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CROWLEY AT NEAT.
nagerie were ready customers for the new ar
rival, although the experiments Of the past. in
raising chimpanzees in this climate have not
been very encouraging: The great danger
to which they are subjected is pneumonia.
In spite of their tremendous strength and re-
markable agility they are exceedingly sub
ject to the chill winds and variable tempera-
ture of this zone It is very rare that
chimpanzee is kept alive in North America for
more than year or two So much has been
that the impression prevails that he was an
unusually gifted chfmpanzee. This is by no
means the ease. The one thing in his career
which commends him to more respect than
others Of his tribe is the fact that he lived
for more than four years in America. AS a
matter of fact, Crowley was very ordinary
chimpanzee. and that he was an exceedingly
interesting resident Of New York is due to
the fact that he was a chimpanzee, for all
animals of this genus are tractable and well
qualified for exhibition purposes.
Perhaps Crowley's most famous trick was
that Of taking his meals from a plate and
using knife and fork and spoon, after the
manner of human beings. This is manner
ism that all chimpanzees learn very readily.
His food consisted mainly Of rice and
milk, which he got three times day. He
also ate apples, oranges, bananas and even
cocoanuts and other tropical fruit that may
be obtained in the city from time to time.
He ate an apple with much the same gusto
that country boy does, and when 1t was
devoured to the core the nearest visitor was
apt to be pelted with it, after which Creole
would retire to the corner Of his large cage,
sit down, place his head upon his left hand
in reflective attitude, and pick his teeth
with the long finger nails Of his right hand
He delighted to sit down and lean his head
against his hand, with the foreanger ex-
tended along the cheek, then look far into
the distance. as If he were speculating on
philosophy or reviewing the scenes of his
youth. When Beard, the painter, saw him
In this attitude he at once conceived the idea
Of his famous picture. The book that Creole
holds in the picture, and which he has ap-
parently just been reading, is copv Of Oar
wins "Descent Of Man."
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Although DR.. s. Leavitt, professor of
Hahnemann college, does not use tobacco in
any form, he is never without small pack
age of fine cut in his pocket, and the reason
Of it is this: A gentleman of the doctors
acquaintance told him how he had saved his
child's life after all the doctors had given her
up She had membraneous Group, and while
the mother, from sheer exhaustion, had lain
by the child. The hard, difficult breathing
Of the little one, growing fainter and fainter
as the throat clogged up, was torture to the
father. Everything in the way of emetics
had been used, but without effect, but sud-
denly an idea struck the nearly distracted
father. He remembered how deathly sick
he YVES the first time he chewed tobacco, and
having a cud in his mouth, without thinking
twice he opened the childs mouth and placed
the tobacco in.
The father knew it was a desperate act,
and he waited in terrible suspense for the re-
suit It came, and quicker than he could
have hoped. There was a sudden convulsive
movement and the poor little thing was
nearly doubled for an instant, and seemed to
writhe in agony when, throwing herself for
ward, there shot from her throat a chunk of
almost solid phlegm at least two inches long
and having through it passage no larger
than small lead pencil After a few min
utes of retching the little one lay quietly
back and slept calmly and sweet1y, and the
next day was playing around the house with
all her wonted vim DR.. Leavitt remarked
that it was tough remedy, but said he
would always carry tobacco hereafter, and
he does-ChicaRo Herald
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WHITE CAP IN UNIFORM
OF the line of the Ohio and Mississippi rail-
road there is a curious and sudden change;
the rocks stand out sharply from the hills,
smooth bowlders and "wash gravel" disap-
pear, and the streams flowing toward the
Ohio cut deep hollows, falling rapidly from
the plateau level to that Of the Ohio The
traveller, If anything of a geologist, perceives
at once that he has passed the southern line
Of the ''glacial drift"
In southern Missouri all these features are
greatly exaggerated, the hills rise to noun
tains, the hollows become canyons" the
brush is thicker and the roads far more
rugged The original inhabitants of both
sections were Of the same stock-s'poor
whites, ""crappers" and half nomadic hunters
from farther south, and for forty years every
lefty criminal or absconding debtor fleeing
from southern Indiana, if he could not get to
Texas, located in southern Missouri. Moth
ing was more common in the 4Os than to
zee on the door of an abandoned dwelling, in
red keel or pokeberry juice, the letters
"G. T. t." the meaning Of the rural wit
being that the runaway had ''Gone to Texas"
though in fact he had often gone to Missouri.
Thus by natural selection, intermarriage
and the survival Of the toughest, grew up
similar population in both sections; while in
iue time the fertile lands attracted good
population, the valuable hard woods caused
heavy investments, and the railroads created
a line of small trading towns Hence the in
svitable conflict between progress and wild
nature; hence the "White Caps in Indiana
and the Regulators" and "Bald Knobbers" in
Missouri. -
The White Caps only whip, terrorize and
.xpel; the Bald Knobbers shoot, hang and
mutilate Both organizations aim to control
the politics of their sections; both have fol-
lowed the usual law Of degeneracy. The
record of nearly all such bodies is the same,
whether vigilantes, Re egulators, Anti-Mor-
mons, Kuklux, White Caps or Bald Knob
oers. The friends Of order combine to in-
dict wild justice on the lawless, the moderate
men then withdraw and slightly inferior
class of night riders inflict punishment on
those who are not criminal, but only inn
moral; next the organization becomes an In
strument of private revenge or brutal sport,
there is division Of public sentiment, a sort
Of civil war, a few murders and general e1-
plosion. Whether there is ever any perma-
nent benefit NAV well be doubted.
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he IS GONE.
MIR. Crowley, Who Recently Left This Ter.
restrial Sphere.

