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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-07
Missing Link.

"Krav,' che so-called missing link
whose history and appearance have
considerably exercised scientists and
amused the curious in Europe, ar
rived in Philadelphia yesterday morn
ing in charge of George Shelley, who
accompanied Carl Book, the traveller,
to Siam three years ago, when the
child was captured. Mr.. Shelley sat
last night in an upper room at the
Bingham House with "Krao" beside
him, and discoursed learnedly and vol
uminously on his little charge. The
child, who is believed to be between. 8
and years of age, was neatly dressed
IN a terra-cOtta gown, red stockings
and buttoned kid shoes. Heavy silver
bracelets adorned her hairy arms and
a cord, interviewer with gold thread,
encircled her waist. Though the nose
is fiat, and the face and forehead are
covered with black hair of varying
length and closeness, the child is saved
from responsiveness by her remarkably
large, dark, gentle, and intelligent
eyes, and her general expression of
sense and good nature.
"Krao," says Mr.. Shelley, was cap
tured with her parents in January,
1881, in the wilds of the Laso country,
in Northern Siam. All of the tribe that
have been seen are completely covered
with hair In their natural state they
live in trees, are destitute of clothing,
and almost without language. Their
food is fruits, fish and nuts. They have
few implements, and do not possess
the knowledge of fire. The name
"Krao" is simply the Siamese for
ape.
Mr.. Shelley, who is believer in the
Darwinian theory, while not pretend
ing that Krao and her tribe supply the
only link between man and the higher
apes, holds to the idea that these cur
ious people are allied to the chimpan-
zee in many physical points, with much
resemblance to civilized man in intel
lect. He instances as Kraos ape-like
characteristics the following facts: She
has thirteen dorsal vertebr9 and thir-
teen pairs of ribs, instead of twelve, as
in man. She has pouches in the mouth
where she still stores nuts and sweet
meats. Her cranial measurements
correspond with those of the higher
apes. Her ears and nose are without
cartilage. Her fingers are abnormally
flexible. The hair on her body grows
in directions that characterize the
Siamese hirsute growth.
Krao, since her captivity, has learn
ed to read, write and speak English,
and has also acquired some knowledge
of German. From wild, untaught
little savage, she has developed into
docile, affectionate, and remarkably in
telligent child. She still has recollec-
tions of her wild life in Siam. The
child last evening wrote her name in
full, Krao Farini, with pencil, in
large, round, copy-book hand, picked
up handkerchief with her toes, and
good-naturedly opened her mouth to
show where she had stored away nuts
in her curious, ape-like pouches
PhilddelDhid Press
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-07
A Boys AmbitiO

Nearly everybody who is now man,
says the Ihrosgh Mail, was once a boy.
All these grOwn-up boys remember how
they felt the first time they saw brass
band. They felt that the president OF
the United States was not to be COM
pared to the editor of the bass drum,
and that the drum-major was at least
six inches above George Washington in
the temple of fame. Oh! how they did
yearn to belong to brass band, until a
circus came along, and then they long
ed to be the fearless equestrian or the
man in the lions cage. Congress had
no charms for most of its present men,
bers when they were Boys. To be a
bareback rider or drum-major was in
finitely better than to be member of
congress in their youthful eyes.
Then came time when their hearts
were set on becoming brakeman on a
railway train, and when the vision of a
promotion to the conductOrship of a
train floated across their dreamy optics
they were in the fifth heaven of delight.
Time wore on, only to rub the glitter of
the railway service off, and supply its
place with grand aspirations for the po-
sition of umpire of baseball game,
which was rapidly succeeded by an in
ordinate ambition to be the victor of q
prize-ring. After being knocked out in
one round by nearly every boy in the
community, ambition again underwent
a metamorphosis, and the one thing of
all things desired was to be the reigning
monarch of barber-shop, or the un-
trammeled commander of volunteer
fire brigade.
In d time all the tinsel of these
high callings was but dross to them,
and to die on the battlefield, breathing
some patriotic sentiment us the sands
of life ran away, was the one hig aim
of existence. After one encampment
with the home militia, with beans and
bareback for menu, and finger acct
dentally shot off for fun, no further
anxiety to spill blood by the gallon for
their country was manifested, and they
longed for more agreeable pursuits in
cident to the tranquil surroundings of
peace.
At about this point their desires took
different turn. Their hearts gfowed
with nobler impulse, and there was a
trifle more determination to do in their
composition. One determined to teach
school, and did so. To be sure he was
surprised that life was not one continu-
al round of uninterrupted Joy in his
new calling, but he worries along and
the next spring enters law office and
becomes disciple Of Blackstone. The
next autumn he reverts to schoOl-teaeh-
ing. and school-teaching Is sandwiched
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-07

