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The news & observer., 1897-06-06
AT THE Y. M. C.. A.

The mems meeting today at 4:3O will
be an interesting one and should be we'll
attended. Mr.. j. X. Johnston, the speak
er, always has a good idea for men. All
men are welcome.
The wheel club is proving an attrac-
tion. The weekly run brings out about
a dozen riders. Arrangements for two
events are being made.
Next Tuesday night will bring to close
the regular class work in the gymnasium,
when the members will compete in an
all-round competition for silver and
bronze medal.
The shower baths come in for good
share of attention these hot days, espe-
cially after wheeling.
The news & observer., 1897-06-06
INDEX NEW SEMENTS

A. B. Stronach-The New-Only the
New.
w. III. & r. S. Tucker & Co.-Great
Dissolution Sale.
s. G.. Pool-I4adies' Oxford Ties.
George Stephens-Equitable Life AS
surance Society.
Sherwood, Higgs & Co.-Semi-Annual
Clearance Sale.
S. Il d. Berwanger-W Wash Suits.
Free Cure for Men.
Notice-A. G. Zollicoffer, Referee.
Notice-W. 3. Smith Administrator.
Notice-W. II. Tucker, Trustee.
The news & observer., 1897-06-06
AFRICANA
CURED GEORGE MINER OF
SCROFUL-A.

Greensboro, n. G.
Africana Co., Atlanta, Ga:
had been a great sufferer from Scrof-
ula for eight years. | had the best medi-
cal skill employed in my case-as many
as a half dozen physicians, first and last
with no signs of improvement, but grew
decidedly worse. Fortunately heard of
"AFRICANA" and tried it with the best
result possible. l am now entirely well,
and hearty and going to school every day.
heartily recommend "AFRICANA" to
all who have this dreadful disease.
GEORGE MINER.
The news & observer., 1897-06-06
WEATHER.

For North Carolina: Fair in western
portion; showers, followed by fair Sun
day afternoon in eastern portion; va
riable winds.
The news & observer., 1897-06-06
Swinging Into Line.

The Summer Holidays have come
The saddest of the year.
To read the above parodic effort one
might think the Grocery business was
going to the Bad man, but it is not so.
Mr.. Hervey says it would be impos-
sible to keep a double entry set of books
if he were expected to do so he counted
up forty-nine customers yesterday who
bought each a cake of yeast in the MORN
ing and a quart of strawberries in the
evening besides other charges, and charg-
es of Smithfield Hams, Culpepper Hams,
Old North Carolina Hams and Sides,
Ferris Hams and Strips, Star Hams and
other brands of hams, Old n. G. Roe
Herring, New n. @. Roe Herring in bar
rels, half-barrels, quarter-barrels and
kits, new Extra Shore Mackerel, Shad
Roe, Smoked Tongues, Whole Ok
Tongues, Lunch Tongues, Sea Turtle,
Baratavia Shrimp, Deviled Crab, Sal
mon Steaks, Star Lobster, Spiced Pigs
feet, Tripe, Sliced Beef, Corned Beef,
Shredded Goldfish, Boneless Chicken,
Richardson & Robbins Turkey, Chicken,
Tongue and Ham, French Sardines,
whole boxes, half boxes and quarter
boxes, Russian Smoked Sardines in Oil,
Olives, Olive Oil, Stuffed Mangoes (fin-
est pickle made), Crosse & Blackwelps
Pickles, Condiments Catsups and Sauces,
and greater than all in ''He No Tea,
mo iced drink equal to it); "Clover Hilp'
Butter, (true to name, freshest and
sweetesD; "High Art' Coffee, (In Aroma
and to the palate, perfection); "Roller
Champion" Flour, (whitest and sweetest
made).
The quality of our goods is especially
what we wish to call to your attention.
We sell everything as low as can be
afforded, and we fully warrant all goods
we recommend. Goods promptly deliv-
cred in city and depots.
w. C STRONACH g. SONS,
Wholesale and Retail Grocers.
The news & observer., 1897-06-06
WRITE FOR INFORMATION.
OFFICE AND LABORATORY 631b s.
BROAD STREET,
ATLANTA, G.

