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The Btlrrlnj Experience of a Kear Jucklan In tUo Cherokee Strip. - Terrible). Scenes TCltnmaed In the Mad Bosh for Land In the N"ewly-Oryan. Ued Territory Hard Time ' In Store. ' Lieut. Arnold,' who is attached to the staff of Oov. Brown, of Kentucky, recently arrived here from the Chero--kee strip, where he was successful in securing1 a splendid claim, says the St. Louis Republic. On the mem-' orable morning1 he made the run on a thoroughbred race horse he had brought there expressly for the purpose. Starting from point four miles east of Hunnewell he -Jiad to ride sixteen miles south of a point known as 1 Hack wells. , lie covered the distance in fifty-two minutes, accompanied ' by a V.cow-puncher" thoroughly acquainted with the country. , At least fifty well mounted men were in hot pursuit for the same claim, but the lieutenant got there first.' Several other Kentuckians were similarly successful in the same vicinity. Lieut. Arnold's quarter sec tion of one hundred and sixty acres is one of the titbits of the strip. It is close to the Shekasky river, and is a splendid tract of land, worth between two thousand and five thousand dollars according to experts. 1 . Arnold is a sunburnt, sinewy-looking1 man of about forty. Ho said: "I was prepared for ' a tough experience, but, great heavens! not for what 1 saw and underwent. To begin with, thou sands of men and women were kept forty-eight hours Inthts line endeavor ing to register. The dust was simply awful. At the time the rush was made everyone was black and unrecogniz able. There was hardly a drop of wa ter to drink, and washing was an im possibility. ' Fifteen thousand grimy j human beings tore madly into the new ' domain, reminding me more of the maggots on a carcass than anything else. The sooneru were in possession almost everywhere. Lots of them were shot, and I saw one sooner hanged in short order. In my ride I noticed near ly twenty dead "horses and" quite a number of dead and dying men. "There was fighting and bloodshed enough to satisfy the very worst of the bad men from Uitter creek. Not far from my claim two men were quarrel ing with drawn pistols, when a third interfered and endeavored to separate them. He got a shot through the wrist, and then the two proceeded to. kill each other. 1 saw one fellow lying . dead vith a handkerchief drawn tightly around his neck. Ho had been strangled, and when searched four hundred and fifty dollars was found on him. .When I made' the rush I wore mighty littlo and carried no arms, but I felt more comfortable when my Win chester was in my hands. The scenes after the rush were terrible. I saw two women who were burned by the prairie fire and the soldiers shot by the sobners. In fact I have seen enough of that sort of thing to last me the rest of, my life. Blackwcli, the so-called Indian, who gave his name to the town site and owns every other lot in it, is a 'squaw man.' He put his hay up to one dollar a bale after the rush, but the boys went to hiin with a few double-barreled persuaders ' on their ..1 1,1 .1 V. 1nrl . I Miuuiucrn, uuu no- wan giuu tij KCL down to fifty cents after a brief discus sion. . They, also made him stand by original prices for his town lots. I alwiiiliin'r. ho wnrnriwAil if ihfv wnrA t,r hung him any morning. "Well, I'm glad to getaway from the strip awhile, although, now that the rain lias come and the dust settled, there is not so much hardship. "It was fearful at first, especially for women, and I am afraid even now an awful winter is in store for many of the settlers. "My claim is disputed.liko all the rest, but I have a clear case. My papers are all right, and I expect to return in a month or so and commence improve ments." ' What Machinery Ii Doing. One of the astonishing facts in the flold of 'industry is the marvelous power of machinery operated by hancj. In the cotton trade, in 1850, the average product of every employe was some thing less than $700, whllo thirty years later ho was able to produce a valuo of $1,200, notwithstanding tho reduced price of cotton. In the woolen factory tho change was much the same, the hand of each worker being ablo as long ago as 1850 to make over 8 1,200 of prod uct, and in 1880 about 81,800, tho pro portion of material consumed by im proved machinery being about the , same. How much tho world is in debted to invention cannot bo stated in tangible form, says tho Journal of Finance, but with the strength of man remaining a the same and the skill of the present artisan, though showing some advances, still not distancing that of the ancient Egyptian, the vast increase of human resources is duo mainly to tho influence of invontion in discovering ways in which machines can do