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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-07
SOME RAMBLING THOUGHTS.
ny MEMO.
Copyright

Copyright.
CThese Thoughts" represent the util-
cation of the spare moments in the life of
a busy layman. The aim is to lead in an
optimistic way to a better understanding
of life, it's grandeur and responslbilities)
Let Us continue last weeks line OF
thought based upon Cicero's statement
that there are traces Of the Divine In ev-
cry man. In considering now the evil
dences that exist Of something in us that
is neither matter nor mind, permit the
writer to preface his statements by a
disarmament Of criticism. The man who
thinks he knows all there is to be known
on any subject is the one who knows that
subject but slightly and his own limita-
tions still Jess All Of Truth is so vast and
so many-sided that we can all see some of
it, but not one Of us can see all of it. Even
our own view of Truth this year may not
be our view next, particularly If we are
progressive and growing; just as the out
look in a hllly country changes as we
drive or as the aspect of a promonotory
jutting out into the sea varies from mo-
ment to moment as we sail by. The pres
ent column Of Thoughts" is simply, there
FORE portion Of a growing line of thought
whereby one who was brought up In the
blindest faith and subsequently turned to
practical atheism, is threading his way
back to a better understanding Of the dig
NIFTY and power Of complete manhood and
womanhOod and the grand possibilities
within the reach of both.
The writer observes among all nations,
past and present, certain rites and cere-
monies at the time Of burial which point
to a belief in the continued existence Of
the individual though his body and brain
revert to dust, and become absorbed again
into terrestrial lie. These may range
from the naturalization Of the Egyptian
TO the funeral pyre Of the Hindo; from the
slaughter Of wives and servants In Asian
tee to the slaughter Of animals by the
North American Indians, from the wild
weird chanting Of the Norsemen over the
warriors whom the Valkyrie had trans
ported to Valhalla, to the thrilling tones
Of the Christian minister as he utters the
sOnorQus phrase, 90, death; where IL they
sting2" But tho idea In all, barnacled
over though It may be with all sorts of
superstitions. Is the same; a belief that
within US is something to which death can
not put a full stop. The writer finds it
impossible to accept the explanation that
this universal belief among human beings
IS the result of the cunning devices Of
priests; for while they have welded and
do WELD an enormous influence over par
TALLY informed peoples, yet traced back
to the origin Of things, the priest Is found
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my destruction As I did so, at the very
instant as she, that hend in yellow,
dropped back on her launches for the
fatal spring, her face twitching with
swinging to and fro amongst the dead
brown leaves, there came the sharp
crack of a matchbox from the rocks
ten yards above us-a thunderous roar
brute-a mighty crash beside me- and as
a black and gold carcass rolled over
dead into the bamboo clumps below, l
turned, and with the last Keeling glance
Of my darkening eyes saw my brothers
eXultng face peering down upon me
through the blue matchbox smoke"
AS the battered and SCARED old hum
ter finished his story, and drew his grey
shawl across his face to hide the emotion
its re-telling caused him even now, a long
staring at the last embers OF the fire camp
until suddenly the head-man raised his
hand and pointed to the door of the cave.
The dawn, Sahibi the dawn he said,
and we looked round. We saw the rain
had stopped, the night was spent, and IN
the east swiftly widening crevices of
brightness had come in the dark web or
the sky and were Broadening and spread
ing one above the other, as the golden
stairway of the coming sun was laid for
west the sky was flushing brighter every
moment with green and salmon color-a
most heavenly breath of earliest morns
ing was stealing over the tired and sleepy
world, and "Goodp / said, THE dawni
out with the fires; pack The kit; and you.
Gunish's load is halved, and his pay doub-
led" and as that grabbed adventurer burst
into q galaxy of delighted smiles and bows,
we gladly forgot his dreadful story In the
picturesque hustle Of striking an Indian
''N- Crbe 7paN
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wALLAnrEs AND KANcARoos.
A sDortsman's GIimpses of Animals
Peculiar 10 Australia.

