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The Helena independent., 1894-01-01
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Devoted Ha s Dssl,riSa,ss N,sa. u BBilr burglar
i,inr Ehic.Ep Hopssis, 5s.1 -
There.is cosaled il tha cosokl lcsosppinty jaiI
charge Of making predatory calls at ups
Of Hyde Park, His name, is Frank Wilson,
and the police entertain a hig, opinion Of
his professional ability, They say he has
served q term ii i;aliforn for burglary and
another In Texas fox highway robbery.
When starting put 10. 'tWQykn.. Wilson
flled bis System with enormous doses Of
morphine, taking, according to his state
ment, 10 times as much as would kill q
man unused to the drug. He was several
times seen by the occupants Of the houses
where he entered, but always escaped ar
rest by simply walking away at his leisure.
He was finally captured through the merest
accident by an officer who happened to mo-
tice him walking along Lake avenue at
o'clock one morning, He. had two over
coats huttoned around him and q third one
thrown over his arm. He also carried a
goldheaded cane All these articles and
more he had just stolen.
That the man is full of strange eccen-
tricities is proved by tho curious collection
of articles he selected in the houses entered.
He indnlged himself in all kinds of gro
tesque antics, such as hanging heavy chairs
over the chandeliers OF leaving them tied in
the lace window curtains high above the
floor. He called one morning at the resi-
dence of A. c.. Carpenter and asked Mrs
Carpenter for a cup Of coffee, but was re-
fused. The following night he entered =
rear window and helped himself to u gem
erous luncheon in the kitchen, scattering
coffee over the floor in several rooms in or
der to leave hint as to who had called He
also took Mr.. Carpenters $50 oyercoat and
silverware of the same value.
In another house he found a child's pic
torial history Of the Bible and carried it
away, leaving all the silverware and other
valuables untouched. He seemed to have
weakness for Bibles, overcoats and silver
plate. Another popularity of the man and
his work was that he never left the first
floor of any of the houses entered and never
took all the valuables from any one room.
He entered one house two nights in sue
cessioh. Gu the first occasion he took the
silver and ate a loaf of brown bread. The
next night he went back, he says, for more
bread, which was the only thing taken. He
kept book account of all the houses en-
tered and the amount Of plunder taken
from each place. This, he says, was done
while under the influence of morphine He
seemed rather ashamed of his carelessness
in putting in writing such plain evidence
of ecilt and then carrying the telltale book
with him.
The story of his work in Hyde Park in his
own words is in part as follows: "The first
place in that section that ever worked was
The Helena independent., 1894-01-01
EDUCATIONAL ECHOES.

This country has Sc law schools, with S45
teachers and 1906 students.
Bulgaria recently sent 20 common-school
teachers to Switzerland to investigate edu-
cational methods.
New Jersey has 1.6ss school buildings,
4,644 teachers and total enrolment of 23,-
254. The sum spent last year on the school
system was 3,964, ,6T725.
The number Of schoolhouses in Nebraska
has more than doubled in the last 10 years,
and the school children are now about three
times as many as 10 years ago.
The University Of Chicago puts women
OH the same basis as men, whether stu
dents or teachers. Its History and Political
Science club has two or three young women
on its list Of officers.
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Pepys a. q Public Servant.

Samuel Pepys, as is we'll known, makes
no secret of the fact that he was quite
ready to take everything that could be
honestly got out Of his Office. But it is at
least equally clear that he was determined
that neither himself nor any one else
should cheat the king-for perquisites and
"pots Of wine" were not cheating in those
days-that the king should have good
measure for his money and should not
pay more money than he need for his meas
ure. Nor did he spare labor on getting up
the details of his work.
He was delighted when he could get a
model ship and some one to go over all the
parts of it with him-a delight which we
may set down, in justice, perhaps partly to
mere curiosity, but in charity and fair
ness partly also to honest determination
not to be hoodwinked by sailors and dock
yard men. He was also unwearied in
ransacking the Office accounts to see
whether this or that commodity had been
got cheaper or had worn better, and, in
fact, this volume alone would establish his
repute as an excellent public servant
Saturday Review.
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A Couplo OF Irish Lettors.

