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Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-04-29

CHARLES HENRY PEARSON, an En-
glishman. has written book in
which he claims to have proved that
the great races of the world are los
ing ground. and that the Chinese,
Hindoos and South American half
breeds are the coming leaders Of civ
ilizatiou
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-04-29

AMONG the estates left by persons
who died in Vienna intestate, and
whose heirs have not been found. is
one consisting of an opera glass.
Another mans estate consists of a
scarf pin.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-04-29

CLEVER idea that. of the man who
carries an expensive umbrella. He
has the handle made so that il can be
taken off, and whenever he has occa-
sion to leave the umbrella in a public
place he takes the handle OFF and puts
il in his pocket. OF course nobody
would care to appropriate an umbrel-
la without handle.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-04-29

WHILE the deaths in Marseilles
number scores daily from something
very like cholera, survivors are well
come to extract what comfort they
may from medical assurance that the
malady is not cholera, but only an inn
itatiOn. However, there is something
Interestingly realistic in the imita
tion.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-04-29

IT is an American syndicate that
has gobbled up San Domingo. AS it
calls itself an improvement company,
there is field for that sort of en-
terprise on the island.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-04-29

The New York pianomakers seem
to be rather high strung. Their de-
mands for space at the worlds fair
were not fully complied with, and
they are kicking like forte.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-04-29

THERE is getting to be something
wrong with the French duel. Another
man has been hurt in one of them.
To be sure, his injury was much less
severe than would have been caused by
a silver under the thumb. but it tends
sounwholesome defiance Of precedent
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-04-29

JIM CoRBETr already a pugilist,
actor and bank clerk is also trying to
become monopolist. The terms he
dictates for a meeting with either
Mitchell or jackson couldn't be met
by anything less coiny than an Eng
fish syndicate or an American trust
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-04-29

Capt. A. d. Peck Of the Massachu.
sets Bicycle Club rode 1856 miles last
year. Since 1883 his record Is 81, j34
miles.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-11-24

Some of the early kings Of France
ruled over Germany AT one time when
there was no division. but when there
was a separate German nation the rulers
gained many curious titles Fat WAS
one and Blind" another. Also the
Child" the Fowler" Then Blood.
Red BLACK, 50 superb and sharp.
while one king is particularly described
as the Holy and Lame"
The rulers Of the provinces that now
make up Spain had a number Of kings
called Great and Catholic. Then they
also had the Monk and Gouty and in
cluded others who were inirm-Bad,
Noble, Strong, Valiant, Gracious, Sick
", Impotent. Beneficent and Cerenoni-
GUS Ferdinand III Of Leon and CASTLE
was the Saint and Holy
Hungary has her rulers described as
Saint, German, Thunder. Venetian. Great
and King Mary who was probably the
only woman who held like title. Over
Portugal reigned the Fat, Idle. African
and Great and Perfect
The people Of Russia have generally
had hard time Of it We realize this
today. and the names given to their
kings show the reason therefor. None
was good. wise or Just, though there
was Peter the Great, who did all he
could to help his country But how
could a nation progress with rulers who
gained the title OF Terrible, Impostor,
Proud, Lightfoot. Grim, Fierce and Lion
Chicago Tribune.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-11-24

The Custom of Collecting Peter Pence"
The custom of collecting Peter pence"
or Rome SCOT" as it is sometimes
called, is of ancient origin. If the GUS
tom is fairly understood by the outside
world, it consists of setting aside one
day out of each year for taking up a coll
lection of money mot necessarily pen-
nies) to be sent to the pope at Rome, who
is supposed to use it in defrsying the
expense of the holy see. Chambers
Book of Days" and Brands Popular
Antiquities" neither mention the GUS
tom, but have succeeded in tracing it
back TO the twelfth century for GER
tainty. One authority even goes so far
as to ascribe its origin to Ina, king of the
west Saxons, who went to Rome in the
year rel and founded hospital for Eng
lish pilgrims TO the sacred city, the ex-
penses to be betrayed by leach mayle
adult" giving one ''small copper coyne
each yeare."
This mighty collection of pennies was
forwarded direct to the pope. Others
claim that the honor of originating the
Peter pence scheme is due to Ethelwulf
At very early date (the most laborious
far as the year, month and day are con-
cerned) the copper penny clause was
changed until the tribute was understood
to consist of ''silver penny" to be con-
tributed by every family who possessed
land or cattle Of a yearly value of 80
pence. This probably means upon which
q yearly tax of 80 pence was levied
st. Louis Republic.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-11-24

