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Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-11-21

hanging of the criminal, at once caused
the experiments to be suspended. BY
this time the first prisoner had recover.
ed as though from bad dream, but
the third man was heard slowly MUIR
muring the Lords Prayer ere he re-
ceived the poisonous" injection. He
gave a mad cry of joy when he learned
that his death would not occur until
the morrow.
Another remarkable but less deadly
trick played by the Imagination is often
noted. Many people conceive an aver
sion for some particular flower, per-
fume or color. One man, noted for
this idiosyncrasy, hated green colors.
He had a notion-how it originated no
one can tell-that green was dangerous
to him. Accordingly he was rarely
able to 60 out into the country except
at ight.-Million.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-11-21
Acute Vision of Birds.

Birds have very acute vision. per-
haps the most acute of any creature,
and the sense is almost more widely
diffused over the retina than is the
case with man; consequently bird
can see sdewise as well as objects in
front of it. A bird ees-showing great
uneasiness in consequence hawk
long before it is visible to man; SO too
fowls and pigeons find minute scraps
of food, distinguishing them from what
appear to us exactly pieces of earth or
gravel. Young chickens are also able
to find their own food, knowing its po-
sition and how distant it is as soon as
they are hatched, whereas child only
very gradually learns either to see or
to understand the distance of objects.
Several birds-apparently the young
of all these that nest on the ground
can so quite well directly they come
out of the shell, but the young of birds
that nest in trees or on rocks are born
blind, and have to be fed.-Boston
Cultivator.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-11-21
Duration of NOah's Flood.

In Gould's "Notes and Queries, !" vol
ume 6, page 2s4, the following ques-
tions are asked: "Are the floods known
as Noah's, Ducalion's and the Allan
team deluges considered to be one and
the same?" The editor refers the ques-
ton to his correspondents, and Mrs. L..
T. George, of Chicago answers it, in
cidentally giving the following cur
iours particulars and minute details
concerning the great breaking up of
the waters:" 1.-THE deluge was threat
ened in the year 1886 and began Decem-
ber 7, 1866, B. c., and continued 377
days, The ark rested upon Mount
Ararat on May 6,1657, but Noah did not
leave it until December 18, following
Any reader who imagines that it would
be an easy task to figure these details
from the Biblical account can find a
basis for his calculationsi in the seventh
and eighth chapters of Genesis. st.
Louis Republic.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-11-21

ney and constantly urged his election.
Because, forsooth, Gov. Turpey was not
elected are we 70 deny the successful
candidate the common courtesy which
is due citizen who has been signally
honored by the people? Because he is
Republican and believes in this or
that theory of the tariff or OF finance
are we to declare him rascal and
moral outcast not deserving of recogni-
tion? This may be the Americans 8 idea
of treating political apponent, but it
is not in accordance with the views
and feelings of sensible and just people
of any party.
Since, however, the American has
been SO shocked because the Banner
has expressed the belief that Mr.. Evans
will endeavor to make good Governor,
will that journal please proceed to
name the special personal points of in
feriority, about Mr.. Evans which make
the thought of his becoming an efficient
and faithful Governor so horribly
shocking? The Banner does not wish
to make any invidious comparisons,
but IT would like to know upon what
special ground we have shocked our
perturbed and prejudiced contempor-
ary. We have been led to believe that
Mr.. Evans is gentleman of intelli-
gence, man of affairs, who takes an
active interest in public progress, who
stands socially high and whose charac-
ter as man of integrity has not been
impeached. We see no reason why he
will not make an efficient and faithful
chief executive. Will the American
tell us why he will not? Nashville
Banner.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-11-21
Petty Prejudice.

