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cANAIokEE IN TANNING.
r.v Mexico sourdock Root May Change III
whole Industry,


In tanning hides. the sooner natural
decay. which begins with the death OF
an animal, can be arrested the better
will he the leather. A hide Is heavily
sailed and sent to q tannery where il
Is Immersed In water, that particles 0.
flesh adherIng to the inner side may be
scraped away. 1t Is then soaked in
lime water twelve hours to remove
fine hair. After being secured and
denIlated by a machine It is ready for
the tanning fluid. 1t has been neCes.
sary to let il lie In bark solution for
three months. being moved, drained
and manipulated many times during
the process. II the solution OF tan
bark is too strong the hide may be de.
stroyed. For young scientists have ex.
perimeuted with different substances
hoping TO shorten the time Necessary
for the perfect preparation Of hides.
Recently IL has been found that ca.
naigre. or sOurdock, possesses proper.
ties which show that 1t Is indicated
nv nature for preserving purposes. Il
is imposslble to burn leather in its So
IutiOn. The cells of hide will absorb
enough to tan 1t in twelve hours and
will take no more. In n few hours
varying with the substance TO be
treated, the tannic acid in the canaigre
will have done its work, saving three
months time and a deal Of labor. The
cost Of planting, cultivating, irrigating
and harvesting an acre Of canaigre is
estimated at $16.5O. The yield is from
twelve to twenty tons an acre on new
land and rises with cultivation. The
returns vary from $50 to SO per ton.
sliced. Drying shrinks the product
two-thirds. but 1t Is said that the pro
Queer can count on clear gain Of 500
per acre.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
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Appetite.

appetite is entirely distinct from
hunger. which may be painful in its
extent; il is Natures intimation that
something is needed to supply the place
Of that which has been used or taken
away. Every motion of the body.
every thought of the mind. wears away
and uses up some particles Of the It's
sues, and unless other particles are
supplied in their place the parts would
be worn out and lose their strength
and the system would cease to worn.
Appetite Is in the nature Of instinct, a
faithful monitor, which will not cease
its admonitions until the want is sup
piled. until something has been eaten
The best and most healthy appetite is
that which inclines US TO eat in moder-
alton when the regular time for eating
comes. II the appetite is voracious
day after day it is the appetite Of dis
ease, and instead Of gratifying it free
ly We should curb II. The easiest way
to CORRECT such a yoracious appetite
as is sometimes connected with dys-
pepsia, is to take half as much as usual.
eat it slowly, and in half an hour you
feel that you are not hungry at all and
had eaten enough. Persistence in this
method will in a reasonable time break
up the voraciousness unless some 9TH
er cause than dyspepsia is at the root
of IL.
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the only person they had murdered. bur
that an Italian peddler. whose name
they did not know, had been killed and
robbed about two years ago, and his
body thrown in an old abandoned min
ing shaft about forty yards from the
StafHeback house. At that time Mrs.
Charles Wilson, mother Of the Stat
fieback boys, kept a questionable re-
sort in the four-room log cabin where
these crimes were committed. TWO
girls whose names George StafflebacE
could not give, were living there at the
time, and saw the peddler murdered.
They were threatened with dire ven
geance IL they should ever reveal what
they saw. A few nights later one o..
the women Quarreled with Mike Stat
heback and threatened to leave the
house. Fearing she would betray him
he seized her by the throat and choked
her to death in the presence Of Ed Stat
fieback and the other woman. The lat
ter attempted to save the girl from
Mikes murderous clutches. when &c
crushed her skull with a six-shocter
The dead bodies were then wrapped il
sheet and put under the bed until
late at night, when they were thrown
into the same shaft where the peddler's
body had been dumped. Then a lot OF
loose earth and rocks were thrown into
the shaft to keep them from corning
to the surface, as Galbreath's body hal
done. Cora Staheback was taken &c
Galena and pointed out the shaft where
the bodies were thrown. A steam pump
was put to work and the water pumped
out of the shafts near the Staheoack
house. From one Of the shafts a pair
OF mems drawers with particles Of rot
ting human flesh adhering to them
were fished. and a piece OF a woman's
waist was also found there.
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FOSSIL IVORY IN ALASKA.
stories OF Miners That Sound Like
Romauces.

