THE CHRONICLE
WILKESBORO, 2.
C.
The Queen' Jubilee' produced at
least one good poem, observes Har
per s Weekly. Budyard KipUng's "Be-
cessioual" is edifying both ti the ear
and to the spirit. ;
The frog industry is growing. A
statistician enumerates "pty-seven
frog farms now in successful opera
tion" in various sections of
the oun-
try.
One hundred Paris detee ires wen
on strike recently; they objerted to one
of the inspectors, ana to oei ig pong"
to keep the run of travelers when they
leave hotels and boarding houses, as
they had all they could dd to watch
them when they arrive.
Iarge farms, unless all their acres
are made available in some way, are
burdens instead of blessings. The
assessor takes in all the acres, and the
taxgatherer is quite as exacting.
Hence, to make all the acre pay their
way, with something over f r the far
mer's purse, is to be in the middle of
the road thCi leads to goal af success.
Mainz has decided to celebrate the
birth of Guttenberg on Midsummer
Day, 1900, in order not to interfere
with Leipzig's celebration of the same
event in 1899. As the exact year of
the inventor of printing's birth is not
known, the difference of a year or two
in the observation of the 500th anni
versary will not shock: Historical ac-
curacy. .
The co-operative movement has
reached such proportions in Scotland
that Dundee butchers have pledged
"ourselves to support only
stock salesmen, dead-meat
those live-
salesmen,
auctioneers, dealers and
others who
refuse to have any dealings, directly
or indirectly, with co-operative soci
eties, and not support any person who
deals with such society in any way, or
who deals with any retail butcher who
declines to sign and support Jiis reso
lution." The attention of Parliament
has been called to the boycott.
The librarian of the public library at
Kansas City, Mo., says that for a year
there has been a greater call for works
on Alaska than for books on any other
country or section of the globe. She
has supplied the library, sh3 says, With
everything trustworthy she could pro
cure on the country during this time,
wondering all the while
what had
aroused so much interest in
that conn-
try in Kansas City. Readers, she
savs. have studied writinirs on the
habits of the people in Alas
ja.read the
Government reports on the
Territory,
and given especial attention to routes
to the Yukon country.
Says the New Orleans Times-Democrat:
One of the lacks of .the age is
pleasant fiction. Vapid fiction "we have
in large quantities, but there are few
novels which are at the same time
pictures of life and pleasant ones. A
book to-day is seldom called "strong"
or "important" unless i s tone is
gloomy, even despairing. Hopeless
ness, in most of these cases, does not
seem to arise from experience or con
viction, but gives the im session of
being only a popular literary pose.
The idea is abroad that a work of fic
tion ought to be a bitter and painful
dose, and that it would not be fulfill
ing its purpose if it prove I "an ano
dyne" to anyone who wished to forget
his suffering.
The Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph
is authority for the statement that
comparatively few people have any
idea of the importance of t ie bitumin
ous coal industry in the United States.
Says this newspaper informant:
"Since 1893 it has led in point of mar
ket value the mineral prod nets of the
country, the value of the output for'
the calendar year 1896, according to
the report of the geological survey,
beiflg nearly $115,000,0001 For sev
eral years prior to 1893 pig iron was
the most valuable mineral product, the
tStal for 1892 being $ .81,000,000,
while the value of biiumin us coal for
the same year was $125,00 ), 000. Since
1&Q7 there has been a st ady decline
in the price of coal, while the output
has steadily increased. T le 137,610,
000 short tons produced in 1896 sold
for less money than the 11 8,000,000
tons prpdnced in 1891. P ennsylvania
leads' all the States in the Jnion in the
production, its output fo: . last year
having been 49,100,000 toi is, valued at
$35,000,000; but this wis a million
tons less than for the preceding year,
West Virginia apparently
supplanting
the product oi thw state,
he produo-
tion of our neighbor increasing 1,500,-
"000 tons, and aggregating
nearly413,
336.000," -
9P0,0p0tons, valued at $8
MOWING.
Into the fields both young and old
With gay hearts went;
The pleasant fields, all green and gold,
"All flowers and scent. r .
