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THE DAILYJELEGRAPH. UARRISBURG PUBLISHING CO. M. W. McAhrnkt, Manager.

Published Every Evening Except Sunday. TcLioRArn Building, Tnlra and Market Street. lMtilvered within the city by carriers at Ten Cents a Week. Mailed to Subscribers at Five Dollars a Tear or Forty Five cents a month In advance. The only Republican paper and the Oldest Mews paper Published in uarrtsburg and the only evening paper receiving Associated Press Dispatches.

THE WEEKLTttLEGRAPH. published evt ry Tuesday morning. Single copies by mall One Dollar and Twenty Five Cents a Year, or, One Dollar Pib yim It paid In advance. Special rate to Clubs. Advertisements la Weekly Thirty Cents per line.

Dally Twenty Cents a lino: with figure columns Thirty Cents a line; with Table Forty ents a line except by special contract All Remittances should be by Postal Money Orders (not Postal Notes) or by Registered Letter. It sent otherwise they will be at the risk of the sender. All letters and telegrams should be addressed to THE UARRISBURG PUBLISHING IIAKRISBURG, PENNA. A CHEEKY GOVERNOR. Governor Lowry, of Mississippi, has just issued his annual message and in it he denounces as slanderous such charges as reflect npon the manner of the elections held in Mississippi since the year 1881.

Let us see about the charge being a slander. A few weeks ugo tharo was an election in Jackson, in the Governor's own State and although for local officers there was more than usual Interest manifested in it by all classes of people, and the negroas were among the number who were interested. Bat their interest diJ not extend to the act of voting. And here is the reason why they did not vote, told in a dUpatch sn; out by. the Associated Tress, whoso ageuts in the South are white men, and therefore generally Democrats.

The dispatch said "Only about 15 or 20 negroes, all told, presented themselves and asked the privilege of voting, but on being told by the men stationed near the polls to see there was a peaceable election that their voting might cause trouble they quietly withdrew, none of them insisting on voting. There were a great many strangers in town, who came purposely to assist tho Democrats. It is believed their presence had the desired effect of preventing trouble." What has Lowry to say to this Djos he regard this dispatch as a slander Ferhapi he thinks that the "presence of these strangers" was mtified; that if it had not been for them, with their rifles, the colored people might have attempted to vote, and thus brought upon themselves death and a grave in the Potter's Held. Does Lowry justify this interference with the right of the negroes to vote He certainly must, otherwise he would have found in it alone justification for all the "scandalous" things that have bjen said about Mississippi elections. NO UlUiP KRO.U TUB F.ltt.UKK..

The American free traders promise the armers better prices for their crops when Cleveland's policy beomes the policy of the country whoa foreign manufactures are admitted free of duty. But the question will naturally bo asked: From whom are tho farmers to secure the better prices Fiom the man Across the sea who bays his wheat and com, as he does everything else, where he can buy the cheapest, or is the farmer to get this increased price from the mechanic and laboring man at his door whose employment has been taken away from him, or whose wages have boea reduced to European basis by the importation of things made in the factories and workshops of Earope It is quite clear that these increased price if they are to be realized must come from one or the other of these two sources, as there is no other. That Europe will not pay any more for American wheat than it does for that bought in Any other market of the world needs no demonstration; and the farmer certainly cannot expect increased prices from the consumers bout him if the wages of these consumers are reduced No! The farmer is not to be caught with this free trade chaff. He knows better; and he also knows that the price of his product is most effected by the condition of labor at his own door. The American farmer is not likely to help the free trader in his raid on American prosperity.

COUNTRY ROADS. Mahoning county, Ohio, is about te macadamize, at a cost of $100,000, all its country roads, the farmers contending that they lose money by the delays inseparable from poor roads, and that it is the best sort of economy pay taxes aud have roads on which they can get to market speedily. Theso Ohio farmers are wiser than their day and generation. Most of the farmers prefer to stick to the old policy of working out their taxes by swapping gossip in fence corners, even if they do lose time in consequence, six months of the year. If all road taxes were paid in money, and supervisors of roads held to a strict accountability for every dollar expended, farmers who use the country roads more than any other class would not be half the night reaching near by markets, and in a very Bhort time, too, would find their road tax a very trifling thing.

We know that many farmers do not believe this, but we feel quite confident that they would find it to be tho truth if they would only try it. They know that "working out road tax" is very much of a joke among them, and they know too that where one man does an honest hard day's work at it there are a dozen who do not. Under the present system good roads have not and will not be made. If the roads were once made good, very slight attention would keep them good for many years to come. May the example of the Ohio farmors be imitated in Pennsylvania.

I.OVH EACH OTHER. The Lancaster New Era wants E. K. Mar tin nominated for Lieutenant Governor, whom the Lancaster Examiner opposes because Martin was of the number who helped to delear Governor Beaver in 1 882. Up to this time no one of the disgruntled kickers of '82 have been nominated for a State office and it is somewhat problematical what the fate of such a candidate would be.

There are not a few Republicans who were greatly disappointed by the defeat of Heaver, and smarting under it resolved never to support any ono who was at all responsible for that remit. But the wise policician keeps a short memory; he knows that if he is eternally on a clnbbing excursion against those who at some time opposed him his enemies will soon far outnumber his friends, and he will then be permitted to enjoy the dignified repose of political retirement It is, therefore, quite likely that Mr. Martin, if nominated, would receive nearly the full party vote, however much Republicans may regard the kick of 1882 as silly and foolish and made to vent the spleen of a few disappointed office seekers. But our friends on the East should not quarrel. It is not good form.

And throwing spit balls at each other subjects them to ridicule and does not properly represent the Republicanism of the old guard. Let us ha, pence in the Commonwealth of Lancaster. It has been discovered that the cost of mobilizing the armies of Earope is so great that the probabilities of a European war are prowl ner less Thb Andalusia gun club, of Chester county, has been prosecuted for killing pigeons la a match game, the Philadelphia Humane Society believing that the act i3 an offense against the law prohibiting cruelty to animals. The secretary of the club takes the very remarkable position that "pigeons are not a highly sensitive animal, but are of a lower order about "the same grade as reptiles. They really suffer no pain By being shot" Jnst how he discovered that pigeons do not suffer when shot this wise secretary has not revealed to a wondering public.