tho work of men. Tho compe tition is no longer a competition of skill of labor, but that of invention, and in America we are far in advance of any other nation in this respect. A man who iifty years ago could turn out a value equal to a scant wage, now, at fairly good wages, is able to bring into being four or live or six. times tho value. - " A rrotty Girl Station Agent, rassengors over the Rumford Falls & Buckfield road always notice upon the platform at Kast Peru a plump and pretty girl who wears the regalia of the station agent. She wears a cap with gold lace and a brass shield, and on the shield is "Station Agent." This is Miss Lillio Howard, and she has had charge of the station at East I'cru for some time. She is attentive to her duties, the trainmen always have a smile and a pleasant word for her, and many a drummer vainly attempts to appropriate a share of her srailo as the train whisks past 'Tis needless , tc comment on the neatness of East Peru's station. Attkui'ts have been made to pro duce spider silk, but liave failed, tho ferocious nature of these insects not pevinitthig them to live together in communities. ' Emma Ooi.hman tells a New York in terviewer that she lovos nothing bet ter tha n 11 bath. 1 f Eintua doesn't look out the anarchists will be reading her out of the part'. SHOR IHANU NOW A Ntuht. It Baa Become fen Important Feature ia , the Duilnm f'orlI nf. T.arge. tfhe bureau of education at 'Washing ton has done a good piece . of work, says the Boston Ilorald, in the mono graph which has just been sent out from the government printing ofSee on t'Shorthand Instruction and Practice. " In 1884 it published a circular of infor mation on the teaching, practice and literature of shorthand. Twenty thou sand copies were distributed and an other edition of equal size has been ex hausted. The present work furnishes not only an-account of - shorthand in foreign countries and in the United States, but nearly the full statistics of instruction from 1889 up to tho summer of 1891 In this country, . with an account of the extent to which stenographers have been employed in courts, in legal de cisions, and in other public services. There are thousands of shorthand so cieties in Germany, France and Eng-, land, and in this country, whose work is to disseminate a knowledge of the art, and the introduction of shorthand into the public schools is to be one of the next steps in secondary education. 'The typewriter is next to shorthand as a labor-saving instrument, and the shorthand systems and the principal typewriting machines have already wrought a revolution not only in the courts but in the business offices, in the writing done for newspapers, and in every department of life where writing is indispensable, s- Until speed can be reached on the typewriter equal to that which can be obtained by ex pert stenographers, stenography will take the lead as a system by which the spoken word can be taken down exact ly as it is uttered and made to serve the purpose for which it is designed. It is such an aid in all sorts of busi ness transactions that we could no more go back to the old habits than we could go back to the stage coaches which fifty ' years ago conveyed pur grandfathers across the country. In this country the number of persons re ceiving instruction in shorthand from July 1, 1889, to June .80, 1890, was 57, 875, and of this number 23,335 were males and 20,005 females. All these were taught in schools and classes, and out of the whole number 7,228 were instructed by mail. In 229 schools and classes in which shorthand was introduced during the scholastic year ending June 80, 1891, the number of persons taught orally was 4,150, which with those by mail made a grand total of 4,738. Of those taught orally 2,474 were males v.vA 1,658 were females. This is as near a correct statement of statistics as Mr. Rockwell has been able to arrive at, and it shows tho vast extent and uao of shorthand instruction in this coun try in all the departments of life. ' Stenography has come to stay, and typewriting has come to stay with it, and the two, combined with the tele- graph and telephone, have been great ly instrumental in accelerating tho progress of ideas and facilitating' the methods of business and the produc tion of literature. . . ' . "ABORIGINES AND COPPER An Interesting Discovery or - Tools In the Keweenaw Copper Mine. A peninsula called Keweenaw point, Hutting into Lake Superior from tho southern shore toward the northeast, is famous as the center of a vast cop per mining industry. Last year the. mines produced no less than 105,580,0' pounds of refined copper, and it is ectl mated that during the next year tho production will be increased by at least 20 per cent. Mr. E. B. Hinsdale, who