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The Chipley banner. (Chipley, Washington County, Fla.) 1893-1943, 1897-07-17

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The Chipley banner. (Chipley, Washington County, Fla.) 1893-1943, 1897-07-17
vE DONE WONDERS

Able to Do No work-Liver in
q Bad Condition.
oDHULL, N. Y.-"I was all run down
slth and hardly able to do any work.
q few chores. My liver was In . bad
Ion and my head sched constantly.
! been taking Hoods sarsaparilla and
low entirely well. have also taken
= Pills with benefit. These medicines
lone wonders for me-" H. J. MARLArT.
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vast fortune is small-very small, almost
nil.~~1et such is the strange case of DR..
L. E. lyman of Modesto.
Here is the one man who after toiling
some sixty five years, a whole lifetime, to
accumulate a fortune, and being success
ful to the extent that he is rated as a mil
lionaire, leaves wife. family and fortune
and IS mourned as one dead. Why he
should leave the fortune he had toiled so
long to accumulate and for nearly two
years hold no communication with his
lifelong friends has ever been a mystery.
The other day l had two hours talk
with him and the i'm preston he left was
that the whole story of his going can be
summed up in one word-Overse ensitive-
ness. He admitted this in our conversa-
ton, and his general department STAN ps
the statement as genuine. He is a man
short of stature, heavy set, and thoug b
his hair and beard are white he does not
look his eighty years. Many a nan of
sixty is not nearly as well preserved.
Most OF the time during our converse
ton he sat on the edge of his chair, with
his feet drawn close to the chair and
crossed, his hands folded in his lap. for
all the world like an atashed schoo!boy.
Once he unfolded his hands and spread
one on his knee. He caught me looking
at it-not the stare of rudeness, but only
a casual glance. He fused and Judged
with that hand, placed it at his side, then
on his knee again, back to his side, and
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Shark Shooting Sport

II is not often that globe-trotter settles
down to being a theatrical man, but J..
Charles Davis of the "Lost, Strayed or
Stolen" Company has had varied expert
ence covering the wilds of Africa and In
dla's Iungles. In chatting with a CALL
reporter the other evening Mr.. Davis
described very novel days out
ing given by the harbor master
of Port Louis, the metropolis of the
island of Mauritlus, to a party OF
travellers, this being one of the many ad-
ventures ne has had, numb ber of them
having been described in letters by him to
the Eastern press.
1--WE had been living quietly at the Ho-
tel de PEurope,' he said, awaiting orders
for some time until life began to hang
rather heavily on our hands We had
visited the grave of Paul and Virginia and
made the ascent of the celebrated Peter
Botte, the mountain of mirages, and were
reduced to the necessity of spending the
not afternoons stretched out in the long
chairs that stand invitingly along the
shady hooks of the broad veranda of the
hotel, when the major 1--WE had all
grown sufficiently acquainted with the
narbor master to call him the major')
Joined our party and suggested that we GO
on board Government steam launch and
go to the llghtship, just outside the har-
bor, spend the night there and enjoy a
mornings shark-shooting. Now, none of
Us had ever done any shark-shooting, al
though there were several very ardent
Nimrods in the party, but we hailed the
ajor as our preserver. The major prom
ised US rifle or two ana plenty OF ammu-
milton. 1 lngged out and cleaned up my
old "A Winchester. and by dinner time
everything was in readiness for our de-
parture. After the usual table d'hote
dinner we were soon steaming down the
beautiful harbor.
"a run of little under an hour brought us
alongside the lightship and we were soon
enjoying hearty welcome offered by the
captain of thar retired old sea wagon and
MS crew of three men and cook,
Grouped around the captain of the light
ship enjoying the balmy tropical land
breeze, we were soon waist deep in shark
stories. some OF them recounted with a
convincing air of truth, while others were
so truly wonderful as to require more salt
than was handy for their proper digestion.
We soon learned that Mauritius was the
most sharky spot upon the face of the
globe, and were told how the MaIabar
coolies would for few rupees dive over.
board outside the harbor and attack a
shark with no other weapon than a long
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had changed. A feeling of suspicion re-
garding me seemed to pervade the very
air. | surmised that every body was talk
ing about me-and they were. When old,
lifelong friends cut me it went to the very
quick.
