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! It was n warm day in April
„ Cl.nr.es I. .fieu -miir-nv.. took and rode
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to t he end of the line, then he walked
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leads . , down . through Dead Man’s Canon.
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went to tho girls for a
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d a rough house on the
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SPRING . GEORGIA . JUNE 9, 1887.
Aa they entered tho canon tho piling
of the moon indicated that the sttn Would
be up and the sky was already
floated among tho tops of the sycamore
trees on the flats.
Suddenly tho men stopped;
Right before them on tho road lay a
ntan. His clothes were soaked by the
rain, which had fallen in torrents, and ____
his white collar and cuffs were soiled
with mud. His head was covered with
mud and blood, and au ugly gosh iu his
throat showed how ho had died,
Oneoi them at once started for the
t. wi to notify the authorities.
The coroner came aud took charge of
the body, and men were set at work to
land discover the murderer.
Inquiry at the brewery brought out
the fact that a strange man had been
seen there Into tho previous afternoon,
and an old negro testified to having soon
him going up the canon. A conductor
on one of the cars said that a man
answering the description given by the
men at the brewery and the old hegro
had ridden on his car. A grocer’s man
who happened to be driving by had seen
this man and identified him as Loften.
When tho officers came to his house
Loften was writi “g. upon being told
that ha ™ wanted went at once, think
ing there was some mistake which could’
be easily explained, audit waa not until
brought before the magistrate that he
learned that he was charged With mur
der.
He told his story, as we have already
done above, and pleaded his innocence,
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but the evidence against against him him seemed seemed
t0 ° S !? n ^ aad he was was sent 8ent to ,0 prison prison to t0
await trial.
No one else had seen the two tramps,
nor could any traces of them be found,
Loften lay awake all night in hia cell,
He knew that he was innocent, but how
was ho to prove it! He had always had
a stainless reputation, and now he was
in prison accused of murder I He
thought of the grief and shame it Would
cause to his friends. Then he broke
down and cried like a child.
After that he remembered nothing.
When the jailer came with hi* break
fast he found him staring at the blank
wall of his cell. He spoke to him, but
the prisoner did not move. Loften
was mad.
He was committed to an insane asylum,
but he judge made a stipulation that if ho
should ever recover his reason he should
be tried for murder.
For seven years Charles Loften was in
’ho asylum. Ho nte aud slept and was
taken out to walk by a nurse with some
of the other patients, but ho never spoke
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trial a robbery was attempted in a neigh
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the man, whose name was Charles Loften,
had become insane and had been placed
The toad who listened to the story,
ktfdwmg that Loften was now on trial for
this crime, had sent fora justico and had
tho man make an affidavit, which he had
sent at once to the court.
When tho judge had read tho note the
affidavitwas sworn to, and Charles Lof
teu, after seven years’ imprisonment for a
crime he had never Committed, Was once
mote at liberty.—[Now York Graphic,
i I’retty Cttstouh
it Was a pretty custom long ago for
lovers to exchange rings; The gentle¬
man did not have to spend a month’s in¬
come for a pretty trinket for which he
got no return, but he also wore and
cherished a souvenir from his sweetheart.
Chaucer describes a heroine as giving her
lover a ring on which were engraved
suitable love mottoes and receiving a
like one in return. Shakcspere makes
more than one allusion to this custom.
Iu tho “Two Gentlemen of Verona” Julia
gives Porteus a ring, snyingt “Keep you
this remembranco for thy Julia’s sake.”
To which he replies: “Why, then we’ll
make exchange; hero, take you this,’’
A “gimmal” or linked ring Was then
invented which gnVo still greater fores
and significance to tho custom, it was
made of a double and often triple link,
which turned upon a pivot. It could be
opened, showing three rings. A small
hand was attached to each outer ring,
which, when closed, caused the hand to
clasp, inclosing a heart which was affixed
f0 the central notched rln g* u wag cus -
tomary to break these rings asunder in a
solemn manner over the bible, It was
always done in the presence of a witness,
who kept the Center rink, the betrothed
cottple reserving the two outside
link* When the marriage contract was
fulfilled at tho altar tho three portions
were united and the ring used in tho
ceremony.-[Jewelers’Weekly.
Tho Rat’s Weapons.
The rat is finely equipped for the pe
culiar life he is ordained to load, lie
has strong weapons in the shape of four
long and very sharp teoth-two in the
upper jaw and two in the lower. These
teeth are wedge-shaped, and by a won
derful provision of nature have always a
fine, sharp, cutting edge. Onexamining
them carefully, the inner part ia found
to be of a soft, ivory-like composition,
which can easily bo worn away, and the
outside is composed of a glass-like on
ame!, which is exceedingly hard. The
upper teeth work into the under so that
the centres of the opposed teeth moot
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CHINOOK WIND.
