Rogue River courier., October 13, 1898, Image 3

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COURIER
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Miners’ Supplies, Etc
Miner’s Supplies
No house on the coast is so well
equipped to outfit miners and pros­
pecters with Rubber Boots, Leather
Boots and Shoes, all wool Under­
wear, all wool outside Shirts, pants
Overalls Jumpers, Woolen Socks,
Hats,
Blanket Untied Coats,
Mackintoshes, Rubber and Oil
Clothing, Rubber Boots, Blankets,
Comforters. In fact everything
that a miner needs to keep him
warm and dry during the long wet
winter months. Would call special
attention to our lines of heavy foot
wear, Extra High Cut Miner’s
Shoes large eyelets with long Buck­
skin Strings. We carry over 25
different styles of miners Boots and
Shoes, nailed or unnailed from
$1.25 to $5.00
we pay cash for Gold Dust and
Fur Hides and give you more for
your money than any House on the
coast.
Wall Paper and Window
Shades.
•We carry the largest and best as­
sorted stock of Wall Paper and
Window Shades in the city, and
our prices range from
10c to 75c
per Double Roll.
Border to match from i inch wide
to 18 inches wide, with a nice as-
sortment of Ceiling and Bindings.
We also keep constantly on hand
a big stock of
Warra nted
I
Both ir.
This is the Best Real Kid Glove
sold in the United States to-day.
TRY A PAIR.
Comforters.
We are selling great quantities
of our
$1.00, $1.25 and $1.50
Cotton Comforters.
We are selling loads of these
goods and can show you a large
stock and can make prices that will
insure a sale.
Trunks and Valises
We carry a large stock of Trunks
and Valises.
Merchants often make the mis­
take of buying light weight trunks
on account of great saving in
freight rates, and while a soft light
wood trunk may be sold a few
cents cheaper than a hard wood
trunk, the heavier trunk will stand
ten times the wear.
We also carry a most complete
assortment of the most popular
styles of
Valises and Telescopes
at the low
We can
scope at
a->h prices
a k < xx
50c.
TAUGHT HOW TO HIT.
Oar Sailor« Have Hard Prartice,
Which Makes Them PruArkat
at the buna.
ANNOY PUBLIC MEN
“Crank" Letter Writers and Their
Fool Productions.
Governmental Head« at W aahiair<un
Are Made «he Keel«,len«. ut All
Kind, ut Conauinnl-
e—tioha.
As the remarkable gun practice of
the United States sailors exhibited at
Manila and Santiago and elsewhere
has attracted the attention of the
whole world, with the result of calling
forth much speculation as to how this
The recent threatening letters *ent
high degree of proficiency has been at­
to Speaker Reed call attention to the
tained, it is proper to state that this thousands of such missives sent to pub­
is of comparatively recent develop­
lic '. ucb during the course of a year.
ment and is ascribable entirely to the
Ordinarily little attention is paid to
energetic efforts of the navigation them, as they are usually the work of
bureau of the navy department, sec­
.•rinks who are harmless in other ways.
onded by the hearty cooperation of iht A large number of these letters are writ­
commanding officers of our ships.
ten as jokes and with the expectation of
About a year ago Cap*. Crownin­
causing a brief sensation, lhose sent
shield, chief of the navigation bureau, to Mr. Reed were evidently the work
assisted by Eusign Ward, one of the I of some would-be practical joker, and
brightest and most scientific of the their contents made no impression on
you :/• r oit‘ct r- <>i the mu. y. bt gan to the big man. It is asserted that they
rev: t the entii system of ¡¡un prac­ were written by some one who ho[«ii
tice as it existed in the cavy. In their to create a little sensation and proba-
opinion that system, us it had conic bly produce a story which could be
dov. u frem the last war, was cot suffi- sold to newspapers, and a libel suit
for the needs of the day. At the is now pending against a Washington
ning it was «• und that owing to correspondent who charged a certain
estriction imposed by depart- person with the authorship of the let­
ul rubs it v.as »-carcely possible ters and with motives of perp«trating
to I. .ve gun practic»* aboard ship more a “fake” which he might dispose of for
than once a year, instead of once a
money.
v
quarter as contemplated.
These “fake” scheme* do not work
Ci urscs had to be laid out and stake and more than one originator of spu­
boa * placed at angles and records rious sensations has come to grief. It
taken, making it extremely difficult to is not so many years ago that a fertile­
find conditions admitting of the prac­ brained young man who had an am­
tice. (’apt. Cro\Miinshield at once bition to shine as a “new journalist"
changed these rules, and impressed conceived the idea of sending an in­
upon commanders the importance of fernal machine to the late (. hief Justice
gun practice at every opportunity
W’aite. He prepared an ugly-looking
even where it was net possible to lay package, including a cigar box fill?«!
a course, in which case barrels or with black sand, lead slugs, pieces of
floating targets of any kind might be brass, springs, a fuse, etc., und had it
tossed over as the ships were under sent to the chief justice’s house.
way. Moreover, the number of times
lie then visited several newspaperof-
that target practice must be had was fices, offering for sale a sensational
increased to seven annually. Then or­ story of how an attempt had been made
ders were issued calling for night prac­ on the life of Chief Justice W’aite, de­
tice, repelling torpedo boat attacks, scribing the “infernal machine,” it*
etc.
deadly character, and all the other de­
Following this Capt. Crowninshield tails required to make a big sensation­
turret] his attention to the personnel al “scoop.”
of the gun corps, and induced the .sec­
Unfortunately for the young man,
retary of the navy to sanction the rat­ he tried to dispose of the story be­
ing of gun captains, a new rating en­ fore th«* package reached the chief jus­
tirely and one so well paid as to excite
tice, and the inquiries made by the
the ambition of the men. Under The newspaper correspondents to whom the
old system the chief gunners were not
story had been offered revealed that
chosen for their proficiency in gun­ fact, so when the package did arrive
nery, but were given their stations lie
the young man wus immediately ar­
cause they happ< ned to be in tty of­ rested for having had something to do
ficers, such as quartermasters or boat­ with it. He broke down and confesse«!
swains or the like. This system was that it was a hoax, but his practical
completely reversed, and sailors were i joke cost him a fine of $5 and led to his
made petty officers because they were retirement from journalism of any
good gun captains, thus getting rid kind.
r
of a number of inefficient men.
