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Consumption is preventable2 Science has
proven that, and also that neglect is suicidal.
The worst cold or cough can be cured with
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mnAWeli 20 be irleu IN fortiauds
ST. John N. b.. Nov. 20.-Ira b.
Myers American consul at this place.
has received instructions from Wash
ington. I'm the case OF Elmer Maxwell.
the sailor who on Nov. II killed George
Baisley on the American schooner ].
b. Van Dusen. On the Bay OF Fundy
Washington directs that Maxwell and
witnesses shall be sent 30 the United
States for trial as soon as Il has been
determined that the Canadian courts
have no jurisdiction. Should It be de
cided the vessel was beyond the three
mile llmft Maxwell will be sent 20
Portland for trial
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RAILROAD
sOHUYKILL DIVISION


Trains will leave Shenandoah after the ADove
date for Wiggan, Gilberton, Fraokville, DArh
Water, ST. Clair, Pottsville. Hamburg, Reading
Pottstown, Phoenixville. Norristown q d Phi'.
aaelphia Brad street stationl ~ is and 8 o5
a. m, 10, 8 10 p. m. on week days. Sundays
06 a. M, 20 p. m.
Trains leave Frsckville for Shenandoah at
78e, IL 40 q. m. and SO, 80 p. %. Sunday.
IL Oh a. m. and SO p
Leave Pottsville for Shenandoah (via FracA :
ytllel 10, II 20 q. M, s 10, 2 10 p. m. Sunday
10 IS n. m, 10 p. m.
Leave Philadelphia, BROAD street station), Ioi
Shenandoah al IS a. IN, 4 10 p. IN. week days
Sundays leave AZ so and % a. m.
Leave Philadelphia Broad street. statioA) fOl
Pottsviie, 30, IS lparlor carl, 10 ls q. m, 80,
10 lparlor carl, Z J. p. m. weekdays. Sundays.
8 50, % 3. m, and 602 m.
Leave Broad Street Station, Philadelphia,
FOR NEW YORK
ExPress--week-days, 20, O5, 4 40, 90, 5 IS
so, Ss, 25 30, 30 2, dining car) IL co. II 43
dining earsl, 4s, q 80, dining carl, %, 8 50,
4 o., s 90, s Sc, dining carl, 500, 7O2, 8 10,
dining car 10 % p: M, y Of, night. Sundays,
20 ao5s 20 500, 8 IS, ., 9 SO, 40 q, dining
earl 10 49, II 4s m, p os, dining earl 70 s5 30
dining earl, 4o2, Iimited p dining carl,
20, So, ldining carl, 8 IS, 7O2, 10, ldininR
carl, 10 90 p. M, IL OIL night.
For Boston without change, IL Oh m. week.
days, and 10 p. M, daily.
For Sea Gtrt, Asbury Park, Ocean Grove
Long Branch, and intermediate stations 8 %
II 10 m, 30, % m weekdays
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Comrades. Attention.

served from '6l to '0i, and was wounded on
May 10, 1864, in the Battle of the Wilderness.
1 would like TO have my old comrades know
what Celery King has done for me In 1890
back. The doctors could not stop it, but Gel
cry King has cured me, and am once more
enjoying life-Frank Beehler, Owosso, Mich
lCo +, 10th N. Y. vi
Celery King CURES diseases of the Nerves,
Stomach, Liver and Kidneys. Sold by drug
gists, 25 and 5Oc.
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PRRMATuRELY OLD.

A man ought not to feel old, or to BE- old
until we'll up. towards the niueties but
nowadays you don't see many such men
Instead you hear people no older than so
OF IS who begin to complain Of tired backs
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WASHINGTON AND THE SOUTH.