And first among them old man Maek,
With his two grandsons, Harry tod J ack
Two eager boys whose feet kept time
In restless fashion to this rhymes
Sharpen the scythe and hendhe pack,
Swing the arm for an even track;
Through daisy bloom and nodding grass
Straight and elean must the mower pass
" "
There are tasks that boys must learn, not
found
In any book . -
Tasks on the harvest and haying ground,
By wood and brook,
When I was young but few could bring
Into the field a cleaner swing; '
NOT TO
HE 'pain
ful eonfes
sion" is
mine, John
Spindler,
detective,
Scotland
Yard, and
how it came
about was
just this way:
For a long time I had been on the
track of a gang of coiners which in
my professional pride I had vowed to
capture. More than once I had
pounced down upon them in their
haunts, and all vanished like magic
and I being unable to produce proofs,
the chief whom I desired most to con
vict fairly laughed at me and my
efforts.
This naturally gave me considerable
annoyance, and with some heat I ejac
ulated: "You've, escaped me this time,
Jim Bradley, but I'm not John Spind
ler if you do the next!"
"When you catch me, hold me!" he
grinned. "How dare you malign an
innocent man?"
"Innocent! then the evil one is not
so black as he is painted," I retorted.
"Well, it was nearly nine months
before I again ran down Jim and his
gang; then I detected them in a low,
wretched street near the city road.
The house they used was kept by an
old Irshwoman.
Having watched the house till I
was sure of my game, I went to Scot
land Yard, saw the chief, reported my
news, got some men, and on one
dark, gusty winter's night made a
swoop upon them.
Leaving the police I had brought
at a little distance, I knocked at the
door. Getting no answer, 1 stepped
back and looked up at the house.
It was dark as pitch, save a faint
glimmer in the first-floor window. As
I returned I felt certain I saw the
blind of the lower room move. Trust
ing, if I was being inspected, that the
darkness had concealed my identity,
I repeated my summons, when, after
a long delay, the door was opened by
the old landlady, bearing a flaming
tallow candle.
"Did you knock afore?" she said,
peering feebly at me. "Sure, I'm just
as deaf as a post, yer honor, and don't
hear a bit. - Who do you want?"
"One of your respectable lodgers,
Mrs. O'Brien," I answered, entering
the. passage and 'putting my foot so as
to prevent the door closing. "Thanks,
old lady, I won't trouble you fur
ther." Giving a preconcerted whistle, my
men came rapidly forward.
"Oh, the. perleese! oh, holy St..
Jfatrick I have mercy uppn a lone widder
woman! Oh, good jintlemen, what's
the matter, sure?" shrieked the hag.
Paying no heed to these ejaculations,
I placed one policeman on guard, and
with the others sprang up-stairs.
Beaching the landing I found all
dark, save a faint glimmer which is
sued from under the door in front of
us. I tried the handle. It was
locked.
"We have caught him this time!" I
whispered exultingly, for I had caught
the sound of Jim Bradley's voice. "I
have examined the house well, and
there is no means of egress either by
the roofs or t the windows. They are
trapped. Open, in the Queen's name!"
I exclaimed aloud.
"Hullo, is that you, my dear Spind
ler?" cried Jim from within. "Happy
to see you, I'm sure! Bemember what
I said: 'Hold me when you catch me,'
old boy! The thing is to trap your
bird!"
"1 will take care of that, Mr. Jim,"
I rejoined. "Open, or we shall break
in the door!"
"Oh, plaze, jintlemen dear, good
jintlemen, for the love of the saints,
don't make a noise. There's a poor
sowl jist partin' this life up-stairs, an'
his dear young widdy's a'most ' dis
tracted. Sorra a one of ye jintlemen
hev any pity. Don't terrify the col
leen nor the partin' sowl who, sure,
has trouble enough." "--
"Silence, you old crone!" I ex
claimed, "and fetch a light, or I'll
have you arrested as an accomplice."
With a regular howl of disappoint
ment she hobbled away, declaring
she'd do anything for us, imploring
;pity for a poor, lone woman and com
passion for the partin' sowl up-stairs.
