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INDIAN SCALl Plainsmen who were S All Intrian tribes with which I am acquainted scalp their enemies killed in battle. Of thc origin of scalp tak ing hut little is known, and that vague and indefinite. Nearly < very tribe has some wild, weird legend to ac count for the custom, but these tradi tions vary widely as to thc cause. That "raising ol' thc hair" of an ene my is of great antiquity th< rc is no doubt, for in thc Bible il is related how the soldiers tore the skin from the heads of their vanquished foes. With the North American savage there appears t.o bc some close alli li - ation between the depnrtcd and his hair. I have often asked many a blood begrimed warrior why he should care for the dead man's hair, BayB Capt. Henry Inman in tho KansaB City Star, and invariably a number of reasons has been assigned. It is an evidence to his pooplo that he has triumphed over his enemy. The scalps are very prominent factors in the incantations of the "Medicine Lodge," a feature of religious rites. The savage believes there is a won derfully inherent power in tho scalps of an enemy; all tho exocllent quali ties of the victim go with hie hair tho moment it is wrenched from his head. If the victim is a renowned warrior, so muoh greater is tho anxiety to pro care his scalp for the fortunate pos sesoot then inherits all the bravery and prowess of its original owner. I never knew of but one instant in all my experience with the Indians, covering a period of moro than tie third of a century, where a white man, taken prisoner in battles, es caped death. It was a great many years ago; thc party, a dear friend, still living, a grand old mountaineer but the homlicst man on earth, proba bly. He was red faced, wrinkled and pock-marked, with a mouth as largo and full of toeth as a gorilla, and there was no more hair on his head than there is on a billiard ball. Ho was oaptured in a prolonged fight and taken to the village of thc tribe where tho principal chief resid ed. That dignitary gave ono disgust ed look at tho prisoner and said that he was "Bad Medicine," if not the "Evil Spirit" himself, closely related to it. The chief ordered hie subordi nate to furnish the prisoner with a pony, loading him with provisions, provided him a rifle and told him to ;o baok to his people *sFor tho reasons stated the Indian of the great plains and the Rooky moun tains would rather take one scalp of a famous soout or army officer who h QB successfully chastised them-for ex ample, Custer, Sully, -Miles or Crook -than a dozen soalpB of ordinary white men. There are many inBtanoes on record where men have been soaiped and yet survived tbs terrible ordeal, bul in * every case the soalper supposed his victim dead, the latter taking good I . care that his foeman Bhould not be disabused of the supposed faot. ? - In 1S67 A party of Indians took up ? rail on '?he Union Paoifio railway and 'laid obstructions on the traok. After dark a /.r eight train ran ituu the trap and wu wreoked. The engineer and fireman were, instantly killed. The eosduflior and * brakemen jumped off to dud ' themselves beset by a band of yelling savages. They ran into the darkness said all escaped except one who was pursued, shot and fell. The Indian who had fired dismounted "rom his posy, and straddling that unlucky mao's hedy . soaiped him, stripped him of all olothing but shirt and shoes and rode sway. Early in the morning another freight train was flagged by a hideous looking objeefc, . which turned out to be the brakeman who had been shot through the body and soaiped 1 He had recovered his senses, and know ing that the train was due, walked some distance down the track to save it from being wreoked. He was taken on hoard and the train moved up to the wreok, whioh, after plundering lt, the Indians left, just Salt wss thrown over through their devilish sot. I saw the unfortunate mau Seas ? oaths afterward. He waa perfectly -covered, hut with a horrible \v>> 'cg head. He steted that the hull d though knocking hiss down? hr- ot made him upobnyoiooV,-and thc <<t . sawaaavaaimvaeaneaBweftawaaMa^ m ?f# you need flesh and I I drenjUi as* . ' I C Scott's Emulsion I PING STORIES, calped and Still Lived. f cst trial during that awful night was tlic necessity of shamming tleath, ho not daring even to groan while the lu d?an was sawing at his scalp with a very dull knife. Thc other instance which has conic under my :?wu observation is that of Robert Mc??cc. Jn 18(N McGee, a slc:;d"r stripling of a lad, came to Leaven worth, K;m._ necking employ ment. Thai town was th? Lase of government supplies for thc fron tier military posts own an lar away as Arizona. A freight caravan was at that time loading fur Kort Union, .V M. Tho wagons ano whole outfit were owned Ly a e ntractor named II. C. Barret, but he would not take the chances of the long and perilous tri j) of more than 700 milcH through tho Indian infested plains