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The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-04-09
Death ofsu Pioneer Actress.
TSan Franscio Chronicle

Mrs. Mary Chapman, the Oldest membel
of the famous Chapman family Of actors
and the wife Of the late comedian, George
Chapman, died yesterday morning at !
O'Clock. The deceased had been suffering
for tile past seven years with intiammatory
rheumatism, and for months before her de,
mise was unable to leave OF. even move in
her bed. Mrs. Chapman was borIi IN New
York in 1918, and had been in the theatri-
cal profession over forty years. Sine came
to this city in 1852, and was well known in
earlier times as an excellent artistic.
In 1855 a benefit was rendered her by
members of the press, which was notable
for the gathering of authors and actors,
many of them now ranking very high in
their respective professions, and who
will remember the deceased artist as a
sprightiy actress whose forte was dramas
like '"The French Spy" {" "Flowers of the
Forest etc, Mrs. Chapman was the moth
er Of twenty children, only three of whom
are living, of whom Miss Belle Chapman
is the only one now upon the stage The
deceased in her long career upon the stage
in this city won for herself many warm
friends, who will mourn the loss of an esti-
mable lady as well an accomplished artistic
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-04-09
A EErave w oHsa p ms He use.

Mrs. Isadore Middleton, one Of the lead
ers Of Mobile fashion, on a recent evening
went to her boutloir, and, while arranging
her jewerly, was somewhat started to dis
cover man crouched under table in the
apartment. From certain circumstances
she knew The lurker was robber.
Mrs. Middleton, however, very cody
rang far her maid, and, sitting at the broad
topped ornamental table under which was
the man, wrote note, and handing it to
her servant said: "Iake this note to Mr..
Forfair, the jeweler, and he viii give you
my jeWelry which he has just repaired"
What the note really contained was in
formation to the effect that Mrs. Middle
toms husband was absent and that she was
all alone with q burglar. During the alb
sence of her maid the lady read, hummed
and acted very cooley generally. Presently
came a ring at the bell and Mr.. Forfair en-
tered with three policemen
The concealed burglar was captured, and
proved to be a negro criminal named Chap
man, but mostly known as ssTwo-F Fingered
JET" who was in great request about that
time for several lobberies committed in the
neighborhood a short time before, and he
is now serving 8 twenty YEARS. sentence in
the Alabama State prison. #-u
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-04-09
A Love letter.

A Fair damsel Of the West, according to
the Litchfield (Ill.) Democrat, recently sent
this note to her faithful knight:
Deer WiH:-Doant KUN to see me eny
more for a whial eny way. Fauther is
awfully skeered about burglars, and he sits
up every mite till late with a double-bar-
relied shotgun watching the backyard.
He put moren a pound oflead into Browns
newfoundland dog which was cummin
over the fens after bone last mite.
The rose is red, the violets blew.
wouldn't KUN now if was you.
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-04-09
" NY sEae Horse w hip pea Him.

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The confidence OF a young woman in
love is something that ought to be treated
with great tenderness. A wicked y yotlng 1llan
of Bethlehem, z a, evidently didn' under
stand this, OF he had no concern about
it. for he did the most shameful thing the
other day. He borrowed a#dollar Of his
girl, bought \ couple of tickets fer the show
with i, and took another Gill. This out
rageous conduct syas discovered while the
entertainment was ii progress, and nat
urally created good deal of excitement ia
the mind Of the young woman whose dol
lar had gone to furnish an evenings diver
sion for another. She undertook 70 get ey-
en- by meeting the couple after the show
was over, and eNerted herself as weIl as
possible to give the young nun d " hipping
onthe sidewalk. She succeeded So well
she's very confident he won want to lhor-
TOW an more of her none IL take other
girls g shows Tae moral this il that
impeeunIous young men who must take
their 8 girls OUT had better. TN ana raise TIE
essential funds IT all Impartial sI-shop.
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-04-09
Pitching Haato the sertIaoaox

A young man preparing for the Unitar-
ian ministry was introduced to prominent
Episcopal clergyman IN this city, and gave
some examples of the advice he had receiv-
ed, including that Of an old Unitarian pro
fessor, who bad Insisted Vely strongly upon
the necessity Of = pitching into the Ortho-
5eiox. The minister replied that be de-
precated Che practice q persistent pitching
into any body o. any thing. F7ol my
own part = be addict, & hoa1d bet tired of
abusing TIE aasiils s.ia1ss b azossal,
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-04-09
Witches at Lew ess

