North Carolina Newspapers

1 4 Wl XVin,-TniED SERIES. SALISBURY N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1887. HO. 44 The Carolina w atenman. ' 1 ' t -. - .'''f ' .' - . "- . - j B-Y J. J. BRUNER. A CAROLINA MYSTERY. vuiuuisio ui xvoanoKe lsiana r.ait iti Roanoke 1587. THE FACTS IN A VERY ROMANTIC HIS TORY CONDITIO OF THE CROATAN8 OF THE PRESENT DAY. Great Records of a Great War. The eighteenth volume of the "Re- yiion Records' has been completed xheir descendants believed to be ...a k riiidv tor distribution. This "' ..' vhih wUnn hv thp -Wllr THE CROATAN INDIANS OF 1887 WOlrv. ... 0 j ..... department about nine years ago, prom ises to continue for a good many years before it is completed. The eighteenth volume only takes the history down to Wlvin 1802. When the work is F, A. finishe'l it is estimated that it will fill 127 volumes, and the last volume will nrobublv be piiblished some time in the next'centurv. The copy is very diffi- In cult for the printers to handle. It is almost impossble to read many of the notes which are mostly writen in pen cil. The matter is arranged to cover the movements of each separately. It is not thought that there will be any survivors of the war in existence when the work is completed. New York Commercial Advertiser. 'The ancient and famous city of Da mascus, which was a place of import ance 1,900 years B. C., is busy with plans for laying railroad lines through its streets. Street cars in a city said to have been founded by Abraham a startling noveltv. Ihe 120,000 inhabitants. wouUrbe place lias Otis, of Raleigh, i Auburn, Kew York, Advertiser. t part 1. Unfailing Specific for Lifer Disease. CVMDTrtMQi Bftter or bad taste in Ifllr I Ulfl month ; tongue eoated white or covered with a brown fur : pain in the back, sides, or Joints often mistaken for Rheumatism ; nour stomach; loss of appetite; sometimes nausea and water t .rush, or indigestion ; flatulency and acid eructations; bowels alternately costive and lax; headache; loss or memory, with a painful sensation of having failed to do something which ought to have been done; debility; low spirits; a thi'"k. yellow ap pearance of the skin ari.l eye; a dry couch; fever; restlessness; the urine is scanty and high colored, and, if allowed to -stand, deposits a sediment. SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR i PURELY VEGETABLE) .It generally used in the South to arouse the Torpid Liver to a healthy action. . " H acts with extraordinary efficacy on the tiver, Kidney's, J and Bowels. AN EFFECTUAL SPECIFIC FOR Malaria, Bowel Complaints, -Dytpepsia. Sick Heartache, Constipation, IllUoasness, Kidney A flection s, J a unci ire. Mental Depression, Colic. Endorsed by the use of 1 Mi 1 lion of Buttle,; as THE BEST FAMILY MEDIAE for Children, for Adults, and for the Aged. ONLY GENUINE feu our Z Stamp in red on front of Wrapper. 1587 Sir Walter Raleisdi sent Jobn White with three vessels loaded with colonists to found a settlnient on the far away and almost unknown America. White landed on what is now North Carolina and established his colony on lioanake island. A short while after the departure of the fleet for England, leaving the colonists be hind, a child was born the first on American soil. To it was given theH name of Virginia Dare. The n w country so auspiciously settled was named Virginia, after England's "Vir gin Queen," Elizabeth, and for the same reason the name Virginia was giv en the first born. The colonists, when the fleet sailed, were busy preparing their ruflb homes, and had thrown up a rough fort after the manner of the time, to guard against a danger that must have been imaginary, so kind were the indiaiis who lived in that re gion. The friendliness of the latter was so great that they aided the new comers in every way. The fleet carried to England good tidings of the settlers, "In a land well watered, with great abundance of fish and game, with such grapes and fruits as have not been seen before by Englishmen1 Three years passed and then the mys tery began. It had been the plan that n a little while the ships would return arid to the colonists, numbers would be ingniented by new arrivals from Eng- and. But 4 was three years before a relief expedition sailed. In 1590 it reached Roanoke. Where were the col onists? , Echo only answered the ques- ion. The people landed, searched the sland thorough lv, but not a trace was there of the lost colony, save the out- nies ot the tort and the one word. CROATAN" rudely carved on the trunk of -a tree. 