From the Detroit Free Press.
There are wallabies and wallabies.
scrub, swamp and rock wallabies, but all
furnish lively sport for the hunter. The
wallabies are next relative TO tho kan
garoos and are found in Australia
+. G.. Ahalo tells in the Badminton Mag
azine how he hunted the wallabies fif~
teen miles up the picturesque river, called
the Rhine Of the South by the Australians.
Tho hunt was a failure, but the writer
had more sport, after kangaroos.
We had not, my companions and 1.
gone half a mile" he says. when we dis
turbed a large gray kangaroo at his morn
ing toilet. He rose politely and eyed Us for
a moment which would have been hig
last on earth, only, as luck would have It,
he stood Immediately between ourselves
and the other two Of the hunters. Then
while we were bowling to each other. the
kangaroo SUD ielbT vanished l do nob
pretend to know where he went. When
beast can leap twenty feet without
moving a muscle, It is useless to look
for IT, Here came streak or luck We
rammdd through tangle OF trailing un-
dergrowth and ell of a sudden there sat
Q small doe wallaby in small OPEN
ing, scratching her ear. II Is not every
body who can intrude on a female
wallaby and find her scratching her ear
with a hind foot nor does one often find
a walaby so Interested M what she was
doing as this one was She rubbed her
car some more, and, shocked beyond all
measure. my friend killed her with an
express bail"
The ears were cut off as trophies. Al
little while after this about fifty waila-
bies and kansaroos We're seen ia herd,
browsing n the grass a mile away. and
that was u tantalizinR s.ght, though
mighty interesting. This beasts could
scent man a mile away easily. and a
scent meant a go-as-you-please hop race
with no finish, so far as the men were
concerned.
with good pull at the flask. we creps
forward" the writer says. "On we piod-
ded. and the animals began to look trou-
blcd. warned by those vague and inexplica-
bic fore bodinRs Of instinct, standing erect
now and then and scanning the horizon
with their great eyes. The males tapped
the ground % warn the does and away
they went. We got two by iJCk-a buck
and doe"
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PAGES II 10 20.

Now take this same locality and use the
r1al that is already % 30 5y merely Inn
proving Dc and the cost viii not be 5000.
You can make a mile OF very bad road
INFO very good road for that sum. That IL
what 1 mean by intelligent wheeling legis-
latlon.
"The time 90 take such a trip Is what
is against u. But people ara not actually
obliged 20 go from the Golden Gate to
New York harh0r IN one trip. They can
meet each other half way, II IL Is a mat
ter OF family meeting. or people on both
sides OF the country can take trips as
cine lime for the Journey would be
about forty days. II every man were a
wheeling expert and were prepared to
take a century run every day. For my
self, j should just double the days. I
should take eighty days for the trip and
DO something Ike nifty miles a day. I
might even let the railroad help me In
rainy weather Speaking Of that, I should
have mentioned that the much dreaded
prairie lands are particularly fine in dry
season. being springy and level and soft
90 the body.
Across the country ia eighty days will
be the Wheelmens attraction q few years
hence. Now IL looks funny. but that Is
what Jules Nerne's idea of Round ths
World In Eighty Days" did 70 people
years ago Now we can belt the sphere in
seventy days James Barton.
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the confer. geographically. OF the United
States.
"At Omaha you leave the railroad and
wheel across Iowa from Council Bluffs
20 Davenport without deviation Here the
scenery is particularly beautiful The
Verdure IS soft. the air IS mill-for ct
course your trip is taken in summer-aud
the people seem heartily 10 cheer you on
your way. The ru5sedness of the mouE-
tains seems TO have faded as though into
the softness Of a valley. After you leave
Iowa and strike into Illinois sou san hear
people speaking Of Iowa as though IL
were a garden state from which they We're
unwiuiugly absent.
THE Illinois track Hes far south OF the
railroads. for you are in state so th!ck-
ly populated that, 10 ride pleasantly, YOU
must seek the country, Wnere sou have
before sought the towns and villages. The
clearest way is by a hoop path from Rock
Island to Chicago. You touch Ottawa
and Aurora but rs far as possible you i'm
Qulre you way along the country roads.
You ind your path very level and the
roads well kept; and when you reach Cn.-
cagO you put up your wheel for "a dozen
of the side trims that are part OF The eX-
petition. There is good wheel path
north to Milwaukee. Ii skirts Lake Mich
igau ana is the most romantic jolt of the
jOrr~cv # YOU choose 20 make h.
at Milwaukee you can pocket your
pride and your ambition, and slowing
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Signature of Man who CouIdn't
write.
from the Galveston DAILY News.

