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The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-10-25

divorce, marriage, murder, insanity, mar
riage, divorce, insanity, and SO on to big
amy.
She has three married sisters in Tren-
ton, all highly respectable, who stand by
her in her troubles. To reporter who re-
Gently visited her in Jail she said 81 sup
pose L was pretty, as every one said SO, but
1 had no moral nature or force. My moth
er was responsible for that. She knew
nothing of the ways of the world and con-
sequently taught me nothing of them.
81 was not married when my first child
was born. was only IA, yet I had slipped
from virtue. 1t was easy enough.
II never bore any real marital relation
to Charles A. Anderson, though perhaps
he would have married me had 1 insisted.
1t must appear strange to you. My father
was q successful merchant, the winner of
an independence, and my parents were
people of unquestioned responsibility, yet
l did as pleased was born on Broad
street, not more than a block away from
this prison, in 1914.
Poor Anderson! He went to the war,
and we saw little of each other. He is a
wreck now, feeble and almost blind from
disease. l had him on my farm last sum-
mer for three days, but he was SO disgust
ing that 1 was Ufced to send him away. I
helped him to secure a pension, provided
him with medicine and clothing and ar
IduSGu lOE IIIIl " " O1lO AOOlOiClo
home. The last heard of him he was in
Jersey City,
She supported herself as a bookkeeper
and then married one James w. Denver,
but she says she found he had wife and
two children living and left him. Thus
she met with Arson A. House. He had a
fine farm in PENNSYLVANIA, with a palatial
residence on it, and the pair lived there in
summer with a great retinue of servants.
The tragedy she tells thus:
Mr.. House was devoted to me, but he
became afflicted with paresis and abused
me and my boy Willie. On juno 80, 1876,
he was about to strike my child, when
shot and killed him. I was tried and ex-
onerated on the plea of self defense, but
was sent to the state lunatic asylum"
Frank Parker, once famous as base
ball catcher, was her next, and he got a
divorce from her. She next married Paul
K. Redmond because he professed to
be Christian and wished to do better
| and thought he would make a good maj
| for my farm
But he didn't. He would have been 6
| good man to spend her money, but she
was too smart to let him have it. She i:
worth at least $50, 900, and Redmond still
| holds possession of her farm. Then she
| married Harry G. Carson, and a little the
| queercst event in her queer career followed
Her son William Anderson, her only child
born when she was IA, had her put in {
lunatic asylum. Her lawyer secured he
release, she and Carson went west, re
turned and had s'scrap" with Redmond
and so she is IN Jail once more.
| OF course she claims to have had 1ega
| separation from Mr.. Redmond-some
where. just the same, he holds onto the
farm, but when he called on Irene and he
| Mr.. Carson in Trenton they, according t.
| his story, assaulted him most grievously
| hence this last incarceration.
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some calling and says he never felt at all
nervous on the scaffold except when TAX
ing part in the execution of Ravachol, the
anarchist. After this noted criminal had
been bound he was put into the hearse to
be conveyed to the place of execution,
some distance in the town. Though per-
fectIy 1ivid, he began bowling vile song
and kept it up till the guillotine was
reached. He endeavored to address the
enormous crowds assembled, but the assist
ant executioners forced him on the bas-
Guile The bowls and imprecations of the
anarchist continued with such fury that
Deibler for few moments became I'M
nerved, but he speedily recovered himself.
He released the knife, and as it whizZed
down the groove the crowd heard the an
archist shout, ''Vive Ia repu''-.
The official standing by the guillotine
affirmed that as the head dropped into the
basket the lips distinctly emitted the con-
Guiding syllable 'blique." The assertion
gave rise to q good deal of controversy
among tho French savants but it was gen.
orally conceded that the guillotine sewers
the head with such terrific suddenness that
it was possible the sound which the fellow
was uttering was emitted after the knife
had actually performed it's deadly work.
Monsieur de Paris also officiated at the
execution of the anarchists Valiant,
Henry and Cesario The medical men who
examined Henry's body declared that he
died before the knife was released, his
vital spark having been eXtfnguished by
general muscular contraction, induced by
his supreme effort to shout the anarchist
war cry and die game.
NJ. Deibler has a fortune of about $50,
600 and receives for his work as execu
toner $500 per month. He lives quietly
and generally believed to be saving over
one-half his salary.
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THEY SAT THERE AND TALKED.
reckless. Let's wait bit, and they'll
come rimht up to u.s. Then we can finish
'em of -
It was as he said. They came very near
us, and we discovered that they were not
Chinese The discovery was made just in
the nick Of time. Two shotguns, heavily
loaded with buokshot, were leveled upon
them, and q moment later the triggers
would have been pressed, but just then
there came to US girls light laughter and
. mans deeper chuckle. The guns were
lowered.
WELL gasped the Waterman, "that
was a little near. :"
We sat very still The man and his
sweetheart walked near US and sat down
upon another big rock. We recognized
them both. The man was schoolteacher,
and the girl was-well, she was his sweet
heart
They sat there for an hour with their
arms about each other and talked. He told
her that old story in the old way, and she
dropped her head over against his shoulder
~ she listened. Her lips were temptingly
apturnsd, and he kissed her now and then
just to punotuats his sentences. He strok-
ed her hair and asked her If she was sure
she had always loved him. She said she
had
And we-ws sat there listening. The
watohman's face was white, and his hands
kept fondling his gun. I did not like
eavssdropping, and whispered to him to
that effect but he only shook his head.
So we sat and heard it all. MRAsmpanion
was the regular watchman. 1t was his
duty 10 be there.
Presently the sohoolteacher said some
thing did not catch, but the girls an
swer was plain enough.
Fired, " she cried, with laugh, "Fredl
Oh, you goossl You know I was only
playing with Fred. The great fool Why,
was just using him for poodle. You
pat him on the head, and he'd have a fit.
You dear cid mugginsl How could you
imagine I was SOFT on Fred-the idiotr'
She was talking of my companion, the
watchman. looked at his face, which
cleaned pale in the moonlight, at his
| grizzly set lips and then at the hammers of
| his gun drawn back to full cock. The look
| OF bitterness and hate passed quickly into
| one Of seorn. The Waterman, who had
been the girls poodle, actually smiled.
Quick a. I was, he was quicker. There
was a burst Of fame, deafening double
| report, and two big loads of buskshot sped
| harmlessly mp into the moonlight.
There was a shrek, and, looking back
ward. saw the teacher flying away as
| fast az his legs would take him. His
| swestheart was running after him, crying
l out 30 him to save her. Fred saw, too,
| and he laughed. We both laughed. 1t
| was suoh an unexpected falling Of the cur
| tain upon a little comedy that might have
/ been tragedy.
The rest Of that night passed quickly to
| as. Fred, putting aside his business re-
ssrvs,s' told me all about it-how he had
I loved that girl and hated the teacher; how
| she lad promised only q day OF two before
| 10 be his wife; how he had married and
bulls his castles in the air; but he reckoned
| that this tsxmination of his love affair had
besn best for him, after all.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-10-25
COLONEL BOWIE PRESERVES ORDER.