We didn't wait for her return. Aware
no one could pass ns on the stairs, and
believing Jim might be trying to - de
stroy, the moulds, we put our shoul
ders against the door and drove the
lock from the' box. '
I had prepared for the light to be
extinguished and a rush made. . ,-
7 I was disappointed. - Jin sat com
posedly at the table with another man,
playing cards. ;.- ' .. .-
"Hullo! you don't I stand on cere
mony, John, my friend," he remarked:
laughing. "I .thought every; man's
house was his castle."-
"So it is, Jim, until he makes it a
shield for law-breaking," I; answered.
But you must take my plaee to-day.
Cut the grass, and scatter th bay.
So sharpen tha seytha and bend the back.
Swing the arm for an even traok;
Through daisy blooms and nodding grass
Straight and elean must the mower pass.
Straight and oiean is the only way
You'll find that out
In other things than cutting hay,
I make no doubt.
So be sure through the nodding grass
Straight and elean with your scythe to
pass;
It is far better than any play
To mow the grass and to toss the hay.
So sharpen the scythe and bend the back,
Swing the arm for an even track;
Through daisy blooms and nodding grass
Straight and clean must the mower pass.
Detroit Free Press.
BE DONE.
"Prove vour words, mv man."
"I intend to. I hoTe:ovoii will fnst
consider yourself my prisoner while I
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s ear en.
"Please yourself, and take the con
equences." he reolied. and carelesslv
went on witn nis game.
" M, f
f -mm
Putting my men on cruard. I beeran
to examine the apartments.
I sounded the walls, groped up the
chimneys, tried the flooring.
No, not a sum: while Jim Bradlev's
utter indifference, I own, perplexed
me.
"Done again!" I muttered, when I
heard a heavy step in the room above.
"Who's that upstairs?" I asked.
"You should know yourself by this
time," answered Jim. "l ean only say
that confounded Irish hag is always
screechin' as a chap's a-dying, which
ain't much concern of mine, as long as
he keep hisself to hisself, and don't
groan too loud. Igh, low, game, with
out even the Jack, Phil," he added, to
his companion. rmttinsr down hia
cards. :,
The sick man's a ruse, perhaps.
thought I.
"Come, lads," I said aloud, "we'll
go up!"
Begardless of the old woman's en
treaties not to disturb the poor ' 'dyin'
sowl," we mounted.
The back attic was as bare as bare
could be. When I was about to enter
the other, the door opened, and a
grave-looking,respectablIy dressed man
crossed the threshold.
"Hush," he said, in a low tone.
"May I asked the meaning of this dis
turbance? It is most unseemly and
out of place! The poor fellow in here
has but a few moments to live. His
unfortunate young" -wife is distracted."
I looked keenly at him.
"If it isn't an impertinent question,
r," I asked, "pray who may you be?"
"Who am I?" he smiled. "I am
Doctor Alexander, of Jude street,
close by. Now, in my turn, who are
you?"
I instantly acquainted him with my
business. He looked serious and in
terested.
"Humph!" he said, drawing me a
little aside; "I have only visited this
place once or twice, but I own I have
had my doubts of its respectability.
We medical men see strange scenes.
Still I don't fancy the poor woman and
her husband have had any connivance
with the people below. He is a brick
layer. Though, of course, in such
matters, you are the best judge. Such
persons are capable of all manner of
tricks. It is, of course, vour dutv to
make certain. Only, in case you are
wrong, be gentle with the wretched
wife and mother. Come in."
We entered. The room was almost
devoid of furniture, and barely sup
plied with the commonest necessaries
of existence.
At one side was' a'miserable mattress
laid on the floor, and stretched on it
was the dying man.
Kneeling by him, her head bowed
down to his, her black hair streaming
over the tattered patchwork covering,
was the young wife weeping bitterly,
as she pressed her baby to her bosom.
I'm not hard-hearted, and the sight
took me back, especially the counte
nance of the husband, upon which the
hue of death had already settled.
I was following the doctor, when,
abruptly, he leaned forward, then,
drawing back, placed his hand oh my
arm.
"I thought as much," he whispered;
"all is over!"
The words were scarcely audible,
yet they reached the wife's ears.'
I 'shall never forget the scream she
gave. Starting up on her knees, she
gazed wildly in the face of the dead,
then shrieked, turning appealingly to
the doctor.
"Oh, no no; not dead! Don't tell
me that! Not dead! Oh, Tom, Tom
dear Tom; speak to me speak to
Lizzie!"
