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The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-09-20

"AH0 SAOAC eSssA4 was SOVvAuR GAA Va uAS
land many deserving one succeeded in
getting home.
DEVELOPMENTS.
ARKANSAS CRY, September 18-As a
result Of the mad race, many tragedies
have occurred. Eight or ten dead bodies
have been found, but are unidentified. A
settler who succeeded IN getting q claim
in the Cherokee strip country came here
to-day. He said he saw six dead bodies
between this town and the new town Of
Cross on the Santa Fs. Two Of them
had bullet holes in the forehead. The
other four bodies were burned to crisp
and unacceptable. They had fallen
victims to prairie fires. The remains Of
woman were brought to Cross to-day
She had suffered by the same means.
The reported killing Of three men, one
killed by a soldier and the others killed
in fight over claim, has been verified.
ENID, o. T., September 19.-Twelve
thousand people got to this place Satur-
day night, and about six thousand got
away again as soon as the trains would
carry them, glad that they got out 'yaye.
The hardships were almost unendurable.
The whole place was in tho possession OF
sooners before the honest settlers got
there. Hoke Smiths registration scheme
kept none Of the sooners out, and the
brakes and woods were filed with them.
They got everything.
PERRY, September 18.-There is going
to be tremendous row before the COM
missioner Of the general land Office in
the settlement of titles in Perry. For
every town lot there are two or more
claimants, and as there, are so many
stories Of fraud, nobody is disposed to
give up without q struggle. The exam
pie set by the sooners was contagious.
Men who expected to win the lots by an
honest run, when they found the rule
was TO grab and contest, set up adverse
claims, and within two hours after the
signal was given, there was an average
of three or four claimants to every lot In
the 32O acres. Injured people are being
brought in to-day by the dozen, and sew
eral dead bodies were shipped out, and
one buried near where found. Prairie
fires are burning east of Perry. and with
a fearful gale blowing, it is feared many
settlers may be caught in the fire. The
discomforts of the past forty eight hours
are beyond description. Sand and dust
fill the air so thick that people can not
recognize each other at a distance Of
thirty feet.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-09-20

The Tooth anniversary Of the laying Of
the national capitol corner stone was
celebrated in Washington on Monday.
President Cleveland and William Writ
Henry 70 descendant Of Patrick Henry)
addressed very large audience.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-09-20

Those who want Mrs. Diggs to address
Po pulist meetings after October l,
sh Ouid address the ADVOCATE.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-09-20

while Uncle Sam was getting rid OF his
land many deserving one succeeded in
getting q home.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-15
Indian Legends to Order.


The American Folklore society charges
that college students who serve as wait
ers at Maine summer resort hotels are
trying to supply the demand for Indian
legends connected with each rock, hill
and stream by manufacturing them,
making the legend fit the name instead
of the name fit the legend, and proposes
to see what can be done about it. But
college students should not be charged
with monopoly of this business, even if
they are guilty at all. 1t was long before
the days of student walters that the alb
.surd story of the derivation of monhegan,
from the pigeon English, 'man-he-gone, "
instead Of from the real Indian words,
"menahan," an island, and 'kigan," +"
La nd in the great sea, was circulated,
and the other equally ridiculous attempt
to translate mooselucmeguntic into
"naoose-he-lo e-look-mygun-tick."
A t the meeting of the Folklore society,
where the charge against the students
was made, one speaker noted that Beaver
island in Maine was SO called because a
beaver crawled out of lake ON that is
land at the command of the great spirit.
Is ''beaver" an Indian word?-Lewiston
Journal.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-15
They Got There In Time.

The following story in The Christian
Leader, told Of Hosea Ballou by his son,
the late Rev. Massena Ballou, shows how
wise driver will regulate his speed by
the quality of his horse:
Father and son were in the same We.
hicle, bound for religious meeting to
be held at some distance from their
home, at the time in Barnard, VT. The
father was apparently in no hurry and
permitted the horse to move ON at an
easy trot.
The son, growing fearful lest the place
of meeting would not be reached in sea.
son, said to his father in a somewhat
anxious tone, Father, do you think we
shall get there in season."
The answer was, "Yes, Massena, If We
don't hurry"
The son "saw the point" Only Sc
much could bo got out of the horse. 4
at the outset he was forced, his vitality
being exhausted lie would be compelled
''to slow down" at the other end Of the
route, and this might be fatal to the
journeys purpose. BY permitting him
to fall back upon his natural strength
he would be as vigorous at the finish as
at the start, and his natural strength was
equal to the occasion.
The result proved the wisdom of the
remark.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-15
RAILROAD JOTTlNGS.

