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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-08-26
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-08-18
MOUNTAIN RAM AND PUMA.
A Furious Battle Which a California
Hupter Vitnescad

a uElOuS d SADIOrnlA
Hunter Witnessed.
Lovers of sport with spice of dan
ger will find plenty of it to suit them
in the interior of Lower California,
where great stretches of heavily tim
bered land have yet to receive their
visit from a white man. Col. William
Denton, the well-known mining man
and surveyor, was the undesigning wit
ness of a savage and exciting contest
while on his prospecting trip north of
Calamojue some weeks ago, the partic-
ulars of which he related to a San
Diego Union man. Attracted by a furi-
Gus noise in the brush and the evident
uneasiness of his animals he tied them
securely and went forward to recon-
noiter, unlimbering his gun for use if
necessary. The sight that presented
itself was certainly worth witnessing,
as battle royal between two magnif-
cent brutes. A full-grown California
lion had attacked mountain sheep,
and was finding it's claws full in trying
to let go. The sheep was of formid-
able size, and he used his monstrous
horns with astonishing rapidity, back
ing off, stamping his feet with quick
jerk, and propelling himself at his foe
like sure-enough battering ram.
The great yellow puma, agile and
watchful, leaped aside or into the air
to escape the onslaught of the tartar
he had caught, and with a lightning
like spring he would aim to clutch the
ram behind the horns. But not once
did the interested observer see the ram
caught unawares. The heavy horns
were swung quickly on the pivot of his
sinewy neck, and received the clawing
of the cat with no effect whatever.
Col. Denton watched the sport with
all the zest of sportsman, and, on in
dications that the belligerents were
becoming mutually disgusted and
about to separate and disappear, he
embraced a moment when the ram
stood stamping his fore feet preparing
to dart forward, and gave him bullet
behind the shoulder. The ram leaped
upward and forward, game to the last,
and tumbled forward on his horns.
Col. Denton then turned to pay his
respects to the lion, but as the brute
had already received more than it had
bargained for, it was out of sight. The
splendid horns of the ram were secured
by the hunter as trophy.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-08-18
Not What He Expected.

He was calling on young lady and
mad been talking against tAne for sew
eral hours, not noticing, that, to say
the least, she was slightly wearied.
do you know" he said, after complet-
ing a short monologue of several thou.
sand words, and thinking little fat
terry would be appreciated, while talk
ing tonight, have felt as if were in.
spired by one of the mnses. And
which one do you think it is?"
He looked into her beautiful face
searchingly. The modest blush for
which he was watching proved to be q
wide yawn, which grew wider 40 she
answered; ~ guess the muse that in
spires you tonight must be Euterpa."
He didn't really know anything about
mythology, SO he couldn't tell just
what she meant. But when he arrived
home he took down his Webster's I'm,
abridged, and there in cold type star.
ing him in the face he saw; "Euterpa-
the mrse who presided over wind in
strumsutstne=Yapkee Blade.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-08-18
THE JUNO OF ARGOS.

Site of the Recent Discoveries of the
American School of Athens.
The site of the most important of our
several excavations during the season
of 1892 was that of the temple of Hera,
or Juno, about three miles from the
! town of Argos at the slope of one of
the mountains (Euboea), running on
the east of the Argive plain down to
the promontory of Nauplia and the
beautiful Nauplian bay. 1t thus lies
about half way between the most an
cient and important cities of the heroic
age of Greece, MScen9 and Tiryns, and
was in the Homeric days the chief
sanctuary of the district-in fact of the
whole of the Peloponnesus. The Her
aion, or Temple of Hera (Juno), at
Argos was the cradle from which all
service of Hera emana ated for the whole
of Greece. Even in Homer she is chief.
ly identified with Argos; for Zeus there
SAYS to her: Twain goddesses hath
Menelaos for his helpers, even Hera of
Argos and All1omenean Athene." And
Hera answers him: ''Of surety three
cities are there that be dearest far to
me, Argos, and Sparta, and wide-wayed
,Mycen@
1t was here that, according to later
tradition, Agamemnon offered sacrifices
before leaving for Troy The ancient
temple, perhaps the most ancient in
Greece, though it had stone substruc-
ture, was, as such early temples were,
built to great extent of wood. In the
year 423 b. c., through the negligence
of the priestess, who fell asleep and did
not attend to the light, the famous
sanctuary was burned down. a few
years later, from 420 to 416 B. c., the
temple was rebuilt (as we have found)
Immediately below the site of the
earlier one, by the architect Eupole-
mos. The great gold and ivory statue
of Hera in this temple was the work of
the famous sculptor Second only to
Pheidias, his contemporary Polykle-
itos of Argos. The renown of this
statue was as great as that of the
Athene of Pheidias in the Parthenon,
and nearly as great as that of the statue
of Zeus by the same master at Olympia.
In fact, the Heraion of Argos with its
statue held the same position for the
Peloponnesus in the ancient world that
the Parthenon with it's statue held for
Attica and the rest of Greece above the
isthmus of Corinth.-Dr. Charles Wald-
stein, in Century.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-08-18
AMERICANS IN MEXICO.
Our Investments Now Greatly In Excess OF
Any other Foreign Nation.