The remarkable promptness with
which the Chattanooga Times and
Nashville Banner undertook to vouch
for the superior Governor which Mr..
Evans will make is, to say the least of
it, just little peculiar. Itis, of course,
sincerely to be hoped that Mr.. Evans
will make good Governor if he has
been elected.
But upon what authority the Times
and Banner undertake to prophecy as
to Mr.. Evans peculiar fitness for Gov
ernor is not so clear. Is itanything he
has done, either in his public or priva to
life that justifies these roseate promises
as to his future career from these stall
wart Democratic journals
AS member of Congress from the
Third Congressional District, did Mr..
Evans impress his peculiar individual
ity either upon the legislation of the
country, or the policy of the Govern
ment that he has especially endeared
himself to the people of Tennessee, the
State of his adoption! If SO, will these
self appointed champions of the new
order of things point out wherein his
peculiar fitness for Governor liesp Is
it his expressed desire to discipline the
South?
Is there anything either in his per.
sonal habits or private life or business
methods upon which these extravagant
promises for his future greatness as a
Governor are to be founded?
The American sincerely hopes that
the promises which these able Demo.
cratic journals have hastened to make
for their conquering hero may be fully
realized, but, judging the future by
the past the American prefers to wai
and see whether or not "the leopard
has changed his spots, or the Ethiopian
his color. Nashville American.
Bah! For little, narrow, dog in The
manager partisanism commend us tt
the foregoing article from the Ameri
can. Here is what the Banner said
1--WE take it, therefore, that Mr.. Evan
will be Governor of Tennessee for two
years, and we believe he will make
good Governor, who will earnestly anC
honestly strive to make his administra
tion u credit to Tennessee and to pro
mote the general interests of the State.
That this simple expression of it's con
fidence in the honest intentions of tn
man whom the people of Tennessee
have elected Governor, should be takei
asan excuse for the American S slurrin,
article with its unworthy intimation
against Mr.. Evans, is not surprising
but it places the American in yer,
bad light.
The Banner has no apology to max
for assuming that Mr.. Evans will en-
deavor to faithfully and honestly dis
charge the duties of the office of Gov
ernor. to which he has been elected
This journal earnestly and consistently
supported the candidacy of Gov. Tur
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-11-21

you prepare yourself for still further
reductions next year, as the tendency
is now to gradually do away with the
contract schools and to place the In
dian children as far as possible in pub
lie schools where it can be done and
in State agricultural schools and nor
nal schools in different States"
The last Congress directed the Sec.
retary of the Interior to report to the
coming Congress the best means of
abolishing contract schools. The only
way it can be done is by gradually
reducing, and this, think, will be the
final outcome of all controversy and
legislation on the subject Or
leans Picayune.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-11-21

For young men who are thinking of
marriage:
Select the girl.
Agree with the girls father in politics
and the mother in religion.
If you have a rival, keep an eye on
him. if he is a widower, two eyes on
him.
Don't swear to the girl that you have
no bad habits. 1t will be enough for
you to say that you never heard your.
self snore in your sleep.
Don't put much sweet stuff on paper.
If you do, you will hear it read in after
years, when your wife has some espec-
ial purpose in infiicting upon you the
severest punishment known to mar
ried man.
Go home at a reasonable hour in the
evening. Don't wait till the girl has
to throw her whole soul into q yawn
that she can't cover with both hands.
A little thing like that may cause a
GOODNESS at the very beginning of the
game.
If while wearing your new summer
trousers for the first time you sit down
on some molasses candy that little Will
lie has left on the chair, smile sweetly
and remark that you don t mind sitting
on molasses candy at all, and that
"boys will be boys" Reserve your
true feelings for future reference.
If on the occasion of your first call
the girl upon whom you have placed
your young affections looks like an ice
berg and acts like cold wave, take
your leave early and stay away. Wo-
man in her hours of freeze is uncertain,
coy and hard to please.
In cold weather finish saying good
night in the house. Don't stretch il
all the way to the front gate, and thus
lay the foundation for future asthma,
bronchitis, neuralgia and chronic ca
tarrh, to help you to worry the girl to
death after she has married you.
Don't lie about your financial condi
ton. 1t is very annoying to bride
who has pictured for herself life OF
luxury in her ancestral halls to learn
too late that you expect her to ask 6
baldheaded parent who has been uni
formly kind to her to take you in ou
of the cold.
Don't be too soft Don't say, "thest
little hands shall never do stroke o.
work when they are mine" and, "yor
shall have nothing to do in our homt
but to sit all day long and chirp to thC
canaries," as if any sensible woman
could be happy fooling away time il
that sort of style, and girl has fine
retentive memory for the soft thing
and silly promises of courtship, anC
occasionally, in after years, when sh'
is washing the dinner dishes or patch
ing the west end of your trousers, sh
will remind you of them in a cold, sar
castle tone of voice. Exchange.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-11-21
Public Schools for Indians.

