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who was reloading, but somehow or other
the exploded cartridge had damned in the
breech. l danced and ragged before him in
my passion of hurry, and the cruel brutes
yelled in ecstasies of merriment. Only
Garcia did not laugh. He re-rolled a fresh
cigarette with his thin yellow fingers and
| lesurely rocked himself in the split-cane
chair The man could not have been more
unmoved if he had been overlooking a per-
Torrance of Shakespeare.
At last 1 tore the Winchester from the
hands of the fellow who was fumbling with
it, and clawed at the jammed cartridge my
self, breaking my nails and smearing the
breech-block with blood. If it had been
welded into one solid piece, it could scarcely
have been tirmer But the thrill Of the
moment gave my hands the strength of
pincers. The brass case moved from side
to side; it began to crumble, and l drew it
forth and hurled from me a mere ball of
shapeless twisted metal. Then one of the
laughing brutes gave me another cartridge.
and once more l shouldered the loaded
weapon.
The mark was easier now. The struggles
| of my poor friend had almost ceased and
| though the well rope still swayed, it's move
mentS were comparatively rhythmical and
| to be counted upon. I snapped down the
| sights, put the butt plate to my shoulder
and cuddled the stock with my cheek Here
| for the first time was a chance of some
| thing stesdier than a snap shot.
| l pressed home the trigger as the well
| rope reached one extremity of its swing.
| Again a few loose ends sprang from the
rope, and again the body began slowly to
| gyrate. But was 1t Metnuen I was firing to
| save or was 1 merely wasting shot to cut
| down a mass Of cold dead clay?
! think that more agony was compressed
for me Into a few minutes then than most
| men meet with in a lifetime. Even the
| overlooking guerrillas were so stirred that
for the first time their gibbering ceased,
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THE GREATEST OF TUNS.
HeiGelberg's Famous Vessel Surpnss-
ed by One in Fresno.

From the San Francisco Call.
Down at Fresno has lately been erected a
gigantic wine cask or tun, beside which
the famed Great Tun of Heidelberg sinks
into insignificance. 1t is the biggest in the
world.
The great tUn holds $1,000 German gal
lcEs, or 1900 American gallons, while the
tun above referred to holds no less than
10000 gallons, or almost twice as much as
the tun which has for $50 years been figur-
ing in history.
1t took two carloads of steel to hoop the
gigantic cask, and there is enough lumber
In II to construct an elegant mansion. The
lumber is all redwood, obtained from the
forests of Humboldt county. Not one stick
In ten from which the material was sell cted
would answer. Absolute freedom from any
kind of flaws was required.
When the redwood was selected Il took
almost two years for 1t to dry and undergo
the preparation for the cask. About two
complete railroad trains of this California
redwood is used in the Fresno great tun
The tun towers to a height Of no less
than thirty feet, and II is twenty-six feet
VIDE. 1t can contain thirty carloads OF
wine.
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worthy than those that come from lie national
capital. The enthusiastic letters of Judge Powers
and of Congressman Grout recently pUblished
in this paper. Above is good likeness of one
OF the ahlest members on the democratic side Of
the House, leader of acknowledged ability, a
weight-Conercssman Elisha L. Meredith of Viz
ginia. letter from him, dated February i,
from the House Of Representatives, says:
After fair trial have no hesitation in saying
that believe Paines celery compound all that is
claimed for it, and it gives pleasure to COM
mend it,
letter from Congressman Robert NeiIl OF Ar
kansas contains the following:
My home is at Batesyille Ark During the
last spring and summer my eldest daughter, then
II years OF age, in very poor health, suffering
fIom general debility nervous prostration and fire.
quent slight fevers. She had the best medical at
tention, but apparently with little benefit. In
the latter part of September last, while still
feeble, she began the of Paine's celery COM
pound, and improved in health continuously. In
three months she had fully recovered, and is
still in perfect health. / bound to think the
remedy Is an excellent one, and do not hesitate TO
recommend it to the suffering
Lieut.. G. A. McAllister, writing from Hotel Ok
ford, March IS said:
For several years past 1 have been a sufferer
from severe attacks Of dyspepsia. caused by too
close attention to business; the advice of ply
stefan, l took several bottles Of Paines celery
compound and have been greatly benefited thereby
Since the first Of last September l have gained Is
pounds, and am now feeling in fist-rate health
&C. A. McALLISTER,
list Assistant Engineer, Z. S. r. c. So
Hon. John O. Bell, member of congress; from
Colorado, in a letter to Wells & Richardson Co,
about the same time, told how be had used three
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HAREM ON EXHIBITION.
A Bankrupt Pnsha EndeavOrinS to
RecOup Himself.
From the Philadelphia Record.

