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VOL. XIX.
A MOUNTAIN OUTLAW.
By Wallace P. Reed.
For The Constitution.
The last rays of the setting sun bathed tho
tall summit of Mount Olah in a Hood of mellow
splendor.
Down in the valley it was already twilight,
and a gray shadow was creeping over the red
hills opposite the mountain.
On one of the hillsides was a little log cabin.
Back oi it stretched a eo-.niield, and in front
■was a rugged pathway leading down to the
Shad which sometimes followed the course of
the valley and sometimes branched out eccen
trically over the hill:'..
Up the winding pathway Jeff Wilson crawled
■wearily, and with lagging steps. It was easy
to see that lie was a tired man, and that his
day’s work had fatigued him.
His young wife, as she stood in the door of
the cabin, saw him, and ran half way to the
road to meet him.
“Jeff,” she said as she took him by the arm,
“I tole yer not ter wuk yerself ter death.
What's the use? Yer mils'take life easy, man.
Hit’s ther only way.”
“Thet's what you say, Nancy,” said the man,
•with a smile on his careworn face; “but how
kin I? Yer disremembers ther nioggitch.”
“No, I don't.” replied Nancy; “but 1 knows
this place, and wuk is jist throwed away on
liit. Thar’s nothin’ ter be made, an’ < f ther
moggitch i ngwiiie ter cat us up—why, jist let
■'er slide. Thet's what I say.”
“Hit won’t eat us, Nancy,” said the young
fellow witli a smile. “We’ll beat ther" inog
gitcl: yit.”
In his wool hat. homespun shirt and jeans
trousers, tho young fellow looked eycry inch a
snan as he straightened himself and patted his
•Wife < n the head.
“I dunno,” said Nancy, dubiously, as she
looked up into his face. “Hev yer fouu’ a golo
mine?”
“Nuh.”
hyar, Jeff, hev ver bin a-wvkin’ in
Oak’s still?”
_ “Yes, 1 hev!” answered Jeff defiantly. “I
kin nick good wng< s ther, an’ why shouldn't I
•■wuk th,ar? Hit’s ther only way fur us ter git
even.”
Hi wife, lowered her head. She was alarmed
at the prospect of a new. danger.
“Jeff.” she spoke pleadingly.
“Well. Nancy?” .
“Jeff, I’m ’fre.id ter hev yer wuk in ther
fltill. S’pose ther gnv’meut gits yer?”
“Dura ther guv’inint!” broke out Jeff.
'‘Hit : in’t g' I ole man Oaks yit. The revynoo
men never come hyar. Hit’s safe enough, an’
lift v Hl mek me able ter smash ther mog
giteh ■’
1 he two walked on quietly to the little cabin
and sat down to their frugal supper. That
night they talked it or r. Nancy was out
spoken in her opposition to her husband's new
emp! >• m mt, 1 ■■■ rhe kinghed at her fears. Ho
told 1 er that there had never been an arre t in
- r.iet, mid 111 11 < ak.i w gr ■ lie: rich,
lie s’: -.- ■<! i-.-r tha* ii l:e gi-ve un bis job tiie
• ■ •„ . ~ a
and they would btr.'-bmekss and penniless.
“Gimme a year,” he said, “an’ we’il be out
Os debt.”
And so Nancy yielded against her better
judgment.
But from that day there was a cloud on her
brow. She grew thin and nervous, and started
at every ur.u •ml sound.
One tiling Nancy Wilson did without telling
her husband anything about it. She found the
shorie t route to the still through the woods,
anti all daylong she was on tho watch. Site
determined that if she ever saw any f uspicious
parties riding over the hills she "would rush
down into the ravine at the foot of Mount Olah
And warn her husband in time.
M nth after month rolled on without any
trouble. and Nancy was lulled into a false se
curity.
Late one afternoon she heard the sound es
voices, and looking out saw a party of men
armed with carbines riding in tiie direction of
thy ravine where her husband was at work.
She had not a moment to lose, and in the
twinkling of an eye she slipped off her dress
and put on one of Jeff's suits. In this garbshe
felt that she could make better progress
through the woods, and would be less likely
to attract attention.
Then she ran out of the back door and darted
off with the speed of the wind.
The crack of a carbine rang out, filling the
ycaoeful valley witli a hundred echoes.
“What did you do that for?” growled the
leader of the posse of raiders. “Don't you
Jknow that it will scare tho moonshiners On?”
“It's all right,” said the deputy who had
fired tiie shot. “I saw a boy skinning along
ion tho mountain side, and I knew from the way
lie tr od to hide himself that lie was one of the
gan ; we are looking for. I don’t know whether
1 bit him or not, but I don’t see him.”
“You mayliave killed some innocent person,
or anyhow your shot has given notice of our
Approach.”
, “Oh. no,” answered the other carelessly.
’‘By this time tho men we sent around the
mountain have reach d the still. When we get
there we'll find our game.”
Ami so it turned out. When the raiders
•joined their comrades they found Jeff Wilson
.a prisoner in their hand . The stillhouso was
demolished in af‘ minutes, and the officers
Started off with their capture.
Wilson pleaded hard to bo allowed to go by
In's home to see his wife, bet his captors pre
ferred to take another read, and they lost no
time in got tin gout •■! that region. Wilson was
• tied to a horse, and was helpless.
* * * *
Far up the mountain -idea motionless figure
jby across a narrow f<>. i with. A white, girlish )
face was turned up to the sky. and in the glow i
of the sunset it hid a life-like appearance. I
Night came on. and th stars mirrored them- |
selves in tho glassy eyes, and when morning
came the sun looked upon the same ghastly
eight.
And so tho rude mountaineers found her,
ami 1 ■ i-.i her tenderly home.
“The revynoo men 1” they muttered as they
look'd upon the corpse.
Tit. y aid no more, but they clutched their
Title...and the grim 1 on their bearded faces
Lo h.d no good to the r■■ nue inideri.
The rough riders hurried Jeff Wilson on
9ver th.' mountains until a railway station was
teacl ed, and tb.-n the prisoner was handcuffed '
And shipped to the city, where lio was lodged .
in i"il.
