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ASSASSINS OF ARIZONA.
,-ahkhiesce or the eaulv
•° *i;\EXTIES IX TICSOX.
Wild Bide Down the Santa < ruz
’ , ii.ree Ruffianly Assassins
Trail— > > ,r * r
Pursuit— A Sternly Eight at
" . I,i in in* Inn—Two of the Truik
' ~ Killed—The Third Shot
lug 1 ’
„„ Ills Horse.
■ the Chicago Inter Ocean.
• tf . n years following the close
yor : ' J
, ,vij war Arizona seemed given
p, -ial jurisdiction of the devil,
c ( N| „ c. Taylor of San Francisco.
, v l h friends in the cafe of ihe
ip i e last night. It wasn’t the
U , , s elf that was at fault, for there
that goes to make up Arizona
! . . .. „ ~t sun and sand hills. It was
1 There had always been a
. ..pukiiion of Apaches, desperadoes,
,' , i rattlesnakes and Gila monsters,
. , ~ tougher when the war ended and
the m< n for whom peace had no charms
drl ( ~: io the far Southwest. Tuscon,
I v £ paso, was a convenient place for
hum, fing near the Mexican border, so
lhal ,t things got hot for them on one
j r of 'he line they could skip across
i, at : t notice and get beyond reacn
oi •arrest. ’
1 ~ ii,,ng at Tuscon in the early ’7o’s
encaged in the practice of law, but de
ling- more of my time to the acquiring
of lac f mmnt rights and the development
an ,i of mining property. It was to
satisfy myself as to the location of a
iand grin t boundary that I left Tuscon
jany . a,- morning, alone on horseback,
taking- the trail southward down the San
,‘, ,-rnz \ alley. In the middle of the fore
noon I overtook Francisco Garcia riding
su!,,r.> along the trail, with all of his
person;T Ik iongings—they consisted of u
por bio and n parcel tied nr* in a large
jt .ndk, rcbii f. with his sheathed sword
thrust crosswise beneath the knot—fast
,-,.j ihe saddle behind him. Garcia
w i> i tcieador—an espada, in fact, the
leading man in the bull ring, who plays
the fir. , 1 i t in each encounter by a face
to face duel, armed only with a naked
sword, with the bull. There had been a
hull fight at Tucson, as part of the cele
bration of the birthday of that city’s pat
ron saint, in which Garcia had distin
guished himself. But he had dallied at
the monte table afterward and left there
the silver dollars that he had gained by
his professional skill and bravery. Now
he was on his way to Hermosiiio, in So
rora. in iiopes to secure a star engagement,
there for the Christmas holiday celebra
tions.
We greeted each other cordially and rode
on together for a Stretch. But as I had
much the better horse, and knew I must
make the most of my time that day, I
presently handed him a package of ciga
rettes. said ndios, and rode on away from
him Several mile? ahead I turned off the
trail to make my investigations of the
landmark. It was late in the afternoon
More ! was ready to go back to the trail—
so late that I decided I would not try to
return to Tucson that night, but go further
down the va.ley and sleep at San Pablo,
where an American named Clumb kept
a posada, or inn.
A circumstance that helped me to come
to this decision was a feeling which had
been growing upon me through the day
that 1 was being followed. It had begun
in the morning, when, after leaving Tuc
son. looking back from a high hill five
,r -s away, I had seen three men in the
distance ruling in the same direction I was
taking. Two or three times while making
my explorations I had caught a glimpse
of some or.e watching me from conceal
in'nt behind some hill crest—and above
this. I fell strongly that instinct that I
was being "shadowed,” which a man liv
:,:T.i dangers is likely to learn not to
disregard.
lo go to San Pablo I took a different
M.ite from that by which I had left the
tnil. Ijooking northward after passing
through a range of hills, I saw a man
h ■ din;.’ three horses at the entrance of the
' lnon through which I should have passed
Ml 1 s'attcd back for Tucson. As soon as
i appeared in view he led the horses into
t ie canon out of sight, and I had no doubt
T.at h' was or.e of the three men whom I
bud seen riding that morning from Tuc-
Fr " ; a I that the other two were ambush
ed In the canon waiting for me. An hour
later I rode through the plaza to the inn.