II worried over my troubles, and the
chief one of them was that any one should
think me unjust. / lay awake night
after night thinking over my affairs. One
day came up to San Francisco on busi-
ness. l was in the city several days and
during that time l had perfect peace.
People who passed me on the street went
on their way without turning to look at
me as though l was monster or q curl
oslty. No one came to me to question me
as to my affairs or to bring me tales OF
what So-and- so had said about me. 1 had
perfect peace and it was such relief l
had thought of going away from the scenes
of my troubles and the feeling grew on
me. When l found what comfort, peace
and quietude there was in being by my
self I resolved to go away.
~ took with me sufficient funds to last
me the rest of my days. I didn't want
much, for nv wants are few and simple.
l had upward OF $4,000 in cash, and that
was enough TO keep me comfortably. In
Boston l made no particular effort to con-
day, attended theaters, lectures and
churches. l was thoroughly happy and
| contented. 1 never wrote to an acquaint T.
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"and as far as we can manage to have it
obeyed it is. But there seems to be a
fascination about free work always which
makes even many generally honest people
resort to subterfuge and actual deception
in order TO reap the benefits OF it. One of
our hardest tasks is to separate the sheep
from the goats IN this regard, and some
times we have rather unpleasant scenes
and experiences with persons who insist
that they have as much right to be
treated here as any one else, even if they
have money enough to employ a dentist
on salary the year around If they wish to.
1t is the same way at the Tree medical
clinics, you know" and he sighed again,
more heavily than before.
Two girls went by US, arm-in-arm,
critically observing as they walked an
upper set of artificial teeth, which seemed
to interest them greatly. One was TALL
and fair, with quite the most fascinating
dimp)e that L ever beheld; and tie other
was short, plump and altogether charm
ing. The other ten girl students were
scattered around in the different rooms
and they were every one of them pleasin q
of face, gentle of manner and dead in
earnest about mastering the mysteries of
their chosen profession. The men," they
told me. had become quite reconciled to
their presence there, and the current of
their college life flowed on most smoothly
and pleasantly. One thing, however, was
trifie vexing, and that was the prefer
ence shown by the average patient for
having his or her work done by masculine
hands.
''The general public has not yet learned
to trust US in such matters" said one calm
eyed young goddess of the forceps; "but
time will change all that. Meanwhile we
are all trying to make the most of our op-
portunities and leave good record to
help our successors along"
made tour of all the rooms and be-
came convinced that here all of the many
different styles of dentiste known to a
suffering public are being, as it were, in.
cubated. The purring and consolatory
ones, the experimental ones who make
jabs and dabs at their victims and then
stand off to note the effect, the hard.
hearted ones who apparently take a saw
age delight in their avocation, especially
in working the treadle of a certain in
fernal machine with which it is their Gus
tom to bore artesian wells in ones molars
bicus pids and inclsors, are all to be found
here in the shell ,as are the altogether lovely
ones who are fated TO be the fashion
able" dentists OF the future, aud depart.
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which made my sympathetic blood we'll
nigh run cold. A noise which sounded
for all the world like the vigorous and
emphatic remonstrance OF a healthy but
homesick and hungry calf against exist
ing conditions in his especial environment
was diagnosed for me by nv chevalier of
the moment as being a masculine express
sion IF an unpleasing consciousness of
physical pain, while succession OF small
staccato shrieks, which rent the air like
the explosion of half dozen firecrackers,
emanated from portly elderly lady who
was declared TO be far more scared than
hurt"
1--WE have to get used to the howling,"
was the serene comment" but it bre ks
some of rs up pretty badly at first. The
curious thing is that those who make the
most fuss are generally the ones who are
suffering the least. I've seen little slen-
der woman sit down and have sixteen
teeth taken out, one after the other some
OF them bad ones to handle, too. and not
make ghost of 4 sound; and I've heard
great, strong. hearty people scream bloody
murder before we even get grip on
them"
l had kept sharp though furtive eve
on the would be patients all along. but so
far had not seen any 10 fulfill my friends
promise as to astonishment, save, per-
haps, the number of people who were
willing TO take the risk of unguaranteed
work and immediate themselves upon the
altar OF dental education.
