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WILD DASH DOWN MOUNTAIN.
IlomfN Took l'rtclil iiml Coaehinic
I'arty tlrt llir<> Dinimter.
Jersey City. Sept. 29. —Ten persons,
seven of them women, members of a
coaching party, who had been badly
injured in a wild dash down a moun
tain side behind four runaway horses,
reached Jersey City yesterday. A
party of 12 had set out in the coach
from the Twin Mountain House,
Maplewood. N. H. Going down the
mountain the horses took fright and
ran away. They dashed down the
steep road, the coach pitching from
side to side until it caught in a ditch
and was wrecked.
In the party were Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Muller, of No. 08 Freeman
street, Newark; their daughters. Daisy,
aged 17 years, and Ida, 14; Mr. and
Mrs. Louis Borsum. of I'lainfleld. N. J.,
and their children. Louis. Martha, Ida
and Anna. In the coach were also
George McPherson, of Detroit, and
John McPherson, his brother, of How
ell, Mich.
Nearly all of the victims are suf
fering from fractured limbs or ribs,
and many of them are internally in
jured. The MePhersons remained at
the Twin Mountain House.
The smashing of the coach landed
the whole party in the ditch, the horses
continuing their gallop down the hill,
landing dead and mangled at its base.
Mr. Muller was the only one of the
party who was able after the acci
dent to make his way back to the
hotel. From there he chartered the
special car because the surgical ac
commodations at Maplewood were in
adequate for so many wounded per
sons.
All the injured were carried, some in
stretchers and some in carriages, from
where they were hurt to the hotel and
thence to the Pullman car. Doctors
and nurses accompanied the party in
the car. '
On the arrival of the train here the
Pullman car was detached and taken to
Newark by a special locomotive. There
the members of the Muller family were
removed to their home in ambulances.
The car then proceeded to Plainfield
with the Bersums.
THREE KILLED IN A LABOR FIOHT.
Detective find Tiro I aloniiti Ik»t
by N on-t'nion Hvn.
Cleveland, Oct. 1— City Detective
William L. Foulks was shot and in
stantly killed Saturday while trying to
put a stop to a shooting affray be
tween union and non-union molders.
A party of five or six non-union men
were set upon by some union men.
The former began shooting. Detectives
Foulks and Parker, who were nearby.
Interfered. Foulke was shot through
the heart, and when he fell the men
dispersed. Two of the union men were
shot and fatally wounded. They are
Henry Cronenberger, who died at the
hospital late Saturday night, and Will
iam StefJield, who died yesterday.
Cronenberger was a union molder. Stef
fleld was a union bricklayer, and had no
part in the fight. Charles Peck, a non
union man, is under arrest charged
with the murder of Detective Foulks,
and Paul Irving, Thomas Jennings,
Edgar Mclntyre and Willis Webster,
also non-union men, were arreßted on
the charge of shooting with intent to
kill.
THAT ASSAULT ON ROOSEVELT.
Colorado Demoerat* Re
port. no "Wholly Imatfinary."
Denver, Oct. 1. —At a large meeting
at the Broadway theater, held under
the auspices of the Arapahoe county
Democracy, resolutions were introduc
ed by Governor C. S. Thomas, and
passed, concerning the incident at Vic
tor, Colo., during the recent visit of
Governor Roosevelt and party. After
stating that the "disorder was provok
ed by the presence and aggravated and
continued by the conduct of Senator
E. O. Wolcott." and that "during the
progress of Governor Roosevelt and
his party to the depot a fight took
place between certain Republicans who
mistook each other for disturbers of
the peace," the resolution continues:
"We unqualifiedly denounces the wil
ful and malicious manufacture and cir
culation of the false and wholly imag
inary reports."
The Philippine* Telegraph *y«ti'is-
Washington. Sept. 29.—Lieut. Col.
James Allen, c hief signal officer in the
Philippines, in submitting his report
of the operations of the signal corps
during the month of July, says he has
under him 350 men available for duty
and 3,000 miles of telegraph lines and
cable. During the month 208,085 mes
sages were sent and received on the
Island of Luzon, beside a large amount
of business transacted exclusively by
telephone. The most notable feature
of the month was the increased amount
of line cutting, which kept men em
ployed in repair work.
Lone Itulihpr Secured tin- Mail.
Boise. Idaho, Oct. I—The Ontario
and Burns stag'- was held up yesterday
70 miles out of Ontario by a lone high
wayman. The robber stopped the
stage by firing a shot across the road.
He demanded the mail, which was
thrown out. The stage was not fur
ther molested. It is not thought much
ot value was secured.
What's Your Face Worth?
Sometimes a fortune, bnt never, if
you have a sallow complexion, a jaun
diced look, moth patches and blotches
on the skin all of Liver Trouble.
But Dr. Kinsr's New Life Pills give
Clear Skin, Rony Cheeks. Rich Complex
ion. Only 25 cents at Paules & Co's.
Drug store.
WOMAN AND HOME.
MOTHER AND THREE DAUGHTERS
ARE ALL LAWYERS.
The Orentlon of Woman—Women In
the Civil War—The Thrifty Wom
nn I Neful Knowledge Kutinu
Fruit at UreaWfiiHt.
A remarkable family is that of Mrs.
Kate Tier and her three handsome daugh
ters, nil lawyers. The admission of Miss
Kate 11. Pier and Miss Harriet Pier on
the application of Mrs. Kate Pier, their
mother, to practice in the supreme court
of the United States brought out the re
markable place which this interesting
family has come to occupy'in the busi
ness world of Wisconsin, their home, and
of the country in general. Besides Mrs.
