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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (April 10, 1891)
The Two Mysterle We know not whnt It 1, dear, ttoia bleep so rtiHp and dtiUt The fldH) tmnilH, the awful calm, the check So wi ami chill, The lids umtwlll not lift affAtn.thoujrb we may 'Ht! nd call. The atmnre white solitude of pesoe that settle overall. We know not what It mcanft.dear.lhl8 desolate heart pain. The riread to take our dally way, and walk In itajmln. we know nut to what sphere the loved who leave uiro. Nor why we're lot to wander still, nor why we do uut kuow. rKut this we know: Our loved and lot,if Uwy ahouhl come this day Bhould pome and ask us, What Is Href not one of us could aay. I'tfe is a mystery aa deep as death can ever be: Yet, O, how sweet tt Is to us, this lire we live and eeei Then miplit thev say, those vanished ones,and imuswj is i tie inouirut. is swtM i io um uoioveo, luouvn wo TVe may not uU it u the quick, tills mystery of death; To mar nut u-U It If ye would, the mystery of breath. The chttd that enters life eomea not wltn knowh dtre or Intent; Bo those who enter death must so as little children sent. Knthlmr ! kiKiwii. hot T believe that God Is j ovvrhend ; f And as life Is to the Hying co death Is to the dead. Mary Mapes TVxlpo In Boston Transcript. AMONG THE B RULES. An Fveltlnr Krperlnnce Dnrlaff the Re cent Indian rprtslnff. The next morning: I announced my Intention of going to Fine Itidge Ageucy, which is twenty-live miles away. Mr. Thompsou, "two scouts, and "a Swedish teaumer are to go in for provisions and messages. Mr. Thompson got in the wagoo. I ex pressed tuy astonishment at this aud the fact that he had no carbines, as we . expected to go through the hostile pickets and camp. He said, 'If I can't talk them Injuns out of killm me, I reckon 111 have to go." 1 trot ted aloni with Red-Bear and Hairr Arm, and a mile aud a half ahead went the courier. Wells. Poor man! in two hours he lay bleeding iu the road, with a bullet through the hips, aud called two days for water before he "struck the long trail to kingdom come," as the eow-boys phrase it. We could see two black columns of smoke, which we did not understand. After we had gone eight or ten miles, and were just crossing a ravine, we saw a Sioux nek on a little hilt just ahead, out of pistol-shot. He immedi ately rode the "danger signal." Rod Bear turned his horse in the "peace sign," aud advanced. We drove over the ravine, and halted. I dismounted. Six youug Brule Sioux rose out of the ground, and rode up to Red-Bear, aud the hills were full of pickets to the right anil left. We waited to hear the result of Red-Bear's conversation, when he presently came back and spoke to Thompson in Che venue. I looked at him; his eyes were snapping, and his facial muscles twitched fright fully. This was unusual, aud I knew that things were not well. Red-Bear savs we will have to aro back," explained Thompson; and turn ing to ltt'ti-isear. lie reipiesieti mat two Sioux might come closer, and talk with - us. Things looked ominous to me, not understanding; Oiicyenne, which was being talked. "This is a bad hole, and I reckon our cake is dough right here." said Thompsou. Hairv-Arm's face was impassivo. but his dark eyes wandered fitmi 1 ru e to Brnle with devilish calculation. Two vouug bucks came up, and oue asked Thompson for tobacco, whereat he was handed a package of Durham by Thompson, widen win not returned. It's lucky for me that iol.:ieto ain't ft million dollars." sighed Thompson. Another little buck siipjnd up 1 hiud me, whtreat Mr. Thouiii-son irave me a warntnjr look. Turning. 1 ad vanced on him nuivkly (I wanted to im as near as posii; not being armed), and hold in it out my hand. said. How. col ah?M II did tiot tike to tako it. but he did. and 1 was saved the trouble of futther action. 'We'll never aret thw w-tivm turned aronud." suirge-ted Mr. Tmo npson, as the teamster whipned up; but we did. And as we comm"tK".d our movement on Casey's camp, Mr. Thompson said. Jo slow now; don't .-on. or they'll sure shoot." "Gerame gun," said tlic little scout Red-Bear, aud we all trot our arms ti-om the wagon. There was no suspense now. Things had begun to happen. A little faster. yet faster, we go up the little banks of the coulee, and, ve gods! what! five lullV armed, well-mounted cow-bovs a regular rescue scene from BulTalo Bill's show. "Go back!" shunted Thompson. Bang! bang! bang! and the bullets whistle around aud kick up the dust. Awav we go. Four bucks start over the hills io our right to flank us. Red-Bear talked loudly in Olicvenne. Thompson repeated. '"Red-Bear says if any oue is hit, get off in the grass and lie down; we must all hang to gether." We all veiled, "We will." A well mounted man rode like mad ahead of the laboriug team horses to carry the news to the scout camp. The cow-ooys, Deinir wen mount ea. con in easily have gotten away, but they stuck like true blues. Here is where the great beaulv of American character comes out. Noth ing can be taken seriously by men used to a anger. Aoore toe pounuing oi tue horses and the rattle of the wagon and through the dust came the cow-boy song trom the lips of Mr. lhompson: "Roll yonr tail. And roll her Mjrli; We'll all be aug-fls By-and-by." We deploved on the flanks of the wagon so that the team horses might not be shot, which would have stopped the whole out lit. ami we tiki leu miles at a record - urea ki n g ga 1 lop. We struck the scout camp in a bluze of ex citemeuU The Chevennes were ii war-paint, and the ponies' tails were tied ud and full of leathers. After a lull in the proceedings. Mr. Thompson confided to me that ''the next time I so lo war in a wagon will put the drinks on me'1; ami he saddled Piegau, anil patted his neck in a way which showed his gratilir tion at the change in transport. We pulled out air a in for the lower countrv and as our scouts had seen the dust ot Colonel Sanford's command, we presently ioiued them. Any remarks made to Mr. Thomp son on the tobacco subject are taken seriouslr, and he has intimated to me a quiet yearning for a shot at "the