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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-06-17
Bomb YArower an Au.rohi,t.

The police have aseertainsd that the name
OF the man who threw the bomb into the pro-
cession on Sunday last at Barcelona, causing
the death OF about dozen people, Is Chang
or He Is an agent for an Anarchist club.
A number OF similar bombs have been dis
covered In the outskirts Of this city and 1t is
believed thhat some Of the persons arrested
ON the charge OF completely In the outrages
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-06-17
Silver Coinage Figures.

OF the silver bullion purchased under the
act OF July IA, 1890, there are now ON hand
182, 89S. .452 fine ounces. The cost OF this bull
lion is s119, ,9i1 ,044, and the coinage value
Is &I72,6ll,4l4. The total number OF silver
dollars coined under the act OF July IA, 1890,
to June l. 1896 was 46,044,6 ,65L Upon this
coinage there was seigniorage or profit OF
am n 1QQ
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-06-17
BRIEF MENTION.

Hamilton county, Ohio, elected sIxty-six
silver and two gold delegates to the Demo-
cratic state convention.
Frank Mayo, the distinguished actor, died
on train while en- route with his company
from Denver to Omaha, June 8.
The COMMITTEES on Contested Seats OF the
Republican convention win have problems
to solve from fifteen States and one Terri
tory.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-06-17
Rsoruit. for m, Cub,u C.u.s,

Friday from Tampa and neighboring points,
for the purpose, 1t Is said, OF embarking for
Cuba ON the steamer Three Friends, which
has been undergoing repairs for several days,
and Is now ready for sea
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-06-17
Tried Wholesale Killing.

In drunken rage John welter. of Chicago,
made an unsuccessful attempt to kill his
wife. He then shot and killed one step
daughter and wounded another so seriously
that her life y despuired Of
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-05-17
CURIOUS TELEGRAPHY.
Difficulties Under Which the Chinese La
 bor in Transmitting Messages.

Difficulties Under Which the Chinese La.
 bor in Transmitting Messages.
 All the principal cities of China are now connected with one another and with Pel1in, the capital. by telegraph. Recent visitors to China say, however, that telegraphing there is laborious and an expensive process, and that the lines are a charge upon the state treas ury instead of a source of revenue. The dispatches are, of course, sent in Chi nese, for not one in many thousands of the natives knows any language except his own. But the Chinese have no al phabet Their literary characters, partly ideographic, partly phonetic. number many thousands. It is simply impossible to invent telegraphic sig nals that would cover the language. Here was an obstacle in the way of using the telegraph at all. The diff culty was obviated by inyenting tele- graphic signal for each of the cardinal numbers, and so numbers or figures might be teiegraphed to any extent. Then code dictionary was prepared, in which each number from one up to seven thousand stood for a particular Chinese letter or telegraph. It is, in fact, cypher system. The sender of the message need not bother himself about it's meaning. He may telegraph all day without the slightest idea of the information he is sending, for he trans mits only numerals. It is very differ ent with his friend, the receiver. He has the code dictionary at his elbow, and after each message is received he must translate it. Only about an eighth of the words in the written language appears in the code, but there are enough of them for all practical pur- poses.
 But the Chinese system has it's great disadvantages. Men of ordinary edu- cation have not sufficient acquaintance with the written language to be com potent telegraph receivers, and the lit erati are not seeking employment in telegraph offices any more than our college professors are. So the govern ment recruits it's employees with much difficulty. Besides, the patrons of the telegraph are comparatively few iD number.-Statesma Year Book.
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More Good News.

General Manager P. 5. Maegowan, of the Walter A Wood Harvester Co.,, St. Paul Minn. informs us that business is excellent and that his company will be able this fall to hqaidate is entire indebtedness, and pass out of the recei9er hands in most prosperous condition. He is our authority, also, for announcing the good news that some of the most influential stockholders of the St. Paul and Hoosick Falls companies are now at work trying 10 effect reorgani- zation, te the end of placing both companies in position to go along with the immense business i'll such manner as to maintain past reputation for solidity and progressiveness. If the reorganization is effected, which, from present progress would seem assured, fhe business will again be on a solid founda- tion and under management that will push it's well known machines in every market on the globe.-Fuin MdchLaerg, 4pfA 2f, 1896.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-05-17
A Victim of Science.