Now, my son Roderick--my youngest
last year at the herrin' fishery at Fraser
burg. One night he went ashore, and met
a strange woman and man walking. They
did stop and did ask who he was and where
he did come from. s'From Loeb Tnver."
says he. ''And so do we,' saws thev
(Which was singular, rs he did never set
eyes on them before.) "Come with us,
and we will give You n drink" of beer, or
of rum, Or Of whisky, or of gin, do net
rightly mind which it was whatever. You
must know, Sir, that each boat, of the her.
rim fishery time, takes a woman on board
to cook meat and wash for them; there will
be many women 60 to sea in this manner.
Well, they ask my son at the tavern,
stDid you have good luck with the herrin'
to-days'' ''No, very bad." ''Did you
yesterday?'' s'No; worse again. "An,
but says she, s'you will have Tomorrow
Well, sure enough, he did fill his boat next
day with fiery many Grams of herrin', and
did get Els for his share that one day. 1t
was a wonderful thing. But he did tell
me that gold did him no good; he had no
idea how it did get spent whateffer. That
day he did go looking about after the man
and woman all over, but he did never see
them again; | did not hear of his ever
again seeing them. Frederick" / said to
him, when he told me, ''Yoderick, I dc
hope yon will never again have anything
to do with these witches No, father; /
fill never again, so long as [ do live He
is away to Fraserburg this year again. I
did hear Of another witch in the Lewes,
fifteen year agone. She lived at Stornoway,
and did sell winds to sailors. One of our
Lock Inver boats did not get away that
autumn for weeks. "@.".
The wind was always dead against them.
Well, they did go to her, aud what they
paid her did not hear, but she gave them
| black string tied with three knots, and
'aid, Yell be getting AVA tomorrow,
Now, if the wind is not strong enough,
oose one knot; if even then it is not
loose the second; but on your
ife OH your life dinna loose the thirdIH
Veil, they got off sure enough next morn
ng with a fair breeze; and then the skip
er loosed one knot. On the boat sprang,
nd the wind rose. Soon he loosed the
econd, and they tore over the waves, and
nd were very soon over the Minch near
och Inver. They got to the entrance OF
le harbor, near the new stone house-ye
en- it? on the right-and the skipper says,
We're a'rioht now; if the dell himself
me will loose the thirdp He
id loose it, and though SO near home, the
oat only got ashore in little bits! She
ras altogether broken up! The men were
IL saved.
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-04-09
The Telephone Inn the Field.

According to the Gazette de Cologne, the
telephone is about to be utilized in the Ger
man army. The regiment attached to the
railways has been making with this ap-
paratus some experiments, which are to be
repeated by the infantry regiments. These
will use the telephone for the .4avanced
guard service. The experiments in ques-
ton are facilitated by some new improve
menus in the telephone, which is improved
with an alarm and an apparatus in imita-
ton Of the bngle, worked by magnetic
electric current. Some important reviews
Of the troops are to take place, and will
give an opportunity for forming an opin-
ion as to the extent to which the telephone
may be utilized in military operations.
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-04-09
ON IL 5Hsaall Scale.

They were speaking with indignation,
at dinner-party of rich financiers, of
wretched pickpocket who had stolen a
handkerchief.
"Come, come," says-.one of the company,
pleasantly, "we mustn't be too hard on the
poor fellow we had to all begin life on IL
small scale ourselves!n
"By the Eternal,'' They know.-JoBeph
ST. Cyr, aged eighty-two. and Chas Ray
mond, aged eighty-flye, both took partin
the battle Of New Orleans 1915, and in the
military parade Saturday. They both have
wives, they married sixty years ago, and
both, like the Buffers Of Kentucky, deny
the cotton-bale story. They say in the em~
brasures for the cannon were two or three
cotton bales, but none in the breast works.
a writer says cotton bales and sugar hogs
heads were tried in the battles that preced~
ed January 9Th, bus were rejected, because
the former caught fire and the latter were
knocked to pieces by cannon balls, and did
more harm than good.-N. o. Democrat.
A Boston man has vest that Fern made
with her own hands. And we will bet 4100
that il never did and never will at any man
in this wide, wide world; that they can't
tell by its shape whether it was originally
made for q fat woman or lean man, for a
man with q sway back, or a man with q
hump on his back like a camel. Woman.
heaven bless her, is the light of our homes,
but when she tries TO make mans vest
the angels weep. And when she makes a
pair Of pantaloons for him the immortal
gods just hold their sides and run away QUE
into the woods and roll Oh the grass and
howl.
| Barnum, it is charitable to suppose,
blushed Tor his profession when he passed
his eye over the local column Of the Bridge
port Farmer and read Of the mendacity Of
q fellow Snowman whose ideas are sadly
warped as to the limitations Of legitimate
humbug. lie was one of the performers
Of a ghost show" business had been light
and it was unreasonable to suppose that the
Hspirits' could materialize on an empty
stomach. The Snowman selected his res
taurant and ordered ham and eggs, swell
done. Then be leb himself out en- the
bread. butter and pickles within range Of
his Yankee arms, and quietly walked Gus
as the ham and eggs walked in.
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-04-09
a Tale of "a Snake.

