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About The Southern record. (Toccoa, Ga.) 1897-1901 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 27, 1897)
IT MADE THEM WILD.” Ij&JrReason Why Apache Indians Wear It Their Hair Long. W . js with Samson of old, the Indians’ Mildness lay in their long hair, which the returned educated Indians wore because, as they boasted, “Tt raado them wild.” All energies were bent to compel the adult males to cut their hair and adopt civilized attire in vain, Even the police would not wear their uniforms. A proposition to cut their hair, from a former agent, resulted in a mutiny. The duties of the police are to arrest offenders and to herd the beef cattle purchased for their own consumption. Rations were con¬ siderably increased to the police to make it worth their while to think twice before leaving the force, and they were informed that when there were no police to herd the beeves the tribe would go without. That was a different proposition. Two members who had been to school were dis¬ charged for wearing long hair. One old fellow’, as a special favor, ent his hair, but it cost me #3. His wife made bis life a burden, and he in turn appealed to me to hasten with the rest. By using rations nnd other supplies aa a lever, I induced a few more to eut, and then I directed the police to cut theirs or leave the force. They reluctantly comjdied, but once ac¬ complished they were only too eager to compel the rest, and they cheer¬ fully, under orders, arrested and brought to me every educated Indian on the reservation, There were twenty of these, georgeons in paint, feathers, long hair and blankets, edu¬ cated at an expense of thousands of dollars, living iu their brush shelters wilder than any uneducated Indian on the reservation, and fully as lazy and ambitionless. The “leaven” had failed to work. The mass absorbed them and compelled them to back¬ slide. They soon had a hair-cut and a suit of clothes put on them. The Indiau office, at ray request, issued a peremptory order for all to cut their hair and adopt civilized attire; and in six weeks from the start every male Indian had been changed into the semblance of a decent man, with the warning that confinement at hard labor awaited any backsliders. There has been none, and the task of moving them upward has been perceptibly easier from the time scissors clipped off their wildness.—The Outlook. Humorous Signs. Of unwittingly ludicrous or humor¬ ous signs there are plenty.. A tin¬ smith near Exeter, England, has a sign which reads, “Quart measures of all shapes and sizes sold here.” At a market-town in Rutlandshire the fol¬ lowing placard was aflixed to ttie shut¬ ters of a watchmaker who had decamp¬ ed, “Wound leaving his creditors mourning: up and the mainspring broke.” Equally apposite was one in Thomaston, Ga. On one of the principal streets the same room was occupied by a physician and a shoemaker, the disciple of Galen in front while he of St. Crispin’s trade worked in tho rear. Over the door linng the sign “We repair both sole and body.” On the windows of a London coffee-room there appeared the notice: “This coffee-room removed up stairs till repaired.” The proprietor of the place was not an Irishman, though the framer of the notice over the entrance to a French burying- ground, “Only the dead who live in the parish are buried here,” must have been. One may see in the win¬ dows of a confectioner iu Fourth avenue, New’ Y'ork, “Pies Open All Night,” A Bowery placard reads, ‘‘‘Home-Made Dining Rooms, Family Oysters.” while a West Broadway restaurateur sells “Homo-made Pies, Pastry, and Oysters,” and still another caterer, on East Broadway, retails “Fresh Salt Oysters,” and Larger Beer.” “Boots Polished Inside” is a frequent sign in New York, and on Atlantic Avenue, Library,” Brooklyn, there is a “Stationary the latter is really a circulating library, and the word “Stationary” adorns one window, and “Library” the other. Philadel¬ phia has a sign reading “Ho Made Pies!” and a barber shop in the same city bears this inscription on its win¬ dow’, “G. Washington Smith, tonsor- ial abattoir.”—Demorest’s Magazine. Wealthy* But in the Poorhouse. Though worth $50,000, Janies Web¬ ster, a farmer living four miles from Eldora, Iowa, will probably die in the county poorhouse. When the panic of 1893 came Webster turned his prop¬ erty into $50,000 in coin, and buried it in casks upon a fa»-m w hieh he still held as a tenant. Three mouths ago his mind failed and although he seems to have some recollection of burying his money, he cannot remember the hiding the place. He is now a charge up¬ on county, having no relatives upon w hom he can depend for sup¬ port. Confinement mid Han! Work > Indoors, j>nrticulnrly in tho sitting ]>os ure, are far more prejudicial to health than excessive muscular exertion in the open nlr. Hard se¬ dentary workers are (ar tco weary after oaice hours to take much needful exercts e In the open air. They often need a toato. W here can they seek In vigor-* tion more eartainl y^and agreeably than from Hoatetter’s Stomach tters. a reno- vent particularly adapted Use to reerutt the ex- hausted force of nature. also for dyspep- eta, kidney, liver and rheumatic ailments. Seme husbands are so indulgent that they can never come home sober. Ynkon and Klondike Gold Fields. Parties Intending to visit the Klondike Gold Fields or invest in stock companies the operating in that