Pier and the daughters named above, an
other daughter, Mrs. Caroline H. l'ier-
Roemer, is also a lawyer in regular prac
tice in the Wisconsin courts.
The Piers are of Puritan stock. The
husband and father was also a lawyer.
He was the late Colonel C. K. Pier, who
wont to the civil war from Fond du Lac
as a private in a Wisconsin regiment and
came out again with the eagles of a colo
nel on his shoulders. lie was wounded,
MBS. KATE PIER,
and his health was never very good after
the war came to an end. But he return
ed to the city of his enlistment and there
for some years carried on a leading busi
ness. In later life reverses led him to
take up the practice of law, and he mov
ed to Milwaukee, where he died in 181)3.
In the meantime Mrs. Kate Pier had
been called upon to handle the estate, and
it was then that she learned the advan
tage of some legal knowledge to a wom
an, and particularly to one who has to
deal with business affairs. Her eldest
daughter, Kate, on graduating from the
high school at Fond du Lac, took up the
study of law. The family moved to Mil
waukee in 1895. The year previous both
mother and daughter had been graduated
from the law school of the University of
Wisconsin, where they took a two year
course in one year and acquitted them
selves with the highest of honors.
When the family removed from Fond
du Lac to Milwaukee, a law ollice was
opened as soon as a home. Miss Kate 11.
Pier went into general civil practice, and
her mother devoted herself entirely to
work in the office. Through the efforts of
Miss Pier, who, by the way, is not en
tirely without knowledge of political
wiles, the legislature passed a law which
permits women to hold the oflice of court
commissioner. Mrs. Pier was appointed
by Judge Johnson and has the distinc
tion of being the first woman in tho
country to hold that position.
The law fever was catching, and Mrs.
Pier's two younger daughters, Caroline
H. Pier and Harriet Pier, following the
footsteps of their mother and sister,
took the law course at the University of
Wisconsin and were graduted with hon
ors.
They opened offices in Milwaukee,
where they still conduct their business.
They met with about the usual success
which young men of the legal profession
have until Miss Kate had her first case
before the supreme court of Wisconsin in
1889. This was a small railroad case and
was easily won. After this success was
assured.
The Creation of Woman.
Heathen mythology cannot be assumed
to be historically correct, although it is
often interesting. The legend of the
Hindoos concerning the creation of
woman is one of the most entertaining of
myths that have been preserved through
the ages. It relates that at the beginning
of time Twashtri, the prototype of Vul
can of more recent mythology, created
the world. When he found that his work
would be Incomplete without woman, all
his material had been exhausted. There
was not a single solid element remaining.
Much perplexed, Twashtri, after pro
found meditation, took the roundness of
the moon, the undulations of the serpent,
the entwinement of creeping plants, the
trembling of the grass, the slenderness
of the rose vine and the velvet of the
flower, the lightness of the leaf and the
glance of the fawn, the gayety of the
sun's rays and the tears of the mist, the
inconstancy of the wind and the timidity
of the hare, the vanity of the peacock
and the softness of the down on the
throat of the swallow, the hardness of
the diamond, the sweet flavor of honey
and the cruelty of the tiger, the warmth
of fire, the chill of snow, the chatter of
the jay and the cooing of the turtledove.
He united all these and formed a woman.
Then he made a present to her of man.
Eight days later man came to Twashtri
and said:
"My lord, the creature you gave me
poisons my existence. She chatters with
out rest, she takes all my time, she la
ments for nothing nt all and is always
ill." And T. received the woman again.
But eight days later the man came
again to the god and said: "My lord, life
is very 6olitary since I returned this
creature. I remember she danced before
me, singing. I recall how she glanced at
me from the corner of her eye, that she
played with me, clung to me." And
Twashtri returned the woman to him.
Three days only passed, and T. saw the
man coming to him again. "My lord,"
said he,"l do not understand exactly
how, but I am sure that the woman
causes me more annoyance than pleasure.
I beg of you relieve me of her."
But Twashtri cried, "Go your way
and do your best." And the man cried,
"I cannot live with her!" "Neither can
you live without her," replied Twashtri.
And the man was sorrowful, murmur
ing: "Woe is me! I can neither live with
nor without her."
This is found in an English translation
of a book of Hindoo legends recently
discovered. The title of the book is
"OX »P 1 \f ti the Moon Reddened by
the Setting Sun" and is the sixth part of
a large work, "The Surging of the Ocean
of Time." It was written in Sanskrit,
and the original manuscript was given
to an Englishmen, Mr. Bain, by an old
Brahman dying of the plague. The other
live parts are not translated.
Women In the Civil War.
Mrs. Lucy Gaylord Pomeroy, a daugh
ter of Chauncy Gaylord of Bristol, Conn.,
who was one of the early settlers in
Onondaga county, N. Y., was a promi
nent worker for the Union armies. Het
father died when she was quite young,
and her mother married Elianin Clark of
Massachusetts, whose sons became noted
for their contributions to literature anil
for their interest in educational matters.
She married the Hon. Samuel C. Pom
eroy, afterward United States senator
from Kansas. He lived in Southampton,
in this state, at the time of their mar
riage and was a member of the state
legislature. She accompanied her hus
band to Washington when he entered
the United States senate. The war had
just aroused the nation, and she found
ample opportunity to engage in the hu
manitarian projects for the soldiers and
their loved ones which large hearted peo
ple like herself had become interested in.
