This often occurs in the
fall when it is not cold enough to stop
blowing. Sometimes we have much
loss in nursery in this way with varie-
ties not fully ripe when the first frosts
come. Sometimes indeed it Injuries
very hardy varieties. In such cases the
swelling of the protoplasm comes from
the water absorbed at the ground sur
fnae .fshea eesnlined wet and cold come
| together in autumn. The cracking of
cherries and pears comes from the same
cause-that is, by absorbing water on
wet days, causing an expansion of the
protoplasm. With trees the best treat
ment is to cover the rupture with moist
clay and then wrap to exclude the air
as much as possible. Iowa State Reg
lister
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LYRle.

When winds blow high, and frost Is white,
And roads arc steel, and trees are ice,
And window panes wear tracings light,
And all the world bears colds device,
Night falls, and careful mothers pray
Insweet content. though storm wind whirls
Beneath one roof. till break of day
Sleep safe the careless boys and girlsi"
ALI safe and under one roofiree,
All safe because the mother heart
Is near them; soft and tenderly
1t broods until the clouds depart
The time will come when birds must go
From out the parent nest away
When lonely, though no wild winds blow.
The mother heart will sadly stay.
All, mother heart, an, mother heart.
How lonely are the hours that pass,
When sleet and hail from heaven dart,
Or when there's sunshine onthe grass:
How often you wish back the night
When the storms fury seemed to fall;
How often strive to stay Times flight,
And that drear winter backward CALL
What matters Storm All, welcome rain
And the weird shrieking of the wind
Rather than sunshine and the pain
OF loss that saddens heart and mind.
The dumb cry for the wandering,
Come war without, if peace within
II love beneath the rooftree sing,
What evil thing can enierins
Catholic Family Annual
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Are You Any Good at Puzzles?

The genius who invented the eff
teen" Puzzle, "Pigs in Clover" and
many others has invented brand
new one, which is going to be the
greatest on record. There is fun,
instruction and entertainment in it.
The old and learned will find as
much mystery in it as the young and
unsophisticated. This great puzzle
is the property OF the New York
PRESS CLUB, for whom it was in
vented by Samuel Lloyd, the great
puzzlist, to be sold for the benefit of
the movement to erect a great home
for news paper workers in New
York. Generous friends have CIV
en- $4,000 in prizes for the success
full puzzle solyers. TEN CENTS
seat to "PREss CLUB BUILDING
AND CHARITY FUND" Temple
Court, New York City will get you
the new mystery by return mail.
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Abnndonment Or cron.tadt.

The harbor of Cronstadt in Russia is
to be closed to merchant vessels after
1895, and new harbor will be opened
along a maritime canal just below st.
Petersburg. This harbor will be go
feet deep, cost 1000, 900 rubles, and
be the central point for the unloading
of coal and the loading of grain and
other articles of export. The depart
ment Of public works is also consider
ing the ACCESSIBILITY of constructing a
tunnel under the Neva like that under
the Thames in London, but built in
four stories. This abandonment OF
Cronstadt is of especial interest, for il
was Peter the Great who established
and indeed created it for the port of st.
Petersburg. Springfield Republican.
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1t was roggy.

Brazil is the hotbed of "prevarica-
tors for amusement only" 1t has in
actual existence an Ananias club, and
rumor credits Judge Silas d. Coffey of
the state supreme bench with the pres
idency. The judge tells good story
at the expense of John vanes, proprie-
tor of the vanes boiler works, and a
cousin to Carnegie, the iron king. He
said that one morning while party
were camping at the judges cottage
they awoke to find the thickest fog on
record. Vanes was missing, and a
search was instituted. He was found
just outside the door, where he was
cutting out slices of the fog with a
cornmife and spreading it with sorg-
hum molasses for breakfast. vanes de-
mics this and says he was cutting loose
the shadows of night that had got
caught In the fog. Brazil Qnd.) Cor.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
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DReAM's PRoMpTlNes.
There Ia Constant Flow of Unconscious
Thought While We SIeeD.