Wilson was in a fever of anxiety about his I
.•Wifi . He wanted to and her an encouraging I
Tnc<- >ge: but a simple mountaineer, unable to '
read or write, and locked up a hundred miles ,
from home, is in a 1 id fix. Jeff brooded over '
the ‘ ituation until he awoke one morning with
a fei t. and it was weeks before ho was con- '
«ci.>. .. Then he wont into court in a half- j
tdazed condition, and almost b m.re he !:r. :w it
found that ho was sentenced to six months in ’
jtiil.
'J i.o big. stalwart follow had neve.'hern him- !
self - nee his illness. His mind wa- ■ > •'• •!, ■
ami he amped through il.ej.criod oi hi.,imi .N- |
dnmei t. v. ndet'e why lie heard n tiling
from bis wife an i his friends.
*****
“Mcint Olah! No, timi.k you,” said a r-v- I
W" r day to i.'s sti’ eriur; “I am not (
"1 flight'ii-fl fll . Wil n. Youha-clgaid '
“Xkaoirit. IR ~><.» in the woods on the i
1
I mountain, and whenever he sees a traveler who
i looks like a revenue man he brings him down
with hisriile. Lt is useless to tiy to catch him.
He is a regular wild cat.”
”1 have heard oi him,” said tho other. “Let
me see. Wasn’t his wife killed by a party of
our raiders ?”
“Yes; something of the sort,” yawned the
other. “But no doubt she was with him in his
moonshine business. Yes. she was killed by
one of our men, and Wilson, when lie got out
of jail and went home, was nearly crazy.
■ Then his farm had been sold under a mortgage,
and ho took to th'.’ wcmds and waged war
1 against all mankind, or rather against tho
; government.”
“I'll not send you un there this time.” said
the marshal thoughtfully. “Hangedif 1 don’t
feel a sympathy for Wiison! I can’t blamo
him much for taking a shot at you fellows
1 when he gets tho chance.”
I It was years before. Jeff Wilson ended his
I career, lie made himself the terror of the
mountains, and the moonshiners nourished in
j his vicinity*
The end camo at last, and the outlaw died
' game. Surrounded by a posse of twenty mon
i he gave battle to them all, and after receiving
a mortal wound ho raised himself on his elbow
ami shot the leader of the party dead in his
tracks.
He deserved his fate, many will say. Per
haps. The simple mountaineers have their
own opinion about such things. They say that
Jeff Wilson was cruelly persecuted, and' that
he was murdered by the government.
FLOWERS INSTEAD OF CREPE.
I “Ever since the death of Henry Ward
Becchcr it has been noticed by gentlemen iu our
line oi business that for one death out oi’every three
instead of crepe being hung on the door knob,
beautiful wreaths of white flowers are placed as em
blematic of another soul gone to glory,” said an un
dertaker of national reputation.
‘ Wi.y is that?” inquired the Al ail and Express re
porter.
“Before Mr. Becher’s death he requested that ev
erything be bright and cheerful, and that no stream
ers of black be hung on the door of his home. Every
thing that he said was eagerly read by thousands
all over the country. His admirers were doubtless
struck with his idea as to flowers instead of crepe,
and it has become the style. The custom of spread
in; flowers about the cotiin in which lies tl e body
is b;ingrevived. During the past few years the
notice “Please omit flowers” was added to nearly
every funeral announcement. Walk up Fifth ave
nue, or any of the other fashionable thoroughfares
in New York or Brooklyn, and whenever there is a
death you will very lik-.ly sec flowers instead of
crepe. I am informed by undertakers in oth-T
cities that the same custom is growing steadily in
favor.”
Misery by Mortgage.
A Muino farmer asked in a Bangor store
about neg •tiating a loan of U IO?. Tais led to in
quiries and advice of which the Lewiston Journal
makes effective use: “It seems that the man had
work hard all his days, had boughtand paid for a
H ,200 farm, had taken a wife, furnished a L< use,
and now, < nvlous of some of lus neighbors, wanted
to build a S”00 barn. To do this 1 e proposed t > bor
row the cash, giving n, mortgage on his farm. Said
the druggist, ah- r ‘.he story was told: ‘Yourfarm is
vtu.u- nTa7* ‘X~ s T<.ii iovj“ybur wii ~ *¥• s
i > a-’-.c- 7 i’ is t
should do. Go earn rhe SBOO and
then build your bam. If you borrow now,
you will think each night as you lie on your bed
that you are in debt. You will fret and worry;
your wife will do the same; sickness and ac
cidents uny come, or a poor crop be ymir
portion; there will be a ?:’>oo skeleton in yov.r house,
and ten to one, you don’t fret and grow peevish and
l ave a row with your wife. Don’t go into the
mortgage business! Live within your income. 1 o
indu- trious, and when you do build your barn and
own it, you’ll be as proud of it as an Englishman is
of his castle.’ For a moment tho young farmes
hesitated. On each side wore interested spectators,
and all was silence. Gradually the head lowered,
and a tear rolled down the cheek. Theman took
1 ride in his.occ-.pition, and wanted that barn. At
last be said: “Than’-: you, sir. To t-11 the (ruth, my
wife was crying wl < n ! left home because I was go
ing to niortga e the place. I’ll take your advice
and go heme as I camo down, and she’ll wi 1 be glad
to see me.’ ‘There,’ said the Bangor man, ‘tin t
fellow came to a good, wise conclusion. I have seen
lots of misery on account of this mortgage business.
He wim gives one, often gives peace, comfort and
contentment with it.’ ”
Nina Van Zandt’s Murderous Plan.
From the Chicago Tribune.
“I am sorry that I did not do jis I intended
and blow up the j di.” This modest assertion was
not made by any long-haired, shaggy-bearded an
archist. Miss Nina Van Zandt is responsible for it
She Las locked up in her heart’s deepest recesses
carefully calculated plotsof a most startling charac
ter. In a recent conversation with a trusted friend
she said:
“The murder of Parsons was the most diabolical
of all. Think of it, a man believing himself inno
cent gi . es himself up to the authorities and is mur
dered by them! Parsons should have been saved,
and could have been if his ca-e had been prov-.-rly
managed. It was different with my husband.
Nothing could have saved him but one thing, ami 1
was a fool not to do as I intend 1 ; nd should have
done—that was to blow up the jail.”
“Kii-h, what arc you talking about?” said Mrs.
Van Zandt, who was prosen’.
“Mother, you talk like a jabbering idiot!” said
Nina, at winch lilial remark t7e methc;-sub.-ided
and did not venture to interrupt the flow of Nina’s
remarks.
