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WHEN A SULU RUNS AMOK His Act Premeditated and Often Re sult of Religious Frenzy. Jolo correspondence of Straits Bud get Another "juramentado" affair here last night resulted in the death of a private belonging to the Twen tieth Infantry and the wounding of another. The two soldiers were sit ting in front of a native house in the suburban village of Hulai, talking with an Eurasian interpreter employ ed in the office of the governor when a Moro stepped up in front of them. The interpreter instantly exclaimed, "Juramentado," the dread;d word which here keeps both Americans and Filipinos in a constant state of fear. , As soon as the word was spoken one of:the soldiers drew his revolver but, unfortunately, it 'was not load ed. He was immediately cut down by the "barong" broad bladed parang of the ferocious Sulu and died soon after. The second man then seized the blade and after receiving some savage euts, succeeded in wrenching it away from the savage, who then took to flight and has not yet been captured. This was a decidedly un visual ending of such an affair, the, %zdoro usually fighting as long as life lasts, very rarely indeed taking to flight. Only a few weeks ago when there was a similiar ease of "juramentado" a mounted sentry of the Fourteenth cavalry was attacked by a Sulu arm ed with a spear. The horse receiv ed a savage cut in the hip and the sentry jumped down and shot the Moro dead, escaping entirely unin jured. As the island is now suppos ed to be at peace, this was consider ed an exceptional instance, and no special precautions were taken on ac count of it. The "juramentado" is somewhat different from the amok-runner, in that he acts with. premeditation. Through family troubles as a relig ions fanatic, as a slave of some lead er or priest, or for any of a hundred and one other reasons he decides to commit suicide by taking with him into the next world the souls of as many Christian "dogs" as he can. He makes careful preparations for the event. He is annointed and shav ed, the loss of his eyebrows being .epecially noticeable. He dresses in hite provided that he can "scare p"a white suit, wich is not al ways the case. He ties up certain of his organs in such a way as to pro duce agonizing pains; this probably to keep up his courage. Then he makes for the American settlement and fights till killed. Owing to the extraordinary pre autions which have been taken any serious injury by one of these men has been a very rare oeeurrence, though a corporal was shot by agi tated soldiers about three years ago after having slain the "juramen tado." There is an abundance of sentries about the settlement. All soldiers outside the lines are sup posed to be armed with heayy revol ves or rifles, and many of these sup plied with dumdum and "doetered" bullets, for the Moro will fight as long as he can stand and does not mind having a few holes in his body. MYTH OF A.NCIENT EDJINS. Scientist ShatWes Romenee Spread by "King Solomon's Mines." Washington Post. London, February 10.-The glamor f mythical romance whieh has so long surrounded the famous ruins of Zimbabwo, Rhodesia; were dispell e last night in a lecture gby Dr. Melver before the research depart ment of the Royal Geographical So eiety. It has always been supposed that the ruins dated back to one of the earliest civilizations, and were probably of Semitic origin. Rider Haggard's romance of "King Solo ao.n 's Mines" spread their fame far and wide. Dr. MeIver, however, who was commissioned by the British As ton to exaDine the ruins, now that there are no grounds for bief that they were of any Exavations have proved that the rins belonged to one period only, in which mediaeval and post- mediae albuildings were constructed by a 1eC gwpse. idlegenlts gd orna 30t were found there; tEat is t e negroid race, whe are akin to the Kaflirs. Frederick Seloue, the ex - plorer, agreed that the district had never been occupied by a civilized I and described the primitive methods of dealing with gold-bearing quartz, which he believed had been car 'ed on until th,. Zulu invasion. Dr. Melver states that he had dis covered two pieces of flowered blue and white Nankin china, which were certainly not earlier than the six teenth century. Several members dis.e ;ted from the lecturer's views. His Profession. They were enthusiasts in physiog nomy and phrenology, and were trav eling by tr-11n. On the opposite seat was a mau of commanding igure, massive brows and serious expression, says Tit-Bits. 