The leaaon was appreciated anil that
The next step was to instruct the young man is to-day u respected mem­
gunners thoroughly, and they were ber of the bar in this city.
placed aboard certain vessels set apart
The person most frequently made the
solely for that purpose. Thus the Am­ object of threatening letters is the
phitrite was given a crew of these gun­ president of th? Unite«! States. Every
ner* and sent to Port Koval. S. C.. for crank that imugines the country to 1»?
extensive drills. The purpose in se­ going to the dogs blames the conditions
lecting this placp was to secure a large on the president, and straightway
body of water free from the presence writes to tli? latter, threatening ull
of merchant marine. Being away from kinds of horrible deaths if he does not
large cities both officers and men also reform these conditions or resign his
were able to avoid distraction of at­ high office. There are demands for
tention
from
their work, which
money and dire threats as to w hat fate
pr< ■ i - wed ri ma • )• ably.
will befall the president if he does not
Thus, through careful calculation
res)>ond.
and hard work, when the war broke
These letters never reach the presi­
out the American navy had a splendid dent, an<l he is never aware of the aw­
nucleus for the magnificent corp« of ful doom that overhangs hirn in the
seamen gunners which it developed to imagination of some flighty people in
the surprise of the worhl.—Chicago this «country. This correspondence is
Post.
usually turned over to the secret ser­
A« Niervy n« lie Wa* Brave.
The poor wounded in Cuba have had
a hard time. Apparently the powers
thought that there was not going to
be any wounded: and, without doubt,
few on Cuban soil dreamed there would
be so many.
Nowhere were hospital
preparations complete enough,
in
tents, medicine, nurses, or surgeons,
on 1 he field, or ir. the rear. At Siboney,
according to John Fox. Jr., in his let­
ter to Harper’s Weekly, the surgeons
had not t»me enough to get the names,
or even to count the number brought
in. The men not seriously wounded
lay for hours awaiting their turn after
the men who were seriously injured,
anc yet few complained, and they were
usually the men sb’ghtly hurt. He tells
of three men brought in from San
Juan. The surgeon took the one who
was groaning. He had a mere scratch
on his leg. Another was dresi-ed as
the third sat silently on a chair; still
another was attended, and another,
before the surgeon turned to the man
who was so patently awaiting hi«
turn.
“Where are you hurt?”
The man pointed to his left side.
“Through?”
“Yes, sir.”
vice bureau and an effort made to dis­
cover the writers, but usually without
succeas. The letters are written in
disguised hands and on common note
paper, which cannot be traced to the
owner. W hen, however, a serie* of let­
ters are received the detectives are able
to find the writer and proper punish­
ment is given. Many of the writers,
of course, are harmless lunatics, and
when discovered they are put under
surveiUance and restraint.
President McKinley has not inspired
many cranks with th? notion of threat­
ening him by letter. Fewer of these
letters have been received at the white
house during th past few months than
for many years before.
The president i* not he only public
official picked out by these letter-writ­
ing cranks. Cabinet officer», senator*
and members of the house get their
share.
The congressmen just now are re­
ceiving any number of threatening let­
ters, but they are signed by the full
names of some of their constituent«.
They threaten the political lives of the
congressmen if the latter insist upon
making certain appointment« of post­
master«, etc. They usually begin with
a recitation of what st .n« h party men
A Substitute for n lletl.
When Bismarck was Prussian ani-
baasador at Frankfort an interesting
incident occurr«'d to him. At that mo­
ment he lodged in th? house of a mer­
chant who detested th? Prussian«.
Bismarck ask? 1 the landlord to put a
bell in his room. Th? latter r« plied
that it was not in the h as?, and that
if Bismarck wanted on? he would have
to put it up himself
\ few day* after
fh? whole house was suddenly aroused
by a pistol shot fired in th? room. Th?
landlord rushed to th? apartment out
of breath and found the ambassador
quietly smokinir a large pipe seated in
front of a pile of documem*. On th?
table wa* th? pistol which h? bad just
fired. “Tn the name of goodness,”
cried th? landlurd. “what ha* hap­
pened?” “Oh. nothing.” rrpli?«] Bis­
marck: “don’t be a’armed. 1 hare
simply called my servant tn com? and
sper.k to me. It I*quite an Inoffensive
signal, to whic 1 you would do «ell to
get accustom !. for I shall no doubt
make us? of it mor? than once.” Th?
<>rd took 41
t- t. • nd Bi-marck
got bis bell.—I -ndon Globe.
their influence, the retinue of relations
they can control, etc., and wind up by
saying that if the congr» ssmen name
John Smith or Sam Jones for the cross­
roads post offi«*e» in their district all
this influence will be turned against
them. As a rule, these threatening leU
ters help to fill th«» waste baskets
Washington Cor. Philadelphia Press.
A IJIonndhfinnil’« K* **n »rent.
