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OLD GIF 6ER0NM0 DIED HATING WHITES War Commander of Apaches, After Twenty-one Years Did Not For glve Pale-Faced Captors. LAST OF THE EEDSEIN LEADERS Only Relenting Warrior Showed Was When He Sought Some Favor from Custodians. The recent death of Geronimo, the famous war chief of the Apaches, which occurred at the Fort Sill mili tary reservation in Oklahoma, where he hnd been held a 'prisoner for many years, removed one of the most cruel and most subtle red-skinned savages that the United States Government has ever fought. Gen. Miles, to whom he surrendered after his last great out break in 1885, called him the "hu man tiger," and the characterization was not too severe. lie reveled in blood and died untamed and unrecon structed. The famous Apache, who came to public notice four years ago when he was permitted to take his band of warriors to Washington for the inaugu ration of President Roosevelt, was one of the few really great fighters that CHIEF GKItONIMO. survived of the host of Indian lead ers of the last two generations. Time after time during this long period he outgeneraled, outmarched and out fought dozens of regimental leaders of the United States army, and was per sonally responsible for the deliberate murder of thousands of helpless set tlers and the horrible torture of hun dreds of captured enemies. For the last nineteen years this old chief had been a prisoner of war. He bad never forgiven the white men, and up to the time of his death he never spoke of the whites as "broth ers" except at times when the wily old redskin covered his hatred to pray for some favor. He had made many at tempts to get permission to go buck to Arizona, where he said lie desired to die. Early in 1!H)S Geronimo made a trip to Washington with a number of his followers in an effort to Interest Pres ident Hoosevelt in his case. The old Indian was unsuccessful, however, and to the Inst Geronimo was full of bit ter hatred for the white man. At the time of ills death Geronimo was Sil years old. One daughter, Lola, who lives in Oklahoma, survives the old warrior. From the early '(His until Gen. Law ton, then serving under Gen. Miles, rounded him up In 1S80, Geronimo was a living terror to the settlers of Ari zona, New Mexico and Stmora, Mexico. Tlmo after time in those days he swept down upon lonely ranches with a band of well-horsed, well-armed sav ages, murdering and burning, then with the cunning of a snake wriggled back Into the mountains, where the little companies of cnvalry found It impos sible to snare him. Preferred Uentli 1 Capture. The country tlrst U'gnn to hear of Geronimo 50 years ago, when lie was comparatively a young man. In those days Cochise was war chief of the Chirlcahua Apaches, an old man of bestial cruelty. Geronimo himself was the son of Mangus Colorado, or Ghal-e-row, who as war-chief of the Warm Spring. Chlrlcahuas made life a bur den to the settlers of Arizona aud New Mexico. Cochise died in 1S75 after a career of rapine aud plunder that couldn't be matched except by the rec ord Geronimo made later. Natchez suc ceeded Cochise and Geronimo very shortly succeeded Natchez.. As to how many lives Geronimo end ed within the next 10 years there Is no record. Ills favorite amusement was to send in assurances of peace to the soldiers, retire for n few mouths to the mountains, and then when the settlers believed they were In most security to swoop down on them, scalping every man, woman and child who hadn't had time to lice, and there was seldom much warning before Gor onimo's raids, Endless stories have been told of the almost unimaginable cruelty Geronimo displayed toward the few prisoners he ever troubled himself to take. More than once ranchers who kuew they were doomed to capture or death saw to it that their women were dead before they fell Into the hands of Geronimo's Apaches. Geronimo never fought when he could help it. A woman on a ranch or a mail carrier on his pony carried as good a scalp as a soldier and was much safer to slay. When the soldiers caught up as they sometimes did the Indians fought back with every device they knew. When the pursuit was too hot their picked men dropped in their blarikets and waited until the soldiers came upon them, and sought to shoot the officers. A Typical Ilald. The story of one of Geronimo's raids is practically the story of all, and the biggest of them was in 1881, wheu Geronimo led 500 warriors on the war path down as far as Chihuahua. They had many diversions along the road. On Eagle river they found a herder with 3,000 sheep. The herder they threw over a cliff, and as he lay there broken-legged they burled him with stones. They punched the eyes out of the sheep until that grew tiresome. In Gold Gulch a half dozen capital ists were on their way to examine a prosjH'ct. A small detachment of the Indians lay in the tall grass alongside the trail and shot five of the six out of their saddles. The sixth man got away, lie had retained his rifle, and they did not follow him. They crossed the Gila river with a lot of horses, killing freighters ns they found them, and swept across the mesa near Shakespeare, where they encoun tered Judge McComa of Silver City, his wife and their 0-year-old Ron. They shot the judge.