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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-02-19
A STRIKING NARRATIVE.
How the Wind of a Cannon BAN Can
Wound and Rruise.

How the Wind of a Cannon BAH Can
Wound and RFpise:
Sir Robert Rawlinson, X. G. B., sends
us the following striking narrative:
ION the morning of the 10th of June,
1855, was riding in company with some
military officers on their way to the
trenches before Sebastopol, and enter
ing the ravine known as The Valley Of
the Shadow of Death, when in the act
of turning round to go back was swept
down with my horse by a 42-pound rms
sian steel shot The shot passed in
front of me. from left to right, cutting
the reins out of my left hand and passing
through the thin jacket under my arm.
had in my right-hand trousers pocket a
small leather purse with q steel rim 70 it
and little silver in it. This purse
bruised the strong cloth of the pocket
and my flannel shirt, as also the crest Of
the pelvis. Ny own impression was that
the shot had struck me full in the aDdo-
men, and that I was cut in two. /
tainted and my wound bled copiously,
and / was taken to the nearest tenn
porary hospital. Now, as to the wind of
this shot Il could have had nothing
to do With my wound. AS e1s
planned, the shot traEersed across the
abdomen and met with nothing solid
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-02-19

the SIX Nations" and is here quoted
verbatim:
about this time great musqueto in
Vaded the fort Onondaga; the musqueto
was mischievous to the people, it few
about the fort with long singer, and
sucked the blood a number of lives;
the warriors made several oppositions
to expel the monster, but failed:
the country was invaded until the Hold
or OF the Heavens was pleased to visit
the people; while he was visiting the
King at the Fort Onondaga, the mus
queto made appearance as usual and
flew a 1T the fort, the Holder of Heav-
ems attacked the monster, it few so
rapidly that he could hardly keep in
sight of it, but after few days chase
the monster began to fail; he chased on
the borders of the great lakes towards
the sun-setting, and round the great
country; at last he overlook the mon
ster and killed it near the salt lake
OnOndaga, and the blood became small
musquetoes."
In Clark's ''Onondaga," two monsters
stood on opposite banks of the Seneca
river, destroying the passing Indians.
1AdWdIud SOOu hlleu one. DuU Jno other
was pursued until slain by Onondaga
Lake. He threw up sand-hills in his
dying struggles, and the small mos
quitoes rose in clouds from his decaying
body. Another version differs from this
only in bringing all the Cayugas and
Onondagas against the monsters, and
destroying them after heavy loss.
ASH Horatio Hale has well observed,
there has been a confusion of Hi-a-wa-
tina with Ta-oun-ya-wat-ha, the Holder
of the Heavens, and the Onondagas GER
tainly now identify their deliverer with
the latter. Places connected with the
story are still pointed out. On the Tus-
caroas reservation is Ia large stone where
the Holder of the Heavens rested
during the long pursuit. Two de-
pressiOns appear; one where his body
reclined, and another where he leaned
upon his elbow. Chief Abram Hill told
me he had seen the tracks of the pur-
suer and pursued. little south of SYRIA
cuse, where the Onondagas kept them
fresh not long since. He said those of
the monster were twenty inches long,
bird-like, and could be traced for twen-
ty rods.-W. NJ. Beauchamp, in Journal
of American Folk-Love.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-02-19

out the purse and money in my pocket,
and the contact was sufficient to break
the strong cloth of the pocket under the
purse-not above 1.-THE flannel shirt,
and the flesh and bone of the pelvis.
And remember, so slight must have
been the touch of the shot on my clothes
that they were not abraded or marked;
the thin summer coat being perforated,
but the outer edge not broken. How
could the wind perform this freak? The
full front force of this shot, of only 900
feet per second, would have a striking
power of about 40, 900 pounds, but, can
nonlng on me in front, the force or blow
might be only equal to severe blow by
man striking below the belt. If this
shot had passed over any more solid por-
ton of the body, as the head or the
back, sudden death would have been
the result; but as it barely touched the
clothes upon the abdomen the effect was
lessened. At all events, l was severely
wounded by a forty-two pound round
of it; and by reason of the grand surgery
of the late Sir James Ferguson 1 am
now alive to tell the tale"
A medical correspondent quotes Prof.
Sir I. Longmore upon the matter thus:
The true explanation of the appearances
presented in those cases which were
formerly called wind Commissions" ap-
pears to rest in the peculiar direction or
degree of obliquity with which the
missile has happened to impinge against
the yielding and elastic skin, together
with the position of the internal organs
injured between this missile and other
hard substances in their neighborhood
The surface itself is not directly torn or
cut into because the impact of the pro-
jectile has not been sufficiently direct to
effect an opening; but the parts beneath
are crushed by the pressure to which
they have been subjected between the
combined influence of the weight and
momentum of the shot on one side and
some hard resisting substance on the
other. There are no cases / have seen
or read of, our correspondent adds, that
can not be satisfactorily explained on
the theory given above.-Pall Mall
Gazette.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-02-19
The eREAr MOSQUITO.