par ticular slit-mouthed Brule who got away with that Durham." How we awoke next morning with the sleet freeziug in our faces, and how we made camp iu the blizzard, and borrowed Siblev stoves of the soldiers. and how we were at last comfortable, . and spent New-Year's Eve in a proper manner, is of little interest. Frederic Remington, in Harper 's Weekly. Remarkable Preservation of Bodies. Duriug the Hungarian revolution in 18-19 fortv prisoners of war were thrown into -a deep pool near Her man ostadt. A few weeks ago the bodies were recovered, after an in mersion of forty-one years, and they were in a perfect state of preservation, their orgaus unchanged in form, color. or cousciouce. It is supposed the mm erals in the water pushed iu solution . throuch the pores and had a preserva- ertect upon ttie internal organs n the eutire bod v. - MISSING.. LINKS. A New York clothing sigu Is Taylor, Cm ting & Co. Richard Ct, Moultou. of Cambridge University, Kiigland. is lu this country studying our institutions. Queen Victoria has five maids to as sist at her toilet via.: three dressers ud two wardrobe women. There are twenty-six monarchies and wenty-tive republics in the civilized world. Sixteen republics are in South America Mrs. Mackay's uew house in London will become the shrine of American tourists. Everybody will want to walk up the HH),000 staircase. The German Emperor is a rapid alker. When he delivers an address n the Reichstag he speaks at the rate of itio avllables a minute. E. B. Sears, of Boston, has bought the famous English St. Bernard dog. Sir Bedivero. paying for it C,600. Rather ft costly price of unconverted sausage. -Commodore" Tyson, of theater ticket faint, conceived and carried out the Idea of runuing news stands in the leading hotels, ftow he is worth half a million. Mrs. Schliemanu proposes to con- i n tie the excavalious at bissurlik, aud they will be carried out in comformity with lr. SrhliHinann's plans uuder the direction of Dr. Dorlfeld. The venerable James Barton works lx hours a dav at his home in New- burvport. . His desk is lifts place of rest and recreation, for that is what literary ocenpatiou means to htm. Bishop Bowman, of St. Louis, has passed more than lifty vears in church work. He is now 74 years old and is u splendid health, straight a an ar- row. with a constitution liko Uint. Judire Holmes, son of the Antocrat of the Breakfast Table." is said to be he onlv Justice on the Massachusetts Supreme Court bench who enjoys writ ing out an opiuiou. ins associates prefer oral utterances. More than 100 writers In England, male aud female, have writleu the life of Gladstone and have the mauuscript all readv. so that they can rush to a publishing house with it the moment his death is anuouueed. The paralytic condition of the widow of John B. Gotigh is pathetic. In the pride of her vigorous womanhood she stood bravely at her husband's side when but for such support he would have fallen to rise no more. A movement has been started by Miss Frances E. AVillard and Mrs. Zerelda Wallace to secure a line marble por trait bust of Susan B. Anthony, to be prominently placed in the historic gal lerv of women at the forthcomius Columbian Exposition. It i3 announced that the King- Pi Siam is to seud six youths to Pennsyl vania to be educated as pvsieians. His Majesty might send the youngsters to at least one of the i'.uiadelphia medical colleges so they could return with full diplomas by the next steam er. Jav Gould's daily income is said to be about $ 7.500. But this is rather small compared to Rockefeller, who is supposed to receive $18.tKH) daily, or Astor, who gets $23,000 daily, or even Cornelius Vanderbilt. who has to get along with $15,000 every tweuty-four hours. Mr. John Nobb. the English mil lionaire varnish manufacturer, provided iu his will for an annual income lo his son. Mr. Wilson Noble, the present member of Patitameut for Hastings, with the proviso that i.'2.000 a year shall at once be struck off if he should fail to be re-elected. Two men have found ue:ir Fresno. Cal., what is claimed to be a genuine petrified body of a man. It is reimu k ablv well preserved and even the .lines of The back of the hand are visible. The bead is of a good size aud features of Caucasian type. The body meas ures nearly seven feet io length. A Nevada congregation, wishing to got rid of an ohnoximis pastor.hit upon the dastardly scheme of giving linn a lonation party, but the plucky shep herd pulled a gun upon the crowd, ami laughed long aud loud to see his sheep flying through the woods, dropping baskets ami ounuies on tue way. The Empress of Russia is now 43 years old. Russians say that she has not the capacity oi tno i rmcess m Wales to look considerably younger than her years. The chin begins to double, and ttie cheeks have long since taken a comfortable expression. Her bViire also grows matronly, though still she is an indefatigable dancer. General Wade Hampton's father was probably the largest slave-holder in the South before the war. His plantations were situated principally iu Mississip pi. Waje Hampton inherited 1 hese estates, and was very wealthy before the outbreak of hostilities but since tS;e close of the war he has depeuded to a arge extent upon his salary as a puonc ifiicial. One of the interesting men of Cauada is Dr. Orouligatcklia. of Toronto. He is an Indian who in his youth was chief of the Mohawks. The prince of Wales urged him to go to England to be edu cated at the royal expense, and he was subsequently graduated from Oxford and from a London medical school. He good-looking, broad shouldered six-footer. Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague is hard at work on that much-looked-for life of her father. She is still young-looking, and, with her magnificent manner, taste in dress, and brilliant conversational nowers, a decided favorite in society. Meanwhile Gov. Sprague vegetates at Canonchet, and is happiest when trad ing horses or swapping stones with the boys on the beach. Mrs. Potter Palmer, the President of the Board of Women Managers of the World's Fair, has found it necessary to give up many of her social pleasures because of the exacting duties of her official position. She has thrown her self into her work with ardor, and there is every indication that she will acquit herself' with distinguished success. Her extraordinary tactThas already brought aoout smooth suiiiug ou uliat was recently a very troubled sea. 2f. K World. J. H. Graves, of Nevada City, Cal.. says: "It is not generally known that in the year 1875 a brother of the now celebrated Dr. Koch, of Berlin, came to Nevada City and remained for sev eral yeats. He was a tall, soldierly- looking fellow, not over 26 years of age, and was fully of energy and ambi tion, and very positive in his convic tions. He had a sulphuret-saving ma chine, with which he experimented at the Providence mine, but with unfavor able results.11 Hie criuiina.1 courts in tilatz nave condemned a Breslau shoemaker to two months' imprisonment for "insult of majesty," because lie retained his seat at a public meeting while three cheers were given for the Emperor. The Judge who gave the sentence ex- Plaiued that the shoemaker might have escaped with a lighter penalty had he not aggravated his original offense by "placing his thumb to his nose aud wiggliog his four fingers" when re proached with disloyally "by hfs friends in the meeting. An nneeilote of IjCHrh Heat, ouce re- i la ted by Orion" Horoe, lately ap- JioaredMn prFnt for tlie first time, lorne, on ft bitterly cold day in wui ter, went to see Hunt, aud found hhn in a large room, with a wide, old fashloued fireplace He had dragged Ins pin n t uti to the heart k clone to a lariro tire, leaving only room for him self and his chair, aud was plavttig with ttie greatest enjoyment, '"My dear fellowi" cried llurmi, "aro you aware that you are ruining your piano forever and ever In that heatP' 'l know I know,1 murmured Huut,bul It is delicious!" Making a Home. Tt seems a pity that the young wom an who is about to establish a home and has a sum of money to spend for its garnishing cannot be persuaded from laving it out all nt once. She rubs herself of so much future eujoy- ' meut. The spick and span sets of j furniture which are carelessly ordered from an upholsterer, and carried home f and stood around her parlors by his men. will never afford her half the sat ' isfaction she can get in a room for which to.day she buys a chair, and next week, seeing there must be a ta ! bio to accompany the chair, she starts on a fresh shopping excursiou, and tiuds a table which is exactly what she r is looking for; and lu another mouth. ! discovering the need of a bookcase or ! a screen, she has again the delight of ; the hunt, aud the gratification of ob taining the prettiest screen and book j case fn the city. Such a room is a growth, a gather- ing together, of household treasures little by little, and piece by piece. Each article, bought only when the ' tieed arises, or when something is hap ; pilv found to just meet the need, will have a family history which makes it ' an entertaiuing as well as a valuable possession. Each couch and footstool is an achievement; each rug and cur- 'H'l.uls " """"i"'" . M"v" 7 nome, uuut up p mi u-. . and loving consideration in all details. acquires a meaning frr deeper than could be purchased by the longest purse from the most fashionable cab inet maker. Harjitr's itazar. Imagination Hilled Her. A remarkable instance of the hold superstition has upon the mind of even the educated and religious, says the Cincinnati Enquirer, was recently ex hibited iu the case ef Mr. Rebecca Byrnes of Helena. Ark., a lady noted f.ir her iutelleetnal attainments and pious life. One morning, arising in what seemed her usual health and spirits, she summoned her childen to come to her. One son was residing fn Topeka, Kau., one iu New Orleans, two daugh ters were married and living in Se dalia. Mo., but. obedient to their mother's call, they came at once, though ignorant of the reason of their summons. When all were about her the lady iufonned them that she had had a dream, in which her husband, who had been dead for nearly fifteen years, had warned her that she had only ten days more of life. She sent foe her children to bid them good-by. which she proceeded to do with much calmness, but with the air of oue who had not the slightest doubt that she was already dying. Her friends attempted to reason with her and to point out the folly of plac iug such perfect coutldence in a dream, but all to uo purpose, for the lady per sisted in asserting that she would de part from earth on such a day aud exactly at a certain hour. Her" pastor remonstrated with her, and even brought the severest censure to bear on her superstitious credulity, and at last Mrs. Byrnes ceased to speak of the matter, so that her family had begun to think that she had conquered her faucy. She continued in excellent health and pursued her usual daily life, but just before the hour she had predicted would be that of her death she sought her children and again hade them good-bt , then, seating herself quietly in an arm-c.iair.expired just as the hour was struck. The physicians declare that her death was due solely to her imagination. Not ft Serious K I re. It was 11 o'clock at night, and I was going to my room in a Florida notel, wheu a woman came out of her room, fully dressed, aud aked: "Do you tielong to the hotel?" "No, ma'am." 'Are there many people here to night?" lt is crowded." "And it won't do to start a panic. Let me say quietly to vou that the hotel is on lire. I have known it for ten minutes, but did uut want to create an excitement." 