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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 7, 1904)
THE WEEKLY Ono Hundred Vnr Ago. The province of l,oiilslaiia was In a slulo or Insurrection against tlio Unit-i-tl Hlntes ccitcriinii-iit nnil wns nlioiit to di'rlnri' Mil Indi'iii iidcnt govern ill. Work vtns begun nu tin. II rot public romt lliiiitigli Georgia nnil Ten sec Tlu King nf Portugal orilerisl nil governor (if western Islands timtt-r Ills Jurisdiction to rnlm in niiiiiy troops nn IHIMDIIIIO ( (,. l lllKllrrifllllll niuoiiK Hit- negroes In the porta of tlm Porttigucau settlement of South Aincr ten. Francis II. assumed tin- tlllo of Em peror of Austria ns Frmicls I. A valuable lend initio win discovered on Porkloiiicn creek, near tliu Hcliuyl kill river, Fn. Vk'o President Anron llurr orrlvcd on thu (lint count of Florida. The lighthouse nt Old Point Comfort, Vn., nt tliu entrance to Chesapeake liny, will destroyed hy lire, Scvcnty-llvo Ycnr Ago. Halt lleldii wen discovered III (Ireat Boilltn Imy, Now York. A regiment of inllllln wai sent out from Hilton Hoiigo to search the sur rounding country for ruiiawny negroes who were fleeing, owing to tlie score Ity of provisions on the plantations. All orilliiiinre win passed In (Mucin- nntl to expel the colore! opuliitlon from It limits. I he inllllln, which the (ioveruor of .Mlaaourl ordered to the frontier of Hint Htnle, returned to ramp. having met with no trouble with the Indiana. a siavc amp rroin Afrlcn arrived nt Havana nnd tinlondel It rnreu of .) Ick slaves nfler having hst IV I slaves on I he voyage. The Delaware n nil Pawnee Indians lieciliua hostile In Kansas. Owing to the fenr Fort In veil worth would bo attacked help wnii uiniuoiied from Jefferson linrnirki. A riot ocrnrcd on the Hultliuore nnd Ohio mllroud nt Ilnlllnioro. I lite Ycnrt Ago. A Tlolent tornndn iiwrpt along t tin Cleveland nnd Pittsburg rullroud. cnus lug great ilnmnKH nnd delaying tnilllc. Thu Atlntrlnn government nddrcHHcd n not" of negotiation to the Czar. Utilize, lloudurni, wua destroyed by nre. The United Stnlcs mlnlater to Spnln declined to nttend n dinner which wns Klvou In .Madrid to the editor of the liberal press. The II rat American trading vessel to enter the porta of Japan left that conn try on Ita homeward trip. Tlio fete of St. Napoleon wnn cele brated In 1'arla, hut Nnoleon III. nnd Ida court were not present. The ltUMlam blew up the fortlllca tloui nt llniiKlio, In sight of the allied fleet!. forty Ycnr Ago. Thcro win much excitement In mm 111 mi Indiana over the report that Con federate, raiders In Kentucky were In collusion with traitor at homo for nn Inviilou of tlio State. (lov. Richard Yutcs of IllluoU laauetl n proclatnatlon asking for the raising of n full regiment of Stale troops be foro Sept. 0 for utuorgency service In the Stnto. Tho llrst railway postal car ever run In tho United Slates left the Chicago nnd Northwestern depot, Chicago, for Clinton, Iowa. George II. Armstrong, the founder of the service, had train formed an old baggage car Into n crude postal car nt hi own expense. Tho resident of xouthcrn Illinois were thrown Into n panic by the op (rations of a hiiiiiII baud of Cnufcd cia to raiders, which bad captiirnl tho steamer Kato ltoblnson and crossed tlio Ohio river near Cairo. Secretary rltaiiton reported the death ot 0.1 men nnd the wounding of 108 other" In tho blowing up of an Ainirl can linrgo In tho J nines river. Twelve liien were killed by tho ex- plosion of tho hollers of the steamer Itaclne, bound from Chicago to Iluffiilo Tho accident occurred oil Itondeau I'olnt, I.aUo i:rle. Thirty Year Ago. Tho Ilev. John Henry Whltehouso, bishop of tlio Episcopal diocese of 1 1 1 1- nols, died nt bin home In Chicago, England, Franco nnd Germany for nmlly recognized tho Spanish republic. Ten ni gives wero killed nnd a num ber of whites nnd blacks wounded In u rnco war nt Austin, Miss. Iiiformntlon reached England of a severe f amino In Palestine. Twenty thousand nuucliers wero on parade nt a homo rule demonstration in (ilaseow, Scotland. Twenty Ycnri Ago. A tremor of (be earth, resembling nn earthquake, was felt from Cleveland, Ohio, eastward to the vMliuitlc coast. Charges of cannibalism In connection with tho (Ireely Arctic expedition w.erp given seinl-olllclal credence In Wash liigtou. Presidential nomlneo James n. lllalno, Hinery A. Storrs mul others ad dressed a monster meeting nt .Manilla cook, Mo tlio formal opening of tho active ltrpubllcnn eampalgn. llonry SI. Hlaiiley, tho African ex plorer, ut Tarts outlined his plan for tho aggrandizement of tho Congo Kreo Htnto as a federation of native chiefs, under control of an American and ICu ropcan couiuiUsloii, 8U0BTITUTC3 FOfl TEA. I.curaa 1'ound In the Aiiirrleuii Wnoda that llnve Hervcd Well. MfttiV