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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-16
BAY ISLANDS BUroHERY.
The Throats of Three Persons Cut by a
Robber.

Robber.
MOBILE, ALA, April 15-Capt. r. c.
Jones Of the schooner Arthur arrived here
to-day from tho Bay islands, near Hon.
duras. ard reports that at Ruatan, last
month, Rev. Henry Hobson, his wife,
and her companion, young girl, all
natives Of Jamaica, we're murdered by
Joseph Bures. The family were preparing
TO leave there for Balize and Bures was
helping. Discovering that Mrs. Hobson
had money, Bures at night entered the
house and cut the throats of all three
uersong
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-11-15
A laxative Parrot In a Car.

"Ah. there. baby"' screamed the
parrot hid behind paper which
Willie had placed over the cage, in a
New York street car.
The old maid looked startled, says
the Philadelphia North American, and
a grin appeared on the faces of several
of the other passengers.
"Oh, mammal" croaked the bird.
The old maid glared at each passen-
ger, highly indignant.
Where did you get that hat, I'd
like TO know9" went on the irrepressi-
bic bird.
The clerical passenger looked up in
alarm and then felt mis- hat in hasty
confusion. Every one noted the action
and ripple of suppressed laughter
went over the car
"Ah, there, whiskers!n
The clerical man leaped TO his feet
and frowned Mt a smooth-faced young
man near the front.
Il won't be insulted," he cried.
''Ding, ding; two more fares out OF
the company's pockets.
The conductor flushed and fastened
into the car from the back platform.
WHO said that?" he demanded.
Willie looked rs demure as an
angel.
johnny. get your hair cut. D."
An old man with long hair made a
precipitate departure from the car
At Broad street Willie lifted the
paper, grab bed the cage, and got off
the car.
Then the passengers tumbled.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-11-15
Keen Dat Of Debt.

Every man who would get along in
the world should, rs far as possible,
avoid debt. From the very outset OF
his career he should sternly resolve TO
live within his income. however paltry
it may be. The art of living easily as
to money. is very simple pitch your
scale of living one degree below your
this subject is most tersely epitomized
in the words of Dickens's Micawber:
annual income twenty pounds; annual
expenditure, nineteen six; result. hap
piness. Annual income. twenty
pounds; annual expenditure, twenty
pounds and six; result, misery"
Many man dates his downfall from
the time he began going in debt
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-11-15
woo,us the Goddess Fortune.

Boston Mass Herald. Oct. 2.
South Boston hits / quite often, of.ener
than is generally supposed. Several times
have the great capital prizes of the Louis
lana State Lottery been sent over the pen
insula to be distributed among the citizens
of that locality. The latest favored gentle
man at the coUr5 of good fortune was Mr.
John IL. Havey. who resides on West
Fourth street, and who does business at 3O4
West Broadway. Mr.. Havey is popular
citizen of the Sonth Boston district, where
he has lived as "a man and boy for IS wears
Of his life. He was holder Of Goth OF
the second capital prize drawn az the last
drawing of the Louisiana State Lottery.
and he received 5000 in crisp bills last
week. The full amount that was drawn by
the number he held S 100000. and as
there were two other no ders OF twentieths
In Boston, total of $4,000 came TO this
city as prize money to gladden. the hearts
of the holders of lucky numbers. Mr.
Havey is not constant buyer OF tickets in
lotteries, ont has occasionally purchased
such tickets without expecting TO draw
anything.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-11-15
THE BIBLE IN LITERA rURE.
The Effect on Scholar and Think
ers of Modern Times.

