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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-10-17

From the Budget, Toronto. July. 1891
To sum up, We close as We began,
by saying the Equitable Life S bound
to get ahead and keep there. on this
determination the new policy y At
once the best evidence, IS also it is,
from its liberality and simplicity,
coupled with the undoubted security
afforded by the immense resources OF
the Society. the best means TO that
end, to say nothing of the valuable
benefits to be derived by the policy
holders. These benefits are impor-
tant, self-evident and unquestionab'e.
j. r. YOUNG, ACT,
I HENDERSON, N. c.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-10-17
MEN, BOYS AND CHILDREN.

STOCK GOODS brought to Thu
market would be rival dealers confess that will find
PARADISE OF BUYERS SHBOLETH Or
SHOPPERS. Fall the will be
Fall will be remarkable for
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-28
Vivid Writing.

To be continued.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-28
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

FIRE at Colfax, ILL.,, Tuesday destroye
about $780, 900 worth of business prop
erty.
FOURTEEN men at Kempton, Ind, were
badly burned by the explosion of gas
from gas well which they were drilling,
The mill and salt block of Smith Broth
ers, near Bay City, Mich, have been
burned, along with 100000 feet of lum-
Der. Loss, 100000.
THE Chicago Lumber Company's mill,
at Denver, Col, was burned, causing a
loss of from $4,000 to $4,000.
WILKEsBARRE, Pa.-Forty cases of ty-
phoid fever are reported in huzerne, Bor-
ough. The physicians say the second
Plymouth epidemic is threatened.
The boiler in Whitney d. Tuttle's saw
mill, at Pound, Wis, exploded Monday
morning, completely wrecking the build
ing and killing Otis Clement and August
Begal. -Four others were badly injured.
5 By the collision Of an express train
with freight near Rimonski Station,
Canada, Tuesday, an engineer, two fire.
men, and conductor were killed. None
of the express train passengers were
hurt.
THE bark Ed. Pettingill has gone
ashore in Chesapeake Bay, and it is,
feared that her crew, consisting of thir
teen persons, has been drowned. The
vessel halls from Portland, Me.
THE Field Biscuit and Cracker Bakery,
of San Francisco. Cal, have petitioned the
Supreme Court to be declared insoIvent.
Mr.. Field states that his liabilities are
$4,000, and that his assets consist of
property valued at 5000, which is heavi-
ly encountered.
ToMAHAwK.-Deputy Sheriff Clark has
taken ]. A. Starks, young man about
% years of age to the Oshkosh Asylum.
His insanity was caused by sickness and
bordering over Christian Science publ
cations. He immagines himself to be
God.
KANSAS CITY.-Saturday afternoon
Clara 81 uuter, aged years, was playing
in an empty wagon in Pendleton Heights.
when IN some manner the wagon started
and went over the bluff. Her mother
heard her screams and went to her assist
ance, bur her dress caught in the wheel
and the wagon rolled down the preciplce,
distance of thirty feet, dragging the
mosher and child. The girl was instant
~ killed and the mother so badly injured
that she is not expected to live through
the night.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-28

SCOTLAND has a gold fever, the discov-
cry of bit o. gold in the gizzard of q
duck recently killed On farm in Forfar-
shire having been followed by the finding
of gold-bearing quartz in the same
neig hborhood.
CAIRO, Egypt.-A messenger who
arrived at WadY-Halfa reports a
battle between the followers of Seroussi
and Mahdists has taken place at Sinan to
the southwest of Bara, and that the for
mer were victorious. Both sides suffered
heavy losses. Among the killed were two
Mahdist chiefs.
DUBLIN-A number of tenants at
TownarvlIly. County Donegal, have been
evicted from their holdings. It Is proba-
BILE that the evictions would have been re-
sisted had not the authorities furnished q
force of 300 policemen and troops to as
sist them. The crowd of tenants and
their sympathizers were overa8ed by the
display of force.
THERE is big rush just now of Ameri-
cans and others to the San Carlos river
section of Costa RIGA to locate land
claims upon The supposed line Keith's
proposed railway to the Nicaragua from
tlef, work upon which will doubtless be
begun ere many months.
SAN FRANoIsoo.-Advices are at hand
from Panama to March 2. Suspension
OF work on the canal has left Colon full
OF empty houses, stores and shops, of
which she already had plenty, owing to
the removal inland of workmen's camps
as the work progressed. The Donough
more cantract has failed Of confirmation
by extra session of the Peruvian Cabinet.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-28
CRIME.