ilibitltules for ten cnu In found In Any ordinary wood, any the Wmlilngton Htur. The Idea la not a new ouv, for ninny country folks niiiilc mo of tlio mbitltules In the days when tho luxury of fhliicao (en una nut so vaally afforded m now. Ilefore the llevollltlun, when tho eolo'ilate were In u turmoil over the alamo inn, It win counldered iiiipntrlolle" to drink ten that had paid tribute to the government, and the au-cnlled lib erty teu win the popular drink. The four-leaved looao utrlfo win, no doubt, the herb from which thla beverngo wns innde, possibly with tho aid or various other herbs. This plant grows a foot or two high and may le recognized by Us simple, upright a'tcin, upon which tint leaves tiro set III whorls of four or live, tho yellow Mtnrltku llowers being produced on long, slender slinks from near tho base of tho leaves. It Is common to utmost every woodland. Tlio lno of the New Jersey lea, n low bush which grows everywhere In dry wood In mis, nnd bears In June and July a profusion of delicate white bloonn, was also extensively used during tho llevoliillou, An Inrnslon of the leaves bolls n bright amber color, mid III looks Is in attractive as tho real bev erage, but tlio taste, though astrin gent, la by no means lively. Koiiio effort has been tereutly mndj III commercial circles to revive the uso of this plant as a substitute for ten. The lenvea nre said to contain about 10 per cent of tannin. Hemlock leaves mid thoao of the arbor llno hiivo played mi Important part In the iiiak lug of rustic tea. The arbor vltne Is a tree that grows wild In great alum dance In northern woods, and Hie old-time .Maine lumbermen used fre iUently to resort to Its leaves for tea when oilier herbage failed them for tho purpose. - It was thought to bo very Invigorating. The leaves of the wlntergreen, a small plant, whose bright red berries, about the size of peas, nro sold on the streets under the mime of tenberry, have long been used for ten. I'rom this It takes the in by which It Is known In I'eiiiiaylviinln. New Ung- landers for some unknown reason call It checkerberry. Tho follngo Is very aromatic, anil people who like a dash of splclness In thilr drink hate some times ndded Its tlavor to real ten. It Is near of kin Mid similar In taste to tho creeping snowberry, n small, delicate vine, abundant In tho great bogs nnd mossy woods of the north nnd Alleghany regions, nnd this Is nlao approved by mountain palates as n substitute for tea. Thoreiiu, In ' The Maine Woods," tells of Ills Indian guide bringing It Into camp one night and recommending It as the best of all substitutes for ten. "It has a slight checkerberry tlavor," be records, and wo both ngreo Hint It win better than the black ten wo had brought. We thought It a discovery and that It might be dried ami sold In the shops." Hotter known as it tea plant is the Labrador (en, or the ledum Intlfolla of tho IhiIiuiIsIs, which grows In cold bogs nnd mountain woods from l'eim sylvnuhl northward. l'ho leaves, which emit a slight, not unpleasant fragrance when brulu'd, nre tough nnd leathery and coered with n rusty brown wool. Steeped, they glvo n wild, gamy tlavor to hot water, and the drink resulting suggests a poor grade of black tea. Sweet fern, which Is such nn abun dant growth everywhere on sterile hillside mid by mountain roads, Is an other famous ten plant, often known us "mountain ten." In the Wnr of the Itebelllou Its use for tea was par ticularly prevalent In the Southern States, nnd many u Southern hidy who was reared In luxury was reduced to drinking this poor substitute for :ier favorlta Oolong or llowery rekoe. The foliage nnd llowers of all the goldfii rods are Imbued with an astringent prlnclplo nnd nre moderate ly stimulant, so that their suitability for tlio manufacture of a domestic tea wus recognized by the American col onists as long ngo as when (leorge HI. wns king over them. Ono species. tlio frngra'nt-lenveit golden rod, known sometimes as Illun Mountain tea, po. rcbsos. In addition, tho tlavor of lleor. Ice. Drunk piping hot In the wilder ness It makes a pleasant feature In the camper's limited menu. This peclnl kind of golden rod begins to bloom guile curly In the summer and Is easy of recognition, even by tin non-botanical, becaiu-c of the licorice perfume which the leaves glvo nut when rubbed. It Is n very common (pedes In the pine barrens of Jersey Tho astringent (iiallty. In n greuter or less degree, Is possessed by nearly all these plants. They also contain eon sldernblo tannic acid In their make-up. These two iiualllles go far to nial.e tea tho popular beverage It Is. Miss (Sentry's Curious lint. Miss Gentry has In her collection a ladles' hat which Is strictly an agri cultural product. The body of the hat Is vegetable cream lace; the trimming Is llowers innilo