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BAP INDIANS OF ONEIDA.
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Milirf* of Old Abe Antono and Bnml y In
the E»rl» Days of Mew York.
“Tb«y hanged old Antone and I’ll jive
'em a chance to hang me some d ,y!”
yelled Alexander Antono aa Officer M loox
of Oneida dragged him into the police sta
tion the other day. “I murder you before
long, do you heart” he shrieked again and
again as the officer exasperatingly paid no
attention to his ravings, but calmly drag
ged the red man to a cell. As the heavy
Iron door closed with a crash he broke out
again like a maniac, shrieking blood curd
ling threats and curses.
Alexander Antone, says the Oneida
Union, boasts that he is the grandson of
Abram Antone, one of the fiercest savages
ever known in this vicinity. Abram was
born on' the banks of the Susquehanna in
1750. His father was a Stockbridge In
dian and his mother was the daughter of
an Oneida chief. When one reviews the
life and bloodthirsty deeds of the offspring
of this pair, one cannot wonder at the
savage instincts which show in the blood
of his progeny. In 1798 Abram had some
trouble with an Indian who distributed
government allowances to the Indians.
He claimed he had been defrauded. He
met the agent at Chenango point, at the
raising of an Indian house, and at the
feast, after the work had been done, delib
erately shot the man through the heart
and calmly walked away. Nothing was
done toward bringing him to justice. His
most atrocious deed was the murder of an
infant child. He came home one day and
found the baby crying. He was in an
ugly mood and seizing the child from its
mother's arms raked back the bed of coals
and buried the infant in the flames of the
fireplace.
During his career he lived in Canada for
some years. A white man insulted a
squaw there and Abram resented it. He
was struck across the face by the white
man. His blood boiled, and from that he
followed his enemy until he had an oppor
tunity to plunge a knife into his heart in
A hotel bedroom. In or about 1810
Abram’s daughter Mary received atten
tions for a time from a young Indian in
this county. He transferred his favors
soon, however, to another dusky damsel
and married her. Mary killed her rival,
for which she was arrested, tried, convict
ed and hanged.
One John Jacobs, a half breed, had been
a witness against heir, and Abram consid
ered him the cause of her death. He swore
to kill him, and Jacobs fled, and returned
only when Abram sent him word that he
would not molest him. He was hoeing
corn iq a field with others one day when
Abram approached, shaking hands with
each. As he approached Jacobs he said,
•‘How d’ye do, brother?” and drawing a
knife from his left sleeve plunged it three
times into the man’s body. Abram got
away and then began a life of many nar
row escapes from officers of the law. He
had a wigwam in what is now the town
of Sherburne, and there two whites found
him one day peacefully making a broom.
Ho waited as they advanced to capture
him until they were close at hand, and
then pointed his rifle suddenly and ordered
them away. They went, and later Abram
used to laugh as he told the story and em
phatically boasted that his gun was empty.
He grew bolder as time went on, and used
openly to enter villages and towns with
apparently no fear of being taken. At last
one in whom he had confidence betrayed
him. He was induced to enter a trial of
skill at shooting, and when his rifle was
empty officers seized and captured him.
He was hanged in public at Morrisville on
Friday, Sept. 12, 1823.—Utica Observer.
Marie Antoinette In. the Conciergerle.
’ ‘ The Last Days of Louis XVI and Marie
Antoinette” is the title of an article by
Anna L. Bicknell in The Century. Miss
Bicknell, in speaking of removal of
the queen from the T n to the
Conciergerle, sgy:
The next dtuffißb gendarmes were placed
in the cell anfljinained there permanent
ly, never I leaving the unfortunate queen
any privacy. By the care of Mme. Richard
a screen was put up before her bed, and
was her only protection against their in
cessant watchfulness. They drank,
smoked, played cards, quarreled and
swore fn her presence. The smoke was
particularly disagreeable to her and affect
ed her eyes, besides causing headaches.
As she had brought nothing with her
from the Temple, she begged to be allowed
the use of the linen and other requisites
which she had left there. After sme delay
a parcel was brought containing a few
articles carefully folded and put together.
As she looked at each, the queen’s eyes
filled with tears, and turning to Mme.