MIR. Crowley, Who Recently Left This Ter.
restrial Sphere.
Alas! poor Crowley.
He has gone where the good monkeys 60
Four years of New York life " as too much
for hlm.
Torn from his home in Liberia in 1855,
hurried from the coast of Africa to Central
Park, cooped up in a cage, subject to chilling
draughts, for nearly four years he has lived
on and become immortal They brought
him wife to cheer his life, but without avail
he did not take kindly to her. Married life
for him had no charms He sighed for
Liberia. They say his name isn't Crowley.
Creole it should be. Somebody couldn't or
didn't want to pronounce it, 50 they changed
it to Crowley. But Crowley, not Creole, viii
60 down into history. Mr.: Crowley was
brought from Liberia by Minister smyth,
the American representative there At that
time, 50 far as can be judged by marks on
chimpanzees, he was about II months cid.
The managers Of the Central park me-
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Flowers in the Sandwich Islands.

The Sandwich Islands may well be termed
the land of flowers. The natives and all
other residents use flowers profusely in dec
Grating themselves. 1t is a common specta-
Gle to see barefooted Ranaka with an old
straw hat literally buried in wreaths of rare
flowers, and lines Of the same hanging about
her neck. When steamer sails the band
plays merrily upon the dock, and crowds of
natives, with garlands of flowers and native
maille wreaths, wave adieus Departing
friends are always profusely decorated with
flowers and wreaths Kanakas are almost
amphibious. The bay is dotted with colored
lads ready to dive for coin like fish. The
holoku-or Mother Hubbard-ist the universal
dress for women on the islands The women
have fine figures and are generally bare
footed. The men are generally fine specimens
Of mankind. They are not large, but are
well formed and exceedingly muscular
Detroit Free Press
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.,aon tvo men ma med Berry and Taylor.
wv, ~ the two counties Of Taney and Christian
,on ..pa,d Rnobbersn s. we're indicted, and a
,srro u humber arrest ed and convicted. Nos:
"a ar. Them escaped With light fines or imprison.
ment; but one is under sentence oI aeasn; .a, a.,
sixteen indicted for murder await tneil :. .a.;
r. one instance Baptist minister named
n WILSON % nleaded guilty to a charge of murder,
having taken part IN whipping . r.a haI 800 -
severely that he died OF ms nurG ~ ne - s
authorities continue to publish tna1 'ne o4 .,,s+
Is entirely suppressed; but v's'oofs W 'n''
section have their d doubts
r, Indiana there is a dreary monotony
about the prooeedings-whipplng men ,'nh ane
women women ;r,n,oral;tv and general cussedness.'
enne, e1ssra % Crawford county, appears to be
M1eus, = aartar. ) but the order works all
tne syo.. H. county and to some extent in
% Hs1rison and adjoining counties
% One mani was whipped for conniving at q
divorce @ @ proceeding BY his wife, and another es
sor nasrrvine the woman g soon as sne wss
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WESTERN LYN CT LAW.
REGULATORS" "eALD b kNoeeERsr
AND "WHITE cApsn