 The villain started. His check showed pale through the grease paint.
 The fair heroine gazed at hm with scorn, irony and such things.
 "Villain'
 She used the word her mother had taught her to say. Her mamma was for long time the leading lady of the Blood and Thunder dramatic company which played the mellowest of nfeio- dramas.
 Villain, she replied, ''your race has been run and you are not winner Your machinatiens have been foiled. y
 He shuddered. but he did not shud- der as hard as he ought to. He was preparing to hiss further words of de- tiance through his boughten teeth.
 You are a despicable villain," the fair girl declared, "but you can no longer deceive me. I can see through you and your schemes.
 Then he knew that he was ruined, and he turned away muttering deep curse against the man who had invent ed the cathode ray system of photog- raphy.-N. |. World.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-05-17

Fort ffospeet and Fort Hamilton yvopIa
 nave something to say to an unfriepdl,, vessel passing by. On the sontbsiaa
 the reefs are only about a mile away
 suppose some dark night an enemy 1vere to land troops in small boats. To ona r,l against this, a row of smaller fonts or,1 oatterles stretches along the soutb shore. Even Bermudans. who ca ,,a more enter the forts than can tourist,
 hardly know how many there are. There are ten batteries, which are bv no means for1nidable-mere sand nitS
 capable of mounting field guns. These batteries are scattered all alono the hshhook's southern, or outer. rim. with out much regard to the channels. h,+ there are, in the insular phrase. tbraa
 proper forts" though small, at points Where "cuts" or channels penetrate the reefs, and there is another buildinp on Scaur hill which will face both ways
 There is said to be one at Bai1iff bav
 mounting trifling half dozen of 18- ton guns, whose presence I have not seen indicated on any map. Still fur ther, there is a flying artillery" squad or two, with level military roads to prance about on, and mount their ouns Tn the batteries; and very respectable fort at the doekyard end; and between them all the forts can make any spot on the islands or on the sea near them red hot in ten minutes. Aweal spot? Per haps, there usually is. People say that 1t is in the extreme southeastern part of the group, where the reefs are very near the shore, near St. David's light, and upon what is called St. David's head. Here the reefs are very close to the
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-05-17
INDIGESTION.
As Result of It, There Were
 Many Disorders.
The Disease Will Create the Symptom. of Heart Disease, Kidney Dis
 ease. Etc.
From the Stnudnra.Ir,,

From the Standard- Unto1i, Brooklyn, N. r.
 Few women have had more miserable existence and lived to tell the tale than Mrs. Anna L. Smith of 3ll Pulaski Avenue, Brooklyn. With all the comforts that money affords, with all the happiness that many iioYing friends can give, the joy of Mrs 1 Smiths life was blasted for years by the terrible rayages of sickness. The story is most interesting as told to reporter Il was an invalid for years, suffering first with one complaint and then with another My ease was truly that of a complication of dlseases, due to an accident which received some years ago. The thing which caused me the most discomfort and made me offensive to my family was the worst case of indiees- tion imaginable. l made all around me miserable by my sufferings. and was most miserable myself. had the best physician we could find, and occasionally his pre- seriptions relieved me temporarily. But the pains and misery would all soon return again. became desperate, and started in to try remedies of which l read. Among them were the Pink Pills. Their appear. ance captivated me instantly, for I am q great believer in the beautiful. l took the pills and followed ont the directions to the letter, and before many days began to feel like a different woman. For six weeks I took the pills regularly and can truthfuIlv add after that was as well as any one in the family. This change for the better in my condition has caused my relatives and friends to take the pills. We buy them all from the drug store of John Duryea, at the corner of De Kalb and Summer Avenues.
 ''l assure you it was impossible for me to oversee my household for three years. Now I visit my kitchen every day, do my own marketing and shopping; in a word look after everything connected with my home and family.
 ''Oh, yes, still keep taking the pills. I take one daily after dinner. Prevention, you know, Is better ard cheaper than cure. l verify believe one half of the women who are suffering from the ills which our sex are heir to would be up and well if they could be induced to give the Pink Pills a fair trial. 1 certainly recommend them heartily and feel grateful to the physician who put them on the market.o
 Mrs. Smith Is woman of some means and standing in the community and there fore, her testimony will be accented with out question by all thoughtful people
 Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People contain all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and re store shattered nerves. They may be had of all druggists or direct by mail from the pr. Williams Medicine Company, Schenec- tady, N. Y, at soc. per box or six boxes for s9.50 and are never sold in bulk or by tho dozen or hundred.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-05-17
j, MOSQUITO ON OUR COAST.
-u;no Little Bernsida an Annoy Du1 ance to Big Uncle Sam.
n,v A Menace. as Well-A Careful F0ss,yly "sstmate of the Military and Naval strength of Great Britains
 Watch Station.
rcopYRraur. 1896. ]