Such has been the rage for violets this
season that the wholesale dealers have
hardly been able to supply the retailers,
who have paid rs high as $l.i5 hundred
for them through Lent and have paid
since at times penny apiece. Just be
fore Easter one florist sold 5000 punches
in a single day. IL seems TO me there is
q suggestion in these facts for some re-
fined. capable woman, who would like TO
add to her income. Ask any gardener,
and he will tell you violets are easily
raised; that the forcing of them in frames
through the winter is not at all difficult.
and If one can carry the same direct 10
the retailer during the busy season a big
profit is assured. What one can do an
other may attempt. and il is certain that
this season certain clerk living in the
suburbs brought into the city every
morning freshly picked punches of vio-
lets which greatly increased his income
Brooklyn Eagle.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-11-24

to its businesses in the Arctic had both
whales and ice TO fear. The latter was
much the greater danger, and thanks to
the introduction Of improved methods
in whaling as well as every other bust
ness, the terrors Of neither are so great
as formerly. The addition of steam to
sails as a propulsive power renders the
whaleman of today largely independent
of winds and currents, although the ice
pack still has its dangers, and it is but a
few years ago that fleet of so vessels
was abandoned to be crushed by the
foes. In 1888 IS vessels with 500 whal-
ing men were frozen in for some months.
The substitution of the darting gun
and bomb for the hand lance and har-
poon was distinct step in advance.
The daTting gun is queer looking con-
trivance mounted on a wooden shaft
from to 10 feet long and resembling q
fork with three tines of different size
and shape. One Of the prongs is the gun
proper, and the whole apparatus is
thrown by hand. The long tine serves
to hold fast in the whales flesh, the
shorter slender tine acts as trigger, and
the explosion of the charge of "tonite"
in the gun-the third tine-is usually
sufficient to discourage the life principle
in the most vigorous whale. When the
darling gun" is not effective, a bomb
is fred from a hand gun that looks
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-11-24

much like the blunderbuss of other days,
the breech of which is furnished with a
heavy rubber cushion TO prevent too
great recoil.
San Francisco and New Bedford are
now the chief ports, and there is IA per-
manent station at Point Barrow. Fifty
six varieties of whales frequent Amer
lean waters. Eighteen species only have
been closely studied. The teeth of bow
head and right whales furnish the sub
stance known as whslebone. These
whales subsist on small fish and other
sea organisms, which they procure by
filing the mouth with water, closing the
jaws and forcing the water out. The
food is entangled in the curious fringe
on the teeth's outer edges. Every bow
head yields 473 teeth, and as good whale
bone has often been worth from s. to SO
a pound, every tooth is valuable. Last
winter n whaling company of San Fran
cisco had 81 200, 900 worth of whalebone
ON storage in a small building where it
was guarded as carefully as if it were
gold and precious stones. OF course
there was no fear that any of it would be
stolen-the weight and size of the pieces
preclude that-but it is a fsvorite food of
rats, and besides is very inf1ammable.
The utmost precautions, therefore. were
taken to keep off rodents and fire.
Paris, Bremen, London and New York
are the chief markets for whalebene, in
the order mentioned. Whale oil is still
secured sometimes, although its price is
now down to 16 and 20 cents gallon.
Time was when it would bring 81 and
s.. The most profitable voyage ever
made by whaler before the season of
1923 was that of the steamer Mary G.
Hume, which returned to San Francisco
in October, 1892, after an absence of two
years, during which time g whales were
taken. The net profits were $500, 900,
bone only being brought to port, owing
to the low prlce of oil.
\ most valued prize of the whale fish
erman is ambergris, a secretion found
in the stomachs of morbid whales.
This substance when of a high quality
is worth rather more than its weight in
gold, and one of the most disappointed
men the sun has ever shone upon was a
whaling captain, who last year let re-
markable piece of ambergris weighing
so pounds slip into the sea. Some ivory
is also obtained by whale fishers.
l. D. MARSHALL.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-11-24
No nore 900 1hou, IndIapA