j. w. Thatcher, veteran engineer of
the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Mem
phis, has been appointed trainmaster of
the Kansas City division.
The next step in the way of advance
ment the Union Pacific will make will
be the extension Of the Red River branch
10 miles along that river. The work will
be commenced next spring.
1t has been stated by President Nc
Leod of the Boston and Maine that it is
the purpose Of the company to build a
passenger station in Boston that will be
large enough to I'll all requirements.
The new engines which the Big -Four
is receiving from the Richmond locomo-
tive works are performing very satisfac-
torily. hauling from FIVE to seven more
cars than the mogul engines. The en-
gine without tank weighs G5 tons.
The Wabash has issued orders closing
eight of the telegraph Offices at Cornell,
Mcdowell. Galesville, Ritchie, Blue
Ridge. Preston. Osman and Foosland.
This leaves only one telegraph Office be-
tween Fairbury and Streator, distance
of 35 miles.
When the Lehigh Valley company
opened its new lake line to Toronto. the
sleeping cars on the 1880 p. IN. and 1850
pm. trains did not run Sundays. The
success of the lake route. however. has
prompted the company TO run sleeping
ears through to Toronto every day in the
week on these trains.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-15
BEARDED PARSONS,
Reflections on the Tendency of Clcrgymon
to Hirsute Adornment.

Reflections on the Tendency of Clcrgymon
to Hirsute Adornment.
An attack has been made in the col
umns of religious contemporary upon
the growing tendency among clergymen
to adorn themselves with boards. The
author of the spirited onslaught admits
that he is q layman, and he treats the
matter from purely lay point of view.
Being present at recent ordination, he
declares that the gentlemen presented
for holy orders could in nowise be ac-
cused of being company of 'beardless
boys;' on the contrary, every hirsute
facial adornment possible was to be
found among them, from flowing mus
tache to luxuriant side whiskers and
beard" He further wishes that the
clergy could hear their lay critics on the
subject of "hairy parsons" as in that
case he fancies that they could not con-
tinue to treat it as trivial matter, and
he finishes up his letter by the extraor-
binary remark that the wearing of
whiskers and beard lust makes the
difference between looking like a gen.
tleman or the reverse"
This is certainly rather hard on the
hundreds and thousands of gentlemen
who have abjured the use of the razor.
Would the critic maintain that they
have all suffered fatal degeneracy of
appearance by this conduct? No doubt
there may be people who still hold to the
superstition that a gentleman ought to
shave, just as it was believed by our an
cestors that persons desirous of being
considered to belong to 1.-THE quality
must wear wigs. The custom of wearing
the hair on the face, however, has be-
come so general in every profession that
it might have been imagined that it had
won an established position by this time,
secure from the ouslaughts either of cler-
icals or laymen.
The critic obviously forgets that it
may be just as damaging to q clergy
mans influence over his parishioners to
be called "beardless boy" as to be
called a "hairy parson." And, after all,
it is hardly the most manly and earnest
section of churchmen who think that a
clergyman's principal duty is to look
nice in surplice. 1t may somewhat al
lay the discomfort of this friend of the
barber if he remembers that not all the
gentlemen who are ordained become at
once rectors, or even curates. Perhaps
when they take upon themselves active
spiritual duties they may see fit to alter
their facial appearance, and thus their
first shave would Immediately precede
their first sermon.-London Telegraph.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-15
Two Bright Minds In Collision.

General Butler had charge of bill,
and in the time allotted to him for clos.
ing the debate he was answering seriatim
the members who had opposed him. He
treated them all with respect until he
came to Mr.. Cox, whom he answered
last.
"And now" said he, "as to the gentle
man from New York who sits on my
right My answer shall be very briel
and very simple. 1t is whistled by the
bootblacks on the street, it is sung by
the chambermaids in the hotels; it il in
everybody's mouth-'Shoo, fly; don't bod
der me-"
Butler suited the action to the word
by drawing his right hand rapidly across
his ear as if aimed at an intruding fly
and took his seat amid the laughter oi
the house.
A short time afterward Cox got partly
even. He (Cox) had the floor and was
alluding to remark made in debate by
Massachusetts, member. Butler jumped
up and asked Cox If he (Dutler) was the
person meant.
mo, SIR" said Cox; ~ said the honor
able gentleman from Massachusetts,,
putting great emphasis on the adjective.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-15
In the Same Chair.

