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VOL. XXIV
M’MINNVILLE* OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1894
TH£ SLEEP BEWITCHED.
The fair was over, the folk were flown.
Bryan Bwec walked home alone.
Over the fields be followed the path
That winds away to the haunted rath.
Over tlie fields his way he kept;
There in the moated rath lie slept,
I nder the lonely fairy tjiorn.
Much a sleep a- he slept till ruornl
<^san
There he lay in a dreamy bed.
Irowuy pillows beneath Lis head.
It on nd and round on magical teet
Flew the fairies to Dddiea sweet.
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for Infants and Children
HIRT Y j oara’ obs^rvatloii of
Over him, under him, roundabout
Gambolled aud galloped with song and
shout.
Frisked and frolicked and laughed for glee,
Jigging and dancing merrily.
irltL the patronage of
illinn« of p^mnni, permit u«* to *pouk of It rvithoot
¡t l<* twijucKtlonably th*» beat v»-/uu.iv for
the world he. ever known.
give* them health.
It 1« hnrmle««.
Wrinkled witches, old wlzeued chap».
Scarlet mantles and crimson caps,
Silver buckles on tiny brogues,
Such a laughter of iiltle i itgiies!
J au ’« and Children
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Children like it.
It will save fhelc live«.
It
In it Mother* have
Round end round while tlie pipers played.
In and out. little mail and maid.
Golden tresses and kirtlee green,
Cloaii aud courtier aud kiug and queen.
Hc.illy perrie* M a
ithbig which i» ahnolnti !y «tf* nui p
child'« medicine.
I'p the middle aud down again.
Here and there to witching strain.
All night iorig, till the village cock
Crowed at half past three o’clock.
Cattarla <!®*tr<iy« Worm*.
Cantoria allay* Fevsrl.hne«*.
Cattarla prevent* vomiting Soar Card.
One, two, three—and tlie spell was broke;
Iirfan Bwee from his sleep awoke,
Froui the crowu ot bis head to tlie sole of
shoo.
With the feet of the fairies black aud blue.
Cattarla cure* Diarrhœa anil Wind Colio.
Caatoria relieve* Teething Trouble*.
Caatoria cutm ConsttpaUon and Flatuleno/.
te_of j:arbonl© _a©i<l
Caotoria neat rail/#»« the
Now in his chimney hob lie Hits,
Robbed, they »ay. of his five wits:
Old and feeble aud sorry aud sore.
And he hears the music forevermore.
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Caatoria aa.liulla»*« the foc>J{ i.giikt*« fli* •t»B»eii *a4 bowal..
giving he althy and uatnral wleep.
A STERN CHASE.
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Don’t allow any one to sell yoti an^thiui^ el** on the plea or promiae
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FROM
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they cun l>v bought any where else in
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Il is the Dining Car Route.
Graduate University of Mich
It runs through
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CROWN AND BRIDGE WORK A SPECIALTY
lATI*T MlTHOO OF P«INL*S* t»Tn*CTlO*
CoMiuo«;? o?' P/.V/.VG C'.l/iS iui.i«rpas«d.
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KKN n f latest tip- ipmtnl.
THE
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LIVELY STABLE.
CATES
ELECANT DAY COACHES.
& H^NRY, Props.
A conuiinous line, connecting with all lines, af­
fording direct and uninterrupted service. Pull­
E Street, north of Third Everything New and man Sleeper tcm nations can la* "eeiired in ad­
First el*»- Conveyance of Commercial Travel­ vance through any agent of the road.
ers a anecialty B.sir<’ and "tabling by the dav or
mouth We soUcit a lair abate of the local pat
THROUGH TICKETS to and from all points In
tonage.
America. I:,gland and Europe, at any ticket
oftive of this road.
CRANK ROECA,
ßaslpoqable (jailor,
Ou« Door West
ut Cigar Store.
In at the point hold.« np his hand, but what
he said 1 didn’t mean to hear. Au the
next time he spoke I was out of hearin.
But it wasn’t long afore I heard the hoofs
ot Joe’s geldin rattlin along behind ns, an
the jingle of his bells, so I had to shake the
mare up once again. I began to feel inter­
ested in this business somehow. Here was
Furi ir.f rmation concernitib- rules, time oi
trains. routes and other details furnished on ap­ Joe trying to bustle me out of the gel o’
my heart, an here was his fare tryin to
plication to any agent, or
rush mine out of his, which I hopes is
clear enough for all you drivers to under­
A. D.
stand.