As commissioner of public works, Mr..
Le Fanu received good many amusing
, letters, particularly from farmers who
were borrowers under the land improve
ment act. Here is one which came from
q man to when Mr.. lie Fanu had refused
the second installment of a loan because
he had misapplied the first
Sm-I shpent tho money all right; send me
the rest, and don't bo humboling mo any more!
Send it at once, l tell ye. He'll TO your soul!
Send me my money, or I'll write to Mr.. Par
nell about 1t. Yours affectionately,
JAMES RYAH.
Here is one other of these letters. 1t wax
from small farmer, who had in his hands
the remnants of a loan-fs--which he
would neither expend nor refund. After
many fruitless endeavors to make him do
one or the other, a peremptory letter was
sent to him, to which came the following
reply:
My DEAR SECRETARY AND GENTLEMEN OF
THE HONORABLE BOARD or WoRKs--Asking
me to give back IS Is just like asking bcaeti.
ful and healthy young lady FOR a divorce, and
she In the oaHhtWost love with her husband.
- am with each anu every ono Of ye. l am
your sincere friend, JAMES CLAnE.
-'Seventy Yeaxs Of Irish Life"
The Helena independent., 1894-01-01
SIMPLE SACvE.

An old remedy for nose bleeding Is to put
drop OF vinegar in the ear.
Lemon juice and sugar mixed very thick
Ia useful torelieve coughs and sore throats.
It must he very acid rs well as sweet.
Babies and young children dressed in
white are thought by medical men to be
more susceptible to colds and infectious
diseases than those clad in dark, warm col
Ors.
Ncuralgia Of the feet and limbs can be
cured by bathing night and morning with
salt and water as hot rs can be borne.
When taken out. rub the feet briskly with
q coarse towel.
The Helena independent., 1894-01-01

An AFRICAN CHRISTMAS,
A Post Rider Who Spent 1 Long
Night Up in asTall I
Tres Ii,
HI
There Was . wild Lion Couohant
At the Foot Of said
Tree.
Jntsssstiss Episede IN the sstsisnsat q
Mashoasissd-HewL Les Suppressed
. NswspspsF story.

Mr.. Frederick Courtenay Selous, the lion
hunter and explorer, who is just now divert
Ing himself by waging war on his old
friends, the Matabeles, conducted tbe jour
ne OF the pioneer force into Mashonaland
In 1880 and relates many interesting anec-
dotes Of the adventures Of that memorable
expedition. Mr.. 6elous Is something Of q
Ntterateur as well as an explorer, and in the
tall OF 1850 he wrote q description Of the
country which was intended for y supple
ment to tho London Graphic The story Of
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A Tangible Terror.

arm not afraid" the youngster said,
"Uf any bogy man.
Idont believe that he exists
Sc provo 1t II you can"
And then the nurses ready wit
A deal of trouble saved.
'.The trolley car will catch you, sir"
She said. And he behaved.
-WasisOgton Star.
The Helena independent., 1894-01-01

and had an epoounter with . big dog BE-
fOre ] got away. He didn't notice me till
fell over: him, and then he madesuch fuss
that had to skip. went ,intoJ. l.. Hig-
gie's place. 49s3 Ellis avenue, on the night
Of Nox. g .Alwoman discovered me and
went UP stairs to wake the men. knew
what was going on. Iput out my candle
and made for hswindow whereof got in.
fell oyar the center table and the big
lamp, but at last found windpw, opened
II and jumped out. Then I,teckled We.
Haale's place 40 Drexel boulevard. I
worked four hours. trying to get IN the
back doar, and then gave it up and was go
ing home when l met the watchman. He
shot at me with a toy pistol. ran around
the house and stepped inside the storm
door and staid there until daylight; then
took the cable train and went home"
The Helena independent., 1894-01-01

Thirty Old Alaids--Just Think Of I'll
Miss Annette Daisy Of Kentucky aud 80
other old maids have secured three adjoin-
ing quarter sections in tho Cherokee strip
and swear that no man shall ever set foot
thereon.
The Helena independent., 1894-01-01

