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Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1889-06-29
BURNED TO DEATH.
A savage Punishment Revived In. the
rroxlnee of Nnnnan, China.


The Governor of lunuan states that
la some OF the country districts OF that
province the villagers have horrible
custom Of burning 10 death any man
caught stenling corn or fruits IN the
fields They Mt the same time compel
the mans relatives 10 sign document
giving their consent to what is done.
and then make thom light the fire with
their own hands. so a. To deter them
from lodging a complaint afterward
Sometimes the horrible penalty l.
eNacted fer the breaking III single
branch or stalk, or even fals,' accu-n-
tious ARE male and mon pat Ia death
out OF spite his terrible practice.
ich seems incredible when heard.
came lato use during the time of tho
lunnan rebellion. nnd the consistent ef.
forts Of the authorities have no,
succeeded IN eNtirpatiug /, since.
last autumn cuse of the
kiih occurred in the Chtlching
prefecture. 01e evening mnn named
Pcng Chou ~heng was going down 10
Nutch his own field. Ills path led him
along the side OF ii patch oi maize l,a
longing to another man. \ h. pas .cd
he pulled on IA head of corn Theuwncr
-aw him aud shouted out. upon which
he dropped the corn aud fed The
owner went and Told his landlord upon
which the latter proposed tliiu the pill
tcrcr -honld he burned.
The two men having agreed. next
morning they laid the matter before Az
,ssembly OF the villagers. As the mat
ter was 81 trlling some advised that II
'houid oe lei drop. but their opinion
ya- no listened 90. On the following
lay the two men seized their victim
aud bound him. The poor man moth
~ came with all her relatives aud
p"gged for mercy. She offered 10 mals,
uonem mt iy fo'fciting the whole of
lcr prop rty 10 the community. bui all
'ho could say was of no avail. The
nen refused 10 give way. aud ordered
cr 10 give her consent &c the
murder IN writing threatening
ier that otherwise they would pui
her Ia death also. overcome by fear
he asked a stranger, "a travelling doe
or who can not bc Identified to writ,
he required paper her. They then
lied up y heap of biTushwood ia. ar
empty place outside the illage and
the next day ai noon carried tl,e man
,ut and laid him bound upon H. Tn,
woman was competed tO set iirc to the
'aggois. auu her sou was burned "a
lratn. Afterward. Us soon as she
'ould, she stole away 10 the town and
ave information to the authorities
the two men were Immediately ar
estad. One Of them. the landlord
Tied la prison. but the other was sent
q The provincial capital for trial,
The memnrialist finds that In III,
fifteenth year OF Cll'ien Lang, A u
1850 at the reques, Of the Governor o
zechuen. II WINS decrcrd that In III,
Rse OF any person being burned {,
ieath by "A body OF men. the principa
'ifcnder should be executed by th,
lingering process and the participant
IA the crime be bchcaded The land
ord, who la this case was the princi
nj. has already died His fellow-of
euder was condemned 10 immcdiat,
lecnpitation. and the sentence ha
hern carried into effect without delay
-PekIng Official Gazette.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1889-06-29

-'.Mercifnl Congress. cried the
frenzied editor. as he wheeled around
In his chair. 'what is your articlep'
''it's a ham. !" replied the visitor. ms he
laid Il ON the proof slips. Il smoked a
huh lot t'other day. and | thought
p'raps you might wantor try one. III
you don't care for 1t. though" The
editor seized the ham with an iron
hand There is always room for
these articles" he said. pleasantly.
by the way. you haven't bcen Ia to
see me for two months. Any thing
wrong mp at the farm?a brakes
Magazine
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1889-06-29
rl,e Ma,,er uirh nannah.