country, are advised to get Cana¬ dian Government Alaskan Boundary Com¬ missioner, Prof. Ofilvie’s. Report on the Yu¬ kon and Klondike Gold Fields.hefore doing so. This is the otwaial report made last spring which eogstounded the Canadian Government thjt they did not publish It till Prof. Ogilvie Confirmed it personally on his arrival in Otta¬ , The is extensive, abounding wa. report very and Maps and giving the in Photogravures information to routes, climate, most reliable indescribable wealth as awaiting the and the paid, miners. Sent, postage on receipt of NV. in PabUdtw*,' at-amps, by the Toronto Newspaper Union 44 Bay St., Toronto, Canada. A l’rose Poem. RE-M. Medicated Smoking Tobacco And Cigarettes Are absolute remedies for Catarrh, Hay Fever, Asthma and Colds; Besides a delightful smoke. TAdit's as well as men, use these goods. 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O. ily Pills tre the best. — boothlng Syrup for chlldrer he gams, reduces Infiamma urea wind colic. 25c. a bottle Cough medicine - a and Biake Aves THE WIND BLEW IN THE WHEAL A sickle moon hung low and white, in the edge ot a golden west, with clanging bells the herd came home; and mother birds on the nest Thrilled to the song that is never sung—so soft! 60 wildly sweet! The whippoorwill In the marsh-land called, and the wind blew in the wheat. High summer had broken to hedge-row waves with a foam of elder bloom. By And waste nibbling and hares way-side the sweetbrier stars showed faint in the tender gioomi crept out to play, on silent velvet feet. As waxing dewdrops timed the chant, the wind blew in the wheat. “Benison to each bearded head, in the land of golden grain! Ye shall drink of the sun, in strength and power, nor lack the grateful rain. In the bursting mills, in the ocean pressed with the keels of a laden fleet. Ye may read the smile of the Lord of Hosts,” tbs wind blew in the wheat. —Martha McCulloch-Williams, in Harper’s Weekly. m A*RAI L WA Y * ADVENTU RE. - ■3K- By DR. MAX NORDAU. foj N this night fm the windows of the crowd¬ ed cafe had been thrown IK open, and wf m the fresh, cool air of the spring m gled night for strug¬ mas¬ 1 tery with the « close tobac¬ co-laden at- which filled the large — mospliere hall. A glance out into the night showed tho deep-blue heaven overhead and a brilliant full moon, whose cold, clear rays sparkled on the fresh foliage of tho budding trees as they swayed gently to and fro iu the light breeze. The members of the society to which I at this time belonged had been accus- tomed for some time past to reserve a certain table in the cafe for them¬ selves, where they met every evening to chat over and discuss the events of the passing hour. They were, for the most part, respectable citizens, who had far more appreciation for bright gas-light ami a good dinner^than for the charms of a glorious spring night, and nothing was further removed from their thoughts on this particular ocea- sion than u romantic contemplation of the beauties of nature. On the night I am speaking of our conversation was of a prosaic enough character, as was only natural in a small town, and exhausted itself in discussions about local matters, the theatre, taxes, and similar—to au outsider—extremely nn- interesting topics. Through some chance remark, how¬ ever, which I can no longer recall, the question had sprung up if it were really credible that a man’s hair could suddenly become grey in consequence of a violent shock to the mind. Some of those present were only half inclined to disbelieve this somewhat startling theory, whilst others could not be sufficiently scathing in the remarks they made concerning people w’lio were simple enough to place any credence in such nursery tales. As the discussion grew warmer and warmer, until every member of our party was engaged either in champion¬ ing or combating the question in point, a man, seated near us, rose slowly, pushing his chair from him, and ap¬ proached our table. He was a fine, tall fellow, of herculean build, and his in¬ telligent features, which bore an ex- pression of great determination, were rendered very striking by a pair of keen blue eyes; but what made his appearance still more remarkable was the fact that both liis liair and beard were as white as snow, although they surrounded a countenance which would not permit one to reckon his age at more than about thirty-five. “Excuse me, gentlemen, if I am in¬ terrupting yom-conversation,” he re¬ marked, bowing politely to us. “You wer« just discussing a subject that has more thau an ordinary interest for me. I happen myself to be a living proof Ant, under certain circumstances, a terrible shock to the mind can pro- duoe that self-same physical effect of which you were just speaking, and whioh the majority of you seem to dis¬ credit.” These words naturally excited the curiosity of all present to the highest degree. We quickly made room for our new acquaintance at the table, and, when he had seated himself comfortably, urged him to relate to us the circumstances which had] pro¬ duced such a strange and sudden change iu his appearance, The stranger feigned no great shyness, and acquiesced in the most pleasant manner possible by relating to us the following: “If any of you gentlemen have ever interested yourselves more closely in American affairs, the name of Auburn cannot well be strange to you: it de¬ notes much the same for the United States as Spielberg does for Austria. You