Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-26

| kept carefully hid from tine eyes OF lne
| twcnspeople on account of her dreadful
| deformity. She is said to more nearly
| resemble a frog than a human being, and
| the local papers believe she would make
| a fortune for some sideshow manager. She
is 80 years of age and has borne her de-
| formity from birth.
A Kansas man is never at loss for Ian
| guage with which to make his descrip-
| tions picturesque as we'll as accurate. Oma
| Simpson is the name of an Abilene young
man who is in Morocco as a missionery,
| and he has been writing home some ac-
counts of his experiences He says the
| women of Tangiers wear tunics. but neith
| er stockings nor sandals. Their dress Is
| in one piece and resembles a short night
| gown pinned tightly around the legs above
the knees and then swelling loose up to
| the neck"
Commenting on the fact that Topeka
| took all the prizes at the Wichita poultry
| show, the Eagle scores the committee for
not opening the entry to cocktails and
| giving the home town chance.
The fact that three Atchison men have
| erected monuments to their wives first
! husbands leaves it open to question wheth-
| er sympathy or vengeance was the act
| uating motive.
| Mrs. Mary ward, editor OF the sharon
| Springs Times. never rudely speaks of a
| departed citizen as having passed in his
| checks She says: HE was chosen by
an inscrutable Providence to part the cur
tains in deaths dark room"
Stanislaus Ducatch, a fullblood Usage
| Indian, was married TO Miss De Hart, a
pretty white girl at Chief Rewards home
| in the nation last Tuesday. Miss De Hart
| is an Independence girl and has been n
| teacher in the Usage school. 1t is an
| nounced as a love match, though so far as
this worlds goods are concerned, Mr.. Du-
| catch is precisely what his name would in
| dicate with the first syllable knocked off.
| "There is just a possibility" murmured
| Ed Little. as he felt around in the toe
of his Christmas stocAlng for that sena-
| tCrial nomination, that it has been kept
back for a New Years present"
Bill Morgan declares that he listened to
| Professor Wilcox, of the state university,
| lecture for an hour upon Troy and its ruins
| and the speaker never mentioned Sol Mill
| er once.
The Guthrie Leader surprises the out
| side world by recounting the receipt of a
| sample of the first prunes raised in Okla
| homa. When the returns disclosed ma
iority for Parson Callahan everybody sup
posed Oklahoma was full of prunes.
The Ell Reno Democrat is entirely too
| critical, and there is really no ground for
its charge that the famous Judge Pitzer,
| of Oklahoma, is a plagiariSt Some time
since, Temple Houston, who is noted alike
for his elegant diction and his quickness on
the trigger, was addressing jury. In the
course of his remarks he assailed the
Yeracity of witness in this fashion: why,
gentlemen of the jury, that witness sat
there before you, unmoved by any qualms
of conscience, and reeled off perjury with
as much ease as mocking bird trilling Its
morning lays This was six months ago
and the plagiarism with which Judge Pit
zer is accused was committed last Friday,
| He, too was assailing a witness before q
jury, and this is the manner in which he
| did it: "Why, gentlemen of the jury, that
witness sat there like bump on log and
ripped out perjury with as great rapidity
and as much ease as a mocking bird trill.
ing its morning lays" No case made.
Considerable has been said of the pre-
historic mounds found on the farm of Mr.
Beaver, in Cowley county. OF late many
explorations have been made of these
mounds and every one of them has revealed
interesting relics of a race of which neither
history nor tradition has any account
Last Tuesday DIR. C. S. Aker and c. N
Hunt, of Arkansas City, made a hole int
one of the mounds for a distance of nine
, feet and were rewarded by uncovering
| sacrificial altar, which is thus described by
the Traveller: "They came upon number
of stones, so arranged as to form vau
or small chamber. After removing these
stones they found an empty space of little
more than foot in depth, where they came
upon ashes. Mixed with these ashes were
found few small pieces of charret
bone and few pieces of bone
which crumbled Immediately on being ex
posed to the atmosphere. However, very
few pieces remained intact, so as to be eN
amined sufficiently to ascertain that they
were human, such as femur or thigh
bone of a child, two vertebrae. the axis
and atlas. This layer of ashes varied from
two to six inches in thickness. Immediate
" beneath the layer of ashes and abou
eight feet beneath the surface was pre-
sented a reddish brown cement. This wa!
several inches in thickness and rested upol
and embedded within 1t was uneartheC
what is purported to be sacrihcial ston'
altar. This altar consisted of two larg'
stones, peculiarly fashioned and wrough
so as to represent, in the position found,
basin-or, more properly, nearly perfect
" formed pelvis, with the pubic arch o
the same formed and fashioned so tha
each segment was made to meet its fellow
} with a nicely which seems marvellous; th
5 body of the two stones being about sever
: inches in thickness, two feet in length
twelve to fourteen inches in width, bu
tapering toward the arch, the arch beinl
. not more than one-half inch in thickness
and about two and one-half inches II
breadth; from the center of the body o
the stone outward to its extremity it ia
! | pered gradually by peculiar swells and de
| pressions toward the flaring end rim o
the pelvis. Where it was Joined to tn
| larger stone was found stone somewha
= smaller than the other two and crudely re
, ! sembling human heart. This whole alta
was cemented firmly to the solid rock bed
beneath this bed lay n perfectly smootl
: | and fiat surface of native limestone. From
| the findings it is thought that these gen
v | tlemen dug into the sacriticial mound. Thi
| altar was the most sacred altar. They mad
| it to represent those portions of the humal
: body which at the earliest dawn of histor
t were considered sacred, namely, the pelvi
n and heart. This afternoon it was iearne
r that Arthur Parker few years ago du
| into this mound and at the same spot. II
found a stone war club, which was evident
o ly used about the time a sacrifice was of
fered up"
= Thift and Prosperity.
= From the Chicago Record
AS a general rule American people ar
frugal and thrifty. appreciating the doc
t--ira which teaches the necessity of DTC