The next opening of the elevator
door, however, was perfectly satisfactory
in that regard. for l beheld two ladies
whom 1 know to be dizzily far above the
necessity OF applying for free treatment"
or help OF any kind move majesticaly to
seats upon the hard benches. They wer
dressed down" for the occasion, but one
of them wore two fine solitaire diamond
rings with the telltsle stones adorning
the soft palm of her hand. and the other
l had last seen riding with an exalted
countenance in a luxurious Carriage In the
park.
Later young lady-a thing of beauty
in a fawn-colored broadcloth suit and a
white velvet hat burdened with many
dead birds of snowy piumage and orna-
mented with floating bird-of-par ad ise
featheis-took her place. as one who had
a right there, upon the anxious seat"
AT her / could stare openly and could
comment upon her freely. since no bond
of even slight acquaintance fettered nv
tongue.
~ thought that this was simply and
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finally cautiously tucked it under his
conceal toy. Not until we had engaged
earnestly in conversation and ths Incl
dental glance had. been forgotten did he
remove that hand from its hiding-place.
Fifteen years ago, when he was 65, he
gave up active practice as a physician.
He had large clientele at Modesto aud
in the surrounding country, and enjoyed
good income. Unexpectedly one day he
announced that he would practice medi-
cine no more. He was vet in good health,
active and strong. The reason he gives
for his retiring brings out the chief trait
of the mans mental makeup. Modesto
had grown in population, and young ply
sicians had come to the new city. Some
one remarked within the hearing of Dr.
lyman that as he was wealthy
he ought to retire and give the
young men chance. To use DR..
Tynan's own words: That was more
than l could bear. / couldn't stand il to
have people think that l was greedy. l
thought it over that afternoon and lay
awake all night worrying about it. Next
day l went around town and told every
body that l would practice medicine no
more. That night Ienioyed the repose
that comes with a clear conscience. l re-
dropped these | did not give up my
practice without regrets. / assure you, for
l yet love my profession, but it hurt me
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most to have people think that 1 wa.
greedy and depTiving younger men of an
income that l did not need"
DR.. lyman has never before tod the
full story of why he so suddenly went
away and left the large fortune tha the
had tried so long to accumulate. Many
theories have been advanced and it has
been stated he had said that when he died
a pal per would be found explaining the
case fully. This he denies, as he now says
there is nothing more to tell than what
he now makes public. His story, as he
related it to me, is as follows:
II was hurt to think the daughters
whom l had raised as my own, given
every advantage in a social and educa-
blood, l was hurt, say, to think that
they should turn against me and saw
harsh, cruel things of me. Sometimes s
old peighbers passed me by with only a
half-hearty nod, so different from forme er
times. Men gathered IN groups talking
earnestly, only to be silent when l ap-
preached. The notoriety which the news
papers gave the case when my step
daughters entered suit against me and the
many untrue stories that were told of me
all hurt my feelings and all tended to
make me feel that l did not know who
was my friend and who was not.
In order that the public NAV under
stand how deeply these things affect me
it is necessary to review my life. 1 had
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seen Modesto grow from settlement to a
city. l knew each family intimately, and
as in the early days was the only physi-
clan in that section l naturally attended
them in sickness; people made me their
contidant and l knew the ins and outs OF
the affairs of the whole settlement. As
families came in l became quite as well
known to them and they TO me. And
thus it went on year after year. 1t was
spect and con fdence OF the whole CON-
munity. l had always lived q life of
peace and quietude.
"My stepdaughters l had known from
infancy. In fact, I was the attendant
physician at their birth. When the elder
was two and a half years old her father
died of consumption. had attended him
all through his illness. A little over one
year after his death married the widow.
The girls grew up to love. and, in fact. re-
gard me as their father, as they knew
no other. 1 took pride in their love and
mother having died l married again.