must not picture Auburn to your¬ selves merely as a gloomy and exten¬ sive prison—as one large, solitarv building—no! It is rather an entire colony of criminals, a sort of town or metropolis for the wretches that the community has thrust out. “Shut in by immense walls, which rise up from the level plain to a con- siderable height, are crowded to¬ gether a large number of detached buildings—houses that contain the prison-cells, warders' dwellings, hos- pital, and workshops—all sullen and forbidding-looking; dotted and here and there about may be seen a small patch of grass, a few trees, and, very occa- sionally, a flower-bed, like the last lingering recollections of innocent childhood amongst the black thoughts ° f * crbnblRb “Certain . events, which would have but little interest for yon, had led to birthplace—to my journeying from Hamburg—my America, immediately after the completion of my studies, and, after a short stay in New York, I ac- cepted the post of prison-doctor at Au- burn, which, as you perhaps know, is situated in the State of New Y’ork. I was intrusted with the medical su- pervision over that part of the prison which was set apart for the worst class of criminals—men, or I should say, human hyenas, whose blood, as Mephistopheles says, had already ceased to be ‘a fluid of rare quality. ’ “Two of these wretches were des- traed to spend the remainder of their days m the prison, and they, by rea- son of their great physical strength as well as by the extraordinary cunning they had evinced in several desperate attempts to regain their freedom, ' were subjected to even closer super- vision than the rest of their eompan- 1 ° b ^ ec ^ of Particular t0 heS6 tW ° SC ° Un ~ tal Ul\n m the the disco* discovery ^ i of i b , een a in?t number 7 men of ‘ mm implements which they-God k r W8 h °^ th ? y obtained possession of f them!—had concealed their clothes; and again on another occasion, because I had re- used to receive them into the hospi- talwhen they feigned illness, ing r doubtless when they were once in there that they would find more favorable opportunities for ac¬ complishing their escape. The ruf¬ fians were separated and placed in re¬ mote parts of the prison, and were laden with chains; but in spite of all these precautions, one fine morning the one, and a few days later the other, together with their chains, had disappeared without leaving a trace behind them. “It must have been almost a fort¬ night after the flight of these two criminals, which had caused the ut¬ most consternation amongst the authorities at Auburn, that I ordered my horse one aftornoon, and started off for a ride to Cayuga Bridge. It was midday when I reached the end of my journey, and I stood still for some time contemplating with silent delight the exquisite scenery which lay stretched out for miles before me. The Cayuga Lake, one of those which, together with Lake Erie, compose that vast system of inland seas in the State of New York, lay in all its beauty at my feet. The long, slender streak of silver wound in and out of the rugged black cliffs which hemmed it in, and which rose sheer up out of the lake, facing each other like grim opponents who had for thousands of years bid one another defiance. Far down the lake, which is forty miles long, and at this particular spot about one broad, I could discern the enormous trestle-bridge, a marvel of American engineering skill, which carries the Auburn division of the New York Cen¬ tral Railway across, passing on its way through the small station of Cayuga Bridge. village “My business in the was soon finished, and towards evening I started home again. Do you know how de¬ lightful a ride on a summer’s evening is? Cayuga Bridge is surrounded by extensive oak forests, through which the greater part of my journey lay. The gnarled and massive trunks cast long shadows, and the foliage rustled so gently in the soft eveningJireeze, that one seemed rather to feel than to hear it. As I rode between these giants of the forest, sweet recollections of my distant home crept into my heart, and, sunk in my thoughts, I let the reins fall on my horse’s neck, who trotted steadily forward. I admired the mar¬ vellous variety of color that the rays of the setting sun produced as they shone through the mass of dark-green leaves, and seemed to kindle their edges into flame. “Suddenly I was startled out of my reverie by a slight noise which ap¬ peared to come from the undergrowth on either side of the road. Turning 3harply round, I grasped my revolver, but in the same moment I received a stunning blow on the back of my head, which knocked me senseless from my saddle. Once more I recollect opening my eyes, and thinking that I could see indistinctly one of the escaped criminals bending over me, and then all became a blank. ‘ ‘It must have been late in the night when consciousness again returned to me. Slowly opening my eye3, I saw far above me the dark blue vault of the sky, and the full moon shining bright¬ ly. A dull, painful sensation at the back of my head prompted me to place my hand there, and then I discovered that I was bound hand and foot. Grad¬ ually I collected my thoughts; I re¬ membered now the murderous attack in the forest, and a fearful foreboding flashed through my mind, which al¬ most caused my heart to stand still. I felt that I was laid across two sharp parallel projections, which cut into my shoulders and the back of my legs, causing me intense