After nearly two years of general serv
ice in this line she founded an asylum at
Washington for the freed orphans and
destitute aged colored women whom the
war and the proclamation of emancipa
tion had thrown unon the care of thu <
benevolent. She secured from the gov
eminent the gift of a building, but when,
in June, 1863, the building and grounds
were ready to be dedicated Mrs. Pom
eroy was too ill to be present at the cere
monies. An attack of typhoid fever, as
the result of her constant devotion to
duty, caused her death July 20, 1803.
Miss Adeline Walker of Maine, a wom
an of culture and ability, gave two years
anil a half to the cause of her country
and just before the close of the war died
of typhoid fever contracted in the dis
charge of her duties.
Mrs. E. C. Wetherell, who did active
duty and was a matron of tho hospital
steamer Empress and cared for the men
brought from Pittsburg Landing after
the battle of Sliiloh and from other fields
to the hospitals of Mound City and St.
Louis, died July 10, 18G2. The western
sanitary commission closed the resolution
to h<'r memory with the statement that
she was "not a whit behind the bravest
hero on the battlefield and as worthy to
be held in everlasting remembrance."
Miss Rose M. Billings of Washington
began her hospital work in the fall ol
1801. She was a conscientious and de
voted helper in various hospitals and was
successful in saving the lives of fever
patients at Annapolis. She continued hei
valuable labor until stricken with an ill
ness which resulted in her death .Tan. 14.
1805. Many soldiers have testified that
her faithful care saved their lives.—
Boston Herald.
The Thrifty Woman.
The woman who will take thought,
and more especially forethought, in de
tails of household management may sav€
herself much in money nnd in wear of
nerve and muscle which is wasted by
her less prudent sisters. But plan she
never so wisely, she is, after all, more ot
less at the mercy of those uncalculating
ones.
The thrifty woman docs not Intend
when she has a letter to dispatch in
haste to be hindered by lack of writing
materials or the final touch of postage
stamp. But what is she to do if, on sit
ting down nt her desk, she finds that hei
last guest has used her stamps and mis
laid her note paper?
If the thrifty woman live in the coun
try, far from the semidaily grocer and the
possibility of "sending the children out"
for the emergency spool of thread oi
bottle of paregoric, her well stored
shelves and closets invite the incursions
of careless neighbors, who "knew Mrs
C. never is out of anything."
If she be an economist of time and
thus incur the reproach of having more
leisure than usually pertains to womeo
in her circumstances, she is the prey of
the morning caller who doesn't "mind
coming here at any hour, for, as I tell
people, Mrs. C. is so systematic she nev
er seems to have any work to do," or she
is invited to contribute liberally to other
people's church fairs, because she "hae
plenty of time."
Such services may be given ungrudg
ingly in every case, but that does not
alter the fact that in the long run they
represent a dnyn on her pocketbook and
her nervous force which would not have
been demanded of her but for her actual
superiorities in executive matters.
Bnt when a thrifty woman came to a
philosopher, making ber moan in some
such words as these I have written, the
philosopher said, "Well, would you rath
er be the other kind of woman?" And,
on reflection, the thrifty woman owntni
that, as of old, virtue is its own reward.
"But still," she persisted, "I do think
there ought to be some social adjust
ment by which tlie economist might be
saved from becoming a promoter of
thriftlessness in others. " —Mary M.
Haley in Good Housekeeping.
I'sefnl Knowledge.
Every housekeeper should know that
when an article of food scorches in cook
ing, if the vessel containing it be imme
diately uncovered and set into a pan of
cold water for a few minutes, carefully
removed from the vessel without stirring
the food which has been scorched, it will
not taste of the scorch. I have rescued
delicate custards by this treatment. Veg
etables that have actually burned to the
kettle may be redeemed if one is careful
to remove no part of that which is dam
aged.
When food boils over on the stove, if it
is at once covered with salt, the disagree
able odor arising is immediately arrested,
and the stove can be more easily cleaned
than where the article is allowed to burn
off.
If boiled or mashed potatoes must
stand for a little while before serving,
they may be kept palatable by laying
three or four thicknesses of n clean soft
cloth directly over them, then covering
the kettle closely and setting it where it
•Rill keep warm, but not scorch. Setting
into a pan of hot water is the best meth
od anil is that employed by hotels nnd
restaurants that must keep potatoes
ready for serving for two or three hours
nt a time. The cloth absorbs the steam
and prevents the potatoes from becoming
heavy and soggy.
If a soft cloth is put into the steamer
nnd the slices of bread or cake to be
steamed are laid in this and the corne-rs
folded up over them before the steamer
is closelj covered, it will absorb the mois
ture that collects in the steamer, nnd the
slices will be fresh, light and perfectly
free from sogginess.
Cold baked potatoes may be warmed
up and be as palatable as freshly baked
ones if they are dipped into hot water
and then put into the oven, care being
taken that they remain there only long
enough to get perfectly hot, but not long
enough to become hard.—Housekeeper.
Eatlnic Fruit at IlreakfaMt.
The business of breakfast is a most
Important one, for it stores the human
battery with power for the day's work.
A good breakfast gives a man staying
qualities and equips him for almost any
emergency likely to occur.
"What are the essentials of a proper
breakfast? The first, the most impor
tant, item is a preliminary meal of fruit,
oranges, grapes, apples, cantaloupe, ber
ries, seasonable fruit in which juice pre
dominates over fiber. Fruit juices, taken
early on an empty stomach, are convert
ed into alkalis, keep the blood normally
alkaline, preventing saturation of the
system with uric acid and warding ofl
the storms of suffering which such a
condition provokes.