.;1+on. Bermuda.-Look at map
 ,lpaT1nited States and notice how tiny p psode ol Island compared with the 5000 ,a. M of land to the west of it. Here, nlAsd nsned almost in mid-Atlantic, TOO uiopp Yas from shore, is land so tiny that m'ss ;.s eide Rhode Island is as a leTiathan py minnow-so tiny that it is but a v asouito buzzing just beyond arms ,agrtb noo of Uncle Sam's big body. Now, .sa I,n0 bite of a mosquito isn't such a ter siSle .ns calamity, but it's presence is B iprg Tbere is a good deal of conservatism .hont John Bulls military methods. ga p beean to think Bermuda of import ns usoe during the revolution, when the Colonies a, were public enemies, and he has sent @ adding to his Notifications here ~rfil n they are held to be the strongest in the world, excepting only those of Gibraltar, until the natives say that the forts m are "built of gold, such has been their cost.
 lava fishhook or letter on it's back, inc shank to the right, the point stick inc ID on the left, and you have a fair idea of the shape of these islands, which
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-05-17
Measuring Wind by Music.

Dr. Carl Barnes has recently shown how the velocity of the wind can be reckoned by noting the musical pitch of the sound given out when wind blows across a stretched wire. lhs principal elements on which the Saleu Iation is based are the diameter of the wire and the temperature of the air The length of the wire is immaferlal so long as it is not changed. Every va' riation in the winds velocity IS falth fully represented by the rising or fall ing of the pitch of the nore sHng by tns wire.-Youth's Companion.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-05-17

shore, and there is respectable channel for craft of moderate size. The spot, though near forts, is protected from g. direct line of fire by high bluffs, and no fort stands to guard it-possibly be- cause St. Dayid's IS itself an island on which an invading force could be bat tied up. But this reason does not seem sufficient to visiting military men.
 The normal garrison of Bermuda is two regiments of infantry. At present there is but one, the Prince of Wales Royal Leinster regiment from Canada There are two companies of artillery, not enough to man all the guns, but a company of colored volunteers officered by white men IS ready to help in case of need. They receive some trifing pay in time of peace as a retainer. There are also three companies of volunteer infantrymen, white and unpaid. There are two companies of regular engineers, of which one is always wise in the ways of terpedoes. These, with the surgeons. signal men. telegraph operators and the like, make up total of about 300 reg ulafs and 400 volunteers, more of the former, l fancy, than are gathered at any military post in the United States. There is no telegraph line on the island except the military line.
 I take it for granted that no one in the United States cares very much about the Bermuda forces. They would be hard nuts to crack, but no one is obliged to break his teeth on them.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-05-17
KICKING TREES
Lumbermen Know Them Well and Are
 Careful to Keep Out Of Their Way.

