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The herald., 1897-12-26

as contract grade, has developed the
fact that the bull crowd is insisting on
the strictest inspection of all wheat ten
dered for December deliveries. When
this wheat was first rendered 1t was re-
fused by Letter, who claimed it was not
of contract quality. In this he was
backed up by the Board of Appeals of the
Board of Trade. Later the board re-
versed it's decision and 1t is said the case
will be taken to the Board of Trade direc
tory or to the courts.
The herald., 1897-12-26
Peruvian Marriages

NEW YORK, Dec. 25.-A special to
the Herald from Lima Peru, says: Pres
ident Pierola has signed and promulgat-
ed the new measure legalizing nom Cath
olc marriages in Peru. With the ex-
ception of the clerical organs the press
is unanimous in applauding the clever
craftsmanship of the President in push
ing the measure through. 2
The herald., 1897-12-26
A Horrible Act

ROCKFORD, ILL.,, Dec. 25.-Frad Tall
stead, a prominent farmer of Creston.
was murdered today by Edward Brown.
a former hired man. who threw the body
in the hog pen and then walked to
Rochelle and gave himself up. He said
he killed Talstead in self-defense.
Brown was removed to the Oregon jail
for safety, as the neighborhood is great
ly excited.
The herald., 1897-12-26
A Fool and His Money!

CHICAGO, Dec. 25.-"Bob" Fitzsim-
mons has bought Christmas present
Tor himself. 1t is nice, gentle, dove
like sort of a ferocious looking lion. He
bought 1t over on the lake front at a
geological show and paid $1,000 for 1t.
The animal is about ten months of age.
The herald., 1897-12-26
A Convict Stabbed

SAN QUENTIN, Cal, Dec. 25.-A seri-
Gus stabbing affray took place today In
San Quentin prison. which may result
in the death of a convict named Jones.
who was assaulted by Convict Moore.
Moore draws a pension of IS month.
With this allowance he purchased some
dainties for Christmas and was enjoying
them, when Jones came along and start
ed to abuse him. This angered Moore
who drew a penknife and cut Jones in
the neck.
The herald., 1897-12-26
Want More Pay

CHATTANOOGA. Tenn. Dec. U.s.
About four hundred employees in the
Dayton coal and iron mines are out on
strike because of a dispute Of ten cents
per bushel for mining. 1t Is stated to-
night that several of the other mines
along the Cincinnati Southern will be af-
fected.
The herald., 1897-12-26
Suffered No Damage

DELAWARE BREAKWATER, Dec.
25.-The steamboat James A. Carney.
from Mobile for New York, which went
ashore on the beach opposite the marine
hospital Thursday night, floated this
morning. apparently intact. She pro-
ceeded to New York.
The herald., 1897-12-26
Wants Good Wheat

CHICAGO, Dec 25.-A question as t.,
the quality of $4,000 bushels of wheat in
the hold of the steamer Iron King, be-
longing to the Seaverns Company, and
which they rendered to the Letter clique
The herald., 1897-12-26
Broke a Bone

SACRAMENTO, Dec. 25.-A laborel
named Frank Farley, while assisting il
putting some hay into a barn today fel
from ladder and fractured his left hiI
bone
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-10-24

The misuse of the title professor, I"
when it is applied unfortunately to
musicians in general, finds an amusing
example in the following story, credited
to Bandmaster Sousa and printed in
The Musical Age:
Some years ago Sousa was leading a
band at small country festival. The
advent of the band had been awaited
with intense interest by the audience,
and when they arrived the bandsmen
We're quickly surrounded by a surging
crowd which hemmed them in so that
it was difficult for them to keep on
playing.
Sousa appealed to one of the commit
tee to keep the crowd away and said
that unless his men had more room they
could not play. The committeeman
shook his hand warmly, and, turning to
the assembled multitude, bawled out:
Gentlemen, step back and give the
purfesser' purfessers chance to play"
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-10-24
HUMAN BRAINS.
How Science Views the Difference Between
Men and Women,