From the Galveston Daily News.
Orange, Tex, May 22.-Wolf Biuestine,
who died at Hot Springs on the 2lst and
was buried at Houston yesterday morn-
ing, came to Orange a very poor man in
1876 He began merchandising, and while
here acquired a capital estimated at be-
tween $50. 600 and 5000 He could neither
read nor write yet he was a marvel in
mental arithmetic. Franctions nro interest
had any hard places in them for him. He
offered the principal of the city schools
at this place 800 If he would teach him to
write his own name within a year. The
professor undertook the job and worked
with great energy, but discovered that
on each Monday morning every trace Of
the previous weeks work had entirely
faded from the mind Of his pupil and af-
ter five month abandoned It as a hopeless
case. A peculiarly constructed "BxX't
was the nearest approach he ever made
TO penm2nship but thar signature Is at
tached to many valuable documents now
of record In this county, and has for sew
eral years passed current a the banks
In New. York, Galveston and Orange, Of
ten for large sums Of money 1t was quite
as difficult TO counterfeit the characters
S affixed by him as it would be to sue
cessfully initiate the signature
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A BIG BICYCLE ROAD.
TO BUILD n FROM THE
ATLANTIC To THE PACIFIC.

rae Route Leads Through Twelve
states-LegislatiOn to BE Asked to
ylacadamiEe Connecting PIaces-A
Trip That Can Be Made in Forty
Days.
New York, June 6.-One Of the foremost
u the National Wheelmen's League sat
q his office with charts spread out before
sm. Upon his face there was a delighted
ypression and at his right hand We're let
-.rs and manuscript.
Il an working" said he to the intruder.
upon the greatest bicycle scheme that
ever agitated the sporting fraternity. Lit
by little We conceive great ideas and
svelop them. Each sounds more pre-
t5sterous than the last, but when we
r.rg il around all who came to scoff re-
MAIN 20 admire. This wheeling scheme is
r.s finest thing ever thought out by a
wheeling man. II came I'D at one of our
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A STRANGE WEDDING.
Bride, bridegroom ana magistrates
in Different Counties.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
triangular wedding near Columbus
is reported as having occurred a day or
two ago. Frank Cordary had a license to
marry Elizabeth Schumacher, a widow,
Of Johnson county. The couple called upon
Justice ]. H. Taylor of Brown county to
perform the ceremony He said he had
no jurisdiction in his own county, as the
license was procured in Johnson county.
He said that, as Cord2ry lived in Bars
tholomew county, the only way he could
tie the nuptial knot would be to 20 to
the line Of the county bordering on Bar-
tholomew and Johnson. Aecordingly the
bride took her stand in Johnson county,
the groom stood IN Bartholomew, while
the magistrate stood in Brown and pros
nounced the binding words,
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Israel Hogeland, formerly Of this city.
now Of Chicago, says the indianapolis
Sentinel, has had patented a device which
will allow a farmer to plough his field,
harrow 1t, put in the seed, and when the
crop has grown, to harvest II by electric
ity. The power is brought to the farm
from poWer-hOuse that serves an entire
community within q radius Of ten miles
from the farm. The electricity Is brought
through feed wire to a wire erected In
the fields running on all four sides 81 the
field. The farm machinery is provided
with a trolley, which consists Of a wire
so arranged that 1t viii wind or unwind
on a cylinder on the back Of the machine.
The part that touches the feed wire Is not
like the street car trolley wire, but ITS
over the wire, and viii slide along as the
machine goes from one furrow to an
other.
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FRoM 0cEAN % ocEAN oN a WHEEL
The record-union., 1896-05-12
SOURCE OF THE MISSOURI.
Discovery Made by Minnesota's State
GeOgrapher.

ST. PAUL (Minn.), May 11-Colonel
j. V. Brewer, Minnesota State Geogra-
pher, has made the sational discov-
cry that the source of the Missouri
River is not Red Rock Lake, Mont, as
has been stated. Colonel Brewer has
explored the whole region of the Upper
Missouri, and to-day made public the
result of his discoveries.
He says the longest upper branch of
the Missouri does not flow through the
lower Red Rock Lake in Montana, but
comes from a hole in the Rocky Monu-
tains west of Helerys Lake, Idaho.
and at a point bordering the boundary
between that State and Montana
The miniature river, at its commence
ment striving to secure existence from
the inner walls of the surrounding vol
cdnic vents, near perpetual snow banks,
has, by its eroding capacity, cut it's way
out from that rugged and precipitous
mountain uplift of enormous size until
solid rock of mountain has been sew
cred in twain, canyon formed and as
suming the proportions of a river, from
the flowage of lnumcrable creeks COM
ing in at the 81 de, reaches the valleys
below, flowing into and through Upper
Red Rock Lake, twenty miles from it's
source in the mountains. thence west
wardly, northerly and ENTHUSIASTICALLY.
past Red Butte and Beaver Head Rock
to Three Fork, thence to the Mississippi
and thence to the Gulf of Mexico,
through and past thirteen States a dis
tance of 4 221 miles
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and Canyon Railroad Company to build
its line through Grand Canyon Forest
Reservation, Arizona, and authorizing
the Secretary of the Treasury to issue
and enforce regulations for passenger
excursions at any regatta or yacht
races on the navigable waters of the
United States.
A preliminary conference report upon
the Indian appropriation bill was
agreed to, and another conference or
dered on the items still in dispute.
The resolutions of Elections Commit
tee No. /, declaring John w. Maddox
Oem.) to be entitled to the seat occu-
pied by him as Representative from the
Seventh District of Georgia, contested
by w. H. FELTON, (Fusion), was pre-
sented, and, being the unanaimous re-
port of the committee, was agreed to.
The rest of the day was devoted to
the consideration Of the District of CO.
lumbia business
At 5:15 p. m. the House adjourned.
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HANGED BY A MOB.
Fate of an American Who Killed a
rIan in Guatemala.