Richard she said mournfully, ‘‘ln the care
with which all this has been chosen and
prepared I recognize the hand of my poor
sister Elisabeth.” After receiving this
parcel of necessaries the queen wished to
put them away, but had no means of do
ing so in her cell She begged Mme, Rich
ard to lend her a box of some kind, but
the jailer’s wife dared nofc,procure one fbr
her. At last Rosalie offered a bandbox of
her own, which the queen accepted with
thankfulness. Poor Rosalie also lent her
a mirror of the humblest kind, which she
had bought at a trifling cost for her own
use—a small glass in a painted tin frame,
which was received as a boon by the royal
lady whose majestic beauty had been re
flected in the hall of mirrors at Versailles.
Royal Lovera.
Julian Ralph, in a letter from Copen
hagen, gives a pen picture of the latest
royal bride and bridegroom: “Icame here
on the same boat with the Princess Inge
borg and her husband. Prince Charles of
Sweden. We bumped against one another
and were a little ill together and laughed
at our companions without my ever dream
ing that my companions were royalties.
They sat on a deck settee for hours, went
down stairs and dined at 2 shillings a head,
with a rather rough lot of young men at
their table, and were altogether as demo
cratic as oould be. But for the most part
the royal pair—she in plain dress and he
in a lounging suit and a squash hat—sat
up to each other for all the world like a
pair of German sweethearts making the
most of a chance to be together She looks
16, is slight, very blond, very emotional
and inclined to be merry. He is a tall,
masterful looking man, with clear cut
face, gentle es and a manner toward her
that is all tenderness and pride, They were
coming home at the end of their honey
moon. ’■
The Cure For AmericaMtia.
Americanltls is on the increase, the wise
ones say. Americanltls comes from an
intense desire to "git that” and an awful
fear that you cannot. The ounce of pre
vention is to cut down your calling list,
play tag with the children and let the old
world slide. Remember that your real
wants are not many—a few hours’ work
a day will supply your needs—then you
are safe from Americanltls and death a*
the top.—Philistine.
SHALL THE WALTZ Gd! -
Professois Think Our Pronenow to Romp
Has Killed It.
The best known dancing masters of
New York gave The Journal the follow
ing statements of their views concern
ing the waltz:
Professor Augusto Francioli said: “It
is true that the waltz as a society dance
is a thing of the past. It will always
hold its own so long as dancing is done
on the stage. The reason for its disap
pearance is the popularity of the min
uet, than which there could not be a
more stately or refined dance. My opin
ion is that the quality of grace is to be
developed to the exclusion of romping,
which has nothing but the exhilaration
of exercise to recommend it. Society
people will now affect the minuet and
the gavot; will learn to use the arms
with grace in the dance and abandon
that harum scarum, degenerate, vulgar,
ungraceful thing, the nineteenth cen
tury waltz and its hoidcuish compan
ions, the quickstep and polka and the
like.
“I believe we are to enjoy a renais
sance of the beautiful costuming of the
middle ages, a necessary accompani
ment of the reform in dancing. ”
Professor Lawrence Daresaid: “The
waltz has become a romp. lam sorry
to say it, but I must put the blame
where it beldffgs, at the door of the col
lege boy. College boys presume upon
the amount of their fathers’ money.
They claim a freedom that no gentle
man should want They back a lady
about without fear or favor. I have
found, in my 20 years’ experience as a
dancing master that the college boy is
the one I need to watch in my classes.
“He does not realize that the rule of
dancing is always to take care of the
lady. He violates this by backing her
about as though ho were moving fur
niture. Go to any college danoe to con
firm this. So long as the college boy’s
rule on the dance floor continues the
waltz will be in abeyance. The two
step in slower time will be its succes
sor. ”
Oscar Duryea said; "The two step is
the leader. The secret of its success is
that it is easy of accomplishment. It
requires no art to acquire it. It can be
easily learned in one lesson, while it
takes a season or two to thoroughly
master the waltz. There is more inspi
ration in the music of the quickstep,
because it is quicker, and the American
must hurry, even in his amusement A
waltz is not such unless it is danced
to slow, dreamy music. You cannot
hasten the tempo of a waltz without
spoiling it The reason for the present
decadence of the waltz I take to be two
fold. Its rival, the two step, is more
easily learned and can be danced with
greater rapidity, thus appealing to the
American love of rush. ”
Professor T. George Dodworth said:
“The disfavor shown the waltz is due
to the romping introduced into it of late
years. The two step brought out much
boisterousness that was carried into
other dances, the waltz among others.