A father overcultured and overstraineti
literary and critical view which fell into
our hands the other day was relieved at
one point by the statement that ''Iiannah
Moore was never kissed In her life We
suggest 10 the Browning club that in
this fact may possibly be found d clew
60 the origin Of that familiar classical
saying: And that's what's the matter
Eiih HaAnAl - Ros' 'on Globe
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1889-06-29
Two Scotch tramps. man and vii,

Two Scotch tramps, man and vile,
make good living OF the baby. I'VE
lust gets ian christened." explains the
man. lin all the towns we passes. and
then. you see. parson makes us all
comfortably WI sumnat 10 eat and
money for beds. On days ortul bad We
has 10 do M twice.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1889-06-29

"A gentleman addressing the schol-
ars Of a large school observed among
the decorations about the room an
American dag. and said: Children.
can any OF you tell me why that flag
was hung theresn ITO hide the dirtf
quickly responded one sharp boy. who
assisted In making the preparations for
the occasion. Christian Advocate.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1889-06-29

-Jlnks Cat parly) II don't soc
what the matter with that pretty wo-
man over theree She was awfnlly
fiirty little while ago. ami now she
won't have any thing to do with me
Stranger have just come In. She's
my wife. IN. \. Weekly.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1889-06-29

lit Is not by skimmlng the news
pnper that man can Fat the cream o.
It's contents B,ngnamrtnn Republi.
can.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1889-06-29

Strange. but true: w7ak-ssinded
people are often headstrong. -Baltl-
more American
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-22

EXCHANGE LAND FOR FACTORIES.
The following has been handed THE
GAZETTE for publication, and as it bears
on movement in which the city is SO
much interested at present, it is here
given place:
The easiest way to get manufactures IS
for those having suburban property TO
give some part of their land as bonus
for locating a good factory. The factory
suburb will make the two-thirds when Is
left four times as valuable as the whole
was before the erection of the plant.
With a big land bonus, which IN
short time will be worth more than the
plant itself, Eastern money and Eastern
men can be easily picked up. Omaha
has been the leading city in this line, and
has outstripped Denver in the race for
population. b. l.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-22
ABOUT HEN AND WOMEN.

Mr.. Henry Shaw, the founder of the
celebrated botanical gardens in st.
Louis has Just commemorated his eighty
ninth birthday.
Mrs. Maria NJ. Dean is a homeopathic
physician who took an Office IN Helena,
NJ II three years ago. Her income last
wear was in the neighborhood of twelve
thousand dollars. She is a graduate of
wisconsin university and from Boston
medical school, and also studied medicine
in Berlin. She is thirty years old.
uJav Gould, +" says a correspondent,
eehas aged considerably in appearance
since last wear. His beard, which was
formally black and glossy, is now quite
gray, and as he wears it longer than he
formerly did the effect of age is much in
creased. The peculiar curl to his beard
mas entirely disappeared with the coming
OF gray hairs.
Daniel K. Stewart, who died. recently
near Richmond. Vas aged eighty-one,
was the richest man in the>state. He
was a Scotchman by. births and never
surrendered his allegiance to the British
government. He made his money IN
SNUFF and tobacco. The house in which
GEN. Lee's family lived during the war
was owned by Stewart.
Judge Stephen Johnson Field is a
! brother to David Dudley, Cyrus West
| and the Rev. Henry NJ. Field. David
| Dudley is eighty-fve years old, Stephen
! J. is seventy three, Cyrus w. seventy
/ and Henry NJ. siXty-seven. They are
sons of the Rev. David Dudley Field, a
/ Congregational clergyman Of Connecti-
! cut, who died in 1867, aged eighty-six
.Tudre Field went to California in 1S49
/ and has been q resident of the state ever
/ since He was appointed to the supreme
court bv President Lincoln in 1868. He
was then q Republican, but for twenty
years or more he has been Democrat.
Hon. Sidney E. Mudd, who is contest
| ing Barnes Compton IS seat in congress
from the Eff h Maryland district, is in
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-22

Washington. It is strange whiriiglg,
says the Post, which brings the son OF
DR.. Mudd, who was sent TO The Dry Tor
tugas for setting the leg Of desperate
John Wilkes Booth as he fed through the
sandy roads of Southern MARYLAND, to
the front as an active Republican. But
he is both at the front and active.
cIear-cut and intelligent face, and
well-shaped head set on good shoulders.
give the makeup of the man who cut
down Compton's plurality from over
two thousand seven hundred to a bare
$50.
The venerable Gen Francis E Spinner,
ex-treasurer of the United States, is SAID
to be hopelesslY i'll at his home at Pablo
Beach, Fla so that his death is likely
to occur within few weeks. The trou-
BILE is a cancer on his face. caused by
wearing an ilI-ftting pair of eyeglasses.
'tMy physician, - he writes to friend {,
'thas given me strict orders that l must
neither read or write single word. L
will probably soon make my bow to the
denizens of this world and depart. am
suffering great pain. - Gen. Spinner Is
nearly lightweight years old, having
been born at Herkimer, N. Y, January
q, 1902.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-22

