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MRS. A. REYNOLDS
TRIED FOR FORGERY
CASE HAS SOME VERY UNUSUAL
FEATURES.

Defendant Was Positively Identified
as the Woman Who Went to the
Lackawanna Trust and Safe De-
posit Bank and Obtained Money
There But She Positively Denied
Ever Having Beer in That Bank
and Succeeded in Establishing a
Fairly Good Alibi.
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Tie vault of this bank is pro.
tected by Holmes Electric Pro.
tective System.
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Here Are the Prices:

Beaced Pillow Caes42x36, Tic. 45x36, 12Lzc, 5Ox36,
54x36, 16c Speca-4Sx36, 1lc Beac1ed
72x9O, 45c S1xoO, soc. oOxoO, 55c oOxoo, Csc.
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DR.. p. ".
Pierce is .nd
for thirty
year: mas
been chic:
consulting
physician of
The Invaiids'
Hotel and
Surgical In
stitute, of
Buffalo. Dur
ing this time
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These prices rule for the present. but under the existing
last long
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THAT BANK BOOK.

Evidence concerning the manner in
which the bank book presented by
the woman at the bank could get out
side the Reynolds household was very
meagre. When Reynolds was on the
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lie only the other day and in that most
unromantic quarter. the busy, busting
CITY of Liverpool. England. Miss Regina
de Sales is an American singer who is
RAPIDLY acquiring European distinction
and who not long since returned to Eng
land from a successful tour in Germany.
ApparentIy while there she had become
strongly imbued with the spirit of Handel
and the grateful musician was determined
TO reward her In the most appropriate
way.
The Messiah was in progress, MISS DC
Sales was singing the principal part, and
the audience was enthusiastically apprecla-
tive The conductor alone was not salts
fed. Again and again he gave the Ameri-
can singer the beat. only to hnd himseit
absolutely ignored; she grew intensely ex-
cited, forcing the time here. retarding IL
there, following her own sweet fancy as
though she had never heard of conductors
and batons.
In the greenroom the inevitable storm
broke "Why did you not follow my
beat?" cried the incensed leader.
why indeed?' cried Miss de sales,
because Handel himself was present in
the hall and he gave me the correct
tempt. I saw him"
Now Handers costume. head and his
torical wig were not likely to be dupli-
Gated by ANYBODY sitting in that fin de
steele audience; evidently the American
songstress was suffering from some femi-
nine delusion which must not be treated
seriously: the conductor laughed good
humoredly at the fancy of an historical
woman and there the incident closed. as
he supposed.
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Rut that night Miss Edith Martin. the

But that night Miss Edith Martin, the
harpist. sleeping beside Miss de Sales, was
Weakened by a loud cry of "Bravo!" Sit
ting ND suddenly in alarm she caught her
breath and trembled. for there, standing
grayely at the foot of the bed, was Handel
in person wig, frills and etceteras all
complete, vigorously conducting with the
roll of music in his hand.
The frightened girl turned round to
rouse her companion when 10. shock the
second came Miss de Sales was likewise
sitting up but with no manner of fear
upon her. In fact she was still fast
asleep. But her hands moved, her throat
quivered her lips worked. her mouth
formed the correct singing oval; in short
she was evidently rehearsing, in soundless
fashion, q singing part. This uncanny pro-
ceeding lasted some time. till at last the
gentleman of the wig took his departure,
the singer lay down calmly, as though
nothing had happened, and Miss Martin
bided the dawn with as much nerVss as
she could muster.
She said nothing at first: probably she
was afraid of being laughed at; the aver
age listener eyes rather superciliously the
young woman who owns to extraordinary
night visions while wide awake. But at
breakfast Miss Martin heard Miss de
Sales recounting some experience with
considerable animation: she listened, ana
behold, the singer was telling of the Won
derful dream she had had when Handel
came to the foot of her bed and carefully
put her through her part for that day.
Then Miss Martin considered herself free
to speak as an independent and greatly
scared witness. A. r. ROSE-SOLEY.
