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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-08-25
THEY WEAR DRIED HEADS.
The Napo Indians in South America and
Their Curious Taste.

The Napo Indians in South America and
Their Curious Taste.
ga remarkable tribe of Indians, said
Mr.. Childs, who was recently in South
America ''are the Napos, who live in
the northern part of Chilli Instead of
wearing scalps at their belts as trophies,
like the American savages, the heads Of
their enemies dangle at their girdles.
By a mysterious process known only to
themselves they remove all the facial
and Uranium bones without cutting the
skin or destroying the interior. The
head is then reduced, without manning
any of the features, to the size of a
mans fist"
Mr. Childs brought one of these heads
with him and he intends to put il in the
museum of the Carnegie library here,
In San Francisco he showed it to the
County Medical society and the doctors
offered him $1,000 for it. He said no
sum Of money would buy it. He
thinks there is one in the Smithsonian
Institution, and outside of his own he
doesn't believe there is another in the
United States. The Indians discovered
they could sell the heads to the
whites at a good price, and to pre-
vent them from Turing people into
the mountains and killing them Or
numbering the aged of their tribe and
preparing their heads, a law was passed
prohibiting their sale. Through the
kindness of Gen Caamano and Gen.
Sorsby, the American consul-general to
Ecuador, Mr.. Childs secured the head.
He says Gen. Sorsby has eight orders
for heads from museums and colleges in
the United States, and he is afraid he
will not be able to get them.
The head and face that Mr.. Childs
has is not as large as a baseball. BY
the secret process the bones were re
moved and the features reduced. ALI
the hair on the original head is still
there. 1t is long and black, and prob
ably reached to the shoulders The
Indians put string through the lip
for every enemy they had slain. This
head has four strings in the lip, and the
mouth is drawn out of shape. The
microscope reveals the pores of the
skin, greatly crowded together.
The head was cut off even with the
shoulders, and there is hole in the
windpipe, directly under the chin,
| where the victim was evidently stabbed.
a number of people have looked at the
head. and all are puzzled how it was
prepared Gen. Caamano thinks that
Immediately after the bones are taken
ort redhot gravel is put into the head
| the heat reduces the size, tans the skin,
and makes it hard and tough. Then
| the gravel is remOved-Ptttsburg Dis
kch
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-08-25
IN GLOUCESTER HARsOR.
Hard Life of the Fisher en on the Bank
and the GEORGES

Hard Life of the Fi-he-n the Banks
and the Georges.
The fisller1nan's life on the Banks and
the Georges in win ter is a very hard one,
though they live we'll on board-better
than on shore. They have to, that they
may stand the excessive cold; and their
pay is like their lives, floating doubt
The voyage is made on shares. From
the gross profits of the catch are de-
Quoted the cost of bait and ice, and one
fourth Of one per cent. for the widows
and orphans fund. One-half of the net
stock" as it is called, goes to the
owners of the vessel, the other half to
the crew, from which is deducted each
mans share of the crew S expenses; that
is, cooks wages, water, medicine chest,
etc. They sail away full of hope and
with u full larder. Arrived On the
grounds, they anchor in about forty or
fifty fathoms, and set their travis.
These are long lines, anchored on the
bottom and extending out from the
schooner many hundreds Of yards To
these, at intervals of a fathOm (the
distance varies for different fish, are
attached shorter lines. These lines
have to be attended in dories, each con-
tanning two men who haul, bait and
land the fish in the boat to be trans
ferred to the schooner. Herein lie the
danger and the hardship, for the strong
tides of the Banks and the shoal water
pile up great combing seas. The cold
is cruel, and the work hard. Sudde My
down comes a fog, no. the soft mist OF
summer or autumn, but thick, heavy
bank, soaked through with the pene-
trating cold of the icebergs further
north Horns are blown from the YES
sci, but every year many dories are
lost One would think that common
sense, if not law, would make each
dory carry breaker Of water and pilot
bread: but none do. and either expert
eDce does not teach or the fishermen
like such chances, for year after year
comes the same old story Of a lost dory
and two men starved or dead Of thirst
When the fog lifts they are many miles
from their schooner, and are carried by
the swift tides they know not whittier.
Then come days OF hunger and thirsti
hands are frozen to the oars, madness
haunts them; and then-death Some
times they make land or are picked up
by passing vessel, In which case they
often return before their own schooner;
but that great happiness Ia rare Then
their vessel, which so gayly sailed out
past the light, comes home with her
flag at haIf-mask-h Cleveland Coke,
III Century.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-08-25

