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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-10-04
SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED GIRLS.

swarm around the house. The Mayor,
General Boze, of the Cuban army,
will have a tract of municipal land
plowed up for them with the town
oxen, and Miss Levy is going to give
them seeds and simple little tools and
arrange for a man to advise them about
simple crops, hoping that in this way
she may come to influence their diet
and, to some extent, their housekeep-
ing ideas"
1t has been urged by many that the
directors Of the Cuban Orphan Fund
are wasting an unnecessary amount of
money on their plant. e., the pur-
chase of buildings for homes, orphan
asylums and schools. This is not the
case, as the buildings which are set.
tied and used for this purpose are prac-
tically given for the purpose.
The pictures here presented were
all taken on the spot, and show the
practical good which is being done by
the representatives of the fund.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-10-04

Miss Wilson, and these three brave
women, to use the words of one of the
prominent members of the fund, care
doing rs true missionary work as any
ever did"
Miss Gill writes:
''In Sancti Spiritus we found q
condition of suffering which is much
more serious than anything which we
have seen before. There are over four
hundred children who need to be
taken care of right away, and the
town has only been able to provide
for twenty-five little girls, who were
selected because they were physically
worse off than anybody else in town.
Although they have now been cared for
nearly six weeks, they are still mere
little skeletons, and almost make one
doubt whether it was any kindness to
help them to live few years longer. /"
Miss ellis last report gives most
encouraging news:
"We may now count that the Santa
Maria del Rosario work is established.
II is, as you know, of purely settle
ment character, with headquarters in
q house rented from Ex-Governor
Mora, in which Miss Levy and Mrs.
Barsaga, her Cuban assistant, reside
and in which the kindergarten will be
held for the present.
"The house has been furnished, and
the women are thoroughly installed
in their new home. The boys of the
town have come in quite large mum.
bers, requesting instruction, and sew
eral women have been in to ask if they
might be taught to sew and clean and
work according to our American
methods. The little children simply
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-10-04
"The whole rural life of three great

"The whole rural life of three great
provinces-Havana, Matanzas and
Santa Clara-was absolutely blotted
out. Occasionally clump of banana
trees, whose roots had escaped the
fire, or scarlet creeper, would show
where a farm house had stood; but
the tropical growth quickly covered
the ruins. 1t was inconceivable that
in the midst of this teeming vegeta-
ton the country should be a desert,
for no sign of human life appeared.
"On the contrary, every town and
city visited was thronged with beg
gsrs, many of them emaciated and
gaunt; women, children, cripples and
few broken-spirited men; and the
dreadful odor OF every place occupied
by Spanish soldiers. There was no
decency, there was no sanitation; in
our sense of the word, indeed, there
was no discipline. 1t was wanton
and prohigate devastation in the time
of peace.
Amid all this misery, and herding
together like cattle, were the little
children, the future citizens of Cuba,
whether as a republic or as a part of
the United States. And it was for the
upbringing and developing of the
future generation of the island that
the Cuban Orphan Relief Fund was
started.
Mr.. Charles w. Could who is very
prominently connected with the fund,
l 4 i
corroborates statement made by @
Catholic priest, who had just returned
from Havana, as to the patriarchal
system in Cuba. Mr.. Gould said:
81 never saw anything to equal the
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-10-04
DYING REPORTERS HEROIC ACT.
Burns His Collection of Mean Sayings
About Great Public Men.

ABOUT Great Pubiic Men.
clippings are one of the most
valuable and sometimes one of the
meanest aids to n newspaper man, "
remarked a veteran editor, running
his eye over the mortuary index of the
Office clippings.
"A few years ago political repor-
ter on Chicago paper received his
last assignment. 1t was an order from
high authority for him to cross the
river StyX. He was man of a great
deal OF force, and he knew just where
to stick his pen to run its poison deep
est. Withal he was good fellow, as
newspaper Pariahs go, and everybody
in the Office liked him. The manag-
ing editor hurried ont to the dying
mans side.
"Rigsby," said the old reporter,
'I've been very bad man."
"Oh, no, you haven't" his chief as
sured him. Gust like the ordinary
run OF MS. you'll feel differently
when you get better"
But the old political reporter shook
his head.
"hlgsby," he said, ''you know that
collection of clippings I've got? 1t
contains all the low, mean, damaging
things that have been said about pro.
minent politicians in the last twenty.
five years. It's the most complete
and the most villainous collection oi
stuff in the country. It's worth a loi
of money"
"Yes," said the managing editor.
"It's mean, and it's worth lot OF
money"
"Rigsby," the feeble voice went on.
"I want you to unlock my desk and
take out those newspaper slips and
burn them right here before my eyes.
I'll do that much for humanity any
how"
Rigsby got out the papers. and lie
and the dying man made bonfire OF
them, and watched it die to ashes. II
was q very heroic thing to do. Chic
ago Inter- Ocean.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-10-04
proselytize them, beyond teaching
l<. l. o,.al i kL..aall