OFFICER WOOD of the United States
navy, who has been much in China and
the East, and is now in Washington, says
publicly that the work Of the American
missionaries in China and Corea has no
result except to hold the missionaries up
to the ridicule Of the natives; that there
are no converts to Christianity except the
menials about the quarters of the mis-
sionaries, and that these become back
sliders when their wages stop. No noble
man of Corea or mandarin of China ever
became a Christian. The missionaries
themselves are regarded as the Salvation
army is here. He says all this and much
more, and he VIII probably hear from it
later via the American board of foreign
missions. If he is right, the public
which supports the missions ought to
know it; if he is wrong, he has done a
great wrong to the cause.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-22

IT is to be regretted that the finance
committee accompanied its very inter-
esting report with assertions that smack
of intolerance of comment on the finan-
cial policy of the city. Each man in
republic has as much right to his opin-
ions as every other man, and no polit-
zeal position in this country ex-
empts the holder from such dissent from
his views as individual Judgment may
dictate and personal liberty guarantee
The fair presumption is that all citizens
are equally solicitous for the public good,
and to secure this, free and full discus
sion is essential. The report of the COM
mittee is instructive, and it is to be re-
GREETED that it is married by charges of
ignorance against those who have the
same right to their views as that possessed
by the committee.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-22
AFreak of Nature.
Detroit Journal.


It sounds like a fairy tale, but 1t Is
said to be true, that there is one county
in Kentucky where only one man was
ever killed. In Trimble county, several
years ago, two intoxicated men fought
and one was killed. Crime of all KINDS
is practically unknown. The people are
descendants of Virginians and Maryland
ers who settled there 200 years ago. They
are scrupulously honest. There are no
lawyers. The only one who ever ven
tured there nearly starved to death ana
had to leave. No foreignborn person
lives there An occasional Irishman or
German who wanders that way is stared
at by the popuIace as they would look at
the Siamese twins, or Japanese or
Fiji islander, or some other curiosity
But the most astonishing thing is that,
of all the states, this county should be
situated in the very heart of Kentucky.
1t seems like the story of the strawberries
and the violets that grow on the edge OF
the Alpine SHOWS. How many such
counties are there in Michigan?
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-22
Mime. Terry's Perjury.
NbicapO Times

Mrs. Terry did not witness the killing
of her husband. When he had fallen
under the revolver of the deputy United
States marshal assigned to the protec-
ton Of Justice Field from the very as
sault that was made she was bringing
up the private arsenal of the Terry
family. Justice Field, who was I'M
armed, raised no hand in his defense.
He was more innocent of the killing of
her husband than she herself was;
vet if the revolver she obtained
from the car had not been
taken from her she would
have done her utmost to have dispatched
Field and would have called it VEN
geance. Thwarted in this she has pro-
cured from magistrate warrant for
the arrest of the justice on the charge of
murder. To obtain il she was necessarily
guilty of gross perjury. If the warrant
be served the examining magistrate will
be compelled to discharge the prisoner
simply for lack of discriminating evil
dence. Field had no hand whatever IN
the ARRAY He himself made no resist
ance. Numerous witnesses of the homi-
eide have told the whole story. Mrs.
Terry's legal attack upon the justice IS
as Wanton and discredltable as was her
husband 5 physical assault. The history
of the woman 5 career discloses her as a
violent and dangerous person who ought
not to be at large and who will
certainly abuse any leniency which
may be shown her. She is an
mated by deadly hatred of Judge Field
for no better reason than that he rem
dered a judicial decision adverse to a
preposterous claim and because of her
outrageous conduct when the decision
was made anG the violence of her lawyer
who was also her husband, sentenced
| both to imprisonment for contempt OF
court. The affidavit which this woman
| falsely made in order to procure wac
rant for the arrest of Justice Field rem
| ders her liable to the pains and penalties
| Of perjury and affords opportunity for
her prosecution that ought not be neg
| lected.
The deputy marshal whose revolver put
! an end to the truculent career of Terry is
| held to answer for the homicide. This is
! proper. 1t will be proper also on trial to
| acuuit him. He was in the performance
of an assigned duty, and killed ruffian
! in the commission of a felonious assault
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-22
Pooling the Farmer.
Chicago Times