the inside of which he was eagerly de-
vouring by the aid of a big horn spoon!
$50 you're caught at last" Numbered
the irate deacon, ssthe way of the trans
gressor is hard. Where is your wife?''
The poor old creature made no denial.
but broke into pitiful tears.
"Lawd a-massy, deekin," said he.
'.aint 1 sufferin' huff already? Doan'
be hard on ole Jake. Nobody.ai bin
near US for non two weeks an we was
dun starved. We reckoned that you
wouldn't never miss few milyuns. an
hankered arter 'em SO bad that Liza
went out las night an fetched 'em.
She's gone 'crost to Mister Sniff now
to trade one of em off for con meal, an
hope you'll not have her took up. We
amt noways fit for work, an the white
folks has all forgot us. 'Liza's bin
sick too, SOS she couldn't git out till
Yesterday"
Not word did the unforgiving dea-
con answer to the old mans confession,
but, abruptly saying to his son: ''Come
on, Toby. Well go across by Smiths
creek and maybe catch up the old
woman. Then I'll get out a warrant
for them BOTH hastily went out.
The boy, with trimming eyes, slow
~ followed his father to the door, then,
unnoticed. slipped back to the bed.
pressed into Jake's hand his whole
worldly wealth. bright quarter. his
mothers birthday gift-and softly
whispering: Don't cry, uncle. 1 guess
father won't hurt vou.' ran off with a
lightened heart.
Smiths creek, was, in those days, a
quite considerable stream, and, even
when only at summer height. con-
tanned many deep pools and dangerous
rapids.
Along the way, as he walked rapidly
toward it. the moody deacon quoted pas
sages of Scripture, all tending to prove
how necessary it is that the righteous
man shall be "a terror to evil doors, .
and when Toby tremblingly ventured
to say: Blessed are the merciful for
they shall obtain mercy" his father
gravely commanded him to be silent.
Thus, each indulging in his own
thoughts, they went on until within
hundred yards of the creek, when
sharply out upon the sultry air there
rang the piercing shrek of child, al.
most instantly followed by answering
shout from some one else.
''Oh, father" cried Toby, that
sounded like Annals voice." and the two
ran with all speed toward the stream.
On coming to the edge of the high
bank, whence they could look down up
on the water, they saw a strange sight:
Anna was kneeling upon a long, slen-
der tree-stem, which spanned swift
chute, known as 1.-THE Black Rapids"
screaming and wringing her hands in
wild terror, while in the rushing tor
rent, some yards below, Jessie, the pet
lamb, was apparently drowning.
This, however, was but part Of the
thrilling spectacle.
just entering. and already UP to her
waist in the fierce current, was the
aged negress, "Aunt Liza" who, as
she pushed bravely on, called out to
the frightened child: ''Doan' be skart
honey, I'll sabe the precious lama
promise she could never have fulfilled,
for. even as father and son rushed
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-08-25
RIskING MUCH FOR AN EGG.
Some Unhappy Hours Passed In Robbing a
yulture's Nest.


