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The leader., 1898-01-05
Rn Indian Mother.
BY Viola Roseboro.
off the coast of southern California

off the coast of southern California
lie the Santa Barbara islands; they
look very near the mainland on the
map, as if it would only be pleasant
afternoons work TO explore them in a
row boat, but in fact they are far
enough away from the homes and
haunts of men to have been the scene OF
history stranger, lonelier and more
pitiful than the one Defoe made up
about Robinson Crusoe.
These islands have been long unin-
habited, visited only by grazers who
keep sheep on some, and by trappers
after otter and seal; the sea-lions in the
Cincinnati Geological gardensandin the
New York aquarium were lassoed here.
But Indians used to make their home
on the larger islands, and it was when
the last of the tribe were being removed
to the mainland that an accident oc-
Cured which caused a woman TO spend
on San Nicholas IS years utterly alone.
In 1885 Spanish missionaries were
busy in southern California civilizing,
teaching and converting the Indians
not such degraded beings rs are now to
be seen on the western coast, but skill
full people who learned well how to build
and farm. The fathers had done much
with the coast Indians, and now turned
their ewes to the little tribes on the
rocky islands out at sea. They made
arrangements to bring them, one after
another, to the mainland. The Indians
seem TO have come willingly. but in one
case the embarkation was effected with
much difficulty, on account of storm.
4 schooner under the command of a
Capt. Williams had gone to San Mich
olas-San Nicholas lies 20 miles out at
sea-to bring away the Indians, about
20 of them, who lived there. A tempest
fell upon the island as the schooner
drew near, and to land was very diff
cult; all was wild hurry and confusion;
the vessel was in danger, and the Indi-
ans were making fitting" for life.
So it was not remarkable that, as they
were putting out to sea, one young
mother should find her child had been
left behind. She thought it had been
brought aboard in sailors arms.
When she discovered the truth she
was frantic. She prayed the captain to
turn back, but he said the storm was too
dangerous; they might all be ship
wrecked and drowned. The poor girl
grew desperate, and she did what many
a mother would be driven to do in like
case; she jumped overheard.
She could swim, and the last that was
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seen of her she was striking out brave
ly, making her way back to her deserted
home and her baby. But only moment
was she visible.
No attempt was made to rescue her.
The schooner landed its exiles at San
Pedro. AT that time vessels were very
few on the coast, and the schooner was
engaged for two trips which, it was con-
sidered, must be made before she could
return to look up the lost woman. On
the last of these trips she was wrecked,
and there was nothing bigger than
canoes and fishing-boats left on the
lower coast. Seventy miles in an open
boat no man cared to undertake.
Some said both woman and child
must by this time be dead; some that
the mother never could have reached
the shore. Father Gonzales, however,
was one person who was not satisfied,
but is years passed before he could get
anything done.
The details of the searches made can
not be given here, but Thomas Jeffries,
a man who. for 5000, made the first
effort, did not find her. But he found
SO many seals and offers that other
schooners made several trips there in
the next few years, carrying hunters
and bringing home spoils. At last, on
one of these expeditions, Capt. Midi
yer found the print of slender, naked
human foot in the sand.
There" he said, "has passed the lost
woman" and be vowed he would not
leave till he found her. He and his men
now raked the island as with comb.
Soon they came on an unfinished
dress of birds breasts, beautiful
thing of wonderful workmanship. 1t
was ID basket of rushes hanging in a
tree. Near spring dried fish and blub-
Der were hidden in the rocks. AT last
Nidiver himself saw the woman, wear
ing dress, low-necked and sleeveless,
like the one in the basket. When she
saw him she first started to run, then
stopped and met him with friendliness.
No one could talk TO her, but with the
most touching hospitality she set about
getting meal for him and his men. She
had various little neat pens and shelters
in different places.
The saddest thing is yet to be told
When they took her TO the mainland
many Indians were brought to her, and
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A PERTINENT QUESTION.
Suggested by an Exhausted state of
Patience.