The farmer of the Northwest does not
raise tea or coffee or rice or figs or lemons
or oranges or sugar cane. If his crop in
Guided such articles a prohib1tory tariff
might be & benefit to him by enhancing
home prices. But his crop, consisting
in the main of cereals, dairy and meat
products, which except in limited degree
are not articles of import, must take its
chance in the market made at Liverpool.
Though every bushel and every pound of
his product may be consumed within the
state where it is raised its price is deter
mined in a market open to the competi-
ton of the world. The farmer may
incidentally raise sheep yielding small
wool clip. and because there is a tariff
on wool he may receive larger prices in
market artificially made than in free
market, but it is susceptible of demon
stration that when he will have pur-
chased such wooden fabrics as are
necessary for the comfort of himself
and those dependent upon him he
will have paid to the wooden mill
more than he received as the difference
between the natural and the made
price of the wool he sold. And while the
Northwestern farmer is selling his sur
plus product IN the open market of the
world, the insignificant exception being
the wool mentioned, he is compelled to
purchase his own supplies in tariff made
market. Glass, crockery, woolens iron
mongerv, salt, lumber he cannot buy
where he sells his wheat or where the
price for his wheat IS made He must
buy at home. And he must pay what
the lumber baron and the factory lord,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-22
Justice to All.
Pittsburg Gazette.


The peoples committee of thirty-one
that met the representatives of the rail-
roads this week in Dallas TO confer about
freight rates, wanted TO hold the confer
ence with closed doors, but the railroad
committee objected. and after considera-
BILE squabble the doors were opened.
The people don t want star chamber ses-
sions when they delegate men to transact
business of public concern. They want
to look in and see how faithfully their
agents are doing their work. That COM
mittee of thirty-One selected by the late
freight rate convention at Dallas met the
representatives of the different railroads
of the state this week in Dallas to confer
as to satisfactory adjustment of rates
The committee didsnOt seem inclined TO
confer, but demanded a reduction with
out investigating rates. This looks as II
a reduction was wanted although the
roads should be slaughtered. The people
of Texas can t afford to be without rail-
roads and Justice should be given them
as well as the individual.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-22

combined in trusts and backed BY =.
tariff, compel him to pay. The To-
in the Northwest always had more :. %
of an understanding OF the real sit1..'s
so Improbable to himself, but 20
acted with the Republican party bs a;
loath to break away last fail 'R
that campaign left him in g
tie doubt that he was ~. IL
the worst of the tariff bargain 'sas
politicians understand this. In Pen, I.s
vania Quay lieutenants do not be,;.llI'
to proclaim that protection Is the co ,.,-'
stone of the party but Republican 1T
ayers in Iowa are more cautions ~,
are Tor TIE protection of American fr5-!
try, but, they hasten to add vbo-
does not foster trusts or trade cons. 4
cies, and recognizing how many aIs s.'''
of the state are entirely dependent IN
agriculture for their livelihood ths7 ~
mand as though they meant it, as tb,. =
there could be any other than a g-,-t s'
deceptive meaning TO it, ''the sara -
lection for farm products that is cfrs ~
the products of labor of other classs, >,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-22

THE Brown-Sequard elixir does not
pooh-pooh away as easily as was ex-
pected. It is now being thoroughly tested
by enterprlsing and learned physicians
all over the country, and the evidence
is thus far strongly in its favor. 1t
should not be forgotten that not even its
discoverer claims that by it youth can be
restored or the grave robbed of its victory
over age, but that infrmlty can be
transformed partially or temporarily into
strength. But there is much to find out
yet before it can be accepted as worthy
of general use, and, above all, it should
irst be learned that its effects are not
followed by a reaction or other injurious
effects that leave the patient worse than
it found him.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-22
DOESN'T wane.a Commission.
Cherokee Herald.