pain, and far be¬ low me I could hear the gentle plash¬ ing of water. “Heavens; there could no longer be any dogbt: I was lying stretched across Cayuga Bridge, bound, incapable of moving an inch, with the hideous and absolutely certain prospect of being cut literally to pieces by the next train that passed. For the second time that night I almost swooned as I realized my situation; bnt by a powerful effort of will I recovered myself, and tugged desperately at the ropes that bound me until they cut almost into my muscles; I shrieked, and wept finally like a child. I made mad endeavors to roll myself into another position, and then recollected that a careless movement might precipitate me into the flood be¬ low—bound hand and foot, to sink like a stone! “A shudder ran through my frame, and I lay motionless again; but not for long, for the light of the great—almost fearfully bright—moon overhead, the ripple of the water deep below me, the breeze that came in light puffs, and then died away again, giving place to a death like stillness, occasionally broken by the scream of some distant night-bird—all was unbearable, and caused me the anguish of death. And then the rails! the rails! My thoughts were torturing me, and yet I could not escape them. The wooden beams of the bridge vibrated perceptibly from the movement of the water below, and I thought that I could already feel the approach of the train, and my hair bristled with the horror of it. The breeze now blew somewhat stronger, and I imagined that I could already hear, far away in the distance, the puffing and panting of the locomotive, and my heart stood still, to beat with redoubled force the next moment. “There are certain things, gentle- men, which are absolutely ineompre- hensible to me: one of them is the fact that I was able to survive that night. 'my mind: One thought stood ever clear in j I must endeavor by some means to shift my position—if possible to one between the metals—if I did' not wish, possibly even in the next mo- ment, to become the prey of the most awfnI death one could conce i ve And - 1 8Tlee eeded! I strained every muscle, every sinew, till I could strain no more. ! I wound and twisted myself, and panted until I thought my head must j burst, and after superhuman exertions, I which appeared to last an eternity, and perhaps lasted bnt a minute, I found ! I myself in the hollow between the rails. “Was I saved? I had no time to! consider that, or to rejoice over tho fresh chance of life which was now offered to me, for my whole being con¬ centrated itself in intent listening. Far away in the distance I could now hear —first of all indistinctly, and then gradually increasing as it drew nearer and nearer—the regular, monotonous panting which heralds the approach oi a locomotive. The fearful stillness of the night gave way, as each minute passed, to the more fearful noise, to the clanking and thundering of the en¬ gine as it raced on towards me at the headlong speed of American trains. Now a thousand feet more—now five hundred—all the horrors of hell pos¬ sessed me; but I lay without moving a muscle. Once, indeed, I tried to scream. I could no longer hear my own voice; how, then, could the people in the train be expected to hear me? And now for an immeasurably short space of time a blaze of light beat down upon me, and a blast of hot air rushed over me, then everything became dark, and I hoard a thunder as if the heavens were crashing in. Close, quite close, at scarcely a hairbreadth’s distance, rushed the enormous mass over me. I was saved! “Already half-unconscious, I was still sensible of a deafening clattering and roaring above me, and I saw shad¬ ow-like masses flying past; still one moment more of deadly anguish—one of the coupling-hooks, hanging some¬ what lower than the rest, had caught and dragged me several yards, tearing finally a large piece out of the breast of my coat—then all objects seemed to whirl around me, the moon, the bridge, and the lofty cliffs, in one mad dance, and I became insensible. When I next woke I found myself in my own bed, and around me well- known faces. And now to be brief: I had been found on the morning after that awful night by a plate-layer who had recognized me, and had brought me back to Auburn. For a fortnight I lay delirious with brain fever, hover¬ ing between life and death; but my strong constitution pulled me through. The first time after my recovery that I had occasion to use a looking-glass, I saw what traces those moments had left on me.” The doctor ceased speaking; but his pale face, the look of horror, and the great beads of sweat on his forehead all showed how keen his recollection was of that terrible experience, We also had listened to his narrative with breathless attention, and it was some time before we could shake off the im¬ pression it had left upon us.—From the German, in Strand Magazine. WORDS OF WISDOM. Society is the book of women—- Jean Jacques Rousseau. Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his image.—Goethe. Life is not so short but there is always time for courtesy.—Emerson. Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.—Burns. Labor rids us of three evils—irk¬ someness, vice and poverty.—Vol¬ taire, In business three things ai*e neces¬ sary—knowledge, temper and time. —Feltham. Whatever makes men good Chris¬ tians makes them good citizens.