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Proprietor.
"There is evidently a great deal to
be learned about women," says a Phila
delphia editor. There is, indeed, and
the best way to learn it is to ask some
other woman about it. Somerville
Journal.
Men love to hear of their power, but
have an extreme disrelish to be told
their duty. Burke.
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STOCK F-AJRZNCa- THE BASTS OF OXJRrNTDXJSTIIBS.
- KEEKEY, KANSAS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24,
LAW IN ARIZONA.
Desperadoes Iittled Tombstone in Early
Days, but Tliey Had yo Show in Tucson
An old resident of California who has
seen some very queer times and many
changes, says the San Francisco Chron
icle, got, talking of a trip he made to
Arizona some years ago, just about the
time of the Tombstone boom.
"It is quite extraordinary," he said.
"The country was full of desperadoes
and bad gamblers, and they were very
dangerous, too. They ruled Tomb
stone at that time. A friend of mine
was in Tombstone, and one day he saw
a man walking quietly along who was
a noted desperado and murderer, a man
for whose head a big reward was of
fered. He knew the chief of police and
he went and told him about it. Inside
of the day he got a notice that they
gave him one hour to quit Tombstone,
and he quitted. Now at Tucson there
was law and order, and those same des
peradoes who went about shooting in
Tombstone would go down to Tucson
and behave like the most guileless of
citizens. This was mainly on account
of an old judge they had there, a Ger
man, who feared none of them and had
his own emphatic way of serving out
the law. They knew if they got into a
scrape in Tucson they were in for it
and they'd get no mercy. He had, per
haps, rude ways of carrying out the
law, this old judge, but they were very
effective. One day a notorious charac
ter was brought up for something.
They had the whipping-post there
then. The old judge looked at him.
"I think I see you before, no ?"
The culprit admitted that he had
been there on several occasions.
"Wal, I just sentence you to forty
lashes. You take twenty of them to
morrow and then you vas released on
your own recognizances, and you come
back in a week and take the other
twenty. "
The fellow hart lns twrnitv InqliAs n.nrt
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ne hasn t been seen in Tucson smce.
Another little example of the judge's
way of doing things was the case of a
man brought up before him for firing
off a pistol in the street, or something.
They had taken $340 from Hm when
he was arrested.
"I joost fine you $200," said the
jude.
"Why?" said the prisoner. "Iu San
Francisco they would onlv fine me $5
or $10." .
"You vas in Tucson, mein friend;
$200."
The man was complaining bitterly
after he paid the fine.
"Dont kick!" said another. "You
were lucky. If he'd known you had
$340 on you he'd have fined you all
of it."
Some fellow who was being tried
moved for a change of venue.
"You want a change of venue? "What
for?" asked the judge.
"Because this court is prejudiced
against me and I won't get a fair trial."
"You say this court is prejudiced
against you and you won't get a fair
trialb You vant a change of venue,
mein friend? I joost fine you $300 for
contempt of court to begin with. Now
we'll uroceed with the trial."
iroman's bkllt.
The skill shown by American women
in nearly every department or creative
art, save that of musical composition,
seems to increase constantly. This is
especially noticeable in literary work.
Her short story of to-day compared
with her short story of the past reveals
wonderful improvement in conciseness,
construction, and freshness. Intellect
ual forces are at work to balance the
excess of imagination and the overmor
bidness of sensitive women who have a
talent for story-telling. The result of
this is gain to the periodicals. It is not
now the exception for a woman to write
a good newspaper article; it is rather
the rule; and if the true inwardness of
many a newspaper office were known it
would be found that a fair share of the
best work is done by women. To a
lesser degree the same observations
hold good in novel writing. Unvary
ing conscientiousness and steady im
provement mark most of the novels by
our women authors, and the uniform
tone of their books may he set against
the variableness of most of our mascu
line writers. Evoclu
Story of Wilkes Booth's Death and
Burial.