A remarkable exhibition of the keen-
'ne«8 of scent of th bloodhouml was
given at. the lit’ •• t<^vn of Br- .-. in. ii
I Allen county, the other day. Th«* town
! recently appropriated fllbo out of th«*
city treaMiiry for th? purchase of one of
'these animal*, th«* purpose being th?
detection and capture of thi?v«w who
• were operatine in th? neighborhood,
and a testof the hound v. ,is
'»jer«*-'!
desirable. At noon thre«» nu n started
out <» t > foot and walked f >ur mil«*s into
th? country. Then they m
me tint« d horses
ami by a circuitous rout? return?«! to
'th? town. Six hours later th? hound
was j»?rmjtt?d to smell a glove which
had f>e?n worn by on? of th? m?n. and
| th? next instant .with a deep how l hr
caught up th? trn !r nid f >llow»l it nn
the run. At one point th? m?n hu«l
(nltnr TrihA/rn.
and
Before the war Cuba contributed walk?«! for 30 yards on a f?i.
the bound cam? to this point h?
of all the tuba
ui his n-o*e along th? rail vrith
y any reduction of r.p
> the plan? whiTF th? Bset
, be ♦» j V up the trail <
•1 followed it into town
rw I of more than 100 m
cut t h? on? w hose g! iv? tad ta
him to smrB.—Kan. aa City Journal
Have a Train
tatari
INDIANS GROWING GOOD. '
HOW DEVIL ANSE WnS FOOLED
Two Ik< iri tlvrs V» Lo anew Huw tu
Win Old ■»;»?: .rttiekT«
Hespí I r lltjr.
“When 1 went with u . ur • ying party
into the Tug river country . i West Vir-
ginia. several wrr* ago, there were
. i.e native®
doubts as to whetht r
would let us stay. * said F ( . Albright.
a civil engineer
“In g .. rai it waa
taken for granted by tl r mountuln-
eers that any str-xMger who crot sed
the dead line, where thc^ mountain
district begins, was an enemy, a rev-
. iW leer or rii» riff, win
it wa*
t f
the pub csafety.
sLcr y b<*. .cr«' cur cd.. r.g the
cd St tes ru .Garish ad made some
>n on t Lt t’irir■ict. and in-
reapert , for guv« * rumen t. The
avers r< egarded our turi ey s
rai’road bu uikling a s part of the
rui ’rnt. anti accordingly did not
• t us.
\1! ar? bnrpitable. and, like the
the mountaineer regards the
•’ger who l.a.'i’atuu h’.s alt as be­
lli.dvr Lis protection. Th’, brings
to a story of I)« vil Anse Hatfield
two < f our railroad detective*.
De*. ’! A ;«••», ns you pic! : ’.lv have
her <’ . i« the patriarch tied leader of
He lives in his fcr-
the 11 at field clan
tifi tl house on Islam! creek, with six
or keven armed men always there ns a
gur rd. Somehow *he two de ec fives
had got the ill will of the Hatfields.
and nn ambush was aid for them. The
detectives got win«.’ of it. They knew
the country and the people, and de­
cide d on the only thing they could do.
Leaving the road they made a detour
beb nd the men in ambush, and rode
sirnight to the house of Devil Ar.se
Hat field. A* luck would li a ve it the
old man was away perhaps superin­
tending the ambush, and they got to
the house and within the door without
being fired at. They set their rifles in
a corner, hung their belt and pistols
against the wall, sat down, and asked
for something to eat. When Devil Anse
can • back the women had fed the de-
tretives. and as they had eaten bread
bei atli his roof 1 here was nothing for
the old man to do but play host with
the best grace he could show.
He
made the best of the matter, gave the
men the best supper and breakfast
that the house afforded, and fed their
horses.
The next morning he sent
them with a guide by an out-of-the-
way path out of the country.
“ Tie’ll see you safe.’ said Devil Anse
at parting. ‘If you took the main trail
you’d likely meet some of my folks,
and I reckon they’d turn their guns
loose without stopping to ask where
you’ve been.’
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FLED WITH “CAUTIONS-GELD. "
The Trjlna Bxperlvnce of an Ameri­
can Girl, the F'lnncrv of a Ger­
man Army Official.
Various stories f the marriages of
German officers and American girls
that reach this country have placed
such unions in an unfort line e light,
but the recent exp< rienc» s of a New
Y'ork girl have caused her friends here
to congratututv her on an ef.cape
which, embarrassing as it was at
first, has doubtless proved the most
fortunate event of the aituation. She
wa.s living in a German city that con­
tains the largest American colony in
Germany, am! she became engaged to
a lieutenant in on< of the Prussian
regiments stationed there.
lie was of an obi (¡erm in family ami
the prospect of his marriage to the
girl was regarded with great favor by
his family as well a- her own. The en­
gagement was announced after a long
courtship,
hip. and no
r o similar
xi.nilar alliance t
promised
satisfa' tnr ’y.
>ed to result more satisfarti
ie,
I- v< ry preliminary to the mari
which was to take place in Europe,
had been arranged, All that remained
was the payment t< j the adniinlstrn-
Hon of the army of “caut ions-geld,”
the sum demanded by the army in or­
der that the officer’s family may not
become a charge upon the government.
When German officers marry Ameri­
cans this >um is prid by the bride’s
family, and the present cns(‘ form« d no
exception to that well-established
rule. Th? check for the sum, which
had been deposited in a Berlin bank,
was handed to the expectant bride­
groom a few week* before the date
flXfd for t he marriage. His mo. h*r-in-
law e lect gave ’t to him. A few hours
later he left his betrothed, and from
that time neither she nor any of her
family I. as « ver laid eyes on him. In­
vest i gat ion showed that he had got the
money h efore he went ouf of f’ermnny,
leaving hi- f/./nily. his regimen’ and
thing but the money, w!:i
which in
everything
this case
as? amounted to SI
817,000.