We have been rocked in the cradle,
and reared in the home of Democracy,
we know nothing else, but we are not in
favor Of the GENERALIZATION of the powers
of government in any form whatsoever.
On these grounds we oppose railroad
commission. The railroad commission is
lust as unjust as a prohibitory law in the
sale of tobaceos, liquors, or other like
trafflc. which if men would stop their
buying would cease themselves. A rail-
road commission centers all power in the
persons of three men. 1t divests the
citizens aud railways alike of all
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-22

HUNGARIANs are returning TO their ma
tive land from the coal fields of Pennsyl-
vania, and their places are being filed
by negroes. This is as it should be.
There is no need for importing European
paupers when 10, the poor African, Is at
the door. If the philanthropy of the
North would assume any other shape
than political there would be less reason
for sentimentalism over the oppressed on
Southern soil.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-22

REPUBLICAN papers North and East
are indulging in flashing headlines over
the trouble at Fort Bend, one of the
favorites being Grace War in Texas.
It would not be amiss to remind these
sensatfonalists that Fort Bend is a small
county in a large state, and that two
factions comprising few hundred men
do not constitute races; nor is fractional
outbreak in Texas or out of it usually
denominated wars.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-22
THE FARMER'S OPPORTUNITY.

THE Farther S OPPORIONI1I.
Baltimore Manufacturer Record:
There are innumerable ways in which the
farmers of the South, and especially
those living near large and busy cltles'
can make themselves independent, JUST
as there are ways in which man in busl-
ness can make himself independent. IL
is not the farmer owning the best lana
who makes the most money any more
than it is the business man who has the
finest store or factory who succeeds best
In each case success comes to him who
strikes a popular chord and keeps himself
in tune to it.
In every city are people who are no.
tional in some direction or other, who
are willing to pay literally for the sake
of petting their notions. What the farm
er should do is to study and analvZe these
notions. A few years ago young man
just graduated from well known college
found himself much broken in health,
without business and with only S2OOO
or so from recent legacy. His only
alternative seemed to be to buy farm.
AS soon as he was settled on his land he
began, with his other work, the careful
rearing of pigs. He kept them in clean
mems. fed them on selected food, and
soon had a fine collection of porkers.
Some thirty miles off was large CITY.
By careful inquiry he learned OF seVerai
persons in that city who were fond OF
pork yet who were afraid of the STUN
usually sold in the public market. The
young farmer promptly struck bargain
with these people to supply them Win
fresh and salt pork, sausages and lard at
very remunerative prices. These Gus
| toners soon brought more, and as busl-
ness increased the farmer enlarged his
facilities and added to his other pro-
ducts the choicest butter that hands could
make.
This young man, almost an invalid and
with scarcely money enough to buy
Door farm, now has an annual in
come Of SIS 600 or more, not be-
cause his farm is snch a fine one, OF
because he is a skilled Agricultural
but because he hunteu up those people
who had weaknesses for the very bes
pork and the choicest of butter, anC
tfckled their palates with just what they
wanted.
Throughout the South are many
farmers who have every advantage tina
this young man had, and who can, by
little expenditure of energy, line theI
pockets with gold by, working some no
ton for all there Is in it. They ma,
make the choicest of butter, fatten tn
incest pork, raise the most luscious fruit
or possibly raise and cure tea equal t
the best Chinese article. 1t makes blu
little difference what they do as long a
thew are always sure that the quality o
their product is the very best, and tina
they use the same skill and acuteness t
find customers for their products that
storelkeeper or any other commercial ma
would. The trouble with farmers, as
class, is that they forget that it take
almost as much skill to sell crop as
6oas to raise it.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-22
TIE agricultural experiment stations

THE agricultural expermentsstation
maintained by the goyernmentnew en-
ploy. over three hundred and Sdssafy
experts III agricultural science and
practice, and are supported by national
appropriation of $500, 900, TO which the
United States add about one hundred
and twenty-five thousand dollars; 1925.
600 q year may seem like very large
sum to expend aannually for agricul-
tural experiments, but it is less than ten
cents for each of the Z 800 900 farm
workers of the country; less than two
and a half cents for each OF the 80 600, :
600 of our population directly depend
ent upon agriculture for their support.
and less than one and quarter cents