't here were no In dians, and the colonists had evidently eft in a bodv. There were no graves, no evidence of conflict; nothing to tell in v -tale of their whereabouts. The It was along L- ! uniu railroads came. il:.. i . i i r. , . i tins roan mat rast riding couriers carried the tidings of the treaty of Ghent to Gen. Jackson at New Orleans in 1815. concluded next week AT THE STAKE. I came west when I was 17 years of age (said old Sol Taylor, of Georgetown, Col., the other day ), and now Fm a bit over 60. You can tigger that up and see how long I've been skirmishing with Indians, grizzlies, panthers, rattle snakes and the other pesky varmints of mountain, plain and prairie. There hasn't been an Indian war for the last half century that I haven't had a hand in, and I reckon I've had as mauv Stand hup fights on m.y-.own hook as any scout or huuteryou can name. 1 have been captured and put to the torture twice, and been captured and got away with out torture three or four times. In times of peace I have lived with the Pawnees, Kiowas, Apaches, Sioux, C hey en nes and Blackfeet, and in limes of war I have fought all these tribes. Mebbe I am, therefore, a purty good judge of Indian natur', and when you A century or more ago they opened the a gallop, riding to the we $fc and keep great Lowry road frorn Robeson to jnK to the river untilwehad mad Campbellton (a historic Scotch settle- at least fifteen miles. Then ie came . .. ' "" f" F1'31 '" upon an Indian villiage as it was grow ing daylight. My feelings during that ride were anything but agreeable, I ean assure you. The fact that I was not killed at the moment of my capture had a significance which I well understood. 1 was just as certain to go to the stake for torture as I remained a prisoner. Mid I did a heap of thinking in hopes to get a plan for escape. Mounted be hind an Indian, my arms tied so tight ly that I was a constant sufferer, and obliged to keep my balance by the use of my legs alone, there was no earthly show for me to carry out an? scheme. Sewell was mounted on the horse just ahead of me, and his conduct went far to distress and unnerve me. He kept up a constant lamentation, and was corrtmnally beseeching rnnfei to kt the IndiaOs do him harm. -Drink had lost its-effect on him, and to come out of his spell and find himself in the hands of the relentless redskins had taken all the pluck out of him. He was doing the very worst thing he eould have done, for I heard the Indians gloating over the prospect when he should come to the stake. Ihere was considerable hurrah when we rode into the village, and had I not been able to understand MAre yon a prisoner, tco ?'' scalped, and the faggots at his feet were "Yes, and they will trture me after lighted to consume the body, finishing you." I My time had come. There was a My God ! bnt this is awful. I have grand yell from every warrior as the $800 at the camp. Won't they take two guards led me to the stake. How that and release us rM did I feel? Well, I was recklessly des- 1 reDlied that if we were worth a perate. I hated to go without having million chase our stances his con rare Anv sK'ti of weakness on his Dart ne hunter had licked six of them; I would excite contempt and increased J dnred and defied them to do their worst .... i i iii ii ."i.i i torture, and the better way was to The Cow and bar Calf. '"Learning" a calf to drink was one of my boyish crosses. The natural po sition of a calf in nursing is one with the head elevated, ami the nose t timed up. Of conrsethere is opposition when these positions are erne tly reversed, and m i l m i a dollars apiece we could not pur- , ? ue oi tueiu, anu, as tnere the calf has to swallow m instead of litertv under the circum- was n0 other way, I gave them a tongue down. Everv eoimtrv hav knows t'l , and advised him to call up all j lashing. I called them women and about the nrocess: how he sticks his and seek to die like a man. - cowards; I cited fictitious cases, when hornv hand and nSnlFimpd finer inkn drfy I had them worked up until they fairly frightened animal frtwiiri'les: them to do their wwrst. I believe he screamed for my blood, and I reraoned imns its head dowii into the ask me which tribe' of redskins has "the a worU tue