There Ia Constant Flow of Unconscious
Thought While We Sleep.
The psychologists of the first half of
the century and some more modern writ
ers expressed the belief that dreaming
only occurred at the moment when con-
| seriousness began to resume its sway.
But in The North American Review.
DR.. Louis Robinson says that modern
investigators accept the theory of the
metaphysicians and believe that there
Is a certain amount of cerebral action
during the whole period of sleep, and
that the vast majority of our dreams
I never come to our knowledge. He
thinks that there is an unbroken cur
rent of ideas which passes through the
sleeping brain, and which only reveals
itself to the conscious ego when some
| disturbing element intervenes. I'VE
may compare it to an invisible and ST.
lent river, flowing by without betray-
ing its presence, save where there is
splash of fish or of falling stone, or
some foaming eddy where rock breaks
the smooth surface.
DR.. Robinson's article is long and in
| teresting. The conclusions at which
he arrives are as follows: Owing to
! the unceasing unconscious cerebration
which is necessary concomitant of our
power of intellect, the brain is always
| in part awake, and is especially active
in shifting memorized matter. The
cerebral centers connected with the
sense organs are continually and indie
pendently employed in stimulating i'm
pressions from without. Certain of the
senses, especially that of hearing, re-
main open to external influences during
| sleep and convey actual vibrations to the
brain. There is an active and purely
involuntary predisposition on the part
Of the mental apparatus to compare and
| collate all the messages which come,
or seem to come, from without, through
the sense channels, and to collate these
again with what is brought to the con-
seriousness by involuntary recollection.
| Associated with this is tendency to
combine the evidence so collected into
a coherent whole, and to make the re-
suit of either explain the more en-
phatic thoughts or impressions or else
answer some questions which occupied
the attention before sleep began. mo
voluntary power exists during sleep to
pick out from the tumble handed in
that which is relevant to the problem
to be solved, and just as there is no
power to discriminate real from false
impressions at the outset, SO, through
out dream, we are completely obliv-
ious to the most glazing fallacies and
Inconsistencies. Rochester Post-Ex-
y,raea
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SOME OLD TIME GAMES.



Many of the Present Day sports werc Bor.
rowed From the Past.
1t is curious to note how some of the
games of the early ages have been hand
ed down to the present time. The game,
for instance, known to most of us as
odd and even was also favorite with
the young Egyptian, and many OF the
little counters that he used are still
preserved in the British museum. There
is also the game of drafts, which was
played on a checkered board in the earli-
est times. The poor children were con-
tent with craftsmen and boxes made of
rough pieces Of clay, but the richer ones
usually had beautifully carved iron
headed craftsmen and boxes.
The young Greeks, too, We're we'll
provided with toys and games for their
amusement. The toys were chiefly dolls
made of baked clay, the arms and legs
being jointed with string, and there
fore movable. They had favorite game
called Chytriand, which has been pre-
served through many ages, and is now
played by boys of today under tho well
kuOWli Hdilo VI Puso III tno oVihO'. ."
France the game is called quatre coins,
or four corners. Both in the old game
and in the modern version five players
are required, one occupying each of the
corners, while the fifth player stands
in the middle. In ancient Greece he
wore an earthen pipkin on his head and
was called pot; in France at the pres
ent day he is the nigaud, or simpleton,
and by us is called puss.
To guess the number of fingers anoth-
err held mp was also favorita amuse-
ment, and this, too, is frequently play
ed at the present time. So you see how
carefully the character of the amuse-
ments and the playthings of the very
early ages has been maintained in the
toys and games in use today. New
castle Chronicle.
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A BIT OF RAlNMAklNe.
An Effort In the Hcbrides Islands That
Was Brimful of Success.

Was BrImfuI of Success.
Lieutenant Boyle T. Somerville of
the English navy, who lived many
years in the Hebrides islands, tells the
following interesting tale regarding the
work of professional native rain
maker. Toward the end of the year,
just after yam planting, there came an
unusual period of drought, so that an in
land tribe in the island of Ambrym
went to its rainmaker and demanded his
immediate attention thereto.
He at once set to work to weave
sort of hurdle of the branches and
leaves of tree famed for its rain pro-
ducing qualities, which, being finished,
was placed, with proper inoantations,
at the bottom of what should have been
water hole in the now parched bed of
the mountain torrent. There it was
then held in place with stones. Down
hours, by which time it had become too
much of good thing. Soon the rain
| producing hurdle was quite 10 feet un-
der water in the seething torrent, and
the people, much to their dismay, saw
that their yams and the surrounding
earth were beginning to wash away
down the hillsides.
The lieutenant continues; Now
mark what comes of fooling with the
elements! No man of the hill country
was able to dive to the bottom of the
water hole to pull up the hurdle with
its weight of stones, so the merciless
rain still held on. AT last the shore ma
tives, accustomed toswimming and div
ing, heard what the matter was, and
some of them coming to the assistance
the compeller of the elements was re-
covered from its watery bed and-the
rain stopped"
1t is such coincidence as this, hap
pening perhaps once in decade, which
causes this people, now thoroughly
Christianized, to refuse to give up their
rain doctors, although all other out
ward forms of rank superstition appear
to have been freely abandoned. Louis
Vile Courier-Journal.
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For Preserving Pictures.