’lb-iv- the first person that my eyes fell
°“ n ‘ t'rancLsco Garcia sitting upon a
ir ■! I. nch built along the front of the
house.
! hunted up the landlord. I knew that
h- w:>. a thorough scoundral as ever
r " unhung, that his house had the
wv rst sort of reputation as a haunt arid
ib-tung place for thieves and robbers. But
mu a guarantee of my own safety here
" 1 f 1 u that I had been retained as
1 11 “ 1 'ho landlord in a case where
'iv sr 'v of his neck depended on my
" r ! 1 ' joined me at my supper ancl
t ask. ] him if Garcia, the bull fighter,
had nail !iig Pupp(>r
" x ”' ! ” r °. anyway,” he said. “He had
ecu money enough to pay for feed for
fii? nor<\”
"' ■ 'I him in.” I said. “I will pay for
tu> supper and breakfast.”
s “ '' 1 too proud to beg. came In to
i M l "' n my invitation. I did not sit up
or supper, being tired from civ
V j fu'o. Before going to bed I
. l,: "' !u that he might spread his pon-
Hoor ir my room if he wished.
- ud that he preferred to sleep
;;; 1 c °fi*d guard his horse. In the
“ ' ■ i adobe house my room, of
' "us on the ground floor, and it
... upon the placita or court yard.
' was no lock on the doer was
v . ; n dter for complaint In a country
! '‘■ ry man at that period was ex
' •• io protect himself against intrud
j , '|'‘h his firearms. Tired as I was.
, R 0! k° at once to sleep, and the
/'■' ' ( he wa.y in which I had been
„. !lv ihe three men that day re.
f(f .' ’ 'no, arid Miis lime with a thoor>
r , motive other than that of mere
rr ,\' * n a land grant ease then in
a 1 hire the courts there would be
r-. advantage to the contestants on
Ip. ■ ' were out of the way—if the
‘ l ' Jn H>at I possessed could be per
i , i suppressed—anil the one effect
i >o bring this about would be to
r. killed I was dropping asleep,
j 1 hut instantly roused myself as
ia ,V'h of iho door softly lifted,
p h 1 called, and grabbed my
1 saw the door opening. “Qulen
"Tented in Spanish.
ta - “ s ’ uor ’ h, 0 not speak loudly,” came
> . . a "hisptr. -It is Garcia, and 1
nPorta nt things to tell you.”
where you are until i light the
tnr commanded. The candle and
T H, re on the chair by my bed.
“i the lignt was struck Garcia
h , ‘he room and closed the door
, poncho was on his arm,
hand he carried his straight,
■ word in it S sheath.
I L Fa, d. S *Bl In a whisper,
f ' 1 brought their t.orses intb the
no, seeing where I lay. After they
o* ~ ‘. olr horses they taiked together
'• Si'Do, Ik cornc ‘ lo d0 - It is your
a r ~.,:, tba ’ th *y seek. They spoke
, ’■ ard—a reward ofEOO pesos-that
I„, ; h ‘° for killing you.”
“ know where I am In the
v r , and, wondering If, after all,
rr r, i mlKat net connive at my
• • T h -
1": l , ,ho men has gone now to
,j m a maid who works in the
house. She is his sweetheart. But they
will not attack you at once. They wish
their horses to be rested and fed first.
That is to be done so that they may stare
away at once after the deed is accom
plished.”
“Wei),” I said, getting up and begin
ning to put on my clothes, "there's noth
ing for me to do but wait for them. 1
have my revolver. They may not find
me as ea.-y as they think.”
“Senor, do n:e the honor to hearken to
my words. There are three of them, well
armed, and they are led by Jose San
guily."
Sanguilly was a name of terror in Ari
zona at that time. Bandit, desperado, pro
fessional assassin, he had long been pro
tected by iteople nigh in power lor his
usefulness to them in the line of his pecu
liar calling Quick with the pistol, sure
with the knife, absolutely without com
punction or remorse, it was simply a mat
ter of bargaining as to the amount to be
paid him to secure the removal of any
man who might stand in the way of his
employer. With a half score of murders
to his account he rode rn and out of Tuc
son at will, played monte at the gambling
saloons and waltzed with the senoritas at
the dance hulls as often as his vocation
afforded him the; money to indulge in these
tastes.
