GOLD HILI. NEWS, JACKSON COUNTY. OREGON
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By EL WO SCOTT WATSON
Q uestion»— N o. S
HKSE are dog days, that
I * period In the months of
M
July and August when SI-
■
rlus. the dog star, rises
■
and sets with the sun, and
ri
It Is the time when, unless
the weather Is unusually
, capricious, man can ex
-* pect the warmest weather
during the whole year.
But for the dog lover every day In
the year Is a “dog day," njarked b,
the warmth of his affection for the
animal which Is traditionally known
as "man's best friend," That man
recognizes this fact Is shown by the
numerous Instances In which he has
paid signal honor to certain Individ
uals of this race of what Is often so
Inappropriately referred to as "dumb
animals.”
There Is the ease of Sergeant Major
Jlggs, the mascot of the United States
marine corps, who died on January P
of this year and was burled with full
military honors by hts friends, who are
proud to call themselves "devil dogs,'
There Is the case of Stubby, the In
ternatlonally famous mascot of the
A. E. F„ veteran of four major en
gagements, wearer of one wound
•tripe, and recipient of numerous med
als and decorations, who also died re
cently but who has been mounted and
given a place of honor In the Ameri
can Red Cross museum at Washington
There Is Rufus, the Newfoundland
hero, who accompanied Lon Wescott
Beck, the "Samaritan of Death Val
ley,” on all of his errands of mercy
Into that earthly Inferno to rescue
prospectors perishing from thirst—and
who Is honored with his master, since
their deaths, with a monument In the
city of Los Angeles.
Who has forgotten Balto. the Alas
kan husky, who won fame In his dash
to Nome two years ago as the leader
of a dog team hearing the diphtheria
serum to the plague-stricken city? Ac
cording to press dispatches, Balto Is
to have a permanent home In the
Cleveland zoo for the rest of his life
instead of leading the wandering life
of a vaudeville trouper or a sideshow
exhibit.
But monuments are not the only en
during memorials to the dog's fidelity
to man. Another memorial, and per
haps the most famous of all Is the
eulogy once pronounced by Senator
George G. Vest of Missouri, which, de
livered before a Jury In that state
famous for Its hound dogs, has been
reprinted In newspapers and repeated
as a popular bit of American oratory
more times, since It was uttered fifty
years ago, than any other speech of
Its kind.
Famous as Is this eulogy, there has
gathered around it a cloud of myth
and tradition which has obscured the
facts of the case and the circum
stances under which it was uttered.
The true story of the lawsuit over the
killing of Old Drum, the honn' dog,
made famous by Vest's eulogy, was
recently made public by W ill C. Fer-
rlll, editor of the Rocky Mountain Her
ald at Denver, Colo., who was a
nephew of the two litigants In the
case and who Is therefore In a posl
tien to know the facts, Mr. FerrlU’s
•tory follows :
T h is hound ca se M e a t to be d evelop
• n s In th e E a st Into an much o f i
m yth aa thoee ex a g g era ted talee o .
Jeose Jam es. The litig a n ts In th is case
w ere tw o u n cles o f m ine. There have
been m any v ersio n s o f the n arrative,
v o t, . ,h * *n ,ld * fa m ily etory Is th at the
k illin g o f Old Drum rea lly w as an a c
cident, the reault o f an overch arge o f
b ean s In a sh otgu n w h ich w as “p la n t
ed to g iv e him a good scare. If prop
e r ex p la n a tio n s had been offered, the
w h o le affair m igh t h ave been settled
am icab ly, but the ex p la n a tio n s w ere
n eg lected and as a r e su lt t w o fam ilies
w ere Involved In a b itter court
ir t feu d
and the hound ca se becam e fam ous.
The squabble cam e Into public n otice
w hen L eonidas H ornsby, my m other's
brother, w a s a ccu sed by Charles Bur-
den, w ho had m arried m y m other's s is
ter, o f h a v in g k illed H ornsby's favorite
h u n tin g dog. Drum.