Fruit juices act as correctives to the
digestive organs, wbcttiug the appetite,
increasing the seerc.imi of the gastric
juice nnd slim a i g peristalsis. Where
fruit is eaten eve:y morning, digestion is
satisfactory, the bowels are natural and
regular, the head is clear and an agree
able feeling of general well being is ex
perienced.
Too much emphasis cannot be laid
upon this matter of a preliminary fruit
breakfast. If accustomed to eating a
small breakfast, you should lighten the
noon lunch and G o'clock dinner. You
will sleep better and rise with appetite.
If the fruit does not appear to agree with
you at first, try a small beginning. Take
only an orange, drink the juice and reject
the fiber. Persist, and the stomach will
adapt itself. Gradually add a bunch of
grapes and an apple. You will be sur
prised at the farreaehing benefit derived
from so simple a practice.
After the fruit, the usual breakfast of
a chop and rolls, omelet, potatoes, coffee
or what not is in order.—Table Talk.
Great Men'* Woitiniikltid.
The love of a man for a normally rea
sonable and good looking woman is not
determined by the woman's qualities, but
absolutely springs from his capacity for
loving, and in that respect n truly great
man has either one henrtstring less or one
heartstring more than other men; he be
comes either sublime or ridiculous.
Dr. Johnson's love for a woman many
years his senior and perfectly plain is to
many people absurd. To me it is sub
lime. The woman in this instnnce has
nothing to do with the question. It is
the capacity for uxoriousness which is so
truly astonishing in a great man. The
woman had probably not the remotest
notion of the greatness of the man, nny
more than had Matilda Heine or Therese
Levasseur or the wife of Luther, and in
such instances great men's womankind
are happier than the womankind who
are conscious of the greatness of their
<mr ;
father! or DrotUers arid, above all, ol
their husbands.
Generally, the great man, if he shine
amatively at all, shines more in the
character of a lover than of a husband.
But there are exceptions. Carlyle never
shone either as a lover or as a husband.
There is not the slightest romance In
his life.
Byron was particularly awkward tc
manage. What Dante and Petrarch
would have been had they married re
spectively Beatrice and Laura it is not
difficult to imagine.—Philadelphia In
quirer.
The Proper Way to Knt.
At a meeting of medical men I>r. F. A.
Burrall spoke of the amount of mischief
done by the very common habit of eating
the meals rapidly, according to the farm
er's motto of "Quick to eat and quick tc
work." Thorough mastication was of the
utmost importance, and, of course, this
presupposed a proper conditiou of the
teeth. Gastric digestion was often weak
ened and much distress was caused by
the ingestion of too much fluid with the
food, particularly at the beginning of a
meal. Another factor in causing dyspep
sia was the habit of eating food in silence
or without that mirth and good fellow
ship so necessary to insure a nervous con
dition to the normal action of the digest
ive organs. These little details might
seem trite and unimportant, but it was
the duty of the careful physician to in
struct his patients in regard to them.
The long continued and free use of ili
gestive agents served to make the di
gestive organs lazy aud inactive.—Medi
cal Record.
Care of China.
The care of china is not so simple as it
appears. Some paste is so perfectly hard
that it never "takes" dirt, other speci
mens are very absorbent. Of course, chi
na must not he rubbed with anything
very gritty or the glaze will be destroyed,
or at least scratched, rendering it more
likely to be permanently impregnated
with dirt or to have its pattern jeopard
ized. The Chinese employ fuller's earth
and soda with plenty of water, and the
effects are charming, the china coming
out of this mixed bath with a glistening
complexion.
The Great Preacher.
It is reported that a young man, being
examined preparatory to joining the
church, was asked, "Under whose preach
ing were you converted?" "Under no
body's preaching," was the prompt reply.
"I was converted under my mother's
practicing." Did any preacher ever utter
so powerful a sermon as the young man
embodied in those few words?
A southern housekeeper writes that it
is better to boil a whole ham until it is
about half done and then slice from it
what is wanted for broiling or frying to
serve with eggs. A trick of southern
smokehouses is to rub hams or strips
of bacon that are to be kept on hand
during summer with a thin coating of
eshes from a stick of hickory. This will
prevent mold or rust.
Wash and blanch a cupful of rice.
Cook it slowly in a pint of milk, with a
little sugar and vanilla, until quite ten
der. Melt four sheets of gelatin in a lit
tle milk and add it to the rice. Remove
from the tire, allow it to cool, add a gill
of whipped cream, pour into a mold and
set aside for a few hours before turning
out
Bacon is good in dozens of ways for
breakfast. Some folks prefer the flavor
of bacon to that of onion in making a
tomato omelet. Beef hash made from
cold steak is much improved when a lit
tle orange juice is introduced as a flavor.
The only woman rabbi on record is
Miss Rachel Frank, who had conferred
on her this distinction by a Jewish
church in San Francisco.
Overlndnlnence In Coffee.
Coffee is a powerful irritant of the
cerebro .spinal nervous system. Re
cent tests have shown that it increases
mental ami bodily waste rather than
retards it, ns has been claimed. Cof
fee poisoning Is sometimes mistaken
lor the troubles engendered by the use
>f alcohol. In both cases the stomach
ind nervous system are the sufferers.
Caffelc anil alcoholic gastritis are
nearly Identical as to their symptoms.