- felled his wife with a stone, tortured her to death, and car ried off the boy to what fate nobody ever has been able to make the Apaches tell. When Geronimo was at the height of his power as an outlaw his face was one of demoniacal ferocity. His fury knew no bounds. His temper was so terrible that he frothed at the mouth when enraged. If a horse did not do as he wished he killed it, and squaws who displeased him were put to death. The last death trail In which he was engaged was in IKS.", and in that raid he killed 70 wiiite settlers. Gen. Miles conducted the campaign against him and, aided by the late (Jen. Law ton, he succeeded in snaring the wily chief In 1880. Geronimo and his fighters were run to earth at the junction of the San Bernardino and Ravispe rivers, near the Mexican border, and surrendered unconditionally. They were sent to Fort Pickens, Fin., and later to Mount Vernon Barracks, in Alabama, and then in 1804 were transferred to Fort Sill, ft Is said that the various cam paigns waged by the United States against this murderous redskin cost the lives of nearly 1.000 soldiers and $5,000,000 in money. At one time, to curry favor with the President that he might be permitted to return to his' native Arizona, Geron imo Joined the Dutch Reformed church. But his habits were so bad that he was dropped from the church, and he died without acknowledging the white nine's God. HIS UMBRELLA. It Was the Cause of Airing Family Secrets In I'libllc. A young man was riding in an omni bus, lie took the corner seat and held in Ills hand an umbrella which had been given him as a birthday present. On the seat facing him was n lady with a precocious boy, evidently about five years old. The youngster regarded the young man with attention for a few moments, and then his eyes wandered to thf umbrella. He gazed at it In silence for a second; then he ivrlggled In his seat, clapiK-d his hands and shouted: "Oh, mamma, don't that look like pa pa's umbrella?" "Hush, hush, my child!" said the mother, patting the prodigy on the head. , "Papa was looking for his umbrella this morning, mamma," continued the child wonder. "Yes," yes, but ho found it." said the mother hurriedly, as the conversation was becoming of Interest to the occu pants of the scats. "Why, mamma," continued the youngster, "you know he didn't. You told him that he didn't know enough to keep an umbrella. Why, mamma" At this stage the small boy was car ried howling from the bus. Pearson' Weekly. A SENATORIAL SEAT. (When the Suffragists Get In.) It is another sign you are growing old If you feel grateful to those who Ilk you. SOMETHING FOB EVERYBODY Some of the moon's mountains are 30,000 feet high. t Turkey exports goods to the value of about $100,000,000 a year. Princess Albert of Belgium is said to be the happiest wife, In the courts of Europe. There are more doctors per capita in New York city than anywhere else in this country. "Trial Marriages" were discussed at the recent congress of Russian wom en at St. Petersburg. It is only within the last ten years that tropical fruits like bananas and pineapples have had large sale in Ger many. ' The foreign commerce of this coun try fell off about $500,000,000 last year. The greatest decline was noticed at the Atlantic ports. Mrs. Keith Spalding, of Chicago, has given $18,000 and forty acres of land to be used in establishing a tuber culosis sanatorium at Napervllle, 111. The Australians eat an average of 129 pounds of sugar each year, the United States 89 pounds, Germany 36 pounds, France 32 pounds and Great Britain 81 pounds, but in the latter country the ratio is going up. Owing to recent raids upon "blind tigers" by the police authorities, the city of Savannah, Ga., is the possessor of about 20,000 gallons of whisky, be sides much beer, wine, champagne, etc. It can neither be sold nor given away. Figures Issued by Manchester Uni versity point to the fact that women graduates rarely marry.. Out of 500 women who have taken degrees only sixty-four have married. Twelve of these married graduates of the same university. Mrs. Russell Sage is said to pay the heaviest tax of any person in the city of New York. The tax books show that twenty New York women are as sessed for upward of $17,000,000, and more than a score of others are re quired to pay for $250,000 to $100, 000. Mrs. W. J. Beggs, now of Seattle, is said to have produced the only rose absolutely without thorns. She was for several years a neighbor of Luther Burbank in California, where she studied his methods. The bloom of this thornless rose is reported to be of unusual 'beauty. The Grand Duchess Sergius of Rus sia is to found an establishment in