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FREAK PAINTINGS.
Twenty-one Lives Snuffed
Out In Collision
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The locomotives are up on an end
locked together as if one piece of me
canism and pieces of the machinery
are scattered all over the ground.
The smoker is partly derailed, while
the chair car immediately following
was completely telescoped by the
tourist sleeper.
' LAND OF THE CROSSBOW.
The Deadly Poisoned Arrows of tht
Listoo Sharpuhootert.
On the wild frontier between China
and British Burma lit a barbarous tribe
which has no civilized supervision.
George Forrest, an English traveler,
thus describes the chief weapon of
these people: "If I Lad to suggest a
title for a book on the upper Salwln I
should call It 'The Land of the Cross
bow,' which Is the characteristic weap
on of the country and the Ltaoo tribe.
Every Lissoo with any pretensions to
ehic possesses at least two of these
weapons oue for everyday use In hunt
ing, the other for war. The little chil
dren play with mlnlatve crossbows.
The men never leave their huts for any
purpose whatever without their cross
bows. Whea they go to sleep the 'uu
kung Is huug over their heads, and
mhen tbey die It Is huug over their
graves. Tb Urgent crossbows have a
span of fully, five feet and require a
pull of fully thirty-five pounds to string
them. The bow is made of a species of
wild mulberry of great toughness and
Jexibility. The stoek, gome Xour feet
lung in the war bows, Is usually of
mild plum wood. The string Is of
plaited hemp and the trigger of bone.
The arrow, of sixteen to eighteen
tiicues. is. ot snllt bamboo about four
times me tnicicness or an ordinary
Knitting needle hardened and pointed.
The actual point is bare for a quarter
to one-third of an Inch, then for fully
an luch the arrow 13 stripped to half Its
thickness, and on this portion poison 1?
placed
"The poison la Invariably a decoction
expressed from the tubers of a snecies
of aconitum which grows on those
ranges at an altitude of 8,000 to 10,000
feet The poison is mixed with resin
or some vegetable gum to the consist
ency of putty and Is then smeared on
the notched point -The 'feather' Is sup
plied by a strip of bamboo leaf folded
Into a triangular form and tied In 8
notch at the end of the arrow, with the
Ioint of the angle outward.. The re
duction In thickness of the arrow
where the poison Is placed causes the
point to break off In the body of any
one whom It strikes, and, as each car
ries enough poison' to kill a cart horse,
a wound is Invariably fatal. Free and
Immediate Incision is the usual remedy J
wnen wounded on a limb or fleshy part
of the body, but at Chengka the uncle
of the Lnowo chief showed us a prep
aration which resembled opium dross
and which he said was an effective
antidote.
w itn lew exceptions the Ltesoo
whined to us to be arrant cowards,
but the crossbow and poisoned arrow
are eertalr-Iy most diabolical weapons.
An arrow from a war bow will pierce
a deal board an Inch thick at seventy
or eighty yards. Some of the Tsekou
natives were so expert that they could
hit a mark four inches in diameter re
peatedly at sixty to eighty yards. As
no one goes anywhere without his
crossbow and his bearskin quiver full
of poisoned arrows and as every vil
lage Is at feud with every other vil
lage mutual suspicion la Inevitable.
In open fight the Lissoo are usually
careful to keep at a respectful distance
from each other and behind oxhide
shields which protect the whole of the
body. But If battle is rare, murder
and sudden death by ambush In the
Jungle are common.''
A Tiny Work of Art and Rota'i Trans
formsd Harpsichord.
Specially prepared canvases and gild'
ed frames are not essential to the
making of great paintings. This has
been demonstrated by the artists who
have painted masterpieces on scraps
of board, shells, grains of corn and
the walls of rooms and prison cells.
Some of the most valued art objects
belong to the freak class.
The smallest painting in the world
of distinctive merit was executed on
the smooth side of 0 grain of corn by
a Flemish artist On this limited sur
face the artist painted In perfect de
tail a mill, a miller with a s-ick of
grain on his back, a horse and cart and
a group of several peasant standing
In a road.
The largest pMure ever painted Is
said to be a panorama of the Missis
sippi river, executed by John Bauvnrd,
an artist who died in Watertowu, S.
D., in 1801. The gigantic canvas was
twenty-two feet high and nearly two
miles long. It gave a detailed repre
sentation of 2,000 miles of the Father
of Waters.