Strangers counseled my stepdaughters and
they brought suit at law for a division OF
the property. Whatever excuse they may
have offered, I could not help feeling that
they had forgotten me as father and
only wished me out of the way. 1t seemed
to me that they were in hurry for me to
die and had got tired waiting. When the
lawsuit had begun l felt that everyth thin e
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against the walls in graceful attitudes
and gazed abstractedly at what seemed to
be bits OF bone and flesh; they hovered d
over hapless victims who lay gagged and
helpless in their inquisitional chairs as
buzzards hover over the fshtraps in the
James River. And through it all they
smiled. All, me; how they did smile
That is, most of them did-.elf- conf
dently and dazZlinglv. Indeed, so al
most universal was this Mr.. Carker-like
expression that the few who preserved a
grave and serious countenance when en-
gagged in conversation laid themselves
liable-no doubt unjustly-to the sus-
plcion that they had private convictions
that the condition of their own teeth was
not what it should be.
One OF the oung gentlemen after a time
came and sat down by me and inquired
tenderJy as TO my dental ailment. He
was pleasing youth in manner, and what
little OF his countenance l could see over
the high collar which fenced him away
from the world at large, and with which
he was trying, for reasons best known to
himself, to amputate his ears, was fair to
look upon.
He seemed for the moment disappointed
when he learned that had come to OBJ
serve and not to suffer, for his educated
eye had taken note of a.sma dark spot on
one of my teeth, of which he disap-
proved, and at which he gazed with en-
barrassing directness and interest
throughout our otherwise delightful inter
view. From him / learned many things.
for he was perfect ency clcpedia of infor-
nation concerning the college and its
work Had l wished IL / have no doubt
that he could and would have given me a
verbal list OF every student and professor
who had ever studied or taught in this de-
partment of the university, every opera
ton performed there and the amount of
material of different kinds used IN the
renovation of mouths since its foundation.
While We talked Q trying Intellectually
the while to rise above the consciousness
of my offending bicuspid) noticed that
persons who had preceded me were de-
parting into the various operating rooms
and that their places were being filled by
newcomers. The manner of their ia king.
off was comically suggestive of the initial
steps of fashionable german, for before
the row of femininlty sitting in patient
expectance with their backs against the
all various gallant young gentlemen ap-
peared, and, apparently selecting their
partners, bore them off in triumph. Oc-
casionally small retinues of sympathetic
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thin -bladed knife. So expert do these
black fellows become that when a shark is
sighted they will 60 over board. diving as
deeply as possible, while the shark will
turn and hover above them. They come
up Immediately under the creature and
with one skillfuI stroke usually com.
pIeteIy disem bowel it.
"a comfortable nights sleep in the
roomy but rather hard hunks, an early
call ana cup OF black coffee brought us
on Geek with the first gray of the morn
ing. Then our attention was attracted to
shore-sloop towing the carcass of a dead
horse down past the lightship. This was
carefully anchored about fifty yards from
US, and the little sloop filled away and got
out OF range, and wo were drawn up be-
hind oulwarks watching for an opportu.
nlty TO get In the first shot. After waiting
for some time we were called to attention
by remark, There's one! from the
major, and We saw the knife-like fin cut
ting through the water in the vicinity of
our decoy, and knew from the size of it
that there was an unusually large shark
underneath it. 1t sailed carefully around
the bait, and was soon Joined by another
and yet another, and in the course of fif-
teen minutes the outlines OF at least a
dozen of the tigers of the deep could be
seen circling round as though afraid to
make an attack. We were all anxious
for shot, but were restrained by the
major, until finally one fish bolder than
the rest gave a quick turn over on his
back, made rush at the horse and was
soon tugging at the side of the dead ami.
NAL.
Every time you see flash of white,
it's the belly of shark; shoot at it, said
the major, and we did until the bow Of
the old lightship almost disappeared in
smoke.
"The major was shooting an old-fash-
ioned Martini rife with a long bottle
cartrldge-one of the kind that will kick
you over and kick at you after you are
down. Wherever bullet would strike
shark thin red streak would indicate the
spot, and it was very short time before
the monsters become so enraged with the
sight of their own blood that they began
tearing at each other like pack of wolves.
and the water Immediately around our
bait was literally boiling with struggling
fish. This was kept up for over an hour,
when we became tired of shooting at the
seething mass. as well as short of ammu-
milton. 1t was doubtful whether any
single shot killed n shark, but our fusi-
lade caused terrific battle and many
were slain"
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stamp of that "gentility without ability
which Is more hopeless and far harder TO
bear than downright candid poverty.