Our Investments Now Greatly In Excess of
Any other Foreign Nation.
In the three years ending with De-
cember 81, 1899, American investments
in Mexico amounted to $945, $40, 900.
During the same time English invest
ments amounted to $213, 500, 900. At
one time English investments in Mex
leo far exceeded those of Americans,
says the Denver Republican, but if we
may judge by the record of the three
years named the latter will soon, if
they have not already done so, occupy
the leading place.
American capital in Mexico has been
invested very largely in mines and in
railroads. During the last three years
Americans invested $sS, 900 and
Engishmen S27,95O,OO0 in Mexican
mines. During the same time Ameri-
cans invested S176, 900 and English
men $26, $50, 900 in railroads. English
men have, however, given more atten-
tion than Americans to colonization
schemes and to land Investments
They have taken the lead also in mer-
camille ventures. their investments in
that direction being $33, $780, 900, as
against $9,550, 900 by Americans. In
connection with manufactures and
material improvements Americans
have invested great deal more capital
than Englishmen, the amounts being
for the former $63, 100000 and for the
latter only $4,s12. 900.
The growth of American influence in
Mexico has been very rapid since rail
road communication between the
United States and the City of Mexico
was established, and traveller through
the southern republic can see the re-
suits of this in almost all the railroad
towns. The increased intercourse be-
tween the two nations is having good
effect upon public opinion in Mexico
concerning the people of the United
States. At one time there was great
deal of distrust of Americans, but al
though there is some of it left it is
gradually dying out
Formerly the typical American in
Mexico was of the rough frontier class.
But since the completion of the rail
roads better classes of Americans have
gone into the country. The invest
ments of American capital have caused
intelligent American business men,
and especially mining engineers and
managers, to make their homes in Mex
leo, and thus the people of that coun-
try have had their eyes opened to the
true character of the better class of
the American people.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-08-18
Silver and Wheat.

A silver producer digs out of the
earth 4l23 grains of silver and as ks
that he be permitted to take it to the
United States mint and have it coined
at public expense into dollar. The
wheat producer by his labor makes the
earth produce wheat, bushel of which
is worth about the same as the silver in
silver dollar. This wheat is generally
represented in commerce by warehouse
receipts showing that the commodity
is in existence, and is available on de-
mand on the surrender of the certificate
Why should the silver producer have
his product stamped of value over 0
per cent higher than its commercial
value, while the wheat growers pro duct
remains unaltered /? Before the silver
is coined the 4l23 grains will buy
bushel of wheat, After it is coined it
will buy bushel and a.half of wheat.
If the theory of the silver producers is
right, would it not be equally just to
stamp warehouse certificates of wheat in
store illegal tenders" at the rate of 81
for each cushel of wheat they represent?
Yet what honest farmer would make
such demand Chicago Record.
This is the kind Of rot the city papers
in the interest of the gold ring attempt
to beguile an unthinking public With,
and our village papers copy The
answer is easy. Wheat is not money
auetal in any nation of the world. Silver
is money metal in every nation of the
world. Wheat is bread commodity
only and snbject to the rise and fall of
price with other merchandise. Money
of am kind, and made of any materia!
is never commodity or merchandise
and is wholly independent of the lner-
chandise market. The silver producer
does not ask to have 4l24 grains, but
3714 grains of silver added to one tenth
copper coined into dollar. He asks
it because gold is treated so and the
Constitution Of the United States pro-
vides for it. The Cecil Democrat copies
the above from the Record and we pre-.
sumo wants an answer. This is the
answer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-08-18
HOW GRESHAM'S FATHER DIED.
Stabbed to the Heart by Rufflan Whom
He Tried to Arrest.

