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VlSIT THE STORS OF PROYXDKnCE AND DO. YouR CHRISITMAS UYINo'
THE BANN ER=DEMOCRAT.
VOL. XIV. LAKE PROVIDENCE. EAST CARROLL PARISH, LA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1901. NO. 10
my side. I huriedly explained the !IATAiTRE P (A VN1D1umlant nn I jnnt H a
rLIFE FOR A LIFE.
It was lte in the spring of '96 that
I tound myself in a little town of
aiorth'west Montana, whither I had
gose from New York In search of
h'ealth and recreation. The town was
tdly a few miles from the Flathead
s;ervation, to which I made frequent
5,-and in time I became acquainted
~. many of the Indians. It was al
it a daily custom with me to arise
re daybreak and make my way to
an adjacent spur of the Rocky moun
Alns and there await the sunrise-a
I1L'gnlficent spectacle. In one of these
hrning reveries which the t1 uty of
fo scene engendered an Idea entered
tL mind, the suosequent carrying out
I which resulted In laying bare the
'cret of a tragedy which otherwise
robably would have remained a mys
try forever.
I had been a member of a camera
ub In the east and an expert ama
?ur photographer. From my elevated
osition among the crags I had a very
xtensive view of the surrounding
country, as well as the picturesque lit
tle town that nestled almost beneath
my feet. The thought suddenly oc
curred to me one morning that if I
had brought my parachute camera
with me I Aould have been able to get
some spiendiu views. Accordingly I
telegraphed for the outfit and received
/ o ia lfew days.
m"2mong the acquaintances I made was
/ buoung Indian of the name of Ren,
adopted con of a Mr. Warren, a
t-.siness man of the town. Ren, who
a'd been graduated from the Carlisle
school, was a Hercules in stature,
handsome of feature and mild and gen
tle in his manners, He and I became
fast friends and for hours at a time
sat in some co.y nook in the moun
.sins listening to his tales of Indian
ire and adventure. t
A few weeks before the time set for
y departure my landlady asked me
o take some views of the town that
he might retain as souvenirs. So the
ext afternoon I went to the spot I
.,ad selected as the most desirable
spot from which to take the views,
having delayed the trip until late in
the afternoon so as to avoid the fierce
heat of the sun. It was rapidly turn- i
Ing dusk when I packed my traps and
started down the mountain side for
my boarding house. I had gone but a
short distance when I nearly stumbled
ever the prostrate figure of my friend t
mI, whom I had not seen for several
vsa, and who was so deeply wrapped e,
S.hought that he was apparently un- l
'ascious of my approach. When I
Ialled him by name, he instantly t
prang to his feet, and grasping me
r the arm, at the same time fixing
-1 lustrous dark eyes upon my doubt
1s rather anxious face, said: "My
5'te friend, you have no doubt many s
a ss wondered at my secretiveness w
•erning my' parentage Ind prob- to
to have attributed my silence on the
Fr t to a desire to hide a shameful On
con But as you will soon leave me, mu
hal bringing me much pleasure in ac
plntort acquaiqnance, I wish to re- in
mind from any doubts you o
to expeL formed as to my birth and
only the tun
problem.' the
"Were told him that I really Phi
"Not htrange that he avoided all to I
were not) his father, and added that pan
-Geoffr-ere was some secret vow roo;
-4eolrr. roof
the far ).eferred to shelter in his just
my nI)m instead of having others
y it with him. atte
hr ou are partly right," he said, with cam
dllght tone of bitterness in his iecr
e. "Now, follow me, and I will he
wtin the cause of my silence." act.
g followed his lead, and we soon It
bred an Inclosure formed by the him
pl'ing sides of two giant crags. that
fce, halting near the centre, he for.
,ed to a white stone slab, which tiem
'the legend, now dimly visible in t e
offhertng gloom: port
see, he w'$Y FATHER." cidei
geniuses ,e said In a voice choking fore
like hlm.%, "lles the body of one sudd
but terril~tabbed to death In cold tom
ler for ' a cowardly white man. hopi
must be, now nearly 14 years since surp
was wh', and I was then a lad of He d
"I oftean recall everything that ter a
at Eastl,n that fatal day. by p
days, 'me into camp to procure to th
just begto eat when I was greatly enga,
showed see the form of my father the
admlredt full length on the ground that
last ga'mded by a number of the Good
over w~ng as I was, a dread sus- amat
in It what had occurred at once had
'queen' gslon of me, and breaking sist a
ordlnale crowd, I threw myself tives
to kno',trate form imploring him As
queen ao me. .My voice seemed to 'ince
my: him to conscilousness, for, whon
the his eyes toward me with a of mu
m'-hat haunts me to this day, he er wI
qLled me to bend closer to his lips knowj
sh might not miss a single word graph
coldylng wishes. After some water man
een given to him he seemed to and t
in slightly and grasping my hand to the
5. :ed rather than said, in a voice tioned
"with pain and exhaustion: me to
"'"por boy, your father Is dy. cngag
setrcken down by the cowardly trustet
" "rank West, the cowboy. My a prol
that ling fast, but as it dies In me pronch
"'Eive in you to mete out jus- would
cat' my slayer. He must die at s'on tc
theinds, with the same knife, and of his
two gi done ere you reach man's off the
"A'qighty effort he raised him- I re
Sa sitting position, and drawing ma ps
liie from beneath hble blanket, mtthe
' it in my hands, saying. 'Remem- mtved
sy son-remember.' and with his vn
fSd ixed on my face, he sank slowly pInced
sackward and expired." picture
The young man's form trembled with try He
motion for some minutes, but he soon thy or
omposed himself and continued: "I his bl
shall be 21 years old in another month, dealy
tad still rather's wish is not accom- tmeS
plshaed. I am continually brooding time t
over my failure to carry out his com- ruhed
maunds; that makes me seem mulle tried t
and morose at times." He was
As night had fallen, we retraced our from t
steps down the mountain to my board- attemp
Ing house, where Ren bade me an at- bad
fectionate good night at the door, and truder.
then betook bhimself to the home of Mr. ' Jt t
Warren, who was, uas I afterwaS up I1
s anrc (Oatiim4+4 **antrlme~ ***5. Ike'8
of '96 that his father's mur;ierer,-and who at the
le town of death ot reta'a father had taken Ren
her I had as his adopted son. f
search of After supper I returned to my room
e town was to examine the results of my day's it
e Flathead picture taking, which consisted of a
de frequent dozen or more views of the town taken
acquainted at various aluLtudes with my flying af
It was al- parachute camera. After looking over
ne to arise two or three of the plates, I grew
my way to tired of the work and put the job off h
tcky moun- until the following day, when I would d
sunrise-a have more time. I then sauntered h
noe of thes. forth for a quiet stroll and a smoke te
I iuty of before turning in for the night.