Trying to < liml) to Heaven.
From the Ko-«-insko, Mi. - . M - ig ■
OiH3 day last week a demented Loy,
about twelve years of age, wandered p.way from his
home in the couutry and r jache I Kos iusko. The
Mcthodht steeple now being flniJu.d, 120 f t in
i height, first excited Ids wonder, an I h made a l.ce
| line fir it. When first seen by the workmen h • had
i climbed upward on the steeple to a dizzy height,
I near ICO feet from tho earth, with a bucket on Lis
arm. The mon below yelled to him to come down. |
Ihs answer, “I’m gwine to h avi n to kerry Go! j
some butter,” somewhat surprised them. An Irish
man. with commendable prescnc oi mind,hoiloc<l
to him that he had gone up wrong, ■•ome down
hn l go up the other side,” which ’advice brought i
the would-be angel to solid cuitb, whc:e he was
kept.
Refined Cruelty.
From tho P’ttsburg Chronicle.
Johnny More proposed to a girl. She said
she would send her answer next day. He was sur-
I priced to receive a green leal He took it to a bo-
I tan.'st, and since then he has Lceii mournful. It was
; a leaf from a sick-o'-Jlore tree.
The Truly Geiitlemauly Laugh.
i From the I‘hiladelphln Press.
i “There is always one sure sign by which you
i may know a well-bred man,'’ says a cosmopolitan I
! who ii Jl: t now in I’lJlailc-lphin.
“And. pray, what is that sign:' he was asked.
"It is his laiirb. The butcher and the bnk .rnnd {
i the cnnillistick maker, not to sp.-u'-j of the tailor, 1
| may do agood deal tor in in, but only thorough re- I
i ilnemc-Lit can make hi... laugh hie a gontlemnn."
"Abd, now, wl at is that 1- . B Hke?' 1
"AS Willi the i.usl.ly wo Cali : •; : ; it eannot be de- '
’ fint'l; but, just 'lie-' tl. re is no a'-:iug the :
I 1..J.1 <fa g itle- t-.n. I.i-t- :i mil note the next
time you go to a rec ‘pilon cr dinner partv.
Somebody is agit.n : u;;-the quo-tion of erect
ing I moi ntto Johnlir,•.•.!! iu Kansas. And
L- fre : y 'i s’■ . .’.. 1 '■_■. ‘ t" ’.ta' ■ and Lis
' - : :y - - , ‘ . - ! G ■ d “JoiiU ;
I lir • I. .. 1>! JJttk h. n. ■ J ■ ... ' in the pul be
.... ~. .■> H V L'jUOI CaUz h
■ in Knasua.
i
ATLANTA. GA., TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, ISSB.
SOME OLDTCI-E GIANTS.
Rate of Growth Increased by
Certain Kinds of Exercise.
RACES OF TALL NEGROES IN AFRICA.
Inhabitants of latnrstonc Regions Taller
than the Average Interesting Facts
About the Inheritance of Stature.
BY UK HARD A. I’HOCTOR.
[Copyrighted, 1887, by the Author.]
There are many who regard certain sayings
in the Bible as injunctions to men to attempt
no advance and to make no researches. When
they read the words, ‘The poor ye have always
with you,” they arc prepared to teach that any
attempts to raise the poor from poverty are
necessarily sinful. Because Christ told his
hearers, with most perfect truth, that they
could not tell whence the wind came or whith
er it went, the attempts of mon like Maury
and Myer to track the courses of the winds are
to be ix gardcd as a sort of rebellion against tho
will of Him who is poetically described in tho
Bible as holding the winds in the hollow’ of
his hand. Christ asked in like manner, “Which
of yon by taking thought can add a cubit to
his stmur ’?” and therefore some regard tho
growth of each and every person as something
predetermined and predestined, which can in
no way bo affected by careful thought as to
diet, exercise and place of abode, to say noth
ing of a principle of election by which later
generations may be modi lied, and great grand
children grow greater by inheriting in concen
trated degree the greater stature of their male
and female progenitors.
Yet at a first view there seems no reason why
stature should not be increased as well as tho
size of the chest or the girth of the individual
limbs. It is true that in developing tho chest
the action of inferior organs is culled directly
into play to increase the span of tho chcst-en
eb sing I ones and integuments by mechanical
action, while in developing girth of limbs tho
tho tiesh is increased on to which exercise and
f«»od’apt car to : ct more directly than they can
be expected to act on the bones, and especially
on the h ngih < f bones. Yet it may bo regarded
as fairly w:ibin the bounds of possibility that
forms both of food and of exorcise can bo in
vented which would act directly on stature.
We are naturally Jed in consid( ring thissub
ject to inquire und« r what cor.diiL»ns excep
tionally tall men a id exccptb i ally tall races of
men have appeared,as also the converse case of
the appearance of men and races exceptional
ly slx.: t.
Vi lih regard so giants tiie evidence is most
perplexing, jet in some degree .suggestive, in
iioariv every case tlicir excejitii nai growth lias
come irregular; and in many cases tliey liave
grown sev< nil j’curs alter tiie a ;<• when growlli
os...'iv ceases, :.p-i when their own grdwt h
- k ’ ' >'C oniplctr'i, \• J ii: :
<>.' tiicse e:.ses wa: there any cieuusttin' .-in
which tiie sudden mid irregular increase of
stature could ho supposed to nil. J lio
strong; t evidence v.o have on this point is
that '(-.‘i'ered i'.v tiie cxpi rimnnts of Hi Imp
Bi l ie-ley accoiding I<> the respectable ; iithuri
ty of Gi-iiflroy S.>mt-H ilairo (quoting Watkin
sou’s “I hiiosophiiml Se.ivcy i f Ireland”).
Tiie right, rcvcrcml gentleman took a poor or
phan named Mauratl: ami f< d him with certain
niticilagiimiis foods ami liquors—according to
Virey—which were specially selected to in
crease liis height. The re-nit was successful in
one sense, sineont tiie ago of it; Magrath was 7
feet high mid still giowing. But in another
and more important respect tiie resuit was le.-.s
satisfactory, for from about tiie age of Iti Ma
gratli, though still a growing boy, began to
show all the signs of old age, and’ lie died a
dotard at ?0, having grown by tliat time to a
height- or rather a length- of 7 feet H in-lies.
How Bishop Berkely’s episcopal emu: enco
was affected by tiie result of his experiments
history sayoth not.