The use of coffee by children has in
several cases caused an arrest of de
velopment. Cases have been reported
of delirium tremens brought on by the
excessive use of coffee. It is related
In a foreign medical journal that a
man, in the absence of his wife, un
dertook to make his own coffee. Not
knowing the correct proportions for
use, he took about one-quarter of a
l>ound of fresh roasted coffee for two
cups. Two hours afterward he com
plained of vertigo, headache and, at
lirst, trembling of the legs only, which
soon became general, followed by sev
eral other distressing symptoms, some
of which continued a day or two
longer.
By a busy physician it is stated that
at least two-thirds of his practice
comes from the excessive use of coffee.
The excessive use of tea and coffee,
as well as the use of alcoholic liquors,
often almost wholly obliterates the
sense of taste.—Health Culture.
Still DIKKIIIK Ont the Dead.
Oalveston, Oct. 1. Twenty-eight
bodies were reported to have been re
covered from the debris Saturday. This
report Includes but three wards out of
the six wards where bodies are known
to be buried in the wreckage. To date
2,339 bodies have been officially re
ported found.
CONSDMPTIOH CAH
BE CORED.
T. A. Klocum, M. C., the Great Chem
ist and Scientist, Will Send Free, to
tlie Afflicted, Three Bottles of
his Newly Discovered Reme
dies to Cure Consumption
and All Lung Troubles.
Nothing could be tairer, more philan
thropic or carry moiejoytothe afliict
ed, than the otfer of T. A. Slocum, M.
C., of New York City.
Confident that lie has discovered a
reliable cure for consumption and all
bronchial, throat and lung diseases,
general decline and weakness, loss of
flesh and all conditions wasting, and to
make its great merits known, be will
send, Iree, three bottles to any reader ol
the AMERICAN who may be suffering.
Already this "new scientific course oi
medicine" has permanently cured thou
sands of apparently hopeless cases.
The Doctor considers it his religious
duty—a duty which he owes to human
ity—to donate his infallible cure.
lit has proved the dreaded consump
tion to be a curable disease beyond any
doubt, and has on lile in his American
and European laboratories testimonials
of experience from those benefitted and
cured, in all parts of the world.
Don't de'iy until it is too late. Con
sumption, uninterrnped, means speedy
and certain death. Address T. A
Slocum, M. C., 98 Fine street, New
York, and when writing the Doctor, give
express and postoflice address, and
please mention reading this article in
the AMERICAN* March 4 »
A MINER'S ADVENTURE
Tell I iii; Ilotv II l-'eels to He For an
Hour or So I iider n (•tin.
"Once upon a time," said a Colorado
mining expert, "I went rummaging around
my state looking for coal that was sup
posed to exist, and lifter a long trip in a
wagon I was nearing the railroad sta
tion. As I drove along the ridge of a
wooded hill I was suddenly brought up
with a round turn by a man stepping out
of the bushes and sticking an uu'ly look
ing gun straight at me. The man told
me to throw up my hands, and that is
what 1 diil. Tlic man toid me to move
up past him till he told nie to stop. This
1 also did, his gun covering me all the
time. Then he climbed into the wagon
and sat on a box of mineral specimens I
was taking back to Deliver with iae. lie
never said a word after he told me to
drive on when he had seated himself, and
I didn't say anything at first, but it
wasu't long until 1 couldn't stand it, with
him sitting there so dead still behind
me, so 1 ventured to speak.
"'Excuse me, partner,' said I as pleas
untly as 1 could, 'but I would like to say
that if it's all the same to you I wish you
would sit here on the seat with me. The
old gun may go off, and it wouldn't
make it any pleasanter for me to get a
bullet in the small of the back.'
" "Huh!' he grunted. 'Are you armed?'
"I told him I was not, and he moved
up and sat down beside -me, keeping his
gun ready for business. As the wagon
topped the last rise in the road from
which we could see the station about
half a mile away he looked hard at me.
" 'l'm going down there with you,
young fellow,' he said, 'on a little busi
ness, and if you say anything about me
to anybody or speak of me at all and
any disturbance comes up I'll shoot you
first off. Do you understand?'
"He was silent for the rest of the way,
and when we stopped and he got out he
told me to remember, and I nodded. He
strolled over onto the platform, and I
went to the stable with my horses and
came back to the station. I went out
on the platform for air. lie had moved
down to the far end, and I concluded
that I would move off in the other direc
tion toward a water tank I noticed a
couple of hundred yards up the track.
About the time I had my plans made a
handcar came down with six section
hands on it who had seen me drive up to
the station with the man and his gun.
They had seen him loafing about the
platform and informed me that to their
notion he was a train robber, and they
proposed to run him in. They were en
tirely unarmed, however, and they knew
what it meant to tackle a fellow with a
gun, so they began to calculate among
themselves how to get their man.
"The section hands moved down to the
platform, and as it was about noon they
got out their dinner buckets and began
looking around for a good place to spread
their lunch. One of the hands suggested
that they might git him dead to rights
by spreading their lunch over in his
neighborhood, and perhaps if he had
been hiding in the hills very long he was
hungry enough to ask to join them. The
proposition was accepted at once, and
the crowd went over and opened up their
buckets. They asked me togo along,
but I wasn't a bit hungry, though I was
as hollow inside as an empty barrel. My
friend, however, wasn't feeling that way,
for as soon as he saw the food spread
out temptingly before him he went right
up and asked if he couldn't have a bite,
lie ate like it man who hadn't eaten for
a long time, ami he was soon so absorb
ed in it that he forgot his caution and let
goof his gun.