dialect, the looks and .. . X .' il. T 1 II I 1 . J.H. Zeilin & Co., Philadelphia, Pa., SoCc raoraiBTOBS. Priee. Sl.OO. IEDMONT MADE WAGON AT s HICKORY, N. C. CAN'T BE BEAT ! Thcv stand vhere4hev ought to, right square AT THE FH8WT! It Was a Hard Flht But They Have Won It! - people say you "want most hono", I reply that I n ver yet saw an Italian that I would trust a rod. The only reason that some of V:n have served the government as scouts and traitors is because the' happened to hate their own kind just then a little wuss than they did the white man. However, you want some of my own adventures, and I will give you one. Before the days of railroads in the west a man who was spilin' for an In dian fight could get it within rifle shot of Fort Kearney, and this state of af fairs continued up to 1866 and later. The last time 1 was captured was on the Smoky Hill fork of the Kansas river, and it was while the railroad was being pushed across the state of Kansas. A railroad through the Indian country actions of the Indians would have been sufficient to tell me what fate they in tended to mete out to us. be well was nlaced in one lodge and I in another, ind the war partv w re soon engaged with breakfast. It was not yet fully daylight when I was nulled off the horse, and therefore I had not yet been recognized. I was pretty generally known to all the tribes, and they had named me "The Long Death." I got the name by killing some of them with a rifle, which knocked them over when they supposed themselves far beyond range. My only hope was that no one in the crowd, would be able to identify me, as I hud lately had my hair cut close and my whiskers entirely removed, but daylight had only come when three warriors looked in on me, gave a start meant goodby to game and good by to of surprise, and one of them called at Indian, ine reasKin realized this as forcibly as the white man, and he was on hand to fight the progress of the road. He was foolish enough to sup pose that the kiiling off of a few scouts and surveyors would stop all work, and by the time the road was half wav across t he state of Kansas everv Indian word "Cro itan" was more than mean- who had ajiv patriotism about him w. s ingless. The ships finally sailed away in front of it and doing battle. The s iiad with this awful story of the unknown. ror three centuries, on both sides ot the water, the mo t mJlanch jly interest has been attached to what c line to be known as "the lost colon v of Roanoke," an interest which has deeepened as the years passed. Now where, and what was Croaton? It was Tyrell county, on the North Carolina mainland, and across the sound from Roanoke. It was there the white people went, no doubt at the contractors Iiad to eniplov a great many scouts and lighters to p.'otect the ad vance men. and I was one of those thus engaged. In the five months of my employment 1 killed thirty-n.ne In dians and brought thirty-nine s alps to camp, and there were other scouts who did as well, or better. We did not lose Lear as many men in proportion, as we fought entirely on the defensive, and had all the advantage. My capture occurred one morninsrin 1 ".ATI oi i I . special request ot Indian mentis, who September.- One ol the engineers of promised them a more generous land, the ro id had ben on a spree, an 1 while rv l i i ill - .... ' lo hruige, in one sentence, tne verging on olirium trmi n 3 had left space of three centuries of time, the camp and wandered off. He had been county of llobeson must be visited, for gone two or three hours before he was there rests the other end of the J J I LI 1 T V I , U II VI Ul 111 lUll Ip II L VA IL 1 (till T otlo8. lhe LroatanSarein llobeson. gusty night six of us started out on As the descendants of those older Croa- foot to hunt him up. As no one knew tans, wnose name was me one iuik hi the direction he had taken, each ot us a chain otherwise lost, and as the de- went his own wav. There were plenty scendants also ot the lost colonists o 0f Indians around us, and a scout had Sir Walter Raleigh's ill-fated' expadi- been wounded that afternoon within tion, they can justly lay claim to more half a mile of our camp. Each man the top of his voice "It is the Long Death ! We have got him at last. Here is the white hunter who has killed so many of our people." 