Vulture's Nest.
ST have my little fad as well as
other people, said a prosperous, fat
and Jolly commission merchant to q
Tribune reporter the other day, but
dare say you would guess a long time
without hitting on it, SO I will confess
it without putting you to the trouble.
It is my collection of birds eggs. It
rests in my smoking room at home in
its neat glass-covered boxes with cot
ton-wool nests, and every egg-shen in
it was collected by myself, and every
one has the date and place of its cap
ture marked ON it The making of that
collection gave me many hours of rare
sport, when I was an adventurous
young fellow and had none of this load
of fat to carry about, and the chief use
of it now is to recall pleasant memories
of those days that will never come
again When you're old you'll know
how that is yourself''-and the old gen
taeman took strong pull as his cigar
and let the smoke out in a long and
noisy sigh.
s'I ives traveller in those days for g
big export house which was pushing
into Mexico and South America for
trace ana SO tt11e lA-Ooe
of nv eggs are those OF birds Of those
countries Tell you about some of
then?' Don't mind If I do. Well, for
want of knowing which one to pick on,
I'll tell you how came % capture the
biggest, though not the rerest one in
the collection. It is vulture's egg.
was in Mexico when got that egg and
I thought once or twice while / was Sc
curing it that 1 wonld not get ont of
Mexico again
'.Vultures are shy Of mankind, and
their nests are exceedingly hard to find,
and so when met a hunter who knew
where one was, hired him. with a
couple Of assistants, to show me IL and
help me get the eggs We arrived at
The SPOT about noon and 1 almost wished
I had not come. The guide pointed out
to me precipitous and beetiiog cliff,
which looked TO me to be about fee
hundred feet high, orerhanging q de-o
lflSe About one hundred feet from Tia
top of the cliff there was rent or hoi-,
which from where we stood. looked -
II II had about "a much room instke I
as an empty flour barrel In there re
o,,ide said the vultures bad their n-5t
and the only way TO reach It was 70 i-et
ma down from the top at the eod o< q
hong rope
1T was a perflous descent bot Enal-
:uD a sort of chair az the end Of . seont
rowhide rope, l swung myself over the
cliff, and sFyo men lowered me slowly
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-08-25

down the bank, she herself was swept
off her feet and hurled like a straw
along the raging flood.
Twice, before the deacon ould reach
her, the poor, chivalrous soul was hid
den beneath the surface. and when
finally. with great difficulty, brought
to shore was almost insensible.
Meantime Jessie, still piteonsly beat
ing, had fioated to a quiet pool below
and was easily rescued. Not until then
did Anna, now radiant with Joy, rise to
her feet, run lightly along the log and
spring into her fathers dripping arms
Then Anna explained how Jessie had
attempted to follow her over the tree
bridge, but, being frightened by the
dizzy height, had fallen in; how her
own alarmed cry had been answered by
Aunt Liza" and how the latter, until
then unseen, had dropped a big melon
she was carrying, and plunged in to the
rescue.
The deeply bordering man uttered
half smothered ejaculation: 1.-THE Lord
| hath rebuked me-" and, lifting the frail
creature to her feet, simply said:
Come home now with US, Aunt Liza,
| and get dry clothing and food"
What Deacon Tonpkins' thoughts
were as he walked in advance of the
little party on the homeward way,
none may know, but their tenor NAV
be guessed from the fact that, after the
good wife had supplied her strange
! guest with comfortable garments and
a hot meal. he went out to the field
called his man, John, and directed him
to harness quiet horse to the spring
wagon, lay on its bottom a thick mat
tress and pillows and go with him
through the pine woods.
| When the pair arrived at ssUncie
Jake's" cabin, they found the old man
sitting in the blazing sunshine at, the
door, shivering with his daily recurring
| chill. On seeing the wagon draw up
the poor, frightened fellow cried ont,
''Oh, Massa Tompkins, is you goin' to
take this pore niggah to jailo''
mo, no, UNCLE" gravely replied the
deacon. the Lord hath shown me a
better way" and with unwonted ten
derness the two men placed the attenu-
| ated form on the soft mattress, and
taking with them the few articles
worth moving from the shanty, drove
carefully off.
In less than one month from that
time the old uncle" and .saunt" were
domiciled in the capacious farmhouse.
were restored to health and were able
to 90 many useful chores; but the
change in them was no greater than
that in the deacon himself, for he had
at last learned in uA0t Kind Of rehqsoa
true happiness is to be fund, and
thenceforth his household was one over
which angels might well have reioiced,
w. THOMSON
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-08-25
WATER-A MINERAL
And II Is the Most UseIui One Found Ia the