Stabbed to the Heart by a Ruffian Whom
He Tried to Arrest.
Maj. Mulky, of Louisville, has been
Secretary Gresham's intimate friend
for many years. The fathers of the
two men were neighbors in Harrison
county, Ind, and the elder Mulky was
one of the three men who arrested the
murderer of Secretary Gresham's
father The story of that tragic event
was related the other day by Maj.
Mully to New York Sun man as fol-
lows:
''The first name of the desperate
who killed Sheriff Gresham do not
recall. His name was Sipes, and dis
tinctly recollect that he had brother
named Levi. Lewis brother had just
been in a very ugly scrape, and had
shot, but not killed, constable who
tried to arrest him. AS Judge Gresh-
ans father was then sheriff it de-
volved upon him to arrest Sipes, who
was known as dangerous character.
To help him he summoned my father,
the late James Mulky, and James
Spencer and James Gibbs. 1t is little
curious that the first names of all these
were James. Sipes was at dance a
few miles west of Corydon, but the party
went first to the house of his father.
Their inquiries alarmed Levi Sipes and
he fled at once to give his brother
warming. He found him dancing and
had just time to tell him what was up
when the sheriff and his posse arrived.
Sipes staggered out into the yard,
and when the sheriff attempted to ex-
ecute his warrant the desperate
drew pistol and fred. His aim was
good and the wound inflicted was
fatal The sheriff did not stop, how
ever, and Sipes, drawing a big dirk,
sprang upon him and stabbed him to
the heart, killing him instantly. He
turned and fled, but was pursued by
Mulky Gibbs and Spencer, who finally
captured him near Fredonia, then the
county seat of Crawford county, on the
banks of the Ohio. This occurred in
the winter of 1928, and l distinctly
recollect that there was snow on the
ground, by the aid of which I helped
track Sipes. He was tried in 1885, and,
escaping hanging by great good luck,
got a twenty-one-year sentence. do
not remember how it was that he got
off so easily. He stayed in prison un-
til 1887, during which year he was par
doned by the governor. I don't remem-
Der who the governor was, but he was
either Noah Noble or David Wallace.
Sipes returned to Harrison county i'm
mediately after his pardon. For awhile
he pursued the same desperate life, and
was terror to the citizens for months.
Suddenly his manner changed. To the
astonishment of everyone he became a
quiet citizen. He remained year or
two longer and then disappeared. In
1S46, while on visit to Ottumwa, Ia,
I met Sipes, and by invitation took
dinner with him. He was quiet, re-
spectacle citizen and owned a large
and valuable farm. His home was com
Portable and had every appearance of
prosperity. / never saw nor heard of
him again, and it was only Judge
Gresham's visit here that recalled the
occurrence to my mind"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-08-18

A curious box was recently found
amidst the ruins of Pompeii. The box
was marble or alabaster, about two
inches square and closely sealed.
When opened it was found to be full of
a pomatum or grease, hard but very
fragrant. The smell somewhat re-
sembled that of roses, burt was
much more fragrant. What the per-
fume was made of cannot be conjec-
tured now, but it is singular that men
In the nineteenth century should be
able to regale their noses with perfume
prepared in the first
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-08-18
A Typographer'S Error.

Typographical errors are frequent in
these days of much printing, but it is
safe to say that the following error
will never be surpassed in this or any
other age: MAY they always live in
peace and harmony" was the way a
marriage notice should have wound up;
but the compositor, who couldn't read
manuscript very well, put it in type,
and Mortified the happy couple by MAX
ing it read: MAY they always live on
pease and hominX." -----44-.-I
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-08-18
1t Should be in Every
House.