—. Daniel Webster. Labor to keep alive in your hear! that little spark of celestial fire called conscience. —Washington. One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy of beiug known.—Crates. The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illus¬ trates the walls of your chamber.— Bovee. Nature gives us many children and friends, to take them away; but takes none away to give them us again.— Sir W. Temple. There is no open door to the tem¬ ple of success. Every one makes his own door, which closes behind him to all others.—Marden. The diligent fostering of a candid habit of mind, even in trifles, is a mat¬ ter of high moment both to character and opinion.—Hov/son. The youth who starts out by being afraid to speak what he thinks will usually end by being afraid to think what he wishes.—Marden. It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles—the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring it out.—Pope. If any one speak ill of thee, con¬ sider whether he hath truth on'his side; and if so, reform thyself, .that his censures may not affect thee.— Epictetus. When infinite happiness is put in one scale against infinite misery in the other; if the worst that comes to the pious man if he mistakes be the best that the wicked can attain to if he be in the right, who can, without mad¬ ness run the venture.—Locke, Reed’s First Speech. The one which opened Reed’s way to fame as a man was short. It was delivered not long after he began his career in Congress. He had not, up to that time, taken much part in de¬ bate, but one day, while he was mak¬ ing a somewhat labored argument, an older member tried to break him up by putting a question to him suddenly and demanding an immediate answer. Reed gave the answer readily. Then he paused, turned toward the speaker’s desk and drawled out: “And now, having embalmed that fly in the liquid amber of my remarks, I will go on again.” The house roared. The galleries took it up. The newspaper correspondents sent it flying all over the country, and to his own surprise more than any one’s else, Reed found himself a man of note from that hour. —Illustrated American. Why a Boy Was Gootl Fifty Years Ago* Assistant Marshal Wright amused himself the other day with watching a small boy, who thought he was unob¬ served, try to let the wind out of a bi¬ cycle standing in front of the Western Union office. He unscrewed the cap from the valve and then glanced about to see if any one was looking; then he squeezed the tire, put his knee on it, and tried various means to get the air out, looking, meanwhile, to see if the owner was coming. He finally 'ex-Mar- had to give up. Mr. Wright said to shal Hendrick: “Talk about bad boys; they wouldn’t bave done that fift T y ears a g°-” Mr. Mendriek, , evidently believer in the a lx>y of to ' da - T ’ answered: “Oh, no; they didn’t have bicycles . ago.”—Springfield bcan years Repnb- - Returning to Palestine. During the last few years nearly 150,000 Hebrews have entered Jerusa- lem, and the imminent^ arrival of another host is said to be Already the railways are opening a^d the country be- tween the coast Jerusalem' and Damascus, and a Hebrew mi wion on a large scale mav cause iSance Syria to be Si oome once more of vast importance in the East. OUR BUDGET OF LAUGHTER-PROVOKING STORIES FOR LOVERS OF FUN. The Modem Marco—Fair to Look Upon—A Ridiculous Question—In Washington— Ups and Downs—Labors Divided—An Easy Exploit—Saving Labor, Etc., Etc. At midnight. In his gold boudoir, The broker dreamed, with smiling lip, That Greeks and Turks, in strife afar, Had made wheat take another skip. —Detroit Free Press. A Ridiculous Question. Miss Flitterley—“Oh, Mr. Soper, didn’t I see you asleep in church?” Mr. Soper—“I really could not say if yon did.”—Pick-Me-Up. In Washington. Office Seeker—“Have you given up all hope of getting that job?” Ex-Offioe Seeker (sadly)—“Yes, I’Ve just grasped the situation.” Ups and Downs. “Betterdays has come down in the world, hasn’t he?” “Decidedly. He’s living on the top floor of a tenement.”—Puck. Fair to Look Upon. “Miss Highsee is a beautiful singer, isn’t she?” “Very. That was all that made her singing endurable.”—Washington Times. The Lord Specks. “Do you think it’s true that every man has his price?” asked the heiress. “I’m sure I don’t know,” he an¬ swered thoughtfully, “but if you want a bargain you needn’t look any further.” —Chicago Post. Labors Divided. Parke—“I have a joint account in the bank with my wife now.” Lane—“Good! You make an even thing of it, eh?” ' “Yes. I put the money in and she draws it out.”—Detroit Free Press. An Easy Exploit. Brown—“I don’t see why so much fuss should be made about Queen Vic¬ toria reigning sixty years. ” Jones—“Nor I. We have thousands of statesmen who would guarantee to hold on to a job sixty years, provided they didn’t die and were notremoved.” —Puck. Golden Bridge Building. “Of course you’ll give me one little kiss before I go,” he pleaded. She looked at him intently for a minute and sighed. “It’s pretty high pay,” she replied, “but if you will go early enough I sup¬ pose I’ll have to call it a bargain. ”— Chicago Post. Saving Labor. “Our typewriter girl asked the boss if be couldn’t lighten her work this hot weather.” “What did he say?” “He told her not to hit her type¬ writer keys so hard and to lick "her postage stamps only on the corners.” —Chicago Record. The Returned Student. Upton—“Well, I see your son is home from college. What does he in¬ tend to do?” Manville—“I don’t know exactly, but, judging from the start he has made, I’m inclined to believe that he proposes to put in most of his time ex¬ plaining hoiv he was turned down when the racing crew was chosen.”