And If Is the Most TseIui One Found La the
World.
II one were to ask his friends what
mineral we are most familiar with and
most commonly used as food. the an
swers would probably be both varied
and amusing. Salt would, 1 fancy. first
suggest itself to many, and to those
whose training in physiology and
hygiene has not been neglected, no
doubt the claims OF lime, AID iron, and
carbon, which in one form or another,
we use with food to build up bone and
Drawn, would be amply urged But,o
after all. it is water. for water is a min
eral-a fused mineral You will find it
described as such along with quartz
and topaz and the diamonds in Dana's
Mineralogy, or in other treatises On
stones
We usually think of minerals ss solid
things. such as metals and rocks and
Jewels and various chemical salts-o But
when we consider the matter little
we see that all these things IL melted
By strong heat arc minerals still, only
they are DOW in fluid instead of . solid
state The difference between these
minerals and water is that water gets
fluid at lower temperature than they
do. and, like quicksilver stays melted
at ordinary living heat But in those
old ice ages which, one after another,
have swept now over the northern and
now over the southern hemisphere,
bringing ruin and desolation, the
natural and common condition of water
was that Of a solid-ice-as it largely is
to-day out-of-doors II winter when not
kept fused By the stored-up heat OF ahe
soil and rocks, or is melted BY the SUI
#. Mitchell Prudden, in Harper's
Magazine
The Man xh. Originated PanoramEs-
Michel du Crest is said TO be pri-
marily responsible for the modern pam
Drama This FrenchInan was confined
as a political prisoner for twenty
years in q Swiss prison He spent the
most Of his time IN scientific study and
the rest of 1t in admiripg the grandeur
of the Alps, which was within sight of
his prison window. Here he conceived
the idea of making panorama which
shos,id show as accurately as possible
the wonders of this mountainous re-
gion The result of his work was one
Of the curiosities exhibited at the re-
cent geographical exhibitiontin Berne.
kite Fields Washington
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-08-25
SOUTH AFRlCAN DIAMONDS.

Processes of Obtaining the Precious Stones
at the Kimberly Mines.
The De Beers and the Kimberley
mines are probable the two biggest
holes which greedy man has ever dug
into the earth, the area Of the former a
the surface being thirteen acres, with
depth OF 80 feet, the area and depth of
the latter being even greater. These
mines are no longer worked from the
surface, but from shafts sunk at some
distance from the original holes, and
penetrating to the blue ground by
transverse drivings at depths varying
from 500 TO 1900 feet.
The blue ground. when extracted, is
carried in small iron trucks to the
floors" These are made by removing
the bush and grass from a fairly level
piece of ground; the land is then rolled
and made as hard and as smooth as pos
sible. The floors are about six hum
dred acres in extent. They are covered
to the depth of about q loot with the
blue ground, which for a time remains
on them without much manipulation.
The heat of the sun and moisture soon
have wonderful effect upon it. Largo
pieces which were as hard as ordinary
sandstone when taken from the mine,
soon commence to crumble.
At this stage Of the work, the Win
nings of the diamonds assumes mora
the nature of farming than of mining;
the ground is continually narrowed to
assist pulverization by exposing the
larger pieces to the action of the sun
and rain. The blue ground from Kim
berly mine becomes quite we'll pulver-
lied in three months, while that from
De Beers requires double that time.
The longer the ground remains exposed,
the better it is for washing" The pro-
cess Of exposure being completed, the
blue ground IS then carried to very
large, ella borate and costly machines,
in which. by means Of the action Of
running water. the diamonds are separ-
ated from the ordinary earth. 1t may
be mentioned that in this process one
hundred loads of blue ground are con-
centrated into one lead Of diamondifer-
Gus stuff.
Another machine, the ''pulsato-, -
then separates this latter stuff, which
appears to be mass Of blue and dark
pebbles of all shapes, into four different
sizes, which then pass on to the assort-
ers. The asserting is done on tables,
first while wet by white men, and then
dry by natives The assorters work
with kind of trowcl, and the accuracy
in detecting and separating the dia-
1nond from the eight different kinds of
mineral formations is almost unerring
Lord Randolph Churchill, in Popular
Science MONTHLY.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-08-25

"A carpenter may be a frso-class
bosrder and yet be very far from find
ing favor in the eyes Of his landlady.-
Lowell Mail
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-08-25

