The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, December 04, 1891, Image 4
HOT SPRINGS GAMBLERS.
/ That Locality Making an XJnenvita
bla Record for Itsolf of Late.
Hot Bpkixgs, Auk., [Special.J- During
the recent prosccut ious of several
gamblers, brought on by the Knights ot
' , Pythias, because some of the members of
that order had been robl>c<I, ull of the
.gambliug houses in this city were closed.
>. . *But, it seems, that was only for effect.
No sooner did the Citizens' Committee
disband?or rather, become inactive?
the isyinrr1 r,A L
These ropers are orgaui/.ed and have
their particular line of victims. Thcv
arc selected ami assigned to work on a
special class of people. They arc organised
into a league, which is subdivided
into classes. The fresh young toper, who
is of good address ami genteel appearance,
is assigned to a particularly swell hotel
to work on the young dudes who come
here to spend their fathers liiomy.
'Ihese "swell"' roners attend tlies hoos I
? 1 ~
and boon ingiatiatc themselves with the
visiting swells. After it few social pittites
of euchre or tea-eeut ante, a fiieml is invited
to "sit in."' This "fiieml" proves
to he au cxpciicnccd gambler, who robs
the victim that the young swell roper has
been nursing for liiiu.
Another feature of swell gambling life
at the Springs is the gambler in disguise
of a real estate or milling operator. They
put up at first-class hotels and have ut
u'uiut'lf with them registered as
theit wives, t-ohictfmos tfiey aie n>??e-ried
only ou the Chicago plan. While
the gamblers arc busy looking for victims
among the male guests, their wives are
getting acquainted with other men's win s
and Ici'tning tiic financial status of their
husbands. If wealthy, and inelined to
be sociable, iiittoductious are brought
about, and sociable games and wine
luncheons follow*. Later on the men have
a ipiiet business game, and the gambler
robs bis violent. These gamblers' wives
arc adepts at cards, and can make a false
cut aud veer a curd as skillfully as their
husbands. They cairy a "lay-out'' of
curds, poker checks, etc., "merely for !
pastime." They always invite their lady >
and gentlemen friends who call in the I
afternoon to play a "social game," and
they always win. A favorite dodge of
these gamblers' wifes is to encourage silly
young men, and eveu silly "old boys,"
m. to call upon them. A game of ten-cent
anfo ft frtrm-inhly ai^tuiud. Tliey arc
too gallant, or rather too much infatuatetT
to win from a lady, or to even object to
being sw indled, and so the gambler's
wife manages to win enough pin money
to pay hotel expenses. A retired showman
spent about two months here this
winter, and accumulated more money
than if he had been playing to crowded
houses dming the entire season. He is
considered a star poker player.
The:c is pet haps more gamblers in IIo'
fcjptings. and a greater variety of it, thai*
in any other city with ten times its population.
It is also a better field, because i
there are more verdant visitors here than '
any oilier point. It sceir.s that a visitor
loses bis eminliir. "
ov7??u 'lt5 rcnciics
this Aiucticau Monaco. At hi* home, or
in any other city, it would be a very ditlicull
ntft td to entrap lain, if he could
be catmhi nt all; but as aoon as o
* caches this hot-water Gomorrah he falls
an easy prey to the bunco thief or
smooth-tongued poker player.
Deaf for a Year
Henriiif/ ItestttrrU mid Catarrh ]
Cmrrtl t>j/ IIiioiI'h Sarnaimrilla.
"ltochester, N. Y., July 27, 1891.
"Throe years ago, as a result of catarrh, I lout my '
bearing entirely ami was Ueaf fur more than a year 1
1 trltsi \nrlous things to cure it, au<l ha<l several >
physicians, out no improvement was apparent. I <
could (
Dint iiii/nisli Xo Noll ml. (
I was Intending putting myself under the eare of a c
specialist when some one suggested that possibly j
flood's Sarsaparli'a would do me some good. I be
gau taking it without expecting much help. To my S
arprise and great joy I found when I hnd taken c
threc bottles that my hearing was returning. I kept ?l
on tuklng |,
Hood's Sarsaparilla f!