Home IL thp placs where We are treated
best and grumble most.-Exchanga
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and married in Indiana q hoosier
whom she adored. A bright widow in
New Jersey, n State renowned for col
leges and applejack, possessing a bank
account convenient for its size, who
confessed to sixty summers and mar
velously came within twenty years of
the truth, has just married a youth of
eighteen, who worked alternately upon
her farm and her affections. In the
same glorious State, which is now
moving grandly into the Republican
column, an indignant farmer who was
so unfortunate as to have acquired a
chronic hate for milk dealers, is gun
ming for an aspiring young maj of this
class who was so rash and reckless as
to woe and wed his charming daugh-
ter, In the same glorious State, where
the G. o. P. has an air tight cinch for
'06, an athletic young man, before
wedding his fair daughter, nearly
trounced the life out of her !objecting
father, after the Corbctt style of the
manly art.
If we escape Egyptian bondage and
Russian starvation in the meantime,
we, the young and old, the loving and
the loved, the mated and the single, the
betrothed and DESTROYS of being given
in marriage, will have to suffer the va
carries of these abnormal times until
the glorious year of grace, '96, when
the Republican party will again step
into power, and the crooked shall be
made straight, and the knots and snarls
and kinks shall be shaken out of the
lines that have fallen unto us, and Gu
pid can wound and Hymen can heal at
their W sweet pleasure, and all will
be happy as a lark singing its morning
song in mid heaven.
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30 WN.

The Baptist Association is a thing of
the past, there was a large attendance;
it was very warm which made it I'M
comfortable; they had preaching in
the grove twice on Friday, same day in
the afternoon had a shower of rain,
with wind and hail; Saturday after.
noon two sermons were preached by
Revs. Quisenbery and AGREE, of Knox
vile. Several showers of rain fell in
the afternoon; at night we had "a good
rain. j. Ii. Moore, of May Day, was
elected Moderator of the Association
for the ensuing year. r. H. DUNCAN,
your fellow townsman was elected
Clerk. R. NJ. May was also at the AS
ISOLATION, and others of your town.
Rev. Folk, editor of the Baptist and
Reflector, of Nashville, was present and
preached an interesting sermon on Sun
day to a large audience. Old Father
Routh, as he is generally called, was
present and preached a sermon on Fri
day; on Saturday six dollars was col
lected to buy a bible, it was presented
by Prof. Henderson, of Carson Newman
College, to Old Father Routh, for
which he was very grateful to the as,
ISOLATION. Rev. Jones, of the Bristol
Female College, was present Saturday;
working in the interest of that institu-
ton. The Baptist talked a great deal
on education in their meeting: there
was some talk in the meeting in regard
to the Orphanage at Nashville, its work
and success. The people of Tennessee
are becoming an educated people, for
every child can be educated if the par
ents will do their part ia sending them
to school. | would be in favor of a
compulsory school laws, so that every
poor child could be educated. Politi
sal excitement is now dying out for
awhile. The corn crop Of this section
is bidding fair to be a good crop. The
farmers are preparing for the fall crop,
if wheat is low. Everybody had their
share of visitors during the Association.
Joe Carey, of Keebler's X Roads, was
ranging in this beat during the Asso.
citation. Upon the while they had u
good meeting, plenty to eat, confect
ionaries and watermelonsi n abundance
to make all enjoyable. Miss Maud
Morrow, of New Market, formerly OF
this neighborhood, was attending The
Association and visiting relatives OF
this place.
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RESNELL

Rev. Nelson gave a lecture Monday
night at Asberry; all the young people
attended. Rev. j. B. Chase and daugh-
ter, Miss Ethel, attended the associa-
ton. Miss Essie Bradshaw, of Jones'
boro, has been visiting Misses Lizzie
and Luster Waddell the past week.
Miss Della Bell West, of Washington
College, is visiting relatives and friends
at this place. Miss Lille Stuart, who
has been very low with fever, we are
glad to report, is better. r. A. Bayless
and ID. G. Brown attended the ~associa-
ton. Wiley Henley, of Florida, re-
Gently sent his father a nice selection
of pine apples, also Misses Grace Bay
less and Ada Shields. Miss Mamie
Bailey. returned Wednesday from a
weeks visit to her sister, Mrs. Bashor,
of Boon's Creek, and reports a real
nice time. There will be q picnic at
New Salem September 4; a nice time
expected; everybody invited. Preach
ing at Asberry Sunday by Rev. Nelson.
Misses Waddell and Bradshaw spent
Friday at Clark's Springs. DoGwooD.
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CHERRY GROVE.