Assistai.! General Passenger Agent,
Bein that time putty late, in course there
wasn't no traffic to speak of, so we had a
No. 121 First Street
I PORTLAND, OR.
Comer Washington.
clear course.
CHARLTON,
MrMiSSVIllE OR
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It was just about this time last year, an
just about tbi» time o’ night, I was walk­
ing the mare along Broadway looking for
a job—an, to tell the truth, looking weary
au anxious for one, seein as how I’d been
out since 10 o’clock an hadn’t eveu takeu
my yard money.
I was just passin Cham hers street wheu
out of tlie shadow I sees two people who
attracted my attention. They was scud­
din along arm in arm, as if Old Nick was
after ’em, au their faces as they came into
the gaslight was ghastly white.
One, as far as I could see, for he wore a
slouch hat, an his ulster collar was turned
up, was agenlemau iu the late twenties or
early thirties. The other was a gel of about
20, a wear in a traveliu cloak an a tweed
hat au carryin a sort o’ handbag. I jest
caught sight of bar face as she stood under
the gaslight at the street corner, an al­
though, as everybody knows, 1 ain’t nhat is
called a impressionable sort o’ cove, it
gave me a real thump in the chest like. It
was such a pretty face, an not ou’y a pret­
ty but a sweet face; the lines was so deli­
cate, an there was such a sad shadow over
it, especially alxjut the eyes, an the chin
Lud such a daisy of a dimple on it. Ah,
it’s all werry well for you coves to say
“Cheese it.” Human nature is Luman na­
ture, whether it’s a seltin Inside a kerride
au four or outside a bloomiu shoful, an
lovely woman is the one touch o’ nature as
makes the ’ole world kin, as Shakespeare
says, au you bet fie knew somethiuk.
The male party he darts up au catches
hold of the splashboard an says, “Cabby,
can you catch the midnight train for Bos­
ton?"
Says I: “I’ll have a shot at it, sir. There’s
no kuowirr what my little mare can do on
the piuch. Jump in.”
The girl bops in like a bird, an the fellow
arfter her, an as the doors swung toon them
1 whistles to the mare, au I flicks the whip
that 1 talks to her with au strokes her, but
never flogs her with, au she was off iu a
Stuart trot.
But just then I hears somebody behind
Bhoutiu. "Hil stop that cab!” an I looks
round and reius in a bit. Theu 1 says to
tuy fare through the butterfly: “There’s a
old gent a sigualin me to stop, sir. Friend
ot yourn, 1 serpose?”
But my fare he says, excited like: “Drive
onl Drive« on! Don’t take auy uotice ot
anybody till you get to the Grand Central.
Well, thinks I, it’s no business o’mine.
My iustructioiis is “G. C. by 12,” so I chir­
rups to the mare, an in a hinfinitesmal
part of a second that old gent was, instead
of 10 yards, 200 in the rear
Then I begins to wonder what the little
game is, for glaucin round I sees the old
gent jump into another hausorn an shout,
“Overtake that cab at all hazards!”
The driver of that cab, strange enough,
happened to be Joe Tibbits, an Joe Tibbits
an me somehow happened to have took a
dislike to each other, principally on ac­
count of our bavin took a likiu to the very
same identical young woman as was just
theu upper ousemaid in a 'ouse iu Lexiug-
ton avenue.
Now, Joe was a chap es put on enough
side to have made a billiard ball do any-
think, but while I didn’t carea fardin rush­
light about 'itn thinkin ’isself a lot smarter
teller than me, when it came to chippin
about ’osses, as he was very partial to, it
kinder used to touch me on the raw, au
when he said, as if my mare was another
color au gender, she’d ’a’ done very well for
the undertakin line I used to cop the needle
to that extent that one day we got off our
boxes In a quiet street to settle our chippin
match with a scrappin one, which we should
have done quiet an peaceable if as bow a
long drawn copper, as was our mutual rival
in the affections of the girl of both of our
hearts, hadn't appeared on the scene an
threatened to take our number as well as
takin our kebs.
So when I bears Joe ebyike to the old
geuelman (but at me): "All right, sir. I
can waltz round that ere relic of Old Bull’s
Head,” I says: “Cau yer? Well, we’ll have
a try,” an 1 gives a quiet tug at the offside
rein, as told my little mare what was want­
ed of her.