Till I had taken three more, wheal stopped. It Is
now over a year, and I am troubled but very little
with the ealarrli. I consider this a very remarkuhle Ul
ease." Hf.iiman Iticxs, :iu t'arter St. |"u
fiend's fills.?For the liver and bowels, act eg
easily yet promptly and efficiently. Price 23c. CK
pMOTHERS*j S
? r^icni? !
t i Young .vc
i i Makes Child Birth Easy. | 1
Shortens Labor, | que
Lessens Pain, wh
I ; Endorred by the Leading Physicians. J Imr
] 1 Booh to" Mothera" ntmlloti FREE, f ^
<' BRACFIELD REGULATOR CO. j onl
! I ATLANTA. GA. shu
J [ SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. 2 UP
Tiny C JATt'l) Y, nr^jK-KKKnxa. Titisinrtu rnmu,
H?"" fYnmnnthlp, Arithmrtir, Short hunt, rto.,
U T?fORor?ni.v Tavoiit my >1 All,. Circulars froo.
llryanl'a College. .$.A7 Main St., I'ufTalo, N. Y.
CBS.TRTVA5 ,s wml"*. An Kaalo Fountain pan And
WwAiWlttAtf With Whoi.ksai.f: price list of Christmat.
presents. only Sn cent*. It makes a fine present. "D
WlSONA SIA..C. > ?
v,v.? i. v iiox Winona, Minn. ' I x
I Si
" All she lacks of beauty P,>rt'
is a little plumpness." i fore
This is a frequent thought, '
and a wholesome one. innr?
All of a baby's beauty is { '
due to fat, and nearly all of a 1 f
J \ roniii
woman's ? we know it as tjirm
& curves and dimples. 1 J"
What plumpness has to do ' 7''vo.
I . ... I "ist '
with health is told in a little 1 ? ?*?
f book on careful living; sent I
free. I 1,0 fo
1 over
Would yon rather be I
healthy or beautiful? "Both" ,j,j
is the proper answer. '1 ;.
' ' # ikI i
Scoti flr How N",Ch?ninit, i Sonrh sih Avniw, UI'fHt(
NewVorL. I ? I at r>f
Your drna?!?t k?"p? S oil's KniuKmn of cod-liver
9? ?*11 drufnU'.s everywhere do. ?i. I many
M Engla
\e iu tli
scpresse*' ~
THE QUEER WAYS OFr^
Vho
UNPLEASANT LITTLB B\ vSTS,
BUT WORTH STUD YIN W.
What Their Tall-* Are (iood For?
Clothes ol Their Skins?Teaching
Tticin Tricks?Itats as Food.
A rat's tail is a wonderful thing. The
great naturalist, Cuvier) says that there
are more muscles iu this curious appendage
than arc to be found in that part of
the human nnatnn/y which is most adtfic
&uut. *" *T<V "7li'c'TSJTmKS ."TtTTaTl
RP.rvna 110 n cmt of V....wl I.. : - m
...... ? .. ?< UIIUU, iIY uicaun UI
which the animal is enabled to crawl
along narrow ledges or other difficult
passages, using it to balunce with or to
gain a hold. It is prehcusile, like the
tails of some monkeys. By means of it
the little beast can jump up heights
otherwise inaccessible, employing it us a
projectile spring.
It has often been said that the glovemakers
of Paris make use in their traue
of the skins of rats which are caught in
thosewers, but this is denied. Certainly,
says the Washington tilur, the material
would not be strong enough to successfully
counterfeit the kid, unless it were
for the thumb parts only, which are generally
of a thinner aud different kind of
leather from the rest. Suggestion has
been made that the trade might be
opened with the Chiucsc for the skins of
the rats they cat. A thrifty Welshman
-? iiiuo oxhihited himself publicly in
Euglaud attired in a costume composed
from top to toe of latskins, which he had
spent three years and a half in collecting.
The dress was made entirely by himself.
It consisted of hut, neckerchief, coat,
iiusivuni, iiouscrs, upper, ^unci's atui
shoes. The number ot rats required to
complete the suit was 670. Most curious
of the garmeuts was the tippet, composed
entirely of rats' tails. At one
time a batch of several thousand ratskin?
was imported from France into England
for manufacturing purposes, but they
were fouud too small ami too line in
texture to be useful.
I>r. JUtcklaud says that ma iv of the i
elephants' tusks brought to London for
the use of workers in ivory are observed
to have their surfaces grooved into small
furrows of unequal depth as though cut
out by a very sharp edged instrument.
This is done by rats, which are fond of
the ge(?t<na oraoLnul glue in the substance.