beauty. The blade was inches long, and
blade and handle together measured Is
inches. He used this weapon in 10 en-
counters, and it was in his stiffening hand
when, with six dead Mexicans about him,
showing the evidence of his fatal skill, he
was found dead at the Alamo.
Bowie's method of using the knife was
one peculiar to himself He did not hold
it in his hand with the long point down
ward, but grasped the handle swords
man would grasp the hilt IF his sword.
He always struck at the neck of his man
and aimed for the jugular and seldom
missed his coup. In the most famous of
his battles-the one fought on Natchez Is
land, an island in the Mississippi river
almost opposite the city of Natchez-he
cut two mems heads almost off, giving
each only single sweeping blow.
Bowie only weighed 40 pounds when
at his prime. He was quiet, soft voiced
man, who never drank nor dissipated in
any way. He possessed enormous physical
strength for his size and was as quick and
1.-THE as wildcat and as game. He was
terror to all the ''hard cases. from Louis
Vile to New Orleans.
In 1886 the Methodists about Church
Hill, Miss, were holding their annual
meeting. They had been good deal dis
turbed by the crews of rough flatboatmen
large mum Der of whose boats were lying
in the river below the town. One morn
ing after service was ended "a number of
| the men held a meeting to decide upon the
measures to abate this trouble. Among
| them the parson, who was a newcomer,
noticed small man whose only peculiar
| ity was pair of steely, blue ringed eyes
eyes like cat. II will attend the services
| tonight, gentlemen he said in low,
| gentle voice, land will help you to settle
| any difficulty that may occur" This
seemed very satisfactory to those present,
| but the clergyman somehow forgot to ask
| who he was.
The evening service had begun. just as
| the preacher was about giving out the sec
| ond hymn a big Kentucky fatboatman
| staggered up in front Of the pulpit and
| gave a Choctaw warwhoop. In second
the little man had him by the collar with
his left hand, and in his right had knife,
| with it's point against the boatman' g
brawny throat. ''If you say another word
or make the slightest noise, by G., I'll
drive this knife through your neck from
ear to earl'' The big man trembled like a
leaf and silently took a seat, while the
other, putting his knife out of sight,
| joined with great fervor in the singing OF
the hymn. There was never quieter
meeting held than that was thereafter.
"Who was the gentleman who SO speedily
settled the difficulty tonight" asked the
| minister when the service was ended.
Don't you know" his friend replied.
"That was JAMES Bowie. -
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gamation of different people is here more
complete. 1t is held that preparations for
the coming of the new race have been 60
ing on for some time.
Any one that thinks he will live to see
this new race must prepare himself for
disappointment It will probably be some
hundreds of thousands of years before the
new race begins to make itself felt. Mr..
Judge thinks that the first batch of the
new race will be looked upon as being &C.
centric, cranky and abnormal, but that
they will soon be in the majority.
One of the most interesting things about
this new race is the third eye. The belief
in this is based upon two little organs in
the brain-the pineal gland and the pitu-
itary body, which are connected and which
psychologists have not found to be Of any
use whatever.
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A Long Delayed Honeymoon.