7.900. .' Noth­
ing was ever heard from him. and th?
friends of the young woman continued
their congratulation* to her, although
not just in the >am? spirit they were
begun.
The young woman in
promptly put an end to nil
find th? lieutenant. She wi
charming and attractive ai
jority of girls who marry (
fleer*, but th? man was or
to the rule even of those of
talk of th? possibility of a “reiclie
Amerikaenerin” as a wife in a way
that makes it difficult for th? average
American to control himself. N. Y.
Sun.
Solomon on the flrnrh.
A man in Tannelytown. N. Y., had
hix wife arre»*« «I for throwing a fh«»?
an«l showed o««?n*ib!y th«* marks on
his far? where th? h?el struck. Th?
judge promptly «lisebarge«! th? woman,
«aying: “Th? fact that -he hit you in
throwing at you proves that it was
entirely unaimed and unintended.”
Fln<l
Rubmar1
y bring «1
owing to
V clean»«*«.
•’ are con«.tant-
• 1 are at tínra,
n appearance, a
great danger to uavigaUun.
salt Water tn <|n?nrh Fir?
position to la
n auxiliary
«rater pipet* thi rough the bu»i-
i of New Y irk. In order to
irrer «
of water from
era for the fire
iz? the superior
n the fire boats.
. Com­
er and
have al*
ror ■
House Linings
t«J
*y has not
purpr/se«
Er.r’snd. nota-
k, Birkenhead,
month ar.J
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
The parchment of the best bu ijua
is i tadv « f w lf.*kin.
c ir hundn u i t w vorJs are aanual-
ly : ddetl to the English language.
c are 111) mountains raColorado
1
peal.* are over 12,000 feet above
w h
the ocean level.
'¡he basi.. of ’.he St. Lawrence river
cot »ra 530,< xh > square miles, of which
460/XW are in Uur.ada.
v t ight of a bruin is
1 he average
_
grt iler in Chii a than in any Europeal*
conn try excep:g Scotland.
C irks for I utiles were first uianu-
and Italy, some time
fat urvd <»»
dui r.g the fourteenth century. Cork-
Sul’1 w& were contemporaneous with
corks.
a S.
1 he southern boundary of Cat ada
«• fi.’ y 4.000 miles, along
st n tt lies o
whi ch, SOUth .urn Ontario has the lati-
tm’ • of err ’O I Italy, Manitoba and
Va comer t ’•a: cf <»ermany.
<f the future will, if
T he LrrC
Fri ’erick U . rrbon’s virion is realized,
hnv ? UO COI Gil. ro strain engines, no
hoi t's. mid ul! heavy traffic will I m »
ser. along deep underground electric
rai: w a vs.
I ¡¡ring the most peaceful years
th« < are in the world 3,700,000 men
who r.re withdrawn from productive
'ui's to act ns soldiers. The
pay equipments, food, anti clothing of
tin ? men cost the world’s taxpayers
a »urn amounting to nearly $8,000,000
a day.
Among a mass of odds and ends In
th< >hup of un Essex furniture dealer
the irst wor’. ever exhibited by Turner
ha: been du covered. It is a drawing
cf the n. u.
hop’s palace nt Lambeth,
t xtcuted when the artist was about 16
cr 17 years old. and exhibited at the
Koval Academy exhibition of 1790. Its
pedigree is said to be indisputable.
There are 17 metals more valuable
than gold viz.; Iridium, valued at i.*60
per pound troy; gallium. £75; rhod­
ium. ESN; osmium. £120; ruthenium,
C?i ’. pnlu.dium. about L‘21tt; barium,
£?' ); didytrium, £500; cerium, £M5;
yttiurn, v
strontium. £670; cal­
cium, £700; glucinium. £820; lithium.
£ i.uso: zirconium, £i,il5; rubidium,
£1.400; vanadium. £ 1.725.
A con.piler of statistic* is authority
for the statement that less than 900
persona out of every 1,000,000 die from
old age. Out of that number 48,000 are
victims of scarlet fever, 30,000 of ty­
phoid and kindred fevers. 85,000 of
w hooping cough, 18,000 of measles,
7.500 of consumption, 7,000 of rheunia-
ti>ni and the . • .«• number of vryripv-
lus, while 2.7BO a;, carried off by apo
plexy and 1,200 are victims of gout.
It is rumored in department head
quarter* that there will ta a rattling
of dry bones at some < f thr old« r west
ern posts in the uiar luti re. As a re­
sult of »he shake-up, pre«.i *tions ar?
that a numlicr of them vvii. Le stricken
from the list of nvcessniy stations,
and either sold at auction or turned
over to the Indian serrice ugencie*.
Whipple Barrack*. Ari/., uas aban­
doned some time ago. anti but a mi .all
under
handful of men are ktpt H re
i
Lieut. Tupes. As negotiation is for l he
uvpivted
sale of this post are abuu
the detachment will prabaoty I? with
drawn in a short time, aftt r which it
will ta turned over to a cut?od Bni'. w ho
v.i I look after Uncle Sam’s interests
i
until the sale is vonsuiumut L It may
... as a training ground for srv-
be iMstd
ernl Arizona troops which are be if *
fitted for service at th? front, bu.
nothing definite on this score is yet
kr *rn.