The ivory cutter selects for his
purposes by preference those tu?ks which
have been gnawed iu this way, because
they arc the ones which cm'am the most
gelatine aud are therefore the best in
material, (furiously enough, the trade,
white giving this much recognition to
the rats' work, has not recognized thorn
as the authors of it, the common belief
in the business being that the ivory has
been thus gnawed by alligators. How
it is imagined that aiiigatois gel a oh urce
to chew elephants* tuskr is a problt n.
How many people ii ive ever eaten jelly
i.iiiuu irum eicpmuus liua-: \eiitis
very good iudcel. Iu the English |
factories where many ton* of ivory are
iiuvn up annually to make handles tor
knives and forks, great quantities of
ivory dust are obtained. This nasi is
3ohi at the rite of sixpence a pound,
and, when properly boiled and prepared,
it makes the tines', purest and most
nutritious animal jelly Known. tears
ago ivory jelly wus a very fashiouablc
- ....
Among other things fit is possible to
make them learn how to be,', to jump
through a hoop, to drag a little cait iu
harness and to carry sticks or money.
Huts have never found favor as a delicacy
for the table in Europe or iu this
country, but in many lands they are ielshed
as an article of diet. The siuves
)f Jamaica used to regard them as a
lainty, their masters not providing them
vitli any other meat. '1 heir method ot
looking the toothsome rodents was to
mpalc each one on a long wooden (
kewer, after cleaning the aniinal and
lit tin" ???T
yj.i im; inn, turning it briskly f
round over a lire until the hair was all l
urnt off Then it was scraped until
rec fro.11 fur, and finally the end of the r
tewer was stuck into the ground, in- n
incd toward the fire until it was toasted j
y nud crisp, thus being made ready v
ir the meal. Hats may commonly be ti
en for sale in the markets of any Chin- p
c town, split and pret.se 1 under a heavy ri
eight, so as to look somewhat like dried |)
h. In this shape the pig-tailed nil"- \
Ior Tries tnem. so
Hats cause great annoyance on board at
1 " I \ l/iino ona/i A l? ? '
pin ri5 ?' u
j... .r.. ivuiiu i>mu mac ii usKed ^|]
at, after darkness, cold and scurvy, ni
re the three besrtting curses of hisarc- c0
sojourn, he would say rats, rats, rats. be
verthelcss, when in distress for other
d, he was afterward very glad to eat
i pests.. He writes:
Through the long winter night Huns 00
d to beguile his lonely hours of watoh
shooting rats with bow and arrow. ?0
e repugnance of my associates to share jn
ii me this table luxury gave me fre- to
nit advantage of fresh-meat soup, ?t
ich contributed no doubt to my com- |);i,
ative immunity froin scurvy." of
Igain he writes: Our diet will be ?jtl
y a stock of meat biscuit, to which I th<
II add for myself a f< w rats chopped tl)(
and frozen into tallow balls."
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CENSUS PORTER TALKS, jlu
i\IJ
,ic<
I Produces Private Figures to In
rovo His Side of tho Question. "u
. Lous, Mo., [Special.J?Robert T. ujg
t*r, superintendent of the United
s census, delivered an address beI
lie Commercial club of this city in
veiling. The occasion was a very 1 1
i able one, nnd the attendance was VCI
, st n
F'orter said that romrncrlife
centered on great rivers s,r
treat lakes. Ife traced the bet
ncrcial advancement of the country c'pl
ich the vnrioim r^nono^" f-? * *
wMOUOVtf 11 Ulll I lie ,I J
of Alexander Hamilton to the pres- swi
nnd presented figures from the the
nth census, now made public for the I
hue, to show that wool nnd woolen thai
ifnrtures had to-day increased since inci
$77,040,758 in value. Statistics of six
n manufactures wore also'made pub- jjrS(
r the first time nnd show increases
1890 as follows: In number of es- in,,
hments, 150; in hands employed,
in cotton consumed, (bales),
05, in value of product, $05,074,- t^0
in number of spindles, 3,515,506,
n number of looms, 00,298. The ror
?st increase is in the Southern ? '
i, which are employing nearly as 1
hauds in this industry now as New J" v
ind did in 1890. kne
Children as Finders of Diamonds.
The discovery of diamonds in South
Africa was brought about by two Dutch
children, who tossed a diamond in the
air una caught it, Hiiuking that it was n
pebble. They were playing the childish
game one day in 1867 when John
O'Reilly, an interior trader,'stopped at
their father's farm in Qriqualand West,
, near the Vaal River, to trade for skins,
aud he was attracted by the pecular clearness
and tramparcycy of the pebble.
