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Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-09-05
UNIQUE ENGLISH PRISON.
Progressive Penal Settlement Belonging
to Great Britain,

To HreaJ BrlJaln.
From the Andaman islands. in the Bay
of Bengal, comes remarkable news as
to the progress of that great penal set
Element for life convicts. These and
the Nicobar islands have now Mai. r. c.
Temple, C. 1. T., as their chief commits
sioner. The primevnl forests of the
islands, with their magnificent trees,
from which the rarest orchids depend
in rich profusion, have just been placed
under a local forest department Saw
mills of the most improved and extern
sive kind were a few weeks ago opened
on Chatham island. They are driven by
engines supplied from salt water by
means of a surface condenser drawn
through a tunnel which runs so feet
out to sea.
The whole department is worked by
some 600 convicts, so that the islands
are supplied with the timber they need,
while the rest is exported to many places
in India and Europe. For 40 years a
community rarely below 10, 900 convicts,
of the worst type to begin with, have
supported themselves under strict dis
cipline, leading to local freedom after
ten years of good behavior. What was
primeval swamp and forest in a climate
so deadly that it was abandoned by
Lord CORVALLIS century ago has been
made since the mutiny of 1878, a
fertile island settlement, covering many
square miles of gardens and consisting
now of more than so villages of reformed
criminals, besides the convict stations
and extensive government buildings.
Never in the history of prison ad-
ministration and criminal reform has
so successful an experiment been made
on so vast scale, and the whole con-
trolled by company of British regi-
ment. who find the place an equatorial
paradise. From these islands the China
man gets his edible birds nests and the
Calcutta clubs and the encouragement
their turtle. The botanical gardens,
under DR.. King, are enriched by them
with rare indigenous specimens of
orchids and other plants. Cultivation
has made the greater islands healthy.
The only drawback of the region now
is that it is a source of the cyclones
which periodically ravage the Bay of
BENGAL and it's coast districts.-Edin-
burg Scotsman.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-09-05

and month ago che was my
one enemy. She knew that I
loved you--yes, a year and month
ago l loved you in a sort of way-uot
the way do now; and she knew that
you loved me-in a sort of way. She
commanded you to keep me at dis
lance. Your mother Is not a woman OF
genius, but upon occasions she can be
quite as disagreeable as though she
were. She prefers, however, being dis
agreeable by deputy. You were her
deputy, a year ago-and month"
Miss Windram got up from beside me
and took a few steps to the side of the
conservatory, up which a splendid rose
was clambering. She had had her eyes
fixed on spray. Itwould have been out
of the reach of most girls, but she was
very tall, and she managed to break II
off the parent stem.
The light shone upon the white flesh
of her round arms. Surely no living
woman had such lovely arms.
She returned to her seat.
"Well?" she said.
"Then my poor uncle"
"Poor?" She gave laugh.
"AIy poor rich uncle died, leaving his
money to me, and your mother told me
that you were 10 draw me on. | could
swear that those were her exact words.
Did you pluck those roses only to tear
off their petals?"
One rose lay wrecked at her feet. The
other dropped from her hand and lay
complete among the crimson flakes.
She put her hand before her face.
"But instead of drawing me on, you
persistently avoided Inc, and, in fact,
did everything that was in your power
10 make me believe that you were sim
cere when you told me, at the COM
mand of your mother, that you had
never heard anything more ridiculous
than my suggestion that we should love
each other; and that you hoped would
not think it necessary to repeat any
thing so absurd. You have failed in
your aim, Rosamund; you did not make
me believe in your sincerity. Was I
right"
l am certain that she gave sob;
but she did not take her hands down
from her face.
Look at your feet" said, suddenly.
She was startled, and glanced down
quickly. GIer gloves, 1 perceived. were
ruined.) Look at your feet. Which is
to be my futurc-our future-our fu-
ture, Rosamund? Which? The wrecked
rose or the other?"
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-09-05
lN rhE bic eArHrue.