of grass rope and corn husks, pnrtl-colorcd, and ribbons of cotton batting, natural color, the whole ornamented wllh peacock tenth- rn. The gourd takes a beautiful tin- Isli, and Miss (leiitry lias varnished and ornamented her collection so as to make It exceedingly attractive ns well as Instructive. She lias a banjo made out ot n gourd and covered with buck skin, and on n largo sugar gourd Is it bar of music of tho old negro reel, Sugar In do Gourd." Ono who Is familiar with tho old-time negro would nssnclnto with It "llabblt In de Pen ratch," and tho old-time cotton picking and corn shucking nnd the dance at night In tho cabin on tho puncheon floor, or tho summer time negro dances In tho moonlight on tho lnwn. What's 111 Tlieso Nil lues? Tho Japancso words for Kurokl, tho Japancso general, menu "black tree, wlillo tlio Jiipnueso words for Kuropntkln, tlio Husslnn general, mean "blaeu pigeon. Ono of these days tho wind will a tell hold of tliu end of that long veil a girl wears und twist It around her uccli and choko her to death OLD FAVORITES ..t.1. I'll at It'a nil very well to write reviews, And carry iiinbiellua, and keep dry ilioes, Ami sny what every oue'i saying here Aud wear what every out elie uuit wear; Hut to-nlglit I'm alck of the whole affair, I want free life sod I wsut freih sir; And I algl! for the center after the cat tle. The crsek of the whips like allots la battle, 'I'lii. medley of liorni am) tioofe and beads That wsra mid wranglea aud acattera aud prends; The green beneath, and the blue above; Aud ilnali and danger, aud life aud love, And I.ujcuI I,ii sea used to ride On a uiouae-gray muelaiig close to my side. With blue aernpn nnd hriiilit-belled spur; I laughed with Joy aa I looked at her! I.lltlo knew alie of bonks or of rreeda An Ave .Marls aultlrcd her needa; I, lllll- she enrrd, asve to be by my aide. To ride wllh me, and ever to ride, I'rom Han Siilm'a shore to Lavaca's tide. She was nn hold aa the blllowa that beat, Sim wns aa wild na Die lirrezea that blow, Krom her little head to her little feet. She wns awayed In her suppleneaa to an' fro Ity earn mint of naialnn: a aaullnf Dine, That grows on the edge of a Kauaaa bhirr, And wars with the wind when the weatli er la rough, la like this I, uses, tlila love of mine. She was alive In every limb With a feeling, to the finger-tips; And when the sun la like -a fire. And aky one ah! dug aort aapphlre, One doea not drink la little alpa. Why did I leave the freth and the frte. That Bulled her and suited me? Listen awhile, and you will aee; Hut thla be aurc In earth or air, Ciod mid (iod'a lawa are everywhere. And .Nemesis comes with a foot aa fleet On the Texas trail aa lu Itegent street. 'I'll it air wns heavy, the night waa hot, I ant by her aide and quite forgot; Forgot the herd that were taklac their rest, , Forgot that the air w'sa cloie oppraat. That the Texaa norther cornea sudden nml soon, In thu dead of night or the blaie of moon; That once let the herd at Its breath take fright. Nothing on earth can stop their flight; And woe to the rider, and woe to the steed. Who fall lu front of their mad stampede! e Was that thunder? No, by the Lord! 1 soring to my saddle without a word. One foot oil mine, aud the clung behind. Awny! on a wild chine dawn the wlndl Hut never waa foi-huut half ao bard. And never wua atccd ao tittle apared, For we rode for our lives, lou shall hear how we fared In Texas, down by the Ilia Grande. The mustang new, and we urged him on There was one chance left, aud you have but oue; Unit, Jump to tho ground, and aboot your horse; Crouch under hli carcass, and take your chance; And If the ateera In their frantic course Don't batter you both to pieces at ouce. lou may thank, your stars; If not, good by To the open air aud the open aky, lu Texas', down by the ltlo Grande! The cattle gained on us, and. Just as I felt For my old six-thooter behind In my belt. Down came the mustang, and down came we. Clinging together, and what waa the rest? A body tli At spread Itself on my breast. Two anus that ahlelded ray dizzy bead, Then cnnie thunder In my eara, As over us surged the sea of ateera, Illowa that beat blood Into my eyes. And when I could rite, Lnsca was dead- see I hollow cd a grave a few feet deep. And there lu Earth's inns I laid her to sleep; And there the It lying, aud no one knows, Aud the summer shines and the winter snows; For many a day the flowers have spread A pall of petals o or her head; And I wonder why I do not care For things that are like the things that were. Does hnlf my life lie burled there In Texas, down by the ltlo Grande? Frnuk Deaprez. Unveil lor tho Fish Trade. The Hsu man drove Into the yard a few days after the new summer real dents had taken possession of their home, nnd seeing an open door he stepiMHl lu and