For Baltimore and Washington. 8 50 Y2o. a
10 20, II o. a. m, u Oa, ll2 80 dining carl I9
dining earl, sl2. An, Is 25 Congressional
Limited dining carl, "a, II. [6 IS, dining car,
IL 81 dining carl, p m, and y O5 night week
days. sundAys 8 50, Z % 9 u, IL %, a. m, l2 %,
II l2 dining carl, n 4 a 1920 Congressional
Limited dining car, 81 10 IS dining carl, Ia sl
dining carl, p. m, aud " O5 night.
For Baltimore, accommodation, Il 9 m, I 81
and Oh m week days, os and II 10 p m daily
WEST IERSEY @ cHAcunnr d d
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WEST JERSEY & SEASHORE R. R
FOR ATLANTIC CITY

Leave Broad street station via Delaware river
bridge-EXpress, 9 40 a m, TO5 D m weekdays
Sundays, y 20 a m z O5 pm.
Leave Market Street Warf-EKPresa. 90 . M
90, co. 90 p weekdays. Sundays, OO
10 10 . NJ accommodation 4 30 and 90 p M.
For Cape May, Anglesea, Wildwood and
Holly Beach, Sea Isle City, Avalon, and Stone
SUNDAYS, 0 % a IN.
F.. Somers Point-EIpress, % q m, 400
100, ., p. m. week dAys Sundays, Q 90 and
10 90 N.
F,.r tickets and other Information apply to
tich agent
B. J. HUTCHEsoN J. 4. WooD,
C3enn Manager. Gen'l Pass'eir Ast
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BRYCE OF ENGLAND.
s,DELtCHTS ON TIE GREAT
BRITISH ECONOMIST.
Ais Writings Have Attracted "i"o'
Attention Than Those Of Any Other
Eneiishman, Living or Dead - lis
american Commonwealth"

James Bryce, the great British au-
thor. scarcely needs any introduction
to American readers. His American
Commonwealth" is the best and most
popular book on American institutions
issued since the famous work OF De
Tocoueville. He is one Of the foremost
men in the British empire today, ana
has had a long and brilliant pubic
career. He is a native of Glasgow
Scotland, and a graduate OF University
College. Oxford, where he won many
prizes and other class honors. he
served for 4 number Of years as reglus
professor of civil law at Oxford uni
versity, resigning this post In 1870
Mr.. Bryce was first elected to parlla-
ment in 1880, as Liberal member LOT
Tower Hamlets, and has since beeh
continuously prominent In various
high government offices. He was ap-
pointed under secretary Of state In Mr.
Gladstone's government OF 1886, anu
later was a member of the Rosebery
cabinet, serving as president OF the
hoard of trade. In politics Mr.. Bryce
Is a Liberal, and has been the cnain
pion of many important measures, sue.
as home rule, international copyright
the abolition OF university tests, am
) the protection of the Christian subject
of the sultan. He has also distinguish
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GERMS IN PHONES.
Dangers That Lurk In Transmitters an"
Receivers.

The telephone receivers, transmit
tiers and tubes in the offices OF inc
health department are being cieaheu
daily. by order Of DR.. Jones, as
means of killing disease germs that
often collect on the instruments ny
reason of persons breathing upon
them. DR.. Jones advises the frequent
scrubbing of telephone receivers, es-
pecially speaking tubes and public tel
ephones, as he has no doubt that they
NAV act as disseminators OF disease
germs. DR.. Schede, an expert chemist
Of New York, has scientifically dem
onstrated that telephones do harpor
disease germs. His investigation was
confined to telephone transmltters'
which he washed with an atomizer
containing two parts of alcohol, one
mart of ether and one-half pint OF giyc-
crime. The germs and foreign sub
stances we're found in the glycerint
| after the alcohol had been evaporated
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entertaining the town with series OF
experiments and demonstrations little
short of supernatural. Yet it was noted
as o peculiar feature Of his lectures
that he always expressly disclaimed
anything uncanny in the performance.
On this, the closing night, he again
rrefaced the experimental portion by
saying with the greatest earnestness:
y az have endeavored, ladies and gen
tlemen. to impress upon your minds
that hynotism is in no sense unnatural
or contrary to the laws that govern
our mundane existence. Because the
experiments am about to show you
are startling and not to be solved by
the rules that govern the ordinary
functions of life, is no reason why they
may not be explained by other rules
of which science knows little and can
conjecture but little more. That we
will fathom them in. time I have nc
doubt: that we will be able to trace the
direct connection between mind ano
matter is certain, but OF present We
can only accept these phenomena ane
leave the calculation of the -myster.
to some future period.
"There is point, however, which
wish to particularly impress on you
These phenomena are capable OF de
monstration by almost every one
There are. of course, people OF YER
weak intellect who cannot concentrate
their thoughts, and consequently nav
no control over their own minds, u
say nothing of others, but any on
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FRENCH WRITER IN AMERICA.