lea entered My walk led me in the direction of v(
trrying out the county jail, on reaching which I ,
g bare the was surprised to see the place sur- th
otherwise rounded by a large crowd of people. th
ned a mys- Upon inquiry I learned that a murder ati
had been committed and that the vic- a
a camera tim was Mr. Warren, Ren's adopted a,
tpert ama- father, One of the jail officers told me for
ry elevated that Ren, after leaving me, proceeded thI
had a very directly to his home and finding Mr. ch
grrounding Warren absent from his room, went to a
resque lit- the roof, thinking that the old man sit
at beneath might have gone there, as the night log
Idenly oc- was warm. He was horrified to find an
that if I the lifeless body of his foster father,
te camera who had been strangled to death.
able to get Rushing to the street, he immediate- pb
)rdingly I ly gave the alarm, but the assassin
d received had left no clew to his identity, and
must have had ample time to escape at
made was between the time the murder was done h
e of Ren, and the finding of the body by Ren. he
farren, a The theory that seemed most plausi- the
en, who ble was tnat the murderer had en
e Carlosle tered for the purpose of robbing the
stature, place, knowing that Ren was absent t
Sand gen and that the old nan kept no servants,
became but upon being surprised by-Mr. War- dab
It a time ren in his work of plunder, he had shr
he moun- strangled the old man to death and to I
of Indian then carried him to the roof intending
to throw him to the street below, and
2e set for thus give color to the opinion that the tor
3aked me old man had come to his death by ac- ly
cident. But evidently fearing that he l d
SSo the would be discovered in the act, he
re spot t abandoned the scheme, left the body on g
destrable the roof and made good his escape. s
desiesb I had but five days more to stay in
I late views, this town, so I set about packing my ger
be fletee trunk in order to be in time for the
Ily turn- express which would leave on the com
raps and ing Thursday. Before taking my de
side for parture I Invited Ren to my rooms to han
but a spend an evening, which perhaps im
tumbled would be the last in his company. Ren
y friend accepted my invitation and promised Al
y feveral to be on ihand early. On Wednesday anot
wrapped evening.._e evening dcP!gnated, I was in tI
tly un- busy working on the photographs is t
When I which I intended to turn over to Mrs. and
Whetantly Good and had completed my task with heav
ling me the exception of one plate, which I was to a
working on. by It
D fixing
Sdoubt- I produced a clear picture on the In
"My plate, and no sooner had I gazed on In th
it many its contents t.an a feeling came over mom
ma me that I will retain in my memory
I prob- to the longest day of my life. was
on the Everything was too clear to me now. blood
rgmeful On the afternoon that Mr. Warren was man.
e me murdered, I wa's up in the mountains West
rein d had cnt my parachute camera fly
to re- ing thro:ugh the air in the direction Ret
ita you of Mr. Warren's house. It happened antaL
th and along just at the time when the unfor- thrue
tunate man was going to his death at West
the hands of a murderer whom I had sent
really photographed with his face upturned Tut
carrie
ed that to the eye of the camera. which was carr
d t passing directly above Mr. Warren's wish,
Svow roof. The murderer in the picture was forth
in his just in the act of throwing the old
others gentleman to the street below, but, hid but tl
attention being attracted at seeing my out fc
I, with camera flying in the air, his curiosity moan,
n his Increased anti by gazing at it steadily then
I will he was photographed in his murderous late,"
act. death
soon It evidently could not have taken men a
Y the him long to come to the conclusion ever
crags. that he had foolishly trapped himself, r.
re, he for, leaving the body of the old gen- THE
ble in tleman on the roof, he had escaped.
I was very much excited by the im
portant discovery I had made, but de
cided to wait until Ren shouu, call be- I ha
oking fore I had made the affair public. A snakes
f one sudden knocK at the door brought me In the
cold to my senses and I hastened to open it, never
man. hoping that it would be Ren. To my nor ha
since surprise, a tall strangerconfronted me. great e
ad of He described himselh as Thomas Car- they w
that ter of New York City, a photographer ing ste
by profession, and said that he came knees I
oeure to this town on somne business and had theare]
eatly engaged rooms in thi house and on The
ather the same floor with me. He added the big
aund that while in conversation with Mrs. On. wa
the Good he had learned that 1 was an in a am
sus- amateur photographer. and said if Ibleston
once had no objection he would like to as- head be
king slat me In putting my plates and naga- shoot t
yself tives into shape. frogs or
him A second look at the man's face con- srace ai
Sto \'inced me he was the very person his heu
for, whom I had photographed in the act In mak
th a of murdering Mr. Warren. It no long- ticularl
She er was a mystery. The murderer, I parted
lips knowing that he had been photo- an open
cord graphed in the act of leaving the old of bread
ater man on the roof, hurried to the street arms tre
i to and traced the course of my camera it, I saw
rand to the mountains where I was sta- Its tall
oice tioned. His next move was to follow he caugt
me to the boaroung house, where he grily ant
dy. cngaged rooms from my landlady and dignatiom
rdly trusted that hy describing himself as Ihadthr
y a professional photographer in ap- so amall
me proaching an ambitious amateur, it but he a
lus-. would be easy for him to gain admis- back and
at ion to my apartment on the strength the other
and of his "bluff." Then he would carry ing, and
as off the very photograph that would brush I
have convicted him as a murderer. with a cx
Im- I recovered my senses, and drawing In vain I
ing my pistol pointed it at the man's head, wanted n
et, at the same time telling Urm that if he ground it
m- moved one step I would Bfire. Seeing that as h
his that I recognized him. Carter was con- in on me
vilnced that I must have produced the away in
picture that stamped him as a murder- back ad
er. He grew frantic. Tne whole coun- halt an
try for miles around would know of found he
his bloody deed In a few hours. Sud
denly he darted toward his room Etatori
m- across the hall. I fired twice, but each The tre
time the shot went wirm. I then (near Fra
- rushed across the hall after him and Webster
tried to force the door of his room. nto rti
He was preparing to escape, and called company
from the inside that if any person standing
d- attempted to enter his room until he ture of N
bhad vacated it, he wouald kill the In- te sessil
ad truder.