In the years of his highest reputation
Daniel Webster was favored with de-
gree of personal adulation and ''toady-
ing" which was not altogether agreeable
to him. 1t is related that on one occa-
sion whera public reception was given
to him at hotel in Boston a particularly
obsequious old Office seeker was intro
duced. The man fattered Webster and
ground his own AK, bowling and scraping
until the great man was tired of him.
and bidding him good day settled down
heavily into the nearest chair. But the
man, instead of passing on and giving a
chance to the next conner, fingered near
and seemed to have something still on
his mind, though he looked very blissful.
Webster observed this and said not
very good naturedly, "May / ask you,
sir, if you want anything more of meY'
"Oh-oh, mol" said the man, smirking.
"Only perhaps may be permitted to re-
mark that am proud to say that my hat
is having the inestimable honor to &C.
cupy the same chair with Daniel Web
ster." Webster had. as matter of fact,
sat down ON the mans tall beaver hat and
crushed it out of shape.-Yankee Blade.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-15
:zE|zgSEY1iEa,zf ! l7'i
~
MEN AID WOMEN.

Bishop Doane of the cathedral of AL
bany will have one of the finest carved
oak thrones in the country. the gift Of
Mrs. j. V. l.. Pruyn.
Mrs. Mary Hall, attorney at law, con-
ducts class in "civil government" at
Woodside seminary at Hartford. Poll
tics. the tariff, etc.. are discussed.
According to paper published in
Bristol, England, Lady Henry Somerset,
the temperance advocate, is the owner of
IA buildings which are now being used
as saloons.
Mrs. Mary King. 65 years old, a native
of England and resident of this coun-
try for nearly half century, was natu.
ralized in the court at Mobile, so as to
enable her to make homestead entry.
Major General Sir George Stewart
White. who is to succeed Lord Roberts
as commander in chief in India, has been
3S years in the British army, most of
that time having been spent in that
country.
Mrs. A. S. Oakley of Newburg owns
the village street roller and sprinkler
business of that town. She has con-
Quoted it for II years. Mrs. Oakley
superintends the work herself and does
her own collecting.
Father Antoine de Padone, whose re-
cent death at Trappist monastery in
France has been reported by cable, was
none other than Prince Malatesta, who
fought as an ally Of Louis Bonaparte
against the pontifical troops in Italy.
Lady Florence Dixey, who is an ex-
pert i'll the use of rod and rife, and who
has done her share in shooting big game,
has provoked the wrath of her sporting
compatriots by denouncing fox hunting
and rabbit coursing as wanton cruelty.
Ex-Speaker Reed doesn't conceal from
any one his opinion that Bourke Cochran
is by far the ablest man ION the other
side of the house." and Bourke Cockra l
expresses the same view of Mr.. Reed.
Mr.. Reed and Mr.. Cochran are two of
the closest cronies in the house.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-15
ODDS AND ENDS.
Who is happy without q sister?

w uO ls uuppy WltuOuJ SlSltTs
Tar on sugar is good for weak lungs.
The father Of Marshal Soult was q
peasant farmer.
The first cast iron plow was made by
Newbold in 1907.
Furnaces for pudding iron were in
vented by Cort in 1881.
The richest man is the careful man;
the poorest is the miser.
Trepannirg among the prehistoric men
had a therapeutic motive.
Behrens in 1905 built the first "dry
rile" of so pairs of plates.
Charles Kingsley and Emerson thought
class distinctions essentially wrong.
The popular return ball" yielded the
ratentee an income of $4,000 year.
Wheatstone patented his system of al
rhabetical printing telegraph in 1s41.
Toads are regularly sold in Paris and
conveyed to gardens as insect destroyers.
Flower farming for the manufacture
of perfume is being carried on in Aus
tralia.
Tell me with whom thou art found,
and / will tell thee who thou art
| Goethe.
Dried seeds of the sunfower are eaten
by the poorer natives of Bengal and
Bombay.
France will spend nearly $9. .ooo, 900 for
arms and ammunition for the cavalry
| alone this year.
A Waldoboro (Me.) woman treasures a
blue edged plate upon which 955 pies
have been baked.
Let young folks be hopeful, expectant
Of great things; in some good sense OF
the word, impatient.
| Scald rhubarb before cooking it. II
takes much less sugar, and yet it seems
| to have lost none of its acid.
Do not grumble because your CORE
spondent writes an illegible hand. AS
like as not he doesn't know how to spell.
The meanest man in the world will
agree to everything you say about him as
long as he thinks you are talking about
somebody else.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-15
The Smallest Yet.