1t Is safe to say that there is no
other book which has had so great an
influence upon the literature of the
world as the Bible, says the Century.
And ii is almost as safe-at least with
no greater danger than that of starting
an instructive discussion-to say that
there is no other literature which has
felt this influence so deeply or shown
it so clearly as the English.
The cause of this latter fact is not
far to seek 1t may be, as dis
contented French critic suggests, that
ii is partly due to the Unborn and in
corrigib!e tendency of the Anglo-Saxon
mind TO drag religion and morality
into everything. But certainly this
tendency would never have taken such
distinctly Biblical form had it not
been for the beauty and vigor of our
common English version of the
Scriptures. These qualities were felt
by the people even before they were
praised by the critics.
Apart from all religious PROPOSES
sions, men and women an children
were fascinated by the native power
and grace of the book. The English
Bible was popular, in the broadest
sense, long before it was recognized
as one OF our noblest classics. 1t has
colored the talk Of the household and
the street, as well as moulded the Ian
guage of scholars. 1t has been some
thing more than "a well of English
undefled;" it has become a part Of
spiritual atmosphere. We hear the
echoes of its speech every where and
the music of its familiar phrases
haunts all the fields and groves OF our
fine literature.
1t is not only to the theologians and
the sermon makers that we look for
biblical illusions and quotations. We
often find the very best and most
vivid OF them in writer's professedly
secular. Poets like Shakespeare, Mil
ton and Wordsworth, novelists like
Scott and romancers like Hawthorne;
essayists like Bacon, Steele and Addi-
son; critics Of life. unsystematic
philosophers like Carlyle aud Ruskin
all drawn upon the Bible as treas
ury OF illustrations and use it as n
book equally familiar to themselves
and TO their readers. 1t is impossible
to put too high "A value upon such a
universal volume. even as purely
literary possession.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-11-15

"A wonderful thing is clover. 1t
means honey and cream; that is TO
say, industry and contentment, that is
to say, the happy bees in perfumed
fields, and at the cottage gate old
Boss, the bountiful, chewing satisfac-
TONS cud. in that blessed twilight
pause that like a benediction falls be-
teen all toll and sleep. This clover
makes me dream of happy hours, of
childhood's rosy cheeks, of dimpled
babes. of wholesome loving wives, of
honest men, of springs. and brooks
and violets, and all there is of painless
Joy and peaceful human life. A
wonderful word is clover. Drop the
&C and you have the happiest of man
kind. Take away the C. and ~ and
you have the only thing that makes a
heaven of this dull and barren earth.
Cut off the 'r' alone and there remains
a warm deceitful bud that sweetehs
breath and keeps the peace in count.
less homes whose masters frequent
clubs. After all Bottom was right,
Good hay, sweet hay. hath nn fel.
low "-Ingersoll.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-11-15
NIctIms of Misfortune.

There are hundreds of young men in
the cities of the west who left good
homes in the east and not meeting the
success which they anticipated have
become lost TO their parents. They
have drilted into ways concerning
which they would not care TO have
known at the old home and have grad
ually become buried in the great mass
of the unknown which is found in
every large city. The parents may be
wealthy and of good position, but the
boy is proud and will not go back whe n
the tide OF misfortune sets in upon
him. He does not write and the
mother becomes alarmed. She does
not know what TO do. but at last writes,
perhaps, to the secretary Of the Young
Mems Christian Association: DO you
know my boyP Can't you look him up
and take good care of himm
1t Is touching, says the Kansas City
Journal, 10 read the many letters Mr..
Hansel receives from eastern mothers
relative to their lost boys. and If any
part OF the associations work is relig-
iously and cheerfully done. this Is IL.
One day last week Mr.. Hansel re-
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-11-15

The operation of the new jury sys-
TEN adopted by the two Dakotas will
be watched with considerable interest
throughout the country. 1t is the first
attempt to test in modified form the
Prussian system, which permits ma
jority of jury to render a decision in
criminal cases, the punishment being
scaled from the maximum in proper
ton to the number voting for the YER
dict. By the law of the Dakotas, if
nine of the twelve men agree in any
case, their decision will be accepted as
a verdict. Truly, this is a departure
in the line of reason and common
sense which commends itself. If this
method is supplemented by making in
telligence qualification of jurors, il
can hardly fail TO work satisfac orily.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-11-15
How 10 Have beautiful Hair