Edouard Rod, who has just arrived
IN America for the purpose OF giving
series of lectures in French in several
large American universities, is mas
ter of the French language, and mas q
widespread reputation for the excellent
literary work that has come from MS
non He founded and is the editor OF
the Revue Contemporaries, and throusn
that organ of criticism he exercises d
deep and wide influence on mooeln
French literature. He first attracteo
attention as a writer with his deiense
Of Zola's work in "L'Assommolr. lhis
appeared in 1879 and other efforts tna'
followed it were we'll received by ths
reading French public. and his place II
letters was thus made secure. 1t wa
not. however, until 1885. when III
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Tho woodCutter'S Dog.

In the early fifties I was in the lead
mines at Potosi, in the southwest cor
ner of Wisconsin. My partner, Char
lev Guyon, was at the windlass and l
was in the shaft with pick and shovel.
I heard dog barking and soon Guy
on called out: "Come up; there's
fool dog here acting queer and l cant
drive him off," T got into the bucket
and went up. The dog was small
one of that short haired, no particular
breed called q "fce" by the French
Canadians, of whom Guyon was one.
The dog turned his attention to me,
parked at my face, pulled my trousers,
went a few steps away, barked and
"wic.wagged." "Charley," said l,
"this dog wants us to follow him; he's
cot a rabbit in q hole or there's trou-
Bile somewhere. -,
"No." he answered, "that's fool
fee that belongs to man named
Johnson, over in British Hollow; DC
was here Yesterday when it was your
turn in the shaft, and he's chopplne
: off west there, somewhere"
All this time the. aog kept pleadin,e
with US to follow him, and tol'
Guvon: "That dog wants us to g
, with him, and I'm going" I'VE went
s the dog in the lead occasionally turn
ing back to see if we were following
o and expressing approval with hi
S tail. A tramp of about mile brougn
: us to clearing, and there was john
J son pinned under fallen tree, wit
l. a broken leg and internal injurle
from which he died week later. VI
10 that dog reason that his master neede
N the help which only men could gi'
and did he come to ask us to give tn
IL help? Instances like these could
as multiplied ad infnitum.-Forest nj
y Stream.
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pardon, but must plead a pressing
need as an excuse" -,
"You are not q newspaper man9
asked the professor.
ga newspaper man? indeed, no!
T am only clerk and not in any way
celebrated. The matter about when
I came to consult you is entirely pri-
vate." ,,.,u
"You with to consult me" said the
professor in surprise. you are not
mistaken in the MANI"
"Not at all. You are Professor
CLAIMS, the expert in hypnotism'
whom I had the pleasure OF hearing
lecture last night. Of course 1 have
read something about hypnotism, but
7 confess that the subject had not In
terested me. In fact lead such
humdrum work a. day life that have
| very little time. for speculative read
ing. For the mere desire to kill time
for an hour or two I went to your lee
ture last night and became deeply IN,
terested."
This little speech was dellvere'
with such ease and yet so earnesti
that the professor warmed to his ne'
/, acquaintance Immediately.
, There can be no more interestln
, line of research" he said, positively
, "and hope that you will now pul
, sue your Investigations" -,
, ''I certainly SHALL" replied MI,
i Conyers. promptly. ''The insigl
Q given by you last night forms an 81
j cellent foundation. What struck n
v with particular force were some +
marks dropped BY you to the eiie
I that the hypnotic power resided
!. everybody, at least to limited e
j. tent. It is maintained, I believe"
}. continued, bringing his chair close
v that of the professor, "that this pow
q can be used for the curing OF dlseas
. especially those ailments that ale
o the nerves"
g Undoubtedly" said the professt
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= =. IN =. DDo11 pARIsH La SATURDAY, 20, 1872