Edward P. Doherty, who is now an
Indian trader on the Cheyenne Biver,
Dakota, held John Wilkes Booth in his
arms when he died. He was in com
mand of the company which captured
him. Mr. Doherty thus tells the
story:
"I was a lieutenant then in charge of
my company, and had been in hot pur
suit of Booth ever since he rode from
Washington. We knew he was, or had
been, in the neighborhood where we
captured him, but had no definite idea
where he was hiding. On the after
noon of April 25, 1865, I was riding at
the head of the few soldiers with me,
along a country road, when by chance
we met a person wbo told us where
Booth was hiding. We had already
left the house five or six miles in the
rear. That night, or rather the next
morning about 4 o'clock, we sur
rounded the barn where he was con
cealed. "It was a kind of tobacco house, and
rather small. Of course he was on
the alert and heard us closing in upon
him. We called upon him to sur
render, but he refused. Some one seb
fire to the barn and I rushed up to the
door. Booth's companion came for
ward and surrendered to me. At this
juncture the soldiers were clpsing in
rapidly, and none too soon, for Booth
raised his gun to shoot me when the
report of Corbett's rifle rang out clear
and sharp upon the morning air. The
actor fell forward as I rushed to him
and caught him in my arms. The ball
had penetrated his head in almost the
same spot where he had shot Lincoln.
I lifted him in my arms and carried
him out of the burning barn. I spoke
to him, but the only words he uttered
were: 'Useless! Useless!' I think he
had reference to the surrender of his
companion and that he meant resistance
would be useless. He waved his right
hand when uttering the words, as if he
would have his companion leave. He
evidently believed him a traitor. He
sank back into my arms unconscious
and shortly afterward died. I sewed
his body up in my army blanket and
went with it to Washington. His face
was not badly mutilated, as reported,
and he was recognized beyond question
as John Wilkes Booth. His body was
not spirited away, but kept a long time
in Washington, and finally carried to
Baltimore. It now lies in a cemetery
there.
"I received quite a sum of money as
part of the reward offered for his
capture. Many stories have been
written about the death of Booth, but
the bare details I have given you are
correct. I remember that night, though,
as if it were yesterday, and the picture
of that burning barn, the fatal shot,
and Booth's death is vivid still."
The Dollar.
Our word dollar dates back to 1785,
when a resolution was passed by Con
gress which provided that it should be
the unit of money of the United
States. Another resolution was passed
in 1785, August 5, providing that it
should weigh 375.64 grams of pure
silver. The mint was established in
1792,-and was then required to coin
silver dollars containing 371.25 grains
of pure silver. This was due to the
influence of Alexander Hamilton. No
dollars were coined until 1794, and then
irregular. They are worth now $100
each. In 1794 the coinage of regular
dollars began. Our coin was an adapta
tion of the Spanish milled dollar, a
coin very popular wherever the Span
iards traveled. The coin was called
"piaster," meaning a flat piece of
metal ; it is synonymous with piaster.
It is supposed that the Spaniards took
the German "thaler," and called it by
the name of "piaster." The word dol
lar is entered in Bailey's English Dic
tionary in 1745, and was used re
peatedly by Shakespeare at the
beginning of the seventeenth century,
especially in "Macbeth," ii. 2, 62:
"Till she disbursed ten thou
sand dollars to our general use." (See
also "the Tempest," ii. 1:17.) The
question where Shakespeare found the
word dollar is answered by the fact
that the Hanseatic towns maintained a
great establishment called the Steel
Yard in London. The Steel Yard
merchants were mostly North Germans,
who would call the German thaler, as
it was spelled, "dah-ler." These same
merchants occasioned the word sterling,
an abbreviation of the word "ester
ling." As the Hanseatic trade was
particularly brisk on the Baltic and in
Russia, the standard coins of the Hanse
merchants were called esterlings, and
sterling came to mean something
genuine and desirable. The word
thaler means "coming from a dale or
valley," the first dollars having been
ooined in ft Bohemian valley called
FoacbimsthaL It was under Charles
Y., the Emperor of Germany, King of
Spain, and Lord of Spanish America,
that the German thaler became the
coin of the world.