The very young set is chiefly responsible
for this. There have been those who
have always waltzed and danced the
step in a sedate manner. A great inter
est is being shown in the old fashioned,
stately dances, as the menuet de la cour,
the gavot and the pavane. These were
the dances in vogue in the time of the
Louis and require mffch training in
grace of arm and body. It is usually
more difficult for men than women to
accomplish this grace. Classes have
been organized especially for the benefit
to be derived from practicing‘these state
ly court dances. The interest in these
old dances has been more marked in New
York. I have been surprised to learn
how little interest has been taken in
them in other cities. New York is lead
ing in taste for these dances. ”
Tennyson’s Religion.
It was fortunate, says Mr. Mabie in
The Atlantic, that Tennyson’s biography
was not prepared by a biographer who
was anxious to minimize the religious
element in his life. On the contrary, it
is thrown into the boldest relief, and
the reader is let into those profound
convictions which gave the laureate’s
poetry such depth and spiritual splen
dor. The whole subject is dealt with,
in connection with “In Memoriam, ”
with the most satisfying fullness. “In
this vale of time the hills of time often
shutout the mountains of eternity,’’
Tennyson once said. The nobility of his
verse had its springs in those moun
tains, and they inclosed and glorified
the landscape of life as he looked over
it He refused to formulate his faith,
but he has given it an expression which
is at once definite and poetic, illumin
ating and enduring. “I hardly dare
name his name,” he writes, “but take
away belief in the self conscious person
ality of God, and you take away the
backbone of the world. ” And again,
“On God and godlike men we build our
trust ” A week before his death, his son
tells us, he talked long of the personality
and love of God—“that 6od whose eyes
consider the poor,” “ Whocatereth even
for the sparrow.” “For myself,” he
said on another occasion, “the world is
the shadow of God.” In his case, as in
Wordsworth’s and Browning’s, poetry
issued out of the deepest springs of be
ing, and he made it great by commit
ting to it the expression of the highest
truth.
To a young man going to a university
he said, “The love of God is the true
basis of duty, truth, reverence, loyalty,
love, virtue and work,” and he added
characteristically, “ but don’t be a prig. ”
Through his verse, as through his life,
there ran this deep current of faith, but
the expression of it was free from the
taint and distortion of dogmatic or ec
clesiastical phrase.
A Rada Shock;
Uncle George—You’d better take up
with Miss Gordon, Harry. They say she
is worth a million—
Harry—You don’t mean it. Unde
George!
Unde George—Of common women.
Harry—H’m I—Boston Transcript.
OF COURSE IT’S TRUE.
ThU Story of tha Uan Horse and tba
Yonnj Doctor.
“One reads so many stori< sabout ani
mal intelligence that it wou d be hasard
ous for a doubter to express his disbe
lief in almost any gathering of men at
the present day,” remarked Dr. W. W.
Watkins. “A little instance came
Within my own observation a number
es years ago when I was studying med
icine and which convinced me that the
members of the horse family at leasf
ought to be credited with the possession
of a very considerable quantity of rea
soning power. It was the custom for
the students at the medieal institution
at which I pursued my studies <o wear
a small badge upon their coats to dis
tinguish them from others at the col
lege. A horse belonging to the estab
lishment was used a great deal about
the medical department, and the ani
mal seemed to have a special preference
for the embryo doctors more than for
any other people about the establish
ment. ~ . 'J ~
“One day, while a number of us were
gathered in a little knot upon a small
campus in the rear of the college, the
animal in question, which used to nip
the grass in the location, came toward
the group limping very badly. He came
to a stop a doaen or more feet from the
crowd and, carefully surveying the lot
of us, finally made up hie mind as to
what he wanted to do and without any
hesitation limped directly to my side,
whinnied, stuck his nose against my
body and held up his left foreleg. Look-'
Ing down, I discovered a large nail im
bedded in the frog of his hoof. This
had evidently caused the lameness. I
then realized the interesting fact that
the animal desired attendance. I ex
tracted the nail with some difficulty,
and the horse whimpered with relief
and walked away. Rather curious as to
why the beast hhd picked me out to at
tend to his wound, I glanced at the
boys and found the solution to the prob
lem. Not one of the group had his med
ical badge upon his coat but myself.