1t is the policy of the Bureau of In.
dian Affairs to discourage the plan of
contract schools in their general sense
of denominational schools and to
abandon them as soon as possible. This
will be accomplished by transferring
Indian pupils as rapidly as can be done
from sectarian to public schools. 1t
probably will require a couple of years
to carry out this scheme. as there are
about 5000 pupils now enrolled in the
contract schools. The change is out.
lined in an official communication sent
by Acting Commissioner Armstrong
to the superintendent of one of the
largest of these schools, where mater
ial reduction in enrolment has been
made, II would suggest says Gen,
eral Armstrong, ito you as well as tc
all the religious orders which have con
tract schools on the reservation, thai
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-11-21
Value of Peanut Meal.

European governments have been ex-
perimenting with peanut meal as a
food substance for the use of the arm
les. AS this nut has large amount of
nitrogenous matter in it, and nearly
fifty per cent. of oil, it is very rich
food, being far more nutritious than
flesh meat The oil cake after two
thirds of the oil has been expressed. is
found better than the whole nut, and
when mixed with flour and made into
biscuits is very palatable, and takes
the place of preparations of meal. This
meal is now coming into use as food
for dairy cows, for which purpose it is
far better than any of the oil cake
meals. American Agriculturist.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-11-21

w. A. Mcclure, well known citizen
of Mckay, Ohio, is of the opinion that
there is nothing as good for children
troubled with colds or Group as Cham
berlain s Cough Remedy. He has used
it in his family for several years with
the best results and always keeps a bot
tie of it in the house. After having la
grippe he was himself troubled with a
severe cough. He used other remedies
without benefit and then concluded to
try the children g medicine and to his
delight it soon effected permanent
cure. 20 and 80 cent bottles for sale by
F. E. Britton, druggist
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-11-21
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.
An Experience Which Decided One Man
In Forever Discrediting II.

Il do not believe that it is right to
convict prisoner on circumstantial
evidence" said prominent citizen.
"Whenever am inclined to believe a
man guilty, l always remember an ex-
perience in my own life when, if l had
been tried for murder on circumstantial
evidence, would have been proved
guilty. Years ago l was living in an
other city. Twas married to my second
wife, and it was neighborhood talk that
we did not agree on account of property
and my children. We had had several
quarrels, and our domestic relations
were rather strained. My wife became
desperately ill of fever, and it left her
mind in rather a shattered state.
''She had become we'll enough one
day to go out for drive, and of course
accompanied her. We lived in large
house alone, and on returning she start
ed up the front steps, and as she was
weak | took hold of her to assist her.
Just as did so former servant girl
passed along, and she looked surprised,
as my wife suddenly writhed in agony.
She had rheumatism, and.my grasping
her eau sed her to feel very sensitively
my touch and to almost shrek in pain.
However, managed to get her up to
her bedroom, on the second story, and
after she had lain down went down
to the stable to feed my horse.
II was out of the house only few
seconds when l heard cries of help and
saw several neighbors rush into my
yard. l went hastily in the direction
indicated, and, to my horror, found my
wife lying PROSTATE under an open
window in the side yard. She had fall
len on the top of her head and would
have had her brains dashed out, but
by good fortune her head struck the
soft soil of a flower bed. AS it was, she
was unconscious for several days, and
| heard from various sources that ugly
reports had been circulated to the eff
feet that l had been seen by the servant
referred to choking my wife, and that
l had taken her up stairs and had
pitched her out the window.
"Of course l knew that was inno-
cent, but how could prove it2 For
weeks | passed through the most awful
anxiety that any man ever did expert
ence. The officers were shadowing my
every movement, / knew, and felt
that all would be over with me if my
wife should die. However, to my great
joy, she recovered, and with her OWL
lips told how the whole thing happen
ed. l was al once reinstated in the
good opinion of my friends, but some
times | tremble even now when | thinl
of what narrow escape | had from
being convicted of murder. tell yor
appearances are often against the limo
cent, and this incident has Away
made me very charitable in my esti
mates of whether man is guilty o.
not.-Louisville Courier Journal.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-11-21
AN UNANSWERED QUESTION.
Why DO Cats Eyes Shine in the Dark
While Mans Eyes Do Not ?