'Are you sure, ma'am?" I asked. "Entirely sure. sir. I sine lied the smoke while iu bed. You go quietly down and tell the clerk, and 1 will knock ou all the doors ou this floor." She was wonderfully cool aud col lected, aud I never thought of doubt ing her assertion. Going down by the stairway, I beckoned the clerk aside and told him of the tire. He went lo the elevator with me and ascending lo the third floor, we found about twenty half-dressed people in the halls. The woman who had given me orders came up and said: "Come this way. I don't think the tire has much of a start yet." We followed her to her room aud began to suitf and snuff. There was certainly a strong odor of something burning, but the clerk had taken only one suiff, when he went out aud rap ped on the next door." "Hello!" called a voice. "Are vou smoking?" "Yes." Smoking Florida tobacco?" "Yes, what of it?" "Nothing. Ma'am, 'you can go back to bed. Much obliged to jou for your sagacity anil wit, but both were a little too keen this lime. Ttie stingy old cuss in that room is smoking swamp t o ba ceo, a n d it a 1 w ay s smells like a tire eating its way under a piue floor." Detroit Free. Prcs. She Wouldn't Wash Iogs. A curious case of especial interest to elderly spinsters and lovers of house pets is shortly to come before the Berliu courts. A young woman was engaged as companion to an elderly lady at stated wages, but ran away from her place two days after entering service. Her mistress procured her arrest under the law that a servant must give due notice before leaving her situation; but the police, afler hearing the girl's statement, told the lady that site could not compel the girl to return, and could only claim damages iu the civil court. For the girl stated, and her state ments have been proved true, that on entering the lady's flat four immense dogs jumped at her, although they did not do her any harm. In the next room another big dog, with a litter of pups, met her gaze, while the third room was tenauted by at least three dozen different varieties of birds. The kitchen of the old lady was given ove.r to the e.ats.and the earl's sleeniue-- rnnm - rnnrpriMil intn n. temnnr.irv hospital for invalid members of the animal world "The old lady," said the girl, "was very kiud to me, but as my duties con sisted id washing all the dogs daily, and I had to share my bed with half a dozen dogs and cats. I was obliged to run away to avoid sicKness. . - n, CHABMINC RATTLESNAKES. A FlnHl Etr 41lvn nn IlltiOrallnit or Two (r Hf Rfc ill flnthrrina; pel kuans for Urn tVorltl's ITwlr. In the yard in the rear of a house In Jacksonville, Fla., aeolored man could be seen yesterday, surrounded by ven omous snakes, 'I'he rattlesnake.cuaelt whip, gopher and many other of the most poisonous species were well rep resented. The writer, a correspondent of the Gtobe-Detnocrat, was amazed. Ho well kuew that ha had not "tackled" any cheap quality of snake-pruducing elixir, and, like Josh Hillings, came to the conclusion that that back yard be longed to the suakes. The Scribe watched the colored man place the serpents In a huge box, and then ventured lu. He at once discov ered that he was lu the prosouue of Silas Foman, the celebrated snake charmer, who is well kuown Iu Chi cago and other cities by mauagers of museums and suaka dealers, lie is a copper-colored man. about live feet eight inches in height, dresses neatly, wearing cuffs, Itelt and collar made from the skin of the rattlesnake. In reply to questions, he told the follow itig story: I am a native of Hayti. aud have been in this country seventeen years. A ijw vein's ago I determined lo eu- fage exclusively In the snake business. a my childhood my parents would gratify me by permitting me to have a rattlesnake' as n companion, and as I grew older I became fonder of those reptiles, and always delighted in mak ing them a' study. I would sometimes get bit by them, but my father had a remedy that would soon heal the wound. In 18S3. while in Lee county, near the Everglades, I captured a snake, which was shipped to New York. I was paid $70 for it. and have been following the business ever since. On all rattlesuakes four feet long and over 1 realise from t"25 to $o0 each. The smaller snakes 1 generally use myself for the manufacture of my snake oil, which will cure any rheum atism, or neuralgia in existence. I learned this from the Seminole Ind ians. When 1 Hist went among them 1 was crippled with rheumatism, and was a great sufferer. I was complete ly restored in a few days by the appli cation of rattlesnake oil. Before Pablo Bench was thoroughly settled I caught hundreds of snakes in that vicinity, but the largest anil best quality of rattlesnakes to be found in this couutry are nt Fort George Island at the mouth of the St. John's river. The suakes at this place are very gen tle and can be easily tamed. Last month I succeeded iu capturing forty four suakes I here aud was only bit eight limes. 1 have secured from the Semi note Indians a tin id that I use when bitten, and with it the bite of a rattlesnake, or. in fact, any other snake, is no more serious thnn'lhe bite of a mosquito." The writer was anxious to kuow how he captured the ftTiakes. wh n the ;harmer replied: lf you will come with me over the river, near the old base ball park. I think we will catch oue. You see I have Jip.' a dog that I hare trained, that aids me in captur ing the suakes. To tell the truth, he tiuds them for me." The suake charmer, the scribe and the dog at once started for the spot mentioued to capture a suake. It was fultv an hour before the dog obtained a clew, and began barking; finally he dropped and pointed his tail straight iuto the air. The suake charmer ran to the spot, aud. by the use of a mirror attached to a stick six feet long, he gradually drew the suake until within arm's reach, when he reached out and secured the reptile, uot, however, without the fangs penetrating his right hand. He applied his antidote, aud smilingly requested the reporter tt ' take a bite." too, which was emphatically refused. Returning home, the snake-charmer took out a piece of red silk, shook it in front of Hie reptile, who. with its dead!; fangs, pesieifated it. Silas then "jerked the silk violently away, aud the fang- wen removed. A Valnnble Hat. It was on the I. & ii. N. train going north from Austin, says tho St. Joseph (Mo.) Aom-.. We were getting cloe to the crossing of the A. & N. V. nar row gauge where there was a switch, when we suddenly slowed up. Look ing out we saw a man close mi to the eugine with a Winchester at his shoul der. Two or three more were com- iug out of the cedar brakes on both des of the