FRIDAY al Arkadelphia, Ark, Willis
Green, Anderson Mitchell, and Daniel
Jones, all colored, were hanged for n4ur
dering negro preacher.
ROBERT SIGEI of New York, who is
charged with pension forgeries has waiv-
ed further examination, and has heen
held for trial, in default of $4,000 ball.
The trial of Elizabeth Beechler,
charged with the murder of Henry w.
King, Jr., at Omaha, Neb. will take place
in two weeks.
L. G. DUFF, of Arkansas, and N. G..
Stutzman, of Kansas, have be en- SEN
fenced to fifteen years in the penitentiary
at San Quentin, Cal, for train robbery.
Four men, members of a gang who
have been engaged in many bold robDer-
les of late, are under arrest on suspicion
of numbering Fred Clark, the druggist
JOSIAH and Elizabeth Potts, who muir
dered Miles Taucett at Oarlin, Nevada,
over year ago, have been sentenced to
be hanged.
JOHN HANBACK,, sailor, testified at
Baltimore that Captain Beauchamp,
master of an oyster vessel, offered him 81
per week extra if ne would throw worth
less hands overheard.
PETHR and Timothy Barrett, brothers
who murdered and robbed street car driv-
er Tollefsou, were hanged Friday fore
noon at Minneapolis. The principal wit
ness against the victims was their broth
or Henry, alias freddy"
Four masked men entered the Office of
the Pittsburgh Sewer Works, near New
Brighton, Pa, bound the Waterman,
whom they kept silent with their revol-
vers, robbed the safe of 800 and de-
parted, leaving no clew to their identity.
THE wife of John FOSSIL, of Hillsboro,
Ind, was shot by her jealous husband,
who, while she lay on the ground begging
for mercy, after the first shot, emptied
every chamber of the revolver at her.
One shot cut eff her finger, one entered
near her heart, and nearly all of the 9th
ers took effect.
SIX desperedoes, among whom are
Ramsey, Lewis, Sullivan and Tasker, who
brutally tortured citizens of McClelJand-
town, Pa, last week, are located near the
mountain settlement of Markleyville.
The men are armed, and the citizens of
Markleyville have asked the UniCntowL
people to assist in their capture, and have
asked that the reward for their capture
be raised to $1,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-28

A little descriptive piece entitled
"Over the Guns" from the Detroit Free
Press, of which we give paragraph, re-
minds us that great advertisers, like
H. H. Warner & Co., proprietors Of War
ner's celebrated Safe Cure, might get
hint from it.
Here is the paragraphs:
"Shoot to the right or left, over the
guns or under them. Strike where you
will, but strike to destroy. Now the hell
surges down, even to the windows of the
old farm-house-now back under the
apple trees and beyond them Dead
men are under the ponderous wheels of
the guns, mad devils are slashing and
shooting across the barrels. No one
seems to know friend from foe. Shoot,
slash, kill and
"But the hell is dissolved. The smoke
is lifting, shrieks and screams grow
fainter, and twenty or thirty men pull
the dead bodies away from the guns.
Three hundred dead and wounded on
the single acre. They tell of war and
glory. Look over this hells acre and
find the latter" And in just as deadly
a strife, though noiseless, are men fall
ing at our right and left to-day. Is it
war? Yes, war of the blood. Blood
loaded with poison through imperfect
kidney action. And is there no power
to stop this awful slaughter? Yes,
Warmers Safe Cure, a tried specific, a
panacea that has brought life ana hope
to hundreds of thousands CT dying men
and women.
Be enlisted, therefore, in the great
army of living men and women who
have been rescued from disease and pre-
mature death, and be eternally grateful
that the means of life can SO easily be
YOurS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-28
FOREIGN,