unless the gov ernment leased tho train outright, or gave him an indemnifying bond and assurance against loss. Tho bond was given and Barret proceeded to hire teamsters, a hard task on account of the danger attending the journey. Young McGee was among the number engaged, and the caravan started July 1, mn. It took the old Santa Fe trail, strik ing the Arkansas river at the Great Bend of that stream, near thc conflu ence with the Walnut. The Tegion was very rough and called tho "dark and bloody ground," for some of the worst Indian massacres of tho plains were perpetrated thore. Some insig nificant skirmishes with the Indians had taken place, but nothing to cause any serious alarm and now, as thc caravan was approaohing the vicinity of Kort Lamed, its proximity was be lieved to bc suffioicnt protection from furthor posaiblo ganger. On tho afternoon of July 13-it had been an excessively hot day-the car avan wont into camp at an carly hour. The escorting troops stacked arma about halt a mile distant, but in full viow of the train. The men should have kept a good lookout for surprises, propablc did in a way, but thcro was a feeling of scourity in the knowledge that a recalar attack by savages is rarely mace until the early hours of the moruiog when sleep is heaviest. About 4 o'clock, however, a band of Bruie Sioux, under the lead of Little Turtle, descended from the sand hills in all the fury of a tornado, uttering their wild war whoops, and of all the small army of men employed by the caravan young Robert McGee alone came out alive to tell tho story of tho massaoroe. Every indvividual was dead and soalped as he lay or cat at the m os H table. The mules, of course went to swell the herd of the savages but the wagons were destroyed by fire their canvas covers out up into breach clouts and the flour with which the caravan was loaded emptied from its ssoks on the prairie. Young McGee was attacked bj? Little Turtle himself and knocked to the ground by one blow of his toma hawk. As he lay there, partially stunned and bleeding, Little Turtle fired two arrows into his body, pin ning him to ?be earth. Then in a transport of fiendishness, he took Robert's own pistol and shot him, the bullet lodging in his baokbone. Not quite satisfied that he had made a good Job of it, he stooped over the prostrate boy's body, and, running his knife around his head, lifted sixty four square inohes of his scalp, trim ming it off just back of the ears. Believing his viotim to be dead by this time, the chief abandoned him, but others of tho band ia passing haoked him with their knives and poked holes into him with their long lances. All the others in the train were long sinoo dead, killed outright, and their bodies mutilated. Af tor the eavagesj had completed their work they rode, whooping and yelling away, and troops that had witnessed the whole affair from heir vantage ground, came apon the BOOT o to investigate and h ara whether the Sioux had boen properly met or not by thc ill-fated men of the caravan. The officer ia command was very prop .fly obsrt-mArtieled and dismissed in disgrace from tho service, Ha never gave any satisfactory , reason for hit outrageous and cowardly conduot. j??^mg^ *?gop| icojk in t*e affair tra* to bury the dead. -When they t?S?fet 6o put young McGee auder the gyotrad they found a very distinct fcwonsis, any *$Mfit W&S? weald have terminated the life cf the ordinary ?M. -'?pip Af ter interring the dead the haaianad to Fort: Laraed, thirty miie* S^n. ^U WM tV^<>e months b^9?|a iras able , ic v .oe moved from During that time he had fair eomroan of his mental faculties and was suffi ciently stroog to tell all the incidents of the attack. Harret, the owner of the caravan, who had remained in Leavenworth, on hearing what had befallen his prop erty, put in a claim for big damages from the government and was awarded a ?um *:hich made him independent for lifo, but he persistently refused to do anything for thc sole survivor. McGee's claims were laid before thc president, and io October, 1601, Mr. Lincoln ?cut him a letter and a pass by special envoy, directing him to come lo Washington as sijon as he was able tu travel, and stating thal he himself would see that McGee's wrongs were righted. When McGee had recovered su).i eicutly to move about, his mind, which had been remarkably clear up to that time, began to cloud, ?md he became possessed of a mania to hunt Sioux to thc death. I ii uric ot l?a trenzied spells thc pa-s and letter from Presi dent i. i ti col n were stolen from hin?, and neither thu president nor thc ami) took any further notice of him. For a dozen years after receiving his injuries McGee was a wanderer, and when it was discovered that Little Turtle was wiped out, it was said that thc biggest notch on McGee's gun bar rel commemorated the full measure of his revenge, along mark for the chief am. nine shorter ones for the subordi nate head men who had bitten thc dust at tho command of the unerring rifle that never failed to execute its mission when pointed at a Brule's breast. After Little Turt' ; had been Bent to the happy hunting grounds, McGee's mind began to regain its normal equi librium until at last he once more be came perfectly sare. The Jury Disagreed. "Some years ago, while I was resid iog at Visalia," remarked Attorney William H. Alford, "I was called to Hanford to defend a petty offender in a justice's court. Tho defendant had demanded a jury trial, and we put in half a day trying to get a jury, only to And at the end of that timo that we had one lone juror in the jury box. "Well, I'm willing to try the case with one juror," said the attorney for thc prosecution. 