1887.
The Genesis of a Tornado.
The passage from the sand-whirls of
the streets and other desert places to
the tornadoes such as ravage the central
part of this country appears at first
sight to be gradual; yet, as we shall
see, though both depend upon the up
rush of the warm air through the colder
overlying mass, the conditions which
produce the warmth, and thereby give
rise to the current, are not exactly the
same. The smaller dust-whirls occur
everywhere in the world; tornadoes are
limited to particular regions, and those
of disastrous violence occur only in cer
tain limited parts of the earth's surface.
One of their seats of most energetio
development is in the central and west
ern parts of the Mississippi Valley.
The way in which these tornado
whirls are formed differs in certain es
sential particulars frcm the way in
which whirlwinds are created, as has
been well shown by Prof. FerreL The
most important points of difference are
as follows : The dust-whirls are due to
the heating of a thin layer of air next
the ground. The small mass of this
layer prevents its upward whirling
from bringing about any powerful
movements of the atmosphere. In the
tornado the heat of the lower air has a
different origin. When a cyclone
passes over the surface of a country,
certain peculiar movements of the
atmosphere which it produces
bring large volumes of the
warm and moistened air to
the earth's surface and overlay them by
a cool stratum. It is not necessary for
us to describe the exact process by
which this condition is brought about;
it depends upon rather complicated re
actions which take place within the cy
clone whirl. It is suiiicient for our pur
pose to note that in this manner a deep
layer of warm air is placed next the
surface of. the earth, a:id that it does
not owe its temperature in any imme
diate way to the heat 'which radiates
from the earth's surface. This layer of
warm, moist air tends to rise up for the
same reason that the thin layer of dry
air which forms the dust-while is im
pelled upward, but on account of its
great mass the intensity of the upward
urgence is far greater.
In the sand-whirl the upward motion
begins close to the earth's surface, for
the reason that the stratum which is
impelled upward is very thin, tut in
the tornado the stratum of heated air
is usually about a thousand feet thick ;
therefore its whirling action naturally
originates at the upper surface of the
hot layer, for it is at that point the up
ward motion begins. Starting in this
upper region, the whirl extends ru-o-gressively
downward, just- as in
the bath-tub the whirl extends pro
gressively upward from the point at
which the motion originated, until the
whirl may touch the surface of the
earth. When these whirls begin they
only involve a small part of the air
about the point of origin, and so the
acquired velocity of the particle, when
they come to the center is not great;
but gradually they suck air from farther
and farther away. As the field of sup
ply becomes larger, and the particles
move from a greater distance, they ap
proach that center with greater and
greater speed, and the spiral widens and
turns with accelerated velocity. The
longer the journey of the particle, the
swifter its whirling motion becomes.
We may secure a familiar and fairly
good illustration of thh motion by whirl
ing a weight on a string, and at the
same time allowing the string to coil
around the finger, thus .constantly
shortening the length of the circuit the
weight traverses. We thus observe
that the speed of the motion sensibly
increases as the line shortens. N. 8.
Shaler. in Scribner's Maaazine.
Absorption of Disease by Porous Woed.
A celebrated physician has remarked
that every' house ought to be pulled
down at the end of its sixtieth year, as
it has by that time absorbed all the
diseases of those who have lived in it,
believing that wood and plaster absorb
gases, foul air, and feverish exhalations
as readily as milk or water does. But
as it is not practicable to tear down
houses every half-century or so, it is to
be considered if all the wood used in
their interior construction and all the
plain surfaces of plaster should not be
so thoroughly oiled or varnished that
the power of absorption should be al
most entirely destroyed, and the char
acter thus so changed that destruction
would be no longer desirable. Har
ntfr'a Unjuvr
On Mrs. E. P. Buckingham's ranch,
Lagoon Valley, CaL, is a monster fig
tree, around which staging thirty feet
high has been erected so as to gather
fruit, the yield from which is often a
ton. The tree is about 24 years old,
and we presume was planted by Deme
tria Pena. Five feetrom the ground
it measures 115 inches in circumfsr-
fiTJCA.