“But, senor, It is not three against one;
it is three against two. for 1 will stay with
you," Garcia-continued. “Since your death
has been determined on. the thing is best
settled now, when you are on your guard
and prepared. With your permission I will
be down by the door. And, let me advise
you, roll .volit; pillows in the blankets so
that it will as if you were lying
asleep in the bed. Take your station at the
head of the bed, with your pistol in readi
ness, but do not speak or fire until I call
to you. 1 have an account that I wish to
settle witli Jose Sanguilly myself.
Garcia lay- clown,on the adobe tioor with
his head to ihe ddor crack and after I had
arranged a dummy man between thet sheets
1 blew out the cajtiuic and crouched in ihe
darkness behind the headboard. The time
passed long aud slowly, for the bandits
without doubt n-ert tStiiing a comfortable
nap before they should attend to the job
they had in hand. There were no windows
lo ihe chamber and all within was pitchy
dark. I could not see Garcia, and for any
sound or movement that he made he might
have been asleep. At last I heard him rise
to his feet, and a minute later the latch
was softly lifted and the door slowly open
ed. There was a bright moon without, and
its light coming in at the partly opened
door made the bed faintly discernible at
one, end of the room. A man looked into
the room and then noiselessly entered; he
wore no hat and was in his stocking feet.
The opening door concealed Garcia, stand
ing behind it, and the man stealing to
ward the bed, had to pass him. A step
away from the bed the man paused, leaned
forward as if to make sure of what was
before him, and the bright blade of a knife
gleamed in his hand as Garcia stepped
swiftly toward him from behind.
Have you ever seen'a bull fight—seen the
espada kill the bull with his sword after
the animal has been worked into the ex
treme of fury by the pieadores and the
darts of the bandilleros? If so you have
seen a performance that seems to demand
the bight of human skill and daring. The
espada must kill the bull in a prescribed
manner, by stabbing him between the neck
and the shoulder with a force and precis
ion that shall bury the blade in the ani
mal’s heart, and to do this he must give
the thrust at the moment the bull lowers
his head to toss him, and slip aside in
time to escape the horns. The power,quick
ness and swordsmanship of the man who
makes this his business do not require fur
ther demonstration. As the man at the
bedskie raised his knife I could not follow
Garcia’s movement, It was done' so quickly
There was a dull sound like a blow and as
the assassin, without a sound, except a
gasp, pitched forward on his face and nev
er moved again. The sw-ord bad passed
clean through his body and the sound of a
blow that I had heard was its hilt strik
ing against his ribs.
Garcia pulled the man’s body to one side
where it would not be seen by any one
coming through the doorway, then shut
the door and silently took his place again
behind it. The bandits evidently had
thought that one of their number was suf
ficient to send for the assassination of a
sleeping man, and we heard no sound from
the others for some little time. Then there
came the sound of quick, impatient steps
without, the door was flung widely open,
and Jose Sang Gilly stepped Into the room
with a revolver in his hand. The moon
light streamed in through the open door
way lighted up the room so that every
thing within couid be plainly seen. Garcia,
holding his straight, slender sword pointed
horizontally before him, as if in the bull
ring, stepped in front of Sanguilly.
"Remember Garcia,” he said, and thrust
as the bandit’s pistol cracked. The bullet
struck the wall In direct line, it seemed,
with Garcia's head, sending a shower of
adobe fragments down tp the floor. San
guily went stagfeering back, still holding
his pistol, until he reached the opposite
wall. He stood- there a moment bracing
himself against the wall, then dropped the
pistol, clasped his hand to his heart and
sank In a heap, dead, to the floor.
“Now for the last one,” said Garcia.
“Your pistol will serve for him. He will
be outside faith the horses."
I stepped out into the courtyard, got in
to the shadow as soon as I could and went
to the gate. It was ajar, and, looking
through the crack I saw a man outside
sitting on a horse, holding two other
horses by the bridles. I opened the gate a
little wider and fired twice at him, missing
him both times at ten paces away. He
did not stop to return my fire, but crouch
ed low in the saddle, put spurs to his horse
and ran for it, taking the other two horses
with him. Somebody brushed past me,
pushing the gate more widely open. It
was my landlord, Clumb, in his shirt, bare
footed and bareheaded, as he had jumped
from bed with a double-barreled shotgun
in his hands. He did not wait to ask
questions, but let both barrels go after the
man.