contributes to the latest bulletin of the American Geographical society an article on tho subject, has much that is interesting to say about the numerous prehistoric mines which have been found in this region, says the Scientific American. These ancient mines, judging from their extent, must have been worked for centuries. Who the workers were no one can tell.' They seemed to have known nothing of the smelting of cop per, for there are no traces of molten copper. AVhat they sought were pieces that could be fashioned by cold ham mering into useful articles and orna ments. They understood the use of fire in softening the rocks to enable them to break away the rock from tha masses of copper,' They could not drill,, but ised the stone hammer freely. More than ten carloads of stone ham mers were found in the neighborhood of the Minnesota mine. In one place tho excavation was about fifty feet deep, and at the bottom were found timbers forming a scaffolding, and a large sheet of copper was discovered there. In another place, in one of tho old pits, was found a mass of copper weighing forty-six tons. At another place tho excavation was twenty-six feet deep. In another opening, at the depth of eighteen feet, a mass of copper weigh ing over six tons was found, raised about five feet from its nativebed by tho ancients and secured on oaken props. Every projecting point had been taken off, so that the exposed surface was smooth. Whoever the workers may have been, many centu ries must have passed since their mines were abandoned. The trenches and openings have been filled up, or nearly so. Monstrous trees have grown over their work and fallen to decay, other generations of trees springing up. When the mines were rediscovered, decayed trunks of large trees were ly ing over tho works, while a heavy growth of live timber stood on the ground. Height of Different Nationalities. The English professional classes are the tallest of adult males, attaining tho average height of five feet nine and one-fourth inches. Taken right through, the English and ' American races are approximately of the same height. Most European nations aver age, for the adult male, five feet six inches; but tbo Austrians, Spaniards end Portuguese just fall short of this standard. IIoskst toil is essential to restful slumber. The man who impoverishes his farm steals from his own pocket. I.augk beds of oysters, unlike those of the east, have been found in Alaska. Wu.MAM K can, of Hutto, Tex., owns a calf that chases and eats chickens, feathers und all. biUjil Oif A LO.NU JSLEEP. And the Strange Disappearance of a Watermelon. It was four o'clock on Sunday after noon in the month of Julv. The air had been hot and suitry, but a light, cool breeze had sprung up and occa sional cirrus clouds overspread the Bun, and for awhile subdued his fierceness. We were all out on the piazza as the coolest place we could find my wife, my sister-in-law and L The only sounds that broke the Sabbath stillness were tho hum of an occasional vagrant bum blebee or the fragmentary song of a mocking bird in a neighboring elm, who lazily trolled a stave of melody now and then as a sample of what he could do in the cool of the morning or after a light shower, when the condi tions would be favorable to exertion. Annie,", said I, "suppose to relieve the deadly dullness of the afternoon, that we go out and pull the big water melon and send for Cot Pemberton's folks to come over and help us eat it" "Is it ripe yet?" she inquired, sleepi ly, brushing away a troublesome fly that had impudently - settled on her hair. , "Yes, I think so. , I was out yester day with Julius, and we thumped it and concluded it would be fully ripe by to- morrow or next day. But 1 think it is perfectly safe to pull it to-day." "Well, if you're sure, dear, we'll go. But how can we get it up to the house? It's too big to tote." "I'll step around to Julius' cabin and ask him to go down with the wheelbar row and bring it up," I replied. Julius was an elderly colored man who worked on the plantation and lived in a 6m all house on ' the place, a few rods from my own residence. His daughter was our cook, and other mem bers of his family served us in differ ent capacities, i, As I turned the corner of the , house I saw Julius coming up the lane. He had on his Sunday clothes and was probably returning from the afternoon meeting at the Sandy Bun . Baptist church, of which he was a leading mem ber and deacon. "Julius," I said, "we are going out to pull the big watermelon . and we want you to take the wheelbarrow and go with us and bring it up to the house." "Does yer reckon dat watermillun's ripe yit, '.