Single Copy S .Cents
NUMBER 31.
novelties in JTctcslry.
White and wood violets are leading
designs for bonnet-pins.
Hairpin-tops of twisted silver wire
are now occasionally set with garnets.
A diamond dragon-fly makes a hand
some ornament for ladies' neckwear.
A pretty combination jewel is a dia
mond crescent with a star in the cen
ter. A double star set alternately with ru
bies and sapphires is a charming pat
tern for a brooch.
A novelty in silver caneheads is the
face of Old Mother Hubbard, with an
etched band beneath.
A brooch consisting of an oxidized
silver sun has a large eagle of bright
gold flying toward it.
Silver parasol handles bear many
handsome ornamental designs of leaves,
flowers, fruits, and grasses.
A tape measure in an ozidized silver
case, ornamented with repousse work,
makes an elaborate tool.
A large opal sun, the rays of which
are set with alternate pearls and dia
monds, makes a handsome pin.
Grain-worked initials on oxidized sil
ver match-boxes is the latest fancy, but
a somewhat costly one.
A tea service of oxidized silver in
Moorish design and chasing is among
the latest novelties in silverware.
A miniature turtle, enameled in col
ors true to nature, with diamond eyes,
is a pleasing novelty in brooches.
Brooches containing hand-painted
miniatures are becoming fashionable.
Some are edged with diamonds.
A peculiar biscuit jar is a peachblow
vase adorned with birds and flowers,
and having a silver cover and handle.
A ring of yellow gold recently made
has on top a very finely exeouted
scroll, in the center o'f which is set a
diamond.
Spoons in solid oxidized silver have
the shanks slightly thicker than the
handle, and bear a chased floral and
shell design.
A novel brooch is a bunch of rich
looking grapes formed of several irregularly-shaped
amethysts, in each of
which is set a diamond.
One of the prettiest designs for chat
elaine peadants is the Orient charm a
number of stars and crescents cut in
relief in a plain square of gold.
The manufacture of enameled pansy
ornaments has reached such a high de
giee of perfection that the work of the
enameler can hardly be distinguished
from the product of nature.
Are Corsets BeneflcialJ
More men die of consumption than
women, and it has been attempted to
explain this by supposing that corsets
help to maintain a healthful condition
of the lungs because they restrain ab
dominal breathing and compel chest or
rib breathing, causing a better ventila
tion of the upper portion of the lungs,
or those two apices of the lungs which
might be called attics where dust ac
cumulates and decay begins, but if
corsets do have any beneficial effect in
this way it is probably more than
counter-balanced by the evil effects of
their compression of the vital parts be
low the diaphragm. The stomach,
liver, and spleen are organs no less im
portant than the lungs, and to crowd
them out of place or impair their func
tions by tight corsets will inevitably
produce diseases as serious as consump
tion. As there is often a spirit of good
in things evil, corsets may not be an
unmitigated nuisance, and indeed much
depends upon the style and how they
are adjusted, but the more they are so
adjusted as to compel chest breathing,
the more certain they will be to pro
duce disaster somewhere below the
chest The best way to induce chest
breathing and ventilate every portion
of the lungs is by rapid exercise or by
enforced deep respiration practiced once
or twice daily.
Engineers estimate that it will re
quire $250,000,000 more money to com
plete the Panama Canal; of this there
are $50,000,000 on hand. If the grand
old engineer lives long enough the
canal will go through and the wedding
of the waters of the Atlantic and Pa
cific Oceans-will be the crowning glory
of a magnificent life.
Ts India about 20,000 persons are
killed every year by animals, and nine
teen out of twenty deaths are the re
sult of snake bites. Next to venomous
reptiles, tigers claim the most victims.
Besides the lose of human life, wild
animals destroy 5(000 head of cattle..
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