The fellow stuck to his saddle for about
fifty yards further, and then went to the
ground. Garcia had joined us by this
time and we went to where the man was
lying and brought him back to the house.
He had a slug and three buckshot in him
and he died before daylight, but not until
he had told every detail of the bargain
with Sanguilly to kill me and the names
of all the parties concerned. With this
ante-mortem statement duly witnessed, I
afterwards made tilings so warm for the
promoters of my assassination that they
had to quit the territory.
Clumb was a little taken aback when
he found that the man he had killed had
not been stealing his norses, as he had
supposed when he fired. But he made a
virtue of his action afterwards when he
had got the whole story of the affair, for
with Sanguilly dead he could safely do
so, and it served to holster up his reputa
tion and helped him at his trial. Garcia
went back with me to Tuscon, and there
I found out, as I hud expected, that there
had been bad blood between him and San-
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guilly—a woman was mixed In the affair
of course—and it was perhaps due to that
circumstance that I got the aid of his
swqrd, which certainly saved my life.
When he started away again, a fortnight
later, he traveled by dlligencia, and he
carried with him as a big a bag of Mexi
can dollars as he could conveniently han
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RAPID-FIRE GUNS’ EXECUTION.
Some Kinds Capable of 1,000 Shots a
Minute.
From the Boston Herald.
American ingenuity, which has so effi
ciently assisted the material progress of
the world by devising labor-saving ma
chinery, has also done much In develop
ing the possibilities of engines of destruc
tion. In this direction It has worked won
ders afid no civilized or seml-civilized na
ton now goes to war without employing
arms of Yankee invention. In machine
guns the Americans have led the world,
though our government was slower than
those of Europe in recognizing their ef
fectiveness and adopting them.
This arm first became known to people
not directly interested in weapons of war
fare during the Franco-German war,
when the correspondents sent to their
papers descriptions of the “terrible mi
trailleuse” employed by the French to
“mow down whole ranks” of their an
tagonists. On this account there is a
general impression that the mitrailleuse
was the first machine gun. This, how
ever, Is an error, as a decade before Em
peror and Kaiser decided to settle their
differences in the field Dr. Robert Gat
ling of Indiana had invented the arm
that bears his name.
The Gatling gun was brought to the at
tention of the Federal government in 1861,
but the eminent military authorities who
were urged to adopt it for the Northern
armies saw in it nothing practical, and
it was not even given an official test un
til several years after the close of the
civil war. While the United States held
back, foreign nations quickly saw the ad
vantages of Gatling’s invention, and
adopted it. On this continent it was first
employed in warfare in the Riel rebellion,
Canada, where great execution was done
by a single gun, and the arm has since
occasionally been used by our troops
against the Indians In the West.
The Gatling gun consists of from six to
ten rifled barrels arranged around a cen
tral spindle and firmly screwed into disks
at breech and muzzle. The barrels ,e
--volve around the shaft, and mechanism at
the breech engages each in turn, ex
tracting the empty shell, replacing it with
a loaded cartridge, closing the breech and
then firing the charge. The gun is oper
ated by simply turning a crank, and the
firing can be made continuous, the car
tridges being supplied from a hopper cn
the top and dropping one by one as fast
as needed. The rapidity of firing depends
solely upon the action of the man at the
crank. A well trained gunner can fire
as many as 1,200 shots in one minute.
One of the latest improvements In this
weapon is the substitution of an electric
moter for manual power.
The Gardner gun, another American In
vention, with all its appurtenances, weighs
only about 110 pounds, and can lie car
ried on the back of a horse or mule. Its
firing rate is 501 shots a minute, and iis
breech is encircled in a water jacket,
which permits the fire to be kept up much
longer than if there was no provision for
cooling the barrels. The arm is composed
of two breech loading rifles, placed side
by side, but separated about a quarter
inch. The mechanism for loading, firing
and extracting empty cartridges resembles
that of the Gatling gun, and is also oper
ated by a crank.