The weightier brain would seem also
to indicate a priori, the greater intel
lectual power, and this, too. is borne
out by undoubted facts Women, it has
often been said, have yet to produce
their Newton, their Dante, their Arts
totle, their Pascal, their Goethe. The
assertion is very feebly met by the con-
tention that women's education has
been for centuries neglected.
1t was not education which enabled
Pascal as child to see his way through
problems which not one man in /, 900 can
understand after prolonged mental drill
It was not education which gave the
race it's great men poets "They lisped
in numbers for the numbers came
But where are their feminine equals?
We will, however, take an art in which
women have enjoyed far more training
than men-the art of music. There are
some excellent women pianists and vio-
linists, but where are the female Bachs,
Beethovens, Mozarts and Wagpers? Ma
ture only can explain the absence Of
great women composers as of the fenni-
nine compeers Of Titan and Raphael,
the technique of whose art seems pecul-
iarly fitted to women.
Nature tells US that she cannot form
the matrix out of which commanding
intellectual geniuses of the female sex
would proceed Why this is so we may
partly guess, but cannot wholly know.
We see that nature has divided the
world into sexes for her own purposes,
and that to each sex peculiar functions
are assigned. We see that the physio-
logical functions of woman necessitate
a different anatomy from that of man,
thls structure preclude, speaking gener
ally, the kind of effort which we call
supreme genius, as also that kind of
effort which we call sustained executive
power. While women are not SO far
differentiated from men that they can
not enter with pleasure into mems
works, and, often in great measure,
share in their production, it remains a
fact that it is mans particular organi-
cation which is alone capable either of
the highest manifestations of genius or
the most sustained exhibition of energy.
Whether it will always be SO we do not
know, for we cannot peer into the fu-
ture. 1t is sufficient that it not only is
so now, but that it always has been SO,
and that science does give us some good
grounds for believing that the fact is
deeply rooted in the very structure of
sex.-London Spectator.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-10-24
PRINCE OF TRAMPS.
HE is THE tiEAD OF THE VAGRANT
FRATERNITY.

Glass OF Tramps That Prey on Their Fell
lOws-They Generally Travel In Parties
of Three-The Yaghum Kills on the
Slightest ProvocatiOn.
A new word was recently added to
the police vocabulary in Pittsburg.
For years the local authorities have
wondered if there was not in Migrants
parlance a special word descriptive OF
the variety of tramps that prey upon
their fellows. Some arrests that were
made the other day supplied the desired
clew. In one night three citizens were
held up by three tramps. The detectives
raided a cheap lodging house and after
desperate fight arrested nine tramps.
AS the prisoners were brought into the
police station ragged vagrant who had
secured lodgings for the night nudged
his cell mate and whispered:
"They're yaghums. -
AS the bank burglar is the aristocrat
of the thieving profession, SO the yag-
hum is the prince of the tramp frater-
nifty. AS he silently swings himself in
to a box Car and surveys the other va
grants who are stealing rides he smiles
at the looks Of terror that greet his en-
trance, for as the average tramp preys
on the farmers hen roost SO the yaghum
preys on the tramp. 1t is hardly neces-
sary for him to draw his revolver as he
enters the box car. By intuition his
brothers recognize his superiority and
proceed to hand over part of the pro-
ceeds of their raids. Slowness in paying
up is remedied with the revolver. Ac-
cording to Detective McTighe's state
ments many a poor tramp who has re-
sisted the yaghum has been plundered
Of his small possessions and his mutt
lated body has added one more item to
the coroner's "unknowns killed by a
train.
Yaghums generally travel in parties
of three. 1t is said that by practice
they have acquired such proficiency in
throwing man from freight Car that
in nine cases out of ten they can toss
him under the wheels.
Liz Jul Sd1u 0GU6CLlN6 hG-
Tighe, fuses deadly weapons onlyas the
last resort to save himself from arrest.
The yaghum kills on the slightest prov
ocation. He knows that the chance of
being hanged for the murder of tramp
is almost nothing, and the almost GER
tain immunity from punishment has
made him extremely careless in she'd
ding human blood. A yaghum would
not hesitate to kill his brother tramp to
rifle his pockets Of dollar.
''But the yaghum is terror even to
the members of higher order of the
criminal classes. Burglars, sneak thieves
and highway robbers are frequently
compelled, by the exigencies of their
profession, to jump freight train to
get, unobserved, out of some locality.
They know the yaghum. They know Of
his disregard for human life. They
know that while they themselves will
shoot or kill only to save themselves,
the yaghum has no scruples, and they
fear him. New York Sun.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-10-24
Public School a Family Snap.