"In a minute a section hand had it,
and in another minute they had piled on
top of him, and while Some held him
others tied him, and then they stood him
on his feet and started him over to the
platform to wait for the train. I was a
good deal easier in my mind when I
the ugly cuss fixed so as he couldn't train
his gun on me. but it did not add to my
comfort to have to listen to the fearful
way in which he cursed me for every
thing vile and shameful in having be
trayed him. Who he was or what he
was nobody knew then, and I never did
find out, but I guess he was a train rob
ber all right and :r<>t his dose, for I nev
er saw or heard of him again, and I was
on the lookout for a good many years, be
cause I knew if we ever met there was
going to be shooting to kill."—Denver
Post.
Xnl a Itat Terrier.
Officer Ned Scarlett of the Socoti l p<>-
lice district was riding to his home on an
electric car one morning, and as the car
slowed tip at a crossing to allow some
passengers to alight a woman rushed
out from a neighboring house screaming
shrilly and beckoning to the officer.
Scarlett jumped off the car and hur
ried to the woman's assistance.
"What's the matter, ma'am?" asked
Ned.
"Oh, officer." shrieked the distressed
female, "there's a rat in my house!
Won't you come and kill it?"
"Excuse me. ma'am," responded Scar
lett. "'Tis many toimes Oi've bin towld
Oi was a 'tarrier,' and no doubt Oi am
wan, hut nivir can it be sid tliot Officer
Scarlett dematicd himself by assumin th'
dooties av a 'rat tarrier.' tJoo' day,
ma'am."
And with a dignified wave of his baton
Scarlett remounted the car.—Cincinnati
Enquirer.
Ite::fly Kor a Sj|l»«itlttlte.
Old Scotch ministers had a keen senso
of humor apart from the Doric altogether.
One of the best stories that could be
quoted in this connection is that told of
Dr. (jilchrist, formerly of (Jiv. nock, but
who was minister of Canongate. Edin
burgh, when he died. A rather cocksure
young man was officiating for him one
Sunday, and ongoing to the vestry the
doctor found his substitute robed and
ready for the pulpit. In the course of a
few minutes' conversation with the old
minister the young sprig said in an off
hand way:
"I suppose, doctor, you repeat the
lord's I'rayer in some part of the serv
ice?"
"Aye. aye," replied Dr. < Jilchrist quiet
ly, "unless ye hae a better one o' yer
ain."
Celery.
Celery is a native of Great Britain. It
grows luxuriat ily in flitches and brooks;
but, like the others, wild celery is n: -ty,
even poisonous. We owe the delicious
edible celery to a French prisoner of
war. Field Ma r shal Tallard, whom Marl
borough beat at Blenheim in 1701.
Nil Hope I'or llim.
"Is there any hope?" asked the pros
pective h« ir.
"None." replied the physician. "Your
pour uncle will recover."—Philadelphia
North Ameni un.
Knpfinrnacil to Hope.
When the Empress Frederick, eldest
daughter of (jueen Victoria, was a lit
tle girl, her disposition, to the great
grief of the queen, was haughty and
arrogant. Owe, when about to embark
on the royal yacht Victoria and Albert,
she was lifted across to the deck of the
boat by one of the sailors, who, as he
was putting her down gently, said,
"There you are, my little lady."
"1 am not a 'little lady;' I am a
princess!" was the prompt and Indig
nant reply. The queen, who had over
heard the conversation, detained the
man with gesture, and, turning to her
spoiled little daughter, said:
"Tell the kind sailor that you are
much Indebted to him for his civility
and that, although you are not a 'little
lady' yet, you confidently hope to merit
the title before long."
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Jonesville. Ya . "which caused horrible
leg sores for years, but Buck I en's
Arnica Salve wholly cured me after
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Which HUH Just Come
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A very curious short story by Guy
de Maupassant has just come to light
auil is published for the lirst time in
Faris. For years the author astonish
ed the world by his grim conceptions,
but the world was not surprised when
lie became insane.
According to Maupassant's manu
script. the story was told to him by a
German, who, with a friend, spent the
night in Schopenhauer's funeral cham
ber.
The great German philosopher had
died during the day, and bis two ad
mirers prepared to watch over his re
mains during the dark hours.
Said the Cerman:
"Schopenhauer had just died, and we
two had decided to stay in his room
until morning. Two lights were burn
ing on the table.
"At midnight our watch began, and
after the two others who had remained
with the body till that hour bad gone
away, we took up our jKisition at the
foot of the bed. The face of the dead
man was unchanged.
"It smiled.
"The wrinkle which we knew so
well was (Irmly marked, and the
countenance looked altogether so nat
ural that it would not have surprised
us if our dead friend had opened his
eyes and laughed at us.
"Yet the memory of his profound
thoughts weighed upon us, and we felt
ourselves surrounded by the atmos- |
phere of his genu. The body of such I
a man may be stilled by death, but the
man remains, and not without fear can
•me remain in bis presence. We spoke
about him softly; we recalled those
wonderful maxims of his which threw
such a clear light on many of the dark
problems of life.
"'I can almost fancy I hear him
speak,' whispered my companion, and
at the mere thought we became still
more uneasy, as we sat quite still, our
eyes fixed on the motionless, smiling
face.