Quality rather than quantity was the
principle upon which a Washington
bride planned her trousseau. The mar
riage, which could only be classed under
the head of runaways, was undoubtedly
the subject Of much deep thought be-
forehand, inasmuch as the accessories OF
toilet to be carried upon the eyentful
trip were reduced to miniuum. The
wedding took place in the summer, and
the conventional travelling bag was re-
placed by white lace parasol. This was
carried furled, the filmy white fiounces
serving as a receptacle for the trousseau
"a pair Of curling tongs and tooth
brush.-Kate Fields Washington,
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-15
STAGE GLINTS.

A sister of Robert Downing has adopt
ed the stage.
Amy Busby has joined William II.
Cranes company.
Arthur Hayden has joined the Charles
Frohman stock company.
Henry Guy Carleton is writing new
play for Nat Goodwin, but it will not be
used for ono year.
Fanny Mcintyre has been engaged to
play the leading part, Bess Marks, in
'The Lights O London"
G. NJ. S. Mcclellan, the hbrettist OF
"Puritania. denies the report that he
will write the score of another opera.
The Actors Holiday" is the name ol
new farce comedy by well known
author. 1t is to be produced next fall.
In May. at the end of the season OF
"Aristocracy, Blanche Walsh will sail
for Europe to be gone about two months.
Alice Fischer has ended her engage
ment with Joseph jefferson and has
made up her mind to remain in New
York to take special engagements.
Henry P. Mawson. author of IA Fair
Rebel" is writing "a spectacular drama
around the Mardi Gras festival of New
Orleans. The play will be called "New
Orleans"
A Minneapolis girl named Exile de
Lambert declares that she was the model
for the Montana silver statue. She says
she posed six hours day for weeks for
its most feminine outlines.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-15
Children Recite Lonefeilow

"What child in the public school,
knows anything about Longfellowr
asked DIR. Stamm at the recent meeting
of the board Of education when the ques
ton Of taking up a collection for the
Worlds fair Minnehaha statute, at the
request of Mrs. l.. p. Hunt, was under
consideration. The proposition is to per
NIT each pupil in the public schools to
donate any sum not to exceed 10 cents
each for the purpose. and at the conclu-
sion Of the exposition the statue 80 pur-
chased shall become the permanent prop
erty of the schools Of ST. Paul.
"a great many" was the prompt re
ply offered by Superintendent Gilbert
~ assure you, doctor. that have heard
school children recite pages Of 'Hia-
watha.' '"-St. Paul Globe.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-15
AROUND The THRONES.

Alexander and julius Caesar were both
accustomed to whip their wives on & !
slightest provocation.
Fausta. the wife of Constantine the
Great. was 80 bad that the emperor had
her smothered in hot bath.
Now that Prince Ferdinand Of Rou-
mania and Princess Marie Of Edinburgh
are married. il Is said King Charles oi
Roumania win not abdicate in Ferdi'
nand's favor US promised.
The emperor Of Germany has ordered
that the bones Of the whales which were
killed during his whaling expedition last
summer shall be manufactured into
furniture. Frauiein Berg has been com
manded by his majesty topai-t the vari
Gus incidents Of the chase upon ths
bones.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-15
That Zig Feller.

A middle aged man whose business
keeps him away from home on all days
except Sunday had occasion to chastise
his eldest son one Sabbath about three
weeks ago. AS soon as the shingle seance
was over the child ran crying into the
house.
"Why. Johnnie, what is the natter
asked the mother in alarm.
"That big feller's been licking me-
whimpered the boy. =.
"What fellow do you mean, Johnnie?
"Why, that feller what stays here every
Sunday" replied the urchin with gulp'
Texas Siftings.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-15
Boys Caught N wildcat.

