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t I lE : TRUE -:- DEMOCRAT.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT
ST. FRANCISVILLE, LOUISIANA.
The Governor of Pennsylvania makes
a strong plea for better school facili
ties in rural districts in order to check
the tendency of country youth to re.
wsove to the cities.
Jf Sir Lepel Gritfia gives the popular
tion of the famine districts in India as
41,500,000. The cablegrams say that
a million and a quarter are now em
lboyed on Government relief work,
but such relief seems to be wholly in
adequate.
Asbestos has recently been applied
by a Massachusetts firm to the manu
facture of shoes for worhinginen em
ployed in foundries anti smelting
works. It is asserted that the new
shoes, beside.s being mote comfort
able, cost less than leather hoes and
wear indefinitely.
,Tames It. Francisco, niho died in
Tremont, Ohio, the other day, was
one of the ohlde-t e:gineers in this
country. He ran the John Bull en
gine which was brougiht fromu Enigland
in 183i; and was put on the Camden
and Amnboy ILiilway to take the p)lace
of horses that had furi:eri;v hauled
the cars. That famous engi:e was ex
bibited at the World's fair.
It appears that one of the nw coun
tries which are next to surprise the
world is Siberia,notes Harper's Week
ly. The surveyors and investigators
who have been looking into its re
sources and possibilities along the
proposed line of the trans-i-Sberian
railway report, as is no doubt their
business, that it has most things that
ought to be stored in a great undevel
oped country--minerals to burn and
others to smelt, great stretches of agri
eultural land, abundant wo:)l, navi
gable rivers, and numerous other pos
sibilities of emolument. It :s possible
that if ever the raw materials of civil
ization which Russia controls are
wdrked up, the United States will be
relieved of the embarrassment of be
lieving itself to be the greatest thing
on earth.
The past year has been a moment.
oui one. Important questions have
agitated many peoples, bartles have
been fought, political ciampalins have
been waged; political policies over
turned; discoveries made ly daring
adventurers and painstakinti students;
great disasters have wrought ruin
and death. Amid the mass of events
the following score to st:an out with
greatest distictness as iung tihose
that will make the year memnorable:
The presidential c:ampaign .aad elec
tion; Cuba's revolt and American
sympathy; general election in Caun
ada; the Manitoba question; settle
ment of the Venezueilan dispute;
Sjoudan expedition; Italy's fiasco in
Abyssinia; Dr. JalReson's raid; St.
Louis cyclone; Nansen's expedition;
discovery of X rays.
The changes in dairying during the
past fifteen years are not appreciated
by one farmer in ten. The,, cream
eries were almost unknown, but now,
as Major Alvord sanys, there are 10,000
creameries in the country. Probably
5,000 cream separators are in use in
America and "this one change prac
tically obliterates the limuitations of
: butter making due to climatic condi
tc tions, and butter factories can now
mi be oerated without ic:e, about as well
lttlt in 3ississippi andi Missouri, as in
It . 3lfaine nlnd Minnesota." Tile Paciiic
ee States, Colorado, Nebraska and other
states, lately large buyers from the
SVefst,are now supp)lying t hemnse'ves
itthe illp butter, mainly with cim tes,,, and
- ai@ : n sending from their su'rplus to
,suDPpto borin:g status, andl mallay of olur
hii ar~t[f clairy mnarkets feel these changvs.
thle "tatii controversy in Congress over
everyJtrArt tion of a copyright law (a
whlelabc i#r- which culminated in the
sahall 1JAI o"h.the D)raper Lill Iy both
ill forlbigOetlCl ll'lCougress) the statement
tion gituentleit tithere were 5,000 thean
yprovAatlit ka'lioa ouses in thd United
State e r...,ng a cost of $10,000
Frb&iaalF l~a* . These theatres
,1uri~ftC~lt i,, q ,pej.ons exscluiveo of
4frjj c et fljs1 Upward of 400
i, m ;...9'..l l ~, en onr owned by
ctiJmi. n ot .tk , it States are
. a .U .v give employ
,;tl, ft0 ",000 actors.
-.l-;% ng t ese mann
pasa t i IA 5wfl r..,,00 to
. statgQa~tgt4tIr tIljthr o of the
inatflttits4T ipimtpt-jtit} s0 of the
.deimmliollho ofratte~ranbhatlb 1 the
1o bSleIAJ intmarl wiOralsj shlO#JIqsbra
. er tealhritagl ukebtI-YEneth Go@rnu.