Five years ago it was thought
height of folly to think of abandoning
and of the Arizona military ; « is
v1. i h are in the region infested with
Apaches, but to-day it st « m« io be the
settled policy of the gi.vernment to
mai.e these men self-suppc riing. an«1
therefore safe citizens. ? - r. i<' .
the Dawes bill requirtine «»* ¡..e« ni­
Í
ght d with the Indians are admitt«.«!
to ih? rights of suffrage.
Th««, re
qui «'men’s ar? “the »evernne • t dll
tribal relationships and th«* atiu; ion
of t he n Gtles and ha bits of civ ilizat ion.”
Th; * will soon cover the wholt
.«
tribe, oner so bloodthirsty, nn«! ;; i>
not improbable that the i xt flv*
months will see the abaml. r.u « nt «>'
Forts Apache. Grant and ¡1 i...« l •uu. ii
Ari ona, and W ingate anil I’n «.n. i.
Nov Mexico. The only reason v. M tin
gov rnmrnt keeps troops in tin > Gud
for :iken regions now is I. cause ol
fancied fear of the Indians.
It is also th? policy of th« govern­
ment to turn over all abandct.ed u il
itary post* in the Indian com try to
the red men to be use«! a .
: rics*
thus, in Utah can be seen th Ouray
rgency, oner the »itr of oid I k. r : Kcub
idoux; in Montana can bu t c a th*
Fort Peck agency, once th? site o
a military cantoninent of that i.;nn •
and in Arizona the Fort Ih-iiam-
agency flourishes where once f
that sentinel of the advance of vivi,-
ization westward, Fort Detiane«.
In epeaking of the Apaches re­
cently. Gen. Sumner said: “It is gen­
erally misunderstood, this question o!
the Apache Indiani.
Thrv are ut u
era’.ly Joe ke»l upon as being blood-
thhrty, fierce warriors. On the co
AN EL CANEY HERO.
trary, I never dealt with easier In­
dians to handle. They are making ¡i. A H uh * N cmi *<» W I hi s I n H le-Il t» ii tl r«|
rapid strides toward civilization ns
Hunted h Mqund of
any band in the United States, and no
Mpu nlnrds.
more need watching than many ol
Wandering ab ut the post in a suit
the* tribes of the Indian territory. 1 he
Utes are vastly more turbulent and of pink pajaniub i. a I ¡tunic negro, six
troublesome.”—Denver Times.
feet full and « . like , loportion*. His
name is Ainrrici * Jahn.son, and be is
a private in the fenth r< uliir ccvnlry.
RULER OF GUAM.
ibis “Buffalo,” Uh the coiUied suk:iers
fhr I'rot laional Governor of the La- of the army nrr fnimliaily rulad.
ilrouea Once an Elevntur Huy
“sought the bubble reputation ut the
lu Man Francisco.
eunnon’s mouth” at El Caney, und sin­
gle-handed »ucceeded in overcoming
Francisco 1‘orusacli, who is now the a «quad of the rnerny and capturing
American provisional governor of the a six-pound ru iid-tlre gun, »hot three
Ladrone isluuds, was formerly a resi­ "pnniards, knocked four senseless
dent of San Francisco, und at that with the butt of his carbine und the
time was employ cd for about u yeur rest run away in terror. Johnson wax
as < levator man in the Chronicle build­ twice wounded, one ball passing
through his lefi sin,older and another
ing. That was in 1S02.
Lour years ago, on the indorsement through his left leg, but neither re-
and recommendation of Justice ol ii .ai icd in his body, ¡¡nd no bones were
the Peace Barry, he attempted to se­ broken, lie speak of his wounds con­
cure tue appointment as janitor in temptuously us “| ‘-.Iholes.” They arc
the new city hall building, but (lid r»J healing rapidly, and he will soon lu*
lard th« position. He the n departed able to return l < l.is home in Texas
ors due the brave,
for the Lad rones. When the iT h ito and receive tin '
States took possession of th it gr<«u| lie has already received a great den I,
ind I grieve to lei.ite Hint glory und
of islands on June 21 In-:. P. iu-n* i
admiration are
onfu.ing Johnson’s
was the only reslcent Ameiicm cit.
memory. He is l<< < o ; i
ximewliut
zen. and vvus accordingly
put
i
iiifsceurate ami i. <• >i i is; • nt in his
charge of affairs after the
pnni :
statements. He sit> all day long und« r
govt rnorand garrison had sum ml« i«
tin* shade of a tree clad in liix pink
am: Lad been removed to th« ti’.’i
ports in which they were taken on to pajamas, like the ¡fltan of Scnegam-
l»ia. and relates the story of his
Cavite.
Gov. Portusach is a native of th? is­ achievements over and over again to
land of Guam, of the Ladrones group, through of colored people and stui:
and is about 30 yeurs of age. Hr b> - gling whit Cfi.w ho > ' ;i nd with both t In
open, pnrah /i <1
cam? an American citizen «luring hi- earn and mouths s
residence in California.
Hix fathei with awe. Like th editors of the yci-
is a full-blooded Spaniard, but hi- low journals. Mr. Johnson Ims dix ov-
mother is a native islander.
When •red that Hie public taste demand«
Francisco Portiif-jo h wax here be wor. «omethirg hc-l ae 1 bloody, und he doe*.
th? heart ami hand of a young German lis best to grutii; ihnt « nving. B;.
the time hr gels I I » \
-I h’ gii will
woman, whom he mad? bls wife.