A Georgia man was fishing near a rock
under which was a snakes den, the other
day, when the reptile came glidingup from
a foraging expedition, and was disappear
ing in the hole under the rock, when with
q dexterous movement the man seized him
by the tail and threw him twenty feet
away. The snake hardly knew what had
happened, and again essayed to enter his
domieile in the same manner. Again he
was treated as before. Never despairing,
for third time the willy serpent approach
ed the rock. This time he came deliberate
", as if carefully contemplating the situa-
ton. Arriving at the mouth Of the hole.
he coiled himself up and put out his long
tongue, as ifto take in the full situation
For a while he maintained this defensive
position, when he carefully began to un-
coil, at the same time disappearing tail fore
most into the den, to the admiration Of the
man who had been amusing himself at his
expense.
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-04-09
a Wonderful Curiosity.
A Child Gradually Turning to stone

/ Last Sunday evening we took advantage
OF an opportunity to look at . sadly-atflict-
ed child whose peculiar and rare misfor-
tune is attracting the attention of the metli-
cal fraternity throughout the country
The boy is two and a half years old, son
Philadelphia, and to an unskilled eye is to
all appearance gradually becoming petri-
fed. Up to last July there was no per-
ceptible difference between it and any
other healthy child of the same age; but
at that time a hardness appeared in its feet,
progressed slowly up the limbs, and at the
present time has extended over the entire
body. Tapping on the hands, cheeks anG
other parts Of the body, we found the sur
face to be as hard as board or even stone.
Not a dent can be made by pressure, and
the cuticle is drawn so tightly that it cam
not be caught hold Of with the fingers.
shape, and are perfectly powerless. The
hair of its head is of wiry texture, and |
cannot be made to lie fiat by comb OF
brush. 1t has a slight control Of its jaws,
and can only eat food of a soft nature.
The eyelids are also indulated, and so
little power has the child with them that it
cannot close them even in sleep. The
father Informed us that the child suffers
but little pain, and not only understands
what is said to it, but talks occasionally
very distinctly. Exactly what the nature
If this sad case is, and what it's termina-
ion will be, is a mystery, as there are no
similar cases reported in medical works, !
md the numerous doctors who have ex-
+mined this differ in their opinions By
ome of the fraternity it has been diagnos- ,
d as Sc1erosts, a hardening Of the connect +
d tissues-tissues beneath the skin. This r
vas also the opinion of the Professors at
he Medical College, and others entertain
till other ideas regarding it. One Of our
octors, who was with the company in the
ars, thinks that it is produced by de- !
osit Of semi-cartilaginous material, and /
nat it will probably reach the heart and !
ause death. tits lease which will be u
losely watched by medical men and others d
S being the first of its kind.-Nassi1lon
Ohio) american. Il
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-04-09
He Got s. Contribution.
[Owensboro (Ky.) Examiner.l

In a neighboring city, a colored preach
er called upon a worthy tobacco dealer, go
Letting contribution in aid of his church
The tobacconist insisted that the dusky
brother ought to go to work, and SO earn
something. The latter expressed his will
ingness to do 60, if he had employment.
Whereupon the dealer engaged him for the
day in his factory.
He laid aside his clerical coat, and work
ed the day through with will AS he
started away at night, his employer quiet
ly handed him check for $50. We call
that a graceful testimonial of the employer
to the earnest manhood of his employe.
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-04-09
EEow bob. Bsardeeae Writes.
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foil CitVDerrick,