There: is a contest between the wets and "drys going on in Lynchburg and the dispatch says many of the most reputable citizens of the city are taking no open or active part in the struggle and greatly deplore the agitation." Queer. When a city is all ablaze with torches and when the blare of the brass band is the music of the night that the best people should take no interest in the result of it all. The best people of Lynchburg must be colder than the New England mugwump. a THE TOBACCO MARKET. Lancaster.

Trade has been dull during the week. The sales have been few and far between. The only ones that have come to our knowledge are the following: Messrs. Skiles Frey sold 150 cases of seedleaf and, perhaps, 50 cases additional were sold in a small way to manufacturers. The sales last week were 100 cases.

For the corre ennnkino iAik of last vear 300 cases were sold. No movement in last year's crop has developed since our last report, aunouga some other localities, amoni? which we may mention Wisconsin and New England, are selling goods. The Neus Era says: "Ail the eyes of the (xKikm tunrlri wnm entered dnrinor the week on the room of the Ways and Means Com mittee at Washington, whereon inesuay ana Wednesday the tobacco interests had a bear Tmnnrtcm nF Rn mat ran wrauners. im porters of Cuban tobacco, domestic leaf packers, domestic cigar manuiucmrers uu the growers of domestic leaf were all there and accorded a hearing. While there were divisions and dissensions among them all, only the representatives of the growers presented an unbroken front aad were united in their demands.

They were carefully listened to by the committee, and it is believed made a good impression. It was clearly shown that the old duty of 75 cents meant no protection at all, and the demand now is for at lea3t 2 nor nnnnrl mid as much more as we can get. Arguments were presented from all the growers organizations ana an were careiuuy listened to." New York. f. S.

Gans' Son, tobacco broker, ot 131 Water street New York, reports the following sales: 200 cases 1888 Penna. seedleaf 8XlO 75 1888 Penna. Havana Private. 150" 1888 Wisconsin Havana 10 12 150 18S8 State Havana lm4 100 l888 0hlo Private. 100 1888 New England Havana.

13 S5 25 New England seedleaf 14 17 100 sundries 535 090 ca3es. SUMATUAN. The sales of the week were about 300 bales, running all the way from $1 to $2 25. The market is active and the goods not over plentiful. WE GO TO MARKET With Hnsket On Onr Arm and Kettle In Our Hand What We Saw.

Eggs are still coming down in price. The rest of the market is about stationary. Butter 2530. Eggs 1825. Lard, 1011 per pound.

Mince meat 1013c. Fish Cod, 151 8c; white, 15c; blue, 15c; white catfish, 15c; red, 13c; eels, 15c; yellow and white perch, 15c; lake trout, river bass, 18c; pike, 15c; lobsters, 1820c; fresh mackeral, 2030c per piece; oysters, 2550c per quart; shad, 60 7 5c per piece. Fonltry Chickens live are 12c per pound; dressed, 1315c; pigeons, 25c per pair; ducks, 7590c; geese, 6575c. Game Red sqnirrels, 1012e; grey squirrels, 1520c; rabbits, 2025c; turkeys, $1 25 to $2 pheasants, $1 25 to $1 50 per pair. Beef sirloin steak, 16c; pin, 1516c; round, 12c; tenderloin, 30c; porter house, 18c; chuck, 10c; shoulder, 10c; roast rib, 15c; chuck, 10c; boiling 810c; veal cutlets, 20c; roast, 1016c; stewing, 810c; mutton legs, 15c; roast, 12c; breast, 8c; spring lamb, hind quarters, 20c; fronts, 15c; dried haras, 13(e14c; hams, sliced, 16 20c; bacon, 12c; shoulder, 810c; pudding, 810c; sausage, 1012c lb; corn beef, 12c 8 lb.

Vegetables Onions are 1618c per half peck; beets, 5c per bunch; sweet potatoes, 12 25c per half peck; potatoes, 10 12c per hair peck, or per bushel; lettuce, 85 per plate; kale, 10c per half peck; spinach, 10c per half peck; radishes 3 5c per bunch; cabbage, 310c per head; cauliflower, 2035c; citron, 30c perK; pickles, 12c per dozen, Lima Beans 78c per pint. Cheese Country cheese at 5c per pint. English Jcheeso 12 to 20c per and pineapple cheese 10 to 20c. Fruits. Lemons, 1020c per dozen; oranges, 1 530c per doz.

cranberries, 10 12c per quart; apples, 1525c per half peck or $2 503 50 per barrel celery, 5 10c per bunch; sweet pumpkins, 510c; grapes, 825c per pound bananas, 10 20c per dozen; apple butter is 810c per pint, and honey, 22c per pound cocoanuts, 510c, and shellbarks, 58c. Cured Fruit. Prunes, 101 2c; English currants, 8c; raisins, London layer, 2025c; raisins, seedless, 1012c; California apricots, 20c. Dried Fruit. Apples, 810c; peaches, 1035c; cherries, 5c; cherries, seeded, 15 20c; dried corn, 1215c per pint.

Local Flour nnd Uraln Market. Wheat 7580c; rye," 50c; corn, 38c; oats 2028c; Lochiel flour, $1 50; Fax ton roller flour, retail, $5 00; bran, $14; shorts, $14; middlings, $19; corn meal, 34c. TIIOSE CUTE PUTTY" JARS. Old Buttons and Suspender Buckles Ulve Them a Special Charm. From the New York Sun The doings of Connecticut women have been the news staple of the State press for a week or more.

Sometimes the arena of life in the Nutmeg State becomes unbearably lull and staid and then it is always safe to count on the "women folks" doing something to make things piquant and lively. The girls in Waterbury started the week with an absorbing sort of a "putty jar craze," and they made life a burden to the policemen of that town for awhile. The policemen naturally inferred that all the young ladies in the street had gone stark mad. 'Bevies of fascinating and beautiful girls were seen to dart suddenly into the street now and then, pounce upon something in the gutter or on the roadbed, pick it up, and then return to the sidewalk and trip serenely on. They were merely gathering raw material for the putty jar craze.

One bewitching maiden fluently explained what the putty jar business is. "It's lots of fun," said she; "yon bet it is. Why, you see, yon get any kind of a jar, the cuter the better, and you get your father or brother to roll out some putty and you have him cover every part of the jar with putty. Have him stick it on about half an inch thick. It will stick on itself.