Two men are needed to work It, one in
serting the cartridges from the feeding
case into the feeding guide, while the
other turns the handle, which places the
cartridges in the breech alternately,
draws back and releases the firing ham
mers. and extracts the empty shells. The
Gardner has been introduced into the ser
vice of all the European Powers except
Austria. France, Germany and Russia.
After Gen. Grant returned from his trip
around tpe world, he sent iv Gardner gnn
to the Mikado of Japan and another to Li
Hung Chang, then viceroy of China, as
evidences of his appreciation of the extra
ordinary courtesies tney had shown him.
Another machine gun of American ori
gin that enjoys high favor is the Inven
tion of Hiram 3. Maxim, a native of San
gervllle. Me. This gentleman, as usual in
such cases, found it necessary to go
abroad for recognition for his device, and
first entered upon Its manufacture in
England. His gun, which was invented In
IW3, and has since been greatly improved,
is automatic, and all that is requisite to
put it in action is to press the trigger to
explode the first cartridge. After that has
been done the gun loads and fires itself
as long as cartridges ate fed to It, unless
a cartridge fails to explode, in which case
it ceases work until It receives the neces
sary attention.
There Is but ond barrel, of which two
thirds is Inclosed In a metal water Jacket
ar.d the remaining third in a steel case of
tectangular form. If the latter Is placed
the operating mechanism, which chi. fly
consists of a mainspring and a tumbler,
a tiring pin and a lever. When the first
cartridge Is discharged the recoil (of only
one-eighth of on inch) puts the lever m
aciion. and this at once sets the whole
mechanism In motion. The empty shell is
automatically withdrawn, anew cartridge
is inserted, the brooch is clo.-< and and the
gun is tired with incredible rapidity. The
cartridges are fed from a belt, something
like those worn by hunters, which holds
in lit tie separate jiockcis about ;L,‘, of them,
and is moved l'orwatd as ciotlt is in a
sewing machine.
Each discharge injects a certain qttan.
tity of water into the metal jacket so as to
prevent the overheating of the barrel, and
1,000 cartridges can be tired before the
water begins to throw off steam. A grad
uated quadrant permits the barrel to bq
trained in any desired dire ; i.>n. and a
steel armor plate protects t lk- operator,
who sits tyi a leather cushion lix. and in the
rear leg of the tripod supporting iln- gun,
or on tiie longue of the carnage if it is
mounted on wheels. Six hundred and six
ty-six shots can lie find in a minute. The
gun mounted is only three feet high, and
measures four Ret nine inches from breech
to muzzle; its weight without the carriage
is about fifty pounds.
The Hotchkiss gpn is the extension of
Ihe principle of machine gun to cannon.
This arm is an American invention, but
the principal factory for making it is in
France, and It was adopted by many Eu
ropean governments before it was recog
nized in the United Stales. The original
Hotchkiss was a big revolvt r with five
chambers, which being turned slowly,were
fired in succession, and could be quickly
reloaded by hand. The guns are made of
various sizes, and throw projectiles
weighing from one to tjhirty-two pounds.
Twenty shots per minute huv< been fired
from a Hotchkiss revolving 6-poAder.
A rapid-firing field gun is made under
the Hotchkiss patents, with a carriage
that neutralizes the recoil by means of
upper and lower frames and springs,
brakes on the wheels and an anchor plate
on the trail, so that it is unnecessary to
bring the piece back into position after
each discharge. A novel type of Hotch
kiss gun for the defense of trenches, etc.,
has a different twist In the rifling of each
barrel, so that the area covered by can
ister or shrapnel ftmkfrom tlum will vary
with each discharge. New devices for
feeding this guu can be worked with great
rapidity, and tt is possible to lire ninety
shots a minute.
The Driggs-Sehroeder gun, so named for
its inventors, Lieuls. W. H. Driggs and
Seaton 'Sohroeder of the United States
Navy, is similar in many ways to the
Hotchkiss gun, and repres.ms the most
advanced ideas In rapid-fire guns of heavy
calibre. Like the rest of machine guns,
it has been adopted by many foreign gov
ernments. It is pivoted on a standard
and a projecting arm at the breech ena
bles the gunner to airft it much in the
same manner he would sight a rifle, leav
ing both his hands free. With one hand
he opens and closes the breech, and with
the other he inserts and extracts the cart
ridges. The action is very simple, and not
likely to get out of order, and a skilled
operator has fired as many as thirty-six
shots in one minute. For repelling small
boats and penetrating the sides of unar
mored vessels, the Driggs-3 iiroeder, con
sidering its weight. Is unexcelled.