,jkir .erizedz performances.
THE HIGHWAY.
The highway lies, all bare and br3wrr
A naked line across the down,
Worn by a hundred hurrying feet.
The tide of Life along it flows,
And busy Commerce comes and goes,
Whare once the grass grew green and
sweet,
The World's fierce pulses beat.
Well for the highway that it lies
The passageway of great emprise!
Yet from its dust what voices cry-,
Voices of soft green growing things
Trampled and torn from earth which clings
Too closely, unperceiving why
Its darling bairns must die!
1My heart's a highway, trodden down '
By many a traveler of renown
Grave Thought, and burden-bearing
Deeds.
And strong Achievement's envoy fares,
With laughing Joys and crowding Cares,
Along the road that worldward leads -
Once rank with foolish weeds.
Glad is my heart to hear them pass;
Yet sometimes breathes a low Alas!
The tender springing things that grew
The nursling hopes their feet destroyed,
Sweet ignorant dreams that youth enjoyed
And blossomed there the long year
through
Would I could have them too!
-Louise Letts E.lwards, in Harper's.
WHICH TO MARRY?
suppose she will
marry some time
or * other, and
perhaps, after all,
she will be as
well off to marry
ý now, as to wait
half a dozen
1 years."
Old Mr. Dorlan turned the letters
over in his hand and looked at the
pretty blonde in the easy-chair op
posite. it would be hard to give her
up, but with either of these two men,
he felt that she would be happy,
West Hartley wrote:
"Mr. Dor:an: For many months I have
felt a deep interest in your daughter, and
am bold enougll t, hop' that my atffection is
in a degree returned. I am not a rich man.
but have a fair business, and strength and
energy, and my wife would have a certainty
of the love and respect of an honest man.
With your permission I would be pleased to
call upon her. Respectfully yours,
"WEST HARTLEY."
Clarence Hillsdale wrote:
"Dear Sir: I am deeply and sincerely in
love with your daughter. I propose to make
her my wife, with your consent. M3y name,
position and means are well known to you.
I await your reply. Yours.
"CLARENCE HIILLSDALE."
The first was a faithful counterpart
of himself in his younger days. There
were a few improvements, such as a lit
tle better prospects, a few more dol
lars than he possessed at twenty-five,
but the principle, the straightforward
honesty and strength of purpose were
there.
The other was the very man he had
had in mind for months. Everybody
knew the solidity and worth of the
great banking house of Hillsdale
Brothers. Everybody knew Clarence,
the younger, to be a thorough man of
business and a gentleman. He drove
his handsome bays with grace and
ease, but never with recklessness. I-Ic
gave a supper now and then, when
champagne and Madeira flowel like
water; but he went to his chamber
with a clear eye and steady hand, and
without even the faintest breath of
tobacco perfuminghis elegant clothes.
Men found him always at his post,
with his fair face flushed with health,
and not a trace of dissipation wrink
ling a single feature.
It was hard to choose between them.
Perhaps Ruth could choose. So he
spoke:
"Ruthie, come here!"
She came with her well-bred, grace
ful step, and leaned over his chair.
"Well. papa?"
"Read these,"
He gave her the two letters and she
read them carefully over. A blush
stole up, mantling brow and cheek
when she concluded WVest Hartley's
letter, and at the end of Hillsdalo's a
delighted exclamation escaped her.
"You cannot marry both. Which
shall it be?"
"Papa, I don't know. I used to
really love West, until Clarence came;
but flow-well, Clarence is rich and
stylish, and yet, West is-good and
true. Yon shall decide."
"And you will abide by my de
cision?"
"With all my heart, papa."
Ruthic wout back to her easy-chair,
and gave the matter up entirely to
papa's Lsuperior judgment, and he,
with quite as much if not a degree or
so more anxiety than he had felt at his
own matrimonial setting, sat back and
reflected .