when I not home at five o'clock shucked
my coat and shoes
And hDrawled upon the sofa there to read
the evenings news:
Hul mamma called before ia found the
STANDING of our club
Were going TO battle the baby In the
Big Bath Tub"
1ood-hy to baseball. then, and a farewell
to book review;
what care / for the stock reports trans
cendently blue?
What heed have | for strikers who are
striking for their "grub7'
They're going to battle the baby In the
Biz Bath Tub
Last week the little tin affair was not
outgrown as yet,
And baby stopped therein and made us all
exceeding wet;
But time has brought its sequence to the
blessed little cub,
ana now she's graduated TO the Big Bath
Tub.
90 mamma holds the baby and her grand
ma gets the sponge,
And all preliminaries are enacted for the
plunge,
And Ian interloper-to myself declare I'll
rub
The smooth back OF my baby in the Big
Bath Tub.
She slips and slides and wriggles. and
she chuckles in her JOY,
And you can wage a fortune that I'm glad
she's not a boy.
For what boy would be jolly in that war Of
splash and scrub
That marks my baby's advent in the Big
Bath Tub2
And now back to the paper. while her
grandma powders her
And wraps the softest fabrics where the
little rivers were,
TIL once again among us she becomes the
central hub
Round which we form to gossip of the Big
Bath Tub.
Chicago Record.
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EYr plsrAsr CAUSED pY ooLE.
Another Ailment Charged TO the Account
of A pODuIar Snort.

Another Ailment Charged 60 the Account
of n Popular Sport.
Golf is rapidly developing a peculiar
symptom among some of it's devotees,
which, for the lack of better name,
may be called "the golf eye" 1t Is a
peculiar and perhaps unclassified form
of disease, if indeed 1t can be called a
disease, and may exist at any period
of a golf players career. In brief, it
is the faculty of seeing an object with
out having the eye communicate the
fact to the human brain.
Take any golf course in the country
and let person walk around it, keep
ing within the playing grounds of the
links. Without making any percept-
ible effort at searching, the chances
are that the pedestrians will be able to
pick up several golf balls. Those same
balls have been lost during play and
have occasioned the loss of no end of
time and temper to the players and
caddies who have searched Industrious
ly for them. The chances are that
each golfer who loses n ball saw the
exact spot where it dropped and that
his forerunning caddy was within a
distance of so feet of it when it struck
the ground. Yet, Notwithstanding
these facts, a perfect stranger to the To-
cation of the ball may walk around two
days after it was lost, and without a
search see the ball revealed to his eyes
at the very place the golfer and his
caddies had tramped up and down in
vain for IS minutes.
Here is a case in point. A foursome
competition was in progress on the
Paterson clubs links a few days ago.
After a poor drive a good iron shot
landed the first pair of the first four
some over the boulevard and within
about Is feet of the river hole green.
The ball dropped about 90 or 30 feet
past the foremost forerunner and the
two forerunners started out to locate
it. The second pair got on the green
in three minutes and the forerunning
caddies as well as the players and car
riers were looking for the ball. After
a fruitless search the first pair gave up
the hunt and lost the hole. About
ten minutes later second foursome
started out. When the forerunning
caddies of this team got up within
about so feet of the green both boys
lit out simultaneously and made a Give
FOR the little white object about 20
feet away, and one of them rose up tri-
Imphantly with new golf ball in his
hand. It was the same which the
preceding foursome had lost. On sew
cral occasions balls have actually been
found on the putting green's, lost by
some golfer. but of course these are
exceptional cases.-N. Y. Sun.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-09-05