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ties I have been present at and witnessed
and sketched, such an idea as keeping
out of It never occurred TO me" On this
occasion, however the idea seems to have
occurred pretty .vividly; so much so that
personal, and maternal warnings won the
day and the artist engaged a substitute,
an efficient amateur, who was willing to
take sketches on the spot and send them
down to Melton Prior to be retouched
Whether the substitute was aware that
he was taking the place of man doomed
by vision and laughed at the risk we are
not told. Anyhow, the war artist made
no secret of the contract, but wrote to the
proprietors of his paper. to whom he COM
municated all the details. Mr.. (now
Sir) William Ingram answered by cable:
Regret your not going into battle at
Etchowe. Perhaps our special artist is
preserved for better things to come"
The cablegram sounds sarcastic, but the
conclusion to the story is tragically sng-
gestive:
1.-THE man who went UP for me was one
Of the first killed in the fighting"
Now the question arises: What had this
poor substitute done that he should not
also be warned In a dream?
A later story comes with all the FRESH
ness of novelty as showing that the dead
may hold converse with the living in very
unusual fashion. We know all about the
family ghost who frightens his descend
ants out of their lives at unseemly hours
with no apparent object But we are not
familiar with the artistic ghost who takes
his proteges in hand and regulates their
proceedings on the platform. Yet one OF
these benevolent spirits appeared in pub
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PROPHFCIES REGARDING PARIS IN 1900
The Death the Late President Other Singular Predictions

are to have no other end than TO prepare
for the return Of royalty. The successor
of Felix Faure will not remain long IN
office. Civil war will intervene. Then a
man whom the people will take for the
savior Of France will impose himself upon
the people. But he, too. shall pass. Can
II be Antemos? Most believers think that
one of the Napoleons is indicated.
In July, 1898, Mile. Couedon again re-
ferred to the successor of Felix Faure and
foretold with exactness the voting Of the
ex-post facto law 1T is to be noted that
the law-which has not yet passed the
Senate-is mentioned after the succession
Of the Presidency and not before 1t. "One
will succeed to him that you see. But he
will only pass. Then a law will be voted,
and you shall be terrified" Revolution is
in the air: ST see them revolving. Peo-
pies minds are mixed up. I see knives
lifted. II is, however, at the end of this
remarkable prophecy that she sees most
Enthusiastically the death of the late Presi-
dent. For him we should pray. He can
not remain. He cannot remain. He cam
not remain. His life is to efface itself.
God has, as it were, removed him for a
utility. All is premeditated by the Divin-
ity."
To the occultists of Parisit is not strange
or contradictory that modern and ancient
astrologers like Nine. Thebes and Michael
Nostradamus should be in agreement with
modern and ancient prophets speaking in
the name of religion, like Mile. Couedon
and the Cistercian Olivarius. These cho-
sen ones may be compared, they say, to
bits of stained glass. misshapen and per-
haps soiled, through which the light
struggles, variously colored and perhaps
detected; but it is still the light. Pere
Necton, who died in 1772, said: Paris
shall be entirely destroyed" Sister Ma
rianne, of the Ursulines of Blois, who
died in 1904, prophesied the same thing.
A certain Trappist of Notre Dame des
Gardes, in 1915, saw the capital burning.
The Seer of Beley, who died in 1920. said:
Babylon is reduced to cinders. Unhap-
Souffrant, who died in 1928, also pro
claimed: 1.-THE great Babylon shall be
overthrown. Paris shall be destroyed"
The sheperdess-prophetess Marianne Gal
tier, said: The great prostitute shall be
destroyed by fire, but God will warn the
just OF Paris And in our own day has
not Marie Martel foretold that Paris
shall be burned, but Montmartre shall be
preserved?
STERLING HELLO.
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SHE is TRAVELLING GROUND THE WORLD
ind Is Earning Her Own Living at the
Same Time
Interesting Life Tbot sketched Out for Herself 1od the
sinouor Adventures Is Having Trying
to 1t.

dent of the kind offices of'those who loved
and pitied me, but on whom L mad no
real claim
An article in paper concerning an
Austrian Prince who was, with ms
retinue. making a tour of the world. at
tracted nv attention and gave me in
spiration.