[ t Joust then I heard footateps coming of the at
rp I up the Sadtre and recOgnted theam u gem -
4 I leu's it *Otheo IrsSt he wasg u wo --.
- my side. I hurriedly explained the
situation to him, and in less time than
it takes to describe it, Ren had forced
open the door of Carter's room and
made for the murderer, who was in
the act of escaping out of a window
that led to the shed over the hack ve- (t ii
o at the randa. A shot rang out. Ren stag
ken Ren gered, and placing his hand to his e
forehead, fell to the floor.
ny rono Carter was desperate now, and tak- 81
iy day's ing aim at me, fired again. Fortunate- :he
ed of a ly the bullet missed its mark. Taking nom
,n taken advantage of this I sprang at him be- alas
y flying fore he had time to raise his gun again gign
Ing over and throwing my arms about his neck tec
I grew I made one mlgnty effort that brought and
:job off him to his knees, and succeeded in gent
I would depriving him of the smoking pistol peel
Luntered he held in tightly clutched hands. Car- larlI
Ssmoke ter had realized that his only hope of path
freedom was to overpower me and had mea
tion of very nearly accomplished his task gna'
which I when the noise of the pistol shots and that
ce sur- the scramble attracted the attention of late
people. the boarders below. Rushing up the ited
murder stairs, they succeeded in making Carter local
the vic- a prisoner before he had time to get out
adopted away. A messenger was at once sent stitu
told me for a physician, while the constable of Me
weeded the little town was sent for to take use
ng Mr. charge of Carter. Ren was placed in cons
went to a sitting position and everything pos- fata
d man sible was done to make the poor fel- throe
Snight low comfortable while we awaited the reter
to find arrival of the physician. o01.
father, The murderer was tied to a chair ands n
placed under the watchful eye of a tbse
boarder. Again and again he tried to of t
asassin free himself, but finally gave up the e
attempt and confessed that his right of tl
escape name was Frank West and that it was Wbiti
r8 done he who murdered Mr. Warren because white
Ren. Warren prevented him from robbing fends
plausi- the house. He also confessed that 14 Whe
years ago he murdered Ren's Indian an er
se e father by running up behind him and cells
absent stabbing him in the back. Hie was the c
ants, about to continue his story when sud- accut
War- denly his voice was drowned by a Whet
shrill cry, a cry that is very familiar the ci
to the ears of a keeper in a madhouse. preset
and Turning our attention in the direc- make
tion when the sound came. we saw vessel
at th Ren upon his feat, his dark eyes fair- active
bathe ly dancing out of his head. evry mus- of br
t, he cle in his huge frame trembling and preset
,dy on a grin of determination upon hi.: face. If the
He crossed the room to where West polsor
y in as a prisoner, drew a glittering dag- the
:ay ina
ger from his hip pocket, and with the marty
Lg my swiftness of a cat he .ot the rope
which held West firmly to the chair. Irritax
coy de- "You are free now." exclaimed Ren, thus
y de- handing West the knife that he freed annoy
ma to him with. "Take this. Now face old The
rhaps , kihte Wing's son." like a
Ren
mised At the same moment he displayed Every
sday another knife and flourishing it high reacts
was in the air he exclaimed: "This. West, cells t
raphs is the knife you killed my father with, portior
Mrs. and I trust that Almighty Cod in healinj
with heaven will give me strength enough pends
[ was to avenge my father's cowardly murder health
by killing you with the same knife." some I
the In another instant the two men met sgeRM
d on in the centre of the room and for a few lag" t
over moments they struggled, tightly man r
nory clasped in each other's embrace. Ren worry,
was decidedly weak 'om one loss of ment, I
now. blood, but he fought West like a mad- invaslo
was man. Suddenly the two separated and physici
alas West reeled about for a few seconds by pral
and then fell to the floor, dead. wound
tion Ren had succeeded in holding his when I
med antagonist in a vise like grip till he is that
thrust through the heart of Frank resistas
h at West the blade that 14 years ago had fag.
had sent his father to his death. React
'ned Turning to me, Ren said: "I have Where
was carried out my father's last earthly gagrea
en's wish, for I will not be 21 years of age blood at
was for three weeks to come." He made an dle, bec
old effort to say sometning more to me, The bloi
hid but the hand of death was reaching grene, a
my out for him now, and with a pitiful the fact
sity moan, he sank back in my arms. Just are carr
ily then the physician arrived. "Too teetive
ous late," he exclaimed, and so it was, for Wicrobei
death had claimed one of the bravest invaalon
ken men that the state of Montana has arise fr
ever produced.-New York Evening blood mi
ion "ar. tissues
econstant
ee THE HARMLISS RATTLESNAKE. organs,
d- t Does Not Always htrike When CGive8a CtIOR (
te- he Opporltunity. feqent
be- I have seen a good many rattle- whose b
A snakes---perhaps a hundred or more- ths less
me in the Sierra mountains, but I have e n
t, never intentionally disturbed them, The tnte
my nor have they disturbed me to any in old p
ne. great extent, even by accident, though ott
ir- they, were oftentimes in danger of be- blood st
ter ing stepped on. Once, while on my man is
se knees kindling a fire, one glided under that eve
ad the arch made by my arms. ay hav
on The last time I sauntered through to t*ty
ed the big canon I saw about two a day. ssteries
rs. One was not coiled, but neatly folded gtihe a
in in a narrow space between two cob- ease ofte
I blestones on the side of the river, his ore t
h- head below the level of them, ready to *,ry am
a- shoot up like a Jack-in-the-box for o mMdle
frogs or birds. My foot spanned the tlane t
c- space above within an inch or two of actet
n hie head, but he only held it lower.
SIn making my way through a par
- ticularly tedious tangle of buckthorn, p er
r I parted the brsnches on the sidkle of l
an open space and threw my bundle
d of bread into it, and when. with my o regulat
St arms free, I was pushing through after t nerow
a it. I saw a small raLtlesnake dragging Ip may I
i- Its tail from beneath my bundle. When have good
w he caught sight of me he eyed me an- t let
e grily and with an air of righteous in- eatirely to
d dignation seemed to be asking me why bi the syn
a I had thrown toe stuff on him. He was times ca
so small I was inclined to slight him, os both sid
t but he struck out so angrily I drew fluences at
- back and approached the opening from es In this
Sthe other side. But he had been listen- U eaes r'O
lu ing, and when I looked through the the nerves
Sbrush I fgund him confronting me still blood Veses
with a come-in-if-you-dare expression, lnterferen
SIn[ vain I tried to explaRh that I only aa
wanted my bread; he stoutly held the The li.e
ground in front of it. and I was afraid on the heal
that as he came nearer he might close leadingr to
in on me and strike before I could get meehanistm
away in such a tangle: so I Just went supply. Th
back a dozen r.2ds and ket still for gangrene Ii
half an hour, and wh n I returned ways It is
found he had gone.-Atlantli4 Monthly. organims
...--.-- slon of ble
ltstorie Trees to H-en,4le -lsi)-,he,. loaed cae
The trees now growing on the farm rnUUy do
(near Franklin, . N. . where Daniel tall to rea1
Webster was born are to be cut up IimmatloR
into triction matches, a manufacturing 9poled by -
company having paid $2800 for the Pea's 5
standing timber upon it. The legislar-n s
ture of New Hampshire refused at its A 11o,
late sesaion to pay $3000 for the entire mr.toa f
farm, though many patriotic citizens 3h b1 _
of the state petitioned to have it pre-. w the
easr a a perpetual memorial ofd 3larn t
NlW inbguf Seet a awe. sea.