Romances.
II was quite the result OF accloeh'
that what may be called the last nome
Of the mammoths-for We can haruy
credit the Indian tales of live specimens
became known TO a white man, says
the Pail Mall Gazette. The redskins Oh
Kwaquihuilette, a village on the 1u-
kon river. have long known OF the spot
but of the value Of the ivory have peer
totally ignorant. They are silent men
those redskins, except when liquor Il
in them, and it required long residence
among them before a miner nameo
George Hughes heard Of the treasure
trove and its whereabouts. Illness KEPT
this man a prisoner at kwaquinulletU
a year or two ago. AS he recovered lac
began to learn many Of the Indian
ways and partially mastered the Ian
guage of the particular tribe he was
with. His attention was attracted &c
the ivory ornaments the natives wore
and he noticed that even their rude
dining articles were made Of the same
material. He induced the Indians &c
show him the place whence came the
ivory. 1t took several days hard
sleighing to reach the spot. But the
reward was worth the work. The miner
saw what no white man had ever be-
fore witnessed. There on this plain
frozen to the ground. were hundreds
and hundreds of skeletons Of gigantic
beasts, and scattered everywhere were
the tusks white and cleaning with
frost. This was undoubtedly a grave
yard OF mammoths, and the miners
fancy pictured IL also as a battlefield
for in some instances the tusks Of one
animal were found buried in the skele-
ton Of another. But this is not the only
place where the ivory has been found
One miner on Sixty-Mile Creek found
a tusk Of a mammoth that projected
seven feet out OF a bank. The lower
end was buried in frozen soil. Yet an
other came across a tusk he could
scarcely lift, while a third who came
down from Klondike the other day
told Of a mammoth tusk found close tc
is, perhaps, not strange that no one has
brought down any Of this ivory, but
some Of the adventurous men out OF
the thousands who have gone to the
arctic gold ields will perhaps return
with tusks. 1t is not much to be ex-
pected. however, as the more ivory one
carries the less gold one can bring
down, and, besides, these miners may
have been romancing. That is hardly
to be believed. however. seeing thai
several who had no connection with
each other told of tusks.
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Hangs to HIS Job.

The city Of San Luis Potosi is builc-
ing hall that will be the eighth won
der of the world. II has cost millions
and will cost millions more. Seven
years ago a dozen skilled stone masons
from Pennsylvania were imported to do
the ornamental carving Of its front
One Fourth Of July a number Of the
party got drunk and killed a Mexican
In a bar room brawl His companions,
in the language of Gen. Crook, ''roso
like a flock Of quail and Lit running"
He was tried and condemned tn be
shot. Then arose the certainty that
with him in the grave there was no
one to do the fancy carving on the city
hall. It was decided to keep him at
work and shoot him when he had I'm
ished. Every day. in summers shine
and winters snow, this workman hangs
like ny against the great white wall
and pecks away at gargoyles and grif-
fms heads. A file Of soldiers stands
in the street looking up al him. His
life ends with his job, and they say that
he is the most deliberate workman ever
in the Mexican republic or any other
republic. At the present rate of prog
ress, according to the best obtainable
calculations. the front of the city hall
viii be sufficiently seroIIed and carved
about the middle Of 1850.
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that was intended for the poor. II Is
the opinion Of the police that Stelz.
after discovering the thieves in the
church. started to run toward the front
door, with a view Of locking them in.
Before he could gain the stairway one
Of the men dealt him a blow on the
head and then as he ran up the steps
he was dealt repeated blows When
he reached the yestibule he attempted
to protect himself. and here he was
beaten into insensibility, falling on the
stairway as before described.
mo murderer could be tempted TO
commit such a crime for so small a
sum as is usually found in the poo.
boxes OF the church." said one OF the
detectives. There is never more than
$50 in the six boxes all told. That
murder was not committed for lust or
gain; 1t was committed to conceal a
crime"
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A MISSIONARY MEDICINE.