B oth fa m ilies w ere w ell-to -d o or
th e ca se n ev er w ould h ave been tried
a g a in and a g a in and carried to the S u
prem e court o f M issouri in len gth y and
ex p en siv e litig a tio n .
Drum w a s a s popular at the H ornsby
p lace In Joh n ston oounty, M issouri, as
at the farm o f hie m aster, Charles B u r
den, w h o lived nearby. Drum w ould
g o o v er to the H ornsbye and d u rin g
th o ee v is its w a s often ue»d by Uncle
Lon and o th ers for hu n tin g.
Game
w a s then abundant In th at part of M is
sou ri, w h ich had been m uch d esolated
by the C ivil w ar.
Some an im al, w ild or tam e, w as d is
tu rb in g the pans o f m ilk at the H o m s-
b ys; fin a lly It w s s discovered that
Drum w a s th e g u ilty one. U ncle Lon,
a s I h ave heard the story, told or eu g-
g e ste d to on e of th e you n ger m em bers
o f the fam ily, th a t he load a sh otgu n
w ith b ean s and pepper old Drum w ith
a sh ot. It so h appened th at the sh o t
gu n w a s overload ed , or the range too
clo se, and Instead o f g iv in g Drum a
good " p a p e r in g ,” th e hound w as
k illed . T here w a s no Intention at all.
a cco rd in g to th is sto ry , to k ill Drum.
T h is sto ry ab ou t a poor man lo sin g his
fa v o r ite bound th rou gh the w icked act
o f a n o th er Is E astern m yth.
The m ista k e w a s th a t Uncle C harley
w a s n ot in form ed o f the accid en tal
Geographic Division
“Piedmont Plain” Is n nnmp used In
the physiography of the United States
to designate that part of the Atlantic
coast plain which lies between the Ap
palachian highland and the low coast
al plain proper. I t Is distinguished
from the latter topographically by be
ing more rugged and eroded with
deeper river valleys and geologically
by consisting of much older and hard
er rock strata. Toe change from the
1— What Is the longest game on rec
ord in the National league?
2— What I'reshleut wns Impeached?
3— Who wus President wlusi ltooae-
velt died?
4— Whut Is the only portion of the
hrnln whose destruction causes tin me
diate death?
6— Whnt English portrait painter
was a crony of the statesman, Edmund
Burke; the lexicographer and writer,
Samuel Johnson; the poet and novel
ist, Oliver Goldsmith, ant* the actor,
David Garrick?
8— What country has the largest
continuous area In the world?
T— What are the Vedaa?
8— Who aald: "Give 'em a little
more grape, Captain Brngg"?
9— Is the use of "learn" for "tench"
permissible?
10— What Is the first vers«« In the
Bible?
11— Who Is the champion woman
golf player?
12— What President Inter became
chief Justice of the United States Su
preme court?
13— What state was named for an
English king of the house of Hanover,
and which king was II?
Reelfoot Lake
Ma/1
Neeitoot Lake, Showing Earthquake Ridges Marked by Trees.
(F rs p s rs d b r Ih s N a tio n a l O e«srsp h le
Society, W seh ln sto n . D. C .)
formed, for large areas In eastern Ar
kansas and northwestern Louisiana
GST large national lakes of
were partly submerged nnd a number
America came Into existence
of small lakes formed. Thia earth
many thousands of years ago,
quake, known historically ns the New
14— Whut are the five principal
the Great Lakes, most nota
Madrid earthquake, cuused a settling
senses of human nature?
bly, being formed during the Ice age.
and rising of the land over a large
But
one
sizable
body
of
water,
Reel
13— What movie actreea has received
territory, and partly demolished the
the nppellatlon, "America's Sweet foot laka, Tennessee, was formed by n
old Spanish settlement from which It
heart” ?
great convulsion of nature, before the
was naintal.
lfl— Which Is the largest river In startled eyes of the first American
General Rogers of Revolutionary
pioneers on the hnnka of tla Missis-
Europe?
fame, living at Iloek Island, on the
slppl little mors than a century ago.
