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
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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.