The friends of Frank Sloane and Mary
Virden of Bordentown, N. j., did not
know until recently that they were married
IS years ago. The two have nearly the
same circle of friends, but no one suspect
ed that they We're legally husband and
wife. Thirty five years ago, when Mary
was yet in her teens, the two fell in love-
The parents of each objected to their mar
riage, and while Mary was visiting rela-
tive in New York city Frank went there,
and they were secretly married. Frank
and Mary afterward qurareled and came
to the conclusion that they did not love
each other. They decided never to tell OF
their marriage, and until few days ago
1t remained a secret. They will now go to
housekeeping together, though, at the re-
quest Of friends, they will have second
ceremony performed.
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THE MAN OF THE FUTURE.
Theosophists Think He VIII Be Thirt
Feet High and Weigh a Ton.

Theosophists Think He VIII Be Thirty
Feet High and Weigh a Ton.
Think of men 80 feet high, with three
eyes, one of them in the center of the fore
head! This is what the country is coming
to in several million years, according to
leading theosophists. The Countess
Wachtmeister who is next to Annie Be
SAINT in the counsels of the theosophists,
and who for many years was the most in
innate companion of Nine. Blavatsky, has
been delivering a series of lectures proph-
esying the near advent of the sixth race,
and America is booked for the new attrac-
ton.
William Q. Judge of New York says the
coming race of giants will appear in a
luminous atmosphere personal to them
selves, discarding trousers, waistcoats,
shoes, frocks and bonnets. They will have
fine features and long silky hair. These
individuals Will live for /, 200 years.
The theosophists believe that America
will see the first development of the sixth
race because here are gathered people
from oil nations of the globe. The ANAL
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COLONEL eowIE,sg BLADE.
He Welded a Deadly Weapon That Made
sa' u HIS Name Immortal. sss fe