Then and there made a compact with
myself I would start upon trip Whlcn
should last exactly ten years, and about
which / would write a book
Ten days from that Sunday of decision
I started on my journey. From CracoW
I went to Vienna and thence to Trieste,
and when in the latter city / found my
self for the first time in my life absolute
w alone among utter strangers my cour-
age almost failed. / was on the point OF
giving up the whole thing and going back
penitent to my friends, when l. happened
to hear the name of the steamer on which
1 was to embark the next day. 1t was
advance" and I accepted it as the best
of omens. From that day to this have
known neither fear nor repining, and the
book on which / am engaged is to be
named for that steamer on which made
my first sea voyage.
l took no letters of Introduction, but
instead carried my diplomas and educa-
tional certificates, and wherever wished
to stay for any length of time these never
failed to secure me remunerative employ
ment I taught history, literature and
modern languages. and soon paid back
the amount / had borrowed from my
small heritage taught in four different
schools in Australia, besides preparing
classes for the university; but as teaching
with me was only means to an end and
not the end itself, / took holidays when
ever possible for the purpose of mingling
with the people outside schoolroom doors
and seeing for myself just how they
lived. Every one was more than kind to
me and l made long visits into dlnerent
,,orts of the country. 1 spent considerable
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King Malietoa, and the only native / met
who dressed in European costume, grew
very fond of me and we were much to-
gether It was laughable, however, TO
see her sit down fiat on the ground in all
her finery and drag off her shoes and
stockings when we were alone together,
in order, as she said, ito have little
comfort now and then
In conclusion let me say that If l
thought on the 14th of July, 1892, that L
was attempting something rather heroic
[ have long ago found out my mistake
[ have found it all so easy; all has gone
so smoothly and people everywhere have
been so kind that 1 have not once been
in a position where more than ordinary
courage and strength Of will was nee
essary.
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DAYS to keep tab on all Of his instruments
and the vast expanse of sky at the same
time.
81 find" he said, that the indications
from the summit are most reliable even
when they disagree with the reports re-
ceived by telegraph from other points
You see, from the summit there is an
uninterrupted view fifty miles out to sea,
and this is almost as good as having
a station out there. Sometimes the
clouds that appear on the western horiI
zon are really over 200 miles away, and
when we have a tab on the thermome-
ter, barometer and wind vane on the sum-
NIT and know how the weather is out
there by the clouds, we can come pretty
close to telling what is going to happen.
IT never doubt the signs on Tamalpais,
because they have never deceived me.
When a cold wave strikes the summit |
am sure the thermometer is going to fall
all over the State within eighteen hours.
This change IS positive for Fresno in
midsummer as l found out last August
during the heat of the season.
Just what is the cause of this l am
unable to state All / know is that it al
ways works. and has helped out to a
great extent in all our forecasts. In the
near future when 1 get the kites to
working, I expect to get greater perfec-
ton in forecasting rain; but l may be
deceived. In regard to fogs Tamalpais is
always reliable, because from the top we
can see them coming over the horizon in
the west. 1t is all these things COM
bined that make Tamalpais the most Won
derfuI signal service station in the world,
and the only one that has really paid for
itself after being established only a few
months by foretelling bad weather to the
farmers and warning them to prepare for
heavy frosts. In the latter instance alone
it has saved the people of the State thou
sands Of dollars
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is THE GAME WORTH THE CANDLE
From Life

cannibal-grew very fond of me. He told
me in a burst of confidence that he had
eaten many white men, but never a white
woman" and regretted much that he
had not included at least one in his bill
of fare before swearing off on that kind
of food The last Prince of Wallangra
also became very friendly with me and
told me many stories of his people and
himself, CALAMITY declaring that, had 1
come to his land before his glory had de-
parted. he would have made me his
Queen.
In Samoa I was the guest of London
mission, and had a most delightful visit
l found the natives most gentle, kindly
and courteous, and can believe nothing
of the tales told of their ferocity and
cruelty. Princess Fa' anu, daughter Of
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time in Sydney, Tasmania and New Zea-
land: visited the Australian mining dis
tricts and passed six long weeks in the
hush 500 miles from the coast, among the
souatters and solicitors" in a mirage
haunted place that I shall never forget.