Moscow which Is to supply district nurses for the poor. The grand duchess, whose husband was killed by the terrorists, is to live In one of the buildings devoted to the work, and other titled men and women will also dwell near her and help In the work. . A bill has been prepared by Charles Francis Adams and introduced In the Massachusetts Legislature to provide that there shall be no alteration or change In the name of any public way, street, place or square, of of any pub lic park, where the . name altered or changed has been In use for twenty-five years, without the consent of the High way Commission of the State. At a hearing on the measure representatives of many patriotic societies favored it. The women of Paris have discovered a new method of stimulation in the tea cigarette. To make one about as much tea is required as would make two strong cups of tea. As many Paris women are reported to be smoking on an average ten a day, it is ensy to see why the doctors should be taking meas ures to nip the fashion in the bud. They describe it as a horribly easy method of stimulation and sure to un dermine the strongest constitution in a few months. Canton, China, at present Is full of robbers. It is said that in some parts the people are really afraid to go to rest at night, Inasmuch as it Is certain that thieves will enter and rob the place. Accordingly some one sits up, while others sleep. The following is a queer criticism of China's policy by a correspondent: "We have a police force, whose work consists mostly in sleeping at post or helping the nearby shopkeeper to chop wood Or a neigh boring blacksmith to blow his fire." Mrs. George F. Lowell received more applause than any of the other speak ers at the recent meeting of the Massa chusetts Press Association. Her ad dress was on woman suffrage, and in reply to a statement made by a speak er preceding her that the women of America could get the ballot or any thing else they wanted, Sirs. Lowell said they could, provided they waited long enough. She reminded them that It took Massachusetts women fifty-five years to obtain the equal guardianship of children, and almost as long to get that of equal inheritance between hus band and wife. The legal adage de minimis non curat lex was apparently reversed in the Glamorgan County Court held at Cardiff, Wales, recently, when a work man seriously sued his employers for compensation for injuries sustained white putting in a shop front, the in juries being the result of a flea bite. The claimant's solicitor asked for an adjournment, as he said his client was ill. The Judge granted the adjourn ment, but was Informed immediately that the claimant had been seen in the neighborhood of the court Thereupon the Judge called the case again and gave Judgment for the defendants on the ground that the man might have been carrying the flea for half an hour before he went to work. - Off- IVnY -P-iLr-' VWT I Tremendous Cost of A Farmer's Enterprise. An Iowa farmer has succeeded in opening up a big field for his enter prise by applying an old method to a new service. He has gone Into the business of furnishing fresh eggs daily to a regular list of customers, after the fashion of the milkmen aud bakers. This farmer Is a man who raises many chickens and markets a large number of eggs. These he had been selling to dealers, who In turn sent them to cold storage warehouses or to wholesalers. Finally they got to the consumers, usu ally pretty stale aud much the worse for handling, through the retail grocer or huckster. When eggs were plenti ful and the wholesalers were well stocked up, the farmer got little for them. When eggs were few and prices to consumers were very, very high, the farmer found that his eggs In the warehouses were still In competition with the producer. This man's egg route isn't an egg route exclusively. He sells dressed chickens and other farm produce, too, and when his egg wagon Is going about the driver takes orders for other things which are raised on the farm. Springfield Journal. Starling Early Celery. Celery growing on a commercial cale has received most attention in the "muck-bed" areas of Michigan and N'ew York, where thousands of acres are devoted to this crop. California ind Florida have" taken up the Indus try and during, the winter and spring nonths provide Northern cities with large amounts of celery. To secure an early crop the best plan for the amateur grower Is to fill i wooden tray 16 inches by 24 Inches In size with fine soil three Inches deep. This soil should be pressed down and the seeds scattered either in rows or broadcast. Cover the seeds by sprlnk- GEBMINATINO BOX FOB CELEBY. ling through a fine sieve a small quan tity of leaf mold or sand. The win low of a moderately warm room with frequent sprinkling will provide the onditions necessary for germination. When the -seedlings appeal after two ir three weeks turn the boxes daily to keep the growth even. The Illus tration shows the form of box