so"sn Regions Attract Rough Men.
Southern Indiana and Missonra-"c. r.
i'' OF Gone to Texas'' -Lawless Sports.
Why the Peaceful Citizens Orpani1ea-
The central sections of southern Indiana
ana missouri have many features in common,
and, as might be expected, have similar
populations. Narrow strips of fertile ''bot-
eo,n ana level or gently rolling upland are
cut abruptly by lines Of rugged hill and
rocky hollow. In Indiana the traveller pro
ceeding southwark from Richmond or In
dianapolis is charmed by the richness and
beauty OF gently rolling region, by elegant
tarm houses and herds Of blooded stock, by
nelds white and red with clover tops or yel-
low with waving grain But not far south
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times in opera at Kroll's in Berlin last May
and June. Her first opera was LA Sonnam-
bula," and it was followed by two others, in
both Of which she displayed some dramatic
power as well as good control over her
voice.
Miss Howe has well shaped features, some.
thing Of the Grecian type, and mass Of
light hair, that flies In short curls about her
head. Her eyes are large and black. Her
presence is unassuming and easy. Her musi-
cal talent manifested itself in early child
hood, when she had the advantage Of excel
lent training under her brother, himself a
composer, and her father. i.
At 16 she entered the Boston conservatory.
Afterward she spent two years at Philadel
phia, where Professor Behrens was her in
structor. She now goes to Paris for six
months of dramatic study.
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BRIDGE ACROSS THE BACK BAY.

Il
among the barbarous races of antiquity was
simply lintels resting from bank to bank, and
where the distance was too great the lintels
were supported hv posts standing on the bed
of the river. Between such
the great Brooklyn suspension bridge
would seem to be no connection, but the
Brooklyn bridge is the product Of centuries
Of experiment, and developed very gradually
from the simple Intel bridges of antiquity.
After all there are but a few main features
entering into bridges. There is the arch and
the truss and the suspension bridge, each Of
which form is largely varied. The canti-
lever is in some respects a new feature, but
mainly in the plan Of its construction, and it
is safe to say that bridge building is but q
variation Of the three principles above
named. Pontoons are seldom used except
for temporary purposes and usually In war.
fare.
One of the most notable bridges now build
ing is the rev one across Boston Back bav to
Cambridge.
It is to b. built after a somewhat novel and
ingenious fashion. The system consists of q
moving staging called a ''traveler" under
which each span is put together and by
be towed into position at the bridge. This
''traveler" is 100 feet long and 36 feet high.
Near each end line of rails is laid upon the
ground, and a timber framework provided
with four wheels running upon the rail sup
ports each end of the staging. The two rails
are 112l feet apart. Narrow piers extend
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SECOND AVENUE BRIDGE, ST. LOUIS.
beyond the edge Of the wharf where the
span. are put togetle., aaAd tho two rails ex-
tend upon these piers, so that the ''traveler"
can run out over the water and lower span
on the float, a rough simple structure moored
alongside the wharf Then the span is towed
to the bridge on rising tide, and placed in
position between the two spans, and as the
tide falls it drops upon the piers. The float
Is constructed with compartments for letting
in or pumping out water, so that the balance
may be adjusted. The bridge, when COM
pleted, will be about q 160 feet in length and
20 feet in width. There will be two side
walks feet 6 inches each in width, leaving
SO feet for the roadway. The West End
railway will obtain a location for two tracks
upon the bridge OF course there will bella
draw for the passage Of vessels.
Another important structure Is the bridge
building for viaduct over railroads at st.
Louis. In the building Of this bridge, how
ever, the contractors Of the ''bridge city"
will have an easier time than they had In the
erection Of the structure across the Missis-
sippi river, and from which st. Louis &C
quires its sobriquet. That bridge was built
Of arches on piers standing on the bed Of q
deep and swiftly running river, whose cham
mel constantly changes. The muddy bottom
had to be pierced in order to give sound
foundation. The st. Louis bridge is one
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Meeting of the Republican Central Com
mittee.