Caney Fork river, nt the foot of Cum
17— In what novel la Becky Sharpe
And now wtthtn the past few weeks
a lending character?
berland mounlalns, 2OO miles to the
the Reelfoot country has I mm 'O slgiken
18— What Is turquoise and of what nghtn and a ridge of gravel has ap east, saw great blocks of sandstone,
loosened from the top esenrpmeut, 1,-
country is It the national stone?
peared In a formerly level section.
000 feet alajve the river, crash down
19— Is the split Infinitive always bad
Perhopa De Rota, In hts wniutartngs
the mountain aides.
usage?
along the Mississippi river, saw this
A great areu throughout America
20— What Is another name for the country us a vast unbroken wilder was affected by this earthquake. Far
ness. As he thrust wearily north
First Book of Samuel?
up In the uorthern woods of Canada
ward along the west bank of the “Fa
the Iudtnns reported that earth tre
ther of Waters,'* to tlie great ludlnn mors occurred; ’ to the west In Mis
A n sw ers— N o. 4
village of Cahokia, he little dreamed
souri nnd Arkansas, the report» of
that thia placid wilderness would
1— 1870.
James' expedition say thnt the In
within tliseo hundred years he torn
2— Chambersburg. I ’a., Oen. Jnbal A.
dians were terrified by the same
and racked by nuture's forces, and
Early.
quake, while to the southwest, on the
that during ono of the greatest earth
Washita river, there wns much fear
&—Lee De Forest.
quakes of historical times lakes cov
4— The funny bone, so railed. Is that ering lens of thousands of acres would among the settlers. At New Orleans,
5tKI tulles awny; nt Detroit. 0H0 miles
point on the elbow where the ulnar come Into existence overnight
aw ay; ut Washington, 700 miles away,
nerve lies close to the surface.
Tho old Spanish settlement of New
and even at Boston, at a distance of
Madrid, fanned many years after De
5— G. Von Elin.
1,100 mllos, slight tremors were felt.
Soto
had
come
and
gone,
did,
how
6— Michelangelo.
What occurred In the Reelfoot re
Senator V e s f’s Tribute
ever, play a prominent part In re
7— Colorado and California.
gion? What huppened to New .Mad
k lllln g o f Drum. The body o f Drum
cording tho atory of Iteolfoot, for hero
The best friend a man has In
w a s hid and la te r found, and. aa no
rid? There were no herd rocks In
8— On a mountain top In Samoa.
resided many of our American pio
the world may turn against him
exp lan ation w a s m ade, the le g a l row
that aeetton; all the coumry was cov
9— General Wolfe.
neers whose letters supply the details
began. The H orn sb ys w ere from T en-
and become his enemy. Hie son
ered hy rich loams and clays, and un
» « » ' » and North C arolina, and the
or daughter that he has reared
10— The Fascist labor code abso of that, to them, awful winter.
der this surface soil was layer after
Burdens from K en tu ck y and V irgin ia.
At the beginning of the Nineteenth
with loving care may prove un
B oth sid es w ere stubborn.
Burden lutely forbids strikes, lockouts and
layer of loose sand nnd clay, down to
century
this
region
was
called
Indian
boycotts.
grateful. Those who are nearest
eued H ornsby N ovem b er 8, 1869. b i-
a depth of 2,000 feet
fore
J
u
stice
o
f
the
P
eace
G
eorge
N
or
and dearest to us, those whom
11— Thomas D«*Qulncy and Samuel country, and rightly so, for In tha
The earth waves came up through
m an. The Jury hung. The ca se w a s
rich bottom lands dwelt a tribe of the
we trust with our happiness and
tried again , and a g a in the Jury hung. Taylor Coleridge.
these 2,000 feet of sand and clays,
Chickasaw*,
which
camped
at
the
our good name may become
A t an oth er h ea rin g la January, 1870,
12— Gene Tunney.
and where breaks occurred on the
base of bluffs thnt rose !k*> feet above Surface poured streams of quicksand
Burden ob tain ed a vordlct o f »2»
traitors to their faith.