ATLANTA, GA.
For sale in Raleigh by J. Hal Bobbitt,.
Carolina Drug Company, Jas. McKim-
mon & Co., John S. Pescud, III. I. Hicks.
Robert Simpson, w. H. King & Co., and
James /. Johnson.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-12
THE MORNING NEWS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER Il. 1897

ward the devourer of its small friends.
Az il halted above the blanketfish. and
almost directly beneath my boat, l saw
that it held In its tremendous mouth
large rock. Just as l made this discov-
cry the Junehsh let the rock roll from its
mouth, and It fell with a dull thud, which
I could distinctly hear, directly upon the
liver-colored back of its enemy. The stone
must have weighed fifty pounds. and it
must have severed the vertebra of the
blanketnsh. for the latter gave fearful
jerk, and then for a little while its long
tail wiggled desperately and its horned
brow dug up the sand in clouds. When
its struggles ended l saw that it was dead
and almost covered with the sand 1t had
disturbed in its efforts to escape the rock.
When the water had cleared the big
Junefish came creeping again from behind
the wreck, and following 1t the residue of
the school Of the small fry which had ap-
parently been taken in charge of by their
big protector, Ascertaining beyond
doubt that the banketdsh had passed In
It's hshy checks. the Junedsh and the
small fry merrny gambolled above the
corpse of their antagonist, and there 1 left
them"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-12

among them before a miner, by name of
George Hughes, heard of the treasure
trove and its whereabouts. Illness kept
this man a prisoner at KWaquihuilette a
year or two ago. AS he recovered he be-
gan to learn many of the Indian ways,
and partially mastered the language of the
particular tribe he was with. His atten-
ton was attracted to the ivory ornaments
the natives wore, and he noticed that even
their rude dining articles were made of
the same material EIe induced the In
dans to show him the place whence came
this ivory. 1t took several days hard
selighing to reach the spot. But the work
was worth the reward. The miner saw
what no white man had ever before wit
messed. There on this plain frozen to the
ground, were hundreds and hundreds of
skeletons of gigantic beasts, and scattered
everywhere were tusks white and gleam-
ing with frost This was undoubtedly
graveyard of mammoths, and the miners
fancy pictured 1t also as a battlefield, for
in some instances the tusks of one animal
were found buried in the skeleton of an
other.
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 bank.
The lower end was buried in frozen soil.
Yet another came across tusk he could
scarcely lift, while 4 third, who came
down from Klondike the other day, told of
a mammoth tusk found close TO the al
ready famous Bonanza creek.
1t 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 fields will perhaps return with tusks.
1t is not much to be expected, however,
as the more ivory one carries the less gold
one can bring down, and, besides these
miners may have been romanc-ug. That
is hardly TO be believed. however, seeing
that several who had no connection with
each other told of tusks.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-12
NAPOLEON LETTERS SUPPRESSED.
Truth About the Action of the Com
rAissiOn of 1864.
From the London Daily News.

From the London Daily News
The remarkable discovery of some Of
the most interesting portions of Napol-
con Is correspondence by Mr.. Lecestre,
the curator of the French archives, has
opened up anew vexed historical ques-
ton. The editors of the so-called com
plete correspondence of Napoleon I, issued
in 1864 by command of Napoleon III, were
accused at the time with having tam
pered with the documents placed in their
hands. This charge was Indignantly re-
pudiated, and as it was at that time inn
possible of proof, and was moreover, set
down by the public to party motives, little
was heard about it. Some time ago in
dealing with the subject mentioned that
Napoleon's correspondence consisted of
Ga 900 numbers This was the figure ac-
knowledged by the 1864 commission. 1t
includes, however, minutes as well as or
iginals. Omitting the doubles, the number
of letters. orders and minutes signed by
Napoleon amounted to $1,000 or 5000. The
complete correspondence published in 1864
only gives 1900. 1t is therefore
certain that 10000 documents signed by
Napoleon had disappeared.
Mr.. Lecestre's discoveries, while re-
ducing the number to 5000, make us re-
gret all the more that the political dis
of the most important state papers of the
century. We now know that these price
less documents were wilfully destroyed in
1864. One of Napoleon HIS aides-de-
camp applied to the national archives for
forty-two minutes and letters, the list of
which he gave. Only ten of them were re-
turned. The others. imperial letters to
Fouche, to King Jerome of Westphalia
and the King of Holland were never seen
again, and they have probably been burn
ed. This anecdote shows how ready Ma
poleon III was to suppress documents
which might lessen his uncle's glory.
Another fact has just been brought to
light, namely, that in the complete CORE
spondence of 1864 not only letters were
suppressed, but in the case of certain let
ters that were published whole passages
were cut out inverted or even altered,
while names of persons were cut out on
the false excuse that they were illegible.
of Westphalia, asking this brother of
Napoleon to cut down his expenses, the
following passage was cut out by the ed
itors: Instead of purloining money from
the treasury for your prlvy purse, as you
have done this year." A French histo-
rian, Mr.. Raudot, complained in 1865 that
the commission of 1864 had suppressed
some OF Napoleon's letters, and had taken
liberties with others. The secretary of
the committee, Mr.. Rappetu, published an
indignant denial. What other govern
ment," said this truthful secretary,
would have given to posterity the inner
history of its acts and sentiments?''
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-12
A TRAGEDY ON THE SEA.
Described by n Seaman Who Says
Tie Was an Eyewitness.