Late in the evening "A report spread
through the train that we had a fellow
passenger, a man worth $20,000,000,
who had gotten on at Buffalo. made
inquiry of the porter of my car and he
replied:
Oats what dey say, sab, but yo'
can't allus tell. He's in de next car,
but / can't dun say il he's rich till
mawnin'."
Next morning the porter beckoned
me into the smoking compartment and
said:
"Dat story was all true, sab"
"Then he's worth 100000 900, eh?"
'All of dat, sab, and mebbc mo-"
How did you find out?"
From de odder po'tah, sab. DE
gemain has jest gin him ten cents, while
everybody else has cum down wild a
quarter."-St. Louis Dispatch.
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him for the past year and month";"
"What man indeed?"
"And this brings us back TO the
original question. Why have you 80
persistently avoided me?'
l could see that she was a trifle put
out by my persistence in returning to
the topic which had originated with
me. She had apparently found some
imperfection in the feather tips of her
fan, and thought that it would be I'M
wise to neglect the opportunity of pull
ing off the uneven fuffs. Some Of them
settled upon my waistcoat, where al
lowed them to repose undisturbed; a
few made a Decline for the cavernous
nostrils of our neighbor, Gen. Fire
brace. He sneezed with considerable
force of character.
well, you see, so many things have
happened since May last year, Mr..
Glyn," said Miss Windram, when she
had satisfied herself by the repeated
opening and closing of her fan that she
had remedied the defect in it's construc-
ton.
what things--in addition to your
avoidance of me?" / asked
"Well, you have published book, to
begin with. Isn't that something's"
she said.
"If we avoid all the people who have
published book our circle of acquaint-
ance would become appreciably mar
rowed, Miss Windram. Anything
else ?"
Hasn't it gone into six editions?"
she cried, in a tone of accusation.
Il don't deserve the blame for that"
said l, in a way that was meant TO show
her 1 felt the injustice of her accusa-
ton. "Blame the public. if you wish.
The public are invariably idiots, the
editor of the Universe announced in
connection with that book of mine. He
was right, though the fact that the pub
lie steadily refuse to buy the Universe
points in the other direction"
'Oh, it's all very well to try and
throw the blame on the public" said
Miss Windram, with shrug, but is
that quite generous of you, Mr.. Glyn?"
Perhaps it isn't. Was it on account
of the book you avoided me so care
fully?"
"Oh, there were other things. The
Geographical society gave you a gold
medal, didn't they?"
"They were right there. They
couldn't get out of it,
II daresay. That may be all very
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-09-05
pIMPLES TO ORDER.
Women May Get the Most Fascinating of
Them for n Price.


You can now get n coquettish dimple
on your face for $500. 1t is high price,
ann lots of pain must be suffered; but
women will have them, no matter at
what cost. London surgeons manufac-
ture a fascinating dimple for the sum
named But il is considered good in
vcstment by plain women who are get
ting fearful about their chances of mar
Iying.
And the woman who desires to rid
herself of wrinkles, crows feet, and
generally to improve the condition OF
her facial cuticle, can retreat from the
world for a time, ,enter the al de where
beauty, skin deep, is manufactured, and
submit to n course of treatment, which,
rs a mere cure for disease, would seem
appalling-for it literally means being
fayed alive by acids and electricity.
When she energies with a faultless skin
of babyish texture she will begin the
study of her features, and, if not found
satisfactory, they, too, in turn, must
be doctored. The nose may be straight
cned by wearing a metal mask, the
mouth made the proper artistic size by
a surgical operation, and the eyebrows
arched TO n symmetrical curve.
The two great difficulties encoun-
tered in remodeling personal appear
ance are the reduction of surplus flesh
for fat women, and the creation of
adipose tissues for the lean woman.
The stout woman who wishes to become
graceful and sylphlike must practice
diet-sheet and undergo series OF daily
exercises that will prove pain as
we'll as n WEAKNESS to the flesh. While
the substitution of Venus-like propor+
tions for an emaciated figure is even a
more tedious and difficult task, involv-
ing the complete building up of the
nervous system and digestive organs.
Enamel is rarely used nowadays by
the most enthusiastic devotee Of
beauty. Arsenic has also lost it's pres
tige, and the use of varnish as a cos
metic has vanished into limbo. The
woman who loves beauty but has not
the courage of her convictions to the
extent of suffering for the cause, goes,
in for the best possible substitutes
plenty of outdoor exercise, the rule OF
''early to bed" and generally normal
existence that leaves her nerves uninn
jured and her disposition unrufhed.--%
Chicago Chronicle.
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WHICH is TO BE MY FUTURE-ouR FUTURE RosAMuND"