Honesty and truth were jewels sol
dom found, but with money and
power on the other side of the scale
he was a little afraid they would sink
into nothingness,
"Well, I will wait. Some way I
shall receive the truth of the matter,
and know into whose hand to place
the happiness of my little Ruth,"
These two letters arrived on the
second day of December. On the
fourth each gentleman received a
brief note from Mir. Dorlan, with a few
pleasant but unsatisfactory lines. He
would consider, he said, and give
them his nnsw:r, if they would wait
with patience,
On the twenty-fourth there was a
fair at the church. It was magnificent,
from its foundation, and its object
was to decorate with greater splendor
the already splendid edifice.
Fair young girls, with confectionery
at ten dollars per bite, and dainty.use
les6 knick-knacks priced at five times
their real value, besieged every visitor,
and he was a hard hearted creature
who could resist the touch of the white
hands, and pleading from the soft
eyes, and sweet entreaties of "Do buy
this, you know yea need i, Please
do 1" r'.. -
Mr. Dorlan was there, and his little
Ruth was the proprietor of a table well
filled with worsted nonsense, silken
cushions, bead work, smoking caps
and slippers, and many a close fisted
fellow laid a bill upon her table and
carried away a trinhet, as satisfied as
though he had got double his money's
worth.
Clarenco Hil!sdale was there, and so
was West Hartley, and Papa Dorlan
whispered:
"Ruthie, you'll never have a better
chance. Study these lovers of yours."
And Ruth studied.
They did not stay away a moment
longer than etiquette demanded. As
soon as they could frame an excuse,
they sauntered toward her table. Of
course, they were not jealous, for each
other's motives were unknown, and
they met as well 'bred men do, and
after offering their salutations to Ruth,
fell into an easy conversation.
"These are pretty articles," said
Clarence, taking up a pair of velvet
slippers. "Did you make them, Miss
Dorlan ?"
"Yes. I have but those two pair
left; won't you take a pair? They
must be exactly your size."
"Yes. I believe they are. What do
you expect in return?"
"My price, as you see, is ten dol
lars, but in a case like this we trust
more to the generosity of the pur
chaser."
She said this with a charming smile,
and he placed a little roll of bills in
her hand.
"Yu will take the remaining pair,
will you not, Mr. Hartley?" she asked,
while doing up the bundle.
"Yes ;" and West Hartley tendered
his offering.
Some one else came up just then, and
they turned away, leaving Ruth for a
moment with her father.
"Oh, papa!"
"What is it?"
"See what a generous soul Clarence
Hillsdale has. Five hundred dollars
for a pair of slippers! And West, oh,
how mean?"
"How much did he give you?"
"Ten dollars only."
"Well, that was your price, and a
pretty steep one, too, considering the
fact that they did not cost more than
one-half that sum."
"I know, but think how great the
contrast between their gifts. Why,
I'd given more, after what was said, if
I had been obliged to pawn my boots."
"West Hartley is more [sensible,"
was papa's short reply.
They went away, each bearing a pair
of slippers wrought by her dear little
fingers, and each within his heart had
hope enough to make him happy, and
Ruth lost her chance to study her two
lovers.
Long before the close of the evening
Papa Dorlan got sleepy and started for
home. Ruth was in good hands, and
he was too tired to stay there and stand
the heavy fire and constant demands
upon his purse and patience, so he
found his overcoat and furs in the
ante-room, and presently was trudging
along towards his comfortable man
sion
A lithe figure passed hium at the end
of the block, and under the lhght from
the street lamp he recognized West
Hartley. He was in a hurry, and with
a little curiosity Papa DIorlan hurried,
too, and kept quite near. All at once
he disuappeared. Pap-. Dorlan rubbed
his eyes. Where in the world did he
go? Ah! There was a grocery store
on the corner. Possibly he might
have gone in there. A few steps more
and Papa Dorlan was peering in at the
glass door.
Yes, he was there, and so the cur
iosity box outside watched and waited.
It was for a long while, for this
strange young man was superintend
ing the tying up of mysterious parcels,
and finally the rolling out of a barrel
of flour.
"What in the world is the fellow
buying groceries for? He don't keep
house!" thought the watcher at the
door, as West took out his pocketbook
and paid a bill on the counter.
'"These articles must be delivered
to-night," he said, as he opened the
door.
"All right, sir !"
Well, Papa Dorlan looked after the
tall figure as it sped out of sight, and
began to think it a deetdedly mysteri
ous affair.
"I may get myself into trouble, but
I'm bound to solve this matter;" and
straightaway he walked into the
store.