confronted the mis tress of tho house. . "Gettln' settled, I s'pose," be said agreeably, allowing his gaze to win dor from two half-unpacked trunks to a table loaded with miscellaneous art! cles. "Well, tako your time, take your time; there i pleuty of It up beret I understand your husbaud'i a doctor, ma'ani." "Yes, ho Is," said tho summer resi dent, who In spite of warnings from city neighbors that she had better dis play no haughtiness of spirit under iiuestlonlng, was unable to put much cordiality Into her tone. "Well, now, I conio near beJn' a doctor," said the tlsh man, still with n wandering gaze. "My folks wanted I should be one, nil exceptln' of an aunt Hint had money, and was looked to to help me out financially If I took up with a profession. She spent one Buinnicr here, and she mado a reg'lar study of my character an' parts, and at tho end of the season she up an' told my folks that 'twouldn't do, I iiuiitt go Into business. " 'That boy has got too much Intel lect to be hove away on a doctor,' she Raid; those were her very words. Now how would you llko a couple o' good innck'rcl all slit up nn' ready for the br'ller?" Youth's Companion. A Striker. Hlbbs Of course, you never struck n mull when ho wns down? llobbs Well, yes; my rich uncle was down to our house yesterday and 1 struck him for f5. Philadelphia Hulletln. Sympathy Is duo any woman whose liusbuuil bus dyspepsia; It closes up thu path to Lis heart. VHERE WOMtN PnOP08E. Group of Islands Where Men Are Ab solutely Ilenleil the Privilege. IIo.v would you like to live Hi u land where the women have the privilege to propose not only one year out of every four but every year? In. Torres Strait, between the north ern extremity of Australia and the southern extremity of New Guinea, thers Is a labyrinth of small Islands and coral reefs, so complicated and dangerous, It Is sold, that Torres, the original discoverer, required three months to get through. Thjcse Islands are Inhabited by a Melaneslan race of the Papuan type In habiting New Guinea, among whom It Is not only permissible but obligatory for women to propose. In fact, I'rofes sor jladdon, who llrst visited the Isl ands nnd made a careful study of the customs of the Islanders, snys that among them It Is considered ns bad taste for a man to make a proposal of marriage as It la for a woman among us to propose to a man. On tho Island of Tud, when a boy grows Into manhood, one of tho lessons his parents are careful to teach him Is: "You no like girl llrst. If you do girl laugh and call you woman." The way In which a young woman opens and conducts courtship with tlio man for whom she has taken a fancy, differs widely from the most n- proveil method adopted by Hie leap year girl In America. When the ltlund maiden becomes enamored she sends a piece of string to the sister of the man she covets, which Is a sign that she lores him. The sitter then says to her brother llrother, I have good news for you. A woman loves you." He asks who the woman Is, aud, M willing to go on with the affair, tells his sister to ask the girl to keep an appointment with him ut some desig nated spot. At the appointed time they meet and talk the matter over. The be trothal ofteu Is made at the llrst meet ing If both parties are satisfied. After marriage, lu spite of the fact that tlio girl did the proposing, she becomes the property of her husband. She even Is so completely in his power that he can, If she should offend him, kill her with Impunity. CHINESE POSTOFFICE HUMORS. Tate of a Missionary at Inland Town -Clcrka Muat Lick Htuuipa. Mrs. II. T. Ford, of the China In land Mission at Tal-kang, In the cen tral province of Honan, In a letter to her family, has some amusing things to tell about the establishment of the Chinese Imperial Post In the province, which Is some weeks' Journey from the coast. She says: "We have got the Chinese Imperial Post here now. At Kal-feng, when they first got It, the postotllce clerks had a fight with some men who bought stamps and wanted the clerks to lick them and put tbem on the letters for Uiem. They said the clerks were there to lick the stamps, aud paid for the business, ami they wouldn't lick them. Hut the clerks wouldn't agree to lick them, so they came to blows and the police bad to come lu and separate them. "Here at Tal-kang. the man who has got the postotllce has begun well. Harry was in bis shop when the tlrst customer came for a stamp. It took htm nearly five minutes to find tho key and get the stamp box open, and when be gave It to the man be said In a very decided way. 