I never asked a question iu vain. She.
flourished her bead as it she was goin to
butt ut a brick wall: then she chucked out
her fore feet, as if she was Paddyrisky
a-plavin a grand planner, an you could hear
the music on the stones as she tooled along
over it, au the lampposts they whizzed past
as close on each other as the bullets out of
a ratlin.
Then, what with thinking about the gel
as was the bone of contention betwixt Joe
an me, au what a funny thing love was,
au haow it upset things in general an made
evertthink a bit brisker, all of a sudden a’
idea flashed into my ’ead. I lifts the but­
terfly once again, an I says to my fare:
“That ole gent’s took another cab, an he’s
racin of us, sir.”
“A fiver if you beat him,” says the fellow,
an tbrustin his hand through be says,
"There's something on account.”
"Right you are, sir, ' says I. "But scuse
me—is it elopement?”
“You've hit it," he says, an the gel
laughs sech a pretty musical laugh too.
“That is this young lady's scoundrel of a
guardian, who wants to keep her fortune
au prevent her marry in me.”
I says, “Go it, my beauty,” an just as she
s »eeps round into Madison square the mare
gives a bound forward, an a copper stand
We seemed to just jump from Madison
square corner to Thirty-fourth street, au
there we was tearin along the street with
on’y a hundred yards betwixt us.
My fare leaned out an looked round; then
he says to me, “For heaven's sake, drive
faster, tLey’re gainin!”
“Don’t you fear, sir,” says I. “I’ve got
a bit in hand, an they cau race for nuts.
Co-op, my lass.”
Au once again, as I called on the mare,
sha made a *7>urt. But for all that I knew
that Joe’s horse, which was fresh after a
couple o’ days’ rest, was gainin on me hand
over band.
“Got yer!” I hears Joe shout from behind
me, au not far either. You’re done. That
nag o’ yourn’s only fit for cat's meat.”
At that very moment we turned into For­
ty-second street, an I put the mare at a
gallop.
“We’ve only one minute to catch the
train,” shouts my fare.
"Got your ticket?” says I.
"Yes,” says he.
"Then,” says I, “I’ll do it.”
“We’re lost, we’re done for!” screams the
young lady.
For just then she caught sight of a red
lamp in the street, which was up for re­
pairs.
But I never slacked. That was the bit I
had in hand, an I knew there was just
room on the pavement inside the posts to
steer my cab. It was a bit risky, an if
copped I stood to get into trouble, but my
heart was in this job, au besides I wasn’t
goin to be bested by Joe Tlbbits. 1 saw the
street, was clear, then-----
“Go It, beauty!” I sorter screams to the
mare, au still gallopiu she bumps on to the
pavement and scoots along the few yards
ot pathway alongside the excavation.
"Ya-hlp! Who-oop!” I shouts, wavin my
whip as I turns round to Joe.
He was a good plucked un, I will say.
He thought where I’d been he was bound
to be able to go, an Le turned his horse onto
the pavement.
I set up a yell of laughter as I heard a
splinteriu crash. Joe had cannoned one of
the pillars supportin an awning, wheelin
his horse sharp round au chuckin it off its
legs. An a couple of peelers was rusbin
up to take his number.
I saw the white headed old gent jump
out of the cab, gesticulatiu violeutlike,
an just then I struck the station.
My fares hops out. The gent pops a five
Into my hand.
“You’ve give me one," says I, “already ”
“Oh, that was nothing." says he.
I thought that was a queer expression
from a toil, but I pockets the fiver. They
rushed along the platform an just suc­
ceeded in gettiu on the train.
I got down to chuck a cloth over the
loins of the niare, who was in a muck sweat
au splashed with lather.
Just then, all puffin and blowin, that old
gent trots into the statiou.
“You vagabond!” he says, shakin his fist
at me. “1 believe you’re an accomplice.”
“I certainly sympathizes with the young
people, sir,” says I.
"I know it,” he shouted, “an, by Jove!
I’ll have you locked up.”
"Oh,” says I, "you can’t lock a chap up
for sympalhizin with two young lovers as
is elopin from a ’ard ’arted guardian.”
“Young lovers be hanged!” shouts theold
man, purple in the face. “The man’s a bur­
glar, an the womau’s his accomplice, au
they’ve just stolen my wife’s diamonds.”