A Monster whose DImInutive DESCEND
ants Are a Torment Vet.
One Of the old legends of the Iroquois
related to monster whose dimiautiye
descendants are a torment yet-ths
Great Mosquito. The story is very sim
ply told in David Cusick's History Of
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Dom Pedro's Kindheartedness.

A Berlin paper relates this story by
way of illustrating the kindheartedness
OF Dom Pedro. Some years agoa woman
in Berlin was deserted by her husband.
A few months later she received a letter
and some money from him, but these
missivcs soon ceased, and tho woman
was left in the greatest poverty. When
Dom Pedro was in Berlin she begged for
an audience, and told him her story. He
promised to do all he could on his re-
turn to Brazil. Some time elapsed. and
the woman thought the Emperor had
forgotten her, when one day letter ar
rived from her husband inciosing money
for her 10 come to Brazil. He related
that high official had one day called
on him and told him that the Emperor
wished to see him the next day; and at
their meeting Dom Pedro had made him
promise to send for her.-N. Y. Post.
The cotton-picker recently tried
near koiiiag Fork, says a Mississippi
paper, not only captured the cotton bus
gathered in limbs, stalks, real estate
and all, and then scattered the mass all
over the field. 1t took ten darkies to
pick up after it, and the machine was
declared a failure. A good, spry de.
scendapt Of EaIn is the best cotton-pick-
ing machine vet introduced in this ooun.
try by our enterprising Yankee friends.
II they succeed IN making better one
we viii buy that as we did the ones in
PRODUCED here prior to 1861.
women can be conquered but never
convinced.
It's poor dolt who can not invent an
excuse for his foolishness.
People who arc temperate In all
things are generally satisfied with none.
Successful business men have to rele-
gate the luxury of being sick to their
employees.
How uncomfortable chronic kicker
looks when he is accidentally right and
gets majority ON his side.
Why should custom ask a man to set
up the cigars because his expenses are
Increased by the arrival Of babye
While wealth receives respect rthe
man who possesses it is sometimes fool
ish enough TO believe that it is to him
the people bow. Milwaukee journal.
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SUGAR PLANTATIONS.

EAl of the best and largest county,
~ Sorghum Sugar Works operation Medicine
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MEDICINE LODGE, KANSAS.

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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-03-27
The Valentine Scrip.

F.. WASHINGTON, March 27.-In the
case Of Frank Burns and others,
who maze an application to locate
the Valentine scrip upon tide
lands near Seattle, Washington, the
Secretary Of the Interior has decided
that such land is not within the ex-
tent Of the act Of Congress author
iZing the issue of the Valentine
scrip .or 'ublic lands Of the United
States. He holds further that since
the location is upon unsurveyed
lands II was merely preference
right to perfect such location after
survey as against the claims Of all
Others exc-pt the United States, but
that, until such location is adjusted
10 the public surveys, the United
States has authority to disyose Of
the lanus covered thereby. Such
disposition, he holds, Is made
Of the tract in controversy
by the admission Of Washington into
the Union as State. Hence, even
were, it 20 be conceded that the
lands were, al the location, a sub
jet Of disposal by the general gov
ernmeni, the rights Of the State are
superior to those of the Scrip appli-
canis. Ii Is stated that the lands in
question are located on the water
front Of Seattle, which, together
with the improvements, are valued
at several million dollars.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-03-27
GENERAL CONFERENCE.