There is an advertising man in De-
troit, well known for his hustle. who has
. pretty pair Of children that come HON
estly by desire TO get all the fun OBJ
tainable rs they pass through this pro
stationary state. 1t is the habit Of tbs
father to regale the little ones with blood
curdling Indian stories, for which they
have the same unsuitable desire - the
nickle novel fiend for his choice style OF
literature. The moral 81 each ~ these
wonderful relations 10y the head Of the
family is that the Indian. with all his
wsrwhoOping and ghost dancing, cares
Tor good little children and SCalps those
who are bad This boihcrcyi Teddy, the
s-year-old. considerably. and he finally
determined On a council Of war with his
little sister. From al the evidence that
their wise little heads could get together.
they concluded that they were bad chill
dren and decided to anticipate any old
Indian that might come stalking around
after them by doing their own scalpiuE.
Teddy promptly went AT sisters golden
locks with the family shears, sacrificed
her bangs and wadcd ruthlesSly through
her hair Then she reciproCatcd, and
nobody ever saw two such heads, SCARED
over with hicks, ridges. KS" and tufts
that suggested the joint efforts of n Fee
ice barber and a modern knife thrower.
The mother simply sat down on the floor
and wept scaldinE tears The father
kicked himself around the mile circuit
and the precious little youngsters in
sisted that they were only playing In
dian. That household now draws the
line on Indian yarns - Detroit Free
Press
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-11-24
SCENES ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD.

SCENES ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD.
All, distinctly remember II was in the bleak
November
AS each separate Pennsy player threw his man
TO rise no more.
Eagerly wished the morrow. VRinly did
seek to borrow
From the DOCS" surcease OF sorrow-sorrpw
for the smashed Le(s)nore-
For that rare and radiant organ, that with
which love TO snore,
Hammered fiat for eycrmore.
BE that blow our sign OF parting. Pennsy
team" shrieked, upstartinE;
''Our Princetons with your naughty boys win
play football no more.
You have made us weak and weary, you have
made our whole life dreary,
There is nothing very CHEEKY in n little six
naught score.
Oh, yo Eates that rule above us, give US points,
increase our score"
And they answered, "Six-no more"
Back into good Jersey turning, with my nose
upon me burning,
Will write a quaint and curious letter OF foot
ballish lore.
1t will score these mueker QuAkers. 1t viii
roast these Pennsy fakirs,
Tt will stamp them worse than Shakers
those goodly scores OF yorc.
Then III telegraph the papers and fast explain
away the score.
Oh. that six and nothing more.
This is just the season when the college
poet grasps his pen every time goal is
kicked, and the dying year will doubtless
see many notable additions made to poet
ical football lore EARLE H. EATON.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-11-24

and another "A in 20 days. Sailing YES
sells were not lucky, several of them fail
ing to take any game at all.
No one tried to save any oil, bone only
being wanted. 1t is the decline in the
demand for whale oil that has caused
the gradual repopulation of the sea with
oil producing cetaceans, several of which
have during the summer just passed ap-
preached so near points on the Atlantic
coast rs to be the object of shore fisher
mems efforts.
When the gray haired men and women
who read this newspaper were boys and
girls, whaling was one of the most inn
portant of human industries. 1t was
still an occupation of profit for many
thousands when the civil war broke out,
although its decline set in as soon as the
discovery and refining of Pennsylvania's
petroleum began to bear the oil market.
Today there is not one whaling ship afloat
where there We're twenty 40 years ago;
but, as the opening paragraph of this
article shows, the industry is not dead
By any means. For whalebone no sub
stitute has been found, and accordingly
right whales and bowheads-the two
species producing bone in large quanti-
ties-are still eagerly sought. Captain
John Smith was probably the first white
whale fisher in American waters, for it
is recorded that i'll 1914 he pursued
school of whales off the coast of Maine.
In the palmiest days of whaling the
New England fleet numbered over go
sail. Then the sperm whale of tropical
waters was esteemed the most valuable
prize. New Bedford was the chief and
Salem, Provincetown, Nantucket and
others were famous whaling ports. The
ships that sailed from their wharves
hoated on the waves Of every sea, the
oil which was tried from their captures
illuminated the drawing rooms of every
cline, and the whalebone they procured
was the stay of women in all land where
the fair sex followed fashions DEGREES.
The men who went down into the sea
in ships after whales were hardy lot.
None We're shipped who did not seem to
be possessed of unlimited nerve and
power of endurance, for these qualities
were pretty certain to be required before
the close of voyage. Every bright, en-
terprising youngster who shipped hoped
with some show of success that in time
he might be whaling captain. But
even if promotion did not follow rapidly
the incentive to hard work and daring
were greater to seamen on whale ships
than on merchant vessels, for besides
his wages every man received n share of
the profits, and even the humblest knew
that he would havequite sum of money
to his credit at the close of n lucky
cruise.
At the end of every season the news
papers of those days would bristle with
brief paragraphs telling of conflicts be
tween men and whales, of shattered
boats, of drowned harpooners and sea
men. The books wherein marvellous
tales of whaling life were told in delight
fully plain narrative form, illustrated
by queer, crude wood cuts, were eagerly
read in every part of the country.
The truth of the occasional tales of
ships being sunk by whales has often
been called in question, but it seems
likely from the mass of evidence that
some of them have the substantially of
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-11-24
Down on the balliield
Hear that mournful whoop-
Hear the Yale eleven weeping,