The
18— John Adams.
a g a in st H ornaby In a Jury trial.
the Mississippi, providing the look
money that a man hat he may
H ornsby ap p ealed to the Court of
14— Battle of New Orleans, W ar of out points so needed In a wilderness. from deeply buried luyera, veritable
lose. It flies away from him,
sand geysers.
Common P leas, w h ere the Jury g a v e a 1812-1815.
perhaps when he needs It most
Birth of Rsslfoot Laka
verd ict in h is favor. On May I, 1870,
Tils great forest trees moved, with
a m otion for a new trial w as grnnted
15— Slzty-flve per cent
A man’s reputation may be sac.
One of the pioneers of New Mudrld, branches Interlocked, like fields of
The o rig in a l claim by Burden for dam
rlflced In a moment of Ill-consid
10—
Air
Is
composed
chiefly
of
o
xj
Eliza Bryan, described the earthquake grain before the wind. Their trunks,
a g e s w as »SO, and In the new trial In
ered action. The people who
that caused the birth of lleelfoot lake not having the suppleness of youth,
the C ircuit court, Burden w as g iv en a gen and nitrogen.
are prone to fall on their knees
Jury verd ict for »60, aa w as first d e
as follows:
17— John Bunny.
fell prostrate or reclined at grotesque
manded, and Drum , th e old hound won.
to do ue honor when success Is
“The Mississippi first seemed to re angles to the earth.
18— The Zugspltxe, In Bavaria.
It
w
as
In
th
is
la
te
r
litig
a
tio
n
that
with ue may be the first to
cede from Its hanks, and Its waters
The rhythmic motion of the earth
the b ig le g a l guna appeared.
U ncle
19— President Woodrow Wilson.
throw the stone of malice when
Lon H ornsby em ployed C rittenden A
gathered up like a mountain, leaving is well shown hy the parallel lines of
20— About 00 per cent
C ock rell and U n cle C harley retained
failure settles its cloud upon our
for a moment many boats, which were cypress trees growing on the low
P h illip s A V est and E llio tt A B lo d g e tt
heads.
on their wny to New Orleans, on the crests of the many rolls In the Reel
Thle w as CoL T h om as T. C rittenden,
The one absolutely unselfish
bare sand, In which time the poor foot lake region. An airplane view
la ter govern or o f M issouri, and Colonel Master of Music Had
friend that man can have In this
C ockrell, la te r U n ited S ta tes sen a to r
sailors made their escape from them. brings to life ngalu the roll of the
from M issouri. B lo d g ett becam e g e n
selfish world, the one that never
Novel Piano in Mind
T hen, rising 13 or 20 feet jierpetb- earth as It occurred more thnn a cen
eral so licito r o f tha North M issouri
deserts him, the one that never
dlcularly and expanding, as It were, tury ago.
Berlioz, the Illustrious master whose
railroad, a fterw a rd o f the W abash
proves ungrateful or treacher
st the saq»e time, the hanks over
system . E llio tt w as also an em in en t name dominates French music of the
During the Inst 100 years the Mis
ous, la his dog. A man's dog
law yer. P h illip s and V est w ere d istin last cenlury, ordered from a piano
flowed with a retrograde current sissippi river has continued to ravage
gu
ish
ed
In
th
eir
p
rofession
sn
d
la
ter
stands by him In prosperity and
rapid as a torrent Tha hunts, which the areas along Its course during the
prom inent In the publlo service. John manufacturer a specially constructed
In poverty. In health and in sick
before had been left on the sand, flood seasons. While the river writhed
F. P h illip s becam e United 8 ta te s Judge instrument, so fashioned that the
ness. He will sleep on the cold
at K an sas C ity, and G eorge G. V est. strings could be used as a harp.
were now tom from their moorings back and forth ncross Its mighty
U nited S ta tes se n a to r from M issouri.