]. B. Wilson, 371 Clay St., Sharps-
burg, Pa, says he will not be without
Dr. Kings New Discovery for coz
sumption, coughs and colds, that it
cured his wife who was threatened
with pneumonia after an attack of ''la
grippe when various other remedies
and several physicians had done her
no good. Robert Barber. of Cooksport
Pa, claims DR.. Kings New Discovery
has done him more good than anything
he ever used for lung trouble. Nothing
like it Free trial bottles at L. R.
Kinks drug store. Large bottles, soc.
and 81.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-08-18

Mr.. J. c. Boswell, one of the best
known and most respected citizens OF
Brownwood, Texas, suffered with diar-
rhoea for a long time and tried many
different remedies without benefit,
until Chamberlain Collie. Cholera and
Diarrhea Remedy was used; that re-
lieved him at once. For sale by E. T.
Reynolds.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-08-18
BOUNDARY LINES.

BOUNDARY LINES.
Who can tell when sleep and waking meet t.
mingle,
Meet to mingle so that sleeps deft opiato
wins?
Who can tell when waking pushes past the por
tails,
Past the portals whence its potency begins?
Just the moment for the breaking
OF the spell between Our waking
And our sleep, who can tell?
Just the moment for the breaking OF the frs
yet fragile spell,
Who can tell?
Who can tell when girl and woman meet tc
mingle.
Meet to mingle so that woman wins the day?
Who can tell when woman wanders past the
portals,
Past the portals whence outsweeps her witch
ing sway!
Just the moment for assuming
That the flower at last is blooming
From it's bud, who can tell7
Just the moment that bids girlhood from its
bondage first rebel,
Who can tell?
Who can tell when love and ianguor meet te
mingle,
Meet to mingle so that love MAY win the soulf
Who can tell when love goes proudly past the
the portals,
Past the portals whence its radiant realms
outroll?
Just the moment of surrender
To that new large life Of splerdor
And surprise, who can tell'
Just the moment that would make Of earth s.
Heaven if it were hell,
Who can tell?
Edgar Fawcett, in Once Week.
The gold leaf., 1893-11-16
HEED THE WARNING.

The New York Tobacco Journal
commenting on the result Of the recent
election says it is 4 warning TO the
party in power to be true to its trust
to keep its faith with the people-to
redeem the pledges made during tie
last national campaign 10 work needed
reforms and repeal vicious and unjust
laws enacted by the Republicans,
says:
The result of the election on Tues
day ought to be an impressive warn
ing to Congress not to dlIy-dally with
the execution Of any promises made
by the Democratic party in their
national platform. They received the
power from the people under the
distinctive pledge Of reforming the
tariff by wiping out any and all of the
robber duties embodied in the Nc
Kinley tariff And no robber duty Of
whatever kind can be maintained as a
source of revenue. If the people
wanted the robber duties they would
surely have kept McKinley's party in
power. The verdict on Tuesday last
was merely warning to the Demo
cratic Congress that if they intend to
maintain any robber duties the people
would prefer to have it done by the
party that originally imposed them.
But Of the Democratic party something
quite different is expected.
The gold leaf., 1893-11-16
THE NEW ASSISTANT SECRETARY
OF AGRICULTURE.

We see it stated that the new Assis-
tant Secretary of Agriculture is likely
to be Professor Charles w. Dabney,
Jr., President of the University of
Tennessee, and Director of the Tenn
essee Agricultural Experiment Station
at Knoxville. The Assistant Secretary
has charge of the more scientific work,
experiment and researches of the United
States Department of Agriculture, and
therefore thoroughly qualified sci
enlist is desired. Professor Dabney
has many excellent qualifications for
the position. He is good deal of a
scientist, man who is highly gifted
with much tact and ability to put
scientific work in a way TO benefit
practical farming. 1t is said further
more that the administration is inclined
to favor a Southern man for this
position. DR.. Dabney will be re-
membered as being former State
chemist of North Carolina, which
position ne resigned to go to the
University Of Tennessee.
The gold leaf., 1893-11-16
\ Big-Littlc Paper