NCE. EAST CARROLL PAB
lained the NATURE OF GANGRENE Z
time than at
had forced se
room and JICNIFICANCE OF THE DISEASE THAT
tio was in CAUSED M'KINLEY'S DEATH. se
a window ---- to
e hack re- (t is the Decay of Tissue ls the Rody al
Ren stag- Without the Liquefylan Proeee That di
nd to his Constitutes the Formeattoa of Pus-It ce
lavariably Results Fatally.
.and tak- Since the autopsy on the body of Pi
hortunate- :he late President gangrene has be- se
c. Taking some a familiar expression to all in
it him be- 1lasses of people. While its general tre
gun again signflcation is well understood, its ne
t his neck technical meaning for medical men sa
it brought and its limitations in the light of re- th
ceeded in cent advances in surgery, and es- th;
Ing pistol pecially in bacteriology, are not popu- ca
Inds. Car- larly realized. Gangrene, in the older oh
y hope of pathology, followed the etymological of
e and had meaning of the Greek root to eat, or pa
his task gnaw, and referred to any process Yo
shots and that ceaised destruction of tissue. Of
tention of late the term gangrene has been lim
ig up the ited to diseased conditions in which
IngCarter local death of tissue took place with
ne to get out the liquefying process that con
once sent stitutes the formation of pus.
istable of Medical observers have come to rea
to take Use that" pus formation is really a
placed in conservative operation on the part of
ling poe- nature. The material that is thus I
poor fel- thrown off contains irritants, whose hei
sited the retention would surely prove danger- onl
ons. The reaction that produces pus ape
bair and is not merely local. It is not the sla
eye of a tissues alone in the immediate vicinlhy is
tried to of the Irritated part that share in
Sup the the conservative pus formation. Most 1U
his right of the cells in purulent material are has
at it was white cells from the blood. These inc.
because white cells are the body's great de- Ion;
robbing fenders against microbic invasion. oth
that 14 Whenever microbes of any kind gain wit
Sndian an entrance into the body these white to 1
him and cells are attracted from all parts of eras
lie was the circulatory system and begin to
ien sud- accumulate near the irritated part. A
,d by a When the white cells arrive where nun
familiar the circulation, because of the irritants Gec
idhouse. present, is somewhat slowed, they nan
e direc- make their way through the blood Inci
we saw vessel walls. Still retaining their vital Aug
-es fair- activity they englobe microbes, or bits
ry mus- of broken down tissue, that may be
ing and present and proceed to digest them.
ii: face. If the irritant material be a virulent Ro
"e West poison, as for Instance a living germ, dld
ng dag- the white cells are killed by it and. durf
vith the martyrs to duty, are thrown off as oea
o rope ý the so-called pus cells, carrying the per
chair. irritants with them, however, and per
ed Ren, thus sparing the system that much h
(e freed annoyance. the
'ace old The story of these white cells reads read
like a fairy tale, but ti literally true. in o
splayed Every part of the human system feat.
it high reacts to help dispose of the invading
. West, cells that threaten destruction of any Th
r with, portion. Therefore it is that even the is a
;od in healing of small localized wounds de- large
enough pends on the general condition of falliz
murder health of the individual. Therefore the
knife." some person's tissues are. in the old up a
en met suggestive phraseology, "more heal- tree,
r a few inag" than others. Therefore, too, a and I
tightly man run down by overwork and on tc
. Ren worry, or by some serious physical all- tree.
loss of ment, is much less able to resist the openi
L mad- invasion of microbes. Many a is sw
ed and physician has learnt the sad lesson monk
econds by practical experience. Some slight pect
wound becomea infected at a moment
ag his when he is overworn, and the result Eve
till he is that complete failure of systemic royal
Frank resistance we know as blood poison- to re
o had In: absort
Reaction is-a vital manifestation. once
I have Where It occurs there is pus, but no again
arthly gangrene. Gangrene is death. If the the p
of age blood supply of tissues Is cut off they chical
die an die, because deprived of nourishment. ways
o me, The blocking of an artery causes gan- better
Iching grene, and this will be intensified by duty 1
pitiful the fact that, as no white blood cells time 1
. Just are carried to the part. nature's pro- their i
Too tective mechanism Is shut out and palace
i. for Wicrobes will be unhampered tn their rtinu
avest invasion of the tissues. Gangrene may cates
has arise from the blocking of a vein, for weeks
ening blood must be In circulation to supply
tissues with nutrition, and must be
constantly renewed itself in the large
KE. organs, Disturbances of blood vessels mature
are the most potent factors in the pro- old sol
cre. duction of gangrene. Hence its most many
trequent occurrence in old people, c
wtle- hose blood vessels are thickened, thoh
ore thus lessening their caliber, and con- addres
have sequently the amount of blood carried. throne,
hem, The Internal coats of the blood vessels sympat
any In old people are also roughened and to his
ough a clotting and interruption of the poleon
f be- blood stream easily takes place. "A dress, a
my man is as old as his arteries," means to take
nder that even comparatively young men it to h
may have old arteries. Men of forty solemni
ugh to fifty years of age often have the retne
day. rteries of seventy. Such serious con- Ma,
'eddtias as diabetes and Bright's dis- "Nothin
cob- ease often cause the aging of arteries gives
his before their time, and so make, as " th
y toevery surgeon well knows, patients wt
for of middle age itable to a gangrene of
the tlaes that Is really senile in char- A . ises
o of ater. One o
Bwildes blood resels, nerves have a th wh
power over the nutrtion of tissues.
orn, Small nerves control the sise of the only do
dle ood vesels within certain limits and fe
Sregulate circulation. How power- the
my nervoea inluences over blood sup
king pl may be theose who blush easily dtphthe
hea re good cause to know. There is ont
at least one form of gangrene due
in- atirely to nervous disturbace This in he
rhy the symmetrical gangrene that at o orks
Stimes caboh es the loss of fingers or toes worer
im, O both sides of the body. Nervous in- hd, s
Sfluences so shubt up small blood veg- the wou
eels in this ateetion that dath of the tdbly. '
tstesn reault Any interference witlr delrim,
the tha nerves that are distributed to terrible
till blood vessels is likely to cause serious
on. Interference with the circlation of t
nly a part. Aboat a
the The life of tissut then is dependent makes t
aid on the healthiness of the Wood vessels
:-e leading to them and on the nervous ma e
get mechanism that control their blood ivn
mt supply. The problem of the arue of lyventore
for galngrene is never simple Nearly al- writes
led ways it is the invasiot of mico- er
ly. organisms that causes tile final occl- e the
sion of blood vessels even In preds ed I the
posed eases, The tisues of' the old Mechanc
m aan lly do not heal well because they hdplan
fel l to react well Eeation means in
ammaton and is uly ae -sot side
a pealed b pain It 1s qe of the tmcese- , ef
he pmauonas of years that they bring in-.
