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Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-09-09
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Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-09-09

a would rather trust that medicine
than an any doctor know Of" says
Mrs, Hattie Mason, of Chiffon, Carter
county, Mo-, in speaking Of Chamber
lain's Collie, Cholera and DiarrhGa
Remedy. This medicine can always
be depended upon, even in the most
severe and dangerous cases, both for
children mdadults. At tSmith Drug Co
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-09-09

Dalmation Insect Powder, the best
made, at mith's Drug Store. If
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-09-09

Dalmation Insect Powder the best
made, at Smiths Drug Store. II
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he fees. have never known horn to go
through the hide around the neck, although
after conflict the flesh will show great
bruises there under the skin.
Sure of Good Breakfast.
In this particular instance, however,
I interrupted the conflict long before it
had time to come to fatal conclusion, kill
ing both combatants; one by shot in the
shoulder as they wrestled together, and the
other by bullet in the flank as it ran. We
had had no breakfast that morning, and the
first thing we did was to cut out strip of
steak from alongside the loins, build a fire,
and roast on willow twigs little kabobs of
luscious meat.
If taken in the open, an elk can be run
down by good horse. l have never myself
tried the experiment, but three years ago,
near my ranch, a cowboy with whom 1
have often worked on roundups, performed
the feat. He was on the roundup and was
driving some cattle out of a brush patch at
the bottom of a coulee when an elk sprang
up directly ahead of him and went off at the
swinging trot characteristic of the species.
A trotting elk can go all day, but if it
should be forced to gallop, though it goes
very fast for a few hundred rods, it speedily
tires. The cowboy on his speedy, wiry lit
tie pony instantly dashed at the elk, forced
it to gallop, and kept it on the run for
nearly mile; then it began to fag. He-then
came alongside and threw his rope over the
horns. With the utmost exertions. how
ever, he was unable to master it until an
othor cow pnucher rode up and shot it with
q arevolver. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
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BURIAL OF SPANISH KING.
The Curious Ceremonies With Which the
Corpse Is Slowed Away.

The Curious Ceremonies With Which the
Corpse Is Slowed Away.
Pearson's weekly.l
Upon the death of Spanish King a
singular and imposing ceremony takes place.
When the religious rites have been cele-
brated the body of the monarch is borne on
a magnificent catafalque, and followed by
the officers of state, the grandees of Spain,
and the Princes of all the provinces, out of
the palace OF the Escurial to the monastery,
in whose vaults all the Castilian kings are
entombed, The gate is locked. The High
Chamberlain knocks three times. The face
of monk appears at the opening.
"Who seeks to enter?" he says.
"Alfonso XII, King of Spain" is the re-
ply.
IT'S the King dead?"
The chief physicians and the principal
officers then present their certificates that
he is dead, and the gates roll slowly back to
admit the King who comes to join the
eternal sleep of his ancestors. When the
final prayers of the church have been said,
the coffin is borne to the vault and laid upon
a stone table. The lid is removed and the
face of the King uncovered. The principal
hidalgo in the kingdom then goes down into
the vault, and, kneeling, puts his mouth to
the ear of the corpse, calling aloud:
''Senor! Senor! Senor!'
After the third call he rises, and e1-
claims: -..
'sThere is no reply. The King is dead.
He will return no more. The Queen (or
King) reigns"
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teaching of cookery has been wholly sue
cessful in the schools It forms part of
the work of the girls in the second and
third grammar grades. The real object of
the study is commendable 1t is not SO
much the ability to make palatable dishes,
though that is certainly to be desired, as it
is the thorough understanding of food
values, the choice of raw material with
reference to their nutritive qualities, their
composition and chemical changes, together
with their effect upon the body. Ali these
and much more are taught. The physiology
of feeding is another topic of instruction,
and the young girls in these classes under.
stand as we'll as any of us do that wonder
full chemistry of the body which trans
mutes bread into blood and even into
thought.
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hold great company of blind and lame,
and lepers, and mourners, and poor people,
have gone around the head of the lake and
have anticipated him. And when he ar
rived at land, 10! the eager multitude. 'The
common people heard him gladly" That
can hardly be said of the Christian church
to-day.