1 he cat was out of the bag, as the old aymg goes, anu l sioou mere ana iaceu themi and knew that I was dojmed to the most horrible tortures they could invent. They did not keen me long in waiting. l'he knowledge of my identity whetted their savage appetites, and while the ' M ft warriors who captured us were eating breakfast the rest of the village was astir with preparations. The camp was in a bit of valley on the left bank of Smoky Hill Fork, and two young trees were cut down, trimmed to a pro per length, and then driven into the ground in the center of the village. the one intended for me was almost in front of mv tepee, and I stood at the entrance and saw the young man drive it into the earth. More than that, 1 sung out to them in a steady voice, in their own dialect : "A stake like that to hold the Long Death ! You shall see how he will tear it up i; iity words were received with shouts of satisfaction. No p ople on earth respect courage in a man as much as the Indians. 1 hey are no less cruel to a same man, one ins ijameness win I T 1 shorten his torlu e, reeling that mv I . - a -a 1 7 i nf who wpnt out. ton k W i nnrp time had come, and hoping o provotfe vaw " " " ""ft I ' ft n 1 of being capture 1, but there was no some ot them to shoot or tomahawk hesitating or hanging back on that at- me, 1 called out tiic names ot nair a count. Our cauiD was close to the dozen or the tribe whom I had sent to river, and ray first move was to cross the happy hunting grounds. Some of the stream. The water was no more the young men fairly raved to get at direction by asking for special aid for than waist deep, and I had no trouble me, but the order of the chief was to of romance than any other people on the continent:. During the recent session of the North Carolina legislature, a member from Robeson county Mr. Hamilton McMillan-started thought in a new a Just read what about them and if come quickly and buy either for cash or on time. the Croatan Indians. He declared th-.tt a great injustice, had beeu done them in that they had been classed as wajron one Tw 1 Salisbury, N. C. Sept. 1st. 18SG. t i k i : i . a wo years ajro l uoauni :i very uiic iwn- liorse Piedmont wagon f the Agent Jno. V. Bojden; have useil itjm'ar'y .-ill the time fiine.c. have tried it scvenely in hauling saw h;s and other heavy UkuIs, and have not had- to pay one cent for repairs. I look upon the Piedmont 'wagon as the bestThint- 4le Skein wagon nuide ill the United States. The timber used in them is most excellent and thoroughly well seasoned. TuitNBit P. Thomasox. - Sai.isbuky. N. C. ; Aug. 27thl886 About two years airo I bought of Jno. AA B(iyden,aone horse Pied mont wagon which ha-j done much service and no pat t of it has broken or given away and consequent ly it has cost nothing for repairs. .John I). HEXt. r- SALISBURY. N. G. Sept. a I, 18SG. Eighteen month ago I bought of John A. Hoyden, a 2J inch Tiliiinbh: Skein Pied mont waif on and have used it pretty much all the tunc and it hosferoved to be a first fate wagon. Nothing about it has given ftvvav and therefore it lias required no re pairs. T. A. Waltox. Salisbury, N Sept. 81 h 48 months ago 1 bought of the C. 1886. Agent, in Salisbury, ii "2i in Thimble Skein Piedmont wagon then lightest one horse wagon Have kept it in almost constant use :m wiring -the tune h ive natiled on it at lea.- loads ot wood and that without any breakage ot : repairs, . R. Walto:;. n groes. He claimed tna' tney wtr.- ndians, of a high class, and of historic name and fame, and that they desired and deserved separate schools and in reaching the other bank. The engi neer, whose name was Sewell, had gone off m his shirt and trousers and boots ii a - i ii . hi- rte was bareheaded, out ot his senses. and had no weapons of any sort. My only hope in finding him was that he would become exhausted before special aid. Three hundred years after far, and sit down. "Olllg the colony of White was lost, the de scendants of those colonists petition he legislature for aid in educating heir teachers a legislature sitting in a city nainea auer ivaieigu, me patron of the colony Once across the stream. I held to the north tor about a mile, and then turned to the left and kept on until I had tk i i i o i scribed a ouarter or a circle ana corm to the river again. I then went b ck of his spr c and ot his captur,- was to t ip shtrt.mir nnint nnd har tr tho break him down. He had 110 111 wait. I boasted that I could outshoot, o