eaimtng ins asibifj ty t pain as wel haser
Itse plse Whtr Ila mmatory AmerfC a
re laJon Ulls UlafrYd tissues die. plylng al
s~ Iath is sinlees So it h sappened f quir
- that witheat a sign 0I the dimetly taetsreate
of ,rUn tn.5 of t.h,S -' P ,nrlea.ta iavtim
bY, iTharK b~ Wm udum- r ~
IGRENE fssaslant poison so strong as to kill
at .once all tissue that it touched. This
seems improbable. Perhaps by nervous rt
ASE THAT paralysis that affected all injured yes
DEATH. eels, because the bullet passed close
to, and the operative procedures were st
the Rody all neceearily carried on in the imme- T
reses That diate vicinity of that important nerve Ce
of Pus-It center. the solar plexus, or, as it has
been well called, the abdominal brain. di
a body of Perhaps, because of a precociousd
te has be- senility of tissue in an overworked i
on to all individual. who had lived an ex
ts general tremely sedentary life, and whose kid- at
Stood, Its neys had not been doing their work to
Heical men satisfactorily ?or some time. Unlesst
ight of re- the bacteriological examination should
and es- throw some light on the case. the
not popu- cause of the gangrene must remain as AL
the older obscure as is our present knowledge i
rmological of the intricate physiological and
to eat, or pathological problems inrolved.--New
y process York Independent. th
issue. Of a
been lim- i t.
in which r s
lace with- aR
that con- h
really a wC'TI S frh ie
te part of
is thus In the town of Irkutsk, on the Si- cn
ta, whose herian Railway, there is at present low
e danger- only one man - a Frenchman - who by
luces pus speaks any other language than Rus- ha
not the alan. A hotel with polyglot sere-ants z
e vicinhy is much needed there.
share in - ola
ion. Most David Korman, of Jackson, Tenn., Wi
terial are has a cow that is only thirty-three w
I. These inches high. while her body Is as Iron
great de- long as that of the average cow. In
Invasion. other respects her size is in keeping we
rind gain with her height. The animal seems
ese white to possess all the functions of the av
parts of erage cow.
begin to -col
oed part. A correspondent has discovered ao
'e where number of oddly named persons in o
irritants Georgia counties. Among these
ed, they names we have Sorrowful Williams,
be blood Increase Thomas. Merciful Jenkins, t
heir vital Anget Jones. Salvation White, Hap
s, or bits piness Johnson, Purity Scott and a p
m Paradise Lee. 81eY
may be con
t them.n Remarkable was the record of an glas
virulent old English lady, who claimed that arct
ig germ, during an existence of sixty-eight pool
a off as years she had read some 10,000 works Thl
mag the of fiction, this constituting some 5 cold
er, tnd per annum for each year of her life,
te much eis extraordinary achievement,
however, was beaten by that of an
other English lady. who contrived to Abd
Il reads read 275 novels of considerable length De
Ily true. in one year, veritably a manelgous heal
system feat. en.
evading keep
of any The sewing or tailor bird of India bo
yen the is a little yellow creature not much than
Inds de- larger than one's thumb. To escape vain.
tlon of falling a prey to snakes and monkeys creas
herefore the tailor bird, travelers say, picks he a
the old up a dead leaf and flies up into a high make
e heal- tree, and with a fibre for a thread fear
too, a and Its bill for a needle sews the leaf genet
k and on to a green one hanging from the has t
ical all- tree, the sides being sewn up and an whic
slat the opening left at the top. That a nest stilh
my a is swinging in the tree no snake or his -
lesson monkey, or even a man, would sus- at th
slight pect tune,
noment - exact
s result Everybody may not know that in rapid
pstemic royal households it is not the custom nlag ti
poison- to relight a candle. For however it woe
short a time it has been burning. If reign,
sation once extinguished, it is never used omine
but no again-at least not in the precincts of cause
If the the palace. Another quaint monar- side."
d they chical custom is that there are al- plague
hment. ways two sets of servants, to insure emy 1
Ian- better service. The one set goes on stanti
led by duty for three weeks, and when that epidel
d cells time has expired another set will take sanita
's pro- their place, so that In the sovereign's the sat
t and palace there is always one complete to the
their retinue at work while their dpli- tan's
e may cates are resting until their three
In, for weeks of service come round again. I tsg
u p thepl blt the r also sAct. enbN
large The Kinglt of Rome had reached the openia
eels mature age of six months, when an he vai
epo- old soldier, who had already received enterp
most many favors from the Emperior, de- at a I
cided that he wanted more, and ask ft
Sthought t wourld be a good schame to Mwaai
la address his petition to the heir to the IIshed
iried. throne, and thus work on Napoleon'p woeld
essels sympathies. He addressed his petition to wrli
I and to his Majesty the Kig of Rome. Na- The K
the poleon smiled when he read the ad. eaplal
"A dress, and ordered the Dukre of Ploul that e
ean to take the paper to the Kiatg and read note.
it to him. This was done with due disapt p
forty olemity and state, and the Duke ly that
the returned to the Emperor. "What did fotrme
con- his Majesty say?' asked Napoleon. might
die- "Nothing," replied the Duke. "Silence to et
eres gives consent," said the Emperor; sDadeg
a"see that this old rascal of a soltdier the rag
Jents gets what he wants."-Paris Fparo. and w
e ofa
ofA Disease Whh AteIt nrs w, earl trs. expecte
har-
One of the most terrible diseases Is
that which attacks wool sarters and
ye a all who handle untanerd sknts, fir not
sue only do they breathe the polsonous 2'e a
fames which arise from the skins be co
fore they have been preserved, and
which invariably cause consumption or
diphtheria, but they are also subject
ily to anthrax. At the time of beifng
be killed the animal may not have been
ie n a healthy state, and therefore pol
ton lurks in the skln. Then, if the aily
worker chances to have a cut on his
hand, some of the moisture touches
the wound, and anthrax follows laevi
tably. The worker sickens, goes into
delirium, and after suffering the most
terrible agony for several days, dies. A few
of Where Fetea's Remais Are Pises. ape
About once a month for the last ten tias prae
ent years some original in e-stlgator iaherehtJ
e make the discovery that tb--re is no through
e monument In Trinity Cemetery to Hierld.