'Now lick It and put It Just therv.' The customer was foolish (or wise) euough to do so aud now a custom has been established lu Tal-kang that all purchasers of stamps must lick them and stick them on There was a great row at the Kal feng postotllce one day because an ad dress on a letter could not be fouud and the letter was brought back. The sender wanted his money back because the letter had not lieeu deliv ered, but the clerk refused to give It to him, contending that they bad had more trouble over It than If It had been delivered. Another man wu de termined to get the postotllce clerks Into trouble because be had sent a let ter some time ago and received no an swer. This was clear proof, he said, that the letter bad never been sent. The service Is somewhat Irregular yet London Dally News. Dee Farming In the West. The "busy bee" Is a type of Industry the world over, but we get a new con ception of how busy the little Insect really Is when we nro told that It takes the nectar from nt least 2,f00. 000 flowers to make one pound of honey. That Is what an experienced beekeeper says, and his estimate Is founded on a careful calculation, llcekeepcrs arc very Important peo pie In some parts of tho world. Take Switzerland, for example, where honey Is a staple article of food, bread nnd honey being the standard breakfast, even among the peasants. Tho Inrgest hotels there serve It as the principal Item of their morning bills of fare. So Important Is the bee Industry In that little country Hint men nre paid to go around from canton to canton teaching the art of beekeeping. It Is said that the German government, too, takes special Interest In It, requiring schoolmasters to pass an examination In the art. Hut the greatest beekeepers in the world nre to be fouud In this country. There are men In California, for In stance, who own trom 2,000 to 12,000 swsrnis of bees each, and during the flowering season they farm out these warms to the owners of orchards. One peculiar feature of bee funning In the West Ib the practice of keeping swarms on floating beehouscs, so that they may follow the streams to find new flower pastures. This, by the way, was done In Egypt thousands of years ago. The Poison of i he. Cobra, The venom of the cobra contains an Ingredient not well known that acts upon the nerves. Its effects are rapid and difficult to counteract. This Ingre dient exists In the cobra's venom to a greater extent than tho other sub stances that make up tho poison. The poison of the vtperlne and crotnltne snakes (the rattle snakes, copperhead, moccasin, etc.) contains but a small percentage of this nerre-destroytng (or paralyzing) element, The poison of these snakes acts principally upon the blood, and In consequence Its action Is slower, St. Nicholas. IKE riltST SUBMARINE. So many war ships have been de stroyed by lUbmarlne explosions In the Uusso-Jupanese war that each side his repeutedly accused the other of using a submarine torpedo boat. If that should prove to be the case It Mould be the llrst time such a vessel has ever been successfully Uled lu war by any nation but the United States. The first submarine vessel ever used to uttack a hostile shin In war time descended Into the Hudson river at Whitehall, under the eyes of Wash ington and bis staff, In September, 1771). The llrltlsh had attacked New York; Ixjng Island hail been lost to 1 ""ld. n'"1 ' 011 hls particular account Uiem and Ixird Howe's fleet was an- j deeply Interested lu preventing dam chored In North river. David Hush- ! "He by forest fires. The local service neli, a young engineer Just graduated j preventing and lighting fires, both from Yale College, had invented a j foreHt '' I"lrle, Is rendered by the spherical copper vessel called the - ,ow" supervisors, who nre ex-otllclo American Turtle, intended for sub- j ttte wardens, nnd by those whom they marine use. It wns propelled by oars , '""t" assist, and In unorganized set lu water-tight sockets, hsd a tiny i territory by fire wardens specially ap counlng tiwcr, nnd wns Just big I I"lled. The service Is paid for In the enough for one man. It had nn auger i llr"t Instance by the counties In which protruding through the tp, and the " ' rendered, and the State pays to plan of nttnek was for the submarine tlle counties two-thirds of such ex worker to drill this Into the bottom of I pense. an enemy's ship. A mine was then to be detached from the outside of the submarine and fastened to the enemy by the drill, a clockwork set going, and when the diver had escaped the cxphssloii would follow. Iiushnell showed this machine to General Parsons and to General Washington, who approved. Kzra Lee, a brave young sergeant, was detailed to mnke the attempt, and Iiushnell taught him to work the Turtle. At midnight, September 0, he entered the little vessel and wns towed out Into the river by rowhoats. Washington nnd his staff watched anxiously for the result. The prime object of Lee's attack was the slxty-four-guu frigate Eugle, on board which was Lord Howe blui silf. Hours passed without an