From the Philadelphia Record.
A genuine oriental harem is now being
exhibited throughout Europe. The manager
of the Berlin Panopticum has persuaded a
pasha living in the holy city of kayroman
to exhibit his harem to the unfaithful This
is the first time a Mohammedan has ever
dared to disregard the very strict laws of
his creed in such a way. The story of how
1t all came about is quite curious. The
pasta, the proprietor of the harem, became
bankrupt, and worried much about his in
ability to keep up in due style his very
numerous family. The manager, who hap
pened to be in Egypt to engage attractions
for the sideshows of the coming exposition
in Berlin, heard of the pasha's difficulties,
and prevailed upon him to accept mag
niflcent sum for six months contract to
exhibit himself and family in Europe. The
pasta, who had to choose between a GER
tain fortune among the unbelievers or alb
solute ruin staring him in the face at home
was persuaded to accept the managers
offer, and thus his household is now to be
seen for 80 pfennigs az cents head at
Berlin.
Sure enough, the pasha showed excellent
taste in the selection of his wives all of
whom are very good looking, and are con-
Sidered great beauties from an oriental
standpoint. There are a number of very
handsome children from six to sixteen years
of age, and some twenty female slaves at
tend to all the duties of the household in
full view of the onlookers. The most in
teresting part of the show is not the per-
sons themselves, but the life they lead in
the harem, about which much has been
written, but very little is known. Several
of the pasha's wives have extraordinary ac-
complishments in the way of singing play
ing musical instruments and dancing. They
are very clever handworkers, and while
away much of their time with embroidery
and other similar occupations. There ere,
all told. fortyssven persons in this house
hold.
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Documents Which Throw a Flood of
Light on the Contemporary Period.


Light on the Contemporary Period.
From Blackwood's Magazine.
The present century has seen the discov-
cry of many manuscripts of the greatest
Importance, and this is not merely in the
provinces Of theology and classical learn
ing, but also In that of medieval history
Every one knows + ow Constantine Tischen-
DORIS lucky arrival in the monastery of
St. Catherine, on Mount Sinai, saved what
Is perhaps the oldest manuscript Of the
Greek New Testament from destruction by
fire; and how, only two years ago, from
the same treasure house OF antiquity, Mrs
Lewis recovered a still earlier Syriac pa
limpsest of the same work, concealed I'M
der the "superscripture'' of a comparative
ly modern martyrology. Most people, too
whether biblical scholars or not know
something of the romance attending
the discovery of the long-lost "Diatessa-
ROM of Tatian in the library at the Vat
lean; and how the sands of Egypt have,
hardly ten years ago, yielded up the apoc-
ryphal Gospel Of st. Peter.
In matters classical, too, it Is much the
same. Thousands of people who are not, in
any sense of the word, classical scholars,
have heard Row the ruins of Egyptian cit
les have given us fragments of the "Iliad
in handwriting some two or three centu-
ries before Christ, and large portions of
the long-lost poems of Herondas. Yet hard
ly any one, save a professional mediaeval-
list here and there, knows of the romance
attending the discovery of madiaeval docu-
ments; how the history Of the tenth centu-
ry has had to be almost rewritten owing to
the discovery of the autograph" of the
work of the tenth century historian. Rich
er; or how Prague savant just succeeded
in saving the priceless contemporary rec
ord of Frederick Barbarossa's crusade from
the scissors of country town apothecary.
To come to English matters how many
Englshmen know Of the late discovery Of
the ng-historical French poem dealing
with the life Of the great Earl Marshal. the
hero Of Magma Charta? Or, more remark
able still, the recovery Of the history of
Richard Cceur-de-Lions Crusade, as told
in the verses of his own chaplain and fol-
lower Ambrose, the priest?
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a split-cane rocker, Garcia awaited u.s. a
small meager, dark man, with glittering
teeth. and fingers lemon-colored from
cigarette juice.
He stared at us, and spat, and the trial,
such as it was, began.
l must confess that the proceedings as
toniShed me. Animus there certainly was;
the guerrillas as a whole were disposed to
give us short shrift; but their chief insisted
on al least some parade of justice. The in
dictment was set forward against us. We
had shot, hanged and harried, and, in fact
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Facing the Music,