— Cleveland Leader. IWhat He Wanted to See. “Did you see the account of the new submarine boat?” “Yes; but I didn’t read it. It doesn’t interest me, you know.” “It certainly indicates extraordinary progress.” “Of course; but in the wrong direc¬ tion. Enough boats go down now. What I want to see is one that is , guaranteed to stay up.”—Chicago Post. A Caprice of Fortune, “I noticed in th’colyumns of the daily pr-press that Actor Bancroft was knighted by th’ gr-r-racious hand of the lady queen. Now, who in Erebus is Bancroft?” “Barnsy, me boy, I dunno. I un- derstood he was retired. ” “Gods! Listen to that! Retired! Such is our pr-r-rofession. The obsolete and spavined oldlaid-on-the-shelf gets garters, while we active ornamentous of the stage can’t even connect with dime suspenders! Truly it is a parlous world.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Legislator a Victim of His Own Law, This is the story of a man who was hoist by his own petard, His name is Ira N. Terrill, and he ivas the first victim of the capital punishment law in Oklahoma, escaping on a technical¬ ity. He is the author of the law, hav¬ ing been a member of the lower House of the Territorial Legislature. After much work his labors were re- warded and the bill making hanging the punishment for murder became a law. Shortly after the Legislature ad¬ journed Terrill and a man named George Embree had a discussion iu the land office in Guthrie over a plot of ground. Terrill drew his revolver and shot Embree dead. Terrill wks tried before Judge Dale and was found guilty and sentenced to death. His attorneys were clever, however, and obtained a new trial for him on the plea that the crime was committed on that part of Guthrie known as the “Government Acre,” be- ongmg to the United States and that therefore the trial should have been before a United States court. At the second trial he was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment and confined m prison Then his attor- neys tried to get a third trial on habeas sn.’fflawta." »s twelve K*jwara>astt years’ A impr,somr.ent. brohe Mountams, out and escaped into the OsS where Tamil remained two About a year ago he made an effort £ ^ was taken back to the penitentiary and i, there now, awaiting the de cision of the courts as to which sen- fcence he shall fulfil.—New York i ora Jour- j our na l Fire in a Curions Place. A fire has occurred, of all curious : pi ^ aces, in the ice-cold of New York firm. storage vaults a Whii Winie the fire- « men were at work a vessel containing ammoma used in the refrigeration ex- in all dirocrions Wht^he 7 ' For sev ql ^ °IT the firemen work- 1 “ ^ cellar, mlSlvu -,! L in freezing f at- monia vapor X cubJued IdrinfatT^lT r 5 eVer SW ' I ' the fire ’ £L ;• One ° ne faremau : W ost bic his life while two were taken to ternb] y from lenfe tense cold.-Scientific "Id S'" a T°* American. ia aQd »- | TRAWLERS °!™L? RAND BANK * How the Cod and Halibut Are Taken by the Small Vessels. Gustav Kobbe writes an article en titled “On the Grand Banks and where” for St. Nicholas, Mr. Kobbe says: generally found The trawlers are on the Grand Banks, the hand-liners on the Western Bank and Quito. These hand-liners are smaller vessels with fewer dories, and the men fish with hand-lines, one man and two lines to a dory. The hand-liner sits in the middle of his dory, with a compart¬ ment in its stern and another in its bow for his catch. When you see the bow sticking far up into the air you know the fisherman has his stern-load. Then, as fish after fish flashes into the other compartment, the bow settles, and when the dory is on an even keel the hand-liners pnll back to the vessel. The trawlers bait with fresh herring, mackerel and squid; the hand-liners with salt clams. The catch of both is split and salted, and the jessel has a full “fare,” or catch, when she has “wet her salt”—that is, used up all her salt and is full of fish. A trawler’s voyage lasts about eight weeks; a hand-liner’s, eleven. A trawler’s crew receives no wages, but fishes on shares. First, the cap¬ tain gets a percentage; of the remain¬ der, one-half goes to the vessel, which “finds,” that is, supplies the gear, stores, salt and half the bait; and the other half to the captain and crew’ in equal shares, which run from $110 to $150, and even to $250. But among the hand-liners each man is paid according to what he catches, the “faro” from each dory being weighed as it is taken aboard. This stimulates competition, There is judgment in knowing where to fish or how long to stay over a certain spot; and even the quickness with which a line is hauled in will make a perceptible difference at the end of a day’s fishing. It means something to be “high line,” ns they call the best fishermen, at the end of a voyage, and those who win this distinction time and again, as some do, become known as “killers” and “big fishermen.” The main catch on the Banks is ood and halibut. There is also a fleet of small American vessels which pursue the merry swordfish. Swordfishing is good sport—-whaling on a small scale. A man, dart in hand, stands in the vessel’s bow, supported by a semi¬ circular iron brace. When near enough to the fish he lets fly the dart. A swordfish may weigh 350 pounds. One can tow a dory