The family whose guest 1 was were Eng
lish and owned over 100000 acres of land,
and although they lived on the edge of
the desert and ate mutton and potatoes
three times day the year round, the
whole family dressed for dinner" pune
tiliously every day, the father and sons
in dress suits and white cravats and the
mother and daughters in decollete gowns.
In New Zealand / stayed for quite
while in the geyser district, near a Maori
village. and the old chief-a reformed
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There Is not very much to the station
located above the clouds, but what there
IS Is Of the best quality and most ap-
proved pattern High on the apex of the
peak is the wind vane. The top of this is
over half a mile above sea level. where
the wind has an uninterrupted sweep
from all directions. Two hundred feet be-
low on the mountain side is the station
proper, which consists Of a pretty shingle
building for offices. etc, and an outdoor
shelter for instruments With these three
points we'll looked after and directly con-
nected by wire with the offices in the
Mills building, the service is most per-
feet one, and Official Harmon thinks it
the most valuable addition ever made to
the weather service.
The station on the top OF Mount Tamal-
pals is in charge of officer Reed. who has
a great deal TO do in keeping track OF
the various instruments and reporting
their behavior TO headquarters.
The most arduous work Of all is max
ing the regular examination of the wind
vane on the peak In stormy weather
this is somewhat dangerous. as the iron
support has to be climbed for about
thirty feet, and slip of the hand or foot
would mean a serious If not fatal fall
TO the rocks below. When the work has
10 be done in a snow storm it becomes
doubly dangerous, as the iron steps or
the column become slippery with ice.
keeping track of the other instruments
is not unpleasant. but 1t requires gooc
memory and sound. judgment to be sure
of lust what they are doing. Official Ham
mon goes to the peak at regular intervals
to make forecasts and during unsettled
weather he often remains there severa
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Y.
PSYCHOLOGISTS agree in predicting
terrible upheaval that is to begin
in France.
There is not the slightest doubt that
Nine Thebes, the celebrated astrologlst'
and Mile. Couedon, the no less ceiebrat-
ed voyante of the Rue Paradis, foretold
the death of Felix Faure during the pres
ent year The prediction of Nine. Ihepes
was published in the Gaulois on New
Now Years day. That of Mile. Couedon,
which has been several times repeated
was first given to the world more than
wear ago Both these present day seers
agree in insisting on the bloody agttations
through which France must pass
Yves. 1t is true that / foretold the death
of Felix Faure." said Nine. Thebes yes
terdav in a short but very sensational in
terview. But do not forget that | also
announced deaths by transformations Inc
astral influences of the year are deplor-
able 1t will not pass without great and
terrible events"
More than this the general public Will
not learn from Nine Thebes. the high
priestess of aristocratic horoscopes, the
best paid prophecies of modern times
The warnings of Mile. Couedon. on the
contrary, are given to the public unre-
servedly. and their character is so re-
markahle that the greatest skeptics are
the French future in view of the pres
emf troubles has prepared the minds of
many to be Influenced by these two
strange women. 1t is remembered that
the old-time prophecies of Nostradamus.
Orval and the Christian Kabbalists agree
with their forebodings of the century
end.
Perhaps" they say, there may be
something in 1t, after ALL"
hot In h I'm
should happen both Orval and Nostrada-
mus ought TO be venerated. The proph-
ccv of Orval. which has always had great
vogue in France, is attributed to Phil1p
Olivarius a CiSterCian monk, whose man
uscript is said to have been dated lo44.
The monk never hesitated to give dates.
In truth dates gave the greatest eclat
to his name, as they did, in a less de-
gree. to that of Nostradamus. Through
out the centuries his dates have struck
home with remarkable eXactness. The
Cistercian monk has but one tault, &C
cording to the needs of modern times.
He is clear and definite in his illusions
to God, Popes and Kings; but he seems
TO have had a presentiment of the action
of the masses only in a confused and agf-
tated way. so that his vision becomes the
more obscure the more people them
selves force their way. About 1S4S the
accuracy with which he had foreseen the
rise and fall of Louis Philippe was made
matter of general admiration in the
Paris papers. Orval had set down the
events for 1850, as he always dealt IN de-
cades, not in odd years.