FroiN Notes and VuerNs.
This silly expression, % which has be-
come popular OF late, is a metaphor ap-
parently, from the language of military
riding When horse is young to his work
1t Is one Of the difficulties of his rider to
get him to face" the regimental band.
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Advice by Proxy.
From Puck.

she-"What?e The doctor suggested that
ride wheel? Tho idea! He never said
anything like that to me!''
He-"No; he didn't care to say so to you;
but he told mo that no matter now ridicu-
lous you might look, II would do you good"
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An Avertcd Tragedy.
From Pick-Me-Up

From P1cK-Me-Up.
Draw, draw! Caitff! Craven! In the
name of chivalry, draw! But stay! Perhaps
he cannot. Perchance he is an Impression
istp' (And the knight departed on his
Way e.-s
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PART Ii,

/ shrugged my shoulders. 1t seemed use
less to say anything. Methuen said: Look
| here, sir; you've got us, there's no mis-
| take about that. 1t seems to you've
| two courses before YOU and they are these:
! Either you can kill US, more less bar
| barousIy, in which case you will raise a
| most residential hunt at your heels, or
you can put us up to ransom. Now, neith-
er Calvert, here, nor myself is rich man,
| but il you choose to let us go with sound
| skins, were prepared to pay ten thousand
| Chilean dollars apiece for oar passports.
Now, how does that strike you?"
Garcia finished. rolling his cigarette and
lit it with care He inhaled a deep breath
of smoke. Senior he said (the words
coming out from between his white teeth
with little tufts of vapor) you do not ap-
pear TO understand. You fight as a soldier
of fortune, and L am merely in arms as a
patriot l am no huckster to traffic men s
| lives for money. nor am 1 a tmorous fool
TO be scared into Iobblng a culprit of his
just dues
Very we'll then" said Nethuen, murder
the pair of us.
Garcia smiled unpleasantly. You may
be very brave man. said he, but you
are not a judicious one To Judge less
just than myself this insolence might have
added something TO your punishment: but
as ii is l shall overlook what you have
said, and only impose the penalty 1 had de-
termined upon before you spoke"
lie llfted his thin, yellow fingers, and
GREW ifeSh breath of smoke. Then he
waved the cigarette toward the magnolia
tree in the center of the plaza. You see
that Dough which juts toward the chapel?"
It's made for gallows.'' said Methuen
precisely said the guerrilla, land 1t
VIII be used as one inside of ten minutes
L snail string one of you up there by the
neck TO dansle there between heaven and
earth. The other man shall have a rife
ana cartridges, and if. standing where he
does now, he can cut with a bullet the
rope with which his friend is hanged then
you shall both go free"
Il hear you say it, said Methuen. "In
other words. you condemn one of us to
be strangled slowly without chance of
reprieVe. But what guarantee have we
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COnnensutian