track. Thev had got the signal man at the crossing in their power, aud had made him sign-il a stop. And now they had the train at their mercy. While the man in front kept the en gineer sighted, the others got into ttie express car and rilled the safe. Then thev came through the couches. We were ail getting ready to give up our money aud watches, when one of them said: "Keep piiet. gents, ami we won't harm you. We won't rob you of a cent." They passed on uuttl they came to where a drummer sat with a brand uew felt hat on his head. '1'11 leave your mouey." said oue of the train robbers, but that hat is more than I can pass. Fair exchange. ye kuow." Ami. with that he stuck his own greasy sloucher on the drummer's head "and put the brand-uew one on himself. The people in the car all laughed at tho man's good humor, aud after a while tho gang look lo the woods aud the train went ou. "Well, we got off easy said oue man. "Yes, none of us lost a cent," said another. "Kxcuse me, gentlemen." said the drummer with the greasy hat, ' but just before the gang came I stuffed 100 in bills into the lining of that new hat of mine." Baby Partly Swallowed by a Snalce. George Wharton of Brown county tells a blood-curdling snake story. Mrs. Williani Huxellj', living iu a log cabin, was making soap in the back yard, having kissed her sweet little 6-month-old baby to sleep in the cradle. Presently the baby screamed and she rushed iu and was horror-stricken to find a hideous black-snake of enormous size trying lo swallow the child. It bad ingulfed the hand, swallowed it up to the armpit, and was writhing in its contortions and efforts to ma Ice further progress. Grasping the hid eous reptile in the middle it seemed to relax its hold and disgorge the child's nrm then turned upon its mother. She dashed it lo the floor and stamped it to death. It proved to be of the black racer species, seven feet two inches lour. and measured six aud half inches iu circumference. The babe lived, and the only inconvenience it suffered from its terrible experience was that Us arm and nau-l were blis tered as if scalded in hot water. Yakima Il raid. A Monstrous Hog. Oue of the largest hogs in America, if not, in fact, the largest in the world. was reared by a Juuclion City (Kas.) man. The length was eight feet and nine inches; girth of neck. 6 1-2 feet; girth of center of body, 8 feet; width across the hips, 30 inches; weight, lv f32 pounds.. v MEN SHOT IN BATTUE. Insala Kspfrlnc of ftnlillars Hit In AotloaKolan at Halaklsva Hooker at Ah tie tarn. After a man is shot In battle, be tween the blow aud the sequence. hethor death or prolonged suffering. what are his symptoms, what his con scious feelings and emotions? A remarkable Instance mar be found lu the case of Captain Nolan, of Halaklava. Nolan assumed to guide the Light Brigade iu charge, aud with frantic exclamation and gestures with his uplifted sword he rode to the right to draw the 81x Hundred out of j the Vallej of Death, which lay directly in their course, toward the line of re doubts which they had been ordered to attack, and where victory and not disaster doubtless awaited them. When he was a few paces to the right of the leading ranks a piece of shell struck nun ou tue cuest, tearing iuto lue heart. "The sword dronpod from his hand," says Kiuglake, "but'thearm with which he was waving it the moment tie fore remained high uplifted In the air, aud the grip of the practiced horseman re maining as yet tin re taxed still held him tirm in his saddle. Missing the perfect hand of his master, and finding the accustomed governance now suc ceeded by the dangling rnlus, the horse all at ouce wheeled about and began to gallop back upon the front of the advancing brigade. Then, from what had been Nolan and his form was still erect in the saddle, his sword arm still high In the air there burst forth a cry so strange and appalling that the hearers who rode nearest him call it unearthly. And in truth I imagine." continued the historian, "the sound resulted from no human will, but rather from those spasmodic forces which may act upon the bodily frame when life as a power has ceased. The tirm sealed rider, with arm up lifted and stiff, could hardly be ranked with the living. The shriek men heard rending the air was scarce other than the shriek of a corpse. The dead horseman rode ou till he passed through the interval of the Twelfth Light Pragous. Then at last he drop ped out of the saddle." The line bet weeu Nolan living and Nolan dead was very narrow, yet the uplifted arm and the battle shout end ing in an unearthly yell proved that the soul of the warrior dominated every element of activity so loug as any act ivity remained. Ilad Nolan been trot ting along in the ranks of the Six Hun dred with uo other thought than that of keeping in line and getting ahead, he would hare gone lu the grouud like a bolt under that blow. An experience of the same nature. but at the other extreme, was that of (ieneral Joseph Hooker at Antietam. On the moruiug of the 17th of Septem ber, being iu the presence of the enemy with his corps, he began a movement to seize high ground on his front aud was compelled to pnss lengthwise of the Confederate line within range of hostile batteries. Soon a stroug body of the euemy showed it self iu his pathway, aud in the ex citement of making new dispositions and routiug and pursuing the Con federates, the General, to use his own language, "was lifted to the skies." 'The whole moruiug hail been one of i unusual animation with me." he wrote. attack he was removed from his sail- die just, as he was in the act of falling houi it. weaRenett tiy tue loss oi oioou from a wound of which he had not been con si-ions nt all. A musket ball had passed directly through the foot between the muscles of the arch and the sole, the seat as every one knows, of very sensitive nerve3. Had the Geueral been iu a state of mo lerate repose, :is for instance, quietly watch ing the execution of some movement, the blow would have unmanned him. for the mometit at least. Intensely preoccupied as he was. aud as he had good reuion to be at that stage ot the battle, he did not rotice the blow or the seusaliuu that accompanied and followed It. Complete subordination of the senses to the momentary actiou of the will seems to be quite common in wounded men, and that in the worst cases. Nolan's case aud that of the leader ol mutiny are in point. I have known of several, says George L. Kilmer, in the N. Y. Sunt and history records a great many. In the attack on the Ninth Corps lines at Petersburg, known ns the battle of Fort Stedman. 