State Superintendent Stryker recent
ly discovered a remarkable plan for
grabbing the state school fund by resi-
dents Of sparsely settled districts in
western Kansas. W. H. Freeman is the
only resident of school district in Lo-
gan county, Kan. Every year his wife,
his son and himself elect themselves as
the three members of the school board
Then they vote six months term of
school at $40 a month and employ MIR
Freeman daughter as teacher. Young
Freeman is her only pupil Chicago
Times Herald.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-10-24
FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
Interesting Matters That Engross the At
tention of Europe.


tentiOn of Europe.
Not only in Prussia, but also in all
other German states, have the universe
ties modified the conditions for the aid
mission of medical students in a man
ner that is directed against Americans.
According to the new regulations,
transatlantic applicants, no matter what
the diplomas which they bring with
them from the United States, will be
compelled to submit to preliminary
examination before being admitted to
the privileges of students of the univer
sity. ambassador White has been ap-
pealed to by the American students in
Germany and has promised to do what
he can about the matter, but it is not
believed that he will be able to accom-
plish anything.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-10-24
United After Forty Years.

James thinner of Cortland, N. Y,
arrived in Delaware, o., recently and
met his brother, George thinner, whom
he had not seen or heard of for 40
years. The reunion came about through
medical advertisement. George Zim-
mer bought box of patent pills and
wrote testimonial which was pub
Hshed in Delaware paper. The tes-
timonial accidentally fell into the hands
of James thinner. He inquired after
the.writer, and the two men discovered
that they are brothers, each of whom
has mourned for 40 years the death of
the other Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-10-24
TIED COWS TO THE TRACK.
Florida Farmers Plan to Get Rich by
Beating the Railroads.


Beating the Railroads.
The Louisville and Nashville railroad
has recently uncovered clever but old
fashioned scheme of robbery which has
puzzled its detectives for two years.
jackson county, Fla, raises few cat
tie, but it isn't a Texas ranch by a great
deal. For two years past all the cattle
i'll this county seem to have cultivated
the Louisville and Nashville. The mum
Der of COWS killed on that line in this
county exceeds anything i'll the history
of the road.
Detective Watts has been looking VI
the previous condition of servitude OF
these numerous valuable sacrifices tC
engines and has discovered plot which
has cost the company thousands Of dol
lars The man who conceived and ex-
ecuted this coup is J. D. Silly. He is
an artist 1t was Stilly's idea to scoul
the country adjoining the railroad and
buy up all the lame, halt and blind cat
tie to be had.
An old COW is worth about $3.50.
SGll1y would purchase tneSe attenuated
creatures and drive them to his farm
What he did with them the neighbors
neither knew nor cared until the rail
road people began an investigation.
Then Silly took to the swamps. The
detective discovered that the COWS which
the slow Florida trains were killing all
belonged to the tribe of "'has beens, "
and that in every case in the courts the
deceased mixers were paid for as thor
oughbred animals which are not any
too common in jackson county.
The detective sought out the man who
could own SO many. He discovered a
farm full of cripples, and then he set a
watch ON Silly. A few nights after
that Silly led a poor old COW down to
the tracks, tied her securely to the cross
ties, and then waited while a through
train swept her into kingdom come.
The usual claim followed Next day
Watts went on q hunt for Silly, found
him in swamp, and brought him to
jail.-Charleston wv. Va.) Gazette.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-10-24
Signs.
The melancholy days are here.
The signs are everywhere.