a mile, and a piece of the sword has been found driven through the bottom of a pilot boat, Prinbe Wore a Necklace of Pearls. The conversation given last night by the East India United Service Club to meet the Princess and other Indian visitors now in England, proved an es¬ sentially brilliant function, Crowds of well-dressed guests lined the stair¬ case and filled the large entrance hall, overshadowed by palms, to witness the arrival of the Queen’s Indian guard, many of the Hyderabad contingent and other finely built native soldiers with a profusion of orders on their breasts. They were quickly followed by several of the Princes. Pertab Singh was clad in a red and gold striped habit, with a light blue and silver turban, on which figured a medallion portrait. His aid-de-camp] was in red and gold, divided as a short skirt and long jacket, with a black and gold turban. With him was another Indian visitor in a long white satin coat cut as they wear them in the East. Another Prince was arrayed in white satin with rows of pearls about his neck; a long bar of diamonds clasping, not the lobe, but the entire ear, and magnificent, diamond ornaments glittered on his soft silky yellow turban. A grand old nawab’s coat was entirely composed of cloth of gold, and, with his gray whiskers curiously tied and largo tur¬ ban, he towered above all tho rest. There were three Parsees in shiny black caftans, the elder Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy.—St. James’ Gazette. Queer Funeral Habit in Cuba. There are queer, and sometimes touching, superstitious practices in the island. One that I witnessed in Santiago de Cuba—I do not know if it obtains in other parts of the country— is poetic in its weird sentimentality. The dead are carried in an uncovered coffin to the graveyard, where the lid is fastened on at the last moment; but at the funeral of a ’child there is no sign of mourning. The little corpse is olad in some gauzy white fabric and crowned with flowers; young children, the companions of the deceased, walk on either side of the coffin. They are dressed in white, with bows of bright colored ribbons; each carries a small basket filled with shredded petals of flowers, which they, from time to time, throw by the handful in the air, the fragrant leaves falling like raindrops around the little corpse, Musicians playing lively airs precede the coffin, which is invariably carried by hand. The people say the sinless child is B11 angel returning to heaven, which should give cause for rejoicing, not for grieving. A rather too realistic illus¬ tration of this belief was given once, when the dead child’s eyes were kept open by some contrivance, its cheeks and lips rouged, and a pair of gauze wiDgs attached to its shoulders.—New York Sun. When Blonffin was Afraid, When Blondin was astonishing wonderful the world by exhibitions of his f ea ts of balancing, one of his favorite ! jokes was to offei to carry some di S tingaished spectator across the rope with him on his back Everybody eaS- naturally refused, and the great libri *t, with a genial smile, wou *•» d say- But he was hoist once dhibiting in Pariaf and was .bon™ Mm , at invM o'tat r;-“r„“bac^ Cham * / ^ K hat » n ™ 1 ”“!! ereA Iwered i Iilonto “Xm if -aT” A “tb?r?- ? J ’° mph \ 5 J “?t‘ an- _ __ . T exclaimed Cham ^ ai ^’ tills M. w Blondin, n n,iin it t is you who are afraid!” Uges of Steel. We ride to New Y'ork on a steel road OV f r steeI bnd S e 3* ^ay at a steel frame * hotel, and take a steel sten-w,. ship to England, a country whose civ- ilization rests on steel. "Our farmers *7 Steel pl ° WS ’ 0ur chants steel saf f* ^ manufacturers steel boilers aud steel water-wheels, onr carpenters steel 1 nails, and our soldiers fire steG ganf? from behind steel shields. Steel 7^ dr °P s are one S ° it is cbeap not tbat worth if a his carpenter while to pick it up, for ten seconds of his thne is worth more than the nail Thev ai ’ e 90 cb « a P ^at it pays to lose them -Hartford (Conn.) CoWanfc Pistols and Pestles. The duelling pistol now occupies its proper place, in the museum of the collector of relics of barbarism. The pistol ought to have be3ido it the pestle that turned out pills like bullets, to be shot like bullets at the target of the liver. But the pestle is still in evidence, and will be, probably, until everybody has tested the virtue of Ayer’s sugar coated pills. They treat the liver as a friend, not as an enemy. Instead of driving it, they coax it. They are compounded on the theory that the liver does its work thoroughly and faithfully under obstructing conditions, and if the obstructions are removed, the liver will do its daily duty. When your liver wants help, get “tho pill that will,” Ayer’s Cathartic Pills. A Medical Warning. All medical men of large experience have frequently met with cases in which patients have placed a bottle of medicine to their lips and taken a draught of its qpntents in a darkroom, under the impression that there was “only one bottle upon that shelf,” when in reality some other member of the family had placed other bottles there. In this way serious cases of poisoning have occurred, In other instances a wife rising in the night to give some medicine to her husband or child has picked up the wrong bottle in the dim light, and administered a fatal dose, with terrible result. Where medicine is ordered in drops, you should always obtain a medicine dropper from a drug store, and avoid attempting to drop the medicine from the bottle, as it requires a very steady hand and accurate counting to avoid mistake. Finally, let me warn you against one common habit, which is closely con¬ nected with the use of bottles contain¬ ing old medicines, and is strongly condemned by oculists, who most fre¬ quently meet with it—the habit of preserving old medicine droppers which have been Used for dropping fluids into the eye. Quite frequently powerful medicines dry in these di*op* pers, and ivlien they are used some months afterward for the introduction of eye washes they produce symptoms which very seriously alarm the pa¬ tient, and which may to some extent mystify the practitioner.