Wo naturally feel less inter-v ‘n considering
tiie exceptional growth of giants when wo note
that in every recorded instance giants have
died young, showing early the signs of a weak
constitution, though often possessing marvel
ous muscular strength. Dwarfs, on the contra
ry, have usually been fully of vitality. Gcoff
roy St. Hilaire, after remarking that giants are
usually of a lymphatic tcinpcrament, often de
formed, weak voiced and short lived, proceeds
to note such eases among dwarfs as that of
Borowlaski, (or Boruslawski) who attained tho
ripe old ago of 80, (though iio cannot be said to
have lived long) and of tiie ladjr, Theresa Sow
ray, mentioned by Virey, who at tho age of 73
was bright and gay anil danced her two feet
eleven incites witli admirable agility a la mode
de son pays. This contrast between the aver
age vitality of giants and dwarfs suggests the
consideration that possibly the regimen suited
to promote growth may not tend to increase
vitality. I think, however, wo may dismiss tiie
doubt tints suggested, explaining the wcaknc.- s
of giants us duo to their excessive bulk, not to .
the conditions under which that bulk was at- I
tained. l-imilar conditions resulting only in I
talki" s, not in gigant’c proportions, would ,
proiia’cy not impair vitaiily. At m y rate, in
regions v. liere n i-n are taller than the average I
it lias not I -i-n observed that they are wanting 1
in vital energy.
A mem.'these tail-r races of man soini pcr-
J::-,p ; arc not of interest in conne' lion with my
p:-- - i.t nil;■' 1 , li'-ea-iso ii-anifi :t.ly owing their
ext::: iu mill, io iiiherit'im'i-. When we see rac s
of tall and w- il developed negroes,forexample,
living clo- -- i,y I'm re; iom occupied by such
dw: rfi <1 r.-' >. in tin- i.l. 'S and Obongos, we
perceive tout the dillerenco of height must
lie due to dim rence of ra-: ,u- .t to peculiarities
.n ibe place of abode. But tie re arc causes
where a mark-'-.l 'iitfcr .-ncc of height is cer
tainly due to difference in tiie conditions of
life, for it shows itself in one and tho same
rrn-e. Dr. Prichard, for exam; Ic, long limo
since remarked, on tl:o change which tl.c race
of short, plump, round faced farmers of Eng
land un<b:i v.ij.i when they settled in \ irginfa
and Caroiina, “:!.o race becoming mlj, Jan!:,
gaunt, ami otlierwise remarkable.” Sti!! more
striking is the evidence afforded within tho j
comparatively nairow limits of Switzot-laml I
and Tyrol, where it lias been found that in
habitanUMf limestone regions are measurably I
taller than those living in granite orchist
districts. M. Durand confirms tho statement ‘
of Dr. Albespy that by liming tiie lands in tho
noncalcareous portions if the Avcyron, tiie
average height of tiie inhabitants lias b'-cn
raised in some pari.-, by ,j’ of an inch, in others
by l.i iiiclu s. and iu others by more limn ati ’
im ii and a half.
In the lime-ton'' r'-gions < f Ireland, ns I’ri' li- .
ard long • Ince noted, men of remarkable stat- :
urc arc often seen, though all tl:'- British 1 -1< i ,
derive their stock of inhabitants from the ■ :mm ,
sources, despite the ideas comnu-nly 'mtert.iin
cd in tl.c Emerald Island r‘-pe>t-ii ■ the i icial !
difference betwet n themselves and “tim ba e, '
bloody and brutal Saxon,” (an alliterative :.c- |
count atiout as just as tJm famous rcfeicuce to I
Hum, Homanism and Rebellion./
But tin; evidence given by K; i tuckj' in this
re pe I tnioreahtiKing titan any othe- I
er. Eor tlii'ie, o'er tiie v holo limestone re- i
gion. the average height ot mcnlia , rc.e-.ed i
until tl.c size of Kenlcckim. i < w: p:o- :
verbial, and has given rise to inn tin' r. blo |
j lies - .nil.- lent evidence, d' •; it* the ah mrdi !
iv of s .1.0 of them, the : : .- 1..- •■-
th'-a'i-ragc K't.timl.ian. It v.as ,i Ke,,t> • i
who was afraid to walk abroad at night iu ■
I
EnglanJlest hcsnouldfall off tlielittle island;
i tho Kentuckian invariably requires at L ast
five chairs to sit upon, and so forth. Now. that
the limo has something to do with this excep
tional height, (for these standing jokes an*, not
wholly lying ones) is proved by the circum
stance that cattle also partake in tho unusual
development. What had been noticed on a
small scale in the well known experiment of
La Camargue, in which case a breed of horses
>vas measurably iucr ased in height through
careful t< « dmg. is s.*en throughout Kentuckv
and in all kinds of cattle.
I think we may fairly conclude from the evi
dence, imperfect though it is, that stature may
bo increased by judiciously selected food, anil
probably that lime should in one form or an
other be given in inert ased quantity in the
food, where growth is to bo encouraged. Yet,
such nieasures ought lobe carefully guided by
medical experience: for the same ovideneo
which shows that special conditions may en
courage abnormal growth shows also that they
inay cause abnormal growth -which is a very
different thing. For instance,it has been shown
that goitre is chiefly prevalent in regions w here
lime prevails largely as a geological formation.
This is not only *>ticed in Switzerland, w hich
might almost be calh «l the native home of
goitre, but in England, whore goitre occurs
sjuxsinodically in Derbyshire only, the most
calcareous point of the island.
Exercise and general regimen may be more
safely trusted than articles of diet so special
that they may rather be regarded as medicinal
than alimentary.
\\ ith regaid to regimen it need bo remarked
only that good nourishing food in which sweets
and pastries form but a small proportion, much
Open air exercise, and occasional marked
changes of climate and occupation, as from sea
air to mountain air, or from the habitudes of
farming life to seafaring ways,appear strongly
to favor growth. If records of tho growth of
young people were carefully kept. 1 believe it
Would be found that marked increase, in the
rate of growth was almost always connected
W’ith some change of the kind. 'I bis is a point,
however, on which I shall have more particu
larly to dwell in my next paper on the way in
w hich our young folks grow .