You might have knocked me down with
a feather. I didn’t know what to say. I
was struck comical-llke, but just then up
comes Joe an a copper with him, an Joe
says:
“No, siree, he ain’t no burglar’s accom­
plice, ole Phil Fly whip. Just now there’s
a bone to pick al ween us, but right’s right,
an Phil's mure a mug than a rogue.”
Well, I 'ardly knew what to do, whether
to land Joe on tha boko for callin me a mug
or to thank hitu for testifyiu to my honesty.
But he catches hold o’ my flipper an shakes
it an says;
“You’ve done me this time, Phil, au you
did it on drivin, but I don’t miud that
'art so much us yuurcuttinme out with the
gel who told me straight this werry evenin
that I haven’t got a rabbitt's chance while
you was in the field."
My heart gave a bigger jump then than
it did wheu the mare lugged the old show
over the curb.
"Joe,” I says, “you’re a good sort, an you
tight as fair as you race. We can’t both
have the gel, but if you’ve lost her for what
you’ve told me, an the fair way you spoke
up for me. barrin savin as i was a mug,
you’ve gained a pal. An if there's a fine
for you to pay in the mornin, or any dam­
age, I’ll do what 1 can to help you.”
“Oh, that’s all right!” says Joe; “the
gentletnau’s goin to square all that. He
told me to follow, an he’d take the risk.”
Just then his man came back from the
telegraph office, where he’d been wiring all
along the line.
I touched my ’at an said I was sorry for
the mistake I’d made.
“Well,” says he, “from inquiries I’ve
made it’s evident you’re a respectable and
honest man; as for your intelligence”-----
"Look here,” says I, firin up. "Man to
man, w ho was I to take orders from, my
fare or the man in the street? Suppose Joe,
there, hadn’t taken yours?”
"Perhaps you’re right,” says he after a
minute. "Whether you’re a smart man or
not, anyway you’re a smart driver.”
"Did they arrest your tares?” inquired
one of the audience when Phil had finished
his story.
“No,” said be. “It appears that they
threw their ulsters out of the window au
got out at separate stations an walked off
under the noses of the police.”—Exchange.
Thought It Over.
“Silas,” said Mrs. Comfort as she looked
up from her reading, “is it an awful thing
for one man to call another a liar?”
“Not from my standpoint.”
“But here is a case where a man was
killed for it.”
“Then the killer will be hung, as he de­
serves to be.”
"Were you ever called a liar?”
“Lots of times.”
“And what did you do?”
"Took time to think it over. If I had
lied, then being called a liar was no more
than I could expect. If I didn’t lie, the
man who called me liar thought I did and
should be argued and reasoned with and
made to apologize. While I was taking
time to think it over the man generally
left, and so there was no occasion to pur­
sue the subject any further.”—Detroit Free
Press.
Trappiug a Pair of Bandits.
Two brothers, Cucchi by name, Corsi-
cau villains of the deepest dye, found the
neighborhood ot Ajaccio too hot to hold
them and resolved to take refuge in Sar-
tene They found a email boat upon the
beach and desired the owner to put out to
sea. “Impossible,” said the man, “the
boat is too small for such a voyage and
would certainly founder.” “Does you are
bid,” said the Cucchi, covering him with
their guns. Under these circumstances the
boatman had no alternative, so he got in,
and they pushed out to sea. But the waves
were high, and by a little dexterous man­
agement he contrived to make his boat
rock in such a fashion that the bandits
became violently sick. “You see, I was
right,” he coolly remarked, when bis pas­
sengers seemed sufficiently reduced. “You
will certainly be drowned if you go on
thus. You had much better let me put
you ashore and go back for a stronger and
better boat.” “So be it,” gasped the ban­
dits. “Oh, anything is better than this'”
They were put on shore, and in due time
the boatman returned with a larger boat,
but at the bottom of it lay four gendarmes
disguised as sailors, and the brothers Cuc­
chi were taken before they bad time to
discover the trick —Contemporary Re­
view.
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Highest of all in Leavening Power—Latest U S. Gov’t Report.
A QUEER MOUNTAIN
ON ITS TOP IS A ROCK FROM WHICH
ELECTRICITY SPOUTS.
A Surveyor’s Interesting Experience ou
Roundtop, Which 1» 10,500 Feet High.