"These articles are to be delivered
to-night?"
"Yes, sir."
"Where?"
"At No. 28 M-- street."
"Could yon give lume a ride around
there?"
"Oh, yes." The answer came prompt
ly, but the grocer's eyes looked won
deringly at the finely-dressed gentle
It was a long ride and by no means
a pleasant one, for it ran through nar
row streets and alleys and ended in a
low but clean little court.
"Hero you are, sir, at No. 28. Hal
loo, there; Mlrs. Martin!"
The door of No. 28 swung open, and
awoman pale and poorly-clad ap
peared.
"Htere's a load of goode for you."
"For me? There must be some mis
take."
"Not a bit of it. Take a parcel or
two, and I'll run up with the rest."
Papa Dorlan, eager to see the whole,
caught up a bundle and ran up stairs
behind the wondering woman and the
grocer.
It was a poor little room, as neat as
was, half-tilled with freshly-ironed
clothes, and its proprietress, a pale,
meekly-faced woman, bearing the
marks of poverty upon every linea
ment. Two children, from their
supper of bread and milk, looked at
the stranger, and hailed the apples, as
the grocer rolled them inmo a basket,
with a shout of delight.
"Did you buy these, sir'?" asked the
,man, turning .to Papr Dorlau.
"No, ma'ara, I did not. But i
know who di , Do you know West
Hartley '"
"Yes, heaven bless him! I do his
washing, sir. Did he send these?"
"Yes, he did."
"Is everythin; here? A barrel of
flour, five pounds of sugar, one of tea,
two of coffee, four of butter, a bag of
salt, two bushels of potatoes, a bushel
of apples, crackers, raisins and a bag
of cakes! There, all here in the book.
SIt is all right!"
"Yes, sir, they are all here."
"Come, sir, are you going to ride
back with me?"
"Yes. Wait a moment. Here, my
good woman, is a little to help you.
I must not be behind Hartley. God
bless him! may he have a family
washing to pay for before another
Christmas." And Papa Dorlan hur.
ried out and again mounted the gro
cer's wagon.
It was very late when Ruth arrived
in the carriage of a friend at her
lather's door, but late as was the hour,
she found her respected parent in the
library.
"Why, papa! Are you awake?"
"Yes, and I've something to tell you.
Do you reme:uoer that you promised
to abide by my decision in choosing
between your trio admirers, Hartley
and Hillsdale?'
"IYe;: papa."
"Well, I have decided. Marry West
Hartley."
"Why, Papa Dorlan?"
"You know you love him best. If
you don't you will when you hear my
story."
Ruth folded her hands over papa's
knee, and iistencd while he related the
incident of West's generosity. When
he concluded, she said:
"Papa, send for him. I'm sure I
love him best."
Next day the two gentlemen received
their replies.
West Hartley folded his and leaned
back from his dccki; with a happy smile
illuminating his handsome face.
Clarence Hilis:tale coolly twisted his
and lighted his cigar with it and went
out for a smoke.--Xew York News.
Arabs Are Ai;stelnionls in Their Habits.
"In the Desert With the PIedouin,"
is the title of an article in the Con.
tury, written and illustrated by the
English artist, R. Talbot Belly. Mr.
Kelly says in his article: Desert life
induces habits of abstemiousness.
Rising with the sun, a dish of cumis,
or mare's milk, and a small cup of
black coffee are the only refreshments
generally partaken of. The day is
spent following one's pursuits, and
with the exception of an occasional
cup of coffee and some very light
"snack," one has no meal of any kind
till after sundown. One quickly be.
comes accustomed to long fasting and
abstinence from any form of drink,
and the simple dinner atnight is more
Skeenly enjoyed in consequence.
Though plain, the food is exce!lently
cooked, and usually consists of a hugeo
tray of rice over which is poured a
dish of semna, or liquid butter round
the tray are pigeons stufi'ed with nuts
and spices; a:n lhe pyramid of rice is
surmounted by a lamb or kid, fre
quently cooked whc!e. Boiled beans,
and perhaps a few fresh herbs, appeanr
occasionally, which, with the usual
fiat loaves and a large dish of riz-bil
laban, or boiled rice pudding, comn
plete the meal. Salt is sierlo,- seen
a distinct privation-except on the
fir4t day of your visit, and drinking
water is often scarce. After dinner a
hugo fire of corn-cobs is lighted in
the tent, about which we gather-
and en oy the after-dinner cup of
coffee and a smoke, and, shoild we be
in the mood, talk.