Ho asked one the children to show it
to him, atuuUtcr ho had examined it he
v-Xo"'"fer,Ul,irl.lir.a"
name, laughed whon O'Reilly offered to
buy the stone, nnd said that plenty of
them could bo found in the river.
O'Reilly accepted the stone as a gift, and.
promised that if ho succ3eded in selling
it he would give half of the proceeds to
Van Niekirk toward the expenses o^
educating the girl, which was the Dutch
farmer's greatest desire
At Hope Town the 6tone wa3 ex-l
nminpil l?w mon.. + .?.! i?i ?'?
? VJ luauj UUUCI3, Ullli UOUWUy
supported O'Reilly in the belief that it
was valuable, its size being too large.
O'Rtilly kept it carefully until ho had:
time to send it to Dr. Atherstouo, a
capable authority in Grahamstowu, who
said that it was a diamond of about
twenty-two carats. Some time afte<
ward Sir Philip Wodehouse, theu Gov-i
ernor of the Cape, bought the diamond
for $2500. On his return to the Vunlj
O'Reilly gave $1250 to the little girl,'
and asked her if she had any more pebif
iw slouc came from the river,
as Van Niekerk had said, more must be
there, O'Reilly argued, and he hired
natives to oollect lor lirm all the transparent
stones they could tiud on the
river banks. Sackful after sackful were
examined, but O'Reilly found ouly oue
more diamond?a four-carat stone.
That is the story of the
discovery of diamonds told by J.
Thorburn in the London Graphic. It
agrees with the authorities in describing
childrcu as the tirst tinders, and it is
probably true in regard to details, because
he was one of the men who went
to the Vaal to search for diamonds after
the news of O'Reilly's find had "becu
spread among the traders and settlers.
For three year3 after O'Reilly's tiud the
banks of the river were washed for
diamonds, but not many were fouud.
The finding of some diamonds in the
mud walls of a hartebceste hut led to the
opening of the dry diggings, Thorburn
??jb, ana soon tne most profitable search
was in the ground of the now famous
Du Toits Pan, De Beers and Kimberley
mines.?New York Sun.
The Real Australia.
Among the tacit misconceptions into
which distant critics arc most likely to
fall about antipodean allairsis that which
is based upon ignorance oi the enormous
area and possibilities of the colonies.
Especially is this likely in the United
Slates, where the assumption may be
that, as the population of Australia is
about the same as that of the thirtecu
original seaboard colonies of America,the
surface over which they arc distributed
is also approximately the same. As a
matter of fact there is no such proportion.
New South Wales alone is as largo
as they were; Tasmania,the Rhode Island
of Australia, is as large as that Slate,
with New Jersey, New Hampshire and
Massachusetts- added? Vi<0/?rii> ?i.o
smallest colony of thccontincut, is equal
greater than (Jucehsfan J, is lie iilyus
large as Western Australia, which of
itself has nearly four times the extent of
Texas, while the two colonies together
ave larger than the whole of E iropo
without liussia. The seven colonies between
thein occupy a territory greater
lhau that of the Unite I States, excluding
Alaska. It is true that at present)
Australia has barely four million inhabitants,
but these immense areas topic- t
sent a potential population to which it, *
is impossible to set bounds. No part of I
the contiuent is so hot and so uuhcalthy i
is to forbid wiiite settlement, and if tho t
itrip of low-lying c >ast-!ands iu the I
lorth be omitted, there is no part of it I
ret colonized in which Europeans cau-,
lot work. Port Darwin, the country
bout the Gulf of Carpentaria, and an
ndefinite belt toward the northwest liq
/itliin the tropics, and arc suitable for ^
ropical productions; but the hi"l? "
..wtu 01 northern Queensland, which I H
uas close to the sea,is found thoroughly J w
fu'A^Jj^PiaSyi^'xva'teness by ca upari-! n<
m with the Mississippi Vitlley, t? tr
?le to carry stock well in insit sennas, *r
id with wells, tanks and danism ty ba ^
nde to do 30 in all years. Fhe desert? c#r
untry of Eastern Australia has yet to ^
i found.?Scrihner. c'
SI
He Tells It by Their Heels. is
>11 **
A shoo nuke:* says, as soon as a man
nies into mv shop aud takes off his ftC
aes I can tell whether or not he is a ca
od walker, and it is n?tonishiug to I18
d how few men know the proper way ,n
step out. It the shoe is worn down
the heel, not on the side, but straight nc
ck, and leather of the sole sho.vs signs mi
weakness at the ball of the foot, a fo
lie greater on the inside just Iwdow lai
3 base of the great toe, I know that th
? wearer is n
?- - ?...???. tn
If, however, the heel is turned on one wl
v, or is woru eveniy throughout nnd ra<
5 sole is worn most near the.toe, I
ow that I have to deal with a poor Wi
lest rift 11. The reason of the diiTerenej Pr
position of the worn spots lies in the ^
fact that the poor walker walks (;a
in his knees and the good one from <"ol
hip. As
Watch the passers-by on the street
1 you will at onee seethe difference. Cor
ne men outof ten will bead the knee bet
y considerably in walking, stepping tvh
sight out with both hips on the same the
3, nnd the toe will be the first to tint
ike the ground. The tenth man will
id his knee very little, iust ennn?I? ?? ?'?>
, ? O" " ?