A sort of antidecay apparatus has
been invented for preserving pictures.
1t is a glass tray with solid back, and
the picture is put inside and hermetic-
ally sealed. The air is then exhausted
with an airpump, with the result that
in this vacuum the paint will preserve
its pristine freshness pretty well for
ever, unless the thing leaks. Chicago
News.
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y. Whenever there is friction, there is
heat. Hammering nail rod until it
is redhot or forging nail without fire
are feats of the blacksmith.
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Mako
NO
MISTAKEN

How often it is said: ooh my /!
it is so easy to make mistakes"
For that very reason we would
tell you very distinctly that "The
Peoples Store" is the large one
directly on the cor. of Union and
Church Sts. two doors opening on
Union st. and one on Church St.
The extremely handsome windows
on Union st. in which we display
samples of goods to he found inside
are glaring way-marks which none
can mistake. In the window on
Church St. is seen Shoes, neatly ar
ranged and attractively handsome.
Amy articles seen in our windows
are merely a small slice off the
many handsome goods to be found
inside. The quality of everything
We keep is the very best for the
money asked. 1t is our pleasure to
show you anything mot in any dark
corner) whether you come to pur-
chase or only to rest and enjoy
friendly chat.
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The newspaper laborers in the house
press gallery now sit on nice revolving
piano stools. They are very popular.
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OUR MILLINERY

this season is exceptionally stylish
and handsome, pleasing the most
fastidious taste. We do not palm
anything off on our customers, but
study their individual style, form,
feature and age.
"Have you seen the DRESS
GOODS shown at The Peoples
Store?" is heard all over town.
They are indeed popular and still
remain far ahead We never make
special sales of old goods, for we
never have any-we keep good
qualities at low prices, and off they
go in gift.
If you want a
WINTER COAT OR WRAP
and allow your chance at "Thc
Peoples Store" to slip, it will be
an all-season's regret, as they are
selling unusually fast.
Fair hands quickly seek our beau
tiful and shapely GLOVES.
OUR BLANKETS AND CON-
FORTABLES
are marvelously heavy and cheap.
All sorts of bedding to be had here.
The merits and cheapness of our
CARPETS AND FURNITURE
should be printed in the largest
type, "That they who run may
read" If you need such things, buy
now, as no one can afford to lose
the chance. We cannot tell you in
this way of the many things to be
had Of us. Step inside, and we feel
sure you can get anything you may
inquire for.
We can deck yourselves and chill
dren out like Princes, at a price to
be reached by all.
Again l invite you to look close
ly for the large store on the corner,
and failure 10 find will be impossi-
bic.
The Portland daily press., 1894-10-13
CLOSE FINISHES.
Exciting Races Seen at Mystic Park Yes
terday.

Boston. Mass. October 12.-Better
port was rarely seen at Mystic Park
than was afforded today. Nearly all of
the finishes were close. The 2.26 trot,
for purse of 5000, Cairwood, Oh g, by
Van Helmont, (Wheeldon) won in six
heats; L'Empress, blk M, by L'Emperor
Dorr) second; Sumpter. b & by Grand
Sentinel (Trout), third; best time,
abba.
In the 21s pace. for purse of 5000,
Prince Alexander, Oh s, by Alexander,
(Johnson) won in three heats: S. x Boy.
(Paiae) second; Jubilee Wilkes, br S,
(Cox) third; best time, 2.17 ID.
In the 2.23 trot, for a purse of 5000,
Adra Belle, gr m, by Almont Boy, (Sar-
GENT won in four heats; Electric Coin,
by Electioneer (Feck), second; Lady
Bug, blk m (Gardiner), third; best
time, 2. z 1-3.
In ttes3.l7 trot, for purse of 5000,
Fred Wllkes, by Wilkes, and Merry Bird.
b s, by Jay Bird, each won one heat:
best time, 2.17 IA, by. Fred Wilkes.
The Portland daily press., 1894-10-13
Have Come to Their senses.

Fall River. Mass, October 12.-What
threatened to be a stormy meeting of
spinners this morning turned out to be
a rousing demonstration of confidence
in favor of Robert Howard and the 9th
or leaders of the mule spinners' union.
After warm session yesterday, the ex-
ecutive committee decided to make two
recommendations to the general meeting
to be held today. The first was that the
proposition of the manufacturers should
be adopted as follows:
"That the spinners return to work I'M
der reduction of five per cent. If the
margin holds at SIS cents,as at present, for
60 days. the other five will be restored. Ii
it declines to &c cents or below, the five
per cent will be increased to a ten per
cent reduction"
The second recommendation was that
if it was voted to return to work Mon
day morning, the mem bers should re-
cieye another weeks strike pay, because
it would be ten days or more after
Monday before they would receive any
wages. Both recommendations were
adopted.
The Portland daily press., 1894-10-13
INTEND TO REFORM coREA.
Japanese are Driving the Chinese from
Corea

London, October IA despatch to the
Central News from Toxic, says Corea is be-
ing cleared of Chinese, and the opportunity
has arrived for Japan to undertake a
thorough internal reform of government of
that country. In order to carry out the re
form the presence of experienced ministers
is necessary, and for this purpose Count
InaLye, the Japanese minister of the in
terror is sent to Corea. The Emperor, has
the fullest confidence in Count Inauye,
who will proceed at once in the warship
Yoshino to Chemulpo. In Corea he will act
as special advisory ambassador. Advices
from Nankin report an outbreak of the
Kolaohwei society. fifty miles from Ham
kow. All is quiet at WI Chang, but
foreigners are not allowed to remain
uhere-