The election having passed off our
section has quietly settled back TO its
various phases of livelihood, notwith-
standing the Seventeenth District join
ed the Southern Confederacy in regard
to the magistrates and we lost our
Sheriff, Mr.. Hickey, who made the
grandest fight, and the best race ever
made in the county, but alas, he was
defeated not by the Democrats, but by
the Republicans who failed to stand
loyal. The whistle of the threshers
are heard on all sides and this week
will finish or about so, the threshing of
this section. j. A. Ferguson, a former
citizen of this place, but now of Messy
Creek, has been circulating among
friends here for a few days. E. w.
Ferguson recently returned from New
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CEDAR HILL.

The corn crop in our community
looks promising, and will continue to,
for we had II heavy rain fall one day
last week. A great many of the good
people of our community attended the
Baptist Association, which convened
last week; they report an interesting
meeting and a good time. The gentle
men who are building II barn for Mr..
Bacon are getting along nicely. The
coachman happened with a very bad
accident on one of his expeditions up
the Simpson valley; he crippled n fine
mare which belonged to Mr.. Bacon. j.
G. Berry went to Jonesboro last week.
The people of the Fourth District seem
to be very we'll pleased with the re
turns of the late election; we have no
fight to make against any successful
candidate. l think the defeat of jeff
Fields, for Constable, was a S 'rious mis-.
take: jeff delighted in his work, served
his district well, and justice would
have reelected him. Good wishes and
pleasant dreams to all the corresponds
ents. JOLLY ROVER.
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WASHLNGTO TON COLLEGE.

The health of our citizens is general
ly good; and since the recent rains tho
vegetable kingdom is on a general boom
for more verdure. Messrs. Stone,
Cooper and Willis, with their col ps of
workmen, are steadily progressing with
the work of repairs on the ladies dor
mitory, and the erection of the new
dormitory for male students; and last,
though not least, the building of the
model church for all of Gods people to
worship in, The repairs on the ladies
dormitory, as to the interior, will be
completed by the god. On that day our
school opens. The prospect for II full
attendance never has been better; all
young ladies and gentlemen wishing
TO attend school here will find ample
accommodations as to rooms and
boarding: all who desire to do so can
join the co operative club that will be
conducted in the ladies' dormitory I'M
der the management of competent per-
sons. From what we have learned of
this system of boarding here and else
where, we are confident that all who
avail themselves of this plan as offered
will find it much cheaper than to paw
boarding house rates; however, those
desiring to board in private families
a obtain board and rooms furnished
and washing at IS so per north. 1t is
with pride and confidence that we refer
those wanting a first class education
to the above exceeding low rates of
living, in connection with the course
of study and low rate of tuition as pub.
lished in the catalogue of this institu-
t'on, that is now being run by a faculty
second to none in the South; therefore
we say to parents, guardians, young
ladies and gentlemen who wish to avail
themselves of these low rates and high
order of education to call and see for
themselves. The building committee
have selected the Goth day of this month
as the time for the laying the corner
stone OF the new church; on that dav
this ancient custom will be appropri-
ately celebrated here; all well disposed
persons are most cordially invited to
be present on that occasion. Those of
the congregation of Salem Church and
those living in the immediate vicinity,
Will be expected and are requested to
bring with them large baskets and
them well filled with some of the choice
viands that the giver Of all good has
SO beautifully blessed this community
with, none of our neighbors need fear
bringing too large a basket and it full
neither may any of the friends of pro.
gress in all that is good and wise fear
TO come, for we assure all such there
will be welcome and room for them.
The citizens Of this vicinity can and
are willing to feed and entertain a
multitude of well disposed people; then
friends from aboard, come tro..l the
hills, valleys and mountain gorges.
come, and see what Il good time We
can have on these old historic grounds,
where the first Presby terian Church.
Southwest of the Wdtauga was founded
more than u century ago. OBSERVER,
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Market, where he had been visiting
and attending to some business matters.
Mrs. Mollie McAmis, of Greeuville, is
visiting the home of her childhood,
near here; she is the guest of r. f.
Register, her brother. Quite q number
of u people attended the association,
at Germantown and reported a nice
time. Observation-Disclosures the Sth,
near the Greene and Washington
County line, James Leseneer and Miss
Estep; the groom is thirty eight years
old and the bride fourteen: success to
them. j. @. Osborne & Co. have begun
work on the residence of w. j. Basket,
near Christie. Moses lifted up the
brazen serpent in the wilderness, but
Democracy failed to lift up Judge
Brown in this moral vineyard. Robt.
Howard, SOL of j.. S. Howard, got his
arm broke last week, but we are glad
to note he is getting along well. John
Kincheloe, of Haw s X Roads, and Miss
Cox, of Limestone, were united in the
holy bonds Of wedlock last week; NAV
a long and prosperous life crown their
union is our wish. Prof. Jas. Hilbert
"hu i"ihliN,Ol bOOH blCth, were inc
guests of E. E, Shipley Saturday and
Sunday, Robt. ShanRs and lady, of
Greene County, are visiting relatives
in this section. ". c.. Richards. Of
Sullivan County, was spending II few
days with relatives and friends in this
section the past week. Rev. Mary
Wescot% preached her last sermon Sun
day at RUBBISH, for this conference
year; we hope the conference will send
her back with us again. See. S. X.
Hartman, who represents the Royal
Manufacturing Company, before you
give your order for silver ware; he will
save you ~money-all goods sold under
a guarantee. The local showers are
helping corn, though we still need
more rain here to make fallow land
pillow well. Rev, Mr.. and Mrs. Wescot,
Col. Hall, 7. N. Hulse and J.. Shields
were the guests Of your scribe Sunday.
Oh! where is our Independents? Peace
to their memory; may the light that
guides them, be light of fadeless ray;
may it lead them in the path of recti-
tude, never, again to stray. KEN.
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EDITORIAL BREVITIES.