O mark the grave of Robert iulton, the
inventor of the steamboat, and prompt. *kOra
of ly writes an indignant letter to his pa. Baker
i per about it. For more than eighty Ject to a
years the remains of Fulton have rest- plce, th
Sa- ed in the Livingston vault in Trinity edent Is
li- Cemetery. The American Bociety of takeag a
old Mechanials Engineers has recently lour dus
7 had plans drawn for a Bobert Fulton dons th
monument which will stand on the which is
* south side of Trinlty Church, near Rfla- Then in 1
Star street.-New York 8u nmal ,.
in- _its etet
ael Aaersuis messa sgns Waseassm, to brseak
try Amerfean workshops are 3w sup. tie maie
is. plylng all kinds of beet-sugar machin- of the a
d1 f7 reqiredl to fully equip Ameriean say nothi
fly faetsoLss, and Amenrlan mascklau and esneumpa
at Invelatem are in soms eeses ele i. trim *e
as to kill THE TEMPERATURE OF ICE. JDRAS1
cbyed. This it l1 Declared to Be Colder In Wiltewr I( Old
by nervous Than in yammer.
njured ves- Tsn Inicmr*n cln
assed close Is ice any colder in winter than in In t
dures were summer? Most people suppose not. meted
the imme- They understand that Ice is Ice and disobe,
rtant nerve cannot be made any colder or warmer. drastic
as it has If a thermometer is buried In ice in shot or
iInal brain. summer it will Indicate thirty-two yard ai
precocious degrees. If you throw a piece of Ice One
overworked into boiling water and leave it there was tha
v an ex-orked till it is almost gone, what is left will lar ada
whose kid- still be at thirty-two degrees. Ice can was chi
their work never be gotten above that tempera-; oward
heir work ss ture. tried t
tion should But while ice can never be warmed found a
case. the above thirty-two degrees, it will go the yar
remain as as much below that as the water does. ter bell
knowledge An iceman delivering ice one zero day some ti
kno and in January was asked whether his ice'
was any colder than in July. He
thought not. But as a matter of fact
a piece of summer ice, if he had had
it, would have been something of a
foot warmer for him, as it would have
bedn thirty degrees warmer than the
air of the bottom of his wagon.
Mixing salt with ice makes it much
cooler. The ice in an Ice cream
freezer goes down to about zero.
This Is why the point zero on our
common thermometers was fixed,
on the Si- where it is. It was supposed to be the
It present lowest point which could be reached
3an - who by artificial means. Since then we
than Rug- have reached about 383 degrees below I1
t ser zents ero, by chemical processes.
Ice will cool down with everything 1im
else, on a cold night, to zero or below. ihe sea.
on. Tetnu. What should prevent it? On a daiy e was t
irts -thr when it is just' freezing a block of Hon. J
dy Is as iron and a block of Ice outdoors will was alas
cow. In stand at <thirty-two degrees. If the ence.
a seems weather growatwarmer the Iron will aim of c
Sth warm p wit e weather, but the ice had not
- will stay at trty-two degrees, and l.harge o
melt away. >B ilf the weather grows f Minoa
oered a colder the ironatnd the ice will cool was take
ersons n off too, and one Just as much as the )wn flag
other.ros
g theseother. p and
Williams, As the ice grows colder It gets hard One of
Jenkins, er and more brittle. There can be nc :n Amer
its, Hap 'hickory bend" on the skating pond on Lt did noi
rott and a zero day, for Ice is then too brittle. about the
Slivers of ice dipped in liquid air be. ;ial in th
come so hard that they will cut a small i
rd of an glass. Water thrown on Ice in the orom Eur
ned that arctic regions will shiver it like >utside of
xty-eight pouring boiling water upon cold glass. mldshipi
00 works This is because the Ice is so much 1 ne of th
some 150 colder than the water.-Denver Times son of the
her life. An IAmn
evement The Sultan as He it To-Day. when the
t of an- Here Is M. Dorys's description of the !engthy
trived to Abdul-Hamid of to-day: Brooklyn
length Despite the care he takes of hle dmiral a
ervelous health. he is prematurely old and brok- it the lat
en. He is extremely feeble, and onl3 NYew Yori
keeps up by dint of will power. Hit -
of Indi body is so thin that It is little more i I
A much than a skeleton. After having tried in Here is
escape vain. by every possible means, to in naking h
monkeys crease his weight, and, unable to do so, pended r
y, picks he abstains from everything likely to many. T
oa high make him thinner. He has an atrocious :he air o0
thread fear of death, and dreads illness in inverted 1
the leaf general and contagious diseases. He
rom the has a superstitious fear of the latter
and an which dates back many years. Whill
t a nest still heir-apparent, he met one day in
sake or his park at Klathane, a gipsy, who,
aid sus- at the prince's request, told his for- j .
tune, and oddly enough she predicted -
exactly what has happened since-his
that in rapid accession to the throne, foretell
custom Ing the tragic circumstances by which
towever it would be attended, as well as a long
sing, if reign, wars, etc., concluding with the
!r used ominous words: "Your death will be
incts of caused by an illness coming from out
monar- side." Consequently cholera and the
are al- plague have no more determined en
insure emy than the Padishah; and if Con
roes on stantinople of to-day boasts in time of ported by
en that epidemic an almost perfect system of &-shaped t
Ill take sanitation and advanced colleges for Each car
reign's the study of bacteriology, it owes them bending fr
nmplete to the gypsy of Klathane and the Sul. t gravity c
dupli- tan's credullty.-The Argonaut. in suspensi
tnes. is worked
gO la ose mad the Younx Reporter. such a rali
Not long ago Oscar IL went to Goth
et. nbtrg to attend a dedication or the T meeet
ed the opening of something or other, wher .daptation
hen an be was expected to make a speee. An plied. The
ceived enterprising reporter Intercepted him "dinary bi
ir, de- at a railway station upon arrival to -rate
and ask for a copy of his manuscript in , and cha
use to advance In ardew that it might be ub0 Jing that the
to the Isled the same afternoon, for th5re the wheels
leon'p woald be no time for a stenographer line of rai
stition to write out his notes after delivery. Despite his
e. Na- The King greeted him pleasantly and Is In perie
se ad- eplained that he had no manuscript; fanger of hi
P'loul that he Intended to speak without as he lies
Sread notes. The reporter was very mueh the policemi
Sdue disappoainted. He told the King frank. he below.-
Dke l 7 that he was a new man and that his
t did future standing with his employer A aHe
eleon. might be seriously atected if he failed a support
lence to get the speech. King Oaear re- the use of
peror; ponded sympathetically, motioned to violin, has 1
adier the reporter to get into his carriage, gulshed Pre
pr and wbhle they were driving to the ho- The supp
tel gave a brief synopsis of what he
ra expected to say.--hicago _ ecord-Her
-e is all.