A Dwelling Not Larger Thau au Average
Sized Packing Case.
W. B. Fairfield ot the geodetic survey­
ing party, under the direction of Professor
Davidson, decided to go to the top of Al­
pine peak, or Roundtop, to make an obser­
vation that would help him and his col­
leagues to tell which Is California and
which is Nevada. Roundtop has been
climbed many a time, but never with com­
fort or entire safety. It is a rocky peak
10,500 feet high The steep surface is cov­
eted with disintegrated rock, commonly
called shingle, that slides from under foot.
Near the top a slide on the shingle would
Le exceedingly perilous, for the descent is
abrupt for 500 feet and precipitous for 700
more.
Nearing the apex, Mr Fairfield and his
companion were compelled to walk slowly
and with great caution around and around
the mountain, each time getting a little
closer to the summit. They had not mere­
ly their own weight to carry, for instru­
ments and a little tent, and flour and ba­
con had to go with them—some of the ar­
ticles of use to science, others of use to sci­
entists.
At the very top of the mountain Mr.
Fairfield found he had barely room to turn
around. The peak comes to such a sharp
point that to stretch his tripod he had to
build a base of rocks for one of the legs.
Mr. Fairiield knew before be ascended
where be would live while there; yet,
though he knew where to look and had
but. four feet of space to look through, he
had difficulty in discovering the place.
Then he found it and laughed at bis moun­
tain home. An Lad joined with nature in
making this nest 10,496 feet up Roundtop.
A heliotroperof the coast survey was there
14 years ago to flash signals clear across
the Sacramento valley to an observer on a
peak in the Coast range. He had deepened
a little cave or recess in the mountainside,
then with boards that had been carried up
the steep ascent Lad built a front wall, a
roof and a floor. The broken rock had so
covered the roof that the little house could
be detected from the summit of tlie moun
tain, four feet above, only by close scru­
tiny.
Before be had finished his work a great
snowstorm came up, and the thermometer
fell to 8 degrees below zero. There was
nothing to do save to crawl Into the queer
house aud wait for tho storm to cease. In
the nipping cold and without light the
best way of keeping warm and killing time
was to sleep, but to do this was not so easy
as might be supposed. The space for sleep­
ing in the beliotroper’s combination but
and cave was not intended for two.
On the inside this entire house was just
72 InchtA long. 34 inches high and 30
Inches wide. Mr Fairfield and bis assist­
ant had to lie down together very careful­
ly and begin to arrange themselves in the
same position as two spoons in a box, the
front of one man close aguiust the back of
the other. Turning over at night was an
event After proper notice to each other
of the Intention each would rise on bi* el­
bows or hands, and then together they
moved slowly around, finally lying again
in exactly the same place In which they
had sought rest while lying on the other
side. They did not often turn. The cramp­
ed position they were compelled to lake
made them stiff as if from rheumatism.
During the night Mr. Fairfield beard
strange sounds under the floor of the tiny
bouse.
“Porcupines,” said his companion, who
was acquainted with the neighborhood tra-
ditionsabout Roundtop. “Porcupineshave
mads a nest under the floor.”
The porcupine story soon proved to be a
fiction of the country. From under the
floor came rats—enormous rats 7 or 8
inches long and light brown in color—ac­
tive rats that ran about this little house in
high and noisy carnival—ral3 that climbed
up the walls and dropped to the floor with
delighted squeaks at the noise they were
making.
These monstrous rats had a taste for
disturbing the peace aud no taste for the
food that pleases the rats of civilization.
The flour aud the bacon, the crackers aud
even the cheese remained iu the house
untouched by them, though no attempt
w as made by Mr. Fairfield to hide bis pro­
visions.
For three «lays Mr. Fairfield and bis
companion did not leave the tiny hut ex­
cept for a few minutes. The snow was
falling constantly. The top of the moun­
tain w as wrapped iu black clouds. Vision
could not reach more than three or four
feet through cloud and suow.
Daring the storm the observer bad the
most extraordinary of all his strange expe­
riences on that mountain.
He was lying in the hut listening to the
storm aud wishing for bright weather,
when his assistant, who had gone to the
porthole to watch the suow aud the clouds,
called him.
Mr Fairfield was in no haste to leave
his blankets to look at falling snow, but
bis companion urged him to come and to
come quickly. He reluctantly unrolled
hliuseif and went to the opening, lie was
repaid.