At . meeting of the Deer Lodge County
Republican Central Committee, held at the
Sheriffs Office on Wednesday, Aug. Is, 1883,
there were present E. S. S,ackpole, Char
man; Lew: Coleman, Sec'y; l. F. Kirby
proxy for II. L. Hoge; 81. S. Neal-proxy for
T. q. Davidson, and 81. F. Titus, as proxy
for Jno. G. Mclean.
1t was agreed that the basis Of representa-
tion be one delegate for every 20 votes, or
fraction thereof, as cast for the Hon. w. F.
Sanders in 1856.
ltwas moved and seconded that the County
Convention be held in the Court House at
Deer Lodge, on Saturday, September Is,
1888, at l o'clock p. m, for the purpose of
nominating full set Of county officers, to
be voted for November 6, 1888. Also to
elect delegates to attend the Territorial
Convention at Helena on the 18th Of Septem
ber, 1883, and to elect a County Central
Committee for the ensuing two years.
Upon basis adopted by the committee,
the representation will be as follows:
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A Doe and Her Fawn.

DR.. Downes, Of Lakeport, Cal, had a pet
deer to which he was very much attached
Last fall it ran away to the mountains, and
that was the last he saw Of it until the spring
when one day it appeared in the door yard
and, walking straight to the doctor, laid itt
head on his arm and seemed greatly pleased.
as was the doctor. 1t hung around him in
rather an unusual way, and finally disap
peared. The next day it came again, and
acted as though it wanted the doctor to fol
low it, and he did so. The deer led him some
distance from the house directly to little
fawn which lay hidden in the bushes The
doctor took the little thing in his arm and
carried it home, the mother following anc
showing unnistakably that that was jus.
what she wanted.-New York Sun.
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and not released till the close Of the war.
For awhile he engaged in farming and then
in the manufacture Of paper, in which he has
acquired handsome fortune; and his mills
in Herkimer, where he lives, are among the
largest in the country.
In 1872 he was delegate to the National
Republican convention. In 1874 he was
elected to the New York legislature, in which
he served two terms. He was elected to the
Forty sixth and Forty seventh congresses,
and finally chosen in 1881 to succeed Hon.
Thomas G. Platt in the United States senate,
in the memorable struggle which followed
the resignation Of Messrs. Platt and Conk-
ling. In 1887, after close contest in the
legislature, he was defeated for re election,
Hon. Frank Hiscock being chosen in his
place,
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The Care of Shoes.

Az experienced shoemaker says that clack-
ing greatly shortens the life Of shoes As
blacking can't be very well dispensed with.
though, 10 advises that the shoes, or rather
those parts which are polished, be literally
rubbed with oil Such treatment, about once
every two weeks, or thereabouts, but after
the backing has first been scraped off, will,
he says, not only make the leather more pill
able. and consequently easier q, the foot, but
materially curtail the shoemaker's bill-Chi-
cago Herald.
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Of the retirement
Of Gen. Absalom
Baird, and the pres
ident has appointed
Col. Roger Jones.
Col Jones is the
son Of Gen. Roger
Jones, VIII o for
many years was
adjutant general OF
the United States
army. The son was
born in Washing
ton. D. c., in 1881.
Appointed to West
Point in 1s47, he
was graduated in
OK on n naaa
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COURT HOUSE AT CoRYDoN.