The horse had recognized the insignia,
realized its significance and acted ac
cordingly.”—New Orleans Times-Dem
ocrat.
AFRAID OF THE HOODOO.
Why the Street Car Conductor Would Mot
Cut the Pageant In 'Twain.
A hearse crossed the track and the
motoneer put on the brakes so suddenly
that the car nearly stood on its nose.
Then be sat down on the front seat to
await the passing of the long string of
carriages following the black draped
vehicle.
A fat man who had nearly been
thrown over the front rail by the sud
den stopping of the car snorted angrily :
"Why don’t you cut across? I’ve got
to catch a train. I can’t wait here all
day.” .
“Can’t "help it, boss. You’ll have to
wait and catch another train. ”
“Well, I’ll report you to the com
pany. That procession will take five
minutes in passing us. ”
"Report away. I can’t help it if the
procession takes 20 minutes. You
couldn’t hire me to run this car across
that funeral procession for the best- job
on the line. That’s the worst hoodoo a
man could run up against. ”
“Bah!” said the fat man.
“All right, boss. I know what I’m
talking about. One of the best men on
this line crossed a funeral procession
soon after the trolley system was put
in. A live wire dropped on the back of
his neck and electrocuted him before
he’d gone a block. A little while later
another poor fellow cut across back of
a hearse. He ran over three children in
as many weeks. He quit the road as
crazy as a loon. Now the conductor on
that same car has lost every cent he
had in the world, and his wife and
child have died. Bah, yourself! I’d like
to see you get off this car afid walk
across in front of one of those carriages.
I’ll bet you’d be catchin your last train
in this world pretty quick. Jest hop off
and try it now. ”
But the fat man only Bhiftecjpneasily
about on the hard car seat anct waited
silently until the last carriage had
passed.—New York Telegram.
How Boes Embalm.
Bees, says Horbis, can embalm as
successfully as could the ancient Egyp
tians. It often happens in damp weather
that a slug or snail will enter a bee
hive. This is, of course, to the unpro
tected slug a case of sudden death. The
bees fall upon him and sting him to
death at once. But what to do with the
carcass becomes a vital question. If left
where it is, it will breed a regular
pestilence. Now comes in the clever
ness of the insects. They set to work
and cover it with wax, and there you
may see it lying embalmed just aa the
nations of old embalmed their dead.
When it is a snail that is the intruder,
he is, of course, impenetrable to their
sting, so they calmly cement his shell
with wax to the bottom of the hive
imprisonment for life, with no hops of
pardon.
Both Wrong,
The Toronto Saturday Night tells of
a man who kept a ferret being obliged
to go into the country, leaving the cage
with the ferret in charge of a neighbor
till he should return.
The neighbor incautiously opened the
cage door, and the ferret escaped,
whereupon the owner brought a claim
against him for damages.
The following was the decision of
the learned magistrate before whom the
case was brought.
“No doubt, ” he said to the neighbor—
“no doubt you were wrong to open the
cage door, but”—turning to the owner,
“you were wrong too, Why did you not
clip the brute’s wings?”
The Franks took their name from the
francisques, or battleaxes, which they
threw with deadly effect.
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. Age is a matter ’of feeling, not of
years George William Curtis.
Mmama
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STANDARD TIME.
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Hto Facur Section. Into Which Um Co—
try la Divided.
Primarily, for tbs convenience of the
railroads, a st rndard of time was estab
lished by mutual agreement in 1888, by
Which trains are run and local time reg
ulated. According to this system, the
United States, extending from 88 to 126
degrees west longitude, is divided into
four time sections, each of IB degrees of
longitude, exactly equivalent to one
hour. The first (eastern) section in
cludes all territory between the Atlantic
coast and an irregular line drawn from
Detroit to Charleston, the latter be
ing its most southern point The sec
ond (central) section includes all the
territory between the last named line
and an irregular line from Bismarck to
the mouth of the Rio Grande.