sAt II HIS Name Immortal. ,ls
q Two states claim the Birthplace of Colo
mel James ;Bowie-Tennessee and Mary
land-and the question has never been
definitely settled, but he gave the name to
"a weapon as deadly as any that has ever
beer forged from steel. . Esz ~ IS A512G sd
Shortly after Louisiana became a state
the old Spanish and French records created
a great deal Of trouble. It frequently hap
pened that a planter who had taken up d
large tract of land and fairly opened it out
as a plantation would learn that il was
claimed by some one under an old colonial
grant. =; James Bowie was very frequent
claimant under these old laws, says Chi
! oago Times writer Several capitalists of
the time had sent him to Havana, where
the old papers of the Spanish colony of
Louisiana were, kept, and caused careful
transcripts of them to be made They APP
pointed as their agent to put them in pos
session of these properties James Bowie
In these early days it did not at any time
take much provocation to bring on "a per-
sonal encounter, as fight to the death
was euphoniously entitled. A man who
had been to the trouble of opening up an
estate only to find it claimed by lot of
people he. did not know was generally
pretty ready to fight for it, whether fight
would settle the question or not.
The consequence of this state of things
was that James Bowie and his two broth
\ ers, Stephen and Rein Bowie, had on
hand almost constantly some sort of diff
/ cuIty'' that had to be fought out with
deadly weapons. This was before the days
WREN the percussion cap was in general
use, and the smaller pistols of the period
were ffntlocks, inconvenient to carry and
not very reliable. So the knife had to be
used when one wanted really trusted
weapon Mr. Bowie worked out with &
{ pocketkntfe and single his idea of 6
weapon that would be about the proper
thing for the business he had in hand, and
it was made by the local blacksmith al
Shreveport, La, after this model, which
he carried for several years.
About 1880, however, he heard of New
Orleans cutler, a Spaniard named Pedro
who was making some knives of a Won
derful kind and temper. They could bt
driven through a silver dollar without
damage to point or edge. Mr.. Bowie al
once awaited himself of the professional
services of this artist, who made him {
knife which was a marvel of temper an(
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1Ao. 4AO ak HUSBANDS.
And Mrs. Irene Carson Only Killed One
of Them.

when Divorce Lawyer Orson A., House of
New York city was shot dead by his wife
Irene. 1t was a POLITICALLY just affair-at
least some noyelists Thought so-for House
had narrowly escaped the penitentiary by
reason of his crooked work in procuring
divorces and had procured one for the
woman who killed him.
j Well. Irene Van Zandt House who was,
Mrs. Redmond or Mrs. Carson who is, is
once more in prison, this time in Trenton,
and on a bewildering variety of charges
She has borne tho names of six men, is so
years old, almost as pretty as ever and has
a most innocent and childish looking face,
with soft, appealing blue eyes and a lavish
wealth OF soft light hair. And her life
record runs thus: Ruin at IA, marriage,
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She Hold Colonel Bowie,s Head.

Sonora Candelaria, who Is said to be 100
years old, is the last survivor of the Ala
mo-. She was In the fort during the IL
days from Feb. % to March 6, 1886, when
TT Texas Americans held it against 5000
Mexicans. Sonora Candelaria asserts that
she was supporting the head of Colonel
Bowie, who lay Ill in the fort, when the
Mexicans rushed in and killed him and
wounded her. Her life was begun under
the dominion of Spain, and she has seen
five flags float over Texas. Her home is
near San Antonio.
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A GIRLS Light Laugh.
It Saved Her Life and Her
49, 80. Sweetheart's.
a TRAGEDY TURNED TO COMEDY.

The Finger of Her Scorned and Rejected
Lover Pressed the Trigger of His Gun.
A Story of Old Time Mining In Cali
fornia. iGt ~
Some Is years ago. when hydraulic min
ing was a greater industry in the northern
part of California than now, all the big
mines had watchmen armed with shot
guns and navy rsyolvers. It was their
business not to ask the thieves to surren-
der and then to shoot thsm IL they did
not, but be- shect them asss and argue the
points OF the case Afterward AS an in
esntive LAany mining superintendents Of
fered their watchmen $50 for every Chi
nose robber killed.
Ten years ago, when was an employee
Of q hydraulic mining company, says a
San Jsanetsso Chronicle writer, I was in
vited to spend night with the regular
Waterman and accepted. 1t was hazy
niGh1. There was quarter moon, but
the sky was covered by a stratum of misty
olsuds. We crept into the shadow of a
hugo overhanS1ng bowldsr, and, our guns
beside Us, began our long silent watch.
etsstohing away for a hundred yards above
and below us was the sluioe with its treas
Of bswldsrs, deep cuts and the irregular
surface OF the bedrock.
II was nearly midnight when 9he watch
man uttered nerve thrilling sShp'
" His trained ear had caught familiar
sound, and he whispered to me:
''6omsbody's comingn'
A minute later we saw shadowy form
stealing down the rough, dangerous path
Nat led into the mine hom the top of a
bank 80 feet high.
"a ChinarAan,'' said the Waterman.
"By the Lord, there's snothern'
Sure enough, there were two of them.
They were still too far away to be seen
plainly. They appeared to suspect moth
Ing Of cur presence, for they came on rath-
OF earslsssly, and now and then we heard
them speak. Their feet crunched the dry
gravel. The Waterman said:
IT don't sabs this. They must be after
the sluices, but somehow they seem too
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Was Well Trained.