Capt. Nat. NJ Kinney was chief Of the
Bald Knobbers, and right royal chief he
was: six feet six inches high, weighing 270
pounds. well muscled, and active and vigi-
iant as a cat. He was born in 1888, in the
mountains of Virginia, served in the Union
army with distinction and in the government
service in various ways where nerve was
needed; he took part in forty battles and
skirmishes, besides many personal encoun-
tiers. and was a thorough fatalist, believing
that he would finally die by bullet, but
..not before his time came," time neither
to be hastened nor delayed by any act OF his
His favorite sentiment was that OF Hectors
cheer to Andromache:
No hostile hand can antedate my doom,
TIL fate condemns me to the silent tomh
Eixed Is the term to all the race OF earth4
Anal such the hard condition OF our BIRTH:
No power can then avert, no flight can saws
Alike must perish all-the fearful and the brave
He settled in Taney county, Mo-, for "a
quiet life." The lawle fellows attempted
to drive him away. He helped organize tho
"Vi1ilantesn and the seven years. war began.
Sunday schools and religious meetings were
often Broken up BY owdies, who would lasso
Tho neonle as they came out, or fire pistols
tbronch the windows or interrupt the SER
vices with ridicule. Capt. Kinney stopped
that, though in the process he nao 70 XII,
Andrew Cogburn. and dangerously woana
some others. The opposition formed mlntla
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company Wncn nau
a show Of legality;
the contest became
very bitter a nd
several m u urders
were committed.
Then the state in
terfered d; some
"Bald Knobbers"
made general con-
fession, and the or
de- is about broken
up. And fin ally
Capt. Kinney was
shot dead by one
Bill Miles, in an at,
fray resulting from
a ng standing
. n.y hA
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tenant in the mounted rifemen. In 1861
Lieut.. Jones was on duty at Harper's
Ferry. Governor Letcher, of Virginia, di-
rected the seizure of the place by the state
troops. Jones destroyed $4,000 worth OF
supplies before abandoning the place, thus
preventing them from falling into the hands
he served On the staff Of Gen. Pope in Vir.
einia, He was made colonel in 1885 and
brigadier general in 1883.
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decora ted with
bunting. CIR and
Army posts, t he
Governors Foot
Guard of N Q "
Haven, a company
Of the Second and
one of the Fourth
regiment, and Sons
Of Veterans, t he
fire companies-in
all, 1900 nlen-pa-
raded.
The monument is
Of Vermont gran
ite, twenty inc
feet high, mounted
with a granite fig
uro of one of the
''Boys in Blue" at
parade rest.
It bears the in
scription:
"a tribute to the
bravery of the men
who riSked their lives
that the nation might
livn-1HG145"
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dent Of Alb any,
bequeathed the
means for a monu-
ment, to be erected
to the S cottish
bard, in that city.
A bronze s tatue
was designed and
cast, and has re-
Gently been un.
veiled with appro-
pirate ceremonies.
The m onument
rests on q Scotch
American granite
base, the two being
l6 feet high. Those
W who participated
at tn Q unveiling
were the Caledo-
nian clubs and So
cieties, Order Of
Scottish Clans and
0~Iow - G1~n -
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IN A POETS MEMORY.

Monument Recently Erected to Bobby
Burns at Albany, N. 7.
More than q century and a quarter ago
was born in Scotland boy who, though his
lot was to be plowman, was also destined
to become one Of the sweetest natural song
sters in the realm Of poetry the world has
ever produced. Though nnrly q hundred
years have elapsed since his death the poems
of Robert Burns are today read by every
English speaking community, and no visitor
who goes to Scotland ever thinks Of leaving
without visiting the places where
Ayr gurgling kissed his pebbled shore.
and where Robert Burns lived and wrote
One Of his country women, Miss Mary
Mcpherson, now dead, and long q resi-
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saw the value of several hundred thousand
dollars swept away. The remarkable solidity
of the drift wood beneath is illustrated by
the weight that fell upon it and which it
resisted. The traveller, itself q weighty
structure, nine freight cars with 7o0, 600
pounds Of iron, in all several millions OF
pounds, came down on the drift, making but
little impression upon it. The whole stood
for time. but when the drift moved down
the river it carried the vast mass Of wreckage
with it. At a distance Of some 500 feet the
drift parted, the iron sank and the wooden
wreckage, barges, drift, all aoated on down
the river in the rapid current.
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HUNTINGTON BRIDGE BEFORE TIE FLOOD.
of the triumphs in engineering Of the
Nineteenth century. In the new bridge
across what is called the Mill Creek valley,
the piers may be built from the ground and
with little trouble, though, the ground being
soft, piles were driven and covered with con-
crete The bridge is to be Of the type known
to engineers as suspension link bridge.
The main span will be 400 feet long. The
two side spans will be 14111< feet long. Tho
main chains, consisting Of q number Of steel
bars connected by steel pins, are to be firmly
anchored in the anchorage piers, from which
they will extend over the top Of the steel
towers, carrying the roadway forty feet above
the level of the tracks,
Bridge contractors sometimes have to run
great risks, having half finished structures
blown down or swept away by flood. The
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S. w. HAWKINS.

The Republicans Have Named Him for
Governor Of Tennessee.
The Republicans in Tennessee have nomi-
mated man for governor who in 1862, at IS
years Of age, enlisted to fight for Uncle Sam.
He is s. w. Hawkins, the son of Isaac R.
Hawkins, who served three terms in con-
gress. The son was born in Carroll county,
Tenn, in 1874, entered the army in the
Second Tennessee, afterward the Seventh
Tennessee cavalry, which was commanded by
Private Hawkins fether, Col isaac r.