Newspaper Page Text
THE DEADLY CHEESE.
IT WAS IN THE HAND OF THC M/ LAV
SAILOR WHO RAN AMUCK.
Six Dead and Two Wounded the Record
Made by th. WUdMan In Ten Minuter
A Terrible »»»• »••*»•< b V • SaUor
Who W>» •“ ®y« wltne “-
••In four voyages to the East Indies,
two of them to Malay ports, I have seen
but one instance of that native perform
ance called running amuck. Fortunate
ly I saw it from a position of perfect
safety, but the sight was enough to
make me steer clear of all Malays after
ward and any vessel that has them dn
board,” said Erdix Deering, who as
boy and man sailed many seas in deep
water ships. ‘‘lt was in 1860, when I
was a boy, on my first voyage, on the
ship Harry Warren, which sailed from
Boston to India with a cargo of ice.
We were lying at anchor in the roads
off Madras, unloading our middle deck
cargo into lighters,
all nations were anchored about us, dis
charging or taking on board their car
goes. The ship nearest us, about two
cable lengths away, was the British
ship Mahratta, which had come from
Singapore in ballast with a crew of
Malay lascars. It was one day at noon
that, as our crew lay round under the
awning in the forecastle waiting for the
order to turn to, one of the sailors sit
ting on the capstan sung out: (T
“ ‘Hi, mates, just look over to Mho
lime juicer I They’re having some kind
of a rumpus there. See ’em going. I be
lieve it’s one of- those Malays running
amuck.’ - ■
‘ ‘ We all jumped to our feet and looked
at the Mahratta, and some of us ran up
into the rigging to get a better view.
From the topsail yard I could see all
that was going on on the deck of the
British ship. Amidships a lascar, naked
to the waist, was slashing and stabbing
at a European officer who had tried to
grapple with him, while everybody else
in sight on the ship was running fore or
aft or taking to the rigging. On the
quarter deck the captain was hurrying
two ladies down the companionway into
the cabin, supporting in his arms one
of them who had fainted. As the officer
fell lifeless to the deck the Malay
bounded past him, following three sail
ors who had run aft, along the port
gangway, upon the poop. As he ran he
swung before him a long, slender knife,
its crooked blade curving in and out
like the writhings of a snake. He over
took the rearmost man on the poop and
cut and stabbed him, as he had done
with the officer, until the man fell.
Meantime the second man leaped over
board, preferring to take his chances
with the sharks and water serpents to
remaining on board, and the third man
ran across the quarter deck and up into
the mizzen rigging like a cat. The man
in the water swam for our ship, and
some natives in a lighter picked him
up ahead of the sharks.
‘ ‘The Malay left the man he had killed
and Iboked around as if for fresh vic
tims, but he himself was the only liv
ing person in view on the decks. He ran
fore and aft, searching, but found no
one, and he tried the cabin door, but it
was closed fast. Then he went to the
mizzen rigging and started up the rat
lines after the man who had taken
refuge there. When the Malay had got
as far as the mizzen top, the man he
•was after took to the topgallant fore and
aft stay and began to go down it hand
over hand toward the mainmast. The
Malay kept on up to the topgallant
crosstrees and began to follow the man
down the stay.
‘‘There was something frightful in
the relentlessness of his pursuit. He had
got about ten feet down the stay when
the captain appeared on the poop with
a revolver and began firing at him. One,
two, three shots he fired, and the Malay
kept on down the stay. He was two
thirds of the way to the foot when at
the fourth shot the arm that held the
creese fell helpless by his side, though
his hand still clutched the weapon. He
clung to the stay by one hand and his
feet and kept on down it almost as fast
as before. A fifth and sixth shot, and«at
the last the Malay stopped still, ther.