The Arabs havw one excellent point
of etiquette: Talk for talk's sake is
not expected. Ever ready for a yarn,
they eagerly respond should you wish
to converse, but the luxury of silence
is not denied if one's mood be
thoughtful.
The idea of a fire in one's tent may
strike some of my readers as a super
fluity; but the nights are often in
tensely cold, and after bathing in the
sun all day, with the thermometer at
ninety-five to one hundred degrees in
the shade, the sudden fall of temper
ature to little above freezing point is
very trying; anil in ::pit-3 of fire,
blankets and a ihick ulster, I have
frequenlly be.en obliged to go outside
and run about iu order to restore cir
culation to my hnlf-irozen exlrea:i
ties.
Giganich Au!arclic leberig.;.
The snowfall of each year adds a
new stratum to this iceeap, which is
as distinguishable to the eye as is the
annual aceretiou of a forest tree. Thus
in cenooturies have accumulated on
Antarctica these snows, which, by
processes of pressure, thawing, and
regelation, have formed an ineap that
in places exceeds 3000 feet in thick- I
ness. Through the action of various
forces-that of contraction and ex
pansion by changing temperature be
ing perhaps the most potent--this
icecap creeps steadily seaward and
projects into the ocean a perpendicu
lar front from 1000 tO 2000 feet in
height, The temperature of the sea
water being about twenty-nine de
grees, the fresh water ice remains un
wasted, and the ice barrier plows the
ocean bed until through flotation in
deep water disruption occurs, and the
tabular berg is formed. These bergs
are of a size that long taxed the belief
of men, but it is now well established
that bergs two miles square and 1000
feet in thickness are not rare; others
are as largo as thirty miles in length,
and some nearly 3000 feet in thick
ness, their perpendicular, eun-wasted
sides rising from 200 to 400 feet above
the sea.-Ladies' Home Journal.
Joseph D. Jones, Boston's oldest
schoolboy, celebrated his ninety
ninth birthday recently. By oldest
schoolboy the Bostonians mean old
est survivor of tlfose taught mIn its
pub'~a hools, ...
mL)OO:)Y RECORD OF A FORIMER
sERGEANT OF INDIAN SCOUTS.
grimes Which Startled the Country
on Both Sides of the Riio
Grande--Killing of a
SlherilI's Posse.
INCE the Apache Chief, Geron
imo, has been taught the cus
toms and manners of his white
brethron at the Indian prison
and school in Alabama, there has been
no redskin, according to the Chicago
Record, who has had so much public
zttontion as Apache Kid. For six
years he has been making bloody his
tory along the Rio Grande and Mexi
can border. A recent report of the
War Department at Washington shows
that movements of the military, con
sequent upon the depredations of this
savage outlaw, have cost Uncle Sam
altogether over $50,000, and that
troops in President Diaz's Government
across the border have been harassed
by the Kid since 1893, when the Kid
became a more regular dweller in the
Republic of Mexico. At different
times there have been as many as 400
trained soldiers of the plains, both on
the American and the Mexican sides
of the Rio Grande, in search of Apache
Kid, while military scouts and United
States Marshals and Government
police officers by the score have
labored and schemed long and vainly
for the arrest of the Indian, hoping
thereby to obtain the reward of $S000
offered for the canture of this rene
gade.
A great deal has been written about
Apache Kid that is not true. Nothing
romantic is connected with his history.
It is one series of bloodthirsty mur
ders, malicious robberies and unnamed
villainies. The truth as told by the
army officers and citizens who live in
the country adjacent to the Sin Carlos
reservation, who remember this Indian
well, makes him no hero. He is a
short, stocky, full-blooded Apr.che.
He is wiry and bold,and has never had
an hour's education in any Govern
ment or private school. lie has lived
always in Arizona, and only left there
when the troops and his own race
sought to end his career because of his
many crimes. Then he persisted in
returning to add to his deeds by steal
ing stock and murdering people for
their personal property.