explo sion, and at last when dawn came Washington was convinced Lee was lost. Just then, however, barges were seen putting out from the shore of Governor's Island. They went almost to midstream, then scattered and made hastily for shore. A moment later came a terrific explosion on the surface close to the Eagle, and tlie Iliitlsti fleet In consternation slipped their cables and made out of the har bor. Sonic time later the top of the Tur tle appeared above water, not far away. Itowboats went out nnd brought her In. Lee was found un harmed. He had reached the bottom of the Eagle without difficulty, but had found It sheathed with heavy cop per, a protection not against man but against other submarine enemies. When he attempted to drill through this his vessel bounced away nnd gave him no purchase. He worked two hours at the Eagle, and then visited other vessels with no better luck. At last he released his mine nnd started home. He came to the surface close to the llrltlsh barges, then sank again nnd pulled for Whitehall. The Turtle was ued again a year later to attack the Cerberus off New London, but. Instead, blew up a schooner lying near the frigate and killed a number of men. That was the first vessel ever so destroyed. Though Fulton built a successful submarine, none was used In war again till the Davids were built for the Confederates. There were several of this class, one of which blew up the Housatonlc In 1S01. Since then nearly every navy In the world has experimented with submarines. Rus sia has several on her list of wnr ves sels. France has done the most with them and has the largest number, more than seventy. The United States has second place In numbers and dis putes first place In efficiency. CHOCTAW DEATH PENALTY. Guilty Man Waa Hliot by the BlicrlU In l'reeence of lite Friends. The street commissioner of Atoka has removed ono ot the oldest Indian landmarks of the town. It was n bols d'nrc post 10 feet long nnd 12 inches In diameter, In the middle of what is now known ns H street. It was placed there forty-eight years ngo by the Choctaw Indians, nnd for many years was used by them as a whipping post. I.'nder the Indian laws any person who was convicted of theft was tied to this post and given titty lashes ou the bare back. For the second offense he was given 100 lashes; for the third offense the penalty was death. In Inflicting thu death penalty n block of wood was laid on the ground against the post. The victim was strip ped to his waist and wns made to sit upon this block. His hands were tied behind him, his arms reaching around tho post, with a white spot painted over his henrt. Then the shorlff, who was tho executioner, started at the feet ot the prisoner and walked teu steps toward the sun. He then turned nnd facing tho man cocked his gun and announced to the gathered throng the crime for which the man wns to die. The friends of the doomed man were then permitted to go to him and bid him farewell The father, mother or wife was tho Inst person permitted to speak to lilm, who Invariably begged of him to bu brave and dlo like a man, and express ed the hope that they would moot In the happy hunting grounds. Then the shorlff took aim ut the white spot over the Indian's heart, and so true was tho marksmanship of the executioner that a second shot was never necessary. In stant death being produced by the tlrst. It Is said by those who know that no less than 100 persons have been Hid to the Atoka whipping post and whip ped, and Uiat more than twenty have been shot at the foot, of It. Kansas City Journal. As a rulo when you see a girl enter taining a boy on the front porch you can depend upon It that she has either telephoned and asked him to come, or be Is mating a party call, or they uro engaged. It a man Is sick and you say he looks badly, you have no tact and If you do not uoUce that he Is sick you have no heart, and there you are. FORESTS OF THE NORTHWEST. Minnesota Bllll Has Millions of Feet of Lumber Uncut, The chief fire warden of Minnesota In his annual report says that the standing timber in the State Is worth easily $1WJ,0X),000, aud It Is this prop erty which the Ore warden system seeks to protect, according to the New York I'ost. The State Itself owns 2,500.000 acres of land, a part of which Is forested and protected by the lire warden system. The State last No vember sold SOOO.OW worth of tLmber from Its own land, and has In nil re ceived $4,000,001.) for Just the timber M,ld froUl lau,1 " received as a gift from the United States. The State will contluue for many years to sell timber of various kinds from these fine of the richest pine timber re gions of the Northwest wns the Sagi naw nnd Huron shore districts of Michigan. In 180.1 there was cut In that district MS.OOO.OOO feet of pine, but the supply of pine