Sand - 94
r not repas 36mg Isa Waste..
mousThe sale of daily newspapers vcrer
Sbe the o stry i- a remarlkable develop
and ment o these latter years. People
n who formerly were contented with the
eo Stats Government organ, devoted
e mainly to Governor's decrees and of
ben lchdl notices, and with a column of
Sthe dryest local Information, now buy
pse daily sheets; newsboys with City of
h Mexico papers haunt hotels and rail. loatrcn To A
che way stations, and there are local dis
e tributors of these Journals In all the which enfold
me- chief towns. It is an indicatlon of the arm a little
to modernisation of the country, this which is cot
most awakened appetite for the daily news can be length
A few papers In this city date their ing to the si
editions one day ahead, so they may usefulaess lie
appear fresh to country readers! But vents muscu
ten this practice will soon disappear. Ita shoulder in a
sator inherently absurd. Everybody sees ly gives the i
no through t--Correspondence Bostor nlastrument w
to Ierald. der to produn
the
npt 3k5kr subJect to Prematuroe Death. The Ir
pa. Bakers are more than normally sub- What mighi
Jhty ject to premature death. In the first side of the Ir
est- place, there is great danger from ac- constitutes or
lt eldent in the striking of a match or phases. Her
oftaking a light Into a room in which in its raw st
atly four dust is foating. In case this l five million ,
tn done, there follows an exploelor the country e
the which is likely to be very dangeroas greater than
e. Then in the Sour itself there is a vetr ver maines of
mall microbe which eventually has mines in the
its Eset upon the teeth, caunsldn them the world's i
to break away at the roots. This lit- which have, i
up tie micerobe also attacks the drums netted their o
sin- of the ears and eanses deafhess, te hundred thoe
ma say nothing of fanning the spark of much again a
ad ensuumptls. Bakers do not die muc of the camps
I* frem aleees, btl M they ar pesI. it is sethols
a* *. m s*...em f the M h5 bs pt
SIIII r gll d eMaham ele~
------- mLmm "
DF ICE. jDRASTIC TREATMENT OF ADMIRALS[
in Winter In Oldea Times They Were Hung ea the
Yard Arm or Threwn overboard.
oer than inI In the olden times the treatment I
ippose not. meted out to admirals charged with m
is ice and disobedience was somewhat more
or warmer. drastic than it is to-day. They were u
id in ice in shot on the quarter deck. hung at the a
thirty-two yard arm or thrown overboard.
Lece of ice One of the most remarkable cases h
ye it there was that of Prince Caraccioli. a popu.- i
Is left will lar admiral of the British Navy. He
as. Ice can was charged by Nelson with treachery, c
t tempera. , !owardlce and disobedience. He was
tried by court-martial in 1805 and
e warmed found guilty. He was then hung at
it will go the yard arm of his own ship, and at.
rater does. ter being allowed to swing there for n
e zero day some time his body was thrown into. b
her his ice
[uly. He /ei
ter of fact an
e had had ho
hing of a
could have / m
than the ml
on. of
s it much
ce cream wit
out zero. w
.o on oura
as fixed, a
to be the i
e reached , gel
then we mel
.ees below to
iverything
or below. 'he sea. It was afterward found that
On a day fe was convicted on false testimony. in
block of Hon. John Byng, a British admiral, shl
doors will was also charged with the same of
If the !ence. The court-martial acquitted 9
iron will him of cowardice, but decided that he the
ut the ice had not done his utmost when in
rees, and ;harge of the British fleet at the slege on
er grows )f Minorca. Sentenced to death. he
will cool was taken on the quarter deck of his
cl as the )wn flagship, a file of marines drawn
ip and Admiral Byng was shot.
ets hard, One of the most extraordinary cases A
'an be nc 'n American naval history, although Ij-.
pond on it did not involve an admiral, brought CO
to brittle. about the most sensational court-mar- hall
d air be. ;ial in this country. A commander of cel
will cul a small American war ship returning
a in th, rom Europe, when only one day's sail u
it like )utside of Sandy Hook, had two of the
Id glass. midshipmen hung at the yard arm.
so much i)ne of these young gentlemen was the Ni
ur Times i on of the then Secretary of War. dwh
An Immense sensation was produced
*y. when the war ship arrived here. A
n of the .lengthy court-martial was held In
Brooklyn Navy Yard. presided over by Wila
i of his Admiral Charles Stewart, grandfather land
ud brok- ,f the late Charles Stewart Parnell.-- 169
and only Yew York Herald. Yori
'er. Hit! sine
tie more RIdlag an Aerial Bleyele. Ch
tried in Here is the picture of an inspector spot
a. to in raking his daily round of the sus- this
to do so, pended railroad in Elberfeld. GOer- se
likely to many. This railway Is suspended in twi
trocioul, :he air on supports fastened llke an had
ness in inverted U, the line itself being sup ter c
es. He Pr
e latter conle
Whlle rem
day inIi
y, who, he h
his for- leng
nedclted -whit
ace-hise on t,
foretell- said
which ship
a long desalr
uth the torie
will be Phi
)m out- ing,
Ld the of thi
led en- and
if Con- amon
time of ported by cross-girder work, hung on that
itemof A-shaped trestles. Mrs
es for Each car has two pair of wheels. the
them bending from one side over the eentre
he Sul- f gravity of the carriage, which hangs a
in suspension from a single line an ldtn
is worked by electricity. Obviously tor
sita. such a railroad could not be inspected m
othby a person on foot.
r thei To meet the diffeulty an aingemlous
here Iadaptatlon of the bicycle was sp-. dent
b. An plied. The framework is that of an
- ~dinary bicycle, and the machine is m
it perated by means of an ordinary ped- Ma
dpt nal and chain gear-the differena be- hd a
oh- ing that the bicycle Is suspeaded fram idni
the wheels which run on the single the f
ah line of railway over the rider,' head. was
ieryI Despite his exalted position the rider tectl
an is in perfect safety, be even nrs no they'l
mSct anger of being arrested for swching, si a
as he dflies along well out of rech of thing
much the policeman, who regulates the trat- but in
fic below.-New gork Herald. had
Lat hO
ployer A Reip to Young Muiles. plight
falled A support for the arm, lntended for to I
r re the use of youthful students of the givn
ed to violin, has been invented by a distin. tal h
rage. guished French violinist. Byrn
e ho- The support consists of a semi-cild his a
wat he eod Nothin
- he eat
Lookin
len b e e
ever a Its m ama
relop. rowly
iople hwis nu
h the V pt s
Voted t .ih b rokt
i of chief a
-_ _ _ "Soqu
o bt o Itwa
ral- 0 w103 to AID O roTarlyU VIotwe1 .
which enfolds the lower part the the gl
thearm a little above the elbow, ad look.