Two or three pleasant-looking, modestly
gowned young women were among
the would be Subjects" and near me
sat two girls chatting volubly in an
undertone, with the evident intent to
keep up the spirits of The one who in
formed me that one of her teeth had been
''drivin' her near distracted for three
days." and she was 'goin' to have it out
now or BUST"
OF the three individuals of the sterner
sex who sat clannishly together on the
farthest bench one had a handkerchief
swathing his jaw and tied in hard knot
with little wings to it on the top of his
head. He glared at the world at large out
OF eyes of unequal size, one Of his cheeks
having developed plumpness which was
not at all becoming to his style OF beauty,
and was at no pains to conceal the fact
that he had an extremely poor opinion OF
everything and every body in his imme-
diate vicinity
Through various open doors L could see
The interiors of a number OF large light
rooms, some of them furnished with luXu-
rlously cushioned chairs, gigantic cuspi-
dores and tall and slender iigsaw arrange
ments; others with benches and work
tables fenced off into sections and laden
| with all manner of i'm plements, machinery
and materials used for the correction and
proper government OF those trou ublesome
attachments to the human jaw which
cause their owners SO much of gratuitous
misery, and for the cunning coun terfeit-
ing thereof after they have ceased from
troubling and their owners are at rest.
One apartment looked like a veritable
"ltches. cave, for in it weird blue and
green names were shooting up mysteri-
ously and uncannily here and there, and
three-legged caldrons were sending up
volumes OF white steam into the surround
ing atmosphere, while jaws and teeth,
com olned and separate, lay about in
ghastiy confusion or were being handed
from one 10 the other OF the busy occu-
pants OF the place and gazed at by them
! WITH apparently ghoulish interest
AS Tor students-they were everywhere.
lime was when i, looking upon the den-
tlsts profession, as l do personally. as lis
tinctly unpleasant and undesirable, won
dered how people enough could be found
| 10 step into the shoes OF those whom time
compels TO lay aside their files and their
scrapers, their borers and their iorceps,
and give up torturing poor humanity for
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ance and l was so glad to get away from
the notorlety l had gained that did not
even get San Francisco paper.
when John Slater found me | was
more than grieved. dreaded the ordeal
knew should have to go through.
did not want to go home, until they told
me that / was dead when l wasn't. That
was wrong thing to say about man
who was alive and in the best OF health
l concluded l would let them know | was
not dead. After Iwas once discovered in
Boston there was no more rest for me
there than in California. | knew that,
and people there were just as curious
about me as out here, and again that be-
ing dead business worried me. wanted
to rectify that, so 1 returned. Yes, / am
glad l came back, but l would much
rather have escaped all this notoriety.
Yes, have thought of leaving paper
to be read after my death, telling why I
went away, but truly there is nothing
moro to tell than what 1 have related to
you, only l thought if the case was fully
explained people after my death might
believe as simple a story, when now they
think there must have been some my stery
about 1t. What I can't understand is
in any way.
mo, l am not q millionaire. I have
been to considerable expense of late years,
but still have 5000 acres of land, mostly
under cultivation, at Modesto, and I own
seventy-tive city lots, many of them the
most valuable in Modesto. NV friends
through their kindness, hurt nv feelings
very much when they named the hotel
down there the lyman House. had in
tended calling it the Commercial House,
but before it was ompleted nv friends
got together and concluded it ought to be
named the lyman House, and it became
known as that before 1 knew what was
going on. didn't like to hurt their feel.
ings by not adopting the name they had
christened it. but they hurt me by their
action. Even if they did it was not right
for me to hurt back. Now was it1''
What other answer than ''no'' was there
to give to such a question: When the
sensitive child commits suicide-and
children have been known to do SO be-
cause they felt themselves uniustly treated
lis 1t not quite as reasonable that the sem
sitive man should commit social suicide by
separating himself from all acquaintances
for the same reason? To have the good
name which he had guarded carefully for
three score years toyed with by friend and
stranger was more than DR.. lyman could
stand. The selfish man can never under
stand DR.. Tynan's case; only the man
himself sensitive can. AWARD ]. MOORE.