Now about your hair, says Bah, in
late letter: its gloss is gone; it looks
dirty; very well, then, what it needs
first of all is good shampooing with
warm water and brown soap gotten
from the kitchen. You only need
but no other is as really desirable as
this, which seems 10 cut the dirt and
being washed out Immediately by the
hot water, it does not injure the hair.
Have your hair famed until ii is dry,
or else 90 about with il loose, but do
not under any circumstances put it up
while it is damp, for il you do it will
have for days an abominable mouldy
smell. To get back its gloss you will
need TO cultivate the muscles of your
arm; brush it for fifteen minutes every
night and morning, giving it long
sweeping strokes, and having brush
the bristles OF which, while they are
long and close together. are yet not
stiff enough to hurt your head. II is a
matter of small Importance about the
brains, but when it comes to brushing
the hair you need not bang your head
as il you thought 1T was made Of wood.
That sort of treatment will never give
it the beautiful gloss, the beautiful
natural gloss, that announces To the
world at large that not particle OF
dye has been used upon it in making
it blonde or brown. Entire nous, the
brushing of your fair locks in the way
described will develop not only your
arms but your bust
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-11-15

II could be tanned in pieces OK sufficient
size TO make u pair Of drumheads
Upon one of these drumheads the
''declaration of independence" was to
be written and upon the other Pope's
universal prayer" Fitted In its
proper wooden frame this CHASTITY relic
was TO be presented to local drummer
whom the testator designates IA dis
tinguished friend" upon condition that
he would promise 10 carry il to the
foot OF Bunker Hill monument on each
succeeding anniversary OF the battle.
at sunrise, and beat upon 1t the invig-
Grating strains of Yankee Doodle"
The skeleton OF Jeremy Bentham in
the Hospital museum, London, is there
at the request OF its owner, who made
a special provision In his will to have
it presented to the curators OF the hos
pital, who, upon accepting the gift,
were to have the skeleton mounted and
put in the Presidential chair at each
meeting OF the hospital directors.
DIR. Wagner, an American, is up to
or even ahead OF the English preceden,
in the ACKNOWLEDGMENT idea During
his life his relatives had given him but
little thought. When it came time for
him to die-he had q little money,
about 81 900 his brothers became very
kind. After his death. when the will
was read, the following remarkable
clause was disclosed:
10 my brother Napoleon Bonaparte,
l bequeath my left arm and hand 10
George Washington. my second brother,
my right arm and hand; to my other
relatives my legs, nose and ears. My
money, 81, 600 cash, now in the b
bank | bequeath to the physicians and
surgeons who carry out my request by
dismembering my body and giving tC
each OF my relatives the portion allot-
ed to him or her."
Horatio q. Onderdonk, a brother OF
the bishop Of New York, made pro
visions in his will which would have
turned old Draco green with envy.
Drdco was strict and well understood
the meaning OF the expression, "ruline
with rod of IRON but had Mr.. On
derdonk lived at the time the old man
was preparing his famous code he
could have helped to make it more
binding. The last paragraph in the
Onderdonk will reads as follows: "NC
heir must be an idler. sluggard, profit.
gate, drunkard, gambler; use liquor.
or tobacco; go hunting or fishing OIL
Sundays; attend races; enter a barroou
or porter house; neglect to rise, break
fast and be ready for business by
O'Clock, or get married before he Of
she arrives at the age OF % years
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-11-15
4 Railroad to ike's Peak.