THE Sixtieth Annual Confer
euce Of the Church Of Jesus Chris
of Latter-day Saints viii commence
at 10 O'Clock n. ~, on Friday
April 4th. 1896, in the Tabernacle,
Salt Lake City.
The officers and members OF the
Church are invited TO attend all the
meetings.
a General Priesthood meeting
viii be held in the Tabernacle, at
: O'Clock on Saturday evening,
April 5tb, and one Of the ofilcers
and Teachers of the Deseret Sunday
School UniJn, at the same hour and
place, on Sunday evening, April 9Th
On FiIay evening, April ith, al
the same hour, the Young Ladies'
Mutual Improvement ASSOCIATIONS
will meet and on Monday the
relief societies will hold conference.
Meetings at 10 O'Clock am. and
. pm. at the Assembly Hall.
MILFORD WOODRUFF,
GBoRGEQ. CANNON,
JOSEPH F. SMITH,
First Presidency.
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THE WYOMING BILL.
The Bill Providing for .wyOmiDg's
admission Passes the
IIouSc.
THREE5RoTHERs KILLED oHTHE
RAILWAY.
Location for Valentine Scrip
Jay GOuld's Visit 10
Mexico.
By TELEGRAPH to the sEr..l
The incoming nirI.

WAsIIISGIoS, March 27.--The
House met at II O'Clock, IN continu-
ance OF Wednesdays session. The
Wyoming admission bill was again
taken M. Cultivate Of Ohio OPP
posed the bill upon the ground Of an
ln>ufilciency Of population. Bide-
kalew " Pennsylvania aniagonized
the measure, declaring there was n
bribe held out TO Congress by q local
office seeking element In the terri
tory. McAdoo Of New York said
the constitution of Wyoming, II not
the worst ever adopted, was abreast
Of the worst
WASHINGTON, March "a. - The
House passed the bill providing for
The admission Of Wyoming into the
Union; yeas I29; DsysI2T.
Springer, Ills, said the Wyoming
bill gave the Mormops the right OF
suffrage. The Idaho bill deprived
the Mormons OF the right TO vote.
The reason was that In Wyoming
the hIormons voted republican.
while in Idaho II twas suspected they
voted the democratic ticket. He
believed that IL the Mormons Of
Utah would vote with the repuhli-
can gentlemen OF the other side they
would railroad a bill through the
House for the admission Of that Ter
ritory.
The bill passed authorizing the
Secretary Of War TO purchase $500
tents TO shelter the people driven
out NV the floods in the Mississippi
Valley.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-03-27