into his life IN various ways and at nu-
merous periods afterwards, until he be-
comes an editor, and the prize-ring ex-
periences OF his youth are repeated
again. Some years later he Is elected
to congre. S, and then all the old ambi-
tions are forgotten, and give place to
designs on the senate. Only few of
them ever get there, and they at once
feel the humming Of the presidential
bee In their bonnets, and eventually be-
come candidates before the national
conventions OF the great parties, and
all but two get-left; and when the
election is over one of these two is also
left.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-07


There are queer superstitions about
the moon among all peoples. The HUI
rons call it the creator of the earth and
the grandmother of tho sun. The Chi
quitoes call the moon their mother, and
the Navajos make it rider on mule.
The Botucudos of Brazil ascribo most
of the phenomena of nature to the
moon; in which they are like the super
stitious women of civilized Europe and
America who wait for the increase of
the moon to change their dwelling, to
cut their hair, to be married and to
baptize their children. A belief existed
among the ancient Mexicans and Peru
VANS, the Natchcz of the Mississippi
and the Appalachians of Florida, that
the sun was the radiant abode of dead
chiefs and braves. To the Esquimaux
be.ong the honor of having discovered
that the moon was the paradise for the
good, while the wicked were consigned
to hole in the earth.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-07

Weed won, II was to onset the claim
against him and the two were to call it
square. Weed jumped at the oppor-
tunity. The game was played in the
dental laboratory, and the betting ran
up very fast, until it stood $3.50, 900 in
favor of Scott. OF course, the money
was never paid, but 1t was after this
that the trouble over the poker debt
got into the courts.
Scott died here at the house of his
sister, and his remains were taken to
Newburg for interment. He was only
32 or S3 years old.-N. Y San.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-07
Solomon i'm the Shade.

When Solomon was asked to decide
which of two women Child belonged
to he called for his sword and proposed
to cut the child in two and give half
to each; the real mother went into hys-
terics, and Solomon decided in her fav-
or. But at the mixed court, few
mornings ago, an actml division was
made, and SolOmon's Judgment was
put in the shade. The chattel in dis
pute was black dog, with his tail
clipped bare except at the extremity,
which retained some long hair. The
dog was quite unconcerned, and went
snufiing around the arena and under
the court table at the magistrates feet,
or wherever his tether would allow him
to extend his explorations. The claim
ants for the dog were II butcher and
a washerman. The butchers assistant
held a string, with the dog at the end OF
it. The washerman held a basket in
his hand containing hair which he had
clipped from the dogs tail, and which
he produced in proof of ownership. Mr..
Howes, Inspector of markets, stated
that he had known the butcher for many
wears, and that he had seen the dog at
his place; and that he believed the dog
belonged to the butcher. 1t was also
stated by the police that an experiment
had been tried at Hongkow police sta
ton; the washerman called on the dog
but it would not follow him; but
when the butcher called, the dog heard
his masters voice and knew the sound
thereof As last resort to prove that
the dog loved him and belonged to him,
the washerman pulled off his jacket and
showed plaster stuck between his
shoulder blades, saying that the dog
had bit him there. The magistrate de-
cided in favor of the washerman so far
that he was allowed to keep the basket
full of hair, and the butcher was allow
ed to take the rest of the dog.-Shang-
hal Celestial EnDire.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-07
The Depopulated High