SPAIN’S DARING ENEMY.
A Dramatic Eplnode In the I.tfe of
Awnlnaldu.
From an Exchange.
Pancho Aguinaido, the native dictator
of the Philippines, is a very picturesque
personage. He is the son of a very prom
inent native chief. Anxious that his boy
should be educated, this chief confided
the lad to the Spanish priests, who
thought that Aguinaldq’.s influence, when
he grew up, would help to maintain Span
ish authority among the Malay popula
tion. The father is Uelj, for a paiive,
and Pancho Aguinaido, after being
taught in the local schools, was sent to
Madrid to study theology and qualify
for the priesthood. After a year or two
of study the young man boldly declared
he would not be a priest, but a soldier.
So he was drafted into one of the native
regiments, in which a lew of the subal
terns are Manila men, but all the cap
tains and field officers are Siwmards.
Nearly two years ago Aguinaido and
a compatriot, named Alexandra, also a
lieutenant of native troops, organized a
revolt ill the native corps. Aguinaldo’a
regiment, one morning, while on jtarade,
shot all the Spanish officers, except a
few lieutenants, and took to the savan
nas—great trackless prairies, swampy,
with occasional high bits of land, called
“mattes.” Here Aguinaido made his
headquarters. At ore time he must
have had 4,000 or 5,000 men under arms
of some sort hidden in these fastnesses,
raiding the rich settlements whenever
they felt like it. The political governor
general of the Philippines, Senor Don
Basilio Augustin y Davila, governor
general, offered a reward of $20,000 for
the head of Aguinaido. Within a week
he received a note from the insurgent
chief, saying: “I need the sum you of
fer very much, and will deliver the head
myself.”
Ten days later the southeast typhoon
was raging. The hurricane— for it was
one—was tearing things to bits, and it
was raining, as it can rain only in the
Orient, a sheet of black water flooding
the earth. The two sentinels at the
general’s gati made tnt> usual
reverent sign as a priest passed in, vho
asked if his excellency was within and
unengaged. They answered yes to both
questions. Don Rasilio did not turn his
head as someone entered. It was bis
secretary, he supposed, come to help pre
pare an eloquent statement upon the con
dition of the colonies. It was not the
secretary, but a priest, who said, “Peace
be with you, my son.”
The cleric locked the door, and, drop
ping his cloak, said:
“Do you know me?”
Don Basilio did not know him. It was
Aguinaido, also a 20-inch boio, a na.ivc
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knife, sharp as a razor, carried by every
Malay in time of trouble. They can lop
off an arm with one blow, as though it
was a carrot.
"I have brought the head of Aguln
aldo,” the chief said, touching the edge of
his jewe-l-hilted bolo to ascertain its con
dition, “ and I claim the reward! Hasten,
else I shall have to expedite the matter
myself."
Don Basilio was trapped. He had to
open his desk and count out the sum in
Spanish gold. Aguinaldo punctiliously
wrote a receipt, coolly counted the money
and walked backward toward the door.
He suddenly opened it and dashed out,
just ahead of a pistol bullet that cut his
locks on ' the temples. Captain General
Polavieja offered him and Alexandro a
free pardon and $200,000 each to quit the
colony. They accepted it and got the
money, only to learn that they were both
to be assassinated the next night at a
festa. The two men who had undertaken
the job were found dead, stabbed to the
heart, in their own beds. On the kriss
handle was a bit of paper with a line
saying: "Beware of the Malay's ven
geance.”
Polavieja resigned and returned to
Spain, being succeeded by General Au
gustin, formerly captain general of Bar
celona.
Aguinaldo Is about 28 years old. He
and his comrade Alexandro hold the fu
ture of the Philippines almost in their
hands.
TOOK SO DAYS TO COMMIT SUICIDE.
Missouri Man Adopted Starvation as
Means of Death.