—The Chau¬ tauqua. Disease Germs Id Soils. It-has been observed in France that iu localities where animals are inter¬ red which have died of charbon, the germs of this infectious malady per¬ sist in the soils for many years, and that especially wheu cereal crops are cultivated upon such soils, there is great danger of contaminating healthy cattle with the same disease. In one case it was observed that many sheep which were pastured iu a field in which two years before a single ani¬ mal which had died of charbon was buried, were infested with the dis¬ ease and died. In like manner, it is entirely probably that the germs of hog cholera may be preserved in the soil for many years, to finally again be brought into any activity which may prove disastrous for the owners of swine. Every effort should be made by agronomists to avoid infect¬ ing the soil by carcasses which are dead from any zymotic disease. Cremation is the ouly safe method of disposing of such infected carcasses. The investigations of scientists have shown that there are many diseases of an infectious nature due to these germs, and that these germs may pre¬ serve their vitality in the soil. Among others may be mentioned yellow fever and tetanus, and the microbe produc¬ ing the bubonic plague, which retains its vitality in the soil, and thus escape entire eradication.—Journal of the Franklin Institute. Purely a Local Disease. Eczema is a local disease and needs local treatment. The irritated, diseased skin must be soothed and smoothed and healed. No use to dose yourself and ruin your stomach just because of an itching eruption. Tetterine is the only simple, safe and certain cure for Tetter, Ec¬ zema, Ringworm and other skin troubles. At druggists or by mail for 50 cents iu stamps. J. r. Shuptrine, Savannah, Ga. The busy little bootblack never fails to im¬ prove each little shining hour. fits permanently cured. 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The flesh of the fingers will then pear to be transparent, with the opaque bone running down in the center as shown by the true radiography. If it is desired to exhibit the phenomenon by gaslight a piece of ground glass must be held in front of the flame to diffuse the light. TEXAS LADIES Don’t Lie. \ Qui tman, Tex. .writ 03: After Kk Dyspepsia 1- years’ Buffering and Sicls from jpV sssl ,-u-iio I vrv.E cured by Head- Dr. j 31. A. Simmons i.iver % m 3Iotlicinc. It cured my Husband of Constipation, fifijj our little Girl of Nm ons* noss, and our Son of Ca¬ tarrh of: the Bowels. It cured Mrs, Newman of t^EPPwgp^and zzg* 55 v Painful Menstrual ion, carried >?rs. Fields safely through Cliansreoi Life. It perfect¬ ly regulates the Liver, Stomach nnd Bowels, and leavci no bad effects, while both “Black Draught” and "Zeilin’s Liver Regulator” did not leave my bowels in such good condition. I found more of it in the Package, and it only required half the quan¬ tity for a dose, and I had rather nay 26 cts. per Package for it thRn use “Zeiiiu’s” or •‘Black Draught” as a free gift. Bad Taste in tha Mouth. Digestion is tho grand process b 7 of which the nature repa'rs the wasted tissues health body, which, when the individual faithfulness is in anq is performed with great regnlarity, and without giving tise to any Indigestion disagreeable sensations. which . consists of deviation ia a disease a from this ordinary mode of health and in the deficiency or vitiated character of those secretions which arc essential to the conversion of food into blood. The bestcor- reciive for thiscompiaint is Iir, 31. A. Sim¬ mons Will Liver Medicine a few doses O.WliiCh remove the offensive taste. Randolph, will Ky., without writes: I never be Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine. It cured me of Chronic Constipation and Torpidity of Liver afterseverai Piiysieiansand ma . ny Patent Medicines bad failed. I took three times as much “Black Draught” as tho directions said take, and it had but little effect on me, and I don’t think it IS* W-dES had much strength. Backaches Common to Mothers. The busy mother sometimes feels an in* She ability to perform her accustomed duties. feels inactive, weary and depressed. Her back, oh, how it aches! When she sits down she feels as though she must get right up, and when she stands, that she must sit down. The truth is, the capacity of her ner¬ become vous system has been overworked, it has exhausted and there is a breaking down. What she needs is a course of Dr. Simmons Squaw Vine Wine to restore healthy and vitality functional activity and give tons to her nervous system. FRICK COMPANY ECLIPSE ENCINES T" IS. ifeiSg :■ -rt_ ■ ■ ■ ■ ;; a ; ; i, 6^ Boilers, Saw Mills, Cotton Gins, Cotton Presses, Grain Separators. 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