With a Spanish father, a native < f lave captured an ertiie b..'ti ry: | • r-
lnps captured M»> i <>
W illiam
Guam for a mother, and a Grrrmii
woman for his wife, this i:rw gov«*rm» . E. Curtis, in Chicago l»» < < i ■!.
who used to be an « levator man in th-
Chronicle building ami bream?
ar
American citizen in thl* sta1«. woi.b’
seem to have combined all tl.» « le­
nient* n»c!’«x«ry
to
in* lire p»*:i<»
among the nations Interested In th?
destiny of the Philippines and the a«l-
jncent Spanish Islands.
It was evidently a lucky day for
Portusach when th«* pow» rx in th? nr
i w
city ball turned him down for sn­
ether, ar.d when th? Charleston are
th? three trnopships < f th«* fi
N
ped it ion stopped at the Island of C»' !t ’ If
they found Portu>arh
eon fort; ably
situated, a man of family, and a pr«
nent representative of th»*
•
States. Capt. Gia*« of th» ( bar -
- i,
sent for him and officially plm »-d t‘
interests of the United State*- Ir
Portae, « h’s hands, p« i «'p g the
ii
mate appointment of a regular mil«
tarv or civil governor by th? nuth»>ri
ties at Washington. San Francisco
Chronicle.
Pr«4aeil«m of salt.
Th* Unit««! Rtate« which for many
years has ranked second to Great
Britain in the production of aalt. pro*
Cured in 1wn7 ronsb! rwblv more than
• • production of Great Britain in
*MK. according to a recent report of
the United States geographical sur-
▼ey.
I? a «1 Mu Orr««:r»n tn
It.
T .f was i i ii'lv a public sale of
the effect« of • <!♦•«»•« m * I artist, who,
though he never had any money and
was always at the end of his resoarrsa,
managed to nrcumulate a considerable
amount of l*ric-s*brac. chiefly for use
In his trade. AJI thew things were sold
for the benefit of the needy widow.
Among the itenui on the published cat­
alogue waa the following ekrjuent one.
•‘On* money lx>X, decorated, quite un-
MMd.”
watch,” a t?m> used by »ail-
jc? th? fJfzilge watch, a short
g intro’ -cd tat ween th?»?
dnrathu» in order ttat loo
amo»! n* of work rhotil«! not ta
th? 2 ar»* men in the course ot
OVBB me thousand vanta of linen
cloth hare I—en unroll»! from one
mummy “The
h in triture re-
•em hie. the eh» •
of the present
•r anew hat. It I* 1. . r in quality. *
MAKING PEACE
<'«*m l».i an t».
liax theories on
One of my fri< <
the subject of orb »tig up boys. She
las also a boy io ; i thr tbeoríes Into
practice on, and H e thinks »hr mi« -
•??<!». Just th» < her < :.y xh«* wax
•rof tn. The Loy
•.ewing in In r sit >
was looking out th« window. Pi‘»x«*nt-
y 1.? suiil, reports th«* Washington
Post:
“Mother, there ar«* two kids fighting
»ut in th? street, u little fellow slid a
>ig fellow ”
“Well, r
‘you kawv'
r>»ir duty
t is yotsr
«trong op prey
Th? I mj did
h? str?< t to
practice. He f
40 Inter,
“Whnt wan the trouble ?” asked the
mother,
•They w er»’
answer?« [| the
“And what d ’ you do. my son?”
asked th? proud mother.
“O.” said th« toy, “I just took It an«l
FEMININE SUICIDES.
FulM»« Wbm Hua *Uo!
1 koiL.*«lv«e.
tabica
yield curiou* lo­
Statistical
urination to th» «-.ireful student, says
the Philadelphia I. me*, For inula nee. I
they show that over one-third of the A Minnesota Man and an English
u. ten w ho kill thruiMdxes are not yet
Woman Who Made Records.
’ y ear» of age. They »how that women
ike* potaou, where men shoot them
-<hea. and they »how that the poor,
rick and the infirm are not by any kind
• f reckoning In the majority. A phy­
sician who make.- * tudy of attempted
I
suicide said thia:
••Get a girl peat 25 and she’ll go
Probably
the
moat remarkable
through poverty, sick n»*» and desertion
sleeper of modern times is Herman
and misery enough to kill ten men. The
more people suffer the more they cling Harms, a citizen of St. Churl»». Minn.
He has slept almost continuously for
to life. I’ve Ktn it in the hospital». It
is not the patient» with the incurable 23 years, suit is stiil in the land of the
dtaaara or the tailless cripples who living. He fell asleep In tbTJ. nhen he
««• 10 years of age, and was at that
beg to die, but the young, strong, vital
time perfectly sound in mind and body
uoman, who hates pain and doesn’t
weighing 13 stone. Though he has been
want to suffer it, even for the chance
of getting well. It is a strange thing, fed systematically as well as circum­
stances will allow during the whole cf
this getting of a girl past 25. but not
■itH unmon. Any phy sieian with n large his long sleep, he has been reduced IJ
less than half his former weight, being
'airily practice w ’I tell you of a dozen
only six stone. Harms is fed usually
js « s in his own • Tele of know led•*«»
once a day, but sometimes goes two or
•: hi .erinies it is called pyromania, on. -
times kleptomania, sometime« catalep­ three days without a drink, all his food
being in liquid form. He is the father
sy. sometimes hysteria, sometimes
of a (air ily of five, none of whom dis-
feigning and sometimes tantrums—it’s
nil the same thing nothing else Iodo.” plcys any signs of the unhappy malady
Another physician told of a girl who whlch has kept their father uncon­
scious for 20 years.
committed suicide and who left a note
Periodically the sleeper awakens for
atating that her reason waa that she
was tired of doing the same things over a short interval, but he invariably re­
and over every day. The monotony of lapses again into »lumber. In his mo­
ments of partial consciousness he rec­
life had become unlieurablr to her.