itiile and outrun their best men, and offered to Htrht anv six f them, if they . " "o - w . . .1 would turn me lojse. bi t all this- talk only gave them the mere satisfaction in thinking of the torti re in store for me. On the same principle that peo- nle eat their nie last, the Indians led I i Sewell out tirst. His condition .as such that but little fun eould be antici pated from his torture. He was a large fine looking man, but the result to re the Lroatans, meanwhile restoring them to their proper position as Indians and citizens. Thus the two ends of the chain were picked up. It now remained to discover seized me. I ean t say that 1 was off ii i -. i i i . my guarti, out it aid seem a bit queer to me. as 1 tiiought it over afterward that I should have let the skunks get - 1 . i f T 11 sucn an advantage oi me. i could see t l it- i rainy . wen lor twenty teet or more The legislature has hearkened to the right, and it was while on my wav to courage than a child, and it was pi iful matter and has granted separate schools the river that four Indians suddenly 1 to see him weep and hear his lar. enta- and special aid for normal schools to rose up from the grass at my feet and tions. I begged of the Indians 'o let him go, stating that ne was a c vuuia who had never injured then, a d was so broken down that he could not live long, and but for the hotheaded young men in the tribe I should have got him off. They urged that he wis assisting to build the railroad which was driving the game and the Indian out of the country, and that the white men never snared a warrior because he was ill ... . i iii Such talk as this settled it, and tne engineer was led out, stiipied of his elothinir. and tied securely to t he stake Had I refused to look on jt would have been taken as an act of cowardice on mv part. Realizing this, I stepped out side the lodire and stood with u ten feet of the stake. Sewell wept ai d begged while bein made fast, tu when they ionnod kick he suddenly erew calm r r - " and asked of me : "Taylor, what does th s all mean ? Wind" nrp thov iroinff to do With me ?" the link between. To do this a visit to around me, but the fellows hugged the the Lroataus became necessary and m Mr. McMillan's company it was made. The county of Robe-on lies on the State's southern border adjoining South Carolina, and a hundred miles from Raleigh. The land there is fertile, much of it in swamp, filled with luxu rant vegetation, while there are vast stretches of the long le if pine which formerly yielded the staple of North Carolina's commerce tar, pitch and turpentine. The Croatans now living ihere number 3,000. They have enroll ed nearly l,2'-0 children of school age. ii -i ii eartn so closely, and l Happened to walk so straight into the trap, that 1 was done for bofore 1 knew what was going on. Not a yell was uttered not a word spoken. Two of them tripped me up, and the other piled on to me and disarmed me, and in less than a minute my arms were jerked behind nie and made fast, and away we went to the northwest on a trot. This was maintained for about a mile, when we c ime upon a party of fifty mounted redskins, and in the midst of them I found Sewell. He was prostrate with They have twenty-six churches, and arc exhaustion and fear, and when I spoke divided into Baptists and Methodists. I to him, which act the Indians seemed '1 hey have in the past few months built 1 rather to encourage, he began ro:id schoolhouses. The verv best .11 iL. C'l.i. i s in an tne ouue are round mere. crving and sobbing tike a child. I was lifted up behind a warrior and iff lie went at "They are going to tvrti re you, Mr ScwcU."' tried his best to brace up, bttt his nerves were dreadfully shattered, and after three or four minutes he began crying again. This had just the effect I pre dicted. Half a hundred boys were sent off to cut switches, and when they returned they were told to go ahead and apply them to the engineer. The idea v. - to whip some courage into him, but it was a Hat failure. Almost at the first blow the man cried out like a woman, and, his feet not having yet been tied, be danced about like a puppet. I called out to him to -kick his tormentors, but he paid no heed to my voice, and after a time stood stock still and let the boys whip him until blood was drawn in a score of places. All this time he cried like a boy four or five years