Then casting herself on the body,
she went off into violent hysterics
"Poor thing," said the doctor,
raising her. "Pray, my good fellow,
take her to a chair while I close the
poor man's eyes. "
That done, he rejoined me.
"You want to search the room," he
said. "It's a pity that this should
have happened at such a time, but
duty is duty. Pray do yours quietly
before this poor woman recovers.
Her trouble is enough without any
addition."
Duty was duty, yet I felt like a
hard-hearted, mean-spirited cur as I
performed mine, and. professed to
have lacked my usual acuteness, for
more than once the disciple of Galen
aided me in my suggestions. ''
Nothing, however, came of , it. I
could hot find a trace. I .
"Yet," I said, "I'd take my oath
the dies are in this house, and it's
one hundred pounds in my pocket if I
find them." : : . -:; 1
' 'Then I most decidedly . should try,"
said the doctor.- ."That sum is not to
be got every day.' . : ' -
Noand ni keep a watch instill
house till J?ve foundthem." r -il
'In this room?" he asked.
No. I ain't quite mads of stone
I rejoined, a hit hurt. "But I shall
inspect all who go out or comen."
"Quite right, and I wish you sue-;
cess, for there's no telling tbe suffer
ings these coiners occasion."
We then descended and, the doctor
left, after telling the old Irishwoman
he would call as he went.home on the
parish undertaker and give the neces
sary orders for the funeral.
Well, I needn't lengthen out my
story.
I rented the parlor (by compulsion)
of the landlady and established a
watch night and day upon who and
what went out and entered the house.
Jim Bradley came and went, of
course, unmolested, and chaffed me
considerably when we met, while with
out the slightest demur he let me visit
his room whenever I pleased.
What did it mean?
I also made a call now and then on
the widow.
Poor thing, she was always crying
and so meek and full of grief as she
moved about the room where her cof
fined husband was, for she wouldn't
leave it, that the sight was pitiable.
The medical attendant dropped in
onee to inquire how I got on, and
shook his head on hearing of my want
of success.
"I fear if the dies are really here,"
he said, "the fellow you call Bradley
is too deep for you.".
"Not if I know it," I said. "I have
applied at headquarters for permission
to make a better search, and I'll take
up the flooring."
'T fancy that's the most likely place.
What is that?" he asked.
"Only the undertaker's men," I said,
putting the door open. "It's the poor
fellow's funeral to-day."
"Indeed! Ah, they hasten these
matters with the poor."
Just at the moment the wretched
coffin and its bearers passed along the
passage, followed by the weeping
widow leaning on the old Irishwoman.
They were the sole mourners.
The doctor respectfully removed his
hat, and we looked in silence until it
had gone by.
"Poor poor thing!" my companion
remarked, with a sigh; then, giving
me his card, and asking me to call if I
proved successful, he went away.
Well, the hours crept by and tha
silence of the house began to surprise
me. Bradley had gone out early, and
hadn't been home since. My assistant
came in about eight, but neither the
widow nor the landlady returned.
I waited and waited. Eleven o'clock
struck.
I began to get suspicious.
Had I been done?
I turned hot and cold; then seizing
the candle, darted upstairs. Bradley's
room was as usual; but the attic the
sight of it made me feel ready to drop.
"Done cleverly done!" I cried,
waving my candle around.
Yes; bitter the humiliation I had
been duped! " I had been the victim of
sensibility and a clever trick!
There was the mattress, ripped up;
and there, where the coffin had stood,
was a hole in the floor, where the plank
had been removed. That had been
the place of concealment.
But where were the dies? Where
why in the coffin, of which, no doubt,
the dead man had been one of the
bearers.
"Nonsense!" I ejaculated. "The
man must have been dead! It isn't
likely he could deceive the doctor a
kind-hearted fellow, but a keen one;
I'll go to him!"
Leaving my assistant in charge, I
hastened to Jude street, with his card
in my hand.
The red "danger signal" indicated
the house, and, knocking, I asked to
see the doctor.
The servant, showing me into the
surgery, went in to summon him.
In a few moments he appeared that
is, a gentleman appeared; a gentleman
of about sixty, with silver gray hair.
"I beg your pardon," I said; "it is
Doctor Alexander I wish to see!"