'"N A""h y byCS DO MOI
Why do cats eyes shine in the dark
while men s eyes do not? The author
OF idle Days In Patagonia" raises
this question without answering it.
He shot and wounded an eagle owl and
the sight of the bird, he says, was one
OF the greatest surprises with which
nature ever favored him. The owls
haunt was an island overgrown with
grass and tall willows. Thither Mr..
hudson went toward evening and
found him upon his perch waiting for
sunset. He eyed the intruder SO calm
ly as almost to dsarm him, but hunters
OF specimens have way of hardening
their hearts. Mr.. Hudson fired. The
owl swerved on his perch, remaining
suspended for few moments and then
slowly fluttered down. He says:
l found my victim stung to fury by
his wounds and ready for the last su-
preme effort Even in repose he is big,
eagle like bird; now in the uncertain
light he looked gigantic in size-a mon.
ster of strange form and terrible aspect
Each particular feather stood on end,
the tawney barred tail spread out like
fan, the immense tiger colored wings
wide open and rigid, so that as the
bird, that had clutched the grass with
his great feathered claws, swayed slow
ly from side to side-just as a snake a.
bout TO strike sways his head, or as an
angry, watcnful cat moves its tail
first the tiD of one, then of the other
wing touched the ground.
The black horns stood erect, while in
the center of the wheel shaped head
the beak snapped necessarily, produ-
cling sound like the clicking of
sewing machine. This was suitable
setting for the lagnificent, furious eyes
on which l gazed with kind of fasci-
nation not unmixed with fear, when l
remembered the agony suffered on for
mer occasions from sharp, crooked
talons driven into me TO the bone.
The irides were of bright orange
color, but every time I attempted to ap-
proach the bird they kindled into great
globes of quivering yollow flame, the
black pupils being surrounded by a
scintilating crimson light which threw
out minute yellow sparks into the air.
When l retired from the bird this pre-
ternatural fiery aspect would instantly
vanish.
The question as to the cause of this
fiery appearance is one hard to answer
We know that the source of the lumi-
Mostly in owls and cats eyes is the
light rejecting membrane between the
retina and the sclerotic coat of the eye
ball, but the mystery remains. When
with the bird particularly noticed that
every time l retired the nictilating
membrane would Immediately cover
the eyes and obscure them for some
time, as they will when an owl is con-
fronted with strong sunlight, and this
gave me the impression that the fiery,
flashing appearance was accompanied
with or followed by burning or smart
ing sensation.
have lived great deal among semi
savage men. have often seen them
frenzied with excitement, their faces
white as ashes, their hair erect and
their eyes dropping great tears of rage.
but / have never seen in them anything
approaching to that fiery appearance
of the owl.-Youth Companion.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-11-21

Group is terror to young mothers.
To post them concerning the first symp.
toms, and treatment is the object of
this item. The first indication of croup
10 horseness. In child who is subject
to Group it may be taken as a sure sign
of the approach of an attack. Follow.
ing this hoarseness is peculiar, rough
cough. If Chamberlain's Cough rem.
edy is given as soon as the child be-
comes hoarse or even after the rough
cough has appeared it will prevent the
attack. 1t has never been known to
fail. 25 and so cent bottles for sale by
F. E. Britton, druggist.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-11-21