There are few Highland gl.-4s that
do not contain traces of the banished
population. In Lochaber, along the
shores of Loeb Arkaig, the home of the
clan Cameron, the remains of what
were once extensive townships may yet
be seen. The celebrated Glencoe for
merly teemed with hardy population.
Famous Glengarry is sheep walk, and
the powerful clan mcdonnell are now
in Canada. Round Fort Augustus and
far into the country of the clan Fraser
is naught but desolation. In hundreds
of straths in Ross-shire the wild heather
has not even yet obliterated the green
pastures, and the cultivated fields that
once belonged to the MacKenzies and
Munroes, and from whence the different
battalions of the gallant Ross-sbire
bluffs marched to conquer at Maidra, at
Seringapatam, at Assaye, and Argaum.
So late as 1849, when the present prime
minister had already obtained political
eminence, Hugh Miller attempted, but
fruitlessly, to draw the attention of the
British public to the work of destruc-
ton that was going on. He eloquently
proclaimed that "while the law is ban
ishing its tens for terms of seven and
fourteen years, the penalty of deep-dyed
crimes, irresponsible and infatuated
power is banishing its thousands for
life for no crime whatever" A large
number. of the dispOssessed tenantry
were sent to America; the remainder
settled on the seashore, where they
were cramped into small holdings, and
have since lived. The tourist steaming
along the wild coast of the western
Highlands and islands may see perched
on every cliff, in the most exposed sit
uations and subject to the fury of At
lantic gales, the wretched hamlets that
now contain the remnants of the High
land clans. Probably he will wonder
how population can at all manage to
exist under such conditions. But there
they are, elbowed to the very verge of
their country. For large tracts of that
country the proprietors even now can
show no scrap of document, their
claim to possess resting solely on the
fact that it has never been contested.
Created and looked upon, like the foxes,
as mere vermin that interfere with
sport, discouraged and thwarted in
every direction, these people, notwith-
standing their poverty and the hard
ships of their lot, have maintained I'M
impaired the noblest attributes of their
race. Crime of any kind is almost I'M
known among them. Their moral
standard is the highest in Britain, con-
trasting in that respect most remark
ably with their lowland neighbours; and
not a few of the leading British states
men, lawyers. divines, and soldiers of
the past eighty years first saw the light
in these crofters' huts. Far behind the
strip of inhabited littoral stretch the
Blue mountains, the snug and often fer
tile glens from whence the clans were
banished, now turned into silent will
derness, inhabited only by sheep and
deer and an occasional shepherd or
keeper. There are the vast tracts,
rented by the American, Mr.. Winans,
as hunting ground, to be visited by
that alien for two or three months, and
abandoned to solitude for the remain
der of the year, where not even native
Of the soil may plant his foot.-The
Nineteenth CenturU
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-07
Dissolution Notice!

NJ A
NJ Miller Iambn Is
dissolved sold his L.
Ibn firm,
under the o Hambin, Miller &
City,
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-07
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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-07
A FAMOUS POKER GAME.
The story OF How William M. Scott Won
$4,000 Recalled by His Death.

The name of William M. Scott, who
died at Toronto recently, was heralded
from one end of the continent to the
other about two wears ago. when he
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-07
e GREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE"


Trains ooMMooious WELL VEL
W SEVGNrY-FivE
wayb etween
MINNEAPOLIS PAUL.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-06-15

out into discussion of the part Ma
sachusetts took In the war of 1872, show
ing that II was luk.warm In its sup
port, IL not directly opposed To
II. What he said on that SUBJ
ject was warranted by history, but II
was peculiarly exasperaiing and unrec-
essary. Senators Dawes and Hoar
attempted tn break the force OF his
fierce arraignmeni, but he whii,-sawed
them both In minute. winning great
applause from the gallery. II was
brilliant victory for him as debater,
but the wounds he made have never
healed. The formidable bolt in the
state finds lis real explanation IN state
pride and resentment.
The real depth aud strength Of this
opposition Is matter of some nncer-
fainty. II may wear away. Senator
Hoar who WIS member OF the ma
tional conventions Of 1850 and 1884,
was very much opposed TO Blaine's
nomination, vet he would have voted
for Blaine last week had that been nee.
essary to the defeat of Arthur. In say.
this the Inter ocean knows TO a Ger.
tainty whereof 1t speaks when i says
that Senator Hoar referred the man
HON nuluc " tut pItSIutht.
This would indicate that the snimos-
ity he cherishes against Mr.. Blaine
for the tongue-lashing he received
from that gentleman Is not as strong
us the feeling he has against
the president for appointing a Massa-
chsetts man TO Office against his
(Hoar's) wishes. II Is perhaps not to
the Massachusetts senator's credit that
he cares less for his wounded honor
than he does for his lost patronage,
but that is the way people who know
the circumstances disgposticate the
senator's case.
In refusing to adore the favorite son
of Maine, Massachusetts, pays an old
score, for the Pine Tree State was
never friendly to Daniel Webster. 1t
was Democratic in those days. But
when once the line Of battle has been
drawn between the two great parties
and the gravity of the issue involved
is realized, II 10 TO be hoped that Mas
sachusetts will rise superior 70 petty
prejudlces. and that the bolt In that
state will finally dwlndle to liz nomi-
nal proportions and be confined to
free-traders aud the Beacon Hi
remnant" asHs Wy
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-06-15