"Alexander! My name, sir, is Lind
say, and I am the only professional
man in this house nay, in the street.
There must be a mistake."
"Impossible!" T cried. "See, sir,
here is his card. "
"Humph!" I have never heard the
name in the neighborhood," he re
marked, perusing it. "Wait a mo
ment if you will allow me I will
see."
Taking down one or two thick vol
umes from the bookshelves, he ran
over the lists under the initial A.
"No," he said. "As I thought his
name is not here. I fear the title of
'doctor' must be assumed, and he is
not a certified medical man."
I then told my story.
f "Sir," remarked Dr. Lindsay, un
able to suppress a smile, "I fancy
you have hot only been duped bj a
dying man, but also by his medfeal
attendant."
And so it proved.
The whole had Jbeen a clever trick--from
the widow to the doctor and
"parish" funeral. ;
Nevertheless,T might have remained
in doubt to the last, had no$ my "pride
of place" been so wounded that I did
not rest until I had tracked Jim Brad
ley again, and this time succeeded in
capturing him and his" gang, and
among which I not only discovered
the young, disconsolate widow of her
dead husband, but the doctor, the
greatest rogue of the lot, as it was her
who, under his gentlemanly appear
ance, circulated the spurious coin. .
To my satisfaction, I saw them all
sent off for a considerable term in
Portland, with small . chance of a
ticket-of -leave. . I was hot, after all,
to be done. t -" j
A;. note of the Bank of England,
twisted, into a kind of rope, can sus
pend as much as 329 pounds upon one
end and not be injured. -
'Z r HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
- "t Kn. BroWs Tomato Ketclp-
Mxa. S. T. Borer; the-famous cook
ing expert, gives this, her favorite, re
ceipt for making tomato ketchup in the
Ladies' Home Journal: "Use half
bushel of sound tomatoes. Wash and
cut them into pieces. Cook gently for
half an hour, then press through a
sieve. Cook again for one hour; then
add one ounce of ground ginger, one
ounce of mustard, one gill of salt, half
a pound of sugar, and one quart of
vinegar. Cook to the proper consis
tency; add five drops of oil of nutmeg,
and the same of celery, or a table
spoonful of celery seed. Bottle, cork
and seal."
Canning BliK'Vberrle and Ttapberrie-
Select firm raspberries, and put
them into a colander, which sink gradu
ally into a pan of cold water. Left and
drain. Arrange neatly in the cold jars,
then fill with cold water, adjust the
rubbers and place the lids carelessly
on top. Do not fasten them. Place a
little hay, straw or excelsior in the
bottom of ' an ordinary wash-boiler, on
which stand the jars. Pour into the
boiler sufficient cold water to come
nearly to the neck of the jars, cover
the boiler and bring slowly to boiling
point. As soon as the water reaches
boiling point lift each jar carefully and
screw on the top. Stand out of the
draught to slowly cool. Strawberries
and blackberries may be canned after
this rule. Mrs. S. T. Borer, in Ladies'
Home Journal.
Excellent Cucumber Fickle.
Make a ten-gallon keg of strong,
brine on which an egg will float. Put
the cucumbers in a bag made of a
yard of sleezy white cotton, tie up its
mouth with a string and place a clean
stone on it to keep it in place under
the brine, and every cucumber is safe
and sound until you wish to pickle
them. When that time comes, which
should not be for six weeks, soak
them in fresh water for twenty-four
hours. - Then put them in a preserv
ing kettle with enough vinegar to
cover them. Set them on the stove
and boil gently until a straw can easily
pierce them. Have ready a jar that
will hold them. Bemove from the
kettle and throw the vinegar away.
Put into the kettle nearly twice as
much vinegar as they were boiled in
and set on the stove to boil. Now
weigh the cucumbers, and allow a
quarter of a pound of sugar to every
pound of cucumbers. La every ten
pounds of pickle allow three onions
and half an ounce of mace, cloves,
alspice, ginger and two three-inch
sticks of cinnamon, a quarter of an
ounce each of tumeric, black pepper
and mixed mustard, one ounce of
white mustard seed and one ounce of
scraped horse radish. Slice the
onions, crack the spices, mix the
mustard and tumeric together into a
smooth paste. Put all of the sugar
and half of the spices into the vinegar
that is in the kettle; sprinkle the rest
of the spice with the other ingredients
in alternate layers between the cu
cumbers as you put them in the jarl
When the vinegar has been x boiling
just ten minutes stir into it the mixed
mustard and tumeric and remove it
instantly from the fire and pour over
the pickles. Cover it up closely and
set it away. In a few days it will be
ready for use. The traveler was not
far wrong when he pronounced it
glorious picKie." unicago decora.