Patience.
1t was the first year that Farmer An
drews had taken boarders, and though
he conscientiously tried to serve them,
he found the task almost beyond his
powers. They were fastidious and even
"fussy." They seemed determined to
be more than comfortable, and had no
hesitation in complaining when they
were not so. But evidently the Andrews
farm did not altogether displease them,
for they not only finished the summer,
but stayed on into the fall.
Then their crying grievance became
not the thickness of cream or the salt
ness of butter, but the difficulty of keep
ing every corner of the old-fashioned
rooms as warm as tropical summer.
One day, Farmer Andrews was called
in from the woodpile, where he was
vainly trying to do forenoon's work.
This was the third time he had relin-
pushed ak and patience together.
"Mr. Andrews" said the boarder,
somewhat fracetiously, something
must really be done about the tempera-
ture of my chamber. This fireplace is
not sufficient for SC large a ROOM"
The farmer stroked his grizzed
beard, and tried to speak serenely.
Put We up stove, ma'am!" said he.
But | don't want stove! want
this open fire, just as have it now, only
l expect it to heat the room. Just look
at the thermometer 1t has been hang
ing over here by the window, and can't
get it above CO."
She swept forward with the telltale
glass in her hand, and at that moment
Farmer Andrews felt his patience snap
and fly.
"Over by the winder!" he repeated,
almost weeping with the vexation of
one who has been unjustly used. "Over
by the winder! Why under Heavens
don't We set it here in a warm place ?''-
Youths Companion.
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AN ANGRY COOK.
He Was Holly Opposed to Revolution

He Was Holly Opposed to Revolution
lists.
Volney was one of those French phil
osophers whose attitude toward Chris
tianity displayed that antipathy to re-
ligion which cramps and distorts the
mind. While travelling in the United
States, Volney became engaged in dis
cussion with DR.. Priestley, all English
man, the eminent natural philosopher
who discovered oxygen gas, and whose
Unitarian theological views and radical
political sentiments had driven him
from England to Pennsylvania. DR..
Priestley, with more bitterness of feel
ing than courtesy, called Volney IAN
atheist, an ignoramus, Chinese and
Hottentot."
In the autobiography of Chevalier de
Pontgibaud, recently translated under
the title of "A French Volunteer of the
War of Independence" the chevalier de-
scrbes a scene of which he was an eye
witness, at Philadelphia, during his
third visit to the United States. He
writes:
"Marino, who had formerly been n cook
to Chevalier de Capells, lived in Phila-
delphia and was known as al excel
lent pastry cook. One day the chew
alier was in Marines shop when a
stranger entered. He was a French
man, and ordered a pate, composed of
the choicest delicacies; he was going to
invite score of persons to dinner.
The pastry cook asked the customers
name and address.
"Volney," said the stranger.
"Volney!" roared the cook, who was
a royalist and hated the revolutionists
with whom Volney had been identified
-"Volney! Volney!"
Quitting his saucepans, he came for
ward, with the white cap on his head,
the apron tucked up, and a big knife
stuck in his belt, and in loud, trem-
bling voce-for he was angry-cried
Get out of here, you scoundrel! Get
out of my kitchen, you accursed atheist!
You revolutionist! You have robbed
me of my property! ] don't work for
people of your kind. My stove shall
never get hot for you'll"
Volney was fairly drawn from the
shop.-Youth's Companion.
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Settled the Case.

81 was called upon in 1878 to defend a
man who was charged with the most
unusual misdemeanor 1 ever heard of
any clerk entering on a court calendar"
said a lawyer friend from the noun
tains, one day. "A young farmland
came to me at the hotel, where l was
stopping, my home being in another
town, but my practice extending to the
county seat was then in. The swain
told me he had been charged by a girl,
to whom he had been paying attention,
with giving her measles, she claiming
that the disease, which had been cpl
demic in the neighborhoed, had been
communicated to her by kissing her
repeatedly, while the defendant was re-
covering from the measles. The girls
surly father sued the badly alarmed
defendant for $50 damages, claiming he
had expended that sum in doctors bills
for the afflicted daughter. My client
pleaded guilty to kissing the plaintiff,
but said he couldn't 'a-hoped it eff he'd
ben a-mind ter and insisted that he
had never had measles. tried the case
before kind-hearted old squire, and
after the court had heard the testimony
he delivered long opinion, in which he
held that girl as pretty as the plaintiff
would make boy risk measles and
even dumb chills' to sip the sweets of
her coral-like lips. The judges Jolly
put both sides in good humor, and the
defendant two weeks later married the
plaintiff and settled the costs of the suit
to appease the wrath of her father
Louisville Post.
The leader., 1898-01-05