"Suddenly we felt weak and as
though something oppressed us. I
stammered:
" 'I don't know what is the matter,
but I assure you I am sick.' There
upon my companion suggested that we
should go into the adjoining room and
leave the door open, and 1 took his ad
vice. Taking with us one of the can
dles. we sai down at the farther end of
the other room in such a manner that
we had a full view of the l»ed and of
the dead man.
"Still, however, strange uneasiness
possessed us. It seemed as though we
w->re wholly enthralled by the disem
bodied genius of the dead philosopher.
"All at once we heard a slight noise
in the death chamber. We looked to
ward the body, and then quite dis
tinctly both of us saw something white
roll over tin; bed. fall on the carpet and
vanish under a sofa.
"At tie sight we sprang to our feet,
terrified beyond measure. Our hearts
beat wildly, i spoke first.
" 'Did you see it?'
" 'Yes, I saw It.'
" 'lsn't he dend, then?*
" 'He must be.'
" 'What are we to do?'
" 'We must see what it means.' was
my companion's hesitating reply.
"I took our light, led the way into the
death chamber and then cast a hasty
look around. Nothing stirred, and I
approached the bed. The next mo
ment. however, a great terror seized
me, for I saw that Schopenhauer was
no longer smiling.
"His face, on the contrary, presented
a horrible appearance, for his lips were
tightly pros ,ed together, and In his
cheeks there were two great hollows.
I stammered:
"'lie Is not dead.' And I stood star
ing at Idm ns though bereft of my
senses.
"Thereupon my companion took the
other candle and stooped down, and In
n moment or two he touched my arm.
but did not utter a word. I looked
where h" pointed. and I saw on the
g;t»u?cl ' e.dd- the sofa something white
that gl an ■ d strangely on the dark
carpet, and I saw at once what It was
- It was Schopenhauer's false teeth,
and they seemed fo be In the act of
biting. .N-- the body had decayed the
fast, ning that held the teeth in posl
t! n I,a ! irrndeaMy become so 1 IOSC that
th y 't pped from the mouth and roll
ed from the bed t>n to the floor." —Ex-
change.
Itcsistefl Deep Water nnj»tl»m.
"A little boy I knew of in the west."
writes Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady,
in The Ladies' Home Journal, "belong
ed to a family who bad trained him to
believe in the deep water form of bap
tism and was experimenting with the
household <v.t and a bucket of water.
The animal evidently did not believe
in immersion, for she resisted, bit ami
scratched aril used bad language—ln
the cat tongue, of course. Finally the
little buy, with his hands covered with
scratches and with tears in Ills eyes,
gave up the effort to effect the regi iter
ation of the cat. 'Doggone you!' he
cried notice the choice of epithets ill
the use of the word dog—'go and be an
Episcopal cat if you want to!*"
War fitnl Weed*.
Invading armies are great agents in
the spread of plants. Naturalists 110
years hence writing on South African
botany will date many a weed back to
this year of war. Enormous quantities
of forage arc being sent up country
from Cape Town every day to the
front. The hay comes largely from
Camilla as well as fnun England, and
the itedi of which it is full will germi
nate ami spread on the river banks and
veldt.
Uuecn F.iiimn'a Diamond*.
The ex-Queen Regent Emma of Hol
land can plume herself on having a more
beautiful collection of diamonds than any
other of the crowned women of Europe.
The piece of highest value is a remarka
ble diadem of diamonds and sapphires,
some of which are of extraordinary size
and produce the grandest effect by the
way in which they are arranged. The
sapphires are placed on the front band
and increase in size toward the middle,
where a sapphire of the size of a walnut
forms the apex. Below this sapphire there
are three stems bearing three diamonds
of the size of hazelnuts. These diamonds
rise like flowers from the midst of a
crown of leaves.
Not less rich are a stream of 31 large
brilliants and a necklace of three rows ot
splendid pearls, with hooks of diamonds
from which hang pearls of extraordinary
size. There are also various brooches or
namented with diamonds anil the royal
crown. One represents the lion of the
Netherlands in enamel and stones, and
another has the initials of the royal cou
ple. The effect is at; : ented by the great
skill with which the stones are cut. ena
bling them to dart forth magnificent
flashes of light.—Le Diamaut.
For Female Complaints
and diseases arising from an impure
state.it the blood Lichtv s Celery Nerve
Compound is an invaluable specific.
Sold bv liossnian iV Son's Fharmacy.
CRAZED THE JUROR.
HE HELD OUT FIFTEEN DAYS AGAINST
A VERDICT OF MURDER.
The Awful Strain Dethroned Ilia
Heaaon. nnd In Hla Wild Delirium
lie t'hariced Hla Own Son With
Having Committed the Crime.
An iikl lawyer was talking about juries
that disagree, and he fleclareil that per
secution in a jury room is not rare ami
►aid that usually it is only a question of
time when the obstinate juror is liulliol
into surrendering.
"One case that was derided I y dramatic,
not to say tragic," he continued, "haj»-
jiened in lowa at>out the time the war of
the rebellion began. My father was the
judge. He believed in juries doing the
work they were selected to do, and rarely
would he consent to a disagreement.
"This was a murder trial. The victim
was a harmless German, who had saved
up a few thousand dollars which he kept
in ffold coin under his bed. The accused
man was a traveling watchmaker.
Against him was arrayed an exception
ally strong case of circumstantial evi
dence.
"The prisoner's counsel did the best he
could, but it was a foregone conclusion
when the Jury went out what the verdict
would be. The foreman of the jury was
the owner of the principal store in the
town, n man of tlie name of Seth Var- i
nmn. It was late in the afternoon of the
closing day of the trial when the jury
started to deliberate upon its verdict.