used "or starting the plants. Cost of liaising a Calf. In an experiment to ascertain the cost of raising a calf Prof. Shaw of Michigan station took a dairy calf and kept an accurate account of the ex pense of feeding for one year from its birth. The amounts of feeds used in that time, were 381 pounds of whole milk, 2,5(58 pounds of skim milk. .1,262 pounds of silage, 219 pounds of beet pulp, 1,254 pounds of hay, 1,247 pounds of grain, 147 pounds of roots, 14 pounds of alfalfa meal and 50 pounds of green corn. The grain ration consisted of three parts each of corn and oats and one part of bran and oilmeal. At the end of the year the calf weighed 800 pounds at a cost of $28.55 for feed. The naif was a Ilolstein. Oregon Apples for King Edward. What are considered the finest apples ever grown in the United States or auy other country' passed through Bos ton recently on their way to the table of King Edward of England. They are known as winter banana apples, and are two aud a half times the size of the ordinary apple to which one is ac customed. These apples .are grown at the. Beulah land orchards, Hood River, Ore., by Oscar Vanderbilt an expert orchardist, and they are considered the highest development in the cultivation of this fruit Their color Is perfect the- rosy blush blends with the green in "the most luscious manner imagin able. In flavor and texture they are s good as they look. , Salt Water to Kill Weeds. Salt water for killing weeds has been extensively used during the past season on the Oregon Short Line rail way, and "very satisfactory results have been reported. Water for the purpose is taken directly from Great S< Lake, which is approximately 22 per cent salt and is merely pumped into tank cars and hauled over the line. : To Revalue State Lands. That all the homestead lands In Michigan have been withdrawn from the market Is announced by State Land Commisloner Huntley Russell. The lands will be kept out until they have been reappraised, as provided by a res olution recently Introduced In the lower house of the state legislature. Prairie Dogs, In the state of Texas alone prairie dogs eat annually enough grass to sup port 1,562,500 cows. Utterly useless, the little animal Is a pest so dreaded that the forestry service has undertaken his extermination. Poison is killing him, wherever he now flourishes and another resource of the farmer Is safeguarded. Who would think that the prairie dog, the shy and amusing little rodent that we like to watch . before the door of his burrow at the Zoo, would ever be come the subject of the government In tervention or endanger the success of stock raising? Yet such is the fact says the Technical World Magazine. Out on the national forests which Uncle Sara Is guarding for the use of the pub lic, expert hunters have gone after the prairie dog with zeal, ingenuity and poison and literally exterminated them In great numbers, because some of their choicest ' bottom lands have had the grazing ruined for stock by the indus trious burrowing of the "dogs." A Gate That Never Sags. I have used this gate for many years and never spent five minutes repairing it Countersink two pieces and pin them together. Then set up two . 2x4 pieces 2 ft. higher than the gate so it can be raised In winter. Mortice and set in between the crosspieces, which WIBK-COVERED GATE THAT BALANCES. are 12 in. apart, the board, a, and fasten a cap to the top of the frame. The gate is 16 ft. long, 12 ft being for the gateway and 4 ft. for the weights to balance it. The frame is of 2x4's. Cover the 4-ft. end with boards and fill with enough stones to balance it when hung. Cover the gate with wire fenc ing and hang by a chain. Put a bolt through the lower part of the frame into the crossplece, a. A. J. Fraser, in Farm and Home. How to Grow Potatoes. , Director Woods of the Maine agricul tural experiment station summarizes his suggestions as to succesful potato growing as follows. What he says about thorough preparation of the soil is applicable to that to be used for any crop. Select highly fertile land, so situated that It will suffer as little as possible from either excessive rain or from droughts. Thoroughly prepare the soil and fer ltlize liberally. Keep the crop free from weeds and the surface of the soil loose during the whole season. Do not let anything prevent the po tato field from receiving constant care. Vastly more failures in potato grow ing can be traced to neglect of crop than to lack of knowledge. How Many Hens. Have you pondered the fact- that it requires very little more labor to keep a flock of 100 birds than a flock of 20? There is a hint there as to getting the proper return for your labor. Also the expense of housing and yard ing the larger flock is but little more than for the smaller. These are the two important outgoes, aside from feed. It follows that your profit will be greatly increased by the enlarged flock without a corresponding Increase of expense. By all means, if it