Hill is the kind of a Democrat who
likes to have fun by going in swim
ming with the Republicans.
Cleveland's letter to Wilson may be
regarded as an instance of crossing a
bridge before getting to it.
1t will be observed that the Republi-
cans are not saying a word or doing a
thing to delay tariff legislation.
The relation of the Mckinley tariff
law to the present controversy is like
unto the shadow of u great rock in a
weary land.
The object of q conference committe
is to provide an excuse for men to
change their votes without changing
their opinions.
Quay is making himself useful in the
way of causing hasty daily adjourn
ments of the Senate by threatening to
resume his tariff speech.
There are obvious reasons for saving
that the Democratic party made the
worst mistake of its life when it car.
ried the election of 1892.
Now is the time for Cleveland to dis
tribute all the pie that remains in the
pantry, if he expects to win in his fight
with the Sugar Trust Senators.
1t must be very notifying to Debs
to think that he does not now occupy
as large a place in the public mind as
an ordinary Democratic Congressman.
1t is safe to predict that if the Sugar
Trust doesn't get what it wants in the
final adjustment of the tariff muddle,
it will get something equally as good.
The P%opulists Senators appear to be
on a sympathetic strike with Him in
his attempt to save Cleveland from the
daggers OF those wicked Roman con-
spirators.
The Treasury gold reserve continues
to melt away, and Secretary Carlisle
waits for a form. of relief that does not
seem to be any nearer than it was six
months ago.
Senator Ransom, of North Caroline,
has q quiet but effective way of boom
ing himself for promotion. He has
made but one speech during fifteen
years service in the Senate.
1t seems to be settled that the New
York Democrats vii renominate Gov.
Fower; and it is equally certain that
the Republicans will beat him by a
handsome majority.
The only consolation for the Demo
Gratis this year is the fact hat there is
no President to elect, and yet q good
many of them would be willing to
swap the present one for q Republic
can.
Another disagreement on the part of
the tariff conlerees will mean the de-
feat of the bill by legislative inaction
and an agreement may bring the same
result by reason of n Presidential veto.
The truth about the tariff matter is
that the Democrats can not possibly
settle it in such a way as to prevent the
Republicansfro carrying every North.
ern State.
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Mr.. CLEvELAND'S success in putting
down the Democratic revolt in the
House and compelling the caucus to
adjourn without taking action was not
unexpected, but there was one unex-
pected thing about that caucus. That
was the presence of ex.Gov. Russell, of
Massachusetts, the man who represents
the interests of the Whitney coal syndi-
Gates, which Mr.. Cleveland has been
trying hard to please by having coal
put on the free list. His presence at
that caucus was a bit of the most I'M
blushing lobbying ever exhibited at
the Capitol. 1t was through it that the
members of the sugar trust we're plen-
tifully supplied with gall" but they
confined their lobbying to committee
rooms and hotels. 1t is no wonder
that the Democrats in both House and
Senate are regarded as being trust rid
den, nor that a bill has been introduced
in the Senate prohibiting lobbying.