>?r the ground. and will swing the leg
ni the hip, very much as the arm ia
ling Irom the shoulder anil not from ,
elbow. a)l
5y so doing ho calls upon the muscles g
t are strongest to bear the strain, and ^
reaves the length of bis stride four to
incheSR The heel touches the ground .
, and not tho toe. A single spring is gef^
;n from the ball of the loot on male*
another stride. jajt
len that walk in this fashio i cover ^
ground thirty per cent, faster with
same exertion than those that walk
n the knee. Ji igilism the old rule gt|j
) strike Iron the shoulder and not
11 the elbow. In pcdestriAoism it is ^
valkfrom the hip and not from ths ,
e.?St. Loutt Globe-Democrat. t
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LORD LYTfrON'S DEATH.
Frenchmen the Los* of the
Diplomat. Hie Literary
Attainments.
A cablegram from Paris says: The
death of the earl of Lyttoa, British ambassador
of France, has caused the most
profound regret ' In this city. All the
papers publish articles on the dead diplomat,
and* all sneak it) the highest terms
irtlrts*g?ent irrtvtqnofcihis country. The
,^>apera pay high tfWavs to the earl's lit
?rnry attainments, and they all coifCtir in
the opiniou that in hisN^eath France has
lost a sincere friend. \
In an article on the Imparl, published
by The Evencment, tbat\japer says the
presence of the earl of LKton in Paris
was a more reassuring plcaW of peace
than all the protests made by fy> cabinet
of St. James. \
It lias been practically decided that
the remains of the late carl of Lvtton, the
Biitish ambassador to France, be interred
at Keuilwoith, Hertford, England, as
S',011 as the necessary arrangements cau
be made. ,
At the request of the dead poet\diplomat,
no flowers will be placed unm his
colfln, and, iu nil other respects, tin funeral
will be of the most simple dctcriplion.
There is no doubt, the friedds of
the dead man say, that the carl's qcnth
was brought about, directly or iudicctly,
by the sanitary condition of
embassy.
lugkjing_home green goods.
Two Southerner* Greatly Surprised
To Find Out What They
Had Bought.
A special from New York City says:
Big Policeman Peter ltceu,who docs duty
in the Pennsylvania Bailroad depot in Jersey
City, noticed two typical Southerners
waiting for the Southern express train.
One of them had a satchel which he
seemed to bo guarding with special care.
The policeman took both men to Police
hcadquartors, where the satchel was
opened. The Southerners were the only
ones who exhibited any surprise when the
satchel was found to coutain several bundles
of green paper. Tlicy were greatly
chagrined. It was only a case of two
more "green goods'* swindlers. They
said they were Albeit Allen and G. L.
Harris of Ashevitlc, N. C. They admitted
that thoy had come North to buy
"green gooas," and had paid out f800 of
good ^^ev^^upejintendent Smith
j ?? * " ?vmVB ^
their cxpcrioncoio their neighbors as a
warning.
Two dupes of "green goods" swindlers
were also intercepted in Newark, N. J.
They gave their ifnincs as James H- Smith
of Polk county,. Florida, and William R.
Collins of Fort Meade. Flu.
The Opening: of Columbia's Great
Canal.
"Hail Columbia'' might have been '
said or sung by every citizen of South
Carolina the other day, for the gates of
the locks cf the canal that had been long 1
the deferred hope of their capital city '
were opened in the presence of thousands
of people, and 13,0*0 horse-power was
made available for the industries that
will soon bo established.