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
What a short waist that Miss whseler
has,
Yes, but hasn't she a long reach on the
pedais!"
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Methuen," he said, II advise you to shoot
straight or you will not get home even now.
You remember l said there was still
another condition. Well, here you are: You
must cut your friend down with a bullet
before he is quite dead, or I'll string you
up beside him.
Methuen gave a short laugh. Remember
what l said about that fellow in The Mi
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used all the harshness of war. Had we
been Chleans in the Chilean service, this
might have been Pardonable. But we We're
aliens from across the sea; We're freeboot-
ers. fighting not for country, but each for
his own hand; and such we were beyond
the pale of military courtesy. We had
earned d punishment. Had We any word
to speak why this should not be given?
Garcia looked toward us eXpectantly, and
then set himself to roll fresh cigarette.
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Isl Assistant Engineer, g. s. r. C. St
Hon. John @. Bell, member Of congress- from
Colorado, in letter to Wells & Richardson Co,
about the time, told how be had used three
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NEAR THE WHITE H0USI
Personal Friends Of the President
Paine's Celery Compound.

Following the Testimonials of Judge Powers and
Congressman Circuit Come Hearty Letters From
Congressman Meredith of Va, Asst. u S. Attor-
ney John G: Capers, Maj Gen. Birney, Congress-
man WILDER of N. Y, Congressman Bell, Lieut.
McAlister, Congressman Neil and Many More
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-11-14
FOREIGN.

The Armenian committee of London.
Paris and Geneva have decided to stop
oil further action of their propaganda
in order to give time for the application
of the promised reforms by the sultan.
According to insurgent statements
the frequency of engagements recently
fought in the province of Havana is
evidence of the truth of the report that
Antonio Maceo and Maxine Gomez are
directing the forces under their COM
mand upon the city of Havana itself,
with the intention of laying siege to it.
Arc.duchess Maria of Vienna has re-
nounced all her rights of succession to
the throne of Austria prior to her mar
riage to the duke of Orleans
The extensive worsted mills of Daw-
son & Sons at Bradford, England, were
destroyed by fire, the loss being $3.50, 900.
The Cuban insurgents captured the
town of Guaimara after long siege.
1t is one of the principal places in the
province of Puerto Principe
The banks in Windsor, Ont, have
raised the boycott on American money
and will take it at par as heretofore.
The Hawaiian government has granted
full pardon and restoration of her civil
rights to Queen Liiuokalani.
A massacre occurred in an Armenian
village near Kaiserlea and 60 persons
were killed.
Mrs. Walter Castle, of San Francisco,
was sentenced TO three months impris-
onment without hard labor in London
for shoplifting, and Mr.. Castle. charged
with the same crime, was acquitted.
The present Canadian ministry, it is
asserted, is pledged to send delegates to
Washington to negotiate a treaty of
reciprocity with the United States.
The steamer Tiber came into collision
with the schooner Maggie near st.
Johns, N. F., and nine men and four
women on the schooner were drowned.
The Spanish government will send
&C. 900 more recruits to Cuba before the
middle of December.
The government of Ecuador has re-
ouested the Jesuit fathers settled in the
eastern part of the republic to leave
the country on the charge of foment-
ing revolutionary movements.
Capt. Gen. Weyler has taken the field
in person in Cuba against the insurgents
under Antonio Maceo in the province of
T'inar del Rio.
Near the town of San Jose, in Cuba,
an American citizen and 10 noncom-
batant Cubans, including four women,
were butchered by Spanish soldiers.
The schooner Sonora was wrecked
and five lives lost in a storm off Point
Abino, about ten miles from Buffalo,
n. Y. an the Canadian shore.
Nearly all the rivers of Central and
Northern Italy have overfowed and
towns have been flooded, bridges swept
away, several persons drowned and
large tracts of land desolated.
The steamer Aznafarache was sunk in
collision with another steamer near
Seville, Spain, and 20 of her passengers
were drowned.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-11-14