w @ are IN inc cOlu. culu SOUP"
What Is in some respects the cleverest
football poem ever written was inspired by
the battle between Princeton and the Uni.
yersity OF Pennsylvania in 1890 1t is en-
titled ''Poe's Ravin" and is supposed to be
the soliloQuy of Captain Edgar Allan Poe
after his Princeton eleven had beaten the
Pennsylvanians by the small score of @ to
o in a very rough game. during which Cap
tain Poe's nasal organ was badly battered:
Into that great fray hustle, with my braves
Of Drawn and muscle;
Tough and gallant lads they all arc, tried In
many scraps before,
But against us there como slugging and most
nightly R-plugging,
And q thieving umpire Juggling scrappers from
another shore.
They are buffers, they arO muffcrs, buffers
from that other shore;
Only that and nothing more.
1--WE will beat them, beat them easy, beat them
without bluff or breezy
Brag Of what tho score will be, but make IL
thirty and some more"
As l spoke thus, Gayly hoping, through the
crowd there went a-groping
Princeton lads the bettors roping, ropinE some
and hunting more
Bets found they and put up money. money to
All, never. nevermoro.
And these ronghs came at US rushing, and at
once our roma hopes CEusLllflGs
Rushing. slamming, kicking. downing, down.
ing us as ne'er before,
And with them there came a cheating, bent on
giving us = beating,
Umpire, with unholy greeting, greeting TO US
from Swarthmore,
And it strRightwHy knocked me silly. this
strange thing from down Swarthmore.
May sec IL never more.
Then this Swarthmore chump beguiling my
sad fancy into smiling
By the grave and stern decorum OF its counte-
nance OF woe,
Faith" said l. sir, please TO leave US: do not
stay and further grieve US;
Hence, away, and don't deprive us OF this VIC
tory sure but slow.
Umpire" shrieked !, thing of evil, umpire
still, away, go, 60"
All he said was "Ah, there, Poe"
Then another signal gave l, and old Bowser
watched with envy
As my half back he jumped hard on, and my
heart was very sore.
While I watched almost astounded somebody
there came and bounded
With a great leap and soon rounded, pounded
that with which snore.
Its an awful bowl muttered, blow upon
my poor Lelslnore.
oh, will snoro nevermore2"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-11-24
4 Doses Dose Of BrOmO- Settler, -:
Taken before BREAKFAST
Acts as BRAcER and INVIdORATOR, preparing yOu
HENTALLY PHYSICALLY for the Days WORK

ture of the sitting room and the parlor was
hauled away to Galesburg he declared that
he would spend $4,000 morS had he the
money within his grasp.
Meanwhile Butts worked or loafed in
Indian Territory, Missouri and California
This was OF course not known to the Cher
ingtons' or to the officers of Knox county,
for that matter. One day last spring and
I6 years after the disappearance OF Eliza, Q
slender, bearded man sought employment
as a section hand on a railroad near Peoria.
He was promptly hired and set At work.
Before the snow had left the ground De
tective Ben Buckley, Turnkey Paul Rob
erts and Sheriff Matthews were satisfied
that the stranger was Jim Butts; but 1t
was not until April that they were sue
cessful in capturing the fellow. They lay
In a corntield all one cold night waiting for
Butts to come ont OF the brush to visit
his father, but the fugitive was as shy as
the girl he stole i6 years before and sue
cessfully eluded his pursuers for a week or
more. Then he fell into the hands Of De
tective Buckley and was promptly placed
in Jail.
Old man Cherington didn't visit Butts
at the Jail. He said that he was Altered
that IL he went there he would hurt him.
and he didn't want any more trouble"
But the mother went, and so did the sis
tiers. They pleaded with the prisoner TO
tell them something about the whereabouts
OF Eliza, but Jim Butts simply stroked bis
shaggy beard and said he didn't know what
had become OF the girl
To the authorities Butts said that he
would produce letter from the missing
girl clearing him Of the charge Of abdac-
ton were he but given an opportunity to
communicate with her. and 50 the trial
was postponed. Spring turned to summer
and then to autumn, and still there were
no tidiugs from Eliza Officers Of the state
secured the coast from san Francisco TO
Portland, Or, without finding any evidences
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-11-24