401 miles; in 1896 the 1850 separate
routes aggregated 174,777 miles. Com
pared with this the railway posta.
service of all other nations dwindles
into insignifcance. Germany, the near
est approach to rival, has only 27,24S
miles: France follows close with 25,-
665 miles. Our postal cars, during the
wear 1898, ran distance of 2S1.5S6'ooo
miles. This means that every hour one
of our mail trains travelled a distance
equal to one and .one-fifth times around
the globe. The amount paid to rail-
ways is based on the average weight OF
daily mail per mile on a weighing lof
thirty successive days.
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firmly. "That has been proven pc
wound q doubt. The theory Is
that" and the professor dis-
coursed for five minutes on this IN
teresting subject. NJ.
"Thank you very much ."said Mr..
Convers with an :epgaging smile,
"You have made the matter very
clear. And that brings me to the prl-
vate matter of which I spoke. 1 have
a sister which is very dear to me-,
here his voice perceptibly tremO,eu
and he steadied himself with an effort
land she has been a sufferer Tor
manv wears from what firmly believe
to be mostly the effect of her imagin a.
ton hut. Of course, you understand,
none the less painful" -,
"That is easily understood"
Snow, if she can be cured j.,
"She certainly cam" interjected
the professor, decidedly. "But you
, viii have to excuse me. 1t is not IN
INV line to treat patients, although !
) would be glad to give you practical
. demonstration if it were not for the
q fact that I am obliged to leave the
: city tonight. ,, ~.
$ vers earnestly. "I appreciate you
n kindness, but, if what you say Is true
q I will not need your services. WI.
= can T not treat her myself? Do yol
a not think that I might exert hypnou
mower over her, feeling SO strongly a
e do?" -,
a trial" assented Professor Giaml
If promptly. "Did you notice the mar
M ner in which I performed the mt
= chanical portions of the perform
in ance?" .,
y "Not too closely. perhaps" was u
I'd answer. Suppose you repeat INC
At for my benefit" -;
10 The professor drew his chair 81
~ closer. and for two or three minut
=. carefully explained the necessa
= masses and other minutiae, while q
,ot visitor listened intently.
H. "Of course" said the professor,
=. conclusion, So great deal OF this m
be dispensed with after you nave
no patient under control, each nypno
y Is trance being easier to produce tn
-. it's predecessor, but at first 1t is ina
NC NC CT think / understand" said \
ere Conyers. Sand now" he added,
oes me see whether I remember your
structions. I look directly into y
hat ewes, first having taken both o. =
our hands in q,ls of mine. Having
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Gold Fish as Idols in China.