Household Hints.
Vegetables growing above the
ground should be cooked in salted
water, those below, in fresh water.
Colors which have been changed by
the application of acids may be re
stored by the application of chloro
form. When cooking onions, set a tin cup
of vinegar on the stove and let boil,
and no disagreeable odor will be in the
roomV
FruitV&tainSj 1 when fresh, may be
removed by pouring water through
the stained portion until the spot dis
appears. Ink that is freely spilt upon a carpet
should be covered with common or
coarse salt or Indian meal. If all the
stain is not absorbed rub with lemon
juice.
Grass stains should be rubbed with
molasses thoroughly and then washed
out as usual. Another treatment ' is
to rub with alcohol and then wash
in water.
Our fruit stains may be removed
wita oxalic acid; wash the stained por
tion in the acid till clear; rinse at
once in rain water J as the acid will at
tack the fabric if left upon it. Now
wet the spot in ammonia and give a
final rinsing.
When potatoes are thoroughly baked,
burst the skin, and you will have de
licious, mealy potatoes that will . be
eatable for an hour or more if kept in
a warm piace. i you are not in the
habit of doing this, you do not know
what an excellent thing a baked pota
to really is.
Bust and. ink stains should be
rubbed with juice of lemon and the
spot then covered with : salt and the
cloth placed in the sun. If this treat
ment does not serve to remove the
stain, or if the fabric is colored and
so cannot Tbe " treated with lemon
juice, oxalic acid may be used as for
old fruit stains. ;
" Tea, coffee and undoubtedly cocoa
stains, even those which had been pre
viously wasned, may be rubbed in
javelle water, if. the fabric stained be
white, otherwise the color will be
bleached Take a half-pint of the ja
velle water" to a quart of clear water
and let the stained portion of the cloth
soak in it for several hours, then rinse
thoroughly in three waters. j V
Chicago's rich people returned to
the assessors of last year $2000 worth
or diamonds and $74 worth of silver
taj9lejrei -. . .
Attorn ey-at- Lav,
WILKESEOIIO, S.'c.
Will practice iu the State aal l,e .
Courts.
1 3 A A CC. W B. lBOo n
Attorney-a t-Law.
O03OX-, 2T. c.
Will practice in all ' the cot?,
Dealer in real estate. Prompt atte
ion paia w cunecuuu ui ciaims.
T4 B. Finley. IL L. Green
FlflLEY & GREENE
Attorneys - at - Law,
WILKESBORO, K. C.
Will practice in all. the courts. Col
lections a specialty. Real estate sold
onl commiss.1.011.
WHEAT CROP SITUATION.
Etlma.te4 Uefieieney of 14.000,000 Quar
ter In the World's Supply.
he Mark Laue Express, of London ro.
Tiewing the crop situation, says:
The weather nas oeea adverse to th
pletlon of the harvest, aad the quan
of srrain still out is considerable.
The French wheat crop is estimated at.
,000 quart era oy tae einer writers of
Paris press. Correspondents of Eng.
business-firms state that the crop will
ount to from 33,ooa,oaa to 36,000.000
rters. The Austro-Hungarian crorj i
ted to be 17,000,033 quarters. If this is
et, It adds greatly to the gravity of tha
ation.
The American crop Is reckoned by care
ful judges to bo 63,500,000 quarters, or 11 -
0-1,003 quarters improvement, to offset a'
decline of 9,000,000 quarters in Kussia and
6,0O,000 to 10,000,000 quarters in France.
f AU the figures point, therefore, to a de
ficiency in the world's supply of 14,000,000
quarters. Should the demand be actually
as large as this, the stores of old wheat will
be j used np, and a crisis of great serious
ness will only be prevented by generally
good prospects for the spring of 1333. Ye
are not, however, entitled to argue that
sueh prospects wilf be more than the aver-
ag
STUDENTS' AWFUL CRUELTY, i
A
lorrible Hazing; Episode at the Uni
versity of California.
here will be no more "rashes" at the
University of California if President Kel
logg s latest mandate is exercised.