- sah?" . said Julius. "Didn't 'pear ter me it went quite plunk enufl yestiddy fer ter be. pull befor' ter morrer." "I think it is ripe enough, Julius." "Mawning .'ud bo a better time fei ter pull it, sah, w'en do night air an de jew's done cool it off nice." "Probably that's true enough, but we'll put it on ice and that will cool it, and I'm afraid if we leave it too long some one will steal it ' "I 'spec's dat's so," said the old man with a confirmatory shake of the head. "Yer takes chances w'en yer pulls it, en yer takes chances w'en yer don'. Dey's a lot er po' white trash round beah w'at ain' none too good fer ter steal it I seed some un 'em loafin' 'long de big road on mer way home f um chu'eh jes' now. ; I has ter watch mer own chicken coop to keep chick'ns 'nuff fer Sunday eatinY I'll go en git de w'eelborrow," As the old man turned to go away he bes-an to limp and put his hand to his knee with an exclamation of pain. "What's the matter, Julius?" asked my wife. , "Yes, Uncle Julius, what ails you?" echoed her sweet young sister. "Did you stump your toe?" "No, miss, it's dat mis'able rheumatiz. It ketches me now an', den in. de lef knee so I can't hardly draw my bref. Oh, Lawdy,", he added between his clenched teeth, "but dat do hurt! Ouch! It's a little better now," he said after a moment, "but I doan' b lieve 1 kin roll dat w'eelborrow out ter de watermillun patch en back. Ef it's all de same ter vo sah, I'll go roun' ter my house en sen Tom ter take my place, w'iles rubs some linimum on my laig." "That'll be all right, Julius," I said, and the old man, hobbling, disappeared around the corner of the house. Tom was a lubberly, sleepy-looking negro boy of about fifteen, related to Julius' wife, in some degree and living with them. . The old man came back in about five minutes. He walked slowly and seemed very careful about bearing his weight on the afflicted member. "I Bent 'Liza Jane fer. to wake Tom up," he said. "He's down in de orchard asleep under a tree soinewhar. It takes a minute er so fer ter wake 'im itp. 'Liza Jane knows how ter do it - She tickles 'im in de nose or der yeah wid a broomstraw. Hollerin' doan' do no good. Dat boy is one er de Seben Sleepers. Ile'swuss'n his gran'daddy used tor be." "Was his grandfather a deep sleeper, Unci Julius?" asked my wife's sister. "Oh, yas, Miss Mabel," said. Julius, gravely. "He wuz a monst'u3 pow'ful sleeper. He slep' fer a mont once." "Dear me, Uncle Julius, you must be joking," said my sister-in-law, incredu lously. I thought she put it mildly. . "Oh, no, ma'am, I ain' jokin'. I nevei jokes on ser'ous subjeo's. " I wuz dert w'en it all happen. Hit wuz a inonst'uE quaro thing." "Sit down. Uncle Julius, and tell ui about it," said Mabel, for she dearlj loved a story and spent much of ho: time "drawing out" the colored peopli in the neighborhood. The old man took off his bat ant seated himself on the top step of th piazza. His movements were some what stiff, und he was very careful t get his left leg in a comfortable po sition. . ';- ' "Tom's gran' daddy wu?ijame Skun- dus," he began. "He had 'a brndder name Tushus en ernudder nameOottus en ernudder namo Squinehus." The old man paused a moment and gave las leg another hitch. "But ea I was a-saying, dis yere Skundns growed to bo a pert, lively kind er boy en wuz very well liked on de plantation. lie never quo'led wid do res' er do han's eu alius behaved isso'f en tended ter his wnk. De only fault he had wuz his sleep'ness. ' He'd half ter be woke up eve'y mawnin ter go ter his wuk, en w'eneber he got a chance ho'd fall asleep. He wuz might' ly nigh gettin' inter trouble inor'n once for gwine ter sleep in de fiel'. I never seed his beat fer sleeping. He could sleep in de sun er in de shade. He could lean upon his hoe en sleep. Ho went ter sleep walk'n' 'long de rood 'c-in a tree he run inter. I did heah he 1 onct went ter sleep while he wuz in swimmin. He wuz floatin' at de time en come mighty nigh gittin' drownded befo' he woke up. Ole marse heared 'bout it en ferbid his gwine inswimmin' enny mo', fer he said he couldn' 'ford ter lose 'im. - 'One mawnin' Sknndni didn't cum ter .wuk. , Dey look fer'Im roun' der plantation, but dey couldn't fin' 'im, en befo' de day wuz gone ev'ybody wuz sho dat Skundns had runned erway. 