old, and I heard some of ti.e old warriors say that he was the most cowardly white man they had evtr met. He may have lacked cour age, but I always believed his con duct to have been the result of his shattered mental and physical condi tion. After the boys had switched him for ten minutes they were culled off, and a couple of warriors advanced with their muzzle loading rifles and began to fire charges of powder into the poor fellow's flesh. Does it hurt? Well, sir, hell can't be any worse. I've had a dozen charges fired into nie and I never felt any pain to equal it. I'll take two bullets in preference to one charge of powder every time. The first charge et him to dancing and screaming, and at the third or fourth he kicked one of the warriors over and became so savage that they had to fully bind him to the stake. They fired thirty-four charges in all, and by the time they had finished you could not have told that Sewell was a white man. His agony was something awful, and he writhed about with such strength that the sta'ce had twice to he driven deeper. His shrieks and screams, as I afterward knew, were heard a distance yf more than two miles, and yet this was only the l)eginnrtig of what they had in store for him. The next move was to apply the burning sticks. Some green sticks had b 'en put upon the fire on purpose, and three or lour warriors applied th1 burn- to various portions ot the engineers body, lhe pain rainy drove him crazy, and in a short time he fainted. Wafer was brought from fhe tream and dctshed over him, and dur ing this interval manv warriors crowd ed around me t3 see how I was bearing D igs ! Do you think you can make the Long Death cry like that? I shouted at them. "Here, pull up my trousers and see where the cowardly . a a Ik . i bioux shot powder into mv legs, rull off mv boots and find where the Cheyennes applied the tire sticks. Did l weep like a woman? bo ask them. And when you ask that, inquire who killed the Black Eagle, Red Horse, liig .Mountain, Great Buffalo, and Black Feather. They will tell you, the Long Death.'1 But for the presence of four or five chiefs I should have been done for on the spot, so excited were the young men. By this time Sewell had regained his senses, and was sobbing and wailing atrain. and thev went back to their sport. A warrior approached him with a sharp knife and slashed him in fifty different places, each cut being deep enough to be painful, but none of them verv serious. The gush of blood soon turned the man into a horrible looking obiect. and several times he would have fainted had they not had water at hand to throw over him. He had screamed so loud and long that his voice was now entirely 'gone, and the only sound h could niter was a groan. He had long seemed unconscious of my presence, and I was triad of this. 1 do not think he was in his full senses after the burnin;'. After the warrior had cut and slashed with his knife he fell back to give place to another. Ihis second one meant to do finer work. He meant. a? a first rmv?, to cut the victim s tongue out, but as he reached for it with his left baud Sewell snapped at him like a dog, got the black hand firmly between his jaws, and then there was a crand uproar. Jv.ervbodv en joyed the fix the Indian was in, and j whenever-he motioned as if he meant to use- his knife they shouted to him to give the victim fair play. Sewell held to him for fully five minutes, lacerating the hand like a bulldog, find then three or four warriors seized him and made him let go. The bitten warrior relin quished the knife to another, and dur ing the next quarter of an hour Sewell suffered the loss of his nose, ears, fingers and lips. He shrieked out in agony when his nose w is s-liced off, bat alter that lie never even groaned, ind I consoled myself with the hope that he was dead. The Indians finally be came satisfieA that they would get no ktuu out of him, and he was I tipped finger the tender month, hitherto accustomed to the soft tt at of the mot la r; how the how he in il L knar that the torture would not last long. I the calf "buts" and drives the milk in was stripped of everv vestige of cloth- showers into the face of the bov, aid ing, bound hand and foot to the stake, I how in time the little juvenile" passts and, as in the engineers case, two froni sucfepr to a Printer, and then U warriors inaue reaay to snoot powaer ready for the advent of the buyer. into me. Ther were loading their sruns when, out from the heavy growth of cotton woods behind the camp, came a line of forty men on a run. and just in the rear of them seven ty-fiVe army troopers. 