Cleanliness begins within IA man isn't
clean inside, he is far from GoillneSs. A
constipated sinner is q stencil In the nostrlls
Of the Deity. A man whose food sours in
his stomach. and whose liver is leaden,
can't help looking at the world hatefully
with jaundiced eye, and conjuring up evil
thoughts in his tortured brain. Cleanli-
ness Of person begets cleanliness Of thought
Cascarets, Candy Cnthartic are the mis-
sionary medicine which purifies mems
bodies and minds. Pure, fragrant, paa-
table, mild and positive. they clean out the
intestinal canal stimulate the liver and
strengthen the bowels. Then a man enjoys
again feeling OF charity and brOtherly love
for his fellows and recommends Others 70
take Cascarets and be as happy as he.
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FOUND.

ment The finger marks on the mans
throat would indicate that diff
ferent sized fingers had crushed the
bones.
OF the six money boxes in the church
only one had been tempered with. This
stood in the cellar directly between
two big iron doors, and over the sta
tue of an angel which guards the tomb
of Father John May and Father John
Raffeiner. Within ten feet Of this
statue stands the statue Of another an
gel, and between the two figures Is a
prayer bench. One Of these angels
and the bench had been used by the
thieves as a means by which they could
climb to the box and break It open. The
bench was placed across the head Of
the angel. Then one Of the men,
standing upon It, broke open the box
with a chisel and took out the money
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In an address at Ashfeld, Massachu-

In an address at Ashfeld, Massachu-
sets, Prof. Charles Eliot Norton Of
Harvard University considered the
Village hoodlum" and the means for
his suppression. The village hood
lum" makes himself more conspicuous
than the "city tough" When he be-
comes sufficiently depraved to enjoy his
bad eminence he is q more demorali-
King figure than his city cousin Of the
same tendencies, and he is more dan
gerous to society inasmuch as the OH
GERS Of the law In rural communities
are generally less efficient than IN cit
les. As a means of suppressing the
village hoodlum." Professor Norton
suggested the organization Of a body
Of law-abiding citizens in each village
or township to give definite support TO
the constituted authorities In suppress
sing lawlessness in all its stages. BY.
this it is evident from other paris the
address the speaker meant particularly
the suppression of petty acts Of law
lessness by youngsters who are the
children Of neglectful parents and who
have in them the material Of which
fnIl-1edged village hoodlums" are
made.
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According to reliable statisticians,
since 1873 there have been cut in Mich
igan, Wisconsin and Minnesota alone.
154. O0o, OOO, 900 feet of lumber, board
measure, besides $4,000, OOO, 900 shingles
and in the last three-fourths Of that
period about 100000, OOO. 900 feet, TAX
ing the whole country together. New
York and Pennsylvania have, next to
the three states Just mentioned, large
quantities Of standing coniferous tim
Der, and the amount left in the north
ern states is estimated at about 10O.-
600, 000, 900 feet, or half as much as has
been cut since about 1879. in the whole
country, and yet there are persons who
profess to see no reason for national
forest protection and forest reserves.
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Dead Lover Haunts Her.

Lulu Clark. with a bullet wound
through her lungs, sees visions. Be-
side her cot at the St Louis hospital
rises the shadow Of bleeding man. a
gaping wound in his forehead and a
look of unutterable reproach in his
glazing eyes. 1t is the memory Of Ar
thur Hanley, who killed himself on
her account Lulu Clark was danger
ously shot in a quarrel with John DAILY
one Of the prize fighting brothers Of
that name.
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MURDER AS A TRADE.
Kansas Has n Rival for the Bende
Family.

Aansas Has Rival Tor the Denoef
Family.
Not since the horrible crimes OF the
Bender family were revealed has south
eastern Kansas been so excited and So
bent upon vengeance until the bloody
butcheries committed by the Stafflebac!i
family at Galena were brought to light
by the recent confession Of Cora Stat
feback and George Stafieback on the
witness stand at Columbus. When upon
trial for the murder Of Frank Gal
breath, whose body was found floating
in an old abandoned mining shaft near
the Stafieback home last July, Cora
Stafieback weakened and told all she
knew about the murder Of GalbreatE
and others whom the family had killed.
George Stafieback. Cora's husband.
without knowing what his wife had
revealed, made a similar confession.
They said that Galbreath, who had
been murdered and robbed by the Stat
feback boys and their mother, was not
The broad ax., 1897-11-20