Of the latter, some peor'~ were
astonished. But what all De
now said when the magazines,
periodicals. and works OF fiction
Of vast nation comprising more
than n hundred millions OF people
are filed with lamentations over
the denioralizing tendencies OF
European literature. Let u lie re-
membered that there magazines are
not edited-these books are NOS
written-by men whose education
has been exclusively heathens but,
on the other hand, these WORKS nave
been published 10y persons v no nave
been born in India OF European
parents and have had the very hest
opportunities Of observing and COM
pairing the relative merits ofOriental
and Western modes Of thought and
action. IL SHOULD also be remem-
bered that india Is by no means
land Inhabited by savasee,
but, on the other hand, boasts
Of literature equal to most Euro
pean countries. AS the worid-wldeiy
celebrnted Professor Max Muller
lately remarked, 81 have known
many Indians both men and wo-
meg, and / do not exaggeraie when |
tell you that some of them need
lear no Comparison with the best
NTH and women whom II has been
my good fortune 10 know in Eng
land, France or Germany. Whe-
Their for unseifishness OF devotion 10
high ideals, truthfulness, purity,
and real, living religion, / know
no greater hero than KeshubChun-
der-Sen. no heroine greater than
Ra;naiai, and l am proud 10 havs
been allowed to count both among
my beet f,iend..O This Il the class
t0 which the Educational Report Of
India refers, and which declares that
European literature, European re-
ligiOns and European modes OF
thought are demoralizing TO the ma
live population. Strange rs 1t may
appear, the Educational Report Of
India for the year 1859 plainly
proves That so-called Christianity
must stand on the defcnsive,and so
called heathenism is aggressive.
Another sensation Is that Mrs.
Mona Card, who two year, ago
wrote the article els Marriage
FrlIre?" as published In the Daily
Telegraph, has lately published an
other article in the Eortaipktiy Re
uie,c, showing "the wickedness Of
MARRIAGE"
"An interval now Of furious
Heapee II AZ must bsa - writes this
lady, con the way to freedom, would
he a kinder POTION fIr this sick
world than another century Of
womanly duty and virtue rs these
have been provided hitherto"
Such Is the trash published in So
called respectable Journals Of Great
Britain. No wonder that India
protests against their demoralizing
influence. J. II. WARD.
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called industrial Home,s but, on
The contrary, said:
I'VE have not endorsed either Of
these movements and do not think
the present proposition a good one"
SO much for the first faisehood
clipped rs above. AS to the second,
We have TO say, "the thought be-
hind the establishments Of the Home''
was two fold: To still further pre-
iudice Congress and the country
against the s'MomOns'' and induce
further legislation TO their injury,
and to draw money from the United
States treasury for expenditure in
this city. The motives OF its pro-
motors were political and pecu-
MARY.
1t is entirely and wilfully false to
state that athe power Of mighty
organization" by which Is meant
the ''AiOrmon" Church, has fought
the Institution referred to. The
Church has paid no attention to It
whatever. The DEsEREr NEWS
has occasionly devoted some space
TO the vilIainous methods employed
for the purpose Of bleeding Uncle
sam IN the interests Of the "Home''
speculation, and that is all.
The money obtained for this insti-
tuition, which 80 far has been an
utter failure, was gained by false
pretences, by wilful lying,and by the
manufacture and utterance Of pruri-
ent and filthy stories which were
proven to be without foundation in
fact. All this We opposed ut the
time, and We regard itnOw as We did
then as thoroughly shameful, in
decent, dishonest and contemplate.
The institution itself needed no
opposition, il was as near dead rs
possible when it was born, and has
never had any strength or real vi
taliiy. The attempts made to gal
vanize It with some semblance Of
life have been ludicrous and pitt
able, and the fact is becoming recog-
nlzed that the whole thing Is n
humbug.
Indications Of this recognition Of
the truth are to be seen In
the attempts now being made to
utilize it. for some government
purpose likely to be permanent. We
have not supported and do not en-
dOrse either Of them, because We
believe the motives of their pro-
moters are nearly as sordid rs those
Of the chief schemers FIR the
"Home;" although their methods
are not % be clsssed with the in
decent and wilfully untruthful do
ings of persons who appealed to
Congress for money to build and
carry on the useless concern now
sought to be turned into something
Of value.
The "AIormon, Church has never
cared enough about the ''Hume'' or
its promoters to say anything about
it or them, and all the DBsEREr
NEWS has spoken on the subject
has been in refutatiOn OF the false
hoods Of certain professedly pious
sehemers and in presentation of
facts that are indisputable.
We do not expect the sheet which
publishes the two misrepresenta-
tions at the head Of this article to
tell the truth about anything rela-
tive to US or the cause We sustain.
but have hoped, once in a while.
that il would become decent and
prudent enough to cease giving TO
the public, as quotations from the
DEsERRT NEWS, the very opposite
Of our language and sentiments
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-03-27
Bret Harte's Fastidiousness.

Harte has always been a careful,
even fastidious worker, says the
March Book Bauer. This trait has
appeared in everything that he has
done. Calling ON a friend ut his
San Francisco office and finding
him absent, Harte wrote a very
brief note on an unimportant matter
and left II on the desk. His friend,
coming in afterwarl and noticing
that his wastebasket, which should
have been empty, was well Uttered,
had the curiosity to examine the
scraps and found that Harte had
written four notes before he was
satisfied with his work. At an
other time, while visiting with his
family some friends in the country,
Mrs. Harte came late TO the break
fast table, and being asked for her
spouse. explained that she left him
trying to match n cravat with the
stockings he had decided to wear
for the day.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-03-27