MEMPHIS CTenn), May 11.-Four
days ago there we're r. ceived in this
city letters announcing the hanging by
mob of Europe Adrian Harper De
Witt of this city at Puerto Barrios,
Guatemala. They were forwarded by
W. j. Clark, who was located at Mont
gOmery, Ala, tonight His story of
the affair follows:
'On the afternoon of the 2Sth 1 went
to the wharf to see aout a passage to
New Orleans or Mobile. The Break
water had just arrived from New Or
leans, and De Witt came ashore He
went with me to my lodging house.
The next day we went into the tele-
graph office, where De Witt became in
volved in a quarrel with Mcnamara. a
train dispatcher on the Ferrocarril Del
Norte Railway. Mcnamara followed
DE Witt out of the office and struck
him severe blow in the face. I helped
De Witt up and took him to the lodg-
lng-house, where he changed his cloth
ing. He told me he would call him to
account. Later in the day he returned
to the telegraph office, and the quarrel
between De Witt and Mcnamara was
renewed. De Witt suddenly caught
Mcnamara by the collar, drew his pis-
tot and shot him through the head kill
ing him instantly. De Witt surrendered
himself to the authorities, and shortly
after crowd of Americans. mostly
mechanics employed on the railroad.
gathered for the purpose of taking the
law into their own hands. They made
an attack on the Jail, but were repulsed
by the guards. l made my way on
board the steamer Nicaragua. which
set sail in few hours. When the Mic
aragua reached Galveston we tele-
graphed to Puerto Barrios and learned
that the mob made a second and sue
cessful attack on the prison, and De
Witt was taken out and hanged to a
tree"
DE Witt was related closely to the
Harpers, publishers, of New York. has
an aunt of that name living at Wash
1ngton, and was a civil and mechanical
engineer of national reputation.
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gave Everitt a chance, and Dahlen
raped out a double to center and the
game was won. Score: Chicago 4,
Boston g. Batteries-Friend and Kilt
redge; Nichols and Ryan. Umpires-
Keefe and Weidman.
CLEVELANDS BADLY BEATEN.
CLEVELAND, May 11.-Cuppy held
the heavy hitters from Philadelphia
down to two hits until the eighth inning
to-day, when they caught onto his de-
livery and pounded out nine runs,
eight of which were earned. Score:
Cleveland 2, Philadelphia 10. Batter
ies-Cuppy and thinner; Carsey and
Boyle. Umpire-Lynch.
A ONE-SIDED GAME.
CINCINNATI May 11.-Threaten-
ing weather, combined with showers
which fell about two hours, kept to-
days attendance down to 1000. The
game was very one-sided, the locals
finding no trouble in batting McJames
when they pleased. Score: Cincinnati
10, Washington 2. Batteries-Fore-
man and Peitz; McJames and McAuley.
Umpire-Hurst.
SUPERIOR BATTING WON.
ST. LOUIS, May 1.-THE Baltimores
took hardfought game to-day by su-
perior batting. Cross is now Captain
of the Browns, Latham and INLAND are
on the bench, and Van der Abe man
ager. Score: ST. Louis 2, Baltimore i.
Observation-Disclosures and McFar-
land; Mcmahon and Robinson Umpire
-Emslie.
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EX-LIEUTENANT GOV. JOHNSON
PASSES AWAY AT HIS HOME AT
SAN FRANCISCO.
For Tlany Years a Prominent rIan in
Democratic Politics of the
State.