fell like a lump of putty to the deck,
full 40 feet below. Whether he was
dead when he struck the deck I do not
know, but the mate, who must have
been watching from his room, ran out
from the cabin to where the Malay was
with a handspike and made sure work
of the fellow before he could rise. Then
the lascars came running from the fore
castle and down the rigging, and with
capstan bars, belaying pins and knives
struck and thrust at the dead Malay un
til if he had had a dozen lives in him
they would have been hammered out of
his body before the officers could re
strain the excited sailors. ’
“Our captain got the full story of the
affair from the captain of the Mahratta
the next day. The Malay had been
brooding and sullen for days before,
though no one knew what his grievance
was. On this day as the men were pip
ed to dinner he had gone into the fore
castle, got the creese from some place
where he had it concealed and had fu
riously attacked his mates without a
word. They raised the cry ‘Amuck,
amuck!’ and scattered, but not until
three of them had been killed or mor
tally wounded and * two more of them
seriously cut by the creese. Running
forward, he had encountered the second
mate, and the rest of the affair I saw.
Five men dead and two badly hurt by
the Malay and himself killed at the
end was the record of ten minutes’
business in running amuck. Malays in
mine after this? No, thank you.”—New
York Sun.
The Paris prefecture of police has a
wooden horse, harnessed, and all candi
dates for the position of cabman must
show that they know how to harness
and unharness him and pass an exam
ination in whatever other tests the pre
fect may propose. ✓
UNTAMABLE TENDERFOOT.
The First to Open Up a Great Territory
In the Far North.
- To a certain extent all the 5,000 argo
nauts who have flocked to Alaska this sea
son belong to the tenderfoot family. A
rush to the arctic regions is a new thing
with the AngßLSaxon race. The Norse
men traveled south for their promised
land, and tho setting of tho current in the
opposite direction cannot be gauged in’the
light of history. Heretofore the tenderfoot
has tackled many difficulties, but never
found .them piled as high or as forbidding
as in a journey to the Klondike. Yet the
tenderfoot, with bls heavy burden of sup
plies, plods on over glaciers and narrow
mountain paths, wading through rapid
torrents, clambering around bowlders,
toiling through swampy ground, shooting
rapids not too dangerous, and making a
packhorso of himself around water too
rough for a raft with any cargo. If he is
exhausted or sick, the only remedy at hand
is the rest cure and the friendly interest of
his fellow adventurers. He has cut loose
from comfort and safety, but All ho asks is
a chance to struggle on. About tho worst
punishment for the burdened procession of
pilgrims would be to compel them to turn
back.
The Alaska tenderfoot, in spite of his
disposition to be too venturesome, de
serves tho sympathetic attention of his
countrymen. Ho is the first to open up a
great territory in tho far north, and ho
represents civilization in his march. He
is necessarily a builder of roads and towns,
and every squad of men who reach the dig
gings make the conditions better for those
who follow. A year from now the routes
to the upper Yukon will bo comparatively
easy. The thousands who have gone there
(Will use all possible energy to open up
lines of travel. They want regular mail
service and personal access to the outside
World. Already the large number of min
ers who are assembled near Chilkot, but
will not be able to cross this fall, have
founded a town, and their first business
will be road and trail improvement. The
long polar night will not repress their
American energy.
Many a tenderfoot will fail at the mines,
but Alaska will surely present other op
portunities. More than 50 years ago coal
was found there and mined by the Rus
sians. Copper and other minerals’havo
been located. Vegetables, hay and other
needed crops can be raised in the southern
part W-tho territory. Thorough prospect
ing for gold on the American side of the
line wilt be encouraged by the unusual
and greedy restrictions on mining adopted
by Canada. By the end of 1898 the tender
foot of today will be an Alaskan pioneer,
and whether he bo rich or poor the world
will admire his indomitable pluck. The
tenderfoot should be dealt with generous
ly, and that is where the Dominion is
making a mistake. Men could not bo
hired for wages to do what he is doing.
It is the thought of a competency for him
self and his family that inspires the ten
derfoot and nerveshim for his tremendous
task, and every manly nature will wish
him success.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Value of Unpopularity.
As the tall, angular, stoop shouldered
man went by the house the host took his <
feet down from the tailing of the porch
and, indicating him by a motion of his
cigar in that direction, suggested to his
guest that he was the only man in the
whole neighborhood that he envied.
“He doesn’t look like a very jolly or
companionable man, ’ ’ suggested the guest.