Exercise is generally taken without any
dirc< t reference to th. nicrese of bight. Thus
it often happens that, the gymnastic feats
cliietly indulged in tend rather to check than to
increase the rate <»t growth. This applies par-
I titulary to tho lifting of heavy weights, tho
I use* of large dumb bells, involving compara
tively slow movements, and ail exorcist s w iiicli
I tend to increase the sujipoiting power of the
; fpino and tho Jog bones, oven though they may
i |>e exercises primarily directed to incrcrs’o
. |ho muscular pow’er of the arms. Pulling ex
ercises, though they lend to increase the de
velopment <>i the arms in length a ; well as in
fcirth, (round the fore arm ehielly) do not on
the whole favor the development of length of
limb. Sailors, who from boyhood upwards
are much employed in pulling and hauling,
are on tho average short men, though often
tho development of .strength and weight
resulting from tin ir active, open air lives, is
remarkable. \Yo see oftener among them
; than in other ('lasses, brawny chests, .should
ers and upper limbs in company with lower
: limbs, which, by comparison, appear almost
■stunted. On the other hand, men engaged in
hunting, or in occupations requrring Turrctr
•calking, nr.iujif leaping and the like, ac-
• o’u< \ eloper! Inv. er limos, ind :;rO, un
to ‘ average, taller than other ela cs.
Exer isos intended to develop lieight should
be guuic !by the principles thus suggusteil: A
sutiiciciit time should l» devoted each day to
exercise for the legs, but tending to stretch
them, no! (chiefly at any rate)" to increase
their supporting power. The same appliances
may sometimes be used for tho developin' nt
oi the lower limbs as that for the upper, in
this respect: Thus, though heavy dumb bells
aru almost invariably used in such away as to
stunt or at least to check the development
of tho lower limbs, I’m y Biay bo used ad
vantageously even for this purpose if the
legs aie set wddcly apart and tiie whole body
swayed both towards one side and then both
towards tho other. Hut tor su» h action tho
clubs are far more eff -'flE e ; indeed, 1 know
few exercises more generally uselul for the
developing a well proportioned frame than the
swaying oi clubs simultaneously from the f !; |
range of Loth towards the right, the body well
slanted over towards that side, to tic ir full
range towards the left, then again to th?■ right
and so on,—tho legs being planted about as
i widely apart as in the drilling shed,
I mother earth doing duty for the horse,
clubs should for this exercise b<s rather
I short, as the slant oi the body would tend to
biing them in collision with the ground as
they an* swayed from side to side. This exer
cise is one of those I shall have occasion to
touch upon in a later paper. It has no quali
ties fitting it lor ambit ious record makers or
record-breakers, but apart from its good quali
ties for lumbering, an I in good time (I b- licve)
lengthening, the lower limbs and trunk', it has
an excellent effect in improving the
proportions of the whole body r i he
ill-shaped, sometimes almost de formed,
bodies seen in the symnasiuin,
ami among athletes gt nornlly, (see tor s-»me re
markable examples, Mr. Sargent’s illustrated
article in the November number of Scribner’s
Magazine) would ho le s comim.n if soim of
the exercises employed were thus directed
rather to slrpc'im st than to spci i:d local d< -
i velopmcßt. 1: it Lc remembe r-.d Ihat s’iapeli
| ness m< ans general fitness and servicc-abh n<s,
I and that the strength of a chain isthatofits
I weakc ;t Jink, tho imporinnccof this con >id« ra
tion v, ill L-e ri ccr. nized, but “th<3 bearings of
■ this observation,’* as the judicial Bum uy lias
it, “lays in tho application on il,” and while
our young me n thinlc i.vm'. ol rivallii’g p/oh's
sionah in special athlclie, frats well .ha <<l
bodies ami limbs arc nut likely to be commonly
seen.
With regard to Iho inheritance of na 4 ure,
Mr. <'odt'.ns rc’scar he: seem toshowc|r ( i i.< -
ly that while the inllm jicc of jjendity in this
respuct is marked, if i; not nearly so decisive
as has hoc n commonly supposed. It wa . a ro
mark of Mrs. Nils r’; father, (who must have
been ;i most agroc-J>’c* man, I imagine; that “a
family c.f whale:-, me : not ally th'.n "1. c s with
sprats,’’ and apart from ac< i tain biolegiral
vagueness characti rizing it. the remark is
just, if wo understand it to signify that tho
offspring of pare Jits very unequal in height
are likely to bc> bedow the average
in height. But it appears further that even
wh< n both parents arc above the average the
children show on the ave rage but one third of
i that exec- , in he ight, the grandchildren but
one: ninth, and the great grandchildren no ap
preciable excess at ail. 11 wo wish to find the
stronge ,t evidence of the* family superiority in
h ight characterizing the parents we murt not
look for it among their children or grandchil
dren but among their brothers and shters.
Y t if v.o consider the matter carefully wo
shall see that the Lipid return to the average
( iicight indicates instead of disproving the
influence of heredity. The children hare
not only the qualities of the ir parents but
I of remoter progenitors; and w<j may bo 1
J urc that in passing back beyonel the tall par- I
I cuts on both sides we slmiihl come upon gr. n<l
i pare nts an<l gn at pr.cndparenV; of only the |
i average, or even bedow the average size. !
Some among tl:e childicn of flu tall pare nts *
' must be expected to show the ecimparative; |
I shortness of their parc-nL ’ prov' chou ; ami ’
I though some among tlp-m may be f dl their !
ave* tgc lieight must l?c thus retimed.
The statue of a race could only Ln effee- '
, tivcly in<Tea>ed by taking fully in'c a<<’ount i
■ the; laws of heredit■ . If < nly the t il’cjr mar-
I riml, the average height of tim rac.-e wo dd f»o !
I im r • <-d |ir-/'..uly in e-.u h genu ration, mid
i certainly in t;m j «a» jtl g ;
< 1 That lu . Hfy tells in E.< . |
1 way wo may be y-ru. not only frm.. !
■a t . ■ n
in the hr*.’ -<! d<m <-1 <: jlivi.. i , but Iran
l
observed facts ie the case of tho human race
divine. A regiment of the tall soldiers in
whom the father of Frederick tho Great de
lighted, wes stationed during half a century
at Potsdam. This regiment of whales seems
to have scorned alliam o with sprats, and con
sequently (w<* may fairly a • imd wo find a
larger proportion of exceptionally tall men
and women in Potsdam than anywhere else in
the world. Dr. Forster dwells par
tjeular’y on “numerous gigantic
figures of W'omen ” in Pots
dam. Ho considers that tin* peculiarity is cer
tainly due to the intern.arria js of the very
tall soldiers of Frederick William I with the
women of Potsdam.