THE CHERINGTONs-FATHER AND MOTHER.
flung her body into a we'll or weighted it
for effectual concealment at the bottom of
Spoon river or Court creek? These were
the questions neighbors asked of one an
other when il was learned that Eliza's cape
had been found back of the Butts granary
Six months later James Butts reappeared
in the township and hired out as a harvest
hand. lie was promptly arrested and in
tlicted by the grand jury. One day his
lawyer induced the sheriff to permit him
to take the prisoner to the house Of a
friend.
Some time during the night Butts made
his escape, and was not seen again for Is
years. But while he was still in custody
he told all sorts of stories about the where
abouts of the little girl whom he was to
accompany to church and whom he stole
away from the sight of her parents One
day he said that he had sold the girl to the
Cheyenne Indians The next day he de
Glazed to another person that Eliza had de-
serted him in Denver. 1t was this sort OF
lying that turned ali men against him, but
it Was not until it was known that he had
again disappeared that the people of Knox
county clamored for his blood
As the years passed by the mysterious
disappearance of little Eliza became more
a topic of winter night gossip than a sub
jeet for official investigation. Poor old
Mrs Cherington would shake her head
whenever the mystery was mentioned and
dolefully declare that her child had been
foully murdered.
The father is a slender man, with honest
blue eyes aud hands that show that his
work has been OF the kind that wears and
tears. The grief of both was well nigh
crushing, but while the mother sat at the
window of her home wondering IN her
tears IL Eliza would ever return, the father,
with a face scanned with desperation, was
searching high and low for the author oil
their misery. His GRAND to Missouri, To
Iowa and through the thickets of Illinois
was not made wholly for the purpose OF re
covering his child. In one of the pockets OF
his coat he carried a revolver which he fully
intended to use should he meet Butts.
The search cost the farm on which the
Cheringtons had lived for so many years.
1t brought to forced sale the horses upon
whose backs little Eliza used to ride, and II
sent to other farms the cows she had pat
| ted as they stumbled over the bars OF the
pasture. But the stern old father didu
care for the sacrifice. He wanted bis child,
and when the farm WIS sold and the furni
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-11-24

Squire Bond, whose descendants are
foremost in Springfield affairs, kept q
general store in the early part of the CEN
fury out on the borders of Worcester
county, and like all storekeepers of the
period he sold rum. One old tippler
whose credit was very weak got badly in
arrears, and Mr.. Bond got wary about
trusting him. The tippler came in one
day with his jug half full and wanted it
filled clear up, as he was going away.
The liquor was poured in until it came
up to the cork, but when the squire asked
for the money it was not forthcoming.
No pleas could induce him to trust any
longer, so he poured out as much as he
had put in and the tippler went away.
The liquid which had half filed the jug
beforehand was not rum, but water
Springfield Homestead.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-11-24

Five Russians who escaped from the IS
land OF SaghAlien. a notorious Siberian Pc
nal prison, and were picked up by the whal-
er Charles w. Morgan In the Okhotsk sea
after days OF suffering in an open boat, have
arrived ut San Francisco. Five others of
the escaping party are expected to arrive
on the whAler Cape Horn Pigeon The
party Of 10 lived in IN open boat for "a days
with nothing to eat but rice. Eiveof them
were transferred to the Cape Horn Pigeon
on account Of scarcity of provisions on the
Morgan, The men planned their escape for
weeks. They hewed ont 10 cars and stole
pocket falls q rice until they got kettle
full and also secreted some water. Then
stole a canoe asd escaped One Of the men
tntimated that two OF three guards at
the island might be missing. The Eve men
have been engaged TO play breathing
parts" in n san Francisco dime museum
aud look forward TO profitable histrionic
careGrA