Then you have lots of sport. Stick everything you can think of and pick up in the house, or yard, or street, on the putty and in every sort of odd designs. Old buttons and screws look pretty good and bits of dolls are awfully cute. What do yon think I did I stole a suspender buckle of ray father's and jabbed it on the jar, and I have found lots of things on the street that look odd and cunning on the putty. Knick knacks from the factories and odds and ends from the shops look good, too, and after you have got the jar all stuck up, then you have it bronzed and varnished.

That's all there is to the putty jar craze." The daughter of ex Secretary Bayard will also marry a count but in this instance it is not a bargain between a title and a fortune. Miss Bayard has no fortune. a a a The grip seems to have caused Chicago to let go of the Cronin jury, temporarily at least. A RACE AGAINST TIME, HARBlSBUKG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY EVEXESG. JANUARY 11, 1800.

NK I.I.IK BL.Y'Sl?LYiNtt TOCIt AROtfNl THE WORLD. Jules Verne's Time to be Beaten by the Bright Young Woman Correspondent or the "Ser York World" The Route She Will Take Inkier TJlp. "A' ROUND the World in Eighty Days," written by the marvelous jjrenenman, ini VomA ia the most attractive Qnrr nf t.ravfil that the oublic has been de lighted with since the days of Sir John Mandeville and Marco Polo and the achievement of Verne's hero, Phileas Fogg, has stood for nearly twenty years in the charming realm of romance, an undisputed exem plffication of the swiftest flight along the course of the sun that was supposed to lie within the limits of human possibility. Verne's narrative was written in 1872, and he made a careful study Of all the facilities of travel in existence at that time in the of the world through which his hero was to roam. He dovetailed his plot into a nicely arranged time table, and with masterly ingenuity moved hia puppets in and out between the days of the months, carrying them through scenes descriptive of the manners and movements of Oriental peoples, and embellishing their progress with thrilling incidents, all the while weaving threads of golden interest, information laden, that bound the reader to the pages before him and at the same time afforded him considerable spangled but splendid instruction.

The story was a beautiful dream that took shape in the teeming imagination of the French novelist. No such tonr was ever made by any man. No such tour was possible twenty years ago. Time tables may have had official existence that promised a swiftness akin to that desired' by Phileas Fogg, but they, too, were airy dreams and came no nearer to the reality than a rose leaf comes to being a 28 inch umbrella. "Around the World in Eighty Days" meant nothing so far as the physical fact was possible, and because railroads and steamships and all the modern means of transportation fell short of furnishing a realization of Verne's vision, the romance was considered strikingly original and delightfully entertaining, and became extensively popular.

Since Feinando Magalhaens, or Magellan, as he is better known, attempted the first circumnavigation of the world at the beginning of the 16th century, there have been numerous globe girdling feats, many of which have become historical, not on account of the shortness of the time consumed, but of the great and apparently insurmountable obstacles that were overcome. Never until Verne dreamed of it had anybody thought of a race against time around the world, and never until the New York World sent Nellie Bly, ono of its reporters, to lead the way and set the pace, had any human being ventured to test the real merit of the record made by JulesVerne's imaginaryglobe trotter. The few who survived of Magellan's companions returned to Spain under the leadership of Sebastian del Cano, after wandering three years in the waters that gird the earth. This was two hundred and fifty years ago. Then railroads had not yet emanated from the throbbing brain of man.

Ships were mere cockle shells, compared with the magnificent steamers we have now with their perfect machinery and bird like speed. Look at the frail boats in which Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic in seventy days, and then visit the piers of the great steamship companies whose vessels fly between America and Europe. See. the "City of Paris," the "Teutonic. the "City of Rome," fleet almost as express trains, safe as the circling sphero itself.

The march of human progress can have no better illustration than the wonderful improvements which have taken and are still taking place in the means of travel that are at the disposal of mankind. Whole volumes of the world's history lie between the three years' tour of Magellan's men and the less than 75 days tour of Nellie Bly, and the wealth and glory and magnificence of the nineteenth century owe everything to the discoveries that have made Nellie Bly's achievement not only possible bnt really not difficult. Fiction now pales before fact. Jules Verne's dream ia losing its glamor in the light of Nellie Bly'a performances. "E'ghty Days Around the World" will henceforth be permitted to accumulate on the top shelf.

Flesh and blood has outraced phan tomic Phileas Fogg, and for the first time since movable type were invented and people began to read, the world will learn, in a practical and most convincing way, the exact and full value of that extraordinary factor, steam, in developing and disseminating civilization and making the nations of the earth neighbors. It was for the purpose of placing this grand lesson properly before the public that the New York World, accepting Phileas Fogg's eighty day tour as the summit of hu mai endeavor, sent Nellie Bly to circle the globe in seventy five days. She is making a race against time And what a grand racecourse Twenty five thousand miles in circuit 1 Through nearly all the kingdoms of the world, across paths that are rich with the shadows of centuries and centuries of history I Her feat will be remarkable in this respect alone apart from the time record that is made that it is something which you or anybody else can do as easily a3 Nellie Bly has done it, when yon have learned how it was done. It will be particularly interesting, too, as demonstrating the feasibility of naming, almost to a csrtainty the time when a traveler may expect to arrive at any point in any part of the world. As an.

exhibit of the transportation facilities that exist in antipodal regions, as well as all along the route, its correctness will make it invaluable, for Nellie Bly has traveled by regular trains and steamers and has not in a single instance departed from the instructions given her when she left the New York World office, that she was not to resort to any methods of travel except those provided for the general traveling public. It was with this idea dominating the enterprise, and solely for the purpose of showing that Jules Verne's fancy had in less than twenty years becomeless attractive than the wonderland of machinery, that Nellie Bly's trip was planned and the itinerary of her seventy five day tonr prepared. The following is the itinerary that was published in.Tlte World on the day of Miss Bly's departure from New York Nov. 14. Leave New York by Augusta Victoria 9:40:30 A.

M. Nov. 21. Due Southampton; London, by rail in three hours. Nov.

22. Leave Victoria Station, London. 8 P. M. on India Nov.

23. Calais, Paris and Turin. Nov. 24. Brindisi at 10:14 p.

m. Nov. 25. Leave Brindisi, steamship Cathay, 2a.m. Nov.