\Ye se<‘hero Imw by such selection as that
amiable I russnin king ensir.ed, ami subsu
qm iitly by e<>n v t:int ini<* •m,’.: r’.:ge < anion ; tall
men and women only, a cubit might bo added
to tho stature ol future races. But it is to bo
feared (c>r rather hoped) ik.it too hr.nia.ir race i
will not show niy more n .irl.e l liking hore
after than lier< I'fore iorseh . la n ho artitieial,
even for the perhaps qm -.t iom.blu adxantage
of breeding races of giants.
~
Jew’s in ludim
From the Chicago News.
*1 here are w hite and black Jews in Cochin,
India, whoso traditions j»tato that they have stilled
t lit re since the dt struetioa ot th-- temple of Jerusa
lem. 'I he women of th? white Jews are extremely
lair, mid (heir skins look dm- dim.dy white by con
trast with the black mi l bambo >-( t'l-»ied popula
tion around ikcm. They <he s in [intmlhi mbrs,
with gay cloths about their heads and golden cuius
about tluir uc. ks.
An Amusing Reception Incident*
Special Dispatch to tho Globe-Democrat.
Wa ■ .
are licjiiont sc. nes witli oiVieesoekersmid claimants
ol var.'H.is kind- al the white luar.-o afterno m rect'p
tioiis, and the ; ■•: lormauce are otlcn as hi Ueroa • as
the performers arc p i <-?’it. Uno <■! the be t
known characters of Ibis kind is a wmnn who has
a pension claim, ami she is on hgn l at every recep
tion, and haiims the president With a p ••-everai’ce
that must bo agonizing. Yt sterday as ernooii she
was present as usual, and ml - iiu her chance a?, the
other visitors paved, she rushed wildly nfier tho
pre.'ident ns lie walked down the cuiridor. She
headed him off, and grasping him by the liand ic
rmfiked:
“How do you do, Mr. Cleveland.’ A happy New
Year.”
Then r.ithciing him by the coat collar, before ho
could make mry regions'*, she L aned over m d
whispered conlid- n'.ially iu his car, at (he samo
linioforcin ; into Lis han 1 a ibrmid ibio document.
“Th-y Lu . e ordered the payment ot the < hum,
Mr. Pi sldent,’ Hire fin Uy cxcli in iloud. “They
have ordered payment, or al least tb.ev vv ill if 1 can
only get your sirualuro. Oh!d.)si;m it, Mr. Cleve
land, and l will :>'• so ratoful to you,” an I In her
cnthusinsni .-he i H upon ihe pr>‘<i I* it's broad ex.
pause of shirt front and smlk 1 olfluslvely.
The president tried t•> return the smile, but it was
a sickly dibit, and ns lie glanced gloomily at the
document now in h;s posße c.ou, ho only said: "1
will do what I can.” The few livgerhi ■ vi.-itors
who witnessed the scene w rev! bly amused, and
the president, with a weary air, de- a I 'd.
♦
I <>it< J or r. aBI i, only.
'‘Gioncd Inkers' U bays “God IHue*; Vo»a” t<» a
iV- tiir; » i.
New Y cl: Corroßjiyi le. i 1 e'lo'i .' /.mi'*.
Il would have Nt*' n cinious for a pas r-by so
have heard the wo d ‘lmi pi • d i - !«.■< n UuL.nol
Bob :(<». Ingersoll and one of his |.artiii •_ bil <at
10 o’clock on a rec. nt . inday n. 11. The Laid,
round and cheriiu Lu d m.'idel u.« ■ in hff d ■>i way
with one hand gnv-p.’n ; that ol n yaina num
mounting the stairs an I with the o'.her leturniug
tiie gi ip of it liir.ii taking Li < leave.
“Guo I night,” said the c lonel.
“God bless you,” ivniiod th” ( ther.
It wasa nv re 1 ai'it ofsi <■ eh with the unbellcv
ingnmnwbo uttered li.e p'. ;,se, but to Scarcely
any one in New York, iihh.s it might I c Jinny
Hill or Tom Gould, th<; dA •• keep, r, ( ould 1t have
be. n address with n Mr > ” ;. r c.. < t upon the car.
Tiie lugersoil pnrb r windows Ida • I with light,
the (io ,r bell jangled Lu u .-a.'lly, th-! parlor w.ts
full of visitms and was bumming liken Leu hive,
in thi tlu e. text lor a i w chi In t o in -
I(>ry of this evcr-piowin •. con I mtly changing
m< top »hs. The chapter should be headed “Hero
WorMnp.”
Tic lhti'o should be 11m magnetic quality of
genius that dr r.vs men'.l brain -to th” prismee of
t!;C m<.. t or.’glind, aggressive or brilliiuit leader of
though:, in town. Among these ci.l Italns Colonel
Ingersoll has a commanding jUiitioa fuiily
won|hy his int' lle.ct, but otieugthcued by his good
fellowship to men.
A I'ainou Beauty of Bygone Days.
Lady John Manners in tho* London <.p-a.
It would be. difficult to n tnio, among tho tho
women who si..ne in the nr. .toe mi in cirelesof the
hist century, a lady nmre d tinguished by personal
and mental endowin' ids than Ge > gsin t-' >• necr,
the eldest (laughter of John, first I . ;l of Sjm <r,
born In 1757. Alter her nuirrla:?? t> Wm. Cr.ou
(li.di, tilth Duke ol D< von-hire, in 1771, she became
thcccntur of a brllliftntuii< i<- in the •.,<) 11 of fashion
wh. r * her wit, ta.ste and aceompl. I.men’s rendered
j ■ . 'y ive, mil In • round
her the political and literary <• h l;ti(!<-, of the
period. Besides b' in * a ba” r of fashion
tho beautiful Duciu -i of Lcv>ms:!ilro i
j . ! 1 . as a poet (o
wr.s of the Lind which nftm ted Jrn:.fuh; a-,
p i.'ill L'r n Ic t cir< Ic. V.' she
nipearcdin public, al eh-ctlon tin: *. on rate
com..'-, etc. s. rnct with the most c .nh.d n eep
tioi'. Her iviv .. ; ur •. w.t i ’ii»* butch’ r, v. I.<> ■ vote
so. l’’ox .-J.c I ni' liu’od v/it'i ak. ,Is well !;iiu •, i,
and the < e ,1a y (,; n youuj; l.irmer, wl o st «■ ! L e
to tier at fi mH. race-, and, lapt In itd.ninitlon, cx
chum I, “Ah, il I w.r only G ' -he Abai o.ty the
wo'd 1 he the (pi.cn of h< a veil,” i; but 0.. c tnbihc
among mnijy j aid sj ontanc vr.ly to ll.c i hom <,l
her iq.pi hiiiiD'o. I.\< ulo u. t nd-.’l. \ h.ithe
h- a’i’y ol the Duclb o! D. von. hlf , pre: r vingthe
atti.ie'ions ol iu.r lincam'jit:-; di hue and figure to
1 • lost me ol lx r
c;.i s hi.orlly befoie she died, in pv.G.