timber had so diminished during the next ten years that In WXi only IVl.OUO.OOO feet wero cut. The number of feet of pine logs cut in Minnesota the season of 1002 I!03 was 2,00U,000,(X). The amount of pine lumber cut In the year 11(03 by the mills In the districts of Duluth, Minneapolis, above Minneapolis nnd St. Croix wns 2,200,G2tj,OfX) feet. A comparatively small amount of this may have been from the forests of Wisconsin. A liberal esUmate places the remaining standing pine In Minne sota at 28.0(XJ,000,000 feet. "Any one can Judge for himself," says the war den, "therefore, how soon this forest capital will be exhausted and say whether It Is not time to begin n sys tem of reforestation by utilizing waste land In the production of pine timber." In summing up his report the war den says: "What forestry means for Minnesota Is simply this: The re maining original Dine timber will be 1 ent In tho next fifteen rears. Some second-growth pine, If protected from fire, will then be cut from year to 3 ear, but It will not be as good as the original growth, and there will not be enough of It for home consumption. Lumber will be dearer and our great lumber Industry will decline. There nrc, however, fully three million acres of waste land In scattered localities, which If planted with pine would In time become normal forests, yielding forever a supply sufficient for our home need. Such forests would by their growth perpetually yield a net annual revenue on the capital Invest ed of 3 per cent, compound Interest, besides many indirect benefits. On such waste sandy land It will take on an average about eighty years for a crop of pine trees to grow to mer chantable size. Individuals cannot wait so long for a crop and they will not engage In tlie business. The State, to whom time does not occur, must undertake the work by purchasing waste land and planting It with pine. The Minnesota forestry board Is ready to go to work, but until there Is some man In the legislature who will make forestry a specialty and fight for It with energy we shall not get the nec essary money for forestry." ' ! ! 1 ! I I 1 M I I I I I I 1 I I 11 H M- I MATRIMONIAL OPPORTUNITIES. There Is a childlike simplicity about the peasant folk ot Montenegro. A woman who has traveled among them says that both men and women, on her arrival, asked her, with perfect frankness, the most personal ques tions. When she explained that she bad come by train and steamboat, the Inference was that she had great wealth. "And you have come so far Xo see us? liravo! Are you married?" "No," said the traveler. There was great excitement and much whlsperlug. "Wnlt! wait!" cried a woman. Then, at the top of her voice, she shouted, "Mllosh! Mllosh!" A tall, bronzed boy about eighteen years old, edged his way through the crowd. His mother stood on tiptoe, and whispered In his ear. He looked coy and twiddled his fingers. "Ask her! ask her!" cried the wom en, encouragingly. Mllosh plucked up courage, thumped his chest and blurted out: "Wilt thou have me?" "No, thank you," said the traveler, laughing, and Mllosh, much relieved, retired, amidst the jeers of his friends. "Mllosh, thou art not beautiful enough," said the men. Then they suggested Gnvro as being more likely to please. Gavro made bis offer, and wns smilingly rejected. The crowd wns enjoying Itself vast ly and took much pains to provide the lady with a really handsome suitor. She, ou her part, looked about, and chanced to cutch the eye ot a goodly youth. "No! no!" cried n woman, seizing his arm. "He'B mine! he's uilnel" Amid shouts ot laughter he was withdrawn from competition, then an other youth said frankly, "I have no money, but perhaps you have enough." "And he Is good and beautiful," his friends hastened to add. Hut lie,' In his turn, was rejected, and the enthusiastic crowd pushed forward another candidate. Five suit ors In twenty minutes made, tho trav eler thought, a noble record. Youth's Companion. When tho family goes away on a va cation, they don't have a good time for two reasons: worrying for fear pa may have a good time at home, and that ho may not send them all the money they want. Every little wlillo we run across a glum looking uiun who threatens to quit his Job because be Isn't being treated right "Yes," said .Mr. Mutt, "it wn rather odd, the way I came to rebuild my house. You see, Mrs, Mutt was la town oue day and happened to buy a very hanasotne hall lamp one ot the kind that stands on the pott of the stair banisters," and then, says Lou don Tlt-Hlts, he went ou to describe the development of the house: "Well, as soon as she got the limp home, we saw that It was too large for the style of the stairs, so I had to get the carpenters to come In and widen them and put In new balus trades and posts, and set them more toward the center of