1 noticed a mounted Confederate otlicer leading a bodv of men in a t. barge upon a cau- non near wuicn l stood, a tie lastj view I had of him and that was across the sight of a Mringncll- rifle showed him riding boldly for ward his sword ou high. Others saw him still later and nearer, and his fear less action in riding a white horse under a storm of bullets, grape aud shells at tmcted much notice. Suddenlv man and horse disappeared. and after the light we found the bold rider lying dead about sixty to eighty yards "from our parapet. His form was prostrate, his sword arm out stretched and grasping the weapon (irmly with its point toward the can non he had aimed to capture. His face was partially upturned as though he had struggled at the very last to see some tbing "or to speak. The horse had wheeled about and gone to the rear some distance, then had jumped a breastwork anil fallen dead across it. Whether this was aiier his rider had been hit or not could uot be deter mined. In any caso the Georgia Major breathed his last with his face to the foe, evidently warlike aud de fiant in death. His wouud was iu the head. From conversation with the late Henry W. Grady respecting his father. who lost his lite in this attack l believe this officer to have been Major Grady of Georgia. Abusing the Voice. As the voice is the most delicate of instruments and onp which resents at once any abuse of its powers, be sure that you are not misusing it, Emma C. Thursby says in The Ladies' Home Journal. It is the easiest thing iu the world to detect such misuse when it exists. Aftersinging for twenty minutes stop aud see if there are any feelings of weariness or evidences of huskiucss about the throat. If there are. you are forcing your voice, aud you will show your wisdom by not singing again un til you have learned how to use it properly. Some people learn naturally how to use the voice, while with others it is a matter of necessity that they shall be taught. And as there is no surer way to lose a voice thsm to abuse it, if you find that it is not as easy for you to sing as to laugh, aud if you desire to do anything in the future with 3-our voice, cease singing uuti! you cau secure a good teacher. It will not hurt your voice to remain unused, though, of course, earlj- train iug and couslaut practice are most de sirable. If, however, you find that you are using your voice properly and that your efforts are pleasing to your friends, siug as often ami as much iu vonr home and in your friend's par lors as you please, " remembering al ways that it is better to siug half-a-dozen times a day for ten minutes at a time, than once for an hour. Never sing for a longer period thau ten miu utes. without resting. It is dangerous in the extreme to tire the voice, aud this evil will take prompt and sure re venge by roughening its quality aud spoiling its natural sweetness. BIRDS THAT EAT STONES. Tti Rum fiilnt Horth Iloittti of What . lie flvrnll'iwttd. Keeper Prttrh k Marrln of the Cen tral park iiifinagtjrle gives some Infor mation on tho diet of the ostrich and other large-stomached birds says the N. Y. Evening Hun. It fs well kuown that these birds swullow a regular allowance of stones every day. but It Is supposed that ihelr only purpose is to uid digestion. Mr. Marrln, however, says that they are uigimieu. lie is winuig to repeat mis assertion before all the academies of science In the world. Keeper Murrhfs sentiments are summed up as fullowst "Thayory alone is not wurrtith a dam. But.thayory and experience together is a raluabie thing. He believes he has this. His experience with ostriches extends over many year?. He has seen them eat all kinds of clones, from chunks of ginnke to diuuimnU. and ho knows that they digest thum. Ii should be said that the ostrich do,s I idle else but eat, aud has therefore very pow erful digestion. Uullktt ni.irt mil the quadrupeds.he never given his stomach a rest except w hen he is adeep. The enssowitry has a p:i-sioii for brilliant stones. 'This bird is a re I :i live of the ostrich, but Is di-iinguidted by his hairless blue and violet neck, He once served a useful purpose in the following rhyme: "If I were a cuswiwtirv. On the liHiikM of Tiinlnietoo. 1 wnilltl ''lit tt mfHf lotmrv. Aud In g-owii ami liymu bo It, too" Unfortunately com position the for this charming cassowary doe not grow near Timhuctoo, but is a mitive of the Moluccas and oilier Kasl Indian islands. There enn be no doubt, how ever, after what Mr. Man-in has said, that the bird could eat autl digest a missionary. A short time ago a visitor to the menagerie held his hand toward a cas sowrv. On it was a ring, iu which a good-sized diamond was loosely set. Without the leat hesitation the casso wary picked out the stone ami swal lowed it, and no oue has ever seen It The same thing has often happened lief ore. The cassowary. saVs Keeper Marrin. is a bird which usually eats whatever it feels inclined to without regard to Its composition. The emu. another member of the ostrich family, is also addicted to the stone-eating habit. Itnt one uf them in the menagerie has found out a kind of stone which he is apparently un able to digest. This was a loadstone, which he swallowed more than a year ago. Since then the bird has pointed due northerly, from which fact it is in ferred that he retains the loadstone aud is uuable to resist its polar at traction. The poor bird is painfully conscious of his misfortune, aud when anybody is looking at him tries to turn to some other point of the compass, but is obliged to resume before long his northerly direction. CRONER'S TRAP. ft DIble niwkttmlOwlitVhllii Offering- Them