$50 you think you can stand the ar.
duous duties of a variety actor? You
know in our play we find occasion tc
throw you down 30 foot flight of stairs
into barrel of scrap iron?"
guess I can make it, !" said the
hungry man who had applied for the
job. was collector for an INSTALL
ment house for three years ''-Indian-
apolis Journal.
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Trustees Sale.

By virtue of authority of q mortgages dssd
executed to Jasper Blackburn by 81. "A. Pierce
and Dora Pierce, his wife, on the End day of
Ostober, 1898, and duly recorded in the regis
page ISL, TO secure the payments OF certain
boad, and the stipulations in said deed Of trust
not having besn complied WITH shall expose
81 public 2uction, for cash, on Saturday the 14th
day u Juiy. 1884. At o'clock p. M, ct the court
tsllowing properly One lot Of land Of Nachoyia
Development Company. Ice feet west of Dacion
II. on che south side Of Glencoe st. wsstwardly
on Glsncoe st., 50 fest; thence at right angles
from Glencoe st., $50 fest southwardly to an al
lev. thence easterIy So feet, northerly I5o FEET
o beginning. This April 3zth> 1894
JASPER RN,
THINE.
Trustees,
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A Record to be Proud OF.
From the Lenoir Topic.

From the Lenoir Topic.
The Democratic party has been in
power in North Carolina since 1876
and it has given the people wise
and economical administration of
public affairs. That is just what the
Democratic party will give the people
in the National government if it is
entrusted to their hands a few years.
You may be sure of that fact.
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the ExeQuTlonER OF PARIS. ;
The Discharge of His Duties Does Not
Make Him a Ponular Fa1nrite

The Discharge of His-Dnties Does Not
= ElaISe Him a Popular Fayorite.-.
Deibler, the Partisan hang1nan, or
s'Monsieur de Paris ~ as he is often called,
is naturally unpopular among his country
men, although on one occasion he was re-
ceived' ceurteously and welcehleda by 4he
citizens of the. place where he was about, to
show his expert ability as ar, executioner.
This was at Rouen, where he went to
guillotine man named Gamelin,s who had
brutally murdered little girl. The feel
ing against the scoundfef was so strong
that Deiblerwasc. respectfully saiuted by
the populace as he went from. his hotel to
the place. of execution, = Monsieur de
Paris is thorou gh master of kis grew
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II your trunk must besfn your room,
it viii be improved In appearance by
cover. This may be. Of dark blue duck,
The exact sAape but a triae larger than
the box Thin the bottom with two ruff
fies IL dark blue k At the sides make
pockets. If .deiired,, Of. the shirred silk
8nd have 4 shin cushion Of the duck for
Che topaoiaz mup1
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Had His Answer.

Mrs. Sloebill-How is it your milk is
so bad? I'm sure you adulterate it.
Milkman = Well, you see, ma am,
there are so many people who don't pay
for it that I'm obliged to chalk it up
sometimes. New York World.
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Had Heard 1t.

Stoaks-There goes Chanter, Oates.
He's got one of the finest voices / ever
heard. Ever hear him sing? He's got a
fine voice.
Cakes (sadly)-Yes, nice voice. I
heard it about an hour ago. He borrow
ed SO. Chicago Record.
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Death Struggle of McKinIeyis ism.
From the Baltimore Sun

From the Baltimore Sun
There is no such thing as general
apathy on the part of the American
people. In many States the contest
is reported as growing hotter than
ever before. 1t is the death struggle
of McKinleyism, tried and found
wanting, tested and proven a failure,
of a once great party-now living
and dependent upon the corrupt
support of syndicates, combines,
monopolies and trusts. 1t is the
last supreme effort of the money
power to rivet anew it's yoke upon
the people, and to compel a contin-
uance of the tribute which under Re
publican domination the people are
made to pay for the enrichment of
certain favored interests and classes.
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Human Hopping Stones

On rainy days in China, when lady
comes to a muddy place, she beckons to a
boy, who will, If he Is in the business,
drop down In front of her, making a step
ping stone on which the lady reaches dry
landCA8ainw II