“He isn’t, ’’ replied the host. “He is the
meanest, most disagreeable and most un
popular man in the neighborhood. Why,
it’s a popular impression around here that
if a boy ran across his lawn he’d blaze
away at him with a shotgun loaded With
rock salt. And he’s always kicking about
something.”
“I should think you’d hate him.”
“I do. Do you know he even made a
complaint to the police because the boys
used his sidewalk for a bicycle path, and
now there isn’t one of them that doesn’t
take to the road when they come to his
property.” .
“Incredible!”
“Fact. And he raised such a fuss about
the peddlers that there isn’t one of them
dares go near his house. He’s just as
mean to people who solicit subscriptions
for churches and charities too. ”
“Really?”
“ Yes, indeed. Why, he actually insult
ed tho last committee that waited upon
him to ask him to subscribe SSO to help
build a tower on a needlework guild hall.
The women who composed it have sworn
that they will never go near him again. ”
“But I understood you to say you en
vied him.”
“That’s what I said,” admitted the
host. “It may be a big price to pay for
it, but think of the advantage he has over
the rest of us!”
“Advantage?”
“Yes—the luxury of being ffit alone by
his neighbors and his neighbors’ children
and of having his rights respected by
everybody. Oh, it must bo glorious!”—
Chicago Post.
Obstacles to Reform.
A short time ago an order went into op
eration uppn tho Boston street railways re
quiring conductors to address feminine
passengers as “madame." Tho always
cheerful chatterer of the Boston Herald
tells us that, in pursuance of the order,
the conductor is trying very hard to cure
himself of his habit of calling his feminine
passengers “lady” 'and “Mrs. Lady,” but
he has not as yet hit upon a uniform meth
od of addressing them and in his inde
cision has resort to “hl, say,” “missis”
hnd “ma’am, ” but ho will doubtless settle
upon the right thing eventually. The
other day on a Huntington avenue car a
conductor who had evidently given much
attention to the subject won special dis
tinction for himself by the use of the word
“madame” in this regard. But there is
no rose without a thorn. Among his
passengers was a colored girl who carried
a large bundle, doubtless the week’s wash
of some patron. She asked him to stop
at a certain street, and when the car ar
rived there he said to tho gentle Afro-
American, * ‘ This is your street, madame. ”
She at once gave him an angry look and
said with marked asperity: “Who’s yer
callin madame? Watcher mean Jay insult
in me? I’d have you to kfiow I’m a lady,
I am,” with which sho hustled indig
nantly to tho street. Tho conductor looked
perplexed, and as he rung the bell with a
vicious jerk he scntentiously observed,
“She ain’t no lady anyhow, even if sho
ain’t a madame.” It is hard toplease
everybody.
The Little Critic.
“Why, papa,"said Frances, who was
looking at tho family album, “surely this
isn’t a picture of you?”
“Yes, ” replied papa, “that is a picture
of me, taken when I was quite young. ”
“Well, ” commented tho little girl, “it
doesn’t look as.much like you as you look
now."—Harper’s Bazar.
OLD TIME SWEETNESS GONE
Moloeeea Is Now Made Into Rum aa4
Brown Bci<ay Can’t Bo Bought.
“The old fashioned molasses is rapid
ly disappearing as an art oleos com
merce," said a prominent grocer, "and
in its plaoe have come a number of
sirups which are more costly and by
no means as satisfactory, especially to
the little ones, who delight, as we did
when wo were young, in having ’lasses
on their bread. Most of the molasses
goes into the distilleries, where it is
made into rum, for which, notwith
standing the efforts of our temperance
workers, the demand is constantly .on
the increase, especially in the New
England states and for the export trade.
The regular drinker of rum will take no
other liquor in its place if he can help
it. It seems to reach the spot more di
rectly than any other dram.