An expenditure of $1,000,000 that for
long has seemed to be a dead loss will 1
now contribute fto Columbia's prosperity,
and while tbcxity has no coupons to cut
j,? 1
fid thousands of wage-earners to hor 1
: .iu " "M'Uiiude of I
... lan city s prosperity.
There has been for years n deal of sen- '
timentul talk about union between Massachusetts
and fnuth Carolina. Colum- v
bin and Boston have done away with any '
further nonsense of that kind by combin- 11
ing their enterprise and cnpital in the "
practical work that was inaugurated by "
the rush of waters through the canal last "
week, aud which will now bo followed 111
>y the building of large cotton mills by
S'ew England capitalists. So not only 0<
South Carolinians, but all American pn- ru
riots can with heart and voice joiu in
he national chorus of "Hail Columbia.' a
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Pine Cones, the Now Potato. oc
A few year* ago a scientist in Japan
liscovered a plant, the tuberous roots of
rhich closely resembled the common poito.
Sample* of this ncw-fouud tuber e^'
'erc^ent?/<> Uaris^nq ].. Rnrlin'a- i-tiiatL . JL
j,.. tuber, & mTbeen,' favorable to the
oducecj>^;?iob has been extensive inicg>
nearly all European coun
riscf^Thia yirur a number of farmers iu ^
ops >nsm and Minnesota planted large
011 ai'f the new potato under the direc- m<
lemityd tulvisemet of Albert Meyer, the *n
:ate. st of Stillwater, in the last-named
Stac^ The scientific name of the plant us'
pine Viys tuberifera, the common name, er
:count diies," hfodng been bestowed on rrr
Hit Stachys tvrm. So nc authorities
ive it Stachys llRuis, and still others
g been the dis?Sieboldii,"Sicbold bavThey
are cultiwvercr. *
ras the commo??ted iu the same man- ^
ore prolific,as big,potato, nnd are much
r.ning in one hilbh as 200 of the tubers
ge as our omof They are hardly as
em would fill aon potato, but 200 of |
an 100 potatoes much larger measure ^
lirh will giva-M.ffPUlliwa.C/inxoarUnii
)us yield.
The analysis of tho plant is: {
nter 78.33
otein 1.5(J
nide 1.00 .<
t 0.18
rooti hydrate (prmcipi galac'.an) 10.51
lluSose 0.7.1 *v
i.(y ^
There is neither starch or sugar in tho 1
nposition, but galactan, a substance
ween both. They are clear and E?
ite, and frost does uot hurt them in 1"
i least. Their taste is something like t?i
it of the potato, and they arc not Ml
del before cooking. ? SI. l/tuit lit- ooi
,hr
i . on
"" da
Swrdes m Servants. ce]
rhe SWedos mako the best servants of Hi
our imported poodle, says Mrs. M. cff<
W. Sberwool ia the North American hei
neu>, a ad the reason of it wm gravely Ha
Led tojajjt -\f a Swedish cook (who ma
I be the mistress of the
rants, and in deeply deplored the
jneaa and thwdisobedience which, she ^
1, were crefping in even amongst
m in our Anmrican life) to be the old
sdish custom of "Uusalga"?an old
BdUh law b4 which the masters are
I empower# uto inflict corporal pun- **
ocnt on JttRir servants, male and nj
inlc. CM
'Ah!" -lid Preuda, "that made good
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AMONG THE SEMINOLES.
The Pathetic Tale They Tell of the
First White Missionary.
Down on the border of the vast wilderness
of waving marsh and lagooncncirled
islands which from the Everglades
of Florida is the Seminole Indian
village of Tallafagessc, half hidden in
the green hnmmock. Hero Chief Torn
Tiger and his bund pursue the even tcnoi*
of domestic life with their consorts nnd
offspring?a somewhat lazy existence
enlivened bj much hunting and fishing,
the only visible means of support.
Among themselves these Beminoles are
extremely loquacious, but the stmnger
haAsmall chance of hearing any of their
stmes and traditions unless introduced
by some accepted "heap good white
man."
So, although I had heard vaguely of a
white #aint who had been worshiped by
the forefathers of Osceola three hundred
years ago, I could not for u long
time find any authority in the pcrsou of
nu Indian narrator.