'What a fine countenance,. Arthur! I wish I knew his occupation.' "Perhaps he's a lawyer, Edith." No, he's not a lawyer. There's too much benevolence in that face for a lawyer. He may be a bank er." "I am sure he is not! A man with such a heavenly expression couldn't contint himself with money getting His aim in life is higher." "Well, do you think he can be an editor?" "An editor, with such a face! An editor, saying hard things about everybody, ridiculing women's dress es and abusing mothers-in-law! An editor, cutting and slashing his ene mies, flaying public men indiscrimi nately, and mercilessly slaughtering his best friends for the sake of a paragraph! No, Arthur, he's a phil anthropist. His face plainly indicates that he is all that is good, noble, pure and true." At the next station an inquisite old fellow took a seat beside the man with the noble brow, and asked him his vocation. The couple opposite held their breath.' He'replied: "I've a hotel bar and . a butcher shop. My wife looks after the bar, and I do my own killn' ''. Hnmmi-ng Birds. Scientifically humming birds are "treehilidae" and those who make a special study of them are "trochili-. dists", although the birds are not identical with the old Greek "tro chilus," or "runner," bird, which, according to Herodotus, entered the jaws of the sleeping crocodile and obliged its big friend by picking! leeches from his throat. The Span-1 ish name for the humming bird is "tominejo," meaning a third of a dram and referring, of course, to the bird's minuteness. But the prettiest names are those, such as the French "froufrou," which refer to the hum ming noise sometimes produced by the almost ineredibly rapid vibration of the wings. "Purring with her wings" is the expression of Thomas Morton (1632), the first English writer to mention the humming bird. A Perfect Leaf. New York Times. The teacher of a large class in one of the New York schools once said to the pupils who were leaving for We have b know tne bes and 'have pic them. THE CH versible Disc New the smnmer: 6I want each of you to search for a perfect leaf and bring it to me when school re-opens. Hemember, it must be perfect-every tooth ridht. not to speak of mold or blight or discoloration, not a vein broken." They searched faithfully, but none tound a perfect leaf, though they learned a great deal about leaves while they examined them thus carefully. Electrolytic Aluminium. It is well known that, up to the present. aluminium nas not been pro dtuced elect rolyticall. from water so lution of any of its salts; and it is also known that good theory-pre sumably the best-states that this is not possible. We would recall, how ever, that the first steamship, cross ing the Atlantic from Europe to America, brought with it a pamphlet, edited by high scientific authority, and demonstrating the impossibility of a steamship so crossing the ocean. Up A Shot Tower. New Orleans Times-Democrat. It was a strange experience," said the huntsman. "As I ascended the spiral stairs of the tower I saw shot falling like rain about me. 'The shot tower %ras 200 feet high. At its base there x as a tank of wa .*r for the shot to drop into. If it fell on the earth you know, it would be flat instead of round. "On top of the tower was a huge boiler filled with molten lead. The manager ladeled the lead into a per culator, a kind of strainer, and thence it fell into the cistern of cold water twenty feet below. It took three see onds to fall. "They made different sizes of shot on the tower by using different per culators-big holes for big shot, small holes for fine shot, and so on. "The water in the cistern had to be changed every little while. It would have become so hot otherwise that it would have kept the shot soft.'' According To The Letter. outh 's Companion. There are some literal-minded per sons who are never satisfied with the spirit of the law, but who consider it ecessary to enter into compromises ith the letter. Of such was an old itizen of Hopkinton, N. H., a good. :any years ago, and his juggling with his conscience is recorded by Mr. [ord in the records of the town. The old man used to boast that he ever went back