"The spectators lingered in the court
room, expecting to hear the verdict be
fore supper time. It was in the summer,
and the weather was intensely hot. Save
Varnum, all the jurors were farmers.
They had their crops to attend to and
were driven with work, so it was to their
interest to conclude their task and get
home as quickly as possible.
"The jury didn't com* in that night,
or the next, or the third night either.
Rumors of a "hung' Jury began to float
through the town. Ilut arguments went
on in the jury room. My father denied
a written request made by the jury 112 r
its dismissal. He maintained that the
jurymen could and must agree on a ver
dict.
"Eight days passed, and it began to be
said that Varnum was the man who was
standing out for the acquittal of the pris
oner. This was confirmed on the ninth
day when the jurors appeared for break
fast. Three men, side by aide, led the
line, with the remaining jurors paired,
all except Varnum. He walked alone in
the rear, with down hanging head and
drawn features. At that and snbseqnent
meals the other jurors ignored him. They
forced the sheriff to provide a separate
tabic for him. Afterward we found out
that Varnum strenuously insisted upon
the innocence of the watchmaker.
" *1 can't tell you why,' said he. T>»it I
am as certain that that man did not kill
the Germun us I am of the existence of a
supreme being.' And they could not
budge him.
"AH this time the weather continued
hot. The nerves and health of the jury
men suffered under the strain. Varnura
felt the racking most of all. 11c was an
elderly man, and his sou, a boy of 2U,
had started for the war the second day
the jury was out. The judge refused to
allow the father to bid the »<in farewell.
"On the tenth day the eleven jurymen
who favored a verdict of guilty divided
themselves into relays and commenced
to attack Vurnum by continual argum. Nt
While two argued with him the others
slept. T>ay nnd night they kept it up,
allowing the wretched man no aieep or
respite from their abuse and scornful ap
| peals.
"The end came upon the night of th«
fifteenth day. It was bright moonlight,
and the grass plot about the courthouse
was covered with people easing up at the
| lighted windows of the jury room. Var-
I nnm sat by the easement, his head hid
den in his hands. Over him sto»>d two
men. We could not hear their words,
but their gestures told what they were
1 doing.
"Suddenly Varnum leaped up and
shrieked at the jurymen. His hands were
raised above his head, and bis gray hair
hung about his shoulders. There was a
commotion. Pretty noon the sheriff sped
from the courthonse to the hotel and got
my father out of bed. It was midnight,
but there were I.ISJU people jammed in
the little courtroom. Varnum led in the
jury. None of them looked squarely at
him, but covert glances were darted at
his face from under knitted brows.
"'Your honor,' began Varnum. "this
jury cannot agree. An event has taken
place which makes it impossible. I'—
Here the man's voice sank, and he sway
ed. An attendant eased him back in his
seat. Varnum motioned to the man next
to him to tell whut he could not.
" The reason, your honor, why we can
not agree,' said the Juror. *is because th«
foreman has just toid us that the mur
derer of the German was hi* son.'
"There was a pandemonium in the
courtroom. Varnum was taken home rav
ing with brnin fever. He had told the ju
rymen that his son had been surprised in
the act of robbing the German and bad
killed him. Afterward he sought b»s fa
ther and confessed. Pride induced the old
man to keep the secret and permit the
suspicion to fall upon the watchmaker.
"When he was drawn on the Jury, he
dared not refuse to serve, but he deter
mined to hold out for the man's acquittal.
"Before young Varnum could be arrest
ed he was killed in one of the early bat
tles of the war. Three years later the
watchmaker was run over by a train near
Washington nnd injured so badly that he
died soon afterward. Hefore he died he
wrote a letter to my father. In the letter
he confessed that he had killed the Ger
man and told where he had hidden the
gold. He had not dared to return for it.
When search was made, the gold was
found.
"Old nian Varnum was clearly Insane
when he fastened the crime upon his son.
The ordeal of the jury room had wrecked
his mind."—Philadelphia North Ameri
can.
lint lie Was Hot.
"George, dear"—
"Don't bother me, Laura. I am rend
ing. and I'd rather read than talk just
now."
An hour dragged its way Into the dim,
wisty past, and the voice of Mr. Fergu
son was hvßrd calling loudly:
"I.aura. how much longer have I got
to wait for dinner? It ought to have
been ready nn hour ago."
"It was, George," rescinded Mrs. Fer
guson from the dining room. "That wns
what I went into tell you. but you didn't
want to hear me talk. We have all fin
ished, and everything is cold, but you
needn't wait another minute if you want
your dinner." —London Tit-Hits.
shocked to Heat h by *t rl kin a a Match
Bethlehem. Pa., Oct. 1.--Striking a
match to light a cigarette caused Louis
Kresge's death Saturday night. The
fire alarm wires had. through acci
dent, become crossed with heavily
iharged electric light wires and Kresge
on striking a match on the metal
alarm box received a shock which kill
ed him instantly. He was 21 years old,
and unmarried.
S. C., Oct. 1. —Friday algfe
the home of Mary Bridges, a colored
woman, was blown up with a dynamite
bomb. The whole city was startled by
the explosion, and the house was de
molished. The woman was away from
home, and no one was Injured. Yes
terday George Anderson, colored, was
arrested for the attempt He was
enamored of the woman, but she re
jected him. as he has another wife. The
•lay before the explosion he threatened
her life. _
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