A phenomenal Aerial Clurhent
of the Northwest;
Its Sudden Coming a Blessing to Blizzard
Btrioken Cattle Bangea.
Hon. Joseph Nimmo, Jr., who has ex¬
plored the “arid region” of the interior,
fvith the view of writing a book in re¬
gard to it, gives the following descrip¬
tion of the Chinook Wind! The name
“Chinook Wind” ia applied to an aerial
current from the great Suro-Siwo of the
faoifle Ocean. During the winter
months this current of air occasionally
debouches oVer the crest of the Rocky
Mountains into the British Northwestern
Provinces, Montana and Wyoming.
Sometimes it extends far south into Col¬
orado, but seldom much further east
than tho western boundary of Dakota.
It is the result of simultaneous low ba¬
rometer east and high barometer west of
the Rockies, The atmospheric change
which It produces is about as marked as
that which one would experience during
the month of January in passing from
Quebec to Key West The coming of
the Chinook Wind is always sudden,
and somewhat phenomenal. In the
course of two hours the thermometer
tnay rise from 45 4 below
to 489 above Zero, Occasionally,
when the snow is deep, and the Chinook
Wind has an extensive range and is long
continued, the waters of tho melting
snows pour down in torrents into tho
Upper Missouri. The river is broken up
and rlse3 above its banks. But as the
swelling flood reaches Dakota, it arrives
at a point beyond which the influence of
the Chinook Wind has not been felt.
Here thrice is from tbreo to four feet
thick, and as solid as a rock. Rut the
superincumbent waters tear the ice from
its fastenings to the shores, and is^ “war
of the elements” .fensues of imrrjiHssing
grandeur. A ’gorge is soon ~ /great Vmed,
which increases in height Until t
ice-dam gives way; when thc.y;frolo mass
moving on, again rips up the solid ice,
which is piled in enormous /masses, fifty
to one hundred feet in height, at points
along the bends of tho river, until an¬
other gorge is formed, in its turn to be
burst asunder by the force of the rising
Waters. No railroad bridge, Siowevcr
strong, could resist the force of one of
these masses of ico.
But the Chinook Wind comes always
as a blessing to the far northwestern
cattle ranges. Usually it is the “break
up” of a blizzard. During these dread¬
ful Arctic blasts tho cattlo retire to the
coulees and sheltered valleys. After
they have cropped tho grasses which
rear'their heads above the snow, and
have exhausted tho supply of sage-brush,
and other varieties of the Artemisia
family, tho internal source of heat giving
but » th ® P 00r brutes are forced to tramp
{or life - Gathering in bands, they list
l e “ly wander over tho vast ranges,
drifting withrthe bitter blast. Some of
them have their tails frozen, which drop
off, and their logs become reddoned
with frozen blood. The horns of others
freeze, and in time fall off. The dia
tressed animals bellow with agony ns
they i n. Cows which have dropped
late ,nd were in no condition to
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“go into the winter,” usually succumb,
One by one, cow and calf and weak
steer fall by the way. and speedily be
he prey of wolvea and bears
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ha’ an the flanka of the re
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come to a halt. Then, as
envelopes them, they lie
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A Strange Race.
Prof, Miguel Manzta, soys Nature;
has made what seems a curious anthropo¬
logical discovery in the Valley of the
flebas (Gertma), «t the end of the Eastern
Pyrenees, ’there exists in this district
a somewhat numerous group of people,
who are called Nanos (dwarfs) by the
other inhabitants, and as a matter of
fact, are not more than four feet in
height. Their bodies are fairly well
built, hands and feet small, shoulders
and hips broad, making them appear
more robust than they really are. Their
features are so peculiar that there is no
mistaking them among others. All have
red hair} the face ia as broad aa long
with high Cheek-bones, strongly-de¬
veloped jaws and flat nose. The eyes
are not horizontal, but some what oblique,
like those of Tartars and Chinese. A
few straggling, weak hairs are found in
place of beard. The skin is pale and
flabby. Though the mouth is large, the
lips do not quite cover the large pro¬
jecting incisors. The Nanos, who are
the butt of the other inhabitants, live
entirely by themselves in Rebus, They
intermarry only among themselves, so
that their peculiarities continue to be
reproduced. Entirely without educa*
tion, and without any chance of improv¬
ing their condition, they lead the life of
pariahs. They know their own names,
but rarely remember those of their
patents; can hardly tell where they live,
and have no idea of numbers.
Treasure-Trove.