Frlmlly Perch. Although the legislature of Pennsyl vania two years ago ufilcially recorded its belief in the theory that the owl and the hawk are friends and not enemies of the farmer by repealing the law that !e bounty mi the scalps of these Uims mete m iti icasi uim i it tv-i i uuuvi old farmer in the state who still holds to the belief of the fathers that hawks and owls are pestiferous anil destruct ive enemies of the agriculturist, says a Harrisburg letter lo the N. Y. Sun, and he has adopted a novel and by no means humane way of making them iess. or at least "of destroying their power for charm, bounty or no bounty. This farmer is Benjamin Groner of the Pine creek regiou. His study of the habits of both hawks and owls led him years ago to the di-covery that they always perch on the braneh of some tree or a high f ; i!t or other good point of observai io:i near a poultir yard before snooping down upon the contents of the y:ird. This set Farmer Groner to thinking, and h thought out a contrivance which he ! lieved wotiUl be Ihu riitoniinti of every hawk and owl that prowled around hi. premises. He took a scythe blade mndu of ih finest stuff he coulii buy. He ground and whetted the edge of this Wrote until it was keen as keen could be. Then he fastened the butt end of the blade with bolts fast to a long pole, uenr the ton. The blade was fastened to the pole edge up and at an angle of forty-hve ticgrees. me poie ne men set iu the grouud a few rods from his poultry yam, on me eoge oi a woou lot. For several days au immense hen hawk had been sailing around near the premises, aud from a perch on io dead limb of a tree near the spot where the farmer set his pole in the ground had swooped down on a number of Groner's fattest chickens. The farmer chopped tho dead limb of the tree away alter seltiug ins poie ami scytne uiauo and waited the result of the experiment he was Irving. In the afternoon of the same day the hawk came sailing along over the tops of the trees. Farmer Groner saw the hawk from his barn and cautiously watched it. 1 he big bird sailed down to the tree where itlind always made its perch, hut not linking the dead liinb (i ruled nroiimi a few times and then dropped down on the outstretched scyitfd hlude, which apeared as a coU venient place of observation. The in stant the hawk lit it began to slid down the steep and smooth slant of the blade, and sliced its claws oil as quickly and ueatly as a meat cutter slices smoked beef. The bird fluttered to the ground, but as its winjs were still at ils com maud it flew away and never came back to the Grouer farm again. The farmer went out and found the bleeding talons of the crippled bird, aud knew that his experiment was a Buecess. The next morning he found a couple of set of owl toes on the ground under the scythe blade. Ever siuce then one of these traps has been ou duty near his poultry yard, and the frequent finding of owl and hawk claws beneath it and a steady increase in his poultry flocks are n coutrovcrtiblo proof that it is doing well the work it was planned to do. Aa owl or hawk that lights oa that terri ble perch is forever afler unlitted for stealing chickens, for both birds cap ture their prey with their talous. Generous I'resitleot liarrloa. "I have seen some pretty high roll ers in mv time,11 said Manager Bennett of the Arlington, "hut tlie late Presi dent Barrios was easily the prince of all that class. When he slopped with us he sent down a draft one dav lv his secretary that called for $10 000. and he wanted the moni'V inst:ititlv. I surrested iroinir to iho b:uik. t.ut the ! Pi-esideut didn't ivlisli any sueh for mality. However, I took hi- secre tary and got it. explaining to the lat ter that few hotels kept that much money lying about in ihe till- He said nothinr"to his chief alout our vi.-it to the hank. Wheuevur a barber went lo the President's rom to exercise his art he was presented with a $0 gold piece. On leaving Gn. Barrios distributed among the servants w ho had waited on him about $800. I fear 'wo shall not look upou his like again." The submarine telegraph system of the world consists of 120,070 nautical miles of cable. SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD. Aa fnirlnt OIrclwrUrle f tndlaa pnritlfclnn A Nqnnw'i Mnffnrlng. A young squaw fleein from the ad vancing HiotiJt reaehe! the Inctosure pursued by half score of painted devils, their hands already reeking with Pawnee gore, writes a New York Tribune correspondent. Seelngescape Impossible, she fell flat on the ground and pulled her blanket over her head to lose sight of the descending blow. It came from a tomahawk that glanced off her skull without penetrating it. The whites were within a few rods, fir ing as they ran, and oue of the Sioux braves fell." shot dead, beside the pros trate woman. Another, howerer, Jerked the blanket from her bleeding lead, aud with haste born of fear cut around and cruelly lifted her scalp, she was conscious all the time, but never uttering a sound. The savage lied with his bloody trophy to regain his comrades. The troops came' to (he reetie of the sadly outnumbered Pawnee, and together they succeeded in pulling the Kiotix to rout. When t ie p:in !o subsided the wounded squaw was borne into the mission hospital and her injuries dressed. In spite of the scalping she bade fair to recover. Strange lo relate, however, her friends show ed a grejii reluctance her re vhig medical treatment, claiming 1 hut according to all Indian precept and example A scalped person should he tieau, anu her recovery wonicj only bring "bail medicine" to her tribe. The woman acquiesced in this opinion, and expressed jterfeet willingness to oe sacrniceii to the ancient customs. The next morning the squaw's cot was empty and the patient uo where to be found. Two days later some troniters hunt ing a stray horse on the river bank, miles away, were start ted to hear groans coming from a neighboring thicket. inriiKingtnat some wounueu Sioux had been abandoned to die. they cautiously approached. There, buried alt but her face in the drifting sand, was the scalped squaw, still alive and