From the New York Press.
After having reached the age of 68, An
ton Kern of Ballwin, St. Louis county,
Missouri, committed suicide by starvation
a short time ago. For forty-five days fol
lowing the second day of April last Kern
did not eat a morsel of foot], and only dur
ing the last ten days of his remarkable fast
preceding his death was it possible to force
a few drops of milk down his throat. The
man had announced that he would never
take food again when he took to his bed.
Rumor says the cause of this deliberate
suicide was domestic infelicity.
The strongest characteristic of this
strange man was obstinacy. His relatives
knew well the firmness of his resolution,
and when he brought down his fist on the
counter of his saloon and declared his in
tention of has wearing food, they offered
no protests, but, falling on their knees, si
lently prayed and wept.
It was about 4 p. m. on the day ivern be
gan his fast that he appeared in the dining
room back ofiiis saloon, where the family
wore congregated, and said:
"Here, mother, take the purse and the
whole business! I am through! I'll never
eat again."
He flung down a well filled wallet and
went off to his room upstairs.
The Kern homestead is a two-story frame
house, with eight or ten rooms, besides the
saloon room in front. It is surrounded by
a pretty garden. Two sons, Romeo, 18
years old, and Antoq, Jr., 14 years okl, and
the only daughter, Josephine, a pretty miss
of 18, lived with the old folk. Emile, a mar
ried son, 30 years old, lives a few yards
west, where he keeps a grocery store.
During the first night of Kern's fast his
family did nothing. Next morning when
they entered his room he was lying in
bed, wide awake, looking at the wall.
Ilis wife asked him how he felt, and
whether he wanted anything or not.
"Let me alone," was the sole reply.
This trio of words was Che burden of his
talkrfor the rest of Kern’s life. He rarely
said more, usually spoke not at all and
never said anything save in reply to direct
questions.
When he first took to his bed Kern
weighed about 170, and, it is said, was in
no poorer health than he had been for two
years previous. During the first week of
his fast he would lie for hours at a lime
without moving his body or turning his
head. At the beginning of the second week
he became surlier. At ihe appearance of
any memlier of Ilia family he would cover
h.s head and refuse to show his face. He
dranfc water sparingly and only at long in
tervals.
Kern was fast losing flesh, and it was
finally decided, at the end of two weeks, to
summon a physician. The family doctor,
August Melsch of Manchester, accordingly
called.
Kern knew him, but refused to talk to
him. Dr. Melsch endeavored to persuade
his o’d friend and patient to take a little
liquid nourishment.
Kern would have none of it, and the doc
tor left a prescription. When the family
smuggled some of the medicine Into Kern's
drinking water he delected It Immediately
and would not even drink water for days
after that. lie was losing weight each
day, but his vitality seemed as strong as
ever. His mind was perfectly healthy. He
knew every person that called and detect
ed at its outset any effort to persude him
to eut.
At times he seemed to suffer most ex
cruciating pains. His face would become
set and hard and his eyes take on a glare
like that of insanity.
During the third week of the fast Korn
suffered most. There was not a day passed
without one of those awful sieges of hun
ger which it seemed no man could with
stand. They would leave him weakened
and covered with icy perspiration. But not
once did he utter a complaint and only his
eyes told, after each occurrence, how he
had hoped it would be the last, and end
his life with Ilia will power victorious.
After the third week the starving man
apparently suffered little. Forgetfulness
caine to his aid, and he would lie for long
periods in a state of coma seeing nothing
and hearing nothing.
For two weeks he alternated between life
and death. He would remain unconscious
for a time and then revive, as strong In
mind as ever.
Water was all he asked for or would
have.
The physicians family decided to force
food into the starving man's stomach.
When he was overpowered he shrieked like
a wild man, and the family induced the
physicians to desist. But on the fortieth
day of the fast be unconsciously swallow
ed a little milk with water. The quantity
of milk was gradually increased, and on
the forty-eighth day he was taking small
quantities of the lacteal fluid, lie also per
mitted his daughter to administer a few
teaspoonfuls of beef tea, occasionally.
But the surrender had come too late, and
on the morning of the fifty-sixth day of
his fust Kern died In the arms of
his daughter.