“The darker brown sugars have also
disappeared, and they are not likely to
return, owing to the methods of boiling
and the manufacture. Granulated sugar
is of the same composition, as far as
saccharine qualities are concerned, as
loaf, cut loaf cube and crushed and
differs from them only in that its crys
tals do not cohere. This is because it is
constantly stirred during the process of
crystallization. The lighter brown sug
ars taste sweeter than the white, for
the reason that there is some molasses
in them. Housekeepers have difficulty
these "days in finding coarse, dark sug
ars, which are always preferred for use
in putting up sweet pickles, making
cakes and similar uses. As they cannot
get brown sugar anymore.it maybe
well for them to remember that they
can simulate brown sugar by adding a
teaspoonful of molasses to each quarter
of a pound of the white granulated sug
ar. This combination does as well in
all household recipes that call for
brown sugar as the article itself, and
besides it saves them a great deal of
hunting for brown sugar, which, as
said before, has disappeared from the
market.”—Eastport Sentinel.
HE COULD FORGIVE HER.
For In His Opinion Mrs. Siddons Did Not
Marry an Actor.
Mrs. Siddons, the actress, was born
in 1755 at the Shoulder of Mutton inn,
Brecon, South Wales, of parents con
nected with the theater, her father,
Roger Kemble, being a strolling man
ager. The child Sarah, was reared in a
theatrical atmosphere, and at 10 she
was playing Ariel.
As she grew up she became very
beautiful and had many admirefs,
among whom was Henry Siddons, a
young actor in her father’s company,
who had little difficulty in winning the
girl’s heart. Mr. and Mrs. Kemble had
made up their minds that Sarah should
not marry in the profession, in conse
quence of which they strenuously op
posed the marriage, and young Siddons,
in a fit of retaliatory humor, composed
a song detailing their opposition and
his trials, which brought about his
speedy dismissal from the company.
Sarah left the company, too, and hired
out as lady’s maid in Warwickshire for
two years.
Daring this time the lovers carried on
a lively corespondence and finally,
gaining the reluctant consent of the
Kembles, were married at Trinity
church, Coventry, in 1778, when Sarah
was 18.
It is said that Mr. Kemblo told her if
she ever married an actor it would
make him discard her forever. After
her marriage he said, ‘*l may forgive
you without breaking my word, for you
have certainly not married ‘an actor,*
whatever the gentleman himself may
think is his vocation. ’ ’ This is on au
thority of Lady Eleanor Butler, who
knew the persons.—St. Louis Globe-
Democrat.
His Bread Upon the Waters.
Fifteen years ago Carrie Burch was a
servant girl in a California household
where William" F. Hastings was also
employed. The girl became ill and had
to leave, but had no money. Hastings
loaned her S2OO, and she went away.
The years rolled by without the S2OO
being returned, and Hastings had for
gotten the occurrence when he received
a letter from a barrister in London stat
ing that an estate of $78,000 had been
left him by a Mrs. Hall, formerly Miss
Carrie Burch of California. Hastings
could hardly tielieve what he read, but
he has the money now, and for his gen
erosity to a strange girl years ago he
has become independently rich. When
the girl left California, she went to
Australia as a nurse and there married
a retired English merchant, who died
some years afterward, and the widow
then returned to London and lived there
until Kr death.—Exchange.
A Good Beason.
The general passenger agent of one
of the Chicago trunk lines received a
letter from a Kansas man the other day
requesting a pass for himself to Chicago
and return. There was nothing about
the letter to indicate that the writer
had any claim whatsoever to the courte
sy he requested, but the railway man
thought that perhaps the Kansan had
some connection with the road in some
way, possibly as a local freight agent.
So he wrote back, “Please state explic
itly on what account you request trans
portation. ” By return mail came this
reply, ‘T’ve got to go to Chicago some
way, and I don’t want to walk.”—Ex
change. ‘
A. Bakeshop Machine.
One of the latest appliances for use in
a bakeshop oven consists of a machine
which takes the whole meat and grinds
it, mixes water with it and kneads it
into dough ready for the oven.
Open the doors of opportunity to tal
ent and virtue and they will do them
selves justice, and property will not be
in bad hands.—Emerson.
In 1020 the first large copper coins
were minted in England, putting at>
end to private leaden tokens.
HUMAN BRAINS.
Haw Science Views the Difference Betvrees
, Men and Women.