Henry Wilson, the postmaster at
Welshton, Florida, says he cured case
of diarrh@a of long standing in six
hours, with one small bottle of Cham
berlain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhea
Remedy, What pleasant surprise
that must have been 10 the sufferer.
Such cures are not unusual with this
remedy. In many instances only one
or two does are required to give perma-
nent relief. 1t can always be depended
upon. When reduced with water it is
pleasant to take. For sale by +. e.
Britton, druggist.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-11-21

For pain In the side or chest there
is nothing SO good as piece of flannel
dampened with Chamberlain's Palm
Balm and bound on over the seat of
pain. If affords prompt and permanent
relief and if used in time will often
prevent cold from resulting in pneu-
monia. This same treatment is sure
cure for lame back. For sale by F. E.
Bri.ton, druggist.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-11-21

Visitor-That painting is by an old
master, see.
Mrs. McShoddie (apologetically)-
Yes, but the frame is new.-New
York Weekly.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-11-21

The only way to cure catarrh is to
purify the blood. Hoods Sarsaparilla
purifies the blood and tones up tho
whole system.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-11-21

He-She seems happy with him, and
maintains that she married her ideal.
She-Yes, but her ideal was the man
who should ask her to marry him.
Life.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-11-21

She-It takes two to make bargain
you know.
He-Yes; but only one gets it.-Bos.
ton Courier.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-11-21

DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder,
Most Perfect Made.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-11-21

DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder,
A Pure Grape Cream Of Tartar Powder.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-11-21

DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder,
Forty Years the Standard.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-11-21
Some Advice.

For young men who are thinking OF
marriage:
Select the girl.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-02-23
An American Absentee Landlord,

One of the principal arguments ad-
vanced in favor of deer forests is that
those who are able to indulge in that
luxury spend much money in the High
lands. But how if sportsmen insist on
maintaining forest grounds and never
visit them5 Mr.. Winans, whose sport
ing territory extends from the Beauty
Firth to the Atlantic-from sea to sea,
in fact-has not shot over the land once
during the past four years, and as the
deer have in consequence multiplied
enormously, The crofters of the district
have resolved to ask the millionaire to
allow them days shooting.
The application is doubtless made
more with the view of bringing the
crofters' grievances before the public
than anything else, for it is sure to be
ignored. But the continued absence of
Mr.. Winans raises a wider and more
important question: Can the setting
aside of great stretch of country as
deer forests which are never shot over
be justified on any ground whatever?-
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-02-23
what Genera, Lane Did for Texas.

One episode in the career of the late
General Walter p. Lane will forever en-
dear his memory in the hearts of the Texas
people. During the Mexican war while
he was ma or of Hayes regiment of Texas
Rangers, under General Wool, he was sent
with small body of men in the direction
of San Luis Potosi to discover the move
ments of the Mexican army. There were
two roads to San Luis Potosi, one by
Matchuela, a large town, the other by the
great hacienda of Salado, where the seven
teen Texas war prisoners drew black beans
in 1916 and were shot. The two roads were
divided by a range of mountains. Lane
took the left hand, and actually penetrated
to and entered the city of Matchuela with
its 10000 people and a garrison of several
hundred men. He ordered and obtained
dinner at meSon, a sort of wagon yard
inn, announced that large American
army was near and feasted his men to
their full
Then remounting he retired obliqueIy
across the mountain to the other road and
struck the hacienda of Salado. Selling
the alcalde he ordered the resurrection of
the bones of the seventeen martyred Tex
ans and demanded mules, sacks and every
thing necessary to bear them away. All
were furnished and the remains of the
dead duly placed in transit on mules.
Lane bore the relics to General Taylor,
who had them escorted to La Grange, on
the Colorado, where they were inferred
with great solemnity in the presence of
thousands. Thus to General Lane Texas
is indebted for the possession of these me-
mentos of remarkable heroism. st.
Louis Globe-Democrat.