proselytize them, beyond teaching
them to be moral and honest.
T. To better understand the terrible
condition Of the peasants of Cuba,
who are the ones now being benefited,
o few quotations from the report of
one of the American Commission sets
the facts more plainly before the pub
lie. He says;
is SCUBA was not suffering from O
commercial or financial panic. 1t was
in state of utter prostration and col
lapse. Business and agricultural life
had long ceased. The whole island
was dead.
''Even now the result of Weyler's
order OF RECOMMENDATION is not under
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-10-04
Raising Reindeer For Canning.

At Telemarken, in Eastern Norway,
company has just secured a tract of
mountain land fifty miles square for
breeding and raising reindeer. AS a
start 2400 head of deer have been
bought, and it is intended that the
number shall be increased by births
and buying to something like 400C
head, 1000 of which will be killed
every year. In addition to the send.
ing out Of venison in the carcass re.
frigerator cars and chambers on yes
sells quantity will be put up in tina
TO prevent Cutting Of the markets in
the winter.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-10-04
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Mr.. Borkedal Of Norway announces
that the sun is burning out more rap
idly than is usually believed, and that
unless something interferes our grand
children will see its extinction. Mr..
Mohn, also of Norway, has checked
Mr.. Borkedals calculations and finds
them correct.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-10-04

Recent researches with the aid OF
Rontgen rays on the movements of
the stomach of cat during the diges-
ton of n meal showed in most strik-
ing manner that any slight vexation of
the animal stopped with surprising
promptness and invoriability gastric
cOntractions and movements of every
sort.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-10-04

and not see one COW, not one chicken,
not one farm house, not one man
working in the fields, it would be
something similar to the result OF
General Weyler's RECOMMENDATION or
der in Cuba.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-10-04

The nice adjustment necessary in
the various parts of immense engines
now employed for some of the trains
on our great railway liners may be
indicated by few data of the work
performed by these parts when the
locomotive is worked at high speed.
Thus, in the case of passenger en-
CINE at sixty miles an hour, driving
wheel of five aud one-half feet diam
eter revolves five times every second,
and, this being so. the reciprocating
parts of each cylinder, including one
piston rod, crosshead and connecting
rod, weighing about six hundred
and fifty pounds, must move back and
forth distance equal to the stroke,
say two feet, every time the wheel
revolves, or in the fifth of second
this weight starts from state of re I
at the end of each stroke of the piston
and must acquire velocity of thirty
two feet per second in one-twentieth
of a second, and must be brought to a
state of rest in the same period of
time. A piston eighteen inches in
diameter has an area of 254 12 square
inches; steam of one hundred and
fifty pounds pressure per square inch
would therefore exert a force on the
piston equal to 3S, ,175 pounds, which
force is applied alternately on each
side of the piston ten times in Sec
onl
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-10-04

It often dtnat the late Cornelius Vanderbilt the best Of
the Vandbts By that the
hearted the public spirited the lovabe
and rich family which that Though
training
paid Nation Vanderbilt
m a o
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-10-04

The common belief that steel and
iron become brittle aud more liable
to break when subjected to great cold
is contradicted by the results Of expe-
riments made at Cornell University.
1t has been shown there that the
strength of steel and wrought iron is
least at temperature of 20 degrees
Fahrenheit, and that il increases when
the temperature either rises or falls
from that point. At 500 degrees
above zero and at 60 degrees below
zero the strength is increased about
20 per cont. The elastic limit also
rises slightly with increase of cold.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-10-04

the Cuban Orphan Fund started out
TO do. Miss Laura ID. Gill was
selected as best fitted to represent
the trustees Of the fund in Cuba. She
has two assistants, Miss Levy and
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-10-04

A new paper product is the result
of the enterprise of one of the Jap
anese paper companies. 1t is n sub
stitute for ordinary shingles, made of
thick, tarred pasteboard. The paper
shingles have met with quick and
large demand, selling for about one
half the price of wooden shingles and
being much easier to manipulate.
They economize the labor of me-
chanics, and are said to he as proof
against rain and fire as the ordinary
articles. Paper shingles have been
adopted for the sub-roofng of the
new Toxic Chamber of Commerce and
Imperial Toxic university buildings.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-10-04

Nlaior-G General Schaw has suggested,
before the Institution of Mining En-
gineers in London, the substituting
of water for gunpowdcr in blasting
cartridges used in coa,mines. His
plan is to fill the cartridge with pure
water, insert it in the drill-hole, and
then turn the water into high pressure
steam by means of an electric current
of low tension. A cartridge made to
resist pressure of $50 pounds per
square inch could be caused to burst,
according to General Schaw's calcula-
tions, within about one minute after
the turning on of the current.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1899-12-27
General rawtsa killed.