Burdette does the most Of his writing on
the cars, and his manuscript is something
between the Choctaw language and the
hieoryglyphics on the Egyptian obelisks.
He says of it: when first got at it the
printers would draw cuts for my copy, and
those who got a slice of it would 60 around
trying to hire boy to kick them down
stairs and break their necks. However,
there was one old fellow who thirsted after
it, and when he got a piece of it he imme-
diately put on a sub and went on drunk.
Under any other circumstances he would
have been discharged. I do better now.
/ had to, because It had almost broken up
the printers temperance union. The pat
rons of the cause in Burlington traced the
thing back to me, and had to improve my
copy. Itlfdn't hurt me much, but it was
a terrible blow to the printers,
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-04-09
The Champion Sleeper.
EPrOVidence IoIIrnal.I


Mr.. George Hanney, who was found dead
on his bed at GAIA, was remarkable for his
habitual drowsiness. He could sleep at
any time, i'll any place, and under almost
any circumstances. Itis said that he often
dropped off into 4 sound sleep while stand
ing at his loom, and even 4 fall over on to
the loom would not awaken him. He has also
been known to fall asleep with one foot on
the hub Of his wagon-Wheel. while trying
to get into the wagon. Sometimes while
driving he would go to sleep and fall off
his seat. Many other instances could be
cited in Illustration ofthis striking charact-
eristic Of the man. AS he was only part
tally undressed when found lying on the
bed this morning, it is supposed that he fell
asleep before he had an opportunity TO take
off his clothes.
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-04-09
Poetry.
rABY has GONE T0 SCHOOL.

The bgby has gone to school; ah. me!
What will the mother do,
with never call to button or pin,
0rtie little shoe2
11cy can she keep herself busy all day,
with the little ''hindering thing away?
Another basket to I'll with lunch,
Another goodbye" TO say.
And the mother stands atthe door to see
Her baby march away; ....
And surns witha sigh that is half relief,
And ha1f something akin to grief.
She THINKS Of apostolic future morn,
When the children, one by one,
yEill go frot3 their home out into the world, 4
To batyta witil1ife alone.
And not even the baby is left 10 cheer
The desolate home Of that future year.
She picks up garments here and there,
Thrown down in careless haste,
And tries to thinl; how it would seem
Ifpothfng were displaced;
If the house were always as still as this,
How could she bear the loneliness?
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-04-09
Em mgea.seaEEss OPINION. .

This is what Robert 6. Ingersoll says O
the women; I tell you women are more
prudent than men. / tell you as a rule
women are more truthful than men-tel
times as faithful as men. never saw
man pursue his wife into the very ditch
and dust of degradation and take herin his
arms. I never saw a man stand at the shore
when she had been morally wrecked
waiting for the waves to bring back even
her corpse to his arms; but have seer
woman doit. I have seen woman with he1
white arms lift man from the mire Of cls-
gradation, and hold him 20 her bosom as
though be was an angel.
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-04-09
eEtasE sgsiER 9 Children.

There are no more fragrant instances oil
uneharitable Judging and no cases il
.sYhfeIl=ft fnfliots greater injury rF-tlan are
often seen in the treatment Of children by
grown persons. A trialing fault naagtli-
fed into a grave and deliberately planned
offence. Motives are attributed TO the
thoug ghtless little transgle sors VIII could
only belong to 4 more ll lYanead stageot
mental elopnlent and not only IS gross
Injustice done and THE keen pain sff IN
1ife6ion, itsany times tile eZyotlslEs oiI Il
made diisills.eia mons and reYeil2eful ~ be
ing unfairly suspected enc accused. Of de-
eeiitt u even &c Ez1rdsliit1sa
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-04-09
Leave Youar Money at Home.

4 woman with a practical turn ofmindis
Mrs. BroWnsmith. When BrownsmitF had
been knocked down and robbed, and was
brought home in q dying condition, this
wonderful woman didn't go into faint or
Mysteries. Notshe. She remarked, with q
GOODNESS and self-possession worthy of her
self, s'There, I knew it would be so; told
John he'd better leave some of his money
at hone,'s
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-04-09
Orders to the Cock.