Mrs Hic,ss-'.peophe complain Of
being robbed at drug storess they never
overcharge me- Mr.. Hici1s-sHhat
do you buy?n Mrs Postage
stamps"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-08-25

my shilling; still there was that in the
boys face L trusted, and I did not
like to think bad Of him. Late in
the evening I was told a boy wanted
to see me; when he was brought in
1 found 1t was smaller brother
OF the boy that got my shilling; but, il
possible. still more ragged, and poor.
and thin. He stood moment diving
into his rags as if he was seeking some
thing, and then said: Are you the
gentleman that bought the matches
frae Sander
eyes
"'Weel, then, here's fourpence out q
your shilling; Sandy cannot come; he's
very i'll; cart ran over him and knocked
him down, and he lost his bonnet, and
his matches, and your sevenpence, and
both his legs are broken, and the doc
tor says he'll die, and that's az And
then, putting his fourpence on the
table, the poor child broke down into
sobs So fed the little man and went
with him to see Sandie. 1 found the
two little things lived alone, their
father and mother being dead. Poor
Sandie was lying on bundle of shaw
lngs. He knew me as soon as / got in,
and said: L got the change, sir, and
was coming back; and then the horse
knocked me down and both my legs
were broken; and oh, Reuby! little
Reuby! l am sure 1 am dying, and
who will take care Of you when I am
gone? What will ye do, Reuby?'
''Then 1 took his hand and said I
would always take care of Reuby. He
understood me, and had just strength
to look up at me as if to thank me, and
the light went out of his blue eyes. -
n. Y. Ledger.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-03-08
LOUIS JOSEPH MARrEI.
Death Of the Distinguished French States
man AnuOunced.

Death Of the Distinguished French States
man Anu0unced.
The death il announced Of Louis Joseph
Martel, the French statesman, formerly .
member Of the senate and OF the cabinet.
Louis Joseph Martel was born in 1918. He
studied law at Paris. commenced practice in
his native town, where he became judge;
was elected by his department to the legis-
iative assembly in 1S49 as O conservative; re-
tired to provincial life after the coup detat
OF December, 1851, was chosen to the council
general OF Pas-de-Calais, and in 1869 was
elected by the opposition to the corps legisatif,
Of which he became a secretary.
Elected to the national assembly in 1871, be
acted with the left center In support Of N.
Theirs, was chosen vice president at the first
choice OF oflcers, was retained in that post by
successive election until the dissolution of that
assembly and was several times the candidate
OF the left Tor the presidency against u. Buffet.
After the tall OF u. Theirs he became more
closely identified with republican ideas, was
chosen life senator December g. 1875, was
elected first vice president of the senate and
was minister OF justice in the cabinet of Jules
Simon from December Is, 1876. until the coup
d'etat OF May l6, 1877, when he retired with his
colleagues
He vas chosen president of the senate Janu-
airy Is, 1879. in place Of the Due d'Audiffret-
Pasquier. NJ. Martel presided at the election
Of Jules Grevy as president Of the republic on
january 80, 1879. and resigned the presidency
OF the senate, on account OF nl-health, toward
the close of the year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-03-08

Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the kidneys.
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys.
tenn efectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and &C.
ceptable TO the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup Of Figs is for sale in 6Oc
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Amy reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA re syrup Co
SAY FRANCISCO. CAL.
LOUISVILLE. n NEW YoRx. Gx
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-03-08
CHICAGO POOL ROOM RAID.

Over Two Hundred Race Track Gamblers
Arrested.
One Of the most extensive raids organized by
the Chicago police in years was made yesterday
afternoon, when Chief of Detectives Chea and
twenty-five officers surrounded the premises
267 and 269 Clark street and placed $50 men
who were in the establishment under arrest.
The place was full-1edged pool room, ran by
Frank N. Shaw, the St. Paul plunger, Sid
Nellie and others, who are said to be members
of Chicago Gambling Trust Books were being
made on the races at Gloucester and Gutter-
burg, and a rushing business was in progress.
The smallest bets taken were IS.
Instead Of buying a regulation pool ticket
the bettor ostensibly sent dispatch through
the Mercantile Telegraph Company to St.
Paul, where the bet was supposed to be con-
summated, the Chicago end of the business be-
ing spoken of as branch office. The alleged
interstate arrangement, the proprietorC pro-
fessed to believe, left no room for prosecution
under the Illinois anti-pooi-selling law. The
eager spectators caught in the raid were from
all walks Of life. As soon as the captain had
thoroughly surrounded the rooms he sent for
dozen patrol wagons from the nearest sta
tons and then stepped inside and announced
that every one III the place was under arrest.