Shortcomings of the Church.
At labor meeting in New York the name
of Jesus was applauded to the echo, but
they Missed the church. In England, in the
present campaign, where both parties are
trying to gain the labor vote, some of the
workingmen's meetings have cursed the
parsons. What is the matter? The matter
is that Jesus Christ loved the poor, and that
that is more than can honestly be said of the
great company of Christians Jesus gave
the poor that which is more valuable than
all the money on the earth and under the
earth, he gave them his attention, his
thought, his sympathy, his love, his life:
The matter is that Jesus Christ preached
the gospel to the poor; the gospel of the
kingdom, is the whole name of it, the
good news; that is, that the King of the
whole universe Is the Father of us all, the
Father of the poorest man that breathes,
and that we are all brothers in one family.
That is the gospel that Jesus preached to
the poor, and he illustrated it and empha-
sized it by being himself the brother of the
poor. We have left that gospel too long to
be preached and practiced by the labor
unions, the socialists, the communists.
The World Growing Better.
Nevertheless, I believe that every new
year finds the world more Christian. Year
by year even the Christian Church is being
more and more converted to Christianity.
The character of Christ, the example of
Christ, is increasingly recognized as being
the very heart of our religion. And we are
trying more and more to put the emphasis
where He put it, to bring the second COM
mandment close ND beside the first, to show
our love for God by loving our brother
men.
Every year the church is growing toward
the realization of that blessed work of Jesus
which He showed to Johns disciples. We
are showing more and more of that divine
helpfulness. Sociology is being studied as
diligently as theology. Good works are
being taught as the sign and fruit of faith.
Wealth is being consecrated anew to the
service of the Father in heaven. And the
old reproach, the old unchristlikeness of
the church, is being taken away. God
hasten it. GEORGE HODGES.
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MONARCH OF THE WOODS.

Habits and characteristics Of the Elk-
Their Musical Notes of Challenge
Fierce Fights in tho Forests-Roose-
velt Tells How to Hunt Them.
WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATCH.l
To my mind one of the most attractive
sports of the West is elk hunting The elk
used to be found over almost the entire
United States. but it now exists, in any
numbers, only in the great mountain chains
of the Rockies and of the coast ranges in
Oregon and Washington. 1t is without ex-
ceptlon the lordliest of the deer kind, and
in size is second only to the moose. Moth
ing can surpass the grand beauty of an old
bull elk bearing his 12-tined antlers aloft
with easy grace as he roars out his challenge
to all rivals.
In some parts of the West afar from the
settlements, the elk is still plentiful He
offers to the hunter not only the grandest of
trophies in the shape of his magnificent
head and horns, but also an abundant sup
ply of the best possible meat. There is no
venison upon which one can live so long
without tiring, as elk meat, the only draw
back being that it must be eaten hot, as the
fat turns into regular tallow as soon as it
cools During the summer, while their
horns are in the velvet, no true sportsman
will shoot the elk, nor will he shoot cows
and calves at any time save when absolutely
in need of meat; but in September the vel
vet drops off his horns and then each of the
master bulls begins to collect harem of
COWS, from five or six to 20 or 80 in number.
The Elk a Born Warrior.
He keeps all the small bulls afar from
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DANCING In COLLEGE TowNa

The students Are So Green That the Girls
Have Lots Of Fun With Them.
The college town is where the stage door
is popular, said pretty soubrette the other
day. 1 remember once at Bethlehem, Pa,
there were so many students gathered about
the stage door that we had to appeal to the
manager, who turned down the lights and
let us out the front. When we went to go
away some of these young fellows had
lassos and threw them over the girls they
favored as they attempted to enter the ON
nibus.