The weightier brain would seem also
to indicate, a priori, the greater intel
lectual power, and this, too, is borne
out by undoubted facta Women, it has
often been said, have yet to produce
their Newton, their Dante, their Aris
totle, their Pascal, their Goethe. The
assertion is very feebly met by the con
tention that woinbn’s education has •
been for centuries neglected.
It was not education which enabled
Pascal as a child to see his way through
problems which not one man in 1,000 oan
understand after’ prolonged mental drill
It,was not education which gave the
race its great men poets. “They lisped
in numbers for the numbers came.”
But where are their feminine equals?
We will, however, take an art in which
women have enjoyed far mere training
than men—the art of music. There are
some excellent women pianists and vio
linists, but where are the female Sachs,
Beethovens, Mozarts and Wagners? Na
ture only can explain the absence of
great women composers as of the femi
nine oompeers of Titian and Raphael,
the technique of whote art seems pecul
iarly fitted to women.
Nature tells us that she cannot form
the matrix out of which commanding
intellectual geniuses of the female sex
would proceed. Why this is so we may
partly guess, but cannot wholly know.
We see that nature has divided the
world into sexes for her own purposes,
and that to each sex peculiar functions
are assigned. We see that the physio
logical functions of woman necessitate
a different anatomy from that of man,
and we infer that these functions and
this structure preclude, speaking gener
ally, the kind of effort which we call
supreme genius, as also that kind of
effort which we call sustained executive
power. While women are not so far
differentiated from men that they can
not enter with pleasure into men’s
works, and, often in a great measure,
share in their production, it remains a
fact that it is man’s particular organi
zation which is alone capable either of
the highest manifestations of Anins or
the most sustained exhibition of energy.
Whether it will always be so we do not
know, for we cannot peer intp the fu
tdre. It is sufficient that it not only is
so now, but that it always has been so,
and that science does give us some good
grounds for believing that the fact is
deeply rooted in the very structure of
sex.—London Spectator.
THE HEALTHY PALATE.
It Does Not Crave Condiments, but the
Food Must Pauese Flavor.
While a perfectly sound and healthy I
palate does not crave for condiments, I
even prefers to do without them, yet
the majority of digestions require to be
humored and kept in order, and their
peculiarities must be studied. Dr. Brun
ton says: •
“Savory food causes the digestive
juices to be freely secreted. Well cooked
and palatable food is therefore more di
gestible than the unpalatable. If food
lacks savor, a desire naturally arises to
supply it by condiments, not always
well selected or wholesoma ”
As commerce brought them within
reach of the people condiments, in sim
ple or complicated forms, came greatly
into favor, and foreign spicegwere add
ed to the wild herbal growths of the
fields and hedges. In our early history
the “spicery” was a special department
of the court and had its proper officers.
In the fourteenth century spices were
both costly and rare, most of them com
ing from the Levant Chaucer mentions
many by name—canella, macys, clowes
(cloves), grains of paradise, nutmegs,
caraway and spikenard. The ancients,
especially the Greeks and Ramans in
the luxurious period of their history,
used condiments very freely.
An old English historian, referring
to the earlier Roman court, says, “The
best magistrates of Rome allowed but
the ninth day for the city and publick
business, the rest for the country and
the sallet garden. ” From this it would
seem as though the education of taste
was accounted of some consequence in
those day a—Exchange. .
“Professors.” /
The misuse of the title “professor, ”
when it is applied indiscriminately to
musicians in general, finds an amnaing
example in the following story, credited
to Bandmaster Sousa and printed in
The Musical Age:
Some years ago Sousa was leading a
band at a small country festival The
advent of the band. had been awaited
with intense interest by the audience,
aihd when they arrived the hendsmeti
were quickly surrounded by a surging
crowd which hemmed them in so that
it was difficult for them to keep on
playing.
Sousa appealed to one .of the commit
tee to keep the crowd away and said
that unless his men hadmoreroom they
could not play. The committeeman
shook his hand warmly, and, tinning to
the asembled multitude, bawled out:
“Gentlemen, step badk and give the
purfesser’spurfessers a<chanoeto play I”
Aggravation Below Stairs.