While the state legislatures OF this
country have been coping with MILL
merry matters in the way Of theatre
hats and feather trimmings the French
government has recommended that its
horses be put into sunbonncts. The
straw manufacturers have been doing
a large business in consequence, and
summer mortality among horses has
largely decreased. The amusement
awakened in the beholder at this odd
gear is but an echo of that a century
ago when men first appeared carrying
umbrellas.
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It is painful to read in the New York
Evening Post (owned in England) day
after day that the people Of Europe
look with unutterable scorn upon ev-
erything the people OF this country do,
themselves or through their represen-
tatives, and with ELUSIVE affection up
on. everything they unhappily omit;
and the more so because the only pos
sible remedy is the impossible one Of
Immediately dying in the vain hope Of
getting themselves born again in some
Of the many European styles all Of
which are the only orthodox things.
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Weyler said some time ago that the
case against Evangelina Cisnoras was
in its preliminary stages. At that time
the young lady had been in Jail eleven
mcaths, the companion of vicious wom-
en-, half starved, and subject to the ut
most degradation. There is enough in
these facts to warrant the interference
Of every government and every man
and woman having respect for common
decency. Assassination and worse out
RACES are not war.
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Roller steamer Launched

The great roller steamer, Of which 80
much has been written. a vessel which
its inventor promises is to revolution
lie ocean travel, do away with seasick-
ness and make the voyage from New
York to Queenstown in two days at
the most. was launched at Polson's
shipyard In Toronto Thursday. The
shell Is tubular affair 100 feet long
and IS feet in diameter. It has been
illustrated In the Blade.
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That Depended.

A good Highland minister was en-.
deavoring to steer a boatload Of city
young ladies to a landing place. A
squall was bursting; the steering was
difficult. One Of the girls annoyed him
by jumping up and calling anxiously
"Oh, where are we going to-" "If you
do not sit down and keep still, my
young Teddy" said the minister-pilot
succinctly. that will vera greatly de-
pend on how you were brought up"
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hamsburg?"
George Stelz, assistant sexton Of Ho-
ly Trinity church, Montrode and Ora
ham avenues, Williamsburg, New York
city, was murdered Sunday night by
persons who knew the church. who
knew the people in the neighborhood
Of the church. and who knew the
murdered man and his habits. In fact,
as the investigation continues, II is
shown that he was not murdered for
the money in the poor box, but for the
purpose Of concealing the tracks Of the
men who were caught robbing these
boxes. That they were desperate in
concealing their tracks is borne out by
the fact that after beating Stelz into
insensibility they fell upon him and
choked him so that the bones OF his
neck were broken and his windpipe
was punctured.
That they knew the church is evident
by their finding their way to the poor
boxes in the vault under the vestibule.
To get to these boxes without passing
through the big iron gates, which are
ASPN SOA5NoAAAe AONhCAs JIG AoS " pas
through winding passages that are
known to only a few of the parishion-
ers.
Blood spots on the stairways, in the
vestibule and on the walls OF the vesti-
bule show plainly how and where the
murder was committed. Il was Stelz's
custom to sound the Angelus at Z
o'clock in the evening. He went to the
belfry as usual on Sunday evening.
leaving the center doors Of the church
unlocked and carrying the bunch Of
keys, which were afterward found lying
by the side of the dead body. in his
hand. The bells were heard tolling for
descended into the vestibule.
No more OF his movements can be
traced. except for the blood spots. 1t
is supposed that he had descended to
the vestibule and was preparing to
lock up the church for the night, when
he heard a noise in the cellar and went
to investigate. Then he saw the two
thieves breaking open the lower end Of
the poor box, which ran through from
the church door.
The first spot of blood was found on
the cellar floor, showing that he had
been struck there. Then there were
blood spots leading all the way up the
stairs to the vestibule. Here there
were signs of struggle. At the height
Of a mans head blood was smeared on
the walls. There were blood prints Of
n mans hand on the floor. as IL the
murdered mans head had struck
there.
On the stairway leading to the second
floor there was a pool Of clotted
blood. extending to the third step, and
On the fourth step there were prints Of
two bloody hands. 1t was here that
Stelz fell unconscious. II was here
that he was choked to death.
Undoubtedly there were two men
concerned in the murder of the sexton.
The appearance of the dead mans head
shows that more than two hands dealt
the blows which felled him into insen-
sitility. Both a sharp and blunt in
strument were used in the assault
There was one wound between the eyes
and one at the back Of the head Just at
the base of the skull. The wound in
front of the head was made by a sharp
instrument, while that in the back was
made by a blunt instrument. II II be
that the murder was done by a single
person then the weapon was both blunt
and sharp.
Then there were four other wounds
in the back and top Of the head which
were not made with the same instru-
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A SHIPS STEWARD.
GREAT MAN, INDEED. IN HIS
OWN ESTIMATION.
Relations with Passengers-HIs Little
cubby where Everything Il Neat and
Secured In orderivsArrangenent-Ths
Pea of the Ladies'.