At New Haven two students followed the
show to an adjoining town and sat in the
front row every night for the smiles of a
pair of pretty dancers. You couldn't help
but smile, don't you know, when you came
on and saw the same two fellows This
pleased them immensely. The fun of it
was they had never ventured to speak to the
girls during the whole time, though they
stood at the stage door every night when we
came out. Boys are so foolish! They fol-
lowed us until they probably ran ont of
pocket money and had to return. Of course,
in this way, off and on, the girls have lots
Of fun in spite of rules. n is all open and
innocent
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and then comes his schooling in the big,
bare, cheerless riding hall-weeks at a slow
trot and the snaffle bit. In my time we
were marched to the hall, the galleries were
thronged with giggling and delighted spec
tators, and, with all respect to our first in
structor, admirable as he was on drill or
kindred duty, he seemed to take more de-
light in showing off the clumsiness and
awkwardness of the beginners than he did
in teaching them.
Riding lessons began in the fall of our
second year at the Point, and in our platoon
there were probably dozen young fellows
who had never straddled horse in their
lives. They were from the New England
and Middle States. We Westerners, es-
pecially the Kentucky set, had ridden, as a
matter of course.
The horses were drawn up in line, with
watering bridals and snaffie bits, blankets
and surcingles. We were told to take them
as they stood-from right to left. Some big
fellows got little horses, some big horses
little riders, but the odder it looked the
more our instructor seemed to like it.
Mount was the order, and some of us were
ND In second, and some were down. Then
he got us on the track and the fun began He
had long whip, such as is used by circus
ringmasters, and his sole object seemed to
be to unseat every man in the squad With
most of them there was no difficulty. They
shot or slid off at every swerve, but those
who were accustomed to riding from early
boyhood were not SO easily disposed of, and
on those he redoubled his efforts-the girls
in the gallery tittering and giggling the
while, and the horses kicking and plunging
in response to the ringing crack of his
whip.
We had many a day of this sort of thing;
some of our fellows were seriously bruised
and hurt, and all felt more or less aggrieved
at being made spectacle of on the first
rides, just as we had been at plebe drills the
year before. No one cared for our feelings
however. That sort of sentimentality came
up afterward, and when 1 was detailed to
instruct certain ''yearling" squads in SO
and 10 found that visitors and spectators
were excluded--as they should have been
before. Nevertheless, by the time of our
graduation We had score of excellent
horsemen in the class-and six or eight who
never could be taught secure or graceful
seat--or, what is even more difficult, good
hand. Now, the riding lessons are SO sys-
tematic and thorough that very few cadets
are graduated who are not really good
riders. -
CHARLES KING, Captain U. 8. A.
Copyrights lssa
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how noble he looked as he stood in the hall,
The bonny scald, and his voice rang loud;
His beard was tawny, his shape was tall,
And his mien was bold and proud.
BuJ the spearmen Quaked as they heard him
sing
And their fear they scarce could hide;
E0r there gathered a cloud on the brow of
the King,
And dark stood the Prince at his siis.
For the love OF the twain, though their
hearts might glow,
To their speech no sweetness did lend;
And the friend OF the one was the others
foe,
And his foe was the others friend.
i was perilous oft to the wrathful sira
Haldane, his son, to name,
Or stir with breath the smoldering ire
That might burss with blaze into flame
But the dauntless scald, as he stood in the
ring
Ofthe brawny spearmen, before the board,
And the nrelight leaped with wanton spring,
And gllnted in shield and sword,
In q wreath he wound OF cunning rhyms
The names, as the harp he smote,
Till they gently rang in harmonious chime,
,
".
He sang of King Harold's deeds of might
How he pledged to his bride the daring
To win all Norway's realm in fight
And set the crown on her brow
How like young eagle he rose in the light
OF the dawn, with rush of sound,
And the 80 kinglets like mice In fright,
Went hiding in holes in the ground.
And he sang OF Haldane, the hero bold,
With the claws and beak OF the eagle race,
And his kingly gaze, so proud to behold,
And lordship stamped on his face,
For the eagleI springs from the eagles
And the crow from the brood of the crow,
And the meaner bird shows the meaner
But the eaglet gives blow for blow
But 10, as he sang, the lowering cloud,
That had darkened the face of the King,
DID il seem to lift in the sight of the crowd,
To spread and az last take wing;
And perchance the Prince, as the sweet
Resembling within his soul,
Forgot his wrath and the hate and paug
o. envy and burrowing dole.