The Kid was a sergeant of Indian
scouts under General Crook in the
Geronimo campaign, when he rendercd
valuable services. He is skillful in
Indian warfare, a dead shot at short
range and a wonderful trailer. He
has seen enough of troopers too, to
be able to outwit them when he is
pursued.
In March, 1388, the Kid asked Al
bert Sebxing, who was chief of the
scouts of the San Carlos agency, for
permission to leave upon a special
mission. When questioned about this
he stated that he had a deed of honor
to perform. Some years before a
Pima Indian had killed a relative of
Apache Kid, and it devolved upon
him once a year to go out and kill a:
Pima Indian as an atonement for the
peace of his dead relative. Sebriug
refused the request and tried to in
culcate into Apl:ache Kid's mind the
moral truth of loving one's enemie .
The army men, fangiliar with the Kid's
ways, knew that Sebring was wasting
time and they were not surpri-ed ond
maorning to find the Indian had di:ap
peared.
In June the Kid came back and,
being immediately put under arrest,
was taken to Captain D). E. Pierce's
tent. Immediately there was excite
ment among the friends of Apache Kid
and several shots were fired through
the canvas of the tent. Amid the
confusion the Kid recovered his car
bine, sprang aside, jumped upon a
horse behind a comrade and the
mutinous scout fled. The mutineers
went toward old Mexico, killed two
white men in the Galliuro mountain
passes on the way, but were so closely
pursued that they doubled on their
tracks and returned to the reservation.
All were arrested. Some were hanged
for murder and Kid and four other
,couts were courtmarshaled and sent
to Alcatraz. To the surprise of some
military oficers the President soon
pardonedi the Kid and his companions
and they returned to Aritona.
In 1S39 indictments for murder were
found against Apache Kid and several
other Indians. They were arrested Iv
Captain Bullis, agent at San Carlos,
and delivered to the civil authorities
of Arizona. Sheriff Glen Reynolds,
Deputy Holmes and a teamster named
Miiddleton took the Kid, seven other
Indians and a Mexican and started in
a wagon for Yuma, where the Indian
murderers were to have been hanged.
One day early in November, 1889, the
party was toiling slowly over a hard
road. To relieve the horses the Sheriff
made his prisoners walk up a steep
hill-all but one who was lame or
pretended to be so. The sheriff walked
in front, the prisoners followed,
shackled in couples, while Deputy
Holmes walked behind, the wagon
containing Middleton and the lame
prisoner bringing up the rear.
At a concerted signal the prisoners
hurled themselves upon the two ofll
cers and bore them to the ground,
while the Indian in the wagon seized
Middleton's pistol and shot him in the
face. The officere were beaten to death
with stones; Middleton was shot again
and left for dead. The Mexican made
his escape before the Indians got rid
of their shackles. They robbed the
body of the sheriff of a gold watch
and $3800 in cash. Arming them.
selves with the officera' -rea-ons
the Apaches fled into mountains.
This party of Indians constituted the 1
fKid's original band of renegades,
which was increased by the addition
of other outlaws hiding from ofificers
of the law. The band raided back and
forth across the Mexican line, killing
whit€ men and M ze~gi stealirg
• .i
stoek and comr/itting so mi
dations as to create a panic
settlers of the eparsela cul ta
gions. The party did not r
gether long. The cavalry
Bowie were in hot ursuit
cowboys and settlers joine,
chase for the fugitives. edo s
the band separated and one bt
time the Indians sfneaked bo7ek
reservation. They htave siua
stories, which have been v e-r
the tmurders of settlers both
south of the Rio Grande and
inucon range of mountains, Ai
were prompted by the Kid. "i
In July, 1891, the Kid,b' > :
traveled slowly down from tb
penetrable fastnesses of the
mountains and crossed the ..
deserts to the Gila river country,
he hid for days on the outskirts
San Carlos reservation, In sore
he got word to a former girl co
and she went out secretly one tiig
visit her Indian lover. He had at the
an extra horse stolen from a
near by, and when she ecameto 'i'0
for edc her to mount and fly with
back to his retreat in the moui ",
The girl was compelled to livo re t
Kid and his gang for over a year.
returned to the family wickyap it!