While in Kansas City recently the
contractor who is building the rail-
road to the lofty highth of Pixies Peak
said: 1--WE commenced at the top of
the mountain first, for the reason that
we thought we could finish the three
miles above timber line before winter
set in. The government has very
kindly rented us one or two buildings
usually devoted TO the uses of the sig
nal service corps station on the peak,
and id these We manage TO keep our
800 men very comfortably. OF course,
where we are now at work is away
up among the clouds, and it is right
annoying TO run against transient
rain or snow storm every few hours.
There hasn't been day passed since
we began work but that we had either
rain, snow. or sleet storm, and
frequently the clouds hover about so
thick that we can't recognize each
other fifteen feet apart. The road we
are building is owned by the presi-
dents of several Western railway sys-
TENS, and when completed will touch
the highest point of any road in the
world. The summit depot will be
right at the flagstaff. The grade is an
enormous one, being twenty-five feet
to the 100, or one-fourth pitch, the
heaviest on record. The plan of con-
struction is similar to that of the
White Mountain road in New Hamp-
shire. The company that is building
the road expected to have it in opera
tion by July a. 1890" The road will
be thirteen miles long.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-11-15
The South African republic presents

The South African republic presents
queer anomaly in the history of
civil governments. Here are sixty
thousand Beers, about a quarter of
whom are adult males qualified TO
vote. They elect the president and
members OF the volksraad or parlia-
ment Within IA few years one hum
dred thousand white men, mostly
English, have moved into the repub-
lie, and have opened mines and built
two towns, in comparison with which
the capital, Pretoria, is very insig-
nificant These new corners have not
been admitted TO citizenship, and so
the fifteen thousand Beers are making
all the laws that govern one hundred
thousand adult Immigrants. These
new Corners thought awhile ago they
would like to build a railroad, but
the solons in the volksraad voted the
project down. The miners are build
ing city hall 10 cost half a million
dollars, but the forty-five lawmakers
at Pretoria won't let them have a rail-
road. OF course this state of affairs
cannot last forever, and there will be
an explosion some day, unless the
whites, who are doing so much for the
development of the country, find some
peaceable way of making their voice
heard
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-11-15

The annual report of the governor
of the new state of Washington con-
confirms the extraordinary growth of
that state. In two years taxable prop
erty increased from sixty-one mil
lions to one hundred and twenty-four
millions. During that period the
growth in population has been equally
great, and property values have in
creased fifty per cent in town and
country. The new state is especially
rich in fertility of soil, vast forests oil
timber, and in minerals. besides har-
Dor facilities TO attract the trade oil
the Orient. Washington will prove
one of the richest additions to the
cluster OF states.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-11-15
Now You Know What 10 DO.

The Chicago Tribune is always do.
ing something for the public good.
It's last effort is to explain that a
Texas steer on the rampage through
the streets can be brought TO bay by
someone throwing an empty -four barrel
over his head. Gosh hang it! but why
couldn't somebody in Michigan have
thought of that thing!-Free Press.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-11-15

The new King OF Portugal, who
succeeds his father, King Luis !, on
the throne, was born on Septem-
Der 2Sth. 1868, and is consequently
&c years old. Portugal, over which
he is called to rule, is a kingdom in
southern Europe, occupying the west
ern part Of the Iberian peninsula,
Spain being its neighbor. 1t COM
prises an area of 80, 900 square miles
with 1900, 900 inhabitants, and pos.
sesses colonies in Africa. and Asia,
containing 1000, 900 more inhabitants.
Brazil used to belong to Portugal, but
declared itself independent of the
mother country in 1922, and a brother
of the then reigning king OF Portugal
was made emperor.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-11-15
WONDERFUL WILLS.
Cranky Tesla mentary Utterances
That Kept the Makers Memory

Green.
Often quoted is the remarkable will
OF Solomon Sanborn of Medford, Mass.
who died about fifteen years ago. San
born was a great patriot, and specially
gloried in the part Massachusetts took
in the revolutionary struggle. In his
will he left his body to Dr. Oliver
Wendell Holmes and Professor Agassiz,
not, however. without imposing some
of the most unheard OF provisions and
conditions His skeleton he desired
prepared in the most artistic manner
known to the profession. and placed
with the many others in the anatomical
department of Harvard college While
preliminary preparations were being
made in carrying out this extraordi-
nary request. he desired the surgeons
to be very careful with the skin SO that
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-11-15

There is very noticeable de-
crease in the number of immigrants
arriving in this country compared
with the record of 1883. The arrivals
for September aggregated 3S,544, or
/ 400 less than for the same month
last year The record for the preced-
ing eight months of the present year
shows an equally marked decrease,
while the character OF the arrivals has
been materially improved by the very
strict enforcement of the immigration
laws.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-11-15
WESTERN LIFE.
Eomsth.ry New About the Wonderful; City
of the Mormons.