1 saw the men before any one else in camp. Indeed, they were not a pistol shot away when the alarm was given. It was the quickest and bloodiest fight on record. Six of the dismounted men pushed straight for me, knowing I was likely to be killed by some savage, and I was cut loose and a revolver was given to nie before the tight was . hardly on. In ten minutes not a living buck was left in the camp. We killed twenty-two, and the rest broke out of reach. Seven or eight old men, nine or ten young fel lows and six squaws were likewise killed. We captured ninety-two ponies, a great lot of powder and lead, several hundred dollars1 worth of robes and dealt the tribe a blow it never recover ed from. What we could not carry away we burned, and not an article they could make useful was left.- Aeir York Sun. Is it Legalized Lawlessness? T . 1.1 you bt less newspaper readers have had enough of Riddleberger and his episode, but it seems to us that the law lessness involved in his recent exploit is one which ought to be condemned Removed bv Ion' time from these . r-j . occurrences, I find there is something truly pathetic in the life of the average calf and its mother. She is deprived of it at the earliest possible moment in order that her milk may be used for the dairy, and pending the arrival of pur chaser it is fed on thinned milk lea expensive than the original anicle. Whoever in city or country ttas set H a cow in company with tier calf has no ticed every evidence of a warm aCe tion. When opportunity offers she laps its skin with her tongue, and ca resses it with her nose, and plncesher self invitingly in a position to t naMe it to reach the fountain of nourish ment. W hen the calf is taken away her distress is evident as that of a woman who has lost her child. Her melan- cholly cry rolls across the country and is echoed from the hills. There are in it qualities of grief that are as palpable as if embodied in the human voice. All the day and during the solemn stillness of the night, of a few minutes, the doleful call of th$ mother for her missing child breaks da the ear. To the boy there is nothing pathetic in the occnrraiice- It is some- thing Which is tobini of course. He is He watches the 4sticl the annual bntcherin a matter yet a- savage. ftg'1 of hogs in with lively iu- and punished on general principles, terest, and longs for the time when he lest a dangerous precedent be estab- can pertorm the same teat. lie sees ished. WItn mdiuerenee the- enraged tanner The contumacious Senator has re- plant his heavy cowhide boot m the turned to his quarters in the county ribs ot a fractious cow, and with equal jail, but he is to be set free after he equanamity rees the same person maul tne nead ot an unbroken colt, or a sen sitive, timid horse, with a heavy sled stake. At this remote period mv con science pricks nie for the- stoning of animals, the kicking of patient horses, ser. es his sentence of five days? Is no account to lie taken of his defiance oi the law in conniving at a jail deliv ery? Is he not amenable to the law now on this count? For let us look at the facts now as and other things of the kind, which they are. If a petty thief, friendless and witl.o it influence, were to be sen tenced to serve a term in prison, and were to effect his escape through the intervention of a mob, acting with them in their lawlessness, he certainly would be punished if retaken. The offence is the same in Riddle berger's case, only it is of gres;ter de gree, as we contend. For this man is a lawyer of intelligence, a politician when none, were done with entire un- consciousness as to tneir brutality. "I of into ? ( fucaao Times. Handling California Wheat. In no country in the world can wheat be handled as cheaply as in Call- A T -v . I tornia. During the harvest season there is no possibility of rain, and wheat is put into burlap bags and j. . 