To HarncMs Niagara 1 alls.
From ‘he Ibjffid t (Joinmerci d.
“Yes, the SIOO.WJ pm to be presented to
the fl i o . ■ ioth*
(xl of utilizing the wttt< r power of the Niagara
rivet ha all boon Bubscrlbod t and I amgladofit, 0
remarked Mr. Jam -• B. Sinflbrd, pr< s. lei.t of the
Business M- n -. a so< inf imi, to a Commercial re
|>oi h r tills morning
“Im you thin,. ;u.c”inv a*.l n will cv* r Lo com-
I succ . lully?"
“M > t certainly, fl ■■ the luGcrs I have rce'.lved
from C’n.qfonilu, N'*w York, hlcin'o mid a dozen
ether place , this morning. VZny, we h ivo over a
bushel of them altogether, some from the he-’t en
gineers In thu country, and some from ernn' > of
every rmo and size, J should ju lge. The best cn
■ . hoi • o pov i can be ut Ita d,
uid,;; we all kiiow, gre.ater invention < than that
have happened d lig thupa*»t t up - rs. Now that
..ep j n i all la ii s' fl* cribvd I • hall call n m'.ct
u r.b-isits soon its lio holiday ru.h
dbo .in i 1 O'. •r,j rfl ably 11 ■j • Idle of January,
Lo ort’.udz', a p'-rmanent us.so' In’am and determine
the Kpeeilic terms and condition's on which tho
oflei of said prize rew.irl shall be nub Hi. d to the
world, and to doh rain” the mu in er and time of
paymeutof 1t ■ ■•’:’ ' rlptions. J-.'h Fuhs-rlbcr O
t will be c nilile<i to <n .oto at this meet mg. Wo
have met v itti run i lor i 1 h. dv- o r ap.ur.ju in try
ing to Loom ihi !i'-w cn’crprl: a, v» hb h, J L. 11 vo,
1’ ”.i’’.ly l>c the nm' in ; < . blifl'tlor.s one of
tne Ij. La ci ::< of t. . ■r. ■ ■ j,we Bro
be.ng favored with 'dr. .n I j><,j L
Courthndt Palmer, otlCew York, is said to
LqL. lichf t in the Cnlted btaur, His 1
fortune <s e»‘4nm‘.‘ 1 at scvv’.xl iniliiuai. i
miCE FIVE GENTS
TREATED AS MAI)
And Cast Into an Asylum for tha
Insane,
WHERE THEY HAVE BEEN 13 YEARS,
A ivo Investigation Develops the
Story of a Most Start
ling Crime.
CoNcoitn, N. 11., January B.—A retnnrkabl*
story has Just been made puldie through the
decision of tiie eomniittoe appointed by Cover*
nor Sawyer to investigate tiie circum .tanecs
connected wilii theca e of Ilk-hard Woodham
mid wife, of this city, who liavo been confined
in an insane asylum for thirteen .years, and
whom file commissioner decided to be sano.
Tiie beginning of tiie trouble camo about
tlnoiigli a mortgage on a Tyler street bouse.
A payment, whlcli was past due, and which
had not been indorsed on tiie moitgagc, Mrs.
Woodham declared site had paid. Tho holdef
denied it. She stuck toiler declaration, and
would neither move nor pay. City Mondial '
Mnidougli, in thocapacity of a doj.uty sheriff,
evicted thorn from tint house. They
refused to r -iiiovo tiie furniture, which lite
officers piled into tiio street. The police uf
terward took the goods to tlio city hall, where
they were stored on the bare ground in the
basement until W. O. Clough was city
slial, when, as they had grown moldy and
worthless, ho had tliom itnentoiicd mid de
stroyed.
Tin; Woodlimns appeared before I’olice Juo.
tieo Emerson, but would not p iv, persistiutf
that tiie money had been paid and not put
down on tim mortgage, tit.d tl,e matter was
temporalily dronpoi. A little lot, r the farm,
honso of Colonel llmerron,mi (in- Lowell ro id,
was burned to tins ground. His b autiful
granite nionmmmt in lloliis street, ceui
ctery was badly broken ami c-.v
--on d wi:h tar a short time uft rw. ds,
Tlu n the barn of Captain Banks, city mar
shal. was Imr.ii-I down, and Condi’s i■ sidenco
would l ave mi. er.d tiie same Into led not
the tin b n sloni '.lby a I:!■ !. pm Elim .
liad bor n evidently .' ct on tiro by sunn- per*
sons, mid llto Woodham.: were clan ;e<l with
tiie crime, mid a: re:n d. They had of.i n ex
pressed spite asiiusl tiie : on .-mint
of tlioovietion irotn tlioir own house. On t !:a
nnrdy drenmstant i. I ovidi neo of knowhia
t item to 1-- cm mi: s to tiie ones win ..u ;uopcri'y
was destroyed they were tri- .!. On tiie Jth
of .iainmi v, 18,0, the I. st paju-rs were madd
out and they were sent to the asylum for the
insane at < '< -ncord.