14 'So am I,' I doclarod. "And wc proceeded with the trial. The argument was howlingly funny, for the reason that the attorney for the prosecution persisted in address iog the lone juror as "gentlemen of the jury,' and 1 succeeded in swelling the jury with a feeling of pride and satisfaction by some timely comment on the self-evident honesty, intelli genoe and integrity of the body. J. really thought that I had the lone ju ror won. Then the constable led him out of the room, where he might de liberate with himself. In twenty minutes the jury returned with the announcement that no agreement could be reached. " 'What?' thundered the justice of the peace. 'You get back there again and reach a verdict.' "The jury was out twenty minutes more. " 'The jury disagrees,' was the an no'uncemcct wheo the court asked the lone juryman if he had arrived at a verdiot. "You see, it's ?ike thia,' he j went on to explain. 'When I con sider the testimony of one side I want I to find the d?fendant guilty, and when I consider the testimony of the other witnesses I want to discharge him. I can't agree with myself.' I "And the Jury was discharged." San FranoiBOO Chronicle. Everybody Wan Quiet. Bach in the seventies of the last century a report reached army'head quarters that the Indians had swarm ed dove on a little village in Idaho and murdered every inhabitant. ? second lieutenant, who had juBt re ceiled hit) commission, was dispatched to the scene to ascertain the authen ticity of the rumor. A few hours after his arrival in the village he sen this dispatch to the commanding offi cor : "Everybody is quiet here." Whereupon the commanding officoi replied : "Tour report is unintelligible, We have, it from responsible source thai Indians have massacred every jnhabi ?ant." The lieutenant answered : ' 'Report iscorrcot. E ve ry bo d y baa baen massacred. Everybody f a quiet. - It io enough to make ttse iaafcben whoever ibo? are? rejoice that they aro not Christians, vfcen th.oy eon-, sider the heresy trials, the bitter and unreasonable quarrels, and fche bigo try of some Christian peopla ead ehnrches, '*. ?B Few people overtax intellects in benair of.ethers. "Mv?m A Distinction or a Difference. A congressional committee went to Portland, Ure., to assist iu the open ing of tho exposition oi Juno 1 last, says The Saturday Evening Post. There was a parade io the morning, in which all the visiting statesmen rode in carriages. Tho local commit tee brought the carriages around to the Portland Hotel. The scheme waa to have two local men in each car riage. After the vice president and his party had been sent awav a Portland j notable, who was acting vs major domo, came into tlic lobby of the ho tel, where thc statesmen were waiting, and bawled: "Two congressman and two gentle men, please!" 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Evana Pharmacy positively guaran tee a cure, if Hyomei is used in ac cordance- with directions, or they will refund the money. In Search of a Collar. Among .the prominent men of New England there was none, perhaps, who wore a larger collar than Tom Reed. One hot day in the summer of 1901 Reed was in Portsmouth, and, having to wait for a train, decided to make an impromptu toilette, changing his collar, etc. So he hied himself to the nearest haberdasher's and be gan a general survey of the oollar dis play in the store. "Waited on, sir?" queried one of the clerks. "Not yet," responded Reed," and then added, "I would like a oollar." "What size?" piped the clerk. "Size twenty," answered Reed. "Wo don't keep collars so large, but I think you may be accommodated three stores above." Reed went, and found the third store above. It was a harness shop. -Ladies' Home Journal. T.se Judge and the Lawyer. 