'Cose dey wuz a great howdy do about it Nobody hadn't nebber runned erway f um Marse Dugal' befo', en dey hadn' b en a runaway nigger in de neighbo'hood for th'ee er fo' years. De w'ite folks wuz all wukked up, en dey wuz mo fidin' , er hosses en mo' hitchin up er buggies d'n er little. Ole Marse Dugal' hed er lot er papers printed en stuck up on trees 'long de roads, en dey wuz sumpin' put in de noospapers a free nigger f um down on de WimTton road read de papers ter some er our han's tellin' all bout how high Skundus wuz, en w"t kine er teef her had, en 'bout a skyah he had on his lef cheek, en how sleepy he wuz en off rin a reward er one hundred dollars fer whoeber.'nd ketch Mm. But none of 'em eber cotch 'im. One mawnin' 'bout er month later who sh'd come walkin ont in the de fiel' wid his hoe on his shoulder but Skundus, rubbin' his eyes ez ef he hadn' got waked up good yit "Dey wuz a great 'miration 'mongs' de niggers, en somebody run off ter de big house fer ter tell Marse Dugal'. Bimeby here come Marse Dugal1 bisse'f, mad as a hawnit, a-cussin en gwine on like he gwine ter hurt somebody, but anybody w'at look close could -'a seed he wuz mos't tickled ter defter git Skundus back ergin. " 'Whar yer b'n run erway ter, yer good fer nuthin', lazy, black nigger?' sez 'e. 'I'm gwine ter gib yer fo' hun dred lashes. I'm gwine ter hang yer up by yer thumbs en tak ey'y bit er yer black hide off'n yer, en den I'm gwine ter sell yer ter de fus' specilater w'at comes 'long buyin' niggers fer ter take down ter AlabamV W'at yer mean by runnin' er way f um yer good, kin' mars ter, yer good fer nuthin' wool-headed, black scound'el?' ! "Skundus looked at 'im ez ef he didn' understand 'Lawd, Marse Dugal', sez 'e, 'I doan know w'at youer talkin' 'bout 1 ain't runned erway; I ain' be'n no whar.' "'WW mr Vwn fer de las' mont?' said Marse Dugal. 'Tell me de truf, er I'll hab yer tongue pulled out by de roota I'll tar yer all ober yer en set yeronfiah. I'll I'll ' Marse Dugal' went on at a tarrible rate, but eve'y body knowed Marse Dugal's bark nz wuss'n his bite. "Skundus look lack 'e wuz skeered most ter def for ter heah Marse Dugal' gwine on dat erway, en he couldn' pear to un'erstan' wa't Marse Dugal' was talkin' erbout . " 'I didn't mean no harm by sleepin' in de barn las' night, Marse Dogal',' sez 'e, 'en yer'll let me off dis time I won' nebber do so no mo'. ' ''Well, ter make a long story sho't, Skundus said he had gone ter de barn !dat Sunday afternoon befo' de Monday w'en he couldn't be foun' fer to hunt aigs, en wiles he wuz up dere de hay 'peared so sof en nice that he had laid down ter take littlo nap; dat it -wuz m,awnin' w'en he woke en foun' hisse'f all covered up whar de hay had fell over on 'im. : A hen had built a nes' right on top un 'im, en it had half a dozen aigs in It He said he hadn't stop fer ter git no breakfus', but said jes' suck one or two er der aigs en hurried right straight out inde fiel' fer he seed it was late en all de res' er de. han's wuz gone ter wuk: . ! "Youer a liar,' said Marse Dugal', en de truf ain' in yer. Yer b'en run erway en hid in de swamp somewhar ernuder.' But Skundus swo' up en down dat he hadn't ..b'en out'n dat barn, en finally Marse Dugal' went up to de house, en Skundus went on wid his wuk. . . - : "WelL yer mought know dey was a great 'miration in the neighbo'hood. Marse Dugal' sent for Skundus ter cum up ter de big house nex' day, en Skun dus went up 'spect'n'; fer ter ketch forty. But . w'en he got dere Marse Dugal' had fetched up ole Dr. Leach f um down on Bockfish en another young doctor fum town, en dey looked at Skundus' eyes, en felt of his wris,' en pulled out his tongue, en hit him in de chis', en put dore yeahs ter his side fer ter heah his heart beat, en den dey up'n made. Skundus tell how he felt when 'e woke up. Dey staid ter din ner, en w'n dey got thoo' talkin' en' eatin' en drinkin' dey tole Marse Dugal' Skundus had had a catacornered fit en had b'en in a trance for fo' weeks. "Dis yer boy, Tom," said the old man, straightening out his leg care fully preparatory to getting up, "is jes' like his gran'daddy. I b'lieve ef somebody didn't wake 'im up he' s'eep till iedtrmen' day. r Heah 'e comes now. Come on heah wid dat w'eelborrow, yer lazy, good fer nuthin rascal." Torn came slowly round the house with the wheelbarrow and stood blink ing and rolling his eyes as if he had just emerged from a sound sleep and was not yet half awake. . ' Wo took our way around the house, the ladies and I in front, Julius next and Tom bringing up the rear with the wheelbarrow.- . Wo; went by the well kept grapevines, heavy with the prom ise of an abundant harvest, through a narrow field of yellowing corn and then picked our way through the watermelon vines to the spot where the monarch of the patch had lain the day before in all the glory of its coat of variegated green. There was a shallow concavity in the sand where it luvl rested, but the melon itself was -t-c. Two Tales. As empty whisky flask in a Colum bus home, apparently 6ound, exploded while the family were at dinner the other day. : A Xorth Carolina, turkey gobbler recently scratched up eight potatoes s in a earden and has been sitting -on i them for several weeks. JAMK9 Clusos,' of Hancock, N. 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