we'll, but people who get gold medals
conferred on them can't expect to be
treated as ordinary people"
II suppose you are right. But do
they want 10 be treated as ordinary
people?"
That's quite a side issue. decline
to discuss it,"
And that's all?"
"All? all? Heavens! what did you
expect?"
"Sense-that is, a moderate amount
of sense; reason-that is, a modicum
of reason; frankness-that is. a soup
con of frankness. Supper? oh, let them
go toto supper
And she let them.
We were left practically alone.
Are you engaged to any man for
supper?" / asked of Miss Windram.
Yes" she replied. believed that /
detected a mournful tone. If 1 had not
detected that note would have left her
side.
! did not leave her side.
"And 1 am engaged to some woman.
Leu I'd ~ W SOhhS PioSS OoB COiNAs
said /.
Tie reasonableness of the suggestion
that is, the modicum of reasonable
ness--seemed to strike her.
We reached one of the Conservatives
without having to tell single lie, but
that was probably because we met no
one en- route; everyone was at supper.
4 %
The light was very dim. A fountain
flashed under the electric lamp in the
distance.
Tell me ALL" said.
That was how / commenced. saw
that she was very pale; and 1 had felt
her hand trembling as it rested on my
sleeve a minute before. perceived that
she fancied | had led her hither to tell
her something, and was anxious TO re-
assure her. II was 1 who wanted 10 be
told something.
"All?" said she.
SAIL" said l.
at was mamma" said she, quite
meekly.
II guessed as much. And that is
all?"
"Isn't it enough? You're man. You
lnow her"
"she is one of my dearest friends
now"
"Ah--now."
"Now. Isaid now. But year ago."
.And month
"And monfh. A yon hadnltre
ler~l thn cxnct date should probably
NJ q supper jpri now a yspr
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WOMAN AND HOME.
QUEEN IN BLooMERs.
They Have Besn Part OF siamsse Fsnni'
nine Apparel for Ares.

L
nine Apparel for Ages.
Pictures of the queen of Siam in leI
national costume are not only interest
ing as showing the Siamese fashions
but also from the fact that they clearly
demonstrate that the new woman in
America and England is not the origin
ator of the much derided and carica-
tured bloomer costume brought into
such prominence lately, thanks to the
bicycle fad. That DR.. Mary Walker has
been looked upon so long as the STA
Their" CO of reform in women's dress
bat carries out the old sdage: "There is
nothing new under the SUM-" At least
we can so judge of Slams fashions,
which are not so changeable as our own.
The bloomer costume has been worn
there for ages.
The manner in which their picture
came to be taken is original, and due to
the ingenuity of Yankee and camera
fiend. Such a picture is rarity, as a
Siamese woman, and especially one of
high degree, is never seen by for
eigner, and, moreover, a male. But the
incident happened as follows, and,
thanks to the alertness of our country
man, we have before us an authentic
picture of the second queen of Siam. as
she really looked standing on the wharf
at Singapore:
The steamship Saghalien, running be-
tween Chinese ports and Marseilles, was
all ready to start on her trip. The retu1 n
ing European passengers were anxious
ly questioning the officers in charge as
to the cause of the delay, for the boat
was some two hours behind her sched-
uled time for starting, and the proba-
bility of having to lie alongside the
dock all night was a very serious con-
sideration. Their impatience was soon
changed to curiosity when they were
told that the steamer was waiting for
the special train bringing the sons,
nephews and brother of the king of
Siam, and also the arrival of the royal
yacht having the king and his favorite
wife on board.
Finally the train steamed into the
station and the royal party disem-
barked. 1t consisted of several MEM
bers of the royal family, notably the
young princes Chakrabongse, Dovan-
arth and Ben Badhanabongse, the
kings sons who were in charge Of their
uncle, who had with him his own son
and two of the kings nephews.
The princes were accompanied by two
aides-de-camp, a secretary and two
English professors. Their suite was
composed besides of five young Siam
csc noblemen, and who, like the young
princes, were going to be educated.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-09-05
A Man Tran.

Those whose acquaintance with
clans extends only to "little-necks on
the half-shelT' will be slow to think
evil of any members of so delightful a
family. But the shy and peaceful lit
tle-neck" has some big brothers who
vigorously resent any attempt to pry in
to their personal affairs. Men have ac-
tually stepped into the open jaws OF
these huge CLANS at low tide, and the
CLAIMS, closing their jaws, have held
them fast until the tide arose, when the
men were drowned. Other men have
reached for a lure in the form of a lumi.
nous spot. The instant they touched it
the shells of clans closed on their arms
and in a few minutes the men were
drowned. Some of these clans that
trap men are found embodied in the
coral reefs of the Pacific and Indian
oceans, and the men captured are pearl
divers. The flesh of one of the huge
clans sometimes weighs 20 pounds, and
added to that is the 500 pounds or more
of shell. The shell is sometimes five
feet long by two and three-quarters
wide.-YoutbAs Communion.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-09-05
Rnrns In Dumfriea.