on his exact word, ut had no objection in going round it. Once he wished to buy a certain tract of land, and when the owner amed the price he exclaimed: "iL won 't give it ' I tell you I will ever give it!'' The owner did not yield, nevertheless. A few days af terward the old man called again. He said nothing about the land, but step ped into the owner's barn and picked p a flail. "What's that?'' he asked. "That? Oh, that's' a flail.'' "So you call that a flail, do you? Well what wvould you take for it?'' The owner named a very small sum. "Now I'll tell you what I'll do,'' ontinued the old man. "I'll give you the price you mentioned for your P1L een in the IH t. We have ked the Cha ATTANOOGA REVEF Plow built. berrn land and this flail. And you mustn' forget the flail. It. must be includI in the deed,'' So the legal instrument was dul m-ade out, signed and delivered, re. cording the purchase of a certait tract of land situated thus and so and bounded as follows, and also 0 certain flail. How She Would Save Juliet. Boston Herald. Mrs. Drinkwater. wife of the genial colonel, spent some weeks last sum mer in northern Maine at the com fortable farmhouse of an honest wid ow, Mrs. Brand, who adds to her in come by keeping sammer boarders. Recently Mrs. Brand made her first visit to Boston, and while there met Mrs. Drinkwater, who took her to see Julia Marlowe in "Romeo and Ju liet."' Mrs. Brand had never before been to a theatre. "Camp-meetin' ' had been her wildest dissipation. Mrs. Drinkwater's interest was equally divided between her compan ion and the stage. When they lefi the theatre Mrs. Brand was silent Her usual volubility had quite de serted her. Mrs. Drinkwater respect ed her silence, and said nothing until they were were well on their home ward way. At last she ventured tc ask: "How did you. like it, Mrs Brand?" Mrs. Brand turned towards her and the tears' started to her eyes, as she said: "Oh, Mrs. Drinkwater, ] couldn't help thinking how different that play might have ended if thE nuss had been a different kind of wo man and had pointed Juliet to Je sus.'' rather's rorgotten Classics. Answers. John was home from college for the Christmas holidays, and one of the things that struck the impressionable young man was that Dora Mason, the ne daughter of a near neighbor, had dur ing his absence changed from a tomn boyish schoolgirl into a very beautiful young woman. His father had also noticed it. "Have ye noticed how old Joe Ma son 's daughter's shot up, John '" he asked his son. "Seems to me she's getting quite a handsome critter!" "Father,'' said John enthusiasti cally, "she is as beautiful as Hebe ! "She 's a jolly sight purtier than he be!'' objected the old man. "Where's your eyes, boy'? Joe's got a face like an old barn door! It 's her mother she gets her looks from!'' Precautionary Treatment. The Dutch peasant lives with canals all about him, and reaches his cottage by way of a drawbridge. 'Perhaps it is in the blood oi' the 'Dutch child, says a writer'sin an exchange, not to fall into a canal. At all events the Dutch mother appears to anticipate no such possibility. One can imagine the average Eng lish or American mother trying tc bring up a family in a house sur rounded by canals. She never would have a minute's peace until the chil dren were in bed. But then, the mere sight of a canal to the English child suggests the delights of a sudden and unexpected bath. OV APLEMENT handled all ttanooga aft ISIBLE DISC PLOW rHar' An Englishmin inquired of a Dutch woman, "Does a. Dutch child ever, by any chance fall into a canal?'" Yes," she replied "cases have been known. "Don't you do anything for it?' continued the questioner. Oh, yes," she answered. We haul them out again." "But wha: I mean is," explained the Englishman, "don't you do any thing to prevent their falling in? To save them from falling in again." "Yes," she answered, "we spank them." A Happy Thought. Harper's Weekly. There is a very pretty girl in Syra cuse who, with the best of motives and most kind intent, is generally, as she herself expresses it, "in a mess." To a chum she recently said: "I seem to have offended Mr. De Lancey, and I can't imagine how. I sent him a little token on his birth day, and he acknowledged it in the coolest manner."1 "What did you send?" her friend inquired. "Well," she explained, "I wanted