From the st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Speaking about fish," said the retired
angler, who, seated with long and va
rled experience, told odd and wonderful
tales of fish and fishermen when seated
In some friendly cafe, zone of the oldest
things that ever came within my ken hap
pened several years ago on the South
Texas coast, in Corpus Christi bay and
since that time l firmly believe that even
fish are actuated at times by the most
commendable sentiments of frlendliness
and conservatism.
zone day when 1 was fishing from a
small boat some miles from the shore and
near an old wreck in the bay found that
the water was so clear that the fish were
able TO trace the line to the boat, and they
persistently refused to take the bait, real
izing the yanb at the end of It, Getting
tired at last of fishing and catching moth
ing, l bent my head over the side of the
dOry and watched the fish as they played
about the sandy bottom. The water was
about twelve feen deep, yet the bottom
was as clearly visible as If 1t had been
but two. While l watched the antics Of
the fish ! saw an immense hulk slowly
paddle within the radius of my vision. 1t
was great Junehsh, one of the sort that
eQauls in bulk Louisiana COW.
THE fish settled upon the sand direct
~ under the boat, and then to my amaze
ment il opened it's cavernous mouth and
out came several score of small fishes,
which began TO frolic in evident enjoy
ment. While they thus amused themselves
a shadow grew upon the bottom. and
made out the form of a very large blank
etfish stea.thily slipping toward the UNI
suspecting small fry. Suddenly they saw
the enemy and with mad rush the lot
made for the mouth of the big Junehsh
The latter, however, happened to be cos
ed upon a too Venturesome crab and did
not open to receive them quick eonugh
and the banketdsh swallowed
about dozen before the
crab disappeared within the nav
of the Junefsh. The depicted school
sought refuge in the mouth OF it's ele-
phantine protector. ana, with a sluggish
flap Of its basslike tail, the hulk swan out
| of sight aud the blankethsh proceeded
sweetly to slumber upon the brown sands
"rhis IS where II made a mistake. Pos
siby not five minutes had elapsed before
I saw the Junefish peep from behind the
wreck, and then, as it saw the blanket
| fish sleeping, It slowly made its way to-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-12
NO FAIxIRS NEED APPLY.
Where Amusement Managers Are
Compelled TO Live Up to Promises.

Compelled to Live Up to Promises.
From the St Louis G!obe-Democrat
One Mexican trait that might be prodta-
bly, initiated by Americans is their uncom-
promising antagonism toward amusement
fakirs. In that country a Snowman must
do what he promises to or go to jail. If 2
circus management does not faithfully re-
produce all the features glowingly depict
ed on the show bills, the manager finds
himself in the hands of the officers after
the show Is over. The result is that cir
cuses and other amusement enterprises
visiting that country have an entirely dis
tinct set of show bills made, and 1t goes
without saying that they are much more
modest than are those displayed on this
side of the Rio Grande.
A case in point is mentioned by the Mex
lean Herald. 1t appears that one Billy
Clarke, colored, advertised to give an ex-
hibition at Toluca wherein he would catch
a bull by the horns and throw it-a feat
not uncommon among the native cattle
men. He didn't throw the bull and was
peremptorilly thrown in jail. The Herald
says of the case:
Billy gets all the free advertising he
wants, and il does not seem 10 matter to
him whether it is favorable or unfavor-
able. 1t Is credibly reported that on Sun
day he got near enough the bun to pull its
tail, but the bull kicked out and hurt
Clarke on the hand and the niger ran
like hare and was over the barrier in Il
twinkinc.
"While Clarke was being taken TO the
Jail a Toluca party of pelados were pre-
pairing to mob him. and they did actually
throw some jarros at him, one of which
hit police officer who was in charge of
him.
THE empresarios of Sundays entertain
ment, Jimenez and Rodriguez, have been
making desperate efforts to have the fine
os $500 removed. as they protest they are
not responsible for the fasco. They
thought Clarke was able to meet the bull,
as the feat of catching a bull by the horns
and throwing 1t is quite common among
the rancheros of Mexico
MANY people interceded with Mr.. Soda
linde 10 allow Clarke longer time to try
conclusions with the bull, but the son Of
Gov. Vlllada interfered and finally Sr.
Solalinde said peremptorily: I am going
TO send that man to jail and although
the people present said they would much
rather see Clarke graphing with the bull
than walking in his glorious raiment of
purple and gold between two policemen,
the presiding authority remained firm"
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OPEN.