ground, where the wintry winds
Berlioz loved to play stringed In and suddenly driven up h little creek, plain, the newly-born Reelfoot lake
Such w a s tha array o f learned oouneel
blow and the enow drives fierce
at the mouth of which they had lain, grew more beautiful, and nature be
I w hen th e case wan tried before a Jury struments and In his early days gave
ly, If only he may be near hit
to a distance In some Instances of gan to heal scars on the landscape
S eptem ber »3, 1870. Ju d ge F o ster P. lessons on the guitar. In spite of the
master's aide. He will kiss the
W righ t w as the p resid in g Judge B lod poverty which he mentions In his
nearly a quarter of a mile.
which were Inflicted at Its birth. Ite
g e tt opened for Drum , follow ed by memoirs, he had succeeded In buying
hand that hat no food to offer;
"The surface of the earth was from cteur, brownish water became the
C
rittenden
and
then
C
ockrell
In
oppo
he will lick the wounds and
time to time by these hard shocks home of many fish and Its surface was
sitio n , all th ree m a k in g
b rilliant a piano, but It was not the sort of lu-
sores that corns In encounter
covered to various depths by sand dotted with Illy pads, called "yonco-
sp eech es. O ratory ran high.
Then strument that he wanted.
V est sp ok e and w on the case for the
with the roughness of the world.
which Issued from fissures that were plns,” whose gorgeous flowers hsd the
“I f I were rich," he wrote, "I would
hound,
for
by
th
is
tim
e
the
Interest
He guards the sleep of hit
made In groat numbers all over this Imprisoned yellow of a river sunset.
cen tered m ore In Drum than eith er have continually about me a big grand
pauper master aa If he were a
country. Some of those closed up lm- In and around the stunted cypress
U n cle C harley, the plaintiff, or U ncle piano, two or three Erard harps, some
prince. When all other friends
Lon, the d e fen d a n t
Saxe trumpets and a collection of medlajely. after they had vomited growths, straggling for existence In
desert,
he
remains.
When
V est's speech h as becom e a cla ssic basses and Stradlvarlus violins.”
forth their sand and wafer. In some five feet of water, was a fllmllke Iri
on the d og In A m erican literatu re, In
riches take wlngt and reputation
places, however, a substance resem descent green carpet, called “moss
The piano which he Inter Invented
the case o f old Drum who w a s a c c i
falls to pieces, he It as constant
bling coal or Impure stone coal was eccd." Along the borders of the lake
d en tally sh ot w ith an overch a rg e of was In part an answer to this dream.
In his love aa the sun In its Jour
beans, when he w as d istu rb in g the It Is at present In the possession of a
thrown up with the sand, •
a dense growth of saw grass, mule-
pans o f m ilk at th e old home place of widely known collector who loaned It
ney through the heavens.
" It la Impossible to say what the foot, swartweed, nnd even wild rice
m
y
gran
d
fath
er,
B
rin
k
ley
H
ornsby.
If fortune drives the master
depth of the fissures was; we have soon appeared.
U ncle Lon appealed to the Suprem e to the organizers of the Berlioz expo
forth an outcast In the world,
sition of the great musician's cen reason lo believe that some of them
cou rt of M issouri.
Fine Resort for Birds.
friendless and homeless, the
were very deep,
So m uch for the fa c ts In the m yth tenary,—From L'Ere Nouvelle, Paris,
To this haven of beauty, teeming
story
so
often
told,
as
to
the
p
arties
faithful dog aska no higher prlv-
(Translated for the Kansas City Star).
“The site of this town wns settled with plant growth and fish, soon
Involved, the story o f the poor, frien d
liege than that of accompanying
down at least 15 feet, hut not more
less man w h ose hound w as ru th le ssly
came, on their yearly 20,000-mlle pil
him, to guard him against dan-
than a half mile below there does not
k illed , and the rem ark ab le statem en t
grimage, the wild denizens of the air
ger, to fight against hit enemies.