From the ground a short distance away
came a hissing sound, as if tho cook of na­
ture were frying half the mountain. The
hissing was continuous, but varied in in­
tensity.
Mr. Fairfield cautiously ap­
proached the place whence the sound came.
He found that the noise seemed centered
In a little jut of rock uot bigger than a
chair.
He stepped upon the rock and instantly
received an electric shock, not so severe as
to hurt him, but sufficient to make every
part of his body tiDgle. He stepped from
the rock, and instantly the electricity left
him Oue foot from the rock it could not
be felt.
His assistant then stepped upon the rock.
The shock was too much for him. Evi­
dently he is much more sensitive to elec­
tricity than Mr. Fairfield, because it hurt
him. He felt pains all over his body, and
every hair stood straight from his bead.
He stepeped quiclky from the rock and
would not try the experiment, again.
One experience with an electric storm
had insulated him against the desire to re­
peat it.
The formal record of Mr. Fairfield’s trip
to Alpine peak is a simple line—latitude,
so much; longitude, so much.—Sail Fran­
cisco Examiner.
Color aud Hearing.
Does color or lb* lack of it affect tha
sense of hearing in either man or animals?
lluffou. Le Clair and other naturalists be­
lieved that the auditory nerve in t he white,
or Caucasian, race is not as highly dew-l­
oped—or at least not as sensitive—as it is
in the savages, who ure usually dark skin­
ned people. The idea of this being due to
colon was never hinted until some investi­
gator accidentally learned that the major­
ity of white cats, dogs, horses and other
domestic animals are deaf or partially so
I recently addressed a note to a well known
Washington naturalist, the sum and sub­
stance of which was this: Do you know
anything in regard to the popular super­
stition or belief that white animals, par­
ticularly cats, are deaf?
The following is an abbreviation ot his
reply: “White cats are reputed to be ‘hard
of hearing.’ I have known many instances,
in several of which the infirmity amount­
ed io total deafness. I doubt if an instance
cotild be cited of a white cat possessing
the function of bearing in anything like
perfection.”—St. Loui- Republic.
Stealing Time.
When the visitor came into the office to
talk with the busy man, he laid several
bundles on the desk. After he had wasted
a half hour or moieof the busy man’s pre
cions time he got up to go.
“Let me see,” he said, looking over his
packages, “have 1 got everything that be
longs to me?”
“Ileally I don’t know,” replied tliebusy
man, “but you’ve got a good deal that be­
longs to me.”
And the visitor didn’t understand, it of
course.—Detroit Free Press.
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THE
A Retired Naval Olllcer Relate* the Gr«*w-
fioiue Details of the Decapitation of Na­
tive Rebels—Wonderful Display of Nerve
by Biuh Bee.
A retired French naval officer who saw
much service in Indo-China iu the many
Wars of conquest carried on tLere by
France is authority for this account of a
military execution held at Travinh, on the
east shore of the Cambodia river, some 20
years ago:
At that time France needed all her
available troops at home to resist the
steady advance ot the German armies to­
ward Paris, and all the colonial garrisons
were reduced to the lowest possible limit.
Several ot the Indo-Chineso Hnnoxed prov­
inces took advantage of this condition and
instituted a revolt under the leadership of
the two sons of Fau Tan Giang, a man­
darin who had been captured anil killed
l<y the French in 1802 aud bv the Biuh
Bee, Biuh being the corresponding rank
in the Anamite armies to that of brigadier
general in Europe.
The French naval commander, Salicetti,
with as many sailors and marines as
could be spared from the few gunboats on
the India station, marched against the
rebels, but the small band of while men
was ambushed near the town of Mocay
and slaughtered. Wheu a relief column
came up a few days later, they found the
town deserted and saw the heads of their
comrades impaled on bamboos along the
roadside. The bodies were never recover­
ed, but it was supposed that they were
thrown into the Cambodia river.
Wheu Admiral Dupre, then governor of
French Indo-China. learned of this mas­
sacre, he decided that it would probably
be easier to buy off the leaders of the re­
volt than to fight such savage foes. He
therefore made an offer to Biuh Tan, the
second in command to Biuh Bee, agreeing
to pay him 1,000,000 francs, to recognize
his rank as general and th make him a
Knight of the Legion of Honor if he would
betray into the power of the French Biuh
Bee and the two sons of Fan Tan Giang
aud suppress the reliellion iu the provinces.