About ten years ago met in Dumfries
a venerable lady who told me that her
mother had vivid recollections of Burns,
AS child she frequently saw him in
the evenings at her fathers fireside and
heard him entertaining the social cir
Gle with fluent and merry talk. There
invariably came a stage in the proceed'
ings at which the matron of the house
hold sent the youthful members Of the
family 'ben the hoose," for lit wasna'
RIGHT" said the narrator, that they
should hear a'Robbie's nonsense" He
might be a very clever poet, she grayely
admitted, "but he was gey an weel
kent in Dumfries an folk had their ain
thochts aboot him." Like Principal
Sharp. my venerable friend was in-
cllned 70 think that tho exaggerated
praise Of Burns had gone too a.. Notea
aud Queries.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-09-05

These mobiles and princes were bound
for England, where they were TO pass
five years in order to complete their ed
ucation. The whole party spoke very
fluent English, which they had been
taught from their earliest infancy.
The party had hardly settled on board
before the royal yacht was seen steam
ing down the river. Chulalong KEN had
made the trip especially to inspect the
steamer, which was a new one on the
line, and, as the queen was sending her
only son to England, had consented to
the unprecedented proceeding of allow
ing her to accompany him and bid her
son farewell.
The scene on the quay was a. curious
one. In the presence of the agent des
messageries, acting as French consul.
and the commandant of the royalya0ht,
Commodore Richelieu "A Siamese
whose essentially French nama set all
the genealogists agog-the king. in a
very light spring suit, carefully exam
ined all the newest facilities for loading
and unloading the vessel. Standing De-
side her august husband the queen, at
terly oblivious to the onlookers. Aban-
doned herself TO a very natural OntbursJ
of mOtherly sorrow at parting from her
son, and it was at this very moment
that the snap shot was taken
Though the spectators were undoabt
eddy touched by her maternal sorrow.
still the feeling uppermost in all their
minds must have been that caused by
the strangeness and oddly OF her at
tire. Thanks to the kodiak, we can
form very Fair idea of this old-fNsh-
Toned style of boomers. These classical
trousers called -Sampat~ are made of a
very large pieceof silken stuff most in
geniously draped to form perfect sem
blance in front of the mp to date bicycle
costume favored by the new woman.
Over these is worn white eamisole or
pecies of chemise, which was crossed
by the cord of some royal order, outlin-
ing, but not identifying, the oriental
form of the SiAmese queen. really do
hot think the photographed resem-
Slance of her majesty will be apt tn
awaken many envious feelings in the
breasts of her western sisters or do
much toward the universal adoption OF
| bloomers.---N. Y. Herald
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-09-05
Vest Pocket soda Water.

A curious apparatus for making soea,
water at home is being shown by an
English concern. The method Gom-
prises the compression of the liquid
carbonic acid at go atmospheres, into
small steel pear-shaped cartridges
about fve-eighths of an inch in diam
eter at the largest part. Such carr
fridge is placed in the mouthpieoe at
tached to a soda water bottle. and q
cap is closed over it. In completing the
closure a tiny ebonite plug in one end
of the cartridge or -gas drop" is pune
tured, and the gas escapes into the bot
tie, dissolving into the water. Twelve
of these drops weigh three ounces
New Ideas
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-09-05

She picked up the complete rose and
handed it to me.
l kissed it, and then fastened it as
well as could in the front of her dress.
The crimson petals lay upon her she'll
pink fesh-it was shellpin now where
it had been white before.
And then
Then a man came up and said that we
would do well to hurry into the supper
room if we wanted bite of anything.
l wanted something, but it was not
supper.-Black and White.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-09-05

underneath is used by the housekeepeT
for her linen, which is laid away neatly
in little piles upon the white Oilcloth-
covered shelves. The box is lined with
small brass-headed tacks. In front fall
the double curtains of muslin and cam
brio. Overhead an iron rod is bent into
half circle, painted white, and then
attached TO the headboard, and on this
is run the curtains that fall over the
front. The back of the dressing-ta table,
which is also in blue and white, has
mirror in the center-"the only eXpen-
sive thing about it, "confesses its owner,
"for it cost six dollars. But one might
use simply a piece OF mirror plate, il
they wished, with the muslin drawn OF
puffed around it. bought this hand
some glass with it's white and gold
frame because l felt that when !
wished I might use it anywhere
Orange Judd Farmer.