The melancholy days are here.
The signs are everywhere.
The woodland leaves are turning scar
And tiuttering through the air.
The cricket chirps its mournful lay
Beneath the window sill
The bucllwheat field is turning gray
Upon the distant hill.
A dreamy silence seems to spread
Der all the countryside.
The flowers that bloomed, alas, are dead,
Their petals scattered wide.
But cen without such signs as these
The hills immersed i'll haze,
The turning leaves upon the trees
We'd recognize the days.
For now the agile college "men,"
With hanks OF hair TO spare,
Are on the campuses again
And raising hades there.
They're hosting flags aud rushing canes
And also hazlng some,
And elsewhere showing that their brains
Continue out of plumb.
Cleveland Leader,
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-10-24
THE HEALTHY PALATE.


1t Does Not Crave Condiments, but the
Food Must Possess Flavor.
While perfectly sound and healthy
palate does not crave for condiments,
even prefers to do without them, yet
the majority of digestions require to be
humored and kept in order, and their
peculiarities must be studied. Dr. Brun-
ton says:
"Savory food causes the digestive
juices to be freely secreted. Well cooked
and palatable food is therefore more di-
gestible than the unpalatable If food
lacks SAVIOR, desire naturally arises to
supply 1t by condiments, not always
we'll selected or wholesome. "
AS commerce brought them within
reach Of the people condiments, in sim
pie or complicated forms, came greatly
into favor, and foreign spices were add
ed to the wild herbal growths of the
fields and hedges In our early history
the "spicery" was special department
Of the court and had its proper officers
In the fourteenth century spices were
both costly and rare, most of them COM
ing from the Levant Chaucer mentions
many by name-canella, macys, cloves
(cloves), grains of paradise, nutmegs
caraway and splkenard. The ancients
especially the Greeks and Romans in
the luxurious period of their history,
used condiments very freely.
An old English historian, referring
to the earlier Roman court, says, 1.-THE
best magistrates of Rome allowed but
the ninth day for the city and publick
business the rest for the country and
the sallet garden" From this it would
seem as though the education of taste
was accounted of some consequence in
those DAYS. -EXchange.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-10-24

The royal British antiquarian and
archaeological societies have lodged a
petition with Lord Salisbury protesting
against the peculiar form of prison la
Dor in Egypt since the khedive's peni-
tentiaries and jails have been under
English management. 1t seems that the
convicts, Of whom there are 300 in
the Jourah prison alone, are employed
in manufacturing bogus antiques, for
which there is reported to be large
market, especially in America. The pc
titioners declare that the forgeries are
so clever as to be scarcely distinguish
able from the real article. AS yet only
antiques of relatively small dimensions
have been produced, but the prison au-
thorities express the hope of being able
in course Of time to turn out full fledg-
ed mummies and sarcophagi. - New
York Tribune.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-10-24
Aggravation below Stairs.

Mrs. Greene-Really, think that
girls in domestic service have pretty
comfortable time of it.
One of Them-But we have our
trials, mum. Just as like as not, when
we have got bonnet or a gown that is
particularly becoming, first thing we
know our mistress comes out with
something exactly like it. Boston
Transcript
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-10-24
DIRECTORY Too Common

mo, we don't permit our names to
go in the directory, don't you know"
And why not?''
80 deuced common, don't you know.
Why, last yeah my name was sand
wiched in between a garbage collectah
and an alderman. It's fact, pom hon
ah. "-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-10-24
French billiard tables have

French billiard tables have six legs
instead of four, as in America. There
are no strings for marking; score is
kept by ohalking the figures on slate
set in the side Of the table or on a me-
chanical reckoner inserted in the same
place
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-10-24

A few days ago witnessed the aboli-
ton in Hungary of those public and
private lotteries which for nigh unto
800 years have been the curse of the
eastern half of the dual empire, as Of
so many other countries of the old
world, carrying riot, murder and ruin
in its train. England did away with
the system in 1926, France following
four years later, while in Germany a
strong movement now in progress has
the object of putting stop thereto.
But in Austria, Spain, Portugal and es-
pecially in Italy the people will not hear
of the abolition of their favorite and
national form of gambling, which finds
many defenders ON the ground that a
portion of the proceeds are devoted to
charity and that many philanthropic
institutions would be compelled to close
their doors were the lotteries to be dis
continued. The Hungarian government,
however, has turned ii deaf ear to all
these specious arguments, and the lot
terry system has now been finally and
definitely laid in the grave as far as the
Magyar kingdom is concerned.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-10-24