HE steward Is a
very great man, in
the sailing world, /
mean, and l fancy
he maintains his
prestige in the cir
Giles he frequents
ashore. On a sail
ing vessel his posi-
ton is unique and
important and his
self-esteem and car
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sin forward, which is the only piAes
where any form Of society exists on :
merchant ship. and. II ne VIII. ne %.
retail many a bit Of local color "ne"
other interests are scarce.
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Somebody dropped $1,000 in Mag
ara Falls hotel the other day and for
got to return for it. Don't worry;
some hackman, IL he notices his loss,
viii stroll in and claim the money one
Of these days when he isn't busy.
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H E unanswered
question In and
around Shepherd.
Mich, is "Who
murdered Elmer {.
Struble. cashier OF
he arm ers'
bank?" The I'M
solved enigma in
New York city is,
Who killed George
Stelz. the assistant
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Burglar alarms can now be attached
to bicycles. The device consists of
bell surrounding a clock mechanism.
which Is fastened to the frame. A lever
projects in line with the spokes IN the
back wheels. to sound the alarm when
the wheel q moTsA
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Those Andree pigeons showed re-
markable discretion in landing in the
Indiana gas belt just at a time when
other news was mighty scarce and the
correspondents were Starving.
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DONE IN A CHURCH.
THIEVES RIFLE THE POOR BOX
AND KILL THE SEXTON.

The Police Say That the Sexton Knew
the Thieves aud They Killed Him 20
Conceal the Crims-A Bloody Hand
print
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A Preffr P.I.

cholly-"why do you wear bloom
crs?"
right"
choIly--How's your Ieft?"
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According to Lord Tweedmouth. the ares
Of the herring nets used in Scotland one yea
The broad ax., 1897-11-20

s.ROokkeepers seldom get 4 day o."
THAT'S 50: their employers think they ge,
exercise enough running up and down thel
columns OF figures"
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called a phenomenon 'swhy?' "He caa
preach a funeral sermon and tell the truth
All the time"
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/ w GLEASON.

THAT Miss FItz-HObbs has an imme1sc
mouth" Hasn't she? That girl could cr1cE
cocOanuts with her teeth"
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State Of Ohio. City OF Toledo.
Lucas County,

IS.
Frank ] Cheney makes oath that he q
the senior partner Of the firm OF F. J.
Cheney & Co. doing business IN the Cly
OF Toledo County and State aforesaid.
and that said firm will pay the sum OF
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each
and every case Of Catarrh that cannot Be
cured by the use Of Halls Catarrh Cure.
FRANK ]. CHENEY.
Sworn TO before me and subscribed II
my presence, this 9Th day Of December,
A. ID. 1886.
(SeaD A. W. GLEASON,
Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally
and acts directly on the blood and mu-
cous surfaces OF the system. Send Tor
testimonials. free.
F. c. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. o.
Sold by Druggists. 75c-
Halls Family pills are the best
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TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Al
Druggists refund the money II IL fails to cure sc
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Entered at POstOaice as second-class matter
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-03-16

In the House of Commons recently
Mr.. Darling asked what power it was
that wanted to force the Dardanelles
last fall. Thereupon Mr.. Curzon of the
Foreign Office promptly replied that it
was not Great Britain and it was no
part of his duty to respond for other
powers. The supposition, say the CORE
SpondentS. was that Italy was the
guilty party. But the idea of Italy
originating, any such scheme is simply
absurd. II was we'll understood at the
time that if a signal had been given
it would have come from the English
flagship. But everybody is now in
haste to deny the charge that anybody
had anything to do with it. But in all
diplomatic circles it is well understood
that there was a plan and that concert
was agreed upon. Just why it was
abandoned has never been explained
and never may be- But whatever the
cause it is firmly believed that it is
still a cause Of irritation, and that it is
one reason why the European powers
find such difficulty now in agreeing
about anything affecting the integrity
of the Porte