27. Ismalia. Dec. Dec. Dec.

3. Aden. 10. Colombo (Ceylon). 16.

Penang. 18. Singapore. Dee. Tion 95.

Unnir Ifnnff. ts lien 9 ft Trfav Hnnrr for Yokohama. Jan. 7. Leave Yokohama via Pacific Mail steamship.

Jan. 22. Due ban Francisco. Jan. 27.

Due New York. Nov. 14 to Jan. 27 seventy five days. Nellie Blv is making this remarkable tonr with no other baggage than a small hand satchel.

She left New York with but one gown, and that npon her back. In the satehel were necessary changes of clothing, five copies of the New York World of tbat day and 500 in bank of England notes, be Rirlps her railroad and steamer tickets for the entire journey. A snug fitting double peaked i i i ninAH l. 1 i llgub piaiu uislgi mm uuiru, UIJU a pair of easy htting shoes, completed her enninment. think of it.

a run of 9r 000 miles, and not even a Saratoga or a thin flat state room trnnK, wnen many a belle thinks herself going in wretchedlv unpro vided fashion if she does not take a round dozen of great roomy trunks for a fortnight's 1 i Stay ai a summer icaun, rnicic a uu ui a bathing suit at one end of the day and a full dress at the other would seem to show that Flora McFlimsev was trying to see how little clothes she could wear. Not so Miss Bly. hand satchel reduced traveling to its plest form. It meant no checking of trunks, no looking after laggard boxes, no have the trunk follow in some other train, or possibly never follow at alL Then, again, it denuded the Customs' officers of their terrors; it confonnded them by its very insignificance, Miss Blv carries a twentv fonr hour wat). This was set to standard time in York city, and is kept going as she travels.

It has, of course, fallen far behind since she left New York. Traveling eastward it would lose time steadily, and when it it is exactly twenty four hours late Miss Bly and the watch will be back in New York, and the time will be entirely correct as compared with the local clocks and watches; but a day somewhere shomehow will be lopped out of the fair globe girdler's life, and she will be nominally one day younger than she would have been had she remained at home. The day is gained on the 180th parallel of longitude, out in the middle of the Pacific ocean Phileas Fogg, it will be remembered, had a like experience, nnd it was the day he gained in his circumnavigatory exploit that permitted him to win his 20,000 bet. It should be explained here that Nellie Bly is a young woman, petite, aud rather fragile looking for the perilous task she undertook. A great compliment is due her courage for venturing into almost nntraveled paths in distant climes, purely in the line of duty and without other preparation than that which three or four days' notice afforded.

Her plnck and spirit and self reliance are shown by the fact that she is traveling 25, 000 miles withont a protector. Every American girl should be proud of her. Nellie Bly began her flying tour of the world at 9:40:30 A. November 14th, when the steamer Augusta Victoria, of the Hamburg line, left its pier at Hoboken, N. opposite New York City.

In seventy five days or less she is to step from the Pennsylvania limited train in the Jersey City depot with her gigantic task completed. The A ngnsta had a stormy voyage across the Atlantic and arrived at Southampton on Friday morning, November 22d, at 2 o'clock, too late to catch the last regular train which would enable her to make the connections with the morning trains from London to France. Fortunately the Augusta had a heavy mail on board, which the English post office authorities were anxions to get np to London in time for Friday morning's delivery. Through the kindness of Superintendent Winchester, of the London Southwestern railway, who took an intense interest in Nellie Bly's trip, Hie World's London correspondent was able to obtain a passage for himself and post Miss Bly on the post office special train from Southampton to London. The London correspondent of The World chartered a special tug, which met the Augusta Victoria as soon as she came to anchor, and took Miss Bly on board.

As Mist Nellie left the huge ocean liner she was bidden Godspeed by both passengers and crew with ronsing cheers, and by 3 A. M. she was spinning over the rails to' London. She arrived there soon after 5 in a dense fog. Miss Bly, though much fatigued, was driven at once to the residence of the (Second Secretary of the United States Legation, Mr.

McCormick, where she obtained a passport By 7 o'clock she was in the London offices of the New York World, where a few London newspaper men were gathered to meet her and to bid her bon voyage. She jnst had time afterwards to get a harried breakfast at the Charing Cross Hotel, and then boarded the tidal train via Folkestone and Boulogne for Amiens, where she was to meet Jules Verne, the famous novelist and author of "Round the World in Eighty Days." The advantage gained by Miss Bly in leaving the Augusta Victoria in the mail tug has no effect npon the actual time of her tour, because the hours she had thus put to her credit were devoted to Verne at Amiens. She afterwards caught the same India mail train at Calais which she would have been riding in had she disembarked with the other passengers of the Angusta Victoria. At 4 p. M.

November 22d, M. and Mme. Verne were pacing np and down the platform of the Amiens railway station in France, in company of the Paris correspondent of the New York World. The excitement of the old gentleman and of his pleasant wife knew no bounds. Every now and again they exclaimed "When is she coming Mon Dieu! I hope nothing has happened.

I feel as much interest in the success of this enterprise as I did when I was following Phileas Fogg and his friends ronnd the world in my study." Luckily nothing had happened. Only the train from Boulogne was a few minutes late. Presently it came steaming into the Amiens station. Jules Verne and his wife stepped hastily forward. Miss Nellie Bly alighted, and the next minute was smilingly shaking hands with the gray haired novelist and receiving a kiss on either cheek, according to the French enstom, from Mme.

Verne. Tho latter was delighted with Miss Bly's appearance, and kept on repeating: "Mon Dieu what a child. Is it possible that a baby is going all that long way alone?" Carriages were in waiting, and after full inquiries had been made as to the hour of the departure of the clnb train for Calais, Miss Bly accepted tho invitation of Mme. Verne to pay a flying visit to their house. She got into a carriage with Mme.

Verne while the World correspondent accompanied the famous old novelist in another vehicle and discussed with him the chances of success of Miss Nellie Bly's trip. "It is certain," he said, "that traveling has been rendered quicker since 1872, when 1 wrote my. book which inspired this brilliant idea, and that a few days, say two or three, have been gained. But setting against this accidents which cannot in reality be smoothed over with the same facility as they can be in fiction, I will say that if Miss Bly does the lonrney in seventy nine days she win accom plish a most wonderful feat. Each day gained will be a triumph.