"The cock shall blot out the white
flower" the old Latin text reads The
man shall call himself king of the peo-
ple. There shall be great commouon
among the nations. because the crown
shall be placed in the hands of the work
ingmen who have waged war in the great
cities"
Nothing could be more exact than this
prediction of the fall of the Bourbon lilies,
the rise of the citizen King, who was not
called king of France" but hoi des
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IN the fall Of 1891 pretty Lima Boegn
~ Rerne Switzerland, was as happy
a girl as there was in all the World.
She was the idol of a widowed faith
er. the pet and pride Of two manly
brothers and the promised wife OF
man whom she loved and who adored ner.
Educated in the famous college OF NeuI-
chatel. Lima spent her holidays and the
,,nfettered wear or two that her rather
insisted lIpon claiming for himself AFTER
her graduation in travelling with MIN
through the different important countries
of Europe.
Russia. Germany, Italy, France, Spain.
Portugal and England were visited IN
turn each trip adding to the young girl
linguistic requirements and broadening
the mind, already marvel among 1he
conservative matrons of her own iana.
Then came a time when she was WiliiHs
70 cease roaming and "settle down, nke
tbe most conservative of them all, ia a
toTne of her own; and her father consent
Inc, and her brothers wishing her JOY she
heean manning her dainty trousseau ana
b,,il6ino castles in the air, giri-tasnloh'
about the future.
Nv some strange caprice OF iaIe Ina in1
Boegli was suddenly bereit OF an tilo "9s
nearest and dearest to her. Accident anu
gic1Iness had done their worst, and Lima
was alone.
She rallied from the almost overwhelrn-
irg succession of calamities and deter
mined. instead of settling down INTO hope-
less less. and dependent melancholy, to make a,ls
something of herself and her life. Inc Inc
story of how she made and carried OUT
that determination is best tod py her-
self.
In July, 1892 I was visiting some trlenaS
IN Cracow. Poland, and. having recoV-
cred a little from the first shock OF my
multiple and complete bereavement, W." sa
beginning TO feel that 1t would soon DC pe
fitting for me to make some plans Loi a,1o
f,,ture which would render me indepen-
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It was these facts that prompted the
United States Weather Bureau TO estao-
fish a station on the top of the noun
tain. The station has really been in work
ing order but a few weeks. and IN thae
time If has increased the percentages of
correct forecasts at least 8 per cent. But
the forecasts that depend on Tamalpais
entirely never fail. This makes 1t the
most wonderful weather signal service
station in the world.
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to a dream that his active pencil still
plies When on board the German, going
out to the Zulu war, he twice dreamed Of
an experience which did not strike him
cheerfulIy: he saw himself shot dead and
attended his own funeral. Naturally this
dream, being repeated, made some i'm
preston, and when, soon after arriving
at Durham, the artist received a letter
from his mother, relating precisely SIM
liar dream which had come to her and
begging him not to go to Etchowe, he
Daused to consider the matter.
1T is a very curious thing says Mr..
Prior, that out of the sixty or more ,bat-
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STRANGE DREAMS
That Came True.

T OBODY will accuse Mr. Melton
Prior, the well-knOwn war CORE
III spondeut of the illustrated London
Y News, of being an impractical Wis
ioparv vet II is anna rentlV owing
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- ARTS, March Paris is to run
red with blood in 1900. Ancient
- prophecies threaten the end OF the
century Modern clairvoyants and
astrologists agree in predicting a
terrible upheaval that is to begin
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HENEVER the thermometer
n 1 falls at the top ofMount Tamal
NM pals 1t will shortly afterward
NJ VI do the same all over the State
of California.
Whenever the thermometer
rises at the top of Tamalpais it
will rise all over the State. Mount Tamal-
pals has come to be regarded by weather
prophets as a sort of thermometer for the
State.
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r n the fall Of 1891 pretty Lima Boegli
Of Berne. Switzerland, was as happy
q. girl as there was in all the world.
She was the idol of a widowed tath-
or the net and pride of two manly