IT is reported that hundred French
men have been killed in an uprising on
the frontier of Kiapgse, in China.
VIENNA.-It is officially denied that
Austria is preparing for war with Servia
EXTENSIVE floods are reported Galicia.
Many towns are inundated.
AT Unterhausen, Wartemburg, the cot
ton mills have been burned. Loss, 1,500,-
600 marks.
THE King of Servia is Is. The heiress
to the crows of Holland is 8. The Spen-
ish monarch is 8.
V1ENNA.-Herr Palitschek has been ap-
pointed Austrian consul at New York to
succeed the late Hugo Fritsche.
BERLN.-A government detective nam
ed Wichman has been sentenced to two
years Imprisonment for falsely accusing
two men of being anarchists.
ENGLAND has set apart another $780,
100000 to build armored vessels. She
evidently believes In time of peace pre-
pare for war"
IT is reported that the Spanish steamer
Remus sank near the PHILIPPINE Islands
carrying down with her forty-two per-
sons out of the 169 she carried.
LoNDoN.-England has demanded OF
MOROCCO, SoU,UOU lnde mnIty, for the
massacre and pillage at Mackenzie factory
at Cape JubY in 1885,
BERLTN.-It is stated that Prince Bis
marcA is in favor of joining Alsace-
Lorraine with Luxembourg after the
death of the king of Holland, and making
the duke of Nassau the ruler of the new
state.
THE growing intimacy between the
German Emperor and his brother
Prince Henry, has attracted comment
The latter is consulted about everything
and his allowance from the Prussian TO 5al
fund has been largely increased.
ALExANDEB, the child King of Servia
has written to his mother, ex Queen Ma
talie, asking her to keep away from
Servia, as her presence in the country
! he says, would make his position diff
cult one"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-28
WASHINGTON.

SECRETARY WINDOW to-day appointed
James II. WinrTim, of Philadelphia, Su-
peryising Architect of the Treasury.
IT Is reported that the importation of
-merican lard Is to be prohibited by the
Mexican Government, owing to alleged
adulteration.
DURING the last Congress nearly so,
100000 was approached for the construc-
ton and improvement of public build
ings.
CONTRACTS for the construction ot new
war vessels, embodying the latest ap-
proved ideas of high speed and heavy
armament, will be let within a few
months by the secretary of war.
ORDERS have been given for the imme-
diate preparation of plans for the con-
structjon of the four new war-vessels pro
vided for in the Naval Appropriation
bill passed by the last Congress.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-28
CHAPTER XV.-FAIR ISLAND.

Tom and | went down the side by a rope
ladder, taking with u.s. at Mr.. Fields re-
quest, a rifle and a revolver; Fame and he
went down as they had come up. The
strength and activity displayed by the
younger man were really marvellous.
Without apparent effort he swung himself
over the bulwark by one hand, seized a
rope with the other, and dropped into the
boat as lightly as monkey. He was about
the finest, perhaps the very finest, speci-
men of the genus homo / had yet seen.
Though / stand six feet in my stockings, he
overtopped me by three inches; his chest
development was quite phenomenal, and
his long arms were as muscular as a
horses leg. His features, too, were good,
and but for the queerness of his complex
ion L should have considered him hand
some; afterward, when piebald skins ceased
to be a novelty, did consider him hand
some. He had broad, though rather low
forehead, short black hair, large dark eyes,
the whites being singularly queer, an aqui-
line nose, small mouth, and square, reso-
lutte jaws. His head, albeit hardly large
enough for his broad shoulders and lofty
stature, was shapely, and "wen set on;'
he carried himself magnifcently, and his
movements were as 1.-the, as graceful, and
as unconstrained as those of any of the
great felidg.
The contrast between him and the crew
Of the boat was both startling and painful.
The six rowers were the most hideous
creatures l had ever seen, even in night
mare. Their predominating color was
deep black, dabbed with red and yellow
patches in singularly arbitrary and ir-
regular fashion. Thus, one man had AIRED
nose in the middle of an otherwise Jet
black face. Another had red mouth; an
other, again-and think he was the most
horrible-looking of the lot-had red eyelids
and red upper lip, all the rest of his visor
being of the deepest ebony. Add that the
pupils of their eyes were indistinguishable
from the iris, and the whites large and
streaked with blood, their noses huge and
fat, their mouths wide, with blubber, ne
gro-like lips, their foreheads narrow and
tattooed, and that they wore bone rings in
pendulous ears, and you may form some
idea OF the appearance of these Callbans
Ghe name, as l afterward heard, actually
bestowed on them by the islanders). In
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10 El!IBIu0snW eql puB sI9pInoqs IE5ql 10
QlpIM 4B5IS eQl o. SuIMo 'W99s lq5IW ueql
os sssI lei 'lIoqs IeqlBI eIeM AeQl eIn4els
squat Hercules; and their biceps, as they
rowed, sweQed out to the size of cocoa
nuts.
These beauties evidently occupied very
inferior position. l observed that Field
and Fame never spoke to them except to
give them orders, and always in tone of
harshness that Jared painfully on my
feelings, for, ugly and degraded as the
men seemed, they were at least human.
With six oars and the lateen sail (for the
wind now served, we went swiftly through
the water; but instead Of making for the
nearest part of the coast, as l expected he
would, Fame (who took the helm) steered
the boat up the middle of the bay, and In
the direction Of headland some four or
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-28
TWO THOUSAND YEARS OLD.
Some Remarkable Portraits That We're Recent
ly Discovered in Egypt