THE PHOTOGRAPH OF CHRIST.
The Divine PortrnM Copy righted.
"All Hlghls Reserved.”
From the New York Times.
The following description of the portrait
of Christ obtained by photographing the
Holy Shroud at Turin has been forwarded
to the Rome correspondent of the London
Dally Mail by a Canon of the Turin Cathe
dral, who has had occasion to examine the
plate:
"The Redeemer, who miraculously left
the Imprint of His sufferings and the lines
of Ills liody on the shroud which enveloped
Him in the tomb, has miraculously reap
peared on a photographic plate with a per
fection of detail that causes stupefaction.
"The noble figure has come forth ana
tomically elegant, perfect, and divinely
beautiful. The countenance In still mark
ed with ineffable suffering. All the details
arc there—the minutiae of the beard, the
hair, die proflh, the wounds, the welts,
the mark of the rope with which He was
bound to the scourging pillar.
“in a word, after tV:e human race, aided
by tradition, has for eighteen centuries
been conjuring up to itseil' the physical ap
pearance of Jesus of Nazareth, the pho
tograph of the sacred shroud has given
forth Ills portrait.
"Ihe rumor of the marvelous event, min
gled with trepidation, doubt, hope, and
wonder, spread like wildfire in Turin. His
Grace the Ar< Id* hop. Duchess Isabella,
Print ess Clara, wustrious prelates, artists,
arid business men hastened to the studio of
Signor I’ia to investigate the truth of the
rumor. They were orn and all convinced.
A noted archaeologist and artist, who had
previously expressed doubts as to the au
thenticity of the shroud, was now forced
to exclaim: ‘Either this is the true shroud,
or it in a god who has painted It.'
“To understand how It is that the photo
graphic plate renders the figure of the Sa
viour with a perfection that is not observ
ed when the shroud is examined with the
eye, It must be noted that the shroud bears
the negative of the Saviour’s body. The
plate gives the negative of this negative,
that is the positive of Christ's appearance.
It follows, however, that the printing of
the photograph from the plate on paper
gives once more the negative of the body,
and accordingly the detailed portrait of our
Redeemer is visible only on the plate. This
plate will within a few days lx- placed for
view In the sacred art section of the Turin
exhibition. Reproductions of it will lie Is
sued at the end of the month. The artis
tic property is reserved to the Crown, and
aii copies will bear the stamp of a com
mittee specially appointed for the purpose.”
—Dissimilar Views.—Stern Father-
Young man, I saw you kissing my daugh
ter as I passed the parlor door, and I
want you to know that I don't like It.
What have you got to say for yourself?
Young Man—Well, all I've got to say Ls
that you don't know a good thing when
you see It.—Chicago News,
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(90th) meridian time, as follows:
SAVANNAH TO NEW YORK.
CITY OF AUGUSTA. C'apt. Daggett.
FRIDAY, July 8, 8:30 a. m.
CHATTAHOOCHEE, Oapt. Lewis.
SATURDAY, July 9, 10 a. m.
KANSAS CITY, Capt. Fisher, MONDAY,
July 11, 11 n. in.
TALLAHASSEE, Capt. Asklns, TUES
DAY', July 12, 12 noon.
NACOOCHEE, Capt. Smith, FRIDAY,
July 15, 2:30 p. m.
CITY OF AUGUSTA, Capt. Daggett,
SATURDAY, July 16, 3 p. rn.
CHATTAHOOCHEE, Capt. Lewis,
MONDAY, July 18. 4:30 p. m.
KANSAS CITY, Capt. Fisher, TUESDAY,
July 19, 5 p. m.
TALLAHASSEE, Capt. Asklns, FRIDAY,
July 22, 7 a. m.
NACOOCHEE. Capt. Smith, SATURDAY,
July 23, 8:30 a. m.
CITY OF AUGUSTA, Capt. Daggett.
MONDAY, July 26, 9 a. ni.
CHATTAHOOCHEE. Oapt. Lewis,
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KANSAS CITY, Capt. Fisher, FRIDAY
July 29, 1:30 p. m.
Steamers leave New York for Savannah
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Savannah. G*.
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Summer Schedule—June 6. 1898.
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Saturday night only. 11, from Boiion
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