ognizes friends, and appears to be un­
END OF THE CHESAPEAKE.
aware of the state through which he
i, passing. A year ago he was awake
Th* Old Man-of-War Tur a rd Into s Flour
for »nine days, and every effort sir
»
Mill
niade to preserve his consciousness,
An English joumnl contains the fol­
but in vain. Harms sank back to sleep
lowing item:
in less than a week after he had
“It is not by any mem wIdely known
i;Wf.ke:ied. and has since slept the sleep
that the Chesapeake, famous fur h< r
<t the living. Numerous physicians
historic en<*ounter with the British
have given their attention to the case
shipChannwn in 1813, is in existence to­
day, but it* used in the somewhat in­ and various means of arousing the man
from hw lethargy have been tried
glorious capacity of a flour mill, and is
making money for a hearty llauipahira without avail.
miller in the little parish of Wickham.
Powerful
electric batteries have
been applied to the body again and
After her capture by Sir Philip B. V.
Broke uhe was taken to England in
again, but the only effect has been to
1814, and in 1820 her tiYnbens were »old
cause a slight twitch of the muscles
to Mr. John Prior, miller, of Wickham
as if the sleeper felt pain, and the next
Hani». Mr. Prior pulled down his own
nioment he is once more in a .lead
mill at Wickham and erected a new one
stupor. All sorts of explanationshave
from the Chesapeake timber«, which he
been offered of this myatery. and doc­
found admirably adapted for the pur-
tor* have variously stated that Harms
f»ose. The deck bennis were 32 feet
suffered from Bright's disease, heart
long, ami served, without alteration,
trouble or softening of the bruin, but
for joint«. .Many of three, timbers yet
so far no satisfactory conclusion has
bear the marks of the Shannon grape-
been arrived at ns to the cause of his
shot, and in some place« the shot arc
marvelous sleep. It is an aspect of
t H to be ween deeply imbedded in the
physical science which has yet to be
pitch pine. The metamorphosis of a
«l ived. Catalepsy frequently takes a
man-of-war into a peaceful life-sustain­
?< uliar form, which is quite as dif-
ing flour mill is, perhaps, as near an ap­
tic It to account for as the disease it-
proach to the prophecy that spears ami
-elf. for the doctors agree that (iom-
aworda shall be beaten into plows and
rnr.ihulism. such as we have described,
pruning books, ns the conditions of
is a disease, and that no person in good
modern civilizatiop will allo^y.”
health ever sleeps for such abnormal
periods.
One of the most eccentric catalep­
THE WOMAN DOCTOR.
tic» ever known was Elizabeth Per
It?minding ( • of the Eternal and Iminu
kin*, who lived in Norfolk. This old
tabla DUp»rity of H«i.
lady spent most of her later lite in t
The woman doctor is already au ac-
state of uneonaclousness, but regu
complished fact, but as vet she has ap­
larly awoke one day in seven, anil in
parently made no consiiicrable way in
the "Philosophical Transactions" the
public favor, says the Scottish Review.
case is mentioned cf Elizabeth Orrin,
It may be contended that there is some­
win, for ten years never »1, pt les* than
thing in the art of healing in accord
17 out of 21 hours, and was perfectly
with the primary Instincts of a woman’*
sane alien awake. Another remarka­
nature. But if we look closer into the
ble feature of thia strange ailment 1»
subject it will be aeon that there is
that It seizes Its victims without the
more than mere prejudice and long-
slightest warning, and that while it
’stablished custom to account for the
loci » some persons in slumber for
-xclusion of the female »ex in the past
years others are released after a week
from the practice of this culling. Have
or a month.
women the calmness of nerve — the
In 1 sfi a lady" fell asleep for seven
aplomb, so to say the steadiness of
days »nil awoke nt the end of the week,
hand and puls»' for the work of the sur­
us usual, anti in the summer of the
geon? Is it possible to mu p|M>se that a
san e year a Itussine sailor fell asleep
non abnormal woman, with her more
In I n II
h vvni l.iu u-e. and d: I not
highly strung constitutional sensibility,
aw.’.kc till he following Sttgu-t.’lh • •
could ainput. * a limb with the same
con parutively short sleeps are oft< >
imperturbabili . that we« »hould look
traceable to nervousness or 11 y ii i.l
for in the inal operator? w
weakness. Fright appear, to lost' •
To this it in. v be replied that grant­
most cummon cause of long sirs •
ing a certain drawback to women by
Son e years ago a ynung woman was <
reason of s» . in the matter of Nurgical
exhibition iu various place- who I id
h rim nts. th? case is different with
I ee-i asleep since -he wn- 12 yi ar. <
he metier of the physician, and that
At ’hut age the child suffer’ il a sevi e
:«• •« . at. leas’, the si-xes can compete
attack of fever, on recovering frc-i
l
unn* of perfect (-quulity.
Yet,
which she relapsed into u ditp vie»;.
i ti i, as a mutter of plain fact, are the
In v hich she remained more er les* a
i-v.-’cs of lady doctors much in re-
I’H'i I with their own s» x nay, even in
til her death, which took place nt the
• branches of the thcrajieutic urt
age of 2A, after she had been asleep 11
’ ¡’ ng with s|M*cially feminine »li­ years.
nts?