A Railroad to the Snow Capped Summit of
Pixies Peak--Young Men Who Drift to the
West and are Lost--The Frisky Jack Rab-
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-11-15

The fact is. ii is no easy matter to
capture live jack rabbit Plenty of
people say they can catch them, and
think they can catch them, says Kan
sas letter to the n. Y. Star, but when
it comes right down to business the re-
suits do not warrant the assertion.
One vehement Colorado citizen who
lived in section where the jack rabbits
fairly swarmed has repeatedly declared
his ability to capture 1000 jacks in Il
week. He thought he could take n
number of men and some long nets and
make dive which would round up
about an acre OF writhing, seething jack
rabbits at "a whirl. His project is not
new and has been tried. The result
usually is that the big hares either get
away or get killed. Eastern parties
DESTROYS OF starting coursing parks
have had outstanding offers of S.
apiece for jack rabbits not any longer
than your hand, but they were unable
to get any. A few young ones are
occasionally picked up in nests by boys
or by hunters upon the western plains.
and once in long while one is caught
in big figure 4 trap or "fall door"
trap, although the latter does not often
happen, because of the brightness and
shyness OF this particular kind of rab-
bit. Neither of these sources ofsupply,
however is in any way constant, and
both are altogether inadequate to the
exigencies OF regular coursing events.
1t did not take long, therefore. for
the projectors of an inclosed coursing
circuit to realize that they must have
jack rabbit farm. The only farm of
this Sort SO far as known, is situated
on IA fiat alSali section near town in
central Kansas. 1t and its jack rabbits
are the property OF a coursing associa-
ton which will not sell rabbit to any
one else, and which depends on its
farm for the supply Of hares taken to
other cities in park coursing events.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-11-15

ceived a letter from wealthy Eng
lishmaE, of London, asking about his
boy who came TO Kansas City five
years ago, and has not been heard
from since. The association looked
for several days. and finally found in a
low gambling den what was once a
fine and polished young Englishman.
Another letter was from clergy
man. The son of one OF his parishon-
ers was last in Kansas City, and his
parents wanted information. The
young man was found in a small print
ing Office barely ekeing out an exist
ence, with mind shattered and friends
gone. There are many other such
cases which the association helps. and.
If the organization exists for anything,
it is this, and just that is being done.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-03-23
NEW ADvERTIsRmRNTs.
7oTturing, Disfiguring Skin Diseases

minister and his little boy cured Of an
ebssinats skin disease by ihe Cusicura
Remedies. Praises them everywhere
IN the pulpis, home, and In the street.
For about thirteen years have beeen troubled
with eczema or some other eutaneous disease
which all remedies failed to cure. Hearing OF the
CUrIcURA REMEDIES resolved to give them
trial. and purchased one bottle of CUTIcURA RE-
SOLVENT, one box of CUTIcURA and one cake
CUTIcURA SOAR. followed the directions care
fully, and 1t affords me much pleasure TO say that
before using two boxes of the CUTIcURA, four
cakes of CUTIcURA SOAP, and one bottle OF CUTI-
cURA REsoLvENT, 1 was entirely cured.
In addition TO my own case, my baby boy, then
about five months odd, was suffering with what
supposed to be the same disease as mine to such
an extent that his head was coated over with
solid scab, from which there was constant flow
OF pus which was sickening TO look upon, besides
TWO large tnmor like kernels on the back OF his
head. Thanks to you and your wonderful CuTI.
cURA REMEDIES his scalp Is perfectly well, and
the kernels have been scattered so that there Is
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The CUTIcURA SOAP and CUTIcURA REsoL-
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crew G. NJ. MANNING,
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