be undone as soon as they were laid
before a court of competent juris-
diction. The provisions Of the
Poland law are explicit IS TO what
officers may exercise judicial pow
ers. COnstables are not ihcludedih
those there named, and hence must
be held to be excluded.
While II is true that there are, in
many precincts Of this Territory,
large numbers OF range animals that
have no known owners, and while
It is Just and proper that such valu-
able property should lie utilized. and
not he allowed TO live, die and go to
waste unclaimed, yet TO give a con-
stable power to go out on the range
and round up and sell all animals
he nay suppose 10 have been run
ming there a year, and whose own
ers are unknown 10 him. would
certainly create great connection in
stock raising districts. 1t is very
common to allow calves and coltsto
run ell the range until they are
three or four years old, and TO render
ali such stock liable to be sold be-
cause the owners were not known TO
the constable would work loss on
numerous citizens upon whom no
fault rests.
The bad consequences OF n literal
and thorough execution OF the pro-
visions of sections and need
not be dweit upon at length
in order 10 he eomprehended.
In some precincts thousands Of head
ofstock would lie sold, whose owners
have more or less knowledge Of and
care over them, and which are not
estray stock at al in any reasonable
sense Of the term. For reasons ap-
parent from what has been said
above, We regard these two sections
as imperative, and would advise
constables TO be very cautious in act
ing under them.
1t remains TO lie seen what the
result OF practical operations under
the law will be; but aside from sec
items . and we believe it will work
satisfactorily, and that it meets
every constitutional objection made
to the old law. The procedure I'M
der 1t is simple and easily under
stood. It does away with pound
keepers entirely, and authorizes a
man on whose land Irespassiug ami
mails 10 damage, TO dlstrain, THAT is
TO seize and hold in his own pOss, s.
sion) such animals until the damag's
are Paid, instead Of turning them
over to a pOundkeeper. He must
properly care for the animals, anu If
he knows the owner, amt If the lat
ter lives within five miles Of the
place hhGEt llS aLlhia4S az Viz
trained, he must be notified. II the
damages are not paid within forty
eight hours after the animals are
seized, the party injured must begin
a civil action In the Justices court
of that precinct, by filing sworn
complaint, the form Of which is
given in section 8.
From that time on the case is in
the hands Of the justices court,
whose procedure is prescribed by the
law. That the expenses may be
made as light as possible, the justice
may charge only half the fees al
lowed in other cases. In the sim
plicity and Justice Of its provisions,
and in their pacticabilily, we be-
lieve the law will prove an excel
lent one, except rs noted in regard
10 sections . and 3.
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MAKING BUTTER
FOR PROFIT.

ITO REALIZE THE BEsT RESULTS
u from butter making. you must
as butler maEers, be abe 10 Sc
cure the largest possible amount Of
tTeam from the Elk Toa have, and 70
must be in = condition 10 make perfect
article of butter and % secure these re
suits a little expense in procuring eonven-
lent apparatus for handling. and making,
are matters OF too great importance. 10 be
overlooked or neg ected- Anything that
secures an an increase OF quAnu and an
advance In quality should be promptly sup
Piled by the nairymAn. And % i a fact that
az al economical, simple and perfect ar
rangemenf, the DELAwAsE COUNTY
CREAMERY has. no rival. Tor those max
frs butter Il = tn best. u i aweh known
'=-. thai BY the rapid cooling Of milk, the
yield OF cream i- much greAter than by slow
cooling. IL y certain. cleo that By ooOiing
n IN In the centre the cooling VIII be more
rapid and the amount OF cream 2 eater. No
Creamery ever made gives the iacill.es for
coo. ing from the centie equal 10 the De g
ware county Creamery. In cooling from
the centre the heat and odors fron the
miIk 20 upward, ana ABy impurities from
the cows, bad water. weeds. etc escape
enti ely and leave pure. unia intel cram.
and the fesult l. 4 quality % butter that
Will commend the vrry highest price in the
market
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-03-27

THE trial, by court martial, OF
Lieutenant Steele, at Chicago, for
using insulting aud abusive Ian
guage toward and striking a private
soldier, shows a disposition on the
part ofthe military authorities to cor
rect abuses in the army which have
been disgrlcing it for some time
past. The name OF the soldier vio-
lentIy assaulted by the officer is Dell
Wild. Lieutenant Steele requested
him to perform some mental work
on the outhouse Of his quarters,
which he declined to perform on
the ground that he had enlisted as a
soldier and not to be domestic
servant. This aroused the ire OF the
officer and caused him to beat Wild
with his fist.