reservation, after suffering
privations and at the risk of her idi
Several times in the Kid's Ica-,
when preparations were made for ili
slaughter of a party of ranlchman be
Itravelers found along the moau It
trails or desert roads she was tiedto it
tree and a bag put over her held ve t
that she could neither escape nor ',
in what direction the murderers the
gone. When a day or two later k~ h
savages saw that they were not ht.
followed by troops or avengersoft whi:
latest crime, the Indians would retpii de('
to free her, only to force her to, i
company them to new scenes of " o
bery and murder. One or two. b oled
stories concerning the kill~i t1 it
women and children, who wt l s
ways reserved until the last be "You
they could do no harm to the av me
were most horrifying. She washl "
fohled and could follow the mpB cy
meats of the band by sound.. . i
screams of the women indicatedto$ Not
how horrible were their death :i4 osp
It may be said in defense ofth6.l ug,
that for years hlie has been ch `Pe
with crimes which were committ ly
drunken cowboys or murderous i ar
cans. His companions dwind lda d ,ed
until be practically becamea:n i ri
tmaolite and a wanderer, alone,- oa't
knows now that he is hated by he's
people and that a price is placed u "Oh
his head. lie can no longer hop joi
a friendly hand from any Indians ihe's
ing off from the reservation in ee Y e
of game. The last seen of the. KidM v'rE
abcut a year ago along the b rot,
when a cowboy happened to gett ght
near to where the Kid was hiding.' ay
cowboy was wounded but escapedi "M
report having fully identified rpr
repnegade. th
lYlhat is Carr l me!
As the use of curry has often b y,
mncutioned in the various recipes hi 'it
hb.ive found their way into this d~ it He
mnent from time to time, severalvoudi upp(
housewives have decided that thef tt
Iind out, if possible, just whaet cfl M
is, and have written, collective lyi
questing a descriptioa of its grot6 8hi
:ndl preuPration. plied;
Curry is a vegetable; rathercnf glaln
is vegctables. It is anise, cori to a!
cumin, mustard, poppy seede, allsi you
almonds, assafotida, ghee, eardsi pres
seeds, Chili berries, ciunamonij their
cocoanut milk, oil, curds, fent i
seeds, an Indian nut that I e&i, Sb
s:pell, garlic, onion, ginger, limej. In a
vinegar, mace, mangoes, nutmeg, her
per, saffron, salt, tamarinds "I
tumerio. Ilather a long list, bntt perk
elaimed that all these ingred "Wh
leally find their way into a et5r At
mixture, wnueh is our well ns t~a
curry. Allthese nrepoundedt0ge i
and dried in an oven, or in the with
When bottled, it is the powder k do au
comes to us as Indian curry. to tt
it not worth admiring the wit ana5i1l me
that have brought together sn k
number of ingredients, and oi fior
them have evolved an article 80 :fo
tirely different from each, and T
which there is not one elemon too
trace? : "I
In India curry is produced at hid
hand. Different pro.vinces iary wok
ingredients and the prouortionf a,'
brought together, the ladies of l~o ~e
and the ladies of Calcuita wottlpi p t o
bIy compare recioes, each of eg s b
with her own preferenceC, as do nb
,ladies of hbiladelphis and lalti n
on the stewing of terrapin, an a!
nladies from New Orleans and 01W "i
ton over the boiling of rice. I. gviv
province coriander seedspredo s Pn
in another tumeric encroaches. par
less there are family recipes for C
among the IBrahmins as preolous
recipes of Aunt Olegg and Anta
let.--Home Queen. " liss
Air Used by a Human BelS. r
Dr. Radcliffe fall makes the fO re
ing interesting oealculation oa: I
amount of air a human beingop
average size and proportiolns Wl i
same in the space of onemit1t 1
in repose and also when in the ,lI
ent degrees for activity. lVhe
rest we consume 500 eabicinr
air per minute; if we walk at th
of one mile an hour we use -
miles,1000; three miles an hoar,1
four milrs an hour, 2300. If fO cl
out and run six miles an hour'1r
consume 3000 cnbic inches ofli I
ing every minute of that rim 'e
What Lamghter PDoe
It is said that every heart~yl1g
which a man or woman indalg0e u
to prolong life, as ii make the. '
move more rapidly and g9e
and different stimulus to allth
of the body from wht~ ilp
other time;. Therefo t
saying, "Laugh and groW ,
an exaggerated one, but hS.5 *a
tioa in faci.t..
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