1t turns out that what has hitherto
been regarded as the widest suggestion
contained in Rider Haggard's novel
"King Solomon s Mines''-namely, the
existence in Kukuanaland of a mighty
treasure cave, the entrance of which
was protected by falling stone-con-
tains very distinct element Of truth.
The well known explorers Neale and
johnson, who have been exploring the
ruins of Zimbabye, have discovered the
existence of a great building, closed
with massive stone doors never yet
opened. They have been obliged to re-
turn to obtain supplies Of water and ex-
plosives and are once more on their way
to the supposed treasure house. 1t is
hardly probable that building con-
structed by adventurous miners Of thou
sands of years ago would be so protect
ed unless it were storehouse for some
kind of treasure. Within the next few
weeks the secret will be revealed.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-10-24

1t has been generally believed until
now that the barbarous practice of fog
ging has been abolished as a method of
punishment in the English army and
navy and that the cat o. nine tails is
altogether an obsolete institution. That
this idea is without foundation is shown
by the report of the terrible fogging to
which a seaman was subjected last
month on board the British man-of war
Penelope by order of her captain The
cruiser in question is stationed at Cape
Town, and news of the fogging has re-
Gently been received in London More
over, recent official returns go to show
that in the military prisons of the United
Kingdom there is an average of at
least two foggings week throughout
the entire year. Russia, which has an
infinitely greater reputation for bar
barity than England, has recently not
only prohibited fiogging by the govern
ment and provincial authorities as a
means of punishment, but has also de-
prived the village elders and the lead
ers of the peasant communities from
inficting corporal punishment upon
refractory fellow members.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-10-24

Nearly $500, 900 worth of artificial
Bowers are sold in London yearly.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-31
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.

City Assessors Office, City Hall, Room
No. IS.
Property owners or their agents are
hereby notified that the city assess
ment books for the rendition Of prop
erty, real and personal, for the fiscal
year commencing June 1, 1897, will be
open on the LIST day of June, 1897, until
July 31st, 1897. All persons concerned
in the above,are requested to come for
ward and render their property, sub
ject to taxation, to the undersigned as
required by law and city ordinances.
HARRY CUNNINGHAM,
5-29-S0t. City Assessor.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-31

Senator Tillman made holy show of
himself in the Senate chamber in his
senseless attack upon the committee to
whom the tariff bill had been commit
ted. His spread eagle charge amount
ed to. no more than the glittering gen.
eralities of the press reports, and he
chould not cite chapter or verse for
single insinuation that he made.
Chairman Aldrich's emphatic denial
of what Tillman insinuated, and the
failure of Tillman to respond to a d.
rect challenge to name a single mem
Der of the committee or any of it's acts
that justified the charge was really
dramatic. There is feeling that after
what Tillman has said there should
be an investigation. That would be
well, and If Tillman is right saddle the
proper nag, but If he is not and has at
tempted unnecessarily TO bring the
Senate into disrepute, then fasten the
responsibility on him and rail 1t.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-31
EXCURSION TRAINS.

Commencing Sunday, May 3Oth, the
S. A. & A. p. train for all points on
Boerne and Kerrville branch will leave
on Sundays at $3.50 a. M, and return
at p. m. Excursion tickets good
only on Sundays (up and back same
day. will be sold at one fare.
On all other days except Saturdays,
the train for all points on Kerrville
branch will leave San Antonio at 2:45
p. m.
On Saturdays, the Boerne and Kerr
vile train will leave at 4:30 p. m, this
will be great convenience to business
men who have their families spending
the summer among the mountains.
They can leave San Antonio at 4:30 D.
m. every Saturday and return Sunday
at p. m. or Monday morning at $50
a. m. 5-29-3t.