MANILA. Dec. a0.-Details Of Genersl
Lswton's death throw strong sidelights
on the nobility Of his character. With q
strong force the General on Tuesday
marched all day ia a driving rain and
attacked the Filipinos at san Mateo.
Captain Breckenridge was shot 10 the
skirmish and General Lswton dismount-
Ell and helped to carry the wounded
officers litter.
While bending over the litter and as
sisting in dressing Brecksnridge's wound
Filipino bullet, more treacherous or
better aimed than .lhers, passed through
his heart and be fell dead.
Officers near him had called the Gen.
erals attention IN the fact that the Fill
pino sharpshootSIs were aiming at him.
They begged him 10 be careful. General
Lawton resoluteiy replied: II must see
what l. going on in the firing line"
He then started of and had traversed
about fifty feet when he was shot. He
tipped forward, with blood gushing from
his mouth. He did not speak again. for
he was dead.
Manley Lawton. the u year old son of
the General, who accompanied his father
in the entire northern campaign. stood
outside the gate of his Manila home to-
night waiting for the arrival of the body.
"How l dread to see my father dead :"
he exclaimed.
The brave boy was overcome with grief
when the ambulance with a big cavalry
escort thundered down the the street and
came into view.
Mrs. Lswton was packing up in dazed
way, getting ready to return home with
her dead husband.
Every one is fearful of the result if she
breaks down.
General Otis says he feels as if by GEN
eral Lawton's death he has lost his right
arm.
The feeling among his staff is so great
with grief that it forbids expression, and
no one at headquarters will talk.
Mrs. Lawton seems not to understand
that her husband is dead o: even to think
it possible that he could be killed.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1899-12-27
saw KILL TRAGEDY.
George Skater LOrss Hi. Life Thursday
Last

one oi those terrible accidents that ap-
pear 10 be inseparable from machinery.
occurred on the Mrs. Louise Mankamier
tract, two and one half miles south uf
lockwood, Thursday, 18th inst. Domer
kreger, of Kingwood, has the mill in
operation aud as he was short handed,
Mr.. George Shafer, son Of Mr.. aud Mrs.
Carl Shafer, of Summit, was engaged by
Mr.. Z. Mankamier to make logs. George
had worked but day and half when
he volunteered to take an ofI-besrer's
place on the mill. This accident, result
ing in his death, could not have happen
ed TO him had he remained in his first
position.
As the engineer turned on the steam for
the afternoons run, the sawyer run the
carriage hack to put on the first log, the
setter, Daniel Mankamier, standing on
the carriage at his place. moving the
head block hack at the time. young Shat
er stepped in the carriage for ride, but
soon leaped off, to walk back to his place
as of bearer, which was on the other side
of the mill. II was while passing between
the head blocks of the carriage and saw.
which was rapidly revolving, that in
some way he was caught and in mo-
ment both his legs and one foot were bor-
ribly lscerated; he was then thrown for
ward on top of the saw, deep gashes be-
ing cut in his left shoulder and breast, his
entire left side being forced under the
carriage 80 tightly that it required the
power of the three men to throw the car
risge clear OF the track, when Shafer tore
himself clear, dying ten minutes later.
The saw was stopped as quickly as pos
sible. The torn remains were placed on
a sled and taken 10 his home by John
Heiner. Ed. Hochstetler, William Ger
hart, A. and D. Mankamier.
Mr.. George Shafer had lived nineteen
years and thirteen days. His neighbors
and friends speak Of him in terms of the
highest praise; they all say he WIS a re-
spectacle, promising young man of the
highest standing, and sincerely loved by
all for his many excellent traits Of char
Commercial.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1899-12-27
sonsthire for ths New Yesr.