In some parts of China gold fishes
are held in the greatest reverence ana
awe In Tai-Ping they are used as
IDOLS and, when not obtainable, wood
or clay counterfeits are used: Inc.
ore painted in imitation OF the living
fishes. The telescope" fish is prayed
to when rain is badly needed. Inc
dwelling places of dragons are usually
r,sorted to by the people to pray Tor
rain. but any fish, frog or reptile
found near a dragon pool will make q
good enough idol.
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al himself for his advocacy Of teach
ing university in London, and the SET
Element of trade disputes by pupllc ar
h,tration. In his public service, as
IN his literary work. Mr.. Bryce h"'
adonted the. wise and moderate course
which has earned for him the proiounu
respect even of his opponents. In the
feld Of literature Mr.. Bryce has mace
for himself an immortal name. HIS
first great work, the Holy Roman EN-
nire" has become a classic, and mas
been translated into nearly every Eu-
ronean language. Other notable pro-
auctions are his 1.-TWO Centuries OF IT.
,sh History" "The American Common
wealth." and Impressions Of South Al
RIGA" the latter issued a year ago. MI
Rrvce is also a frequent contributor 10
the leading English and American re-
views. He is specially gifted as q
writer on great international questions
ord his views on such subjects are al
WAYS received with profound attentiol
everywhere He has clear, lnclsiV'
and vigorous style, and is original, In
denendent and progressive in his idea
and opinions. He has always pee
friendly and sympathetic toward I'M
country. though keen, just ana dis
terminating critic. 1t is not too niue
70 cav that no living writer outside G
America is more competent than Nj
Bryce to discuss the living issues {
the day in broad and masterfui wa
and from a point of view that will CON
/ mand the attention OF the America
public. Bryce is an ardent supporte
4 of the principle of bimetallism.
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with a strong will can, with practice,
perform every feat of hypnotism sucn
As YOU will witness this evening.
Prof. Glamis then proceeded to the
practical part of the programme, taxing
his subjects at random from the suai,
ence Men and women laughed and
cried at his command and did things
foolish. commonplace or malicious.
Still, there might have been some sys-
tenn of selection, and the professor an-
tiopated this criticism. ~,
II am aware" he said, "that these
notions may be performed by conied,
crates. and it is my earnest desire that
anv such idea may DO dispelled. 10
that end I will submit to any test. Ii
tbe audience will consent, l will select
the subjects by lot, taking every NTH,
seventh or twentieth as you SIT, OF III
any other manner that may be pre-
ferred." A.,
. Several plans werel tried, and the
resnlt was always tho same; UNTIL
when the audience dispersed, there
could be No doubt of the genulneness
of the experiments. Perhaps no one
was wiser, but all had been enter,
tanned. Prof. Glamis also had gooo
raa.on to be satisfied. The receipts
Tor his entire engagement had beef
phenomenal, and as his expenses wef'
lioht. he returned to his hotel taa
NIGHT feeling that the world had treaties
him very we'll indeed.
The next day was Sunday, wnicn q
snant in making preparations Tor III
;ournev to another city where he nope
10 repeat his success. He wrote ma
dozen letters, after returning iroi
chnrcb. and in the afternoon, the.
being vet some hours before trai
time. counted over his ready none.
which amounted to nearly S2ooo' an
then prepared to take short nap.
this ;uncture there was brought up
him a card bearing the name OF .osc'
ronvers." The professor did not re
ogn;ze the name, but rejecting ina.
night be a newspaper man, ana u
beinc averse to seeing himself tne 81 =
iect Of q column article, ne toio y
He'll how to show up the visitor.
Oscar Conyers proved to be a you,
usn dressed neatly and becoming
Ms face was beardless and prep'
sass;ng. although he could no.
allied handsome. the only SUN =.
feature being his eyes, winch ".
Mack and so brilliant that az IN
thay seemed to positively snap. ca,
II know" he began at once, ). =
this Is an Intrusion. and ! ask Y
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Course a la Mort" made its appearance
that the full power of the new writer
was felt and understood. NJ. Rod will
arrive in Chicago April 1. He will lee
ture at the University OF Chicago on
the History of French Dramatic POE
try" Eight lectures will be delivered.
two each week. This series will be
given before the Cercle Francois OF
Harvard upon whose invitation M. Rod
ia visiting America.
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r,,., American Gov srnor Of Cuba.

Few people are aware that the first
American captain-general Of Cuba was
Andrew Jackson. When he assumed
command of Florida, this is how he
siened his name to proclamations:
CIV Mai.-Gen. Andrew Jackson, gov
ernor of the provinces of the Floridas'
exercising the powers of the captain
General and of the intendant OF the
is1and of Cuba over said provinces, and
of the governors of said provinces. re-
spectively."
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There are. over 200 brands OF wine
produced in France, but more WINE Is
drank in England than in France, ana
London is the greatest wine market IN
the world.
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He found germs Of consumption.
smallpox, scarlet fever and grip ana
other bacteria were found with po-
tato starch, decaying meat and decom-
nosine cheese, which served as a
norr;sbment for the disease germs.
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c,rc,,nx the Globe in an Hour.

Uncle Sam paid the railways for 1893
nearly s2s ,0C0, 600 for transporting his
mail. Sixty years ago 974 miles OF
railway carried all our mail; at the
c,ose of the civil war there were 3D.