Halt dazed, bis jaw broken, his face a
bleeding mass, Benjamin Kurtz, a newly
eleeted freshman, was found wandering
about the campus after the rush between
th: two lower classes. ' Jn the struggle
soiae one put his heel on Kurtz's face, and
as result be is disfigured for life and may
hare sustained Injury of the brain. An ex
amination showed that a piece of flesh had
betn torn from one no3tril. The upper lip
Imig only by a shred and the rpgged na
ture of the sear made the injury all the
mere serious. The front teeth were gone.
Fo ir teetb had been knocked out of the
lovrer jawbone,rin which they lad been em
bedded, and part of the bone was broken
ou'; with them.;
I loth the upper and lower jaws were
smashed and the flesh of all the ; face
crushed and bleeding. There were; two
otfc er serious casualties.
HER SPECIALTY IS . TWINS.
Colored Wife, Under Eighteen, Has
Given Birth to Four Pairs,
ot yet eighteen years old and the moth
er of four pairs of twins! u
This Is the record made by Pearly Brad
ford, a colored, woman of East St. Louis,
IllJ The remarkable young mother asked
Dri Woods. Supervisor of the Poor, for
food to keep herself and children from
starving... She has been a resident of East
St. Louis five years, she says, having come
thire from New Orleans, where her hus
baid is now trying to get employment.
All but three of her children are dead. The
live onesare healthful and strong, though
quite young.
Mrs. Bradford is very black. She will
not be eighteen years old, she. says, pntil
November 25 next, and is again approach
ing motherhood. She was married when a
eh Id. -
Dr. Woods made a careful investigation
lnlo the statements made by Mrs. Brad
ford and found them to be correct and the
wc man honest and truthful.
Jfht Ifounjr, Hut They Married.
Isaac Selover. seventv-f our -car nA: n
widower and. a wealthy farmer of Spotts
wdod, N. J., and Miss Mary Phillips, ft
spinster, sixty years old, have just been
married. Selover lived with his son, a
mirried man, forty years old, but it is said
that he and his' son did not agree. So ho
thpught he would get married again, and
Miss Phillips agreed to become h!3 wife.
Hfa children were opposed to the marriage,
but Selover insisted that he knew his own
business.
Hntlncen Kill Flftr-Nlne Men. 1
A mutiny has occurred amongthe troops
the Conco Free Ktatn in th Trm Dis
of
trict of Africa. The mutineers, it is said,
kijled fifty-nine Belgian officers and men
and destroyed all the7 forts, committing
depredations right and left;
'There IS A atrnnrr otmtimi.nt. in our'
part of the State for a division of Cali-
m ' . .
iornia so as to give Southern Calif or-
nia 8erjerate Statehood" said J. .
Hazard, of Los Anireles. Cal.. recent
ly- "This desire arises from no f ric-
tion or jealousies between the two
en 3s of the Commonwealth, and least
of all is it based on anv scheme to
gie the politicians additional spoils ,
frc m the public crib. It isn't politi-l
cal erreed or. the nntjrrnmtli rf ill-feel-.
ifig, but arises purely from economic
necesniti m Tr Y, o.
w AM u. ovuiuvtu
fed the need of a State government of
our own. We have in reality but little
iu common with the northern end.
Our interests are quite as distinct
from that section as;they are from Ore
gon, and we are financially and indus
trially as independent as Oregon. "'e
ha ve also have a new population that
is distinct from the population of
Northern California as it is from Nevr
Ycrk. For these and other reasons
vrt i aspire to Statehood. There is
plenty of territory for two prosperous
and powerful States, and I think the
di rision is certain to come about.
KO CHANCE TO STOP IT.
Gladys Papa's going to give us
clock at the redding instead of
present, Tom.
Tom All right, we'll have the cere
mony at high noion then instead of a
4 o'clock. ' ' '
: (Gladys Why, what for, dear ?
Xozu-!Bauks close at 3.