conscious. I'hey dug her out aud brought her back to the mission, thor oughly cured ot her willingness 10 tlie. She told how she had been stolen from the hospital by her own family and buried oy the river uauK. one now wanted to lire, and a close match was kept to prevent her being again offered a a victim to savage superstition. Once afterward, when walking io the yard, she was spirited away by the Pawnees and liidden in a tepee, that when night fell she might be boned more securely. Again she was re stored to the mission, and. upon strong threats of military vengeance should anything occur to ber in future, -the poor creature was allowed by her tribe to live out the remainder of' her days THE GEORGIA "CRACKER." ttllmiM m th Habitation mt tUm Southern Mill OprttTM. The choicest of these rickety abodes was described by a girl whose only home it had been for fourteen years; "I reckin hit Ml set up thar a right smart while yit. but hit Vpow'ful cold en leaky." Kven where better quart ers are obtainable the cracker prefers some great shackling structure im possible to heat or to bumanixe, be cause, forsooth, as one occupant al leged, "here we has a dinin'-ball." Wout to flock to the suburbs of a city, just beyond tax limit, they herd, dirty and disorderly, in filth and semi-idleness in leaky hovels without other furniture than the barest necessaries. If there is ground enough to grow a few vegetables, the responsibility of cnltiratiug it becomes a pretext that often deprives a household of the earn ings of its head. Men habitually abandon work on pretense of "makin it gardin." A little girl, who with ber sister's help supported a family of six, wnen nked why ber father did not as mi, excused him on the plea, "Dad de our gitrd'nin"' the garden being a pi it ten by twelve. W:iges in 'the Georgia mills seem low when judged by Northern standards; yet wheu the eost of living and the Mil rounding ami the efficiency of the operatives re taken into account, pay is reiiitively as high as where a more t-oioiilex civilization has created artifi cial wants. The inter-dependence in the South between corporation and employees is rare in New England factory villages. The names, resid ence, circumstances, needs, failings, or virtues are here well known to the officials; in time of trouble or suspen sion of work money is freely advanced, and by au unwritten code of human feeling long illness or other disability often brings the regular weekly pny. Not only are relations more friendly and intimate than at the North, but there is conspicuous freedom from the spirit of drive and despotism. Even New Eugland superintendents and overseers in these Southern mills soon glide into tho prevailing laisteb-faire or else leave in despair, though ad mitting that the cracker might be trained to the highest efficiency. Th Century. - - Wants An Old-Time Wife. She wore her stuff or printed gown and snowy apron on week-da-saiid her : silk frock on the Sabbath the same over. Hie wue now roust iook iieo a French fashion plate every blessed minute, in spite of the work entailed by babies and inefficient servants and afl. or the man is injured and thinks she isn't fond of lookinsr nice for him any more. If the cnrl gets oat of ber bang it is proof positive that she has ceased to love him. The old-fashioned wife gave him indigestible boiled din ners and fried beefsteak, preserves and plum pudding, and rich pies over and over again; now the man must have savory soups and dainty salads, puff paste and ices, pate de foie gras and terrapin. She knitted her stockings and looked after the family mending in the even ings, and knew scareeiv more of the tonics of the dav than the servants in her kitchen. Now, if there is one thing from the McKiuley bill to the latest fad in handshakes, from Ibsen to football, that a wife doesn't kuow all about, her friends pity her husband that be has a wife that is bo little company for him and so little help to him in his career. Wo are living in an advanced age, and it is only the advanced woman, educated, cultured, clever aud gifted, that can take the honors of wifehood noon her without certainty of failure. The times - demand the advanced woman, the woman is created by the demand, and the more woman becomes advanced in intelligence the fewer mesalliances and tbe more successful iimrriages will there be. Ifihni:in who Ion 2-3 for the old- fji-hioiied woman would stop croaking lini-r enough to make some capable wo 11 1:1 n cure for him, he would see the miracle wrought; how love teaches her tender ministration, motherhood awak ens wise instinct., and iiO w "all these thinrs shall bo added unto her.11 Let hi ni be can-ful that be gets the ad vanced woman, though,aot the woman who wants to be advanced, organises club for the purpose of being eman cipated the rauter against the narrow ness and bondage of woman's life, but the earnest, capable, educated, com plete, wonderful woman ot the. wom an's era. - ' The Chinese endure change of eU mate better than other race. FOREIGN. Thousand nt rinrmlA In fVltnd urn bolna Maved from starvation bv fnnd from America. Timothy Honlv was mohlted unrl almost killed at Cork March 33, Prompt venireanoa haa fallen nnon Ruiniuaatra. the governor of the prov ince of Be lan k 11 a, Madagascar, who, according to news received here on March 4, massacred 378 persons be long! n g to leai ling families. Dis- iatelies just received here state that tamiaautra, together with h brother, who la supposed to have instigated the massacre, were executed oh the spot whee the wholesale killing took piace. A fight is reported between the Venezuelans and the English on tlie disputed British Guiana boundary. Italy contemplates steps to check emigration to America., The workmen's congress In Spain has decided to strike if necessary for an eight-hour day Arthur Wilson, at whose house the gambling row occurred while the prince of Wales was present, causine so much scandal, has been appointed py uie queen nign snerin 01 xorit. France and Russia have formed some sort of an alliance that alarms Germany. 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