James Michaels rode ten miles on
bicycle at New Orleans in 1925, break
ing the American record, and made five
miles in o:12, breaking the worlds rec
ord.
All railway records between Chicago
and the Mississippi river were broken
by the Rock Island Railroad company,
which ran q special train from Rock
Island to Chicago, a distance of 1s1
miles, in hoers and 30 minutes.
Dispatches from all sections of the
land announce resumption of work on
full time with full forces by industries
of all kinds.
Otis V. Thomas, w. B. Peters and Will
lis II. Connor, members of an organized
gang of forgers, were arrested in New
York.
The dry goods establishment of Law
rie g. Robson at Indianapolis was
burned, the loss being about 100000
The town of Spencer, w. Va, was al
most destroyed by fire. 80 stores and
houses being burned. The total loss is
100000.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 9th was: Wheat,
59,02S,000 bushels; corn, 1o,294, 900 BUSH
els; oats, 12,445, 900 bushels; rye, $780,
COO bushels; barley, 5,942, 900 bushels
Rev. Alexis Berk, young Methodist
minister, perished in snowstorm in
the mountains of the Flathead country
in Montana.
The twelfth annual meeting of the
national horse show of America began
i'll Madison Square garden in New York.
The Torrens law governing the trans
fer of land and the registration of land
titles has been declared by the supreme
court of Illinois to be unconstitutional.
The fire loss of the United States and
Canada for the month of October shows
a total of $s,9o5,O 900, against $13, Ali, 500
during the same month in 1895.
Michael Foley was arrested at Chill
licothe, o., on the charge of counter
feiting nickels, dimes, quarters and
halves.
Members of the Grain Dealers Ma
tional association met in Chicago and
formed a national association for the
protection of shippers and elected E.
S. Greenlief, of Jacksonville, ILL.,, presi-
dent.
Two young men entered the jewelry
establishment of Hermann SS Co. in
Chicago, bound and gagged the head of
the firm and clerk and escaped with
$4,000 worth of diamonds.
In fit of jealousy William ]. Goukler
murdered his wife in Philadelphia by
cutting her throat and then ended his
own life in the same manner.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-11-14
LATER.

REPORTS from Constantinople state
that the situation there is very dan
gerous The miles of most of the
diplomats have left tn, city.
THE fire loss of the United States
and Canada for October shows total
of SIS, ,993, 0OO This is a remarkable inn
provement over October's showing in
1895, when the total loss was S13, ALL
900.
INABILITY to realize on it's securities
and heavy Withdrawals of deposits
caused the Iowa savings bank, of
Sioux City, to close it's doors on the
10th. The banks last statement
showed assets $4,000; deposits $780,
loco.
PROF. JOHN GYLpEN, the celebrated
Swedish astronomer, is dead at Stock
holm. Mr.. Gylden was born in 1s4L
He was the author of number of as
tronomical works of note.
THE government has become pos
sessed of the house opposite Ford's
theater in Washington, where Lincoln
was carried after the assassination and
died. The house will be occupied by
the Lincoln Memorial association as
VI EGllCS VI Uuo ECu DlCo-
ident.
THE three-story wooden factory oc-
cupied by the Deershorn Comb Co., at
Clinton, Mass, was burned on the 10th,
ca using loss of $4,000. Fifty hands
were thrown out of employment.
UNITED STATES torpedo boat No
was launched at the Columbian iron
works, Baltimore, on the 10th. The
vessel was the second of it's class
launched by the Columbian Co., No
having glided into the waters few
weeks ago. Another is under con-
struction at the Columbian works.
COMPTROLLER ECKELs on the 10th
closed the First national bank of De-
rorah, Ia, capital $4,000, and placed
bank examiner in charge. The bank
is in bad shape, being unable to real
ze on its assets.
big ironclads built under former con-
tracts by the Cramps, started from the
shipyard at Philadelphia on the 10th
for her preliminary trial at sea. The
trip will last about a week.
The republican cong ressional CAM
lpaign committee is to be made perma-
uent with headquarters in Washington,'
where. in connection with the national
Icommittee, it will continue the fight
lagainst free-silver.
/ The official returns show that the
Ina jority for John Il. Shafroth in the
First congressional district of Colorado
is 54, 37S This is the greatest majority
lever given member of congress since
sthe foundation of our government