the bill. When that wns done the hall didn't look like n hall at all, and 1 hnd to bare the carpenters tear out the wills and make the old illnln," room Into a new hrtll. "Then, of course, the kitchen hid to be toni away and rebuilt nt the back of the house, so that the old kitchen would do for n sitting room, nnd there had to be a new dining room built to match tho finish of the hall. And when things got so fnr wo saw at once that we hnd to bnve a library off the fin II. and then the veranda had to go to make room for the library, and my pet rose bushes came up to gtve a chance to build the new veranda. "Well, to mnke a long story short, I hnd to remodel the second story to match the llrst, nnd put a third story ou In order to take care of the rooms Hint were crowded out by iu changes In the second. And so I bad a new house all round." "And wns your wife pleased?" "Only partly. You see, Just on the last day, when the carpenters had completed the third story and were finishing work on the whole job, one of them dropped tils hammer through the sky-light, and It fell to the hall mil smashed the lamp that had started the whole thing." THOUGHT HE HAD 'EM. Terrifying- and Mystifying Esperlenca of Southern'. Vlaltor. Now and then E. II. Sothern admits visitors to his dressing-room. He did so In Cincinnati, where he entertained a somewhat nervous and exclteable gentleman during his moments "oft stage." In the midst of one of their argu ments, during which the visitor expos tulated volubly, there entered the room a dignified and decorous colored man. who advanced to the center, saying, In an earnest montone: "Have you no fear of God?" and mysteriously departed as he came. Mr. Sothcrn's guest was greatly dumfounded, but was too well bred to ask questions. Resuming his argu ment, he again grew heated In bis re marks, and again the colored man quietly and mysteriously entered, and, clearing his voice, declared: "If you were the devil himself, do you think you could mike me like you?" To the guest's surprise, the actor took the Interruption as a matter ot course, so Sothern'i visitor. In a dazed manner, continued his argument, only to be Interrupted again and again by the same colored Intruder, this tlmo with the remark: "I know you know, and God knows I pity you." Mr. Sothem's guest was now too surprised to talk. He sat In a collapsed condition until the same man had en tered three separate times, and In an expressionless -voice had said: "I am as changeless as the sun. I will carry my soul pure to heaven." "You are the strange woman." "You shall be as beautiful as I im and as happy." This last remark was too much for the man's nerves. He was barely able to gasp: "Sothern. what the does this mean? Is this a Joke or an Insane asylum? Who Is this fellow?" "That." said the actor, "that is sim ply my dresser, Lewis. His duty Is to noUfy me of the progress of the play by lines, 'n that manner I know when my cue comes." "Oh," said Mr. Sothern's guest, wip ing great beads of perspiration from his face, "I was beginning to believe I bad 'em." Chicago Inter Ocean. ing- Lake of Ice In Colorado. While the people of Denver are sweltering lu the tlrst hot weather of the summer a little mountain lake only forty-five miles nway lies calmly enjoying lta perpetual freeze the lake Is solid Ice. This Is what was found by C. A. Parker, In charge of the tele graph construction of the Moffat rail road, lu the shadow of the James peak, on the continental divide. Perpetual snows blanket the moun tain on the sides not reached by the sun, and amid the wintry scene ot glacial whiteness lies the little lake, one big lump of Ice. How long tho lake has been frozen no one knows. Sometimes It melts, but this year II has not shown any signs of succumb ing to the higher temperature. Mr. Parker enjoyed tho cooling proximity ot the lake when Denver was receiving the first real share of hot weather. He also Inspected the enormous banks of glacial snow, some of them extending hundreds of feet on the mountain side and scores of feet deep. Officers of the Moffat road are much Interested In the finds. They knew that the glaciers were there, but the lake wa something they did not ex pect Now everyono from General Manager Illdgwny to the office boy li trying to determine how long that lake may have been frozen solid. Growth of I'reabytcrlanlam. Tho Presbyterian Church reportl during tho last year show an Increase of 22,000 members, which, compared with the total of last year, 1,007,000, shows a growth ot nearly 2 per cent Somewhat lEarotlatlcal. Downing Are you a believer In the survival of the fittest? UppBon Certainly; and I shall con tinue to be as long as I live. We suppose a mother of a family has troubles, but what good does' It do her to have them? She hasn't my one to tell them to.