1 1 il. . i?U - 1.11 iL. t siacKcu tit) in tue neiu uuut uie mriii- t rmerly ot consideable influence, and er is ready t ship. H Men sent to oan a Senator of the United States. lhe Francisco it lies on the wharf nntil a moral effect of lawlessness on his part, ship is ready to take it on bo rJ. No therefore, is more pernicious than it shelter is needed, and there are no ele- would be with the petty thiet. let the vator charges, the bags be ng placed on aw, in order to vindicate its authority board ship lust as they ciiir.e from the and majesty, deals promptly and stern- fields. In addition to the niont ly with the petty offender who connives resulting trom cheap handling, it a uul delivery and mob violence, the owner has his prohts con- Oiurht not the man of prominence to siderably increased by the gain in be dealt with as sternly and speedily.-' weight made on the voyage to Liver The violent rescue of Riddleberirer pool. When the wheat leaves Cali- from the custody of the law was an in- fornia it is as dry as tinder, and in ex- solent slan at the law. delivered full in aetly the condition to absorb the nicist- the face of the Virginia courts. If the Senators lawlessness is to go unpun ished, then we might as well admit at once that the courts discriminate in dealing out justice, and that defiance of tire of the sea air and consequently. on its arrival in England a cargo ot wheat will he heavies by many thou sand pounds than when it left Califor nia. Wheat is never shipped in bulk, the law and jail-delivery are more ro- but always in bags, its when loaded iu . ...... I i i i . i niantic than Messenger. lawless.- Wilmington Fanning as a Profession. r -i .a -a 1 do not know one educated young man of American birth who thinks of farming as a profession. I have sat for ten minutes over this paper trying to recall an individual who has spoken favorably of agriculture as a vocation to live bv. Farming appears to have completely passed out o!:' the thoughts of young men in the r astern states its a tesirable care -r. Is not this some what strange in a nation, the founders and first rulers of which were farmers, almost to a man. According to a re cent statement a considerable number of students in our colleges are willing to go into foreign countries as mission ari's. and all the professions appear to h ive some attraction for the young and ambitious, excepting, aione. tnis first mid chief of all, the cultivation of tie soil. James Parton in Xetr York Mail and Kxvrdss. bulk it is about the most dangerou cargo a ship can carry. No matter how lightly it may be packed at first, it settles considerably within a short time, and then is very liable to shift. When shifting take p. ace a ship is as good as lost, as the change in the cen ter of gravity throws her on her beams end, and she is nearly certain to go to the bottom in the first moderate gale. Many ships were lost in this way, and now the shipment ot grain in bulk is prohibited by law. A. 11. Smith y Globe-Demi' rat. "1 Don't want Eelief. Bat Care," in more Tabic Etiquette in Zamibar. Talking of eating reminds me of the way the operation is performed by the Arabs. Five of them seat themselves, round a large bow l ofrice, surmounted by a skinny fowl, all being curried. 'lvo seize the wings with their fingers and two the legs, and simultaneously tearing these off leave the carcass to the. fifth, afterward taking out the rice by ha; id fuls and dexterously conveying it to the month with a peculiar jerk. One mark of hospitality shown to guests when at table consists in the chief's lolling up some lice into a ball in the palm of his hand and aiming it at !iis guest's widely distended jaws. On one occasion this piece of civility was shown to, myself, but not being an adept iii'the art oswa!lowing rice balls when so projected the effect was anything but what my kind ent Ttainer anticipated, for, independent of being nearly choked, the grains were sta' tered, or rather spattered, cvr the ta ble in a manner that elicited roars of laughter even from the very gruYo Arabs. This, of course was the last Men are not always right in the use experiment of the kiud tried upon uie. leir rijnt. Aratasnoo trrateig. - uccrn na Mommg. is tne exclamation o luojisawts stineung from catarh. To aSl such we say: Crtarrh can be cured by Ir. Safe's Catarrh Remedy. Il Jias neeti doi.v in thousands of eutet ; why not in yours? Your danger is iu delay. Enclose a stamp U World's Dispensary Medical Association, Uuilalo, N. Y., fjr pamphlet ou this disease. Giving is like a fly-blister. It is a counter-irritant to selfishness. It never does any good till it hurts. Interior. I 1 J ' t I ' BM