"I suppose, said the World coriespond ent. "that the time will come when even Miss BIv's record will be beaten." "Yes, answered M. Verne, "for I don't suppose that, fast as she may travel and however courageous aud energetic she may be, she will be able to do the journey round the world in only forty five days, the time that such a journey will take, according to the calculations which have been made by the Geographical Society at Paris when the Trans Siberian railwav has been laid. I un derstand that the Russian Government is nnshing forward the preliminaries. It will certainly be possible, when this road is com Dieted, to go aronnd the world in seven weeks at the most.

The traveler starting, say from Moscow at the terminus of the Trans Siberian line, would cross Siberia, via Irkutsch and Obolsk, take a ship for ban Francisco and thence to New York and Liv erpool, and back again to Moscow. "In the meanwhile." continued M. Verne, "if Miss Bly, without the help of the Trans Siberian railroad, is able to do the journey as fast as my imaginary heroes did theirs, it will be a great thing. If she beats them it will be wonderful, and I shall applaud with both hands. In any case the idea is a splendid one." Mme.

Verne and Miss Bly became fast friends immediately. They both talked at once. Mme. Verne in the most voluble French and" Nellie in the most pronounced United States. But they managed to get on the most intimate terms for all tbat, and when the party had entered Mme.

Verne's drawing room she herself lighted the blazing wood fire and drew up a big arm chair for Nellie to sit down and warm herself. A more cordial reception could scarcely be im agined if it had been arranged for weeks, instead of being a matter of a few hours. Verne's honse is one of the loveliest in Amiens, situated on the summit of a hill, with a fine view of the famous cathedral, and right on the verge of the tunnel which runs underneath the city into the railway station. Thousands of Americans pass close by it every year in traveling between Paris and London. "The first thing I want to know, "exclaimed M.

Verne, "is what route you arc going to follow "The New York, Southampton, Calais, Brindisi, Colombo, Hong Kong, Yokohoma, San Francisco, New York route," replied Nellie Bly. M. Verne, highly interested, then inquired: "Why do you not land at Bombay and travel across India to Calcutta, like Phileas Fogg?" "No, it would not be Any use," replied Nellie Bly. "You see I would have to wait a day or two longer in Yokohoma, and there would be no advantage in that. Besides, you know, people who cross India in theso expeditions (referring to one of the incidents in Jules Verne's novel) come back married, and that is just what I do not want to do." The Vernes laughed heartily at.

Ibis and then the author said "It really is not to be believed that that little girl is going all alone round the world. Why, she looks a mere child." "If I were to call in my friends," said Mme. Verne, "to tell them that the young lady sitting so qnietly by the fire place was a journalist and that for the service ot her a paper she was going round the world on a race against time, there is not a person who would believe me." "Ab," said Jules Verne, "but then your friends don't know what American papers are; and the World seems to be the most American of them alL The idea is a splendid one and shows the greatest entr prise. I think that ihe journey is one of real interest from a scientific point of view also, because till now nobody has beaten the record of my imaginary Phileas Fogg party. While Jules Verne was speaking Nellie Bly had her watchful eye on the Louis Qainze clock that hung opposite, and she saw that time wes ebbing fast away.

"Would you let me seo your room she asked, "the room in which you write yonr books." "Oh, with the greatest of pleasure," replied Verne, and taking np a lamp he led the way through the hall into the turret staircase, at the top of three flights of which are situated his private apartments. His room, which serves as a study and bedroom in one, is in the corner of the house, with windows on two views over the city. Against the wall is a simple camp bedstead. Against the window a small table on which were most tidily arranged his books, writing materials and papers. The manuscript of his last novel, "Sans Dessous Dessus," was on the table But there was little time left to stay and examine all this.

Nellie was dying with impatience to get back to the railway station. However, she was not allowed to depart withont a further manifestation ot sympathy from the kind hearted author and his charming wife. Some wine and cake had been set out in the drawing room. Though M. Verne never drinks anything alcoholic, he said, "I must make an exception on this occasion and drink a glass to the health of the charming young laly and wish success to her trip.

How does one say in English Bonne clianceT Good luck Very well. Good luck, Nellie, and bon no good return." Glasses were clinked, aud then Nellie told M. Verne how she had enjoyed this meeting and how much she appreciated the charming way in which he and bis wife had received When the time for starting came, Mme. Verne insisted on kissing Miss Nellie, and did it right affectionately, while her kind husband shook hands many times and repeated: "Good luck, Nellie; good return." In spite of all protestations and of the cold weather, the hospitable couple insisted on coming out of doors, and stood there, waving their hands and crying out their good wishes until the sluggard Amiens cab horse had contributed its ahare towards the journey around the world by carrying Miss Nellie and her fortunes out of Bight on the way back to the station. On the way back to Calais, Nellie did nothing bnt talk about the motherly kindness of Mrs.

Verne. She arrived at Calais with nearly two hours to spare before the Brindisi mail started. The mail boat from England with its thousands of bags of letters nnd newspapers for India and Anstralia had not yet arrived at the wharf. The Brindisi mail train, commonly called the Indian mail, is one of the famous trains of the world. It ranks with the fast flyers from New York to Chicago and San Francisco, except that while these latter trains are rnn for the accommodation of passengers, the Brindisi special is above all a mail train.

Passengers are a secondary consideration. Only one sleeping car is attached, with accommodations for twenty one passengers, no more. There are twenty two berths in the car, but the twenty second is reserved for the Superintendent of the mail. It. costs more to travel over the fifteen hundred miles between Calais and Brindisi on this train than it does to go from New York to San Francisco.

The train makes less than a dozen stops on the way, and never more than three minutes at any one point It is essentially a train de luxe. Places must be booked, at the very latest twenty fonr hours before the train starts, and they are usually all gone long before that time. Leaving Calais every Saturday morning only at 1 :30, the train rashes through Amiens, skips Paris by twenty miles, goes on through Burgundy to Dijon and Macon, skirts Aix les Bains, and brings np about lunch time the next day i Turin; thence hurries on through the plains of Lombardy to Bologna, strikes the coast ot the Adriatic at Rimini, keeping close along tho shore of the Italian peninsula and reaches Brindisi about 1 1 o'clock on Sunday night Miss Bly arrived at Brindsi on time and took the steamer ictoria ot the Peninsular and Oriental line from that point She left Biindisi at 2 A. November 25tb, crossed the Mediterranean and sailed through the Suez Canal, arriving at Ismaila on November 18th. from lsmaua her journey lay through the Red sea, whose waters swallowed Pharaoh's hosts.