Tl.c ill- ir.-crnt’on of tim Woodl: mis did not
stop tin many ineemliary tiles, 'limy semued
to inere.i .-. Em.-illy on:: moinin.,- citizinv
w< re .1.11 lb d to hear tlist •■ i-'..tts " J’mkcr
and Miis AVil-on had Inen arrested
tor stealing- buttm- from Co-idi’s st; o on
!■ ianltlin street. ’l'loy had als.diecn d.urged
With startiiig tho many i... . Th, ~ enc«
pom.l in u- dnst. them, mid they wrchd'l
>< i . . i. • - ' < ' , -.id . her
.-.inn iitli-d s: i. id. in Id:. . ||. jh u y, ~~u
was tried, foi-nd ; uilty of all tim e.imot
i-har ■ d to tim W a nml si .-u. m . I to a
ion;; term in tim state prison nt < on. ..;-d,
wlmic Ii - now is.
lln mil.apo - ■ iinple wi ul I have been pris
... .rs for j - in. tn come had it not L. h sot
d " I■ in llnir !- -h ;!: i. ■ <’j. ;-l.: in At a t-.:i.
He Hill-, dll -I -I II .-ill n Hi-- 11-,:: eof I- -pr. cntal
tiy. to ii . , tii. , .- i. fri-u al . n -. Aeo.n
--i | i- .i l iv. app. mt .1, a.;d U.r .nvcstigat.on
lias ju.-.t been comj let. d.
N. n of Mirny Millions,
Armour, tho packing, king, is worth $50,-
OOti.OM).
Mnekuy mid Eulr are said to be woith t'O.i/KXJ
each.
I >l>r A' •!! (<> hav inn 13 £ >.(): (), ,0 out of
the Baltiiii’ re ,‘ un.
Tile ri-venne < l-a s Spied!,-.- d-.ilves from sugar
has been a hl’fl: ns slß,oqo n day.
lanky Bah; .11 wc.iith ic taunted at. y:0,000,
mid Ids Income at SI,CM),OW a year.
V. ('i' htnum, the Phi) idelphi 1 c’lpinht, owns ?20 a
-000,(X»', made mostly 01’ •>!' ciflrdne am! :1 at n-cx
< ’.tim ' i' 1 , of I’ltr-.dUi a. Is worth L 0 ooo.OCu, and
jh’vh hi" luL- nui'i a : nlary equal to that of the j.resfr
dent oi tin.’ I’nlhjd States.
I .'and S'auf a I unco thought 1 0 wn.s doing wo ll
when he made td.flOO oiit ol lawyer.- f,., x
is worth from (?,•!),000,(03 to tiloo,CoO,ooo.
l alali Wllllai dim, of ]*; .! idelj hin. the richest
Ift '!i’ b>r In the I ’nil • I ta.h’3, Inn m.>d • 1. 0 hjo/kxi
out ol Pry goods, ami him an Income oi tl, *M),',uQ
ftn’jii dly to dispose of.
Ruf; iitmb.r, Hit.' coal oil baron, is worth $70,00(V
Offi, and a i it is p<i«a' Stand'.rd (>H stock which
doe i’’t p v m >: * thin ti n | ,r cent, his income
Liust be iuU >,OOO a month, at 1 ~' t.
Three eights in siu'ces :ion. It is 111 years
rlr.co our heroic griindfulheis and great grand fh
i.'.' i . wi'f.’i* tin’ fl;,- 'lecer. ve sevens, in the yeaf'
-ii.' : 1■ ■! lence. it w ill
be 111 j” rs h »re *>ur ma'i Ichihlrcn an-1 greaU
grftndch .i i'. : 1 good litk t > tin di' writ© the threS
■ . iiilm. '1 hen :2; yenr; Inf r, il the v/orld
still live iri I t ”mom 1 . imt y<*t tumbled. Tim®
will d-ala hand \ ItL Imrof a kind- four fwoSj
' 2 'Z- 1 ■ hin , tl. il 1 , nut i a.'ji.sc 1 since th*
daj s of 1 eter, the he) ji.it.
Tho (Hrl m I runt.
:I (■ >'it b' so) me dov. 11 th • aisle,
8 > 10-fl I . ■, 1 , >;o e horn guile,
I mu I v.iU'li -I her for awhile,
'1 .10-ightiu ' of pniy’r.
Sin . '.d n fiishlomii I" hat
in ■ ha' ■ .. o p: . <tc of flat.
Ai d I thnt I' iiid see wus that
And her Luck i>au.
Unh'-edf-d wa*’ t’m organ’s noiso,
i ■ . <>■ in fl) whim iil'.’l'.t rowned >xiys
Wi H : I adifdj • ; h< j small Jjend'e no Ise-
H( r sh'Jil'lc:’ trim .
And. m< dir..l n ; on I 1 die 1 s,
While oil er with ousnesi,
J sat ah a" .11 J, ! ( unless,
Forgot the Lymn.
Buch shoulders, Ml( h a jerf'-' t waist,
A Grecian Vemm mg ‘ I.am graced*
J! j l/>!) ’im v»a.s In p' r.'cct taste
And fa*h:on new.
“i know that siic m fair, ’’ issid.
“Ai fiilr im dainty and w< !l bred,”
Tl; ii, wl ).' tur.-ie I 1: 1 pretty head,
bhe turned mine, two.
1 he Outcast.
J a«k< d of 1 bo world bm a Hille piece,
A< ’ • ’> be Loii'.d tn I • <on my Lreedi
J . t. k' I my nil In the game of life;
I I / i, and have nowhere to lay my head.
’Tv. v.'»ftry ellmhlng -tho mountain l-elghK
With no on*: to h ad Ju* n helping bandi
1 t>i< 1 Cu i :.i. v.-, Lu- I trie I and failed.
My feet sank into the portion saud.
Th'- play Imo. Os the land beyond
1 know o little---my heart is sore; •.
Ms l.re lilii. edng j fair.' and fdl-
My eyea are dim—there ii nothing more.
I know wbf re the il ’o”,ln ; f
l aider if 1 c aid > r • ’ the brtrvkr
N.'.'ht t ,’!1- no tn' l ': ’,l;':if i*e ilid|
My Lialn Is rte'lnx I camiut think.
No one I miss ii ie. rm o won hl curt,
Ha i ’ n I d n cftflii t- uiydt.
Itl led to lie D‘a <o I k’.i) ■ blit Mnvy
Thro'th ; .i‘ 4 liing -adu. i y-c- no HghK
I know wl oic t: e f. .cr is flowing fast,
'I i... V ’•■( 1 fl .. ;n I C')l 1 •>.. I d'-ujy—
-1 M. L ain I rv Hu.- 1 ini )’ and full—
Mj c,, j . .'.im -u, xt d-ui;. U. blucU