The largest of the old masters' can
vases Is Murillo's "Appearance of the
Christ Child to Bt. Anthony of Ta-
dua." The picture is ten feet wide and
eighteen feel high.
It Is related that a friend called on
Salvator Rosa In Florcr.cc one day and
found him playing on an old harp
sichord. The caller asked the artist
why be kept such a worthless Instrument
"Why, It Is not worth a scudol" the
friend sold.
"I will wager," replied Rosa, "that
It shall be worth a thousand before
you see It again."
A 1et was made. Rosa Immediately
painted a landscape on the lid that not
only sold for 1,000 scudl, but was ac
counted a work of great merit.
The celebrated 8t. John's Wood
clique of artists In London executed a
series of large frescoes In oil on the
walls of the studio of J. E. Hodgson, i
one of the members. The paintings !
were begun in the winter of 1864-5.
Shakespearean subjects were chosen,
and the figures were a little tinder life
size.
When Hodgson moved from bis stu
dio an unappreclatlve tenant covered
the walls of the room with brown wall
paper, completely hiding the paintings.
The frescoes were rediscovered by ac
cident forty years afterward and re
stored. Kansas City Btar.
CHAMBERLAIN
MORALLY UNFIT
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To Cure a Cold in One Day
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Tablets. Druggists refund money if
it fails to cure. E. W. GROVE'S
that to govern them, that they are well satisfied ind willing and
no better themselves. Elect a man like this and even want him to
represent Oregon in the United States Senate! Picture "Our
George" shambling into the Senate after a "spree." I can't stand
to think of it, that he should represent us.
I feel sure that if woman held the right to vote In Oregon, that
they would feel too much repugnance to cast a vote for such a
person. I spoke to a well-known man about it- He said he liked
Governor Chamberlain. When I told him what I had leen, he said:
"Yes, he does those things." Those things I
MARY JANE SMITH.
If this predicate were not enough to warrant the broadest departure
from the merely tentative tie that binds these men; and if it does not offer
enough, in the name of good government and the dangers besetting thtt
government, we have only to turn to this man's politico-prison-pardon
record to find even ampler cause for abandoning the furtive clutch cast
about the conscietious Legislative mind. With a shameless use of this pre
rogative Governor Chamberlain has bolstered and fortified his political pres
tige in every purlieu of the State; with it he has bound to his "chariot
wheels" the scum of political Oregon and wrought strongly with the dirty
reins, no matter where they led nor whom they guided, so long as the
"beasts of burden" patiently and faithfully and unerringly obeyed the whip
of his inspiration and of their own tacit gratitude. His arrogant employ
ment of this exclusive privilege has become the bane, the most flagrant re
proach of his more responsible administrative courses and is enough to jus
tify the finality of impeachment, let alone the thought of lending him into a
sphere of larger latitude and wider fundament, politically, officially and soc
ially. Surely the Legislature owes something to the people of Oregon as
well as to its Chief Executive. That he has boldly and badly used the
highest gift in the governmental craft to urge and bind his own political
hold on the electorate and prostituted its highest faculty to the mere per
sonal element, leaves him indeed bereft of every claim to any sort of loy
alty, and a prey to the sharpest criticism for the cowardly misuse of the
noblest function of civilized government.
And again, if these things are not sufficient to qualify, to disparage, to
obliterate, the sense of obligation lingering in the heart and mind of the
Legislator (lulled, and gulled, into an unreasoning attitude of duty by the
sophistication of a law wrought by this man and his henchmen) it should
be enough to say that this man has never done one thing in his career as
Governor to accentuate his ability nor prove it; and the man who goes to
Washington from. Oregon, this year (be he whom he may,,so long as he
is a Republican Senator), must be of a quality and force and personality,
greater, more pronounced,-than this man Chamberlain, and free from the
perilous taint and tarnish of a weakness that is literally formidable in its
possibilities; and infinitely cleaner, politically.
We have said our say with all the candor necessary to emphasize it;
and we have done it because of the impending danger and disgrace that at
taches to the dubious wavering in the minds of the men sent to Salem to
do the greatest of all civic duties; to frankly and honestly warn and coun
sel them to the doing of the higher and more imperative work of the hour,
withuot reference to the loose aad inspired tie that but tacitly holds them
in its feeble leash.
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