The world renowned success Of Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters and their continued
popularity for near half. century ss q
stomachic is scarcely more wonderful
than the welcome that greets Hostetter's
Almanac. This medical treatise is pub
lished by the Hostetter Company, Pitts
burg. Pa, under their own immediate
supervision, employing sixty hands in
that department. The issue OF same for
1900 will be over eleven millions, printed
ia nine Languages. Refer to copy Of Il
for valuable and Interesting reading con-
cerning health, and numerous testimoni
ais ~ to the efficacy Of Hostetter's Stom-
ach Bitters. The Almanac for 1900 can be
obtained, free Of cost, from druggists aud
general country dealers in all parts OF The
country.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1899-12-27
"PtTE" MEYERS RESPITED.
Governor Stone Grants Condemned
Murderer Two Weeks More
Of Life.
EXECUTION DELAYED UNTIL JAN. as.A.

Governor Stone on Friday respited Sam
uel Peter Meyers. who had been condemn
ed TO be executed for the murder of John
Lenhart and Michael Carney on January
llth TO January 10Th, in order that his at
torneys might be given an opportunity to
appear before the Board of Pardons and
ask that the sentence of death might be
eommnted to life Imprisonment. Attor-
ney A. c. Holbert visited Harrisburg for
the purpose of iuterceding with the Gov
ornor in behalf OF Meyers, and as soon as
he secured the Governors assurance that
he would issue a stay of execution he tel
egraphed his as ssOeiate counsel. F. J. Koo-
ser. TO convey the glad tiuings to Meyers.
When Meyers learned that he would be
permitted to enjoy two weeks more of
life, he exposed all the gratifica ion he
was capable Of Many people are firmly
convinced that Meyers is insane, and
that b. should be sent TO an asylum, in
stead of being executed. Daring the fif-
teen months Meyers has been in Jail he
has deported himself as well as any of
the other prisoners.
II i probable that Sheriff elect Savior
was pleased 10 learn that the disagreeable
task the law imposes upon him has been
postponed for two weeks. or until he be-
comes familiar with his new quarters and
his new duties.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1899-12-27
LOst His Liberty for Love.

H. ]. Hannah, alias J. II. Manly, of
JOhnstown, who is wanted at Greensburg
for murder, is under arrest in San Fran
cisco. Mrs. Hannah by attempting to
spend Christmas with her husband an
knowingly gave the detectives a clue to
the fugitive's whereabouts. Before she
was out Of the State on her long journey
across the continent, the California Off
GERS were notified to interrupt the happy
meeting last Friday by flashing a war
rant for Hannah.
The coroner's jury of Westmoreland
county has charged Hannah with the
killing of John Craig, of Pittsburg, at
Greensburg May >, last. That day the
borough was celebrating the one hun
dredth anniversary of its incorporation.
Just at noon, when the streets were pack
ed with people, Craig was shot. The man
who committed the crime escaped in the
crowd. Craig was taken to the hospital,
where he died the following Sunday.
Soon after the shooting George Guy
hauff was arrested, but Craig said he was
not the man who fired the shot. From
ndlA ~ a. AtAAh hN0 haoN ~ ~ ~
Hannah aud others had been at Altoona
few days before, during the Knights
Tetnplar eonclave. They had bsen as
sociated in some enterprise and parted
before the receipts had been divided.
The first meeting was at Greensburg, and
Craig and Hannah had an argument over
money matters. They exchanged a few
blows. Hannah is said to have bought
q revolver and again gone after Craig.
Detective James Mccain went 10 work
on the case. In couple of days be To-
Gated Hannah at Johnstown, but the
county commissioners refused to put up
the money to bring him back. Hannah
then started South. A month or two
after the murder he was located by Nc
Cain in Savannah, but the WestnlorelaDd
authorities did not go after him. oflate
they have been ANXIOUS 10 secure him,
and Roger O'Mara, superintendent Of
the Pittsbnrg bureau of detectives, was
asked to assist in the mans capture.
Mrs. Hannah was living in Dunbar and
watch was kept on her 10 see If she WAS
communicating with her husband. De-
cember IA she went to Johnstown, re-
turning the following day TO Dunbar. On
the lG.h she went to Pittsbnrg and bought
a ticket for San Francisco. The detec-
tIves learned the time she would arrive
i'm the California city and the informa-
ton was wired there by O'Mara, with
orders TO arrest Hannah. he was caught
Friday. Hannah was known in San
Francisco as J. II. Manly, and had been
working in a barber shop. The prisoner
belongs to a prominent Johnstown
| family.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1899-12-27
psesmbsr Wsadine..