this which is connected with a belt that
ws can be lengthened or shortened acrd -
their lag to the sie of the arm. Its ar Pr
map nuseflness lies in the fact that it rre tiable
But ventsr mascular fatigue, kesh e the pe
t is shoulder In a proper position and 8in1. which I
ees ly gives the arm that power over the gng 4
tor strment which it must have in ~ find woa
der to produce the besrt efets. what pe
The Irea-Maina zala det' persen
sb- What might be termned the noanl, ble, ing
irst side of the iron-mining industry aily gre pal
=c constitutes one of its most interesti gt
or phases. Here Is a commodity which
ichn its raw state, adds nearly twentyl simply
is Is five million dollars to the wealth of the ez
ior the country every year-an aggregate oeir ab
os greater than that of the gold and ail r
er ver mine of the Nation. There are in yo
has mines in the territory bordering on mnnity
iem the world's largest fresh water lake stake
lit- which havey In a single year, my sthr ak
mlS netted their owners a proft of tee thatr l
it hundred thousand d ,ollar or half as d at
of much again as the authorisd capital ur
ubc of the company controlling them, sad
Ig5t ism sthiasg uusual t .brhear f onlawi
a paid emr Itslft a s bggl
DMIRALS PEARLS OF THO'JGHT.
as en the
oard. He who makes a practice of deceiv
reatment leg others is often the worst fooled
red with man in the crowd.
it more The grave of each conquered sin is
fey were an earthwork behind which we can
Ig at the fght and conquer a greater evil.
A. A debt paid when needed is doubly
,le ases thanked and heeded, but a debt too
a popu- long delayed is oft but half way paid.
VTy. He Those who dislike us serve us in a
eachery certain way, for they put us on our
He was mettle to disprove their disbelief in us.
hng at Mock modesty, like a patch, is used
and a to corer a hole, a place where the in
bere for tegrity of the cloth or character is
wn into, broken or wholly lacking.
When a good mother's teachings
leave manhood's beet lessons unlearned
and his self respect failing, no wife,
however loving, can reform him.
Misfortune is a tide that sweeps
Ssmalll souls under and drowns little
minds and bears great and brave ones
on to noble and generous heights.
Bad manners soil fine clothes from
within worse than contact with the
world does from without, and courtesy
and kindness win where force fails.
We seldom forgive those we have
injured, and the effort to justify our
selves makes us willing, aye, eager.
to believe any false or evil rumor we
can place between them and-our con
science.
ad that Our enemies do us little vital harm
D iy. n speaing evil of us, for the friend
dmhal, ship that crumbles under the lash of
me of- an evil tongue Is best put away as
quitted good riddance of bad rubbish, with
that he thanks to those who unconsciously
ben ifa saved US from lavishing the best in us
a Dlege on an unworthy object.
ith, he
of his BIG NEW ENGLAND FAMILY,
drawn
d DMeeedi from euanjmin Fleteher, Who
Oame Over In 1699.
About 300 descendants ,of Robert
though Fletcher, who came from England to
rought Concord in 1630, gathered in Lorimer
t-mar- hall, Tremont Temple, on Sept. 4, to
of celebrate the quarter centennial of the
uring organiation of the Fletcher family
r'sil union.
of the The president. Austin B. Fletcher of
arm. New York City, presided and Intro
duced Rev. Mr. Staples of Lexington,
r. who, In a brief prayer, evoked the di
id A vine blessing on their deliberations. In
ald I brief address the president told of
er by William and Mary, sovereigns of Eng
father land, having sent to the colonies in
neil.- 1693 Benjamin Fletcher to govern New
York, and said that the Fletchers have
since then been found in gubernatorial
chairs from Missouri to Vermont. He
pector spoke of the advantage of unions of
sus- this kind in bringing together long
.- separated relatives and strengthening
d In family ties, and said that this fact
he a had buee emphasized during the quar.
Sup. ter century's existence of the union.
ProL William I. Fletcher of Amherst
college followed with a few words of
greeting, and indulged in humorous
reminiscences of past meetings which
he had attended. He described at some
length the branch of hie family to
which he belonged, and then passed
on to a more general consideration. He
said there is now a tendency to wor
ship an ancestry, as is shown by the
desire to study family and town his
tories.
Photographs of houses still stand
ing, originally occupied by members
of the Fletcher family as early as 1653
and 1696, were shown and passed
among the audience. It was announced
that the oldest person present was
Mrs. Maria .I Needham, aged 85, and
the youngest Master Charles Warren
mt Fletcher, aged 1 year. The oldest mem
ber of the union is a lacy 98 years
old, whose inirmities prevented her at
tendance. A letter was read from Sen
ator Redfleld Proctor of Vermont, a
member of the family, whose absence
o. was dueo to the presence ofVtce-Pres!.
Sdumt Roosevelt in that state.-Boston
STr-erlptp
i The ardereyo and Captain Brnres.
p- McGloin was a young ruman who
be- bad murdered a saloon keeper at a
tom midnlght raid on his place. He was
l the fellow who the night before he
d. wus hanged invited the chief of de
id tectives to "come over for the wake;
In they'll have a devil of a time" For
ag, six months Byrnes had tried every
Sof thing to bring the crime home to him,
rat- but in vain. At Ilst he sent out and
had McOloln and his two pals arrested,
but so that.none of them knew of the
plight of the others. McGloin was tak
o en to Mulberry street and orders were
the gen to bring the others in at a cer
tin taln hour 16 or 20 minutes apart
Byrne put MeOloin at the window in
role hs offce while he questioned him.
- Nothing could be got out of him. As
be sat there a door was banged below.
Looking out, he saw one of his triend.
led acromw tie yard in charge of po
Ileeme. Byrnes, watching him nar
rowly, saw his cheek blanch; but stifll
his nerve held. Fifteen minutes passed;
another door banged The murderer,
.ooking out, saw his other pal led in
a prisoner. He looked at Byrne. The
chief nodded.
"Squealed, both"
I. t was a lie, and it cost the man hi,
life. "The 1Jig is up, then," he said,
and told the story that brought him to
he the gallows.-Jacob Rils, In The Out
ad lok.
S lrdael allaey.
S Probably the mdst wild and unjus
Stluable of all the crude beliefs re
especting geological resources is that
which holds to the conviction that by
Sgoing deep eough the drill is sure to
find something of value, no matter at
what point the work of boring is com
anesced. There are numerous wise
persons fIn every community, e.tima
ble, Inflauential and in the highest de
gree public spirited, who are convinced
that the question, for example of fln
ing coal In their special locality is
simply a matter of the depth to which
Sthe explorations ar carried. Rock
oil and natural gas are recognized as
I- desirable products in every progress.
ll cosemunity, and every such com
s munity contain, persons, in other re
Sspets intelligent, who are ready to
stake their own fortune and that of
thetbir narest friends on the belief
Sthat odl and gas are everywhere un
Sderneth the srRhce, and that their
sorces es be tapped with the drill,
'4 isd gnlf thu is summcat ap
two k burw a prooses of drlllai