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Tile elder Weller lu "Pickwick" was, as all admirera of the works of Dick en? will know, a great believer in the utility of an alibi us u defense in both criuiinul and civil actions. "Never mind the character," said Mr. Weller to his sou. "Stick to the ulley bl. Nothing like nu alleybi. Sammy; nothing. Verever he's agoln' to be tried, me boy, u alleybl's the thing to r;ot bim off." Thia ungo advice of Mr. Weller found frequent corroboration in the views of ?liminai lawyers in town up to a very few years ago. There were half a c entury ago more criminal law yers than there are today, and the emoluments ami fees of criminal law yers were materially larger in the or dinary run of oase*. than now. As a consequence, eases were more often defended than they are now and pleas of guilty much more rarer., Then the alibi witness was a necessary though usually unwelcome part of the ma chinery of defense in criminal cases. There- is In criminal procedure no bet ter defense (ban an alibi if sustained. Alibi witnesses were therefore very much in demand until juries began to mistrust them and the penalties for the crime of perjury were visited upon some of the delinquents. For n long time the mendacious and subsidized testimony of profes sional alibi witnesses obtained credence from jurors, and some of these wit nesses, to quote their own language, "made a good thing out of lt." Juries in criminal cases ore usually sympa thetic where no outside pressure is brought upon them, and it is the part of tlie charge of every Judge In a crimi nal case to inform the jury that the prisoner at the bar ls entitled to every reasonable doubt. If, therefore, nny uncertainty existed on the point wheth er or not the prisoner was actually present at the time and place of the alleged crime he was entitled to the benefit of lt, but little by little the prosecuting officers became acquainted with the identity and records of the professional alibi witnesses. Ono or two were prosecuted. Others were scared off. The commercial value- of the services of the others was decreas ed, and finally the whole nefarious business was abandoned, never since to be revived. CURE OF INSOMNIA. Tho soporific powers of 'warm milk are well known, but care should be token that the milk does not quite bolL A Swedish method of producing sleep is to wring out a handkerchief in icy cold water and lay it across tho eyes, when it ls said to act like magic. To many constitutions a warm bath taken immediately before going to bed is very soothing and produces drowsi ness, while an apple eaten as the last thing ls equally effective. The homely bolled onion ls another sovereign remed7, or an onion may be sliced and eaten raw, the disagreeable taste being removed by taking a little sugar or a pinch of tea afterward. A Hindoo practice to induce sleep is to take deep inhalations, expelling the* air alternately through each nostril, keeping the other closed with the fin ger. This has a wonderfully quieting effect Coins to Congress, A poor man bad better keep out of congress. Campaign expenses are heavy and they come every two years. No man can go to congress without neglecting his ?aw practice or his' busi ness. If he is a poor man he will probably lose his clients or ni? custom ers; a small business or practice will not support partners or managers. After a few years In congress nine men out of ten are beaten for renomi nation, and then, if they have not a fortune or an established business to fall back on, they will try to get some small salaried" place under the govern ment and may not be successful. 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When Bchol arobina are vacated after July Gib., they will be awarded to those making the highest average at this examina nation, provided they meet the con dillons governing the award. Appli cants for scholarships should write io President Johnson before the exami nation for scholaiship application blanks. Scholarships aro worth 8100* and ir co tuition. The next session will open September 19th, 1906. For further information and catalogue, address Pres D. B. Johnson, Kock Hill. S. C._ THE STATE OF SC?TH CAROLINA, County of Anderson. COURT Ol' COMMON PIJE AS? Juu. N. EiCCi?j, r??'nt'ST, against ?'lijr.U Psytcn,, Peter Payton, Jon Payton", Georgia Payton and Waddy Payton, Defendants.-Summon* for I;e lief-Cvtopialut Served. To the D?fendante. Elijah Payton, Peter Payton, Joe layton, Georgia Payton and Waddy Payton; "VTOTJ are hereby summoned and required toan?* JB. swer the Complaint In this action, of which a copy bi herewith ser Ted upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to said Complaint on the subscribers at their omeo, at Anderson, S. C., with' in twenty days after tho service Jiereof, exclusive cf the day of such service ; and if yua Coil to an swer the Complaint within tho timo aforesaid, thc* Plaintiff tn thJc action will apply to'tho Court for the relief demanded In the Complaint. BONHAM ? WATKINS, PlatnUfTs Attorneys. Anderson, 8. C May 25,10?6. -!-i- . Anderson, 8. C., May 25,190?. To Jo? Payton, Georgia Payton and Waddy Pay ton, absent Defendants, whose places of resi dence ls unknown : Take Notice: That tho Butru* ona and Com plaint In this action wero this day filed in the office ot the Clerk ci the Court for Anderson Oounty.at Andenon^.C?AM & Plr Jntiflro Attorney. 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