For scarce had the lingering murmur died,
in the harp's sonorous breast,
W lille the tremulOus strings still shook and
sighed.
And shivered into rest:
When up sprang the King from his throne
and flung
From his shoulder the purple cloak
And the Prince snatched glittering ring
Cnatclung
To MS arm, and thus he spoke:
VIII
Take this, good scald, for thy noble song,
Thou hast spoken bravely and well.''
-AlG the King: Take this, and wear it so
long
As endUres thy song to spell"
And the father and son stood awhile apart,
Twice forward, twice back, they stepped,
Then King Harold clasped his son to his
heart,
And tie brawny spearmen wept.
Then 3 shout went up that shook the wide
hall.
And made the black rafters ring
And they cheered till the armors clanked on
the wall;
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about the Tongue.

Pearson's Weekly
"The boneless tongue, so small and weak,
Can crush and kill" declared the Greek.
THE tongue destroys greater horde"
The Turk asserts, "than does the sword"
The Persian proverb wisely saith,
"a lengthy tongue-an early DEATH"
Or sometimes take this form instead,
Don't let your tongue cut off your head"
"The tongue can speak word whose speed" !"
Say the Chinese, "outstrips the steed."
While Arab sages this impart,
"The tongues great storehouse is the heart
From Hebrew wit the maxim sprung,
Though feet should slip, ne'er let the
tongue"
The sacred writer crowns the whole,
"Who keeps his tongue doth keep his soul. !"
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he is known in the office. In the "record
book" is kept a diary of the misdoings of
the boy. Here, for instance, is an imaginary
page:
John Smith, Resides No. 2O4 Silver street.
Parents, Samuel and Mary Smith. Entered
extra ticket. Fined 10 cents. November
collected money on prepaid message.
Fined so cents. attempted to collect money
on telegram. Discharged.
You will notice that the first item of mis-
conduct was comparatively trihing; the
second involved dishonesty and was pun
ished with heavy fine. The boy how
ever, was still retained in the service with
the hope that he might do better Again
he committed grave offense and was dis
charged. Just as good boy has fair
chance for advancement, so a bad boy-I
mean boy hopelessly and continuously
bad-will be pretty sure to receive severe
punishment.
How Messengers Are Punished.
AS I said before, there is very small
percentage of loss, considering the vast
amount of business handled. Suppose you
lived in New York and you sent telegram
to your fathers Office down town that your
mother had just been taken dangerously
sick. Naturally, you would be anxious to
have the message delivered quickly. Sup
pose the telegraph messenger boy, to save
himself time and trouble, destroyed the
message. You would consider would you
not, that he ought to be punished very Sc
verely, and so he would be. There are not
many cases of that kind. When such an
instance occurs the boy is prosecuted crimi-
nslly and, if convicted, circular some-
thing like the following is sent to all the
messenger stations and telegraph offices in
the city.
American Dist. Telegraph Co.
Messenger Department.
Warning to Messengers.
Messenger 1854 John Smith, destroyed a
telegram, was arrested, tried and sentenced
to Elmira Reformatory until 2l years of age
What becomes of all the messenger bows?
1t may be said that the average industrial
life of messenger boy is not over six
months Many get tired of the business;
the work is too hard Others are discharged
under such circumstances that they could
not enter the service again. But con-
siderable number drift into the vocation of
telegraphy, with which in their work they
are so closely connected; they become clerks
in the telegraph offices, or managers of the
district messenger Offices located in different
parts of the city. Some bright boys, COM
ing in contact as they constantly do with
business men, obtain situations in mercan-
tile houses or in the. offices of brokers,
bankers or lawyers. But wherever they
have gone it can be safely affirmed that,
aside from personal character the training
they have received in the telegraph and
messenger service has been invaluable to
them and helped them on toward business
career. saa G. V. B. FROST
Superintendent American District Tele-
graph Company, New York.
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unls nero, ana wages furious war against
every rival Of the same size and antler
growth as himself At this season the bull
has very extraordinary and peculiar note.