execute the law. II was the law of his
owa making that enabled the clerks
In the land Office to grab the chiIdren's
land In Haskell county. The report
of the land fraud board shows that the
records OF the county commissioners
court of Young county
were changed at the land
office, and that the mulilation OF rec
ords had never been approved by the
court. Such "s' raining Of the lawr
necessitated the strairling Of an official
oath. IL was the 'straining of the
law" that enabled Galveston syndi-
cate to get the commissioner OF the
land Office TO consent TO the syndicate
land grabbers getting claim on a20,-
900 acres nf the chlldren's land In
Terry and Yoakum counties. This
assent to the land erabbers gel ting the
children's land might very well raise
doubt as TO the News bachelor
soldier" having any very great interest
tion which enables the neighbors OF
might well suggest the question:
son tn select q guardian TO pro-
WV tht Iibuh-l VI 'uliuItn iht
efforts OF the News TO defeat Mr.. Pat
ton has led great many Of the warm
admirers oftbat paper 10 express the
opinion that It's reliability Ii on the
wane. The paper has "stralnedn jour
nalistic proprlety in trying 10 rob
Boone aud Fisher Of the great benefit
they conferred on the people Of Texas
when they sent Ham and his asso-
ciates to the penitentiary. uN
The land frauds board did expose
frauds and the only way the News eau
Excuse the commissioners for his illegal
acts relative 10 the Haskell county
school lands and the Gibson certIh-
cat' 8 IL by LAYING the blame on county
surveyors. In the case Of the school
land In Haskell county, the lands
fraud board shows that the surveyor
left the matter with commissioner OF
the land Office. and on the officer rests
the responsibility Of the change of the
records In the office 0f the surveyor Of
Young land district. aa
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-06-15
"THE MAN FROM MAINE.
Tchicapo Inter-Ocean.l

The attitude OF Massachusetts, to-
ward Mr.. Blaine is an interesting. II
not deeply significant, feature OF the
present political situation.
The simple fact that the Plumed
Knight Is 1.-The man from Maine" is
enough to prevent his being popular
with the blue blo0ds of Massachusetts
More than 230 years ago li6oi ASA
chusetts set up u claim under ner COLO
NAL charter to the province OF Maine,
which claim was stoutly resisted oy
the people of what were then known
as Gorges' and Rigby's grants. me
malt was brought before the English
parliament. At that time the Puritans
were i'm control OF the British govern
ment. and the claim of the Massachu-
setts breth en- was rec0gnizec. One
reason was that the few 9, ttlers then
In Maine were rOyalists for the most
mart and adhered TO the established
church. The separation Of Maine
rom Massachusetts did not occur. In
IL compll teness, until 1890. For lS0
Years 20 tie Bay colony and state main
3s;nad It's grip upon the extreme
nnrtheasf. Naturally there has always
heen An undercurrent OF illfee!lng. J,
In ISIS Mr.. Blaine revived those old
an,mositiss ard drew upon himself
personally special animosRy by 2 need
Iess not 70 say wanton, revival OF those
nld CORES. The occasion was the offer
snr 81 . resolu.i Hon In the senate A''thor-
wing congress to accept from the state
~ Maine = statue 81 the mt governor
Of the state. William king. Inc
Pluined Knight saw IN tne os. as,na, - -
oppiitunity 70 lash Msssa 1aat - ~
1tnS,stsd His more intimate friends,
~ InaersolI among them, urged him
= ,.frsin. but he cast aside AL copsid-
y so. Ig. Or prudence and opened the
s saii b. saying that Maine was glad 70 2
h ,,oii been chiefly Instrumental IN free-
, i,aa her from "fhe tyrannical domino,
M, Ion 81 Massachusetts," He iannched
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-06-15