The following named couples secured
marriage licenses since the first Of thu
present month.
Grayson McElfsh, lockwood.
Darlie Murray,
John wiland, Meyersdale.
Bertha Seigner, Romsnia.
Wm. III. MOsh0lder, Summit
Lizzie Albright,
Weldin G.. Will, Soemrset.
Estella NJ. Ringler, StOnycreek.
Andrew g. Glessner, Allegheny.
Anna NJ. Keefer,
Harris L. Taylor, Scalp Level.
Nora b. Schuchmaker, Clearfield Co.
Isaiah Baker, Black.
Catherine NJ. Weimer. Black.
Edwin f. Stahl, Somerset.
Sadie +. Hanger, Milford.
Charles L. Beal, Sand Patch.
Eva Lenhart, Meyersdaie.
Charles Kimmel, lockwood.
Anna b Hutzell,
Edward Price, Stonyereek.
Maggie NJ. Meyers, -
Henry Walker, Windber.
Mamie McFeeley,
Elizabeth Heiple, Somerset.
John w. Gaumer, Williams.
Lucia c. Dsremer, Fairhope.
George Burket, Stonycreek.
Enma BurkeL
Abraham A. Lambert, Lambertsville.
Hattie Beansr, Bedford County.
Alfred Ringler, Elk Lick.
Mary Mimna- -
William Lindeman, Neyersdale.
Matte Whitford, Keystone.
John a. Stahl, Kantnef.
Cora l.. Shaver, -
Austin Geisel, Johnslown.
Cora Kimmel, Stonycreek.
John NJ. Schradle. Northampton.
Minnie A. Aanning,
p. 5. Mcbride, westmoreland County.
Annie Miller,
Marcellns r King, L. Turkeyfoot.
Ada 5. Faidley,
Charles w. Turner, West Virginia
Catharine Steur, -
Charles Glessner, Brothersvalley.
Grace V. EDgleka, Allegheny.
Ross Osler, Fayette County.
Lulu V. Parker, Confluence.
John T. Long, Trent.
Edith Skelly, Scnllton.
Joseph J. Shsffer, Hooversville.
Clara q. Reinan, Berlin.
Irwin II. Good, Latrobe
Catharine Moore, Lincoln.
Ernest V. Rees, Allegheny City.
Corda [. HOupt, Somerset Bor.
Charles Lambert, Shade.
Fannie Rodgers,
D S. Good, Somerset.
Clara Barron,
Adam "; waybright, Elk Lick.
Maria c. Raines,
Thomas Jones. Pittsburg.
Ada Naylor, Windber.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1899-12-27
Johnston Now in Custody.

CLEARFIELD, Pa, December 2l.-Jury
Commissioner Millard +. Johnston, who
has been sfugitive from justice since No
vember q, has been captured at Marion,
Ind, and is on his way TO Clearfield in
custody of Constable Thompson Of Cur
wensvilie. At the hearing before Judge
Gordon. December .. thetestimony point
ed to Johnston as being implicated in the
packing Of the jury panel for the Decem-
Der term OF court Judge Cyrus Gordon
has made a rule on Johnston and J. E.
Phillips. the other jury commissioner,
who is jointly charged with him, to show
cause why their offices should not be de-
clared vacant by reason Of alleged misbe-
havior.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1899-12-27
Week Of Prayer PrOgrsm.

The Week of Prayer will be observed
in Somerset, a. is the custom, by union
services. as follows:
Monday evening. January s. in the
United Evangelical Church.
Tuesday evening IN the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
Wednesday evening in the Disciple
Church.
Thursday evening in Trinity Lutheran
Church.
Friday evening in the Reformed
Church.
saturday evening in the UDited Breih-
rem Church.
Services will begin promptly at
O'Clock.
The collection taken at the several ser
vices viii be devoted 10 the work OF the
Children's Aid Society.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1899-12-27
Commissioners Forced to Settle.

TowANDA. Pa. Dec. 22.-The case of
the taxpayers of Bradford county against
ex-Commissioners Horace Horton. John
Wolf and w. X. Green, known as the
taxpayers appeal from the report of the
county auditors for 1896, was to-day set
tied by the payment to the attorneys for
the plaintiffs of $1,000. Appeals were
taken by the commissioners and the tax :
payers in the spring of 1897.
The case was heard by Judge Arch
bald of Scranton and he found judgments
of 81, 7,l7S 81 against Horton Wolf and
3s.7423j against Green. Judge Archibald
approved the settlement of to-day and
the judgments were satisfied. The mat =
ter grew out of the building of the new
$4,000 court house, the original sur
charge being S5,sI6O6: of this amount the
contractor refunded s., 3,530.SO.