Lumbermen Know Them Well and Are
 Careful to Keep Out Of Their Way.
 Very few who have ever witnessed the method of numbering in our forests realize the danger, with it's accompany ing fascination, the hard, rugged work with it's health-giying results, or the enjoyment to be found in camp life in the solitary woods, miles from ciyiliza- ton. The danger from flying limbs or a kicking" tree as it falls, lodges or strikes upon a stump or across log, and swings around or flies back with terrible force, is not noticed by the lumbermen, if they are lucky enough to dodge successfully. Another danger that people little realize is that of the teamsters who haul the logs from the stump to the main road. Much of the timber is cut up on the mountain sides. which are so steep that horse team can scarcely climb up. At the top, logs measuring from 30 to 50 feet in length are loaded upon one sled and are dragged down the mountain. In places the road goes down so steep that the ends of the logs are above the horses hips. The logs with the sled tip down, and away they go down the mountain as fast as the horses can go, with the teamster hanging to the reins and keep ing his balance upon the logs as they thrash and roll around beneath his feet Occasionally the teamster emits ter rife yell that would put Comanche Indian to shame, to warn his brother teamsters that he is coming, so they can get out of the way. They drive into a them. It is seldom that a horse loses his footing; if he does the team is sluiced down the mountain. Occasion ally they go against tree, and some times both of the horses are killed, but they generally come out all right, with a few scratches.
 With the adventof the railroad and in yention of wood pulp. the uses of the spruce tree have been changed and en- larged, and so far as Byron, Me, is con cerned, the manner of getting it from the forest to the markets has changed. The logs are now loaded on to cars in the forests, and hauled to the very mill doors, where they are converted into pulp and paper. During the past win ter logs have been hauled to the Rum- ford Falls Paper company's mill, con verted into paper, shipped to distant cities, where it is used by some of the leading daily papers, printed, returned and read by the camps crew where the lumber was cut, within a fortnight from the time the tree was cut in the forest. Such is the effect of the progress of civ ilization upon this branch of business. Only few years ago, even now, in re- mote sections, where railroads have not reached. one year is reclSoned on to get the lumber to market. and it sometimes takes two years 10 run the lumber out of the streams to the main riyer.-Rum- ford Falls Times.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-05-17

.urve through rather more than twenty miles of length and average rather less than a mile wide. Something like one quarter of all the land Is reserved for military use; and the colonial parlia- ment which is ready to yield almost anything to the home government so long as it retains the power of self-taxa- ton, for which the United States fought So successfully. has rendered it possible for Great Britain to take any other land it likes for purposes of defense by con dcmnation proceedings. She will not take a great deal more. however. There must always be some room left for the civilians who are to feed the soldiers. The civilians are naturally prosperous, in spite of the fact that their exports in 1894 were only z 97.377and theirimports G2S6,o4z This difference between in- come and outgo doesn't mean spend thrift profits. It measures the money brought into the country by the soldiers and by tourists from the states. When two regiments are euartered here local trade booms. as it would in the west with wheat at S1.50 bushel. When there is but one the tourists nearly make it up.
 As has been said. Bermuda is like lshhook on it's back, but the barbs are nine miles out, and hidden. Itcurls up, Ike bug in its chrysalis, in a nest of lagged coral reefs. far from shore on the north, but near it on the south The ps- ual steamboat channel is on the east.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-05-17
wby He Was Not at school.

Teacher-William, you were not at school yesterday. Have you any ex- cuse to offer?
 William-I was sick, ma'aIn. "When you are sick your parents usually send an excuse 7
 Parents didn't know it, ma'am" How is that?"
 Wasn't taken sick until after I left home"
 And why didn't you returr home7' Was afraid to. Taa'am.
 .sFbat was fhe matter wito you 2 sCiearettes, ma'am.s TonlSers Statesman.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-05-17