The third (mountain) section includes
all territory between the last named
line and nearly the western borders of
Idaho, Utah and Arizona. The fourth
(Pacific) section covers the rest of the
country to the Pacific coast. Standard
time is uniform inside each of these sec
tions, and the time of each section dif
fers from that next to it by exactly one
hour. Thus at 12 noon in New York
city (eastern time) the time at Chicago
(central time) is 11 a. m.; at Denver
(mountain time). Ip a. m., and at San
Francisco (Pacific time), 9 o’clock & m.
Standard time is 16 minutes slower
at Boston than true local time, 4 min
utes slower at New York, 8 minutes
faster at Washington, 19 minutes faster
at Charleston, 28 minutes slower at De
troit, 18 minutes faster at Kansas City,
10 minutes slower at Chicago, 1 minute
faster at St Louis, 28 minutes faster at
Salt Lake City and 10 minutes faster at
San Francisco.-—Atlanta Constitution.
JONES’ STRATEGY.
He Got HU New Balt at Half Price by d
Great Scheme.
Jones’ new suit fits beautifully, but
he was |lO shy on the price. He needed
the suit badly, but his tailor was de
cidedly disinclined to part with it till
it was paid for. After lying awake all
night revolving in his mind various
schemes old and new to get possession
of the coveted attire Jones evolved a
brilliant idea. He put on a high collar
two sizes too large for him, went to his
tailor and tried on the coat again. Os
course it did not fit around the collar
and would have to be let cut The next
day he put on a collar a half size too
small and tried it on again. The collar
of the coat bulged out in the back as if
it had been constructed for the neck of
a pugilist ’
“I can’t wear that thing,” declared
Jones. “It does not fit at all. ”
“No, it does not seem to,” admitted
the tailor.
“You’ve tinkered with it now till
you have nearly ruined it I guess I
don’t want it”
“Well, I’ll- tell you what I’ll do,”
proposed the tailor, who did not want
a misfit left on his hands. “I’ll knock
off 86 on the price. ’’
“Don’t want a suit that don’t fit,”
declared Jones.
“Well, I’ll make it 810.”
“Make it 812. W and I’ll take it”
“All right, but I lose money on it at
that”
Jones paid another tailor 81 to have
the collar altered, paid for his suit and
had 81.60 with which to “wet it ” —San
Francisco Post
She Won Her Bet.
The efficiency of the employees of the
Jacksonville postoffice was put to a se
vere test recently, when the distribut
ing clerk came across r photograph with
a postage stamp attached and the only
direction on it as follows, says the Flor
ida Times-Union:
“Deliver to —, Jacksonville,
Fla.”
Several of the employees were shown
the picture, which was taken with a
small camera, and which did not show
the face of the person photographed
very distinctly. One of the carriers
named Walter G. Coleman, the general
traveling agent of theF. C. and P. rail
way, was the person. Several of the
clerks and carriers did not think that it
was intended for Mr. Coleman, while
others sided with the Bay street carrier.
Finally a wager of 81 was made, and
the carrier started out to deliver it.
When he reached Mr. Coleman’s
office, that gentleman at once claimed
the photograph as one of himself. A
week ago or more, while walking along
Bay street, he met a young lady with a
kodak, who took a snap shot at him in
front of the Gardner building. She said
that if the picture was a good one she
would send it to him. It also appears
that the young lady won a wager made
with her father on the delivery of the
photograph to Mr. Coleman with only
the directions above.
.i Yellow Alaska Cedar.
The durability of this timber is forci
bly illustrated by fallen trunks that are
perfectly sound after lying in the damp
woods for centuries. Soon after these
trees fall they are overgrown with moss,
in which seeds lodge and germinate and
grow up into vigorous saplings, which
stand in a row on the backs of their
dead ancestors. Os this company of
young trees perhaps three or four will
grow to Yuli stature. wnAing down
straddling roots on earib|ofrM>d estab
lishing themselves in the soil, and after
they have reached an age of 200 or 300
years the downtrodden trank on which
they are standing, when out into, is
found as fresh in the heart as when it
fell—John Muir in Century.
He Was » Bird.
Aid (charging furiously up)—Gen
eral, the enemy has captured our left
wing. What shall We do?
The Commander—Fly with the other.
—Philadelphia Inquirer.
, ——
There is so much sympathy iQ this
country that very often the under dqg
becomes a dangerous, impudent naa
Atahtann Globe.
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