We have just received the last issue OF
the big-little Farm Journal, the we'll known
and popular. monthly farm paper, edited
by Wilmer Atkinson. The Farm JnmnaL
is BOW in its sixteenth year with over
100000 subscribers, giving it a round
million readers. 1t circulates everywhere
from Maine to Washington and from
Michigan to Texas. Its editors and con-
trlbutors are sleeves-rolled-up men and
women, and it is surprising how so much
valuable and helpful information can be
crowded in so small space. The very
best people take it because it is clean.
earnest and progressive, with no ak to
grind, or hobby to ride 1t is for the
farmer, first, last, and all the time. Send
postal to Farm Journal, Philadelphia.
Pa, for sample copy, and q list OF
valuable premiums given to those who
will get up clubs.
The gold leaf., 1893-11-16
look OUT FOR APPOINTMENT:

The Washington correspondent If
the Richmond Dispatch is rcapOnslD.c
for the statement that number of
important appointments were to have
been considered at recent cabinet
meeting. Mr.. Cleveland has hardly
commenced yet TO remove the Repub-
liCans from office. Collectors of
customs, marshals, and postmasters of
the Presidential class are to be changed
by the score, and pressure is being
brought TO bear on the Administration
to hurry up things. In both Virginia
and North Carolina offices of this
character are to be bestowed, and it
remains with the powers to say whether
the Republican incumbents shall serve
out their full terms or to be supplanted
by Democrats at the earliest possible
moment. 1t is thought that the order
will be issued to make removals. At
any rate the Senators and Representa-
tlves will demand that the patronage
be dealt out more rapidly.
The gold leaf., 1893-11-16
California as a Sanitarium.

In an article written for the Californian,
Lieutenant John P. Finley, of the United
States Weather Bureau, makes the fol
lowing statements: Theoretically, Cal
ifornia should furnish the best and the
most varied health resorts and SANTA
RUINS in the United States. Within her
borders almost every form of wasting
disease should find the means of tenn
porary, if not permanent relief
This theoretical statement, from an
unbiased, scientific standpoint, is fully
and abundantly confirmed by actual
experience. The cool and bracing coast
climate, devoid of any trace of malaria,
extends from the northern part of the
State to the extreme south. There is
the choice between this cool, humid at
mosphere and the dry, warm atnos-
phere of the inland valleys.
In the matter of altitude there is a
yet greater difference. From Palm VAL
ley, 800 feet below sea level, to the upper
Sierras, 1000 or 5000 above, any alti-
tude can be selected, and comfortable
homes be founded.
The popularity OF an almost rainless
summer, during which the injurious
germs of animal and vegetable decay
are destroyed by thorough desiccation,
10 ol1C vi Clc ltctluICS vi Odll-
fornia climate.
During the rainy season it is usually
too cool to facilitate fermentation, and
the result is, except along some of the
river valleys, an absolutely pure atmOs-
phere. The ocean winds entering through
the several coast openings, are tempered
by the intermediate area passed over,
and often receive desirable healing pro-
perties by taking up the resinous ordors
of the pines and redwOods on the Coast
Range.
The skillful physician, acquainted with
the climatic conditions, should find little
difficulty in selecting a locality where
| climate and environment will do all that
these agencies can ever do toward the
restoration of health. There is enous h
OF wildness to keep the mind constantly
engaged, and enough of civilization to
satisfy the most eXacting.
Sufferers from pulmonary diseases,
people whose systems are charged with
malaria, or are "run down. by over
work, find immediate and in many cases
permanent relief in this invigorating
climate, establishing anew the fact recog-
nized by all intelligent persons, whether
physicians or laymen, that mature is
| the best healer.'
For full and complete information
about California, or any particular
locality therein, such as guides, maps,
and descriptive literature of all kinds, cal
upon or address the following named
officers of the Southern Pacific Company
E. Hawley, Asst. General Traffic Man
ager, 343 Broadway, New York, n. Y
E: E. Currier, New England Agent, 192
Washington Street, Boston, Mass
W: &. Nelmyer, G. W. F. & P. A., 23C
South Clark Street, Chicago, Ill.
W. {. Watson, General Passenger Agent
New Orleans, La.
I. H. Goodman, General Passenger
Agent, San Francisco, Cal.