says this scientist, IT got a large worsted
needle and gave her several punctures
with it, not only in the heart, but in ev-
cry part of the Uranium which was In con-
tact with the brain. This, however, was
so far from answering my purpose, which
was to kill her in the most speedy and
least painful manner, without mangling
or mutlating her, that she seemed to have
still enough life to be able TO run away.
After this, my host undertook to put
an end to her, and having given her sew
eral hard squeezes about the chest, and
tied her feet together, hung her up by the
neck in a moose, which he drew as tight
as he possibly could.
From this position she was found, In
space of forty-eight hours to have ex-
treated herself
1t would seem that a creature which had
made so good a fight deserved to live, but
the naturalist thought otherwise. He tied
the beast and immersed it in great jar
of alcohol. A quarter of an hour .ater
the lizard was still alive, but 1t finally sue
cumbed.
The monitor Is the next reptile in size to
its enemy. the crocodile, sometimes attain
ing length of six feet.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-12
TWO BEARS STOP A TRAIN.
Got Tired of Walking the Ties on a
Long Bridge.
From the New York Sun

FROM the New York Sun.
Two trained bears which found walking
on railroad ties a'little wearisome held 10
a fast express train or the New Jersey
Central railroad for half an hour.
The bears sat down In
the middle of the track on the
long bridge over the Raritan river. and
neither the rumblins o. an approaching
train nor the whistle which the engineer
sounded caused them to move The train
had TO come 10 a fun sop and It took thir-
~ minutes to remove tho bears.
For few weeks two Swiss peasants
have been exhibiting the bears in the sum.
mer resorts ana villages along the Jersey
coast The bears are old timers at the Dor
FORMING business. and although usually
mild and obeGient enough occasionally get
o3strcporous and give their owners trou-
Die. Both are trick wrestlers They also
can stand on their heads, dance, climb
trees, ring bells, and do a dozen other
penny collecting things.
on Sunday their owners e,ove
performances in Perth Amboy and on sun
Gay night slept witt, the bears in a stable
~ that place Bright and early Monday
morning they left Perth Amboy for South
Amboy following the railroad traces.
When they reached the Raritan river tbov
decided TO go across the railroad trestle
instead OF turning OF a few miles to a
point where there is a passenger bridge A
lran Is stationed at the beginning Of tbe
gestle usually whose business IL IL "a
warn people not to cross and 10 prevent
cattle from wandering on the structure
Inc plldge Is over half mile long ami
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-12
No FIim-FIam i'm rnnxsutnwner.

A few weeks ago a man who was en-
larging pictures visited the residence of
Mart Williams of this place. says the
Punxsutawney Spirit.
1--WE are doing some very fine work"
said the agent, land in order to introduce
it to the public we make you the first
picture free. We will expect you to show
the picture to your neignoors, of course,
and help advertise US in that way. The
picture will not cost you a cent"
Mr.. Williams hunted up a picture and
gave it to the man to enlarge.
The other day he returned with the en-
larged picture. 1t was enclosed in a gaudy
frame.
"of course" the man explained "the
picture costs you nothing but we charge
IS for a frame like that"
THE picture is ali right" said Mr.. Will
Jams. 1T pleases me first rate. / will
just take ii into the other room and see
what my wife thinks of it,
And Mart went into another room re-
moved the picture from behind the glass,
and returned with the empty frame.
Ny wife likes the picture first rate"
he said, as he handed back the frame, but
she thinks we cannot afford TO buy the
frame. We like the picture first rate BY
the way, we have two or three more pic
lures here that YOU may enlarge on the
same terms. l am always willing 10 help
a fellow along that way when l can do II
without any expense to a1yseif."
But the man didn't take any more. Tie
felt that Mart was poor subject to work
any film -tlam games on, and so, with a
strained good day" he left for greener
fields, carrying his empty frame,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-12