SAN FRANCISCO. May 11.-James
A. Johnson, xLieutenant-G Governor,
attorney and journalist, died at an
early hour this morning.
His death, which occurred at his resi-
dence, 1880 Bush street was not with
out warning, and his relatives We're at
his side when he passed away.
The Governor had been ill for some
weeks past with a complication of dis
orders, the chief trouble being iatica.
The pain resulting from this had a
very bad effect upon a constitution al
ready weakened by suffering and years,
and it early became evident to his
physicians that he was IN grave dan
ger.
Nevertheless he did not give up cas-
lily, but made brave fight against the
progress of disease, and several times
it seemed to the attending physicians,
Drs. Robinson and Thorne, that there
might be a chance for him.
Such hopes, however, were destined to
prove Elusive, as the weakness of the
patient had become too pronounced to
permit of any permanent rally.
He fingered until this morning, as
stated, the pain leaving him apparently
shortly before his death and his end be-
ing calm and peaceful
Lleutenant-Governor Johnson first
came prominently before the public in
1879, in September of which year he
was nominated for the second place on
the Democratic ticket, William Irwin
being the candidate for Governor.
Both were elected and took office in
December of the same year.
Lieutenant-G Governor Johnson served
his full term of four years, and upon it's
expiration resumed the practice of the
law.
Shortly afterward, however a change
Inf ownership occurred in the office of
the Alta California" and from being a
Republican it became a Democratic pa.
per. Governor Johnson was offered the
position of managing editor, which he
accepted and filled with vigor and judg-
ment for some time. On giving it up
he again began the practice of law, con-
tinuing to so occupy himself until the
beginning Of the illness which resulted
in his death.
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OIL FIELDS IN FLAMES.
Fire Creating Destruction Near Brad
ford, Pennsylvania.

BRADFORD Pa), May 1.-THE
hemlock slashings that escaped last
summers fires are row a roaring mass
of flames n the oil fields south of this
city.
A fierce fire broke out Saturday after
noon at Dent farm and spread to thir-
teen oil wells owned by the Emery Oil
Company, the derricks of which were
consumed, together with a number of
small oil tanks and boiler houses.
Men are still trying to prevent the
flames spreading to the South PennsyI-
vania coal oil wells. in close proximity
Should the fire get start in that di-
rectlon the loss will be heavy.
Small fires are reported in various
parts of the oil fields. and the people are
much worried, as everything is as dry
as tinder
The hemlock woods two miles west
OF Ellisburg, are reported on fire, and
threatening the Pennsylvania Tanning
Company's property.
Fires are also reported on all sides
of Oswayo, a small lumber town in Pot
ter County.
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A MISSISSIPPI RIVER
BOAT BLOWN UP.
The Vessel Torn ASunder, and Sinks in
Less Than Five Minutes.
At Least Nine Lives Known to Have
Been Lost.
Oil Fields Near Bradford, Pennsyl-
vania, Roaring rlass of Flames
An American Who Committed a
1urder i'm Guatemala Taken From
the Jail and Hanged by rlob.

VICKSBURG (Miss.), May 11.-Word
reached here this morning that the
Steamer Harry Brown was blown up by
the explosion of a boiler fifty miles be
low here last night
So terrific was the force of the explo-
sion that the boat was torn asunder
and in less than five minutes was at
the bottom of the Mississippi.
1t is known that the following were
killed outright by the explosion or by
drowning: Pilot Norman, Steersman
Bardsley, William Dougherty, Chief
Engineer; Annie Herd, chambermaid;
Tom Judd, fireman; William Watson
first mate; William Fitzsimmons, sec
Ond mate, and George Keim and Will
lam Kelley. lamp trimmers.
The bodies of the three last men were
recovered and brought to this city by
the steamer Hansel, which was in sight
of the Brown at the time of the acci-
dent.
The survivors and injured were
brought here on the Hansel The in
Jured were conveyed to the Marine Hos
pital, and are all in a fair way to re-
covery. Owing to the proximity of the
Hansel and the quick efforts at rescue,
many lives were saved that otherwise
would have been lost
Captain K Keim of the Harry Brown
seriously injured, remained on
the after part of the cabin of the
Brown where he had been blown by the
explosion after it had f1oated off the
hull, which had sunk He was per
fectly cool and directed the efforts of the
men who were saving the boats crew.
The Captain does not know the cause
of the explosion. Captain Klein and
Pilot Dan Kane were in the Browns
pilot-house when the explosion oc-
Cured. Five men were badly injured.