Mrs. Greene—Really, I think that
girls in domestic service have a pretty
comfortable time of it
One of Them—But we have our
trials, mum; Just as like as not, when
we have, got a bonnet or a gown that is
particularly becoming, first thing we
know our mistress comes oat with
something exactly like it—Boston
Transcript ,
French billiard tables have six legs
instead of four, as in America. There
are no strings for marking; score is
kept by chalking 1 the figures on a slate
set in the side of the table or on a me
chanical reckoner inserted in the same
place.
Nearly £600,000 worth of artificial
flowers are Mid in London yearly.
> ' 4 C— —< >»
JRVhJetabtePreparaiionfor As
similating theFoodandßctfula.-
tlrg rtr.SWMcta andßowels off
Promotes Digestion,Cheerful
"ness and Res (.Contains neither
Opium,Morphine nor Mineral.
HOT NAHC OTIC.
* I a
SsSyriSMCAw /
Aperfectitemedy for Constipa
tion, Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea
Worms .Convulsions, Feverish
ness and Loss of Sleep.
Tac Simite ‘Signature of
NEW YOHK.
EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER.
—GET YOUH —
JOB PRINTING
DONE JLT
The Morning Call Office.
M . .. - . ■■■■ ■■■ I■ ...
We have just supplied our Job Office with a complete line 01 Stationer*»
kinds and can get up, on short notice, anything wanted in the way or
LETTER HEADS, BILL HEADS.
STATEMENTS, IRCULARS,
ENVELOPES, NOTES, •
MORTGAGES, PROGRAMS,
CARDS, POSTERS’
DODGERS, ETC., i?£*L
We orry ue 'jest ineof ENVELOPES vt,i lived : this trade.
An attractive POSTER cl aay size can be issued on short notice
Our prices for work of all kinds will compare favorably with those obtained roa
any office in the state. When you want fob printing of* any detcripficn tree u>
call Satisfaction guaranteed.
■X
ALL WORK DONE
With Neatness and Dispatch.
Out of town orders will receive
prompt attention.
J.P.&S B. Sawtell.
GEHTBUL DF KDBGII MW CO.
A
Schedule in Effect Dec. 12‘, 1897.
'No: 4 N 0.13 No. * ' j SS
Daily. Dally. Dally. statiomb. _ Dally. Dally. Pafly.
7sopm 406 pm 750 am Dr. Atlanta..— ...Ar **!»&*»>
888 pm 4 46pm S«»n> Lv Jonesboro Ar j:2pmlOSam
915 pa. 628 pm 007 am Lr Ar jljpm,
946 pm 000 pm 040 am Ar BarnesvilleLv »42 pm 918 mb 647aia
t7 4npni tunopm Ar.... ..Thomaston.Lv t 3 86 pm t« 00 am
Wls pm 628 pm 1012 am ArForsythLv 614 pm 880 am ‘gam
1110 pm 720 pm 1110 am ArMaconLv 415 pm 800 am *aam
1219Ln 810 pm 1208 pm Ar K ”* , ® , 4amS **
Im.™" 50P “* 117«« 1?" imp®
815 am 32spm Ar Millon.Lv 1184 am *8 sma
Sunday. For further information apply to
U 8. WfllTKTkhMAryt.OijUßn.Qa.
rHEO. D, KLINK, Gen i Bupt.. Savannah. Ga» -
J. C. HAII.K. Gen. Paasenper Airent. Ba«nm»h.4Ja ,
E. H. HINTON, Traffic Manager. Savannah. Ga.
■
SEE
-
THAT THE
■
FAC-SIMILE *
SIGNATURE
OF
IS ON THE
WRAPPER
OF EVEBY
BOTTLE OF
CftSTOBIA
I OMtorU i» put np la ene-efce bottles only. It
Ils Mt sold la bulk. Don't allow Anyona U r".
I yon anything elis on tho pies tt promise
I Is “Inst m good” and “will tavet every pur-
Ipose’’ tke that you get O-A-B-T-O-ILI-A.
I The he- _
I »!aU» -v> hea
of