At last the talc was told me by old
Wauksemicco, the patriachal chief who
was murdered a year ago. We were in
a hunting cntnp on the St. Lucie river
one balmy January night. The flaring I
lightwood fire threw out in weirdly
trembling relief the dark background of
palmetto nud moss-draped magnolia
trees, their trunks entwined with tropical
creepers, in the rear, a slictch of
flashing phosphorescent river; the forms
of the braves sprawling arounu the lire,
die half-score of lank battle-scarred bcai
dogs skulking without the circle, nnd
the deer and alligator skins stretched on
dryfng"Trntncs gate a vfTctl local color to
the narration.
The full moon, rising jellow and warm
iu the heavy air, over a cypress swamp,
seemed to awaken sleeping memories in
the breast of the wrinkled old Seminole.
Without my urging he began speaking in
aguttcral monotone, very difficult to follow.
Iu a mixture of Semiuolc nud En
fjn^u, uu uiiKiiucu uic siory wmcn l Have
I ried to outline.
The wonderful visitation took place
.liree centuries ago, when the fort and
few coquina horses of St. Augustine formed
the only town in the forest-covered
peninsula. With a colony from Minorca
there came a young Spanish priest.
Nothing of his history has survived the
effacing touch of the years. Without
hesitation, as with a mission plainly revealed,
lie commenced the fearfully perilous
pilgrimago down the east coast
among the scattered Indian villages.
Although Spaniard and Seminole were
nonstantly warring, the missionary went
iiuhnrincd by canoes and on foot, south
to the Great Marshes and west to the
His lioly zeal and devotion won for him
s mingling of reverent love and fear from
'lie Indians, who thus received the strange
'cw story of the Savior of men as a message
from the Great. Spirit. For many
years this herald of the cross toiled on,
preaching in the pnlmetto-thntched village
huts, ana healing the sick in a wonderful
manner.
At the last wheu all had couio to love
iti 111. and iiis body was bent with cruel
sufferings of a score of years' denial, the
Glieat Spirit took him to Himself.
Willie attempting to cross the wide
Indian river in tiic face of a furious
norther," to minister to a dying convert,
his light canoe was overturned.
And thus he died, alone with his God
ind the storm.
On the top of a swelling mound, overshadowing
the broad lagoon, stands n
group of trees, as stately one huudred
TSnqjc/'WAWSU. Tlirniifrh their branch
^ fo? iwyeiitcr us uo ni#
jinc trees.
But on the night of full moons in each
nonth a strange thing happens.
Whether the surface of the blue water is
wept into dancing ripples by tire night
rind, or whether it is calm und still,
hrougli the pine boughs there sweeps a
lighty rushing wind, and they loss and
loan with a wailing and sadness which
takes weep whoever may hear. This is
ic spirit of the "Indian Father," the
icsscngcr from the beyond, who returns
> earth to watch over his beloved
L'ininolcs, and he mourns because the
,ce is so swiftly vanishing. i
Such in brief is the; tradition, which 1
though enveloped in a mist and haze of J
perdition, nevertheless stands out a ,
iglit and holy picture from the dark- ,,
ss of its times. Hai.imi D. Pai-nb.
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|3T Bold by Druggists, price 75c. per bottle.
Tiieimi aro over nino hundred grain elorntors
in Nortb Dakota.
Bitown's Iron Bitters cures Dyspepsia,Malaria.
Biliousness and General Debility. Gives
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Mothers, weak women and children.
This year's crop of cereals is estimate 1 at
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American-made shotguns are greatly fn
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Dr. Swan's Pastii.es Cure female weaknesses;
hlHT-Tabletscurecbronlcconstlpatlon. Samples
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Ka.wsjls Citt is promised Ice at five oenta a
hundred, as a result of competition.
SITS stopped free by Dr. Kline's Great
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use. Mar veleus cures. Treatl-o and f9 trial
bottle free. Dr. Klint. Ill AreliRt PWi? e
Thkkk is mi epidemic of*forgery and coining
in Germany.
A new excitement for Ofcitthoiija Is sup
pliod by the discovery of gold-benring quarts
?t Chandler.
Malaria cured and eradicated frun the
system by Brown's Iron Uliu-rs, whieli inriclios
I bo blood, tonev tlio nerves, t? ids digestion.
Acts like u eliurtn on persons in general
ill health, giving now energy and strength.
Sir John Maodonald's estate Is rained
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If afflicted with soro eyes use L?r. Imihc Thompson's
Kye-wator.UrugglBta soil at U5c. tier bottle
Quit Every
S. S. S., is the only permanc
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