The frontiersmen call it whistling, but it is
not like a whistle at all; it is more like a
bugle, consisting of bar or two of music
on a rising scale, and then another bar or
two on falling scale, followed sometimes
by three or four hute-like notes. 1t is most
exciting to creep up to a bull when he is
whistling in this way.
The first elk shot in the season of 1891
was obtained in this manner. was travel
ing with pack train in the mountains, rid
ing at the head. 1t was a dark, lowering,
rainy morning, and we were going up
small valley with steep, densely wooded
hills on either hand. Suddenly. as we came
out into a little glade, We heard, half mile
to our right, the challenge of bull elk,
speedily answered by more distant note
of defiance, evidently from a rival farther
up the mountain. and my companion, a
tall, silent, old mountain hunter, instantly
slipped of our horses and began to steal
through the woods toward the sound. It was
a great tamarack forest, and the ground at
our feet was covered with water-logged
moss, so that it was easy to walk without
making a noise. As silently IS possible we
crept on from tree to tree in the gloom of
the mighty evergreen forest, every minute
or two stopping to listen for the challenge.
The elk was evidently very much excited by
the presence of his rival on the distant
mountainside, and he kept repeating his call
at short intervals.
Like Some Ferocious Wild Beast
When we first went into the woods and
heard it from afar it sounded most musical,
but as we drew nearer the sound had a
harsh ring, which detracted from its melody,
but which nevertheless sent thrill through
our veins. Nearer and nearer we crept,
and each minute the roar of the challenge
came booming down through the woods
louder than before. Then we got near
enough to hear the rattle of the great ant
lers as the bull savagely thrashed the young
trees and saplings. Still nearer we crept,
and from particularly dense clump of
Young evergreens the roar came so near as
to make it sound like the cry of some fe-
rocious wild beast. The old hunter dropped
behind and I raced silently forward toward
the clump. In another moment saw the
tops of the great antlers projecting one on
either side of tree trunk. was in nv
SO well with the tree trunks that it is diff
cult for even the sharpest eye to distin-
guish it.
For moment or two evidently the elk
could not quite see what 1 was. Stepping
to one side of the tree he walked couple
of PAGES toward me with the peculiar,
stately grace of his kind, his shapely head
and lordly antlers borne aloft by the great
swelling neck. Then, as he halted, my
bullet took him straight in the chest.
Round he wheeled and started off, and
with the second bullet I hit HIM in the
flank. Either of the shots was fatal. and
rdc ho
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XIV.
And the Kings eye burned with baleful
And grisly he looked like god grown
old:
His cheek was aglow with wrath and shame,
And dread was he to behold.
His son from aught he could there espy
With his brand unsheathed and bright
His head held high and hate in his eye,
But wan was his cheek and white.
Then the voice of the war-horn broke forth
amain,
Its hollow note was hoarse and deep,
And the mountains flung back the ominous
With echoes from steep to steep.
But oh, what a shout from the rebel rout;
And oh, what a thunderous roar,
As the wrathful Kings men came rushing
And down on their foremen borel
XVI.
But ere yet the arrows the space could span,
And the storm of weapons had broken
loose,
Aloft on a rock was seen man
Who waved the white shield of truce.
And the King in amaze on the sign did gaze
And he checked the fierce assault.
But the Prince with marvel beheld the white
And he bade his spearmen halt.
XVII
So there above the grim vanyard's ring
Stood Guttorm nloft, the daring scald,
And he faced the Prince and he faced the
And be laced them unapparled.
'fMy lords" he cried, when the wrathful
hum
Was hushed in the warriors thront
81 crave of you peace; for now 1 conn
The guerdon to claim tor my song"
TIE Prince stood long distraught with woe.
And pride and sham in his bosom warred:
Then he Bonded his stubborn knee to his
foe,
His father his King, and his lord.
And long did King Harold gazein pain
On that noble bended head,
With mist in his eye, yet his heart was
That no, ,Norseman's blood was she'd
Now brightly the sun in splendor broke
From the bloody clouds that had yelled it
DER,
No more was heard the black ravens croak
And leashed were the hounds of war.
The Kings stern heart was turned to his
With love that was deep and strong,
But the blessings of peace which the land
had won
Were the guerdon, forsooth, of song.