Warren Whitside. son Of Major Whit
side. and other boys went hunting Satur-
day. Thinking they might run across a
rabbit or two. they took along Denni-
son Forsyths foxhounds. In one Of the
ravines near the post the dogs chased a
wildcat into the limbs Of scrub oak
tree, when one Of the dogs made run.
ming jump and landed on the cats back.
pulling her TO the ground, where she was
quickly put TO death by the boys. The
cat measures4 feet II inches. Thisis the
first time foxhound was ever known to
jump into tree for wildcat.--Junction
City Republican,
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-15
NO OTHER WAY.

I by Both Agreed That There Must Be q
Wedding.
The delicate young heiress looked
tn, Nlghtfully out of the window.
My case is one that requires constant
car, /, and watchfulness, is it?' she said.
Z" & is" replied the young physician.
81 And l am habitually careless of my
self md likely to counteract the effect of
your prescriptions without constant
overs pht?
II lid not put it quite SO strongly as
that, 'ut If you will pardon my saying
SO you have stated the situation correct
ly."
"Hui n-and l am alone in the world,
with u one attached to me by ties of
kindred r she unused.
The uung doctor coughed discreetly
and said nothing.
with this constant watchfulness you
think my naturally strong constitution
would ra L in time and my health be
fully resto -elf"
II am su. % OF 1t, Miss Welloph."
"Do you 'hink could trust myself in
the care of r1ere hireling whose faith
fulness woul d be of a purely mercenary
character"
81 should 1gret exceedingly to see a
case in which /! take so deep an interest
-as-as a Pre- fessional man imperiled by
such d conditi on OF things"
'And yet b ow can the difficulty be
| surmountedI"
at must"
at is necessal y that should be under
| the constant GU ardianship Of somebody
upon whose fidel (ty and regard can de-
pend with absolu te certainty?'
II cannot be mswerable for the re-
suit otherwise"
"And one whose patient watchfulness
must be guided by Intelligence, skill and
through knowledge of my case, pre-
sumo you would say.
"You are right"
"And yet am prac tcally alone in the
world"
Again the handsome young physician
coughed decorously, ut said nothing,
and the shadows dance Vi up and down
and to and fro on the we al, and the NAL
tcse cat asleep on the rug Htup, stretched
itself, yawned and stole Sc Ntly out of the
room.
DR. Goode," said the y oung woman,
with q slight tremor in he r voice, "you
must prescribe for me in til is matter"
II, Miss Welloph?" he exc. laimed, with
b kind of snasmodic gasp.
"Ycs. Do you know of an ybody that
meets the requirements that such "a
guardian must possess?
'Do II he echoed impulsi Vely, yet
hopelessly. "Oh, yes, butt
He stopped. pale and tremblin9y
"Well?'
In the glow of the freight her faca'
seemed to flush with the rosy hue OF re-
turning health already.
Nothing. Miss Wellophf"
"You were about to say. doctor. that
you knew Of some ono who could
IL was about > say nothing of the
kind Miss Welloph. If-if a wild hope
for moment occurred to me-
"Yes!"
''But nor
"Did not tell you, DR.. Goode, that
you must prescribe for me as to this
this guardian?'
do you know, Vera Welloph," he
said, with a wild yearning in his look
and voice, what you are driving me to
say."
81 think do, DOCTOR" she whispered,
"but-but don't see any other way out
of it. do your
n
Tl,o oords ora ort -Chicouo Trihune
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-15
In No Danger.

Amateur Sportsman lin the Maine
woods)-Aw, say. nah man. are bear
vewy dangerous?
Guide-You needn't have no fear, sir.
Bears don't never turn on a man until
they've been bit. an you'd most likely
miss 'em.-New York Weekly.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-15
p,an., want TO BE a .oood Girl"

Little Marion was told 10 include the
petition "and make me good girl IN
her evening prayers.
"what~ she cried, "and eat up all the
crustsi Well. guess not."-Phiiadei-
phia Times.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-15
A Matter of Necessity.

Head of Firm-Penwiper, we shall
have to reduce your salary after the LIST.
What's the matter, sirf
Business, am sure, is good.
Head of Firm-Yce, but we are taking
q new man into the firm.-Clothier and
Furnisher.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-15
Eoth.

Spellman-Are you going south on
business Or
Mr.. Setrich-Well. business and pleas
ure combined. It's to attend the funeral
of the uncle who left me fortune
Chicago Inter Ocean.