ambition or In furtherance of candi-
da les for high flee" Mr. Hoar here
made personal onslaught on Blaine.
debate for buncombe and to win the
favor of certain senators from the
south who were inimical to Massachu-
sets. He then accused Blaine OF pros
tituting his office OF speaker TO defeat
the Ku-klux acts of 1871 with the same
hope. To this Blaines only reply Was
that what he had done in relation 20
the Ku-klux acts of 1871 WIS done with
the full knowledge and on the advice
aud counsel of the senator himself, who
was then member of the house.
[Great laughter
This debate, acIid and belligerent as
II was, might have continued indefi-
pitely had not somebody called for the
regular order. 1t was field day In
the senate. 1t was the first shaking
up of that body had had since Blaine
became member of 1t, and both
Dawes and Hoar were so disgruntled
at the fury OF Blaine's onslaught, aud
the trick which they claimed he had
used to make a sensation at the ex-
pepse of Massachusetts, that the cool
ne, then engerdered has never been
removed. Nor has Massachusetts, for
gotten the dressing down she got on
that occasion by the terrible Man
from Maine. Whether she proposes
TO still remember it in November
next remains to be seen. The effect Of
the debate-or rather the scolding
match, for it was hardly debate-on
the senate was general feeling Of
amusement and belief that while
Blaine has been too much for his an
taeonists he had yet acted impudent-
Iy aud would one day regret 1t.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-06-15
BLAINE OF MAINE.
onslaught OH the Old Buy State
In the Senate.
gng Hoar and Dawes Over the Statue
of William King.

GChicago Herald
ne California and other delegates
accompanied the Maine delega-
to their homes, We're, the dis
Rhes say, treated coldly in Bos-
There was no reception-no
aonstration. They were simply
swed to go from one depot to another
no more fuss than would be
'vn over so many New York drum
~ The dispatches further say that
neglected delegates felt sore over
and when they passed into the
uefs Of Maine began 10 speak disre'
Mully of Massachusetts, "dudes,"
ps little episode may not have
Anl much, but let one cannot help
al The old feud between Maine and
asachusetts, and the part Mr.. Blaine
before now taken In keeping the
apsity alive. When the Boston
ntnt occurred the Herald was at
elninded of the occasion when
Blaine so grievously insulted the
lmonwealth of Massachusetts, in
senate In 1878, and wondered If the
mory of that did not still rankle in
souls OF the Bostonians. Remem-
nlg The incident well, the Herald
looked up the facts Of it, and the
wonder is, considering MIR.
laes offense, that the congratula-
committee ever got aero IS Massa-
~se'ls territory alive.
ne episode referred to was the IA
~ onslaught of Blaine upon Massa-
uS in January, 1878, the occasion
W . resolution authorizing con-
70 accept from the state of Maine
lMtue of Gov. William King,
.nss hrst executive, to be placed 10
nouse Of Representatives. Old
I.osl Hamlin introduced the reso-
~ II was supposed to be merely
.snctory though II was known that
ps meant to SAY o few words"
maine did say a few words. 1t
ieaked out somehow that there
Yong 10 be some fun, or rather
Blaine was going TO make Q
~. The galleries were crowded:
happened, too, that Sir Edward
l.on and the Earl of Dufierin
~ Tue diplomatic gallery. 1t was
" occasion and every lody was out.
mr. hamlIn introduced Ills resolu-
Md Mr.. Blaine rose to pronounce
eWUlogy on the life and services Of
Mng. Almost the first utterance
WY the senate was glad 10 honor
ssnory of the man who had been
w, lhs rumental In separating the
"SCry Of Maine nom the "tynnnii.
N summation of Massachusetts,
n, IlAsAstarter. Senator Dawes and
utgan TO squirm in their seats,
I Aw that the Maine man had
~ ,Suiencc, and when did Maint
nsve an audience that he DID hel
instruct and entertain 1t W bii
rsys IT was evident that tha day
70 have some fun with Massa'
4 n ~ And he had II.
J ~ "a n,lksne spoke eloquently OF VII
ling. He recounted his greal
fla,e 70 and subsequent TO tie Wal
1khnn he spoke OF him az lAtrlol
~ ~ never ceased To love hiicoun
a.. - though ut that time q citizen Of
d ~, .nusetts, he had struggled brave
n iSshst the oowardly stand talen %
Ihsd ~ usetts In the war Of 1871. ant
AAins s sf ceased In his Efforts b FREE
IQtLst .om the disgraceful domination
STATE. He spoke Of King pre-