Moreover, if the advanced
¡hiring the first few months of her
i nil’s theory of exact professional
sleep the girl awoke twice every 2t
«¡unlit v und indifference as to sex in
hours for about ten minute«; but in
io h • maintained, why should any bar-
her most wakeful intervals she a
rici ii'/gcst itx»-lf to the consultation of
peared anxious to go to sleep, a. 1
uied‘ *nl women by men. any more than
w-hen once soundly asleep noth'
now c’.ixts in the calling in of women
could rouse her. Kite never complair, r!
-<*f ti e male practitioner? But is there
of pain, but when asleep her han :
no . »1« h barrier? Surely the mere
were always clutched tightly und -II.'
•*ta‘< im nt of the ca»<- diiq>osc* of the
appeared extremely nervous, occn. i
i pari’ y argument.
*
ally suffering from a violent jerkini’
W«* I imv »* h«*ard of a man here and
and twitching of her muscles ami
ther«* resorting to la«iy experts in idbm -
limb.. Several cases have come under
sagc. but that men should go to women
notice during the last few years of
doctors and luy bare their IxMlily symp­
persons falling asleep for a week or
toms in the same way a« women have
more.
«ion» from time immemorial to their
Two policemen on duty in the flue
male medical advisers, would be a pro-
1e Rivoli, Paris, observed a man. ap­
cedurc repugnant on Isith sides, and
parently Intoxicated, walking along,
“not convenient” for obvious reasons.
who suddenly fell down at the fool of
H« r* . ♦hen, while admitting that a
a bridge. On being picked up he wa«
sprinkling of females may, perhaps,
found to be sound asleep, and w is
u i dly find their mission in obtaining
tak< n to a police «*eU as a “drunk.”
cmp.<>y meiit as (l»»- toi s among a limited
\ , he «lid not awake, however, the ar-
numb» r of th« ir own sex, we are
■ested rnan was taken to a hospital,
brought fa<to fa • with the eternal
where he awoke after a sleep of three
&nd immutable dii.purity of *e*.
or four weeks, A l.oMpitul patient in
iermany recently slept for over four
NOT DOING THE WORRYING. months and then left the hospital re­
covered; ami not long ago a »errant
Inde? Which a partner girl at Cheltenham slept more or less
Í ondlllon«
Think« Hr Oa«bt to l*at In
continuously for a week in a local hos­
More < apliai.
pital.—London Globe.
Wumua Take
THEY SLEPT SOUNDLY
who urge
iiMM’hin? ■
msk? m«
placarded
I turn: *
hear Edis
for me.”
staled h.»
parent th
nor tiragli
even thou
noo for « f
Ing the p
ta?n oblìi
f rrrpien 11 j
pro'll*« »-«I.
I » ’ ■ ’■
rr
ever, be relucu. ,y give s r
cording • few < f bi wordi
young man woo | -rucuiariy mirfeidru
him he gave another on w >irh is re-
corded his favorite story, Tbrae are
tbs only two In rxiMeoce.
I
I
“I have made u discovery,” said Mr. ••MY UNCLE” AND "MY AUNT.”
Hilltops, in the New York Sun, “and
that 1« that there i* likely to l»e some
one person in a household that does all
the w rr> • i z. There n ay be others that
fiet, sod triy like y fret over trifling
An Ingenloui French writer has been
tbit g«, bill the real worrying over
things that have got to be done and got explaining to a curious world, says the
to be looked after is uaunlly don? by I aiui I oii News, why the pawn broking
one person. The parson 11.1*1 dues the establishments are called “my aunt”
worrying in my house is .Mrs. Hilltops» (Mu (ante.) The Prince de Joinville,
The children sod myself and all band« son of Louis Philippe, was kept very
lean on her and « xp« ' » her to do every­ short of money in hi* youth. One day
thing.
I don’t know, but I sort of the father iii.tlved »11’11 »he prince wn»
think that we expect her to provide ' i»iJ wearing <i splinuid gold watch that
things whether we have any money of had tarn given to him by his mother.
not. in.d *br certainly does seem to **W here is your watch ?” a> ktd the bour-
make everything come out ail right groise king- “Al iny aunt’s,” was the
[ reply. Princes» Adelaide was Interro-
somehow.
“Now. as a rule, among men, the gated on ’ i > subject, but she knew
man w ho d ’ es the worrying gets paid « nothing about It. Then the young scape*
for It. He is us ually th? man at the grn< r admitted that he had pawned It.
head of an enterprise, or a <•< t>nc?rn. or “My aunt.” therefore, became proverb­
department,
t»«*nt. or winterer it may ta, ial for the Mont-de-PIrte. But then it
a bi? to do
<h th»* work and ! willing may be naked, how It cotnrs about that
who is able
to tak
the care and ropor Willy of the pawnbroker in England is face­
The
It. T c»r under him u ty pile their tiously spuken of ns “uncle.”
cart» p * n him, and he thou liders them l-’re .ch w riter is quite equal to tiie <>c-
a in* t>—easily.
There
I
are. < asi >n. The English say “uncle” be­
r«?M. plenty of men that en iiw the French say “snnt.” Here in
England every thing goes by contraries,
r?«po risibility.
t’hr French coechman drive« on the
these men ir?t paid for what
» an«! Mrs. Hilltop» dues not. right, the English on the left; the
French soidirr ha* red trouser*, the
ts rny appreciation
imh *•
s< m -tli tajr. The children dan’l realize English soldier a red coat; tne FrrnvM-
what she dors; they espeet It. And as inan rats nri oyster out of the hollow
for me, the silent partner. If | don’t half of (hr xheii, the Englishman out of
stand up and takr the knocks, I think I the flni half; »he French epicures drink
I ought at least to put in more capital.” (hamimgue after dinner, the English
cfvrure during dinner, and so forth.
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