London Globe.
An interesting collection of antiquities
has lately been On exhibition in London,
consisting of the various obj brought
to light by Mr.. Flinders PetrIe during his
| recent excavations in Egypt on the site
of the ancient Labyrinth described by
Herodotus.
The first thing that strikes the specta-
tor is series of portraits on wood, 80
perfect and fresh in appearance that it
is hard to believe that they had been
buried for neatly 1000 years; yet such is
the case, and the portraits represent
Romans inferred during the Ptolemiac
period.
1t is singular that the Romans in Egypt
should have adopted the mode of burial
of the Egyptians; but the faces and dress
Of these portraits are undoubtedly Roman,
although they covered the heads Of num-
mics beautifully and elegantly swathed in
the numerous linen bandages peculiar to
Egyptian burials, but more artistically
arranged than was common in the more
ancient mummies, for the crossings of
the bandages. form beautiful honeycomb
pattern of extraordinary symmetry, each
panel finished with gilt band.
The board upon which the portrait is
painted was bandaged in skilfGlly over
the head and thus eiatives might have the
mournful pleasure of contemplating the
features of the deceased whenever they
pleased; AMI certainly no artist, even of
modern times, could have more faithfully
portrayed tho individual than the portrait
painter of 1000 years ago.
They are evidently what are usually
called speaking" likeResses. There is
one of an old man who might have been a
general, or one of the Cesars, in his white
toga, every line and furrow of the face
carefully delineated; while several of the
ladies, particularly two young girls,
might be exhibited as likenesses of pro
fessional beauties of the present day.
The material employed for these durable
portraits was wax medium, which has
been employed with excellent effect in
modern.t times, and might be used more
frequently with advantage
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-28

Tx need of FUNERAL reform, as seen
by the clergy, is considered in series of
letters published a few days ago in the
Lewiston (Me) Journal. The minister,
with the possible exception of the under
takers, sees more of the funeral side of
life than the rest of US, and is well quail
fed to speak as an authority on it's fol-
lies and shams. In the criticisms before
US, several keen and unprecedented minis
tiers unite in deploring the existing OBJ
sequious customs. They urge less ex-
peuse and more simplicity and sincerity
in the burial of the dead. Such customs
IS the hiring of hacks for near neighbors
to bear them to the grave; the lavish dis
play of flowers, and the publicity given
to the grief of the nearest friends often
times are deprecated. The dramatic
leave-takings are characterized as bar
barous, and it is thought that the
treatment of the minister himself is also
worthy of the same adjective. Many ad
vocate more cheerfu;ness in these matters
and the expunging of all morbid tenden-
oies, such as the wearing of Grape and
the closing of blinds. One clergyman
will find many to sympathize with him in
the following: Il have sat for three
quarters of an hour and heard a clergy
man wind off written sermon till have
thought if the mourneIs we're not dead
they must wish themselves the deceased
Some men in preaching a funeral ser
mon work upon the sympathies of the
people until everybody feels to weep and
wonder that they had never seen these
virtues and graces in the person depart
ed, which he names" Another thinks
most people would be surprised were they
to be listeners at their own funerals
doubtless it would be cheering to many
to wake in the midst of so much praise
that had been denied in life. In this
same line of thought is the suggestion OF
ne minister, which he confesses is re
form of life rather Than funerals -"tha,
all live SO well that something, and mucf
could be truthfully said in their praise
when they are gone"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-28

the grandeur Of the Alps, the richness of
the fora, the proximity of the ocean, and
the rugged crest of the mountain, emerg-
ing from mass of verdure and diademed
with a silvery cloud, gave this part of the
Fair Island beauty all its own.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-05-11
Honesty Finds Its Reward.