Vote« Distinction
th at the p lain tiff dem anded »300 for the
appear to he any alteration of the — ducks, geese, water turkey or cor
death of Drum and the Jury aw arded
And when the last scene of all
The distinction between a soprano hank of the river.
morants, coots nnd tho white heron,
him »500.
comes and death takes hit mat
and mezzo-soprano Is range. In the
“Back from the river lnrge ponds,
while
ihe rail, gulllnule, bittern and
ter to Ite embrace and hit body
case of lyric and dramatic voices the or lakos, which covered a large part
teel nested among the saw grass and
la laid away In the cold ground,
difference la In timbre. Grove’s dic of the country, were nearly dried up.
R elievin g B o d y’s Tension
the lily pads.
ho matter If all other friends
French gymnastics are to make the tionary calls attention to the fact The hods of sonar of them are ele
As wild fowl nnd wood folk flocked
pursue their way; there by the
that
many
mezzo-soprani
can
sing
vated
several
feet
above
the
former
body flexible and to free It from hab
In, so did the French trapper and tha
higher
notes
than
many
soprani;
hut
grave side will the noble dog be
banks, producing an alteration from
its of muscular tension, und relaxing
American hunter and pioneer. Hero
found, his head between hit
exercises are used. These consist In there Is a middle to every voice, their original state of If) or 20 feet, one still finds the mink, weasel and
which,
as
a
rule,
It
Is
not
difficult
to
paws, hit eyes tad, but open In
and lately It has been discovered that
making absolutely limp one part of
otter, along with the opossum nnd
alert watchfulness, faithful and
the body after another, and finally the find, and about this the tessitura of a lake was formed on the opposite raccoon.
true even In death.
whole at once by removing all tension the music (literally, the texture) und side of the Mississippi, In the Indian
As the country wns gradually de
the practice should be woven.
country, upward of 100 mile« long and
from the articulation.
veloped, a number of the sport-loving
from 1 to 0 miles wide, of a depth of
settled along the lnke nnd lived on
from 10 to 50 feet.”
Likee W orkee
hard to the soft and recent formation
fish flora its waters and the fowls
E
arly
Christian
Basilica
Reveral
such
letters
are
full
of
In
Is marked by a definite line of escarp
A Chinese newspuper published this
from Its murnhes, while tho trapping
The church of St, Apollnarls, In Ra letter from an applicant for work:
teresting
detail,
yet
now
we
know
ments over which nearly all the At
venna, Italy, Is perhaps the most Im Sir: I am Wing— I con drive type that the facts were greatly exag of animats supplied their necessary
lantic rivers fall In rapids or cataracts,
revenue.
portant existing early Christian ba writer with good noise and my Eng gerated. For example, the 100-mlle
and the line Is known as the “fall
Located In the most-used highway
silica.
It
was
begun
In
534
and
Is
lish Is great—My last Job left Itself lake Is nearer 14 miles In length and of migratory birds, Reelfoot lake is
line.’’ The Piedmont plain Is less de
fined In New England than In the noted for Its very singular circular from me, for good reason that large 4% miles In width.
visited In the spring nnd autumn by
tower, which Is 120 feet high.
Great Area Affected.
mnn has dead. It was on account of
southern states. It Is narrowest and
no small percentage of our Journeying
no fault of mine. So, honorable sirs
also approaches closest to the sea In
This wo do know and renllze, hosv- waterfowl. From a naturalist's stand
what about It? I f I can be of big evre: Thnt such an enrthqunke, if point, the region Is one of grent In
New York and broadens southward,
A r m y C alls Differ
being about 3<M) miles wMe In North
The reveille Is the same for France use to you, I will arrive on same date occurring at Hie present time, would terest,
Carolina.
Rome fifteen years ngo the state of
and the United States. Germany and that you should guess.— Squadron probably cause ten times thi> damage
News of the Far East, Cavite, Philip which followed tho Snn Francisco Tennessee, rehllzlng the value of Reel
England have different cifllg, which
pine
Islands.
earthquake
of
1000.
London has a goldfish hospital.
foot take ns a source of revenue,
correspond to our reveille.
Reelfoot was not the only lake made It a flab nud game presorva.
M