Beautiful but warm weather attended her as she passed between the storied shores of Arabia and Egypt On December 2d, the P. and O. steamer still the Victoria, on which she had embarked at Brindisi rode into the harbor of Aden, the "verdnreless rock, at the southern ex rem ity of Arabia, whose fortifications strike the eye of the visitor menacingly, and whose deep wells, dating from the time of bolo mon, are conspicuous objects of interest Across the Arabian Sea the Victoria sped with its plucky little passenger, and arrived at Colombo, on the Island of Ceylon, De cember 8th. Here the World's globe girdler leu the Victoria to take another r. U.

steamer for Hong Kong. She was two days ahead of her Itinerary, bnt was obliged to spend these two days in Ceylon. The steamer irom Calcutta for China was due at Co lombo on December 9th, but was a day late and Miss Bly did not leave the Singahlese port until December 10th. She bad time to visit Kandy, the capital of the island, and see Buddha's tooth, in the beautifnl temple there; also to inspect the great rubber trees in the botanical gardens, and to wander in the palm groves and watch the monkeys chase each other in the cocoanut trees. Nearly 2.000 miles of water stretched be tween Nellie Bly and the next important point in her tour, Singapore, an island south of the Peninsula of Malay.

The city of Singapore, the chief community on the island, is not more than ninety miles north of the Equator and is a pretty torrid place. On December 18th Nellie Bly, after passing through the straits of Malacca, was at Mngapore. half way around the world. Her eight days' ride through the Indian ocean carried her over the ruins of cities buried for long centuries beneath its tossing noods. bhe remained in the I'.

U. steamer. which stopped at Singapore only long enough to permit the mmls and its cargo to be handled, and on December 24th, Christmas Eve, reached Hong Konf, on the southwest coast ot China. She bnd her Christmas dinner in the Chinese city and altogether spent five uays in shopping and sight seeing. Ibis delay was expected and could not have been avoided.

The first available means of transiorl a tion across the Pacific ocean was the fast stea mer Oceanic of the Occidental and Oriental Line. This steamer was scheduled to leave Hong Kong for San Francisco Deeember 28th, and on that date Nellie Bly bade adieu to the celestial empire. Five days later she was in Yokohama, Japau, where she arrived January 2d. The Oceanic carries Chinese and Japanese mails to the United States. It had to wait until January 7th at Yokohama for the mail.

This made another five days' delay during which time Miss Bly assiduously gathered material for the wonderful story of her race against time which she will write for the New York World, immediately upon her return to New York city. The commander of the Oceanic was fully in iorined of the importance of the voyage he was making and left Yokohama with the in tention of steaming across the Pacific ocean in the shortest number of days and of land ng his brave little passenger in San Fran cisco on January 20th, in time to catch the lust mail train which leaves ban Francisco for the East at 8 P. M. each day. The fortune of the trans Pacific trip is now known to the reader.

Nellie BIv's tour of the world is unfinished at the writing of this brochure, but it is probable that it will not requite moie than seventy thrco dnys, and it may bo completed iu seventy two days. In view of what Jules erne said in Amiens, on Novembcc 23d. the achievement may be regarded as simply marvelous, and Nellie Bly's story of the manner in which she girdled the globe in so shot a time will be more interesting than any romance that could be written. Ihe transcontinental iournev is n.ade via the Central and Union Pacifies, the Chioairo and Northwestern, and the Pennsylvania lines. This is the fast mail route, and it takes passengers from the Pacific slope to Chicago without change of car.

The schedule time for the trip from San Fran duo to New York Is four and a half days. A few days after Nellie Blv left New York on her flying tour the New York IlVrtf offered a prize of a free roand trip to En rope first class transatlantic passage both ways, first class railway tickets on the other side, a week's stay ia a first class hotel ia London, a week's stay at a first class hotel in Paris, and a railroad ride to and from Rome to the person who guessed nearest to the exact number of days, hoars, minutes and seconds required by Miss Bly to complete her tonr. This offer attracted hundreds of thoasands of guesses. The prue will be awarded soon after Miss Bly's arrival in New York, and the nave of the winner and the figures of the winning guess will lie printed in the World. OX CIIRIST3IAS EVE.

Nita would have been such a pretty child had she been dressed properly, but she was only Beppo's daughter, the Italian peddler, who roamed about the country trying to sell the plaster images he bad made. She saw bim very seldom, but whenever he came back from a journey there waa always something nice ia his pack for Nita. What she wanted most of all was a doll, a real wax doll with bine eyes and yellow hair. The only doll she had ever owned was made of rags, but its face grew sooty ia time and its frock ragged, and she could not love such a dirty thing. It was Christmas eve and Nita stood with her face glned np against the pane of toy shop, where dolls of every description stared at her from glittering shelves.

Oh, such dolls were never seen before. Boy dolls and baby dolls, ball room dolls and stage dolls, and even a little darkey doll, who had hid den herself respectfully away in a far corner from the glittering group beyond. A masculine person, aged 8, sturdy, oated in astrachan cloth, with boots np to his knees, joined her as she stood there, and fixed bis eyes on the tcys that pleased him best a steam engine, a train of cars, lions with their mouths open to roar. To bim Nita addressed herself in the fulness of her heart At such times speech with some other seems necessary to the human heart. "Little boy," she said, 1f anyone should beg every day for a year, could she get money enough to bny one of those dolls 1" The little fellow looked at her.

He had that wholesome hatred of girls usual to the youth of bis sex; but be was conscious of the superiority of his mind, and here was an inferior creature needing information. "Pshaw he said. "Of course not You don't get things that way. Santa Clans brings 'em down the chimney Christmas eve. "Santa Claus she repeated.

"Didn't yon ever hear of him?" asked the boy. "Pshaw! Why, yon hang your slocking np in the chimney, and yon say your prayers and go to sleep, and in the morning there they are. Why, didn't yon know that much He walked off as he spoke, but Nita bad a new idea. The good Santa Clans! Ah! that was bow it was. She knew now.