The san Francisco Waiteris said to exec
il giving orders to. Y cook. He will say, 81
want 4 salmon Oh the iron, hamaneggs
turned over, side dishes forfNo IN one, ant
Z want EN- in a hurry, too. This is com.
.n1eneetl with q surprising quantity Of tone
WitilWhich each word increases in strength
volume, and viciousness, until the climax
isdeIivered with a laundering believing
crashing roar. That's nothing. Unless be
can 81 T'Wo steaks fried ptars= 'nyelnf
platter beans two cup coffee fshhalls fol
three pieeer minee pie n'eup tea ID one
breath, there are hundreds Of Boston wait.
eI.-girls far sllneriDr Id MT ln2asca
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-04-09

Religious tracts semitic 4 man WithtWe1re
cents postage due oll them are not condue-
i've either e religious thought, word, Of ac-
ton. e have III or mind \ yonng man
who was just NaVerfng i'll the balance the
twelve cents decided him, and he became i
bowling heathen. @
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-04-09
GLOOMY ".

A well known star of Paris theatre Is,
in private life, much given to gloomy re-
feeti0ns, believing that life does her all the
wrong it can. One Of her companions, la-.
stead Of saying, y have invited her 70.
dine, always says, & have invited her to
groan.
The Kansas paper which mentioned the
fact that John Day had thirty-four rios
broken bY q fall from bis barn, oniita ID
sag whether John noticed the accident HI
the time Or not.
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-04-09
Cora Eoz ma EN-

little girl read i composition before
tlle minister. The subject Ill, s. "a COW.
She Weaye4d II this com p1inlentary sen
COW is the most tlsefu animal.
u the world eSeeIt religion.
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-04-09
A Quaker Printer. IS Proverbs

Never send an article for publication
without giving the editor thy name, for Thy
name oftentimes secures publication tt
worthless articles.
Thou shouldst not rap at the door of {
printing office; for he that ansWereth the
rap sneereth in his sleeve and loseth time.
Never do thou loaf about, nor knock
down type, or the boys will love thee as
| they do the shade trees-when thou leayest
| Thou should never read the copy On the
printers cases or the sharp and hooked
container thereof, OF he may knock thee
down. |.
Never inquire Of the editol~for the news,
for behold it is his business to give it to thee
at the appointed time without asking fDr it.
1t is not right to ask him who is the auth-
or of an article, for it is his duty to keep
such things unto himself.
When thou dost enter his office, take
heed unto thyself that thou dost not look at
what concerns thee not, for that is not meet
in the sight of good breeding.
Neither examine thou the proof-sheet,
for it is not ready to meet thine eye that
thou mayest understand.
Thou shouldst not delude thyself with
the thought that thou astsaved afew cents
when thou hast secured dead head conv
Of his paper, for, whilst the printer may
smile and say it's alright, he'll never for
get thy meanness. +.
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-04-09
What Clarence H1smg IS Said to
@t@ EHssye Seen.
fReno Gazette.

lbeut traZette
Thomas Lovelock, the pioneer of Love
lock Station, Nevada, was describing some
of the natural curosities of his section while
in town last Saturday evening. He says
that fifteen miles north of his place there is
q petrifed tree 600 feet in length and two
feet thick Its roots and most of its branch
es are still perfect. The tree is lying on
the surface Of the ground, and is petritied
through and through from bark to core.
Clarence King was taken to see the tree by
Mr.. Lovelock. The geologist pronounced
it one of the greatest natural curosities he
had ever seen. Mr.. Lovelock says he re-
Gently stumbled upon petrified rattlesnake
in the vicinity of his ranch. The serpent's
head was gone, but his body and rattles
were whole. The rattles give out a metall-
ic sound, when shaken. like the ringing of
a bell. The body of the snake is as hard as
q rock
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-04-09

Speaking upon the subject of sInsanity,"
at a recent meeting of the Medico-Legal
Society, in New York, DIR. Geo. NJ. Beard
remarked: "Insanity is a barometer of
civilization, and as we advance higher in
the arts and sciences, so will insanity be-
come more prevalent among us. Intense
application, brain work and indoor life are
the agencies which most frequently bring
it about. Among saVages or barbarians
there is little or none Of it. The intel
lectual activity of the women of to day is
another great cause of insanity. What
the mother is, SO will the child be in an
intenser degree. y = An improved
system of education, with less scramming,'
would tend to reduce the increase Of in
sanity" While the DR.. may be somewhat
broad in his assertions, there is much in
his remarks that should at least interest
teachers and parents of the present day in
the bringing up Of rising generation"