to give something that would have some connection with his lovely verses, you know, and by what was almost an inspirati'on I thought of a rhyming dictionary." - Two Meals a Day. With many persons the custom of two principal meals, with a slight lunch between, finds considerable fa vor, and it has one or two reasons or solid advantages which are worth mentioning-it gives time for com plete digestion before the stomach is again called on to take care of a sup ply of food, and it removes the chief meal from the time when the nerve force is wantei for the brain to an hour when it can assist the stomach. Persons who are the victims of chronic complaints and whose diges tion is slow and feeble are often greatly benefited by taking but two meals a day if they are careful to eat as much in the two as would ordinari ly be comprised in three. The neu ralgic in particular will do well to adopt this course, but the first meal should be somewhat late and the sec ond reasonably early. Indian Debt Paying. World's Work. The Indains are hone.a, but their rent money is not always eno.ugh to pay their debts; so the debts continue. Mr. Miller declares that they now owe him $22,000. One owed him $200 on a certain settling day. He owed an other man $200. He was receiving' from the agent $300, $100 of which he had immediate need for. He tucked; away his own $100, and then paid the other man. "Look here," said Mr. Miller, " where's my $200 ?" TeInian drew him aside confi I"Me no like other feller," he said. "Bad man. Pay him. He go way. You stay here; me stay here. You good man. Me pay you some other time." Any man whose will power is all ini his wife's name is to be pitied. business long standard mat er the farmer is the only st iwari Preliminary. Philadelphia Press. "Bill," said the Western editor to his assistant, "I think you'd better prepare an obituary notice of Col. Tuttle." "Wh.t?" demanded Bill. "Why. he ain't dead. Look. that's him (-4)M in' along the street now." "Yes," replied the editor coolly, feeling for his hil pocket. 'he's coming to see me." Some one says that corn juiee --vill make a man 's voice husky. Galveston's Sea Wall. makes life now as safe in that city as on the higher uplands. E. W. Good!oe, who resides on Dutton St., in Wacif Tex, needs no sea wall for safety. He writes: "I have used Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption the past five years and it keeps me well and safe. Before that time I had a couih which for years had been growkg worse. Now it's gone." Cures chron Coughs, La Grippe, Croup Whoop' Cough and prevents Pneumonia. P ant to' take. Every bottle guaranteed at W. E Pelham & Son's drug st6re. Price 50c and $1.00. Trial bottle:free. A woman would have a much larger bank balance if she weren't afraid the bank would play a trick on her and use it. The End of the World of troubles that robbed E H. Wolfe,, of Bear Grove, la , of all usefulness, came when he began taking Flectric Bitters. He' writes: "Two years ao Kidney trouble iaused Zbe t - fering, which I would never ve sar vived had I not taken Electric Bitters. They aiso cured zme of Gcneral Debil ity." Sure cure for all Stomach, Liver and Kidney complaints, Blood diseases, Headache, Dizziness and Weakness or bodily decline. Piee 50c. Guaranteed by W. E. Pelham & Son. The devil doesn't worry about the churches so much as he would if he wasn't sure of the rows in the choir. l Self Defense Major Hamm, editor and manager o the Constitutionalist, Eminence, Ky., when he was fiercely attacked, four years ago, by Piles, bought a box of Bucklen's Arnica Salve, of which he says: ''It cured me in t-n days and no trouble since." Quickest healer of Burns, Sores, Cuts and Wounds. 25c. at W. E. Pelham & Son's drug store. A woman can wear low shoes and keep her feet warm if she has on a hat that makes her friends jealous. A Mystery Solved "How to ksep off periodic attacks of biliousness and habitual constipation was a mystery that Dr. King's New Life Pills solved for me.'' writes John N Pleasant, of Magnolia, Ind, The only pills that are guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction to everybody or money refunded. Only 25c. at W. E. Pelhamn & Son's drug store. Come to see my. 10 cts. Counter, 25c. values for 10 cents. l0c. values for 5 cents. J.- W. 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