-aohawk l,77o tons and the Buzzasx, l,i4o tons. There is also a coast-defenaa .urret ship, the Scorpion. About 9. .ooo tonnage of small ships are on the West inulsah station within call. and there are In Bermuda four or five hocnedo boats good for 19 or 20 knots an Rom besides a receiving ship and other trash, VI afl these the Crescent is the only ci@le oi consequence, and she is not the equal of some of the crack American cruisers. But the anchorage would held as many more ships as the adnnaltv cared to send here.
 Bermudans point with pride to "tha largest floating dry dock in the world !" onittng to acknowledge with rearer mat It Is only 381 feet long and is tbe largest in the world only because the world IS building its larger docks of other kinds. 1t has docked a shin of 10000 tons, II. NJ. S. Belleronbon bpt could not dock long modern ship of less tonnage, because the proportions nave altered so radically. This dock is nearly 50 years old. There are work shoPs for repairs on the shore. and to these visitors are admitted. 1t is diffi- cult for one not expert to estimate thelr Importance, but they seem polxv. tflYlal and conservative compared with nlaehlne shops in the United States. mere IS a notable absence. of powerful engines, cranes and other iabor-savfne devices for handling heavy casting or holdings. Hand labor and small molds. iathes and triphammers seem +o ac. complish what work is done here. To compare it with some of the great ship building yards in Great Britain would be like comparing a tinker's kit to an engine factory. It is strictly place of repair.
 The number of sailors in the British war ships in Bermuda varies, of course. much more than does the number of sol. dlers on shore. Probably when the squadron is all here they may consid- erably outnumber the soldiers. There are never less than 200 or 900 dock yard laborers. Strike an average be- tween the two regiment garrisons and the smaller ones, and between the fleets of various sizes, and it will doubtless be fair to put the all-around average at 2,50o men, one=tenth as many as our reg ular army numbers.
 The backyard is in one way mel aneholy sight, speaking of wanton sacrifice of human toll. Much of the work of construction was done by con victs, who heaped up those great stone walls which time has rendered obso- lete, who laid the sea wall of British granite and put in place the free stone blocks from Nova Scotia, who 1eyeled hills to plains and heaped un hills where none had been, after the manner of ants. They are dead and gone now, and their work seems as one looks on it to-day as pathetic in it's wastefulness as that of the very coral insects who through uncounted years reared these islands from the sea only to topple, at the end, back into the sea again.
 Bermuda, after nearly 300 years, has never yet fired gun in a serious fight It has never been the gage of battle. Ii exists only as nagging menace to na, ton to whose people a war upon Great Britain seems now so impossible thai nature might herself cry out upon it, powder mutiny against the fuse and lead sulk in the harmless barrel.
 JOHN LANGDoN HEAToN.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-05-17

ciose to the islands, and so at the eastern .uu are the big forts and the big guns. astne western end are the backyard and 'ae anchorage of ships of war. protected ~, only by their own guns. but by 20 4'''es of reef navigation. which can be ~ipedoed and false buoyed to increase
 s uangers, and by the forts at the be- sa s"illhg of that lovely lane. This long sAanhel IS on the north of the islands. ~ a III that direction the big forts look, a'.' aning long noses at Brother Jonathan m 1'n the muzzles of their big guns.
 eie IS feasible channel to the north q, easlole, but narrow and crooked. perhaps not worse than the main ba bsulei. Because this cut happens to Aear the north rocks. the British gov tohl 'lieht has urged Bermuda to consent hn. .ase the rocks blown up by dynamite, ;nr ' ss the rocks are not only an interest," , seoiogleal survival but useful land- fsr ~ n' 'ile colonial parliament has thus nr 1eiased to sanction this barbarous bsposai. The channel might as well be a;s. saoyed and used, saving several miles of n;sa,a sance, but for the nxiety of the ad- eana.,y a,,y to have all hSping pass by the ssuhtiet ss of forts at tn East end. Here, so0ut old St. Georges Avn. are the Ti- 1sals Fort George. Fo1nat. Catherine, VII. VI. Victoria, Fort A and Fort For.1n. Fr.,an. Farther soutIu q mile is lha.t inlngham. guard Georges fbonsn 4Nooofiy cares nA@ bout that wa,. . - ,,' Tor the dockvard Ind mid
 0'' me main island engton
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-05-17

Mir Nicola Tesla has recently suggest ed the possibility of transmitting cleo tl.ical impulses, not only to every part of the earth, but even to distant planets to Mars. for instance. A connecting wire. he says. ia not needed.