Biuli Tan accepted the offer and carried
cut his end of the contract with the excep­
tion of the surrender of the two sous of
the late mandarin, whom he allowed to es­
cape ou a junk to the city of Hue.
After Ills capture, Biuh Beo was tried
by court martial at Travinh and condemn­
ed to have his head cut off. The weapon
used for decapitation in Indo-China is a
curved yataghan, the razorlike blade of
which Is wider and heavier at the end than
at the handle. The condemned may stand
upright or kneel upon a straw matting In
the public square, but his neck must be
entirely bared so as to offer a good mark
for the executioner. He is also allowed to
mark on his neck the exact spot where he
desires to be struck with the yataghan.
He makes this mark by moistening his
forefinger with saliva, which Is colored by
chewing the betel nut, which yields a
bright red juice.
There are no regularly appointed execu­
tioners, but it is considered an honor with
the men of the native contingents of the
army to be allowed to act as headsman.
And as soon as thesa soldiers beard that
Biuh Bee was to be executed they be­
gan practicing ou trees and stumps with
their yataghans so as to be in good prac­
tice if the honor fell to their lot. It was
finally decided that the doi, or captain,
of the native guard should act as execu­
tioner.
When Biuh Bee was brought to the pub­
lic square to be killed, he looked disdain­
fully at the headsman and then carelessly
drew the red mark across the back of his
Deck. He knelt and told the doi to strike
hard aud hit the mark. But for some rea­
son the captain of the guard lost all his
strength and courage at the last moment
and struck so weak and false a blow that
instead of chopping off the biuh’s hoad he
merely made an ugly cut across his back
and arm.
With a heathen curse the condemned
man jumped to his feet, and seizing the
sword which had fallen to the ground he
swung it aiound and lopped off the execu­
tioner’s head before any of the French sol­
diers, who were drawn up near by to wit­
ness the execution, could interfere.
“Coward!” shouted Biuh Bee, “to un­
dertake a duty you are unable to perform!
Die as you deserve and take what you
were unable to give!”
The condemned man was then turned
over to the surgeons of the post, who fixed
up his wound so that he would be well
enough to be executed a week later. When
it came time for the second attempt, a sol­
dier named Bep So, who had proved him­
self an artist with the yataghan, was as­
signed to the duty of chopping the briga­
Bright I ittle Girl—The robbers can’t dier general’s head off. The French ad­
steal my mamma’s diamond earrings, miral, however, gav< orders that if Biuh
Bee would tell where the two sons of Fan
’cause papa's hidden them.
Tan Giang could be found his life would
X isitor—Where has he hidden them?
Little Girl—Why, I heard him say ha ba spared and he would be sent an exile to
had put them up the spout, and he expect­ Algiers. Biuh Bee refused to pay any at­
ed they would stay there!—Loudon Tit- tention to this offer, but bowed his head
and marked his neck and.-~iid fiercely to
Bits.
nep bo, wno was waiting ror tue answer
that the French lieuteua it expected Bee
to make:
“Why don't you strike? Are you afraid?
Must I ebow you how to cut off a man’s
head?”
Bep So lifted his yataghan high in the
air, there was a flash of steel, and tbeu the
head of Biuli B«“e l-olled on the matting as
his body fell forward heavily.
Bep So picked up the bead and held it
by the hair so that the soldiers and the i
crowd of natives might plainly see how
well iio had done his work. Then the three
wives ot the dead chief came out and car­
ried off their husband’s reuiaius for buriat.
Three months later Biuh Bee’stwo chief
lieutenants were captured by the French
troops, aided bv Biuh Tan's volunteer»,
and they, too, were subsequently condemn­
ed to death by a court matrial. Ou ac­
count of his proved skill Bep So again en­
joyed the honor of being appointed official
Leadsman.
This time the condemned men stood up
right, back to buck, about six feet apart.
Bep So took his position between the two.
and as soon as they bud made the marks
on their necks he gripped his yataghan
and leaned forward on it as a modern ath­
lete leans preparatory to throwing a ham­
mer. When the French officer gave the
signal, Bep So lifted the heavy sword,
swung it once around his head, and with
u quick stroke to the right and another to
the left decapitated the two men almost
at the sain« instant He threw away his
yataghan, and sciziug the two heads held
one up in tach hand that the people as­
sembled might admire his work.
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