She would go to church and pray to good Santa Claus for a doll. She knew the way to the church welL The door was always open. There wss a fiictured saint with hands uplifted. The ittle Italian knelt before it "Oh, good saint if I could have a doll a beautiful doll all for my very own," murmured Nita. "Don't forget me, dear saint, when you give the others gifts on Christmas eve; I have no mother." As earnest her prayer as aoy ever altered.

The romantic child of a romantic land, "she put her whole soul Into her hope. A band of children crossed the church, following a sweet faced, black robed sister. Nita thought they were all going to pray for Christmas gifts; and there was no doubt whatever ia her mind that she should have a doll on Christmas day; none. At last she arose and went ont into the street. The streets are so full ot wagons and carts and carriages these busy times, and horses grow restive when the icy wind cuts them keenly.

A runaway team a little girl, who turned to look at the gleaming cross the church spire and did not their mad advance, then shrieks from the crowd policemen an ambulance. A child run over that was all. It was little Nita, with her baby prayer still on her lips. She lay in the hospital when she saw the world again. Her honrs were numbered.

Somehow she knew this, amid the tender cherishing and petting to which she was so unused. She had seen people die first her mother, then old Niroto with the organ, and after this tbe poor little monkey, in her aims, as much an individual to her fancy as any one. "Must I die she said to the nurse. "My child," replied tbe good woman, "you can only go to heaven by dying." "I know." said Nits, "where mamma Is, but I want to live until Christmas. The saint will bring me a doll, because I prayed to him to do It I want to live for Christ mas, because I never have had a doll in all my life; and this will be so lovely.

I prayed it should be." "We wilt hang np your 'stocking," said the nurse. So now she prayed to live to have her prayer fulfilled. Christmss eve came. She slept a while. Shortly her eyes opened.

They turned npon the stocking. It was wrapped about a a narcel. Tbe nurse 'arose from her chaii, went to the mantel, brought thence the parcel and nnfolded it A doll, golden haired, blue eyed, all in white and blue. A doll such as a little princess might have enjoyed to have. "See," she said, "while we were all asleep it came." Nita took it in her arms with a smile that the nurse never forgot "It is everything I wanted on earth," said the child.

"Oh, good saint! Oh, sweet saint! My doll my doll my doll my doll She lifted ber lips to tbe nurse's kiss, and the good woman knelt down and hid her face in the pillow. Christmas day had come. The bells for early mass were ringing from the church steeples, and ita spoke. "My mother," she said. "Look she has come for roe! I am going to show her my doll!" The nurse looked about her, half expecting to see something.

Then she turned her wet eyes toward tbe pillow again. On it lay a little dead fece, still smiling, still with its white cheek pressed against tbe rosy, waxen one of tbe Christmas dolt "It is not only a doll," said tbe nurse "it is an answered prayer that she takes with ber to heaven. Saaaa Kaa. Ted They sav Doll baodled Delinks without cloves. ed les; she gave bim tbe mitten.

Smith (in l'aris) Gar con, parley vons trancotsr Oarcon ot American kind. monsieur. Rich Patient Hadn't you better bleed roe, doctor? Physician Welt, not until tbe end of the quarter. Duller YV by Jon you net a new suit of clothes, chappie? Chappie I have taken measures witb that end in view. "Golly!" eped little Jobnnv as be fin ished the second crock of stolen preserves.

"I feel as if I had been amokine pa pi re. YY heeler I can see wbat makes Mon arity and Itoorke so suspicions of each other. Wilson by, don rou know tney re both Irish "patriots!" Maddox I should think that painters would make rood instructors of tbe deaf and dumh. Snooper Wby Maddox They are familiar with the "sign" language. tirst Prohibitionist Ve can bold the meeting of the State Committee at the Hotter 1 loose Second Prohibitionist Has it a bar? First Prohibitionist No; but there ie a saloon just around tbe corner.

Husband How tnnch did that bat cost? Wife Five dollars. I.n't tbat cheap? llnsband I don't know. Five dollars is a good deal of money. (An hour later. lias band How do you like tbat cigar rive lollars a box.

lie Tbat a good cicar. but I'm afraid you're extravagant llnsband Nonsense! Five dollars isn't much money. Old I torn an Thnrman blew a blast into his red bandana and then irritally delivered himself as follows: "There was a time ben brains was considered a qualification for a United states senator in Ohio: now brains counts for nothing aud loodle for every I thing." A Word to Our Patrons. We Have Just Finished Our January Mark DowiL Money is now our object, not profits. The value is the same as formerly, hut the prices much lower.

To our customers who were acquainted with our uniform low prices, we have a surprise in store. Clothing, Hats, Caps. Fur. nishing Goods, Fur Goods and Shoes. Every department has been gone through and prices made that ever)' customer will appreciate.

it Fi 318 Harket Street. novis sm TO INVESTORS. Union Loan Trust Company, OP CLEVELAND. OHIO. Incorporated September Its.

Authorized Capital, $1,000,000 Paid Capital, inxt.OOO HAS FOR SALE 6f Certificates of Deposit. 65 Debenture Bondr, Farm Mortgages, Sf Trust Company Stock. DESCRIPTIOL Oar OrtlsVat nnll are our own duv obiigsUons currd ty una oa las proved ftaa! Estate won no less luut MJ( llmrs tiie amount ot cminosies intwd, Tbe.cerunwtes are tsso4 at Ue rexet depositors ia same of aa upwards, aod are be cominr very popular among ansll lavedora as taey alTord aa opportunity tare Mnail avsas at rauis ot interest tnwcii la eas ot Nunt. Bank rales. ttn rqnaUy as good not better ennty.

At the option of tbe hoVter. when tbe denenata reacii or more ibev ran be ruiuuirmlfor 4 per oral. ioU Itrbrnture totd. or a prrcveu hrat uortface on improve! real rtfal aj described IwkiW. OarfcwM pheatsre si are our own dlrert obUfaMons la tbe Harm or a or 9 rear omipoa.

uola bood which are Merured by nr acTCcre on Unproved real estate wan not less tfcaa limes the par value of the boodf issued. Xalfcwaf Bank notes are o( the nature of debentures, as they are based upoa tvoerraawM, Ilooda tiepofctted with the Treasurer ot the olled (Mates as TruMee. Land lietwatures are bonds based npon land or land aerunura. mtIi bonds an not of recent oruia. They with a Berlin ui rrhant named Buria la l.

since thai lime iher haw apmad throurbout he countries or tiermanr. Auotrta. Kussu. Belgium. France andtireai Britain.