The holding an inquest upon treasure
troveis among the most ancient duties of
the coroner. By a statue of Edward I
the coroner was required, on being cer¬
tified by the king’s bailiffs or other
“honest men of tho country," to go to
the places where treasure was said to be
found and to inquire who were the
finders. It Is quaintly suggested that it
may well be perceived who is to bo sus¬
pected of finding it, “where one liveth
riotously, haunting taverns and hath
done so a long time.” Moreover, the
individual might be apprehended upon
this suspicion. But the new regulations
will probably supercede all thesis old
processes. In the future there will bo
little temptation to conceal treasure
trove, because tho finder will be quite
a^substantially It to tho afllhoritlos. rewarded In by discovering
a recent case
the trensury gave a practical illustration
of this. A number of old English gold
coins of various date wore found by a
workman in some old oak beam which
was taken from a farmhouse near Luton.
Of these many proved of such rarity that
they were sent to tho national collections,
but the treasury gave orders that the
finder should be paid for them at the
rate of their value as old gold, while the
remainder were returned to him.—[Cham¬
ber’s Journal.
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A Talking Machine,
A new invention, called the grapho
phone, soema likely to overshadow the
utility of its predecessor with the re
vised name of phonograph. Its con
struction is the work of Mr. Sumner
Tain tor, Prof. Alexander G. BelL the
inventor of the Bell telephone, and Dr.
Chichester A. Bell, a prominent chemist.
The graphopone is very simple, recciv
ing the sound waves from the voice on a
small preparation of wax and painffino
by means of a small point attached to
the diaphragm of tho machmo. This
wax and paraffine cylinder can then be
utilized at'any time to grind out a repo
tition of the songs, laughs, whistles, or
speeches stamped upon it. It is re
will work a revolution in their business
by doing away with the need of amanu
enses. Two people miles apart, in busi
ness or social connection, by possessing
each a machine, can send the wax cylin
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NO. 18 .
Brave aud Hopeful.
9h, Jttisaify to be brave when the world is am
your side;
And ft* easy to be hopeful when allgoes
well. j
But to laugh, and keep a stout heart tho*
trouble does betide
•or hearts and homes, that’s harder far to do
than ’tit to tell.
For’tie indeed a hero’s heart that eaobe
brave and gay.
With sorrow knocking at the door, fires dead
on hearth-stone, cold
And hopeful eyes in truth are those which
look beyond the gray,
■rim skies of Winter, seeing Summer’s blue
sun-washod with gold.
—[Boston Budget.
\ HUMOROUS.
A smoke stack—A bunch of cigars.
One acre is enough—especially if it be
• tender corn.
A man bom at sea cannot be proud of
his native land.
Oyclones, like politicians, are notorious
for laying wires.
A photographer’s negative—His refusal
to give sittings on credit
One thing about these cyclones ji that
they always seem to be ia a hurry.
The king of Denmark wants soldiers
with large noses. Recruiting a bugle
corps, probably.
A little burn makes a big smart some¬
times But even' a big bum could not
make some people smart.
Donkey parties are all the rage out
West. It is tacitly understood that tho
dudes furnish the donkeys.
It is not the biggest things that make
the greatest commotion. Take a mouse
in prayer meetfng for instance.
The ideal wife gets out of bod, lights
the fire and has the breakfast prepared
before she calls the ideal husband.
A devoted swain declares ho is so fond
of his girl that he ho6 rubbed tho skin *
from his nose by kissing her shadow on
the wall.
Jenny Lind was at Cannes during the
earthquake, but as she had brought down
many houses in her time she waa not
disturbed.
A person may be a very pdor pedes¬
trian; nevertheless, go as slow as he will,
and without any effort, he can always
catch a cold.
"Madam,” said a gentleman to a lady,
"pardon me, but your hair is coming
down.” “And yours, sir," replied the
lsdy Indignantly, “is coming out.”
The economy of nature made a bad
break when it supplied pigs with tails.
A pig’s tail is of no more use to tho pig
than the letter “p” is to pneumonia.
"This is one of the silent watchea of
the night,” remarked Fangio, as he
looked at his time-piece on arising this
morning and found it had stopped at
eleven p. m.
"A drop of ink may make a million .
think," mike says Byron. Yes, and it is apt
to one woman think euough for
the other 999,999 when that eamo drop
ornaments her carpet.
Mrs. Honpeck: „ “I see that one of tho
conyicted anarchists wants to get mar
ried ‘" Mr - Hen peck: “I wonder why
ll >ey don’t let him. It would be much
cllea P er than han 8 in 8 him -"
"Indeed, it happened in less time than
I take to tell it,” said the lady who was
considered somewhat of a bore. “Ob,
1 haven’t the least doubt of it,” replied
P aticnt and truthful listener.
A magazine writer says that blue eyes
indicate u mild and even disposition.
their wearer tackled the wromr man.
The Dr ed Cnmnfa Industry.
One would hardly think that a sin¬
gle industry would support vastnura
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