will pay you at all to keep chickens, It will pay you to keep not less than seventy-five. When and How to Prane. It Is very Important that the healing process should start soon after the wound is made, otherwise the cambium will be killed back quite a distance from the exposed surface, and healing will be greatly retarded. For this rea son winter pruning should be avoided, particularly. In frosty weather. In the early fall or late spring the cambium is active and wounds made at this time start to heal at once, and there" Is lit tle or no dying back of the cambium. A Csefnl Farm Implement. A useful but much neglected farm implement the shaving horse. t Orchard Suggestions. As a rule apples from orchards that are in sod culture are better and more highly colored than those from tilled orchards, but this is not necessarily so. The peach requires good culture, but this culture should not be continued too late in the season or the wood will not harden by the time winter sets In and the tree will be injured. AGAIIT THE GUILL0TIUIS. France Has Resumed the Public Beheading; of Criminals. After keeping the guillotine locked up out of sight for three years because President Fallieres opposed capital punishment and preferred to pardon persons condemned to death, France has again brought the dreaded machine into use and has resumed the public be heading of criminals. Parisians have thronged the places of execution and have shown such a disposition to make a merry spectacle of the death of a criminal that the feeling is grow ing that the authorities will soon de cide that it is better to limit 'the 1 ! r - . ...-. ' 'Jr I " "t I ' J V I .A j THE GUILLOTINE. number of spectators or make the exe cutions altogether private. A man named Danvers was the last victim. He was executed for the cold blooded murder of a farmer and his wife, who bad befriended him. The scenes .were extraordinary, . Men and women, masked, and in fancy dress pa raded the streets, halting in front of the Jail where the condemned man was lying, ignorant of his impending death, n mug vuiuie tsuugs wilii uproarious choruses. M. Deibler, the executioner, . was the object, of frenzied ovations wheuever he left the privacy of his- ho tel, and the cafes, restaurants and ho- . tela ven all packed. On the night be-: fore the execution no one seemed to go' to bed, but remained on the streets, awaiting the execution, and once the . crowd of masqueraders mockingly ; sang "De Profundis" right under Dan vers' cell. , ' - New York City has 200 women's clubs. ' ' , ; The United States consumes 80,000,- 000 pounds. of tea annually. , The world's' demand of rubber amounts to 125,000,000 pounds annually. The death record of the railroads in New South Wales is one in seven years. The water of the tropical oceans con tain more salt than that In" other lati tudes. . . , , Less than 1 per cent of the public . has occasion to make use of the world's cables. . , la spite of the political workers Mrs. Harriet Paul has been appointed clerk of the committee on corporations and xne oniy onjeciion orrerea Dy tne po litical workers to her was that the of- flee represented part of the spoils and should bv riehts co to n man There are 85,840 trees in J'arls, and each tree has lot number, age, history and condition recorded In the books at the Hotel de Ville. The appropriation for this department is 450,000 francs a , year. The work could not be done for any such sum had it not been so thor- . oughly done in the beginning In the reign of Napoleon III. Technical World Magazine. A contributor has had the curiosity to look up J. B. Reid's "Burns Con- cordance" and measure the amount of '" space devoted to certain words. In the result he found that Burns uses ' the word "heart" more than any other, the quotations under this word filling : no fewer than six of the closely print ed columns. "Lass," "friend" and "heaven" come next, each having about two columns. Glasgow News. ' "Stalwart," originally applied by Mr. Blaine In 1877 to Republicans who stuck to the "bloody shirt," was later appropriated to the Republicans who ' were in favor of the nomination 1 of V General Grant in 1SS0, and to Mr, Conkllng's friends in New York as - against Mr. Blaine's and General Gar- C 1 T ...U . 1 1 . 1 ..I ... . "Mugwump" in its political sense des- . ignated the Republicans who refused o vote for Mr. Blaine in 1884. -. Oatgrowlng Things. les, we uuigrow evervtnine tnvL little pink or blue dresses, friendships;:, Ini-co. and ideals, and It- la wall v, ' - - . uiai . we do, says a writer in Home Notes." We may occasionally regret some nnn ' of them ; but If they were always ours.. how monotonous life wnnl.1 . hardly would be worth the living, yoq now. Increasing Her Importance. "I see that Sweden has adopted a. universal suffrage law." "Gee! I hope our Swedish cook won't hear of it Cleveland Plain Dealer. You may not hope to be unpreju diced. The next best chance then Is U have creditable prejudices.