Thetrlds tory febows litem to be remarkable Mr aatrty reUabUlir. 11 has been atarned that so holder ot a bond ot a Land ttrbenture exxapstor has ever suflered the I ot a dollar la rotumqiaeane. and I here ts no reason to believe that the suonrwe ot the lorrlfm companies may not bs repeated la llie I'nlted Mates. Oar awr real. Caarsatee4 I Bertsase.

are nrst toortgapm on Improved farms worth ska leas than Sr time tbe amount of the tuooer loaned, and truaraateed both principal and Interest by Ihe otnpanv. Oar aer real. Inn rKaaf Mart Ihe st oca of tins oooipaay wUcb now paysaquar leriv dividend or prr rent. This atork ts on or ottered at sura times as the bailors of the CtMupaor detuaads an increase of capital, and ts one of our safest and beat pastaf aecuitUea. and the future outlook Isauchlbat we are warranted la aartaff bat sriibla a hatt lime the company wul tc aUe to mure than double lis preaekt dividend.

We have only a few abates of this stock lo offer at lis par aloe of ion each. Any of the aecurtfies above described may be purchased at par and interest at tbe omoe 4 the t'Ktox Loan a Tarer Oouravv. iox brrsaioa onto, oa sat" If aa Botwv. Saw Yost. We fit Spectacles cr Eye uiasses perfectly at Very Low Prices to all Eyes that can be im proved by Lenses.

Eyes Examined Free. COCKLIN GRADUATE OPTICIANS, 28 N. Third Strest, Harrisbarg, Pa. 36 IIILLINERY.36 winter mm Trimmed Hats, Trimmed Bonnets. Feathers, Tips, Plumes, Velvets, Ribbons, Mather's Millinery, SECOND AND WALNUT.

For Sale Very Cheap! A Mco Home for XSoO. Aa An Investment It "Will Pay 10 Per Cent. rpiIK two story frame bonne, sritbkluhca. JL No. 109 Kurtrm anda tiaU timet.

i r4rere4 ruraue at tneexreeoiacty low rrkre asMoa. It contains seven rooms, and has watr.arw auu pai norma. Turn lor or aoro advttnine the hoe and ho ien deep, li alwi oQrred tor sals oa aaaae tow terms. It would suit a nJKe.r patt lo boy and build a row of bWw nlalion. The belrhtwtwwwl is nbod.

and taaay Improvements are brini made ia aad ataovl It. Man than bouara are buuiurf. a4 are la OOUtempUUoa Of being baUl tbere AJ DOV1S North YUrd TVSSOLUTION' OF l'AitTXKiiSlHr. 17 it jua. It.

Tbe banner. awn berctweeHl? umWlbe firm haae(4 iiAnr. uni iikI ot isrnnfa Hiud dikMoived coftwut. Tbeaflalrsuf a4 Dims will be ne nix iw Euniery atreet. 10 mbutu ail prrwo Indr Mxd to the abe nnu will wake la tor til a4 ihusr ha vlna claims will prmrtit I he same.

lir.MAi 1 I. I. MILI EH. ThomasO. nerwft bvtbctrcbatie4 tbe Inter est of 1.

Miller la Ihe above onus 11 cot.tU.ue Ue bavlness of rleanug carpets. sntMUascbop. making cum meal. at me cl atst d. Montc umery street.

Jan. a. jt an OOK BLXDI.VO does ia tbe beat snasv at the Dtiiv Tarawa mirruuciAv OSIER i ILLIdJioU KnCCATIOX. X. tree.

tvnrstiS ana ewtiflur ina Oaasaa fee the atndr cS rmbca at the uurwaL ha ar i tr una iinias mill IZT mum jvana keocaid tlfwf. ius aai. fTOTKLS. JOCHTEL HOTEL. aittiusra.

pa. TVW mm Is onjj two qaarwe Is Crat esaas la sJl ita asarn t4rf om oocifcecUotje am starts at i OBO. BCsrraJL CITY ADriUrrtSEMEXTS. TAX NOTICE. OX all rlir Uses far lea.

3 read, fcaa bera adied. atd I per Orsrt. AdOmattaJ arm be auMed oa tM first day uf ciaoh auiA rvary anoath naUl the aame are paid, tn aU water recite and roierc taaaa tar lass rewiainiTiy susraua October lav is, aa uan of ev per ru via be tnaa. and ST 1 aatae are not rod annua as ars Mm onto 1st. isms, the sn4 water Shaj becateC em, owl farther nxAKia.

By duwcuoa of OootnUMa) 9 at teanot and onmmoa Oaaacua. J. tUEJUL. ajirtaf please OOTT. Music Ualli Chains! See oar Urga st lalhMaf esnrsnt atosesrood.

Xabofatty and Vanry ttaiant. Organs, Bot ttre and an acta. Violins, Guitars, Banjos, Flutes, Harmonicas, Accordions, Music Ooxs, etc HmsV Vnaie PoUoa, MAdH. Ooears and ail klzxis ot astnal tcoctda. our prtnra mru awa down la tmn the aeaaoa.

and sr ami euiow 14 cue to aadrmeii ns la tumavarg. J. U. KIRZENKNABE SONS, 1202 TUr4 KL, UlsUlllStX9 New Book Store. Tl'ST orr.XKI A CMtaiaf saatsaoery sad raster Aroraea siapanalijr aw Inrted ifcs liouday fraSe trem alaWH any ia UartMbwc.

Dairy J. 302 Broad Street STREET. Desirable Property FOR SALE. The two line three story brick business and residence properties. situated Kos.

200 and 202 Noith Second Street, Harrishurg, having all modern conveniences. Bath rooms, walnut stairway, large yards, heated from cellar heater, Terms easy. Call on or address GEO. W. MEILY, 2I4 2I6 f.ltrtct Strcl HAKRTBBURQ.

PA. Diaries, Calendars AND Almanacs, AT Fleming's, 32 N. THIRD STREET. C. a SMITH A CO.

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