Some time ago a wealthy man died
in Brussels, leaving nearly his entire
fortune to ayoung Soman who was en-
tirely unacqualnted with him. The
American Art Printer explains that
this is how it came to pass: He was a
very eccentric man, and set out, like
Diogenes, in search of an honest man.
His tub wns an omnibus, and his lam
tern a small coin. In the omnibus he
used to take his seat every day near
the conductor, and always showed him
self very obliging in passing up the
money of passengers and returning
the change, but to the latter he always
managed to add a franc or half franc.
Then he would watch those to whom
it came. They would count it careful
ly. notice the extra coin, and invaria,
bly, slip it into their pockets. No one
thought of the poor conductor, whose
meager salary of three francs a day
could ill support such a loss. But al
last a young woman passed hers back
with, Conductor, you have given me
half a franc too much" Diogenes, de.
lighted, followed her home, made in.
quiries, and, as the answers were sat.
isfactory, made his will in her favor,
though he lever gave her warning thai
her half franc was going to bring hel
half a million.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-05-11
THE GIRLS AND THEIR eEAux.

The girls were out walking
And busily talking
o. the beaux, and Of weddings, and parties, for
sooth,
When one of them, blushing,
And girlishiy gushing,
Told stories about q society youth.
He was stylish and slender,
And dressed in great splendor,
His manners we're charmingly fine, { 1T you
knowi
But his record was haEy, N
Yet the girls were all crazy
20 be introduced TO this elegant beau.
Another spoke after
With ripples of laughter,
d one who was such a ridiculous swell,
An out-and-out dandy, f,
But he kept her in candy.
And so she pretended to like him right well.
Another said signing:
sSThere's no use denying,
The men of to-day are a terrible lott"
When all In q furry,
Ispoke In q hurry,
And said there were many knew who were not.
But il Jennie and Mile,
And the rest were so silly
As to keep brainless tops at the end Of their
chain,
They'd repent OF their folly
With deep melancholy,
Come day when thesgA~srs and lamentings
were vain.
II candy and clothes
Make attractive the beaux,
And girls are delighted with show and pre-
tense,
IT'S surely no wonder
That daily they blunder,
And keep at q distance the men Of good sense.
Josephine Pollard, in N. Y. Ledger.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-05-11
The lecturer asserted that bribery

The lecturer asserted that bribery
was almost universal among the OFF,
Gals. An instance of this was as fol-
lows: In every village there was gem
orally n Jewish capitalist. At a
time when the peasants were about to
float their wheat to market on barges,
one of these capitalists proposed to the
official that when the peasants applied
to him for their passports to enable
them to travel to the market, he should
tell them that they had been sent to
the department fdr renewal, or invent
some other excuse to prevent the
peasants from travelling. Then he (the
capitalist) would buy their wheat at
home for about half its value, and
divide up the profits with him. To this
the official agreed, and the scheme was
carried out, with the result that the
peasants became discouraged, and
agriculture declined.
Next to the rural police in numer-
ical strength, and far above them in
| intellect and power" said the lecturer,
''are the secret police of Russia, who
are to be found everywhere through
out the immense Empire, and who are
most numerous in the large cities. A
great part of their work consists in
maintaining supervision over persons
who are suspected of sympathizing
with the revolutionary movement.
III ,-I~-
| vision when the last Gar came to the
throne was officially reported to be
1887 in European Russia, besides about
1000 in Siberia, all of the latter polit-
ical exiles. The number is probably
much greater now. All these are un.
der open surveillance; they know the
police are watching them, and that
1heir correspondence is under con-
trol."-Frank Leslie's Weekly.