slow operation. They were clumsy and
awkward TO handle the ball and powder
were carried separately, and the prepara'
ton and adjustment of the match took
long time
Before long, however. improvements be-
gan 10 be made. The guns became lighter
in construction, and the soldiers carried
their ammunition in broad shOulder-belt
called bandeliers, to which were suspend
ed number of little Ieather-covered wood
en- cases. each of which held a charge Of
powder. pouch, in which the bullets
We're carried loose, and a printing horn
hung at the sides of the soldier.
As late as the time Of Charles l mus
kets with rests were still in use, and it
was not until the beginning of the eight
zenith century that hreIocks were success
fully employed.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-12
MONKEYS IN PENNSYLVANIA.
Numbers of the Simians Running
wild Near Philadelphia.

From the Philadelphia Record.
A number of monkeys have recently
been seen running at large in the marshes
along the Delaware and SchuylkI rivers,
in the vicinity of Girard Point and Point
Breeze, with the result that not only has
the novel circumstance greatly excited the
residents of the neighborhood, many of
the younger ones having taken to monkey.
hunting, but the special treasury agents
have started an investigation to discover
the cause of the unusual presence of the
simians.
The new Dingley tariff law imposes a
duty of 20 per cent. on all such animals,
and the treasury officials are Of the opin-
ion that the monkeys escaped from small
boats as they were being landed surrept-
tiously at night
During the past month a number of YES
sells have arrived at both Girard Point and
Point Breeze from the Philippine Islands
and Java, bringing not only monkeys and
deer, but large collections of parrots and
other rare birds. In every case the mas
ters of the vessels were notified on their
arrival that both the monkeys and birds
were dutiable. and that permits from the
custom house would be necessary before
they could be brought ashore.
Several of the monkeys have been seeli
during the present week. They were hid
ing in the marshes opposite Girard Point,
and appeared to be weak from hunger and
exposure during the recent rains. Chief
officer Rogers of the British steamship
Whitefeld. which is loading at Girard
Point, caught a large one, which had evi-
IDENTIFY come from Java, and proposes tax.
ing 1t with him as a pet.
1t is a common practice among sailors
to have monkeys and parrots as pets, and
one of the theories of those familiar with
the circumstances is that the animals es-
capped from their owners and wandered off,
or that the sailors, becoming tired of the
bother and expense of keeping the pets,
had released them and turned them loose
into the marshes.
The custom officials have recently seized
several lots of these animals, which were
being Struggled into the country, and they
are determined. if possible, to find out
how the foreign wanderers get into the
Philadelphia marshes
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-12

From the Chicago Inter-oeean.


It would seem as IL something Of the
great mystery Of life might be learned
from some of the lower animals in which
the elusive principle Of vitality is so firm
ly fixed that it is nearly impossible to kill
them. Among such animals none is more
remarkable than the Nile monitor, an
enormous lizard, which gets its name from
its habit of whistlng upon the approach
of crocodile, and thus warning men Of
their danger
A slngularly fine specimen of this lizard
has just been added to the London zoo.
In connection with its transference to the
zoo, a distinguished naturalist who had
studied the monitor in Africa made a re-
port upon its extraordinary vitality. The
report shows the observer to be gifted
more literally with patience than with
sensibiiity; however. the cruelty Of scien-
tific men is an Old subject.
Having caught one of the species by
the neck so that she could not bite me-"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-12

From the Harper's Round Ttable.


While the introduction of portable fire.
arms into Europe Is of comparatively re-
cent date. their use was frequent among
the Mohammedans Of Eastern Asia at a
very early period. La Brocquiere, who
made a journey 70 Jerusalem in the mid
die OF the fifteenth century, and who trav-
elled extensively in the east, mentions
the firing of small harquebuses at the
great festivals in Damascus.
The first use of muslSets in Europe was
at the siege of Rhege in 1884, by the Span
iah soldiers. These arms were so ex-
tremely heavy that they could not be used
without a rest. They were provided with
matchloeks. and were effective at a con-
siderable distances While on the march
the soldiers themselves carried only the
ammunition and the rests, and boys. bear
ing the muskeis. followed after, like cad
dies on a golf course
Loading these cumbersome arms was