THE figures compiled by the Rail-
road Gazette show that the new rail
roads built in the United States in the
year 1897 amounted to about 1888
miles. These figures are partly esti-
mated and are subject 20 small correc-
tion. The number of miles of new
railroads built in the year 1896 was
1897, and in the year 1895 1,92o miles.
California built more track than any
other state in 1897, namely, 1879 miles,
and the largest amount built by any
one railroad was 269.6, by the Kansas
City, Pittsburg & Gulf. Missouri built
10 miles of new track, but in Kansas
not a mile was laid.
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PRACTICAL MEN

Going to Inspect the Survey OF the Pam
anna Canal.
New YORK, Dec. 30.-When the Pan
anna steamship Finance sails down the
bay tomorrow, she will have on board
IA OF the most prominent contractors
in the United States. who will go to
Nicaragua to inspect the survey of the
proposed canal. If the work is deemed
practicable these men will form COM
pany and bid for the job. The party
is under the direction of E. f. Cragin
and Z. L. Cooley, chief engineer of the
Chicago drainage canal.
The leader., 1898-01-05

A BIG international health exposi-
ton will open in New York on April
%. The promoters propose to make
their show practical, scientific and ed
ucational, covering everything that re-
lates to health, indoors and outdoors,
and showing all the sanitary and
hygienic progress of the century in
house heating, ventilation, plumbing,
and so on, and also comparative ex-
hibits of new and primitive hospital
arrangements, systems of sewerage for
cities and villages, a modern school
room and the other kind, model tene-
lnents, health food and many other
things
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IRREGULAR Appetite.

THIS condition Is . symptom OF some con'
pecially OF indigestion.
A sufferer from dyspepsia generally has
"the blues" He is as miserable in mnd ~
in body. His appetite Is more capricious
than the whims OF a spoiled child at tlmeS
ing Of even the very thought of eating, Tnis
condition renders life miserable and should
be corrected by the use Of DE-. N. A. Sim'
mons Liver Medicine.
Knocked Out. .Zeilin's big fraud mas
Just been knocked out by the Supreme
Court. Tho unfortunate merchants VINO
were induced to buy the stuff hnd them =.
selves with goods that cannot be sou, ~
the Supreme Court enjoincd it. The Uniteo
Statee Court knocked out the old pr9PriSs
tors Of tho article now called "b1@oA
Oraught" as perpetrators of fraud.
Moral: Don't tamper" with fraudsI
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IrOnical Ifs,

II man has no dust, his name is usually
mud
If a man has horse sense he should know
when to say neigh.
Ii the cat scratches you it is always the
sign of the Maltese cross.
II man would follow the advice he gives
to others he would soon be perfect.
If the mercury goes higher than usual
next summer blame it on the Dingley bill.
II women were as fond of appearing in
print as in silk there would be more lady
writers.
If canes were to go out Of fashion, some
young men would have no visible means of
support.-Chicago News.
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CAPT. WILLIAM c. OLDRIEvE, of Bos-
ton, has planned to walk across the
Atlantic ocean. He will begin his
journey July 4, accompanied in boat
by Capt Andrews, famous by reason of
his voyage across the Atlantic in a
small boat. The sea-going shoes of
Capt. Oldrieve are really a pair of
cedar boxes five feet long, with fins on
the bottom and sides. They are very
light and capable of sustaining 14O
pounds, but, as Oldrieve weighs only
100, they are as good to him as steam
er'S declx
The leader., 1898-01-05

The apple crop of 1895 on this
continent, the New York Sun says,
was by far the greatest ever known.
1t is now estimated to have amounted
to 10000, 900 barrels. The apple crop
of the present year will be, it is said,
about one-third as large as that of last
year; it is now estimated at 10000, 600
barrels. This, however, is more than
an average crop.
The leader., 1898-01-05

MORE states will elect governors or
other state officers in 1898 than were
chosen in 1897, legislatures which will
choose United States senator's will be
elected in many states and house of
representatives of $50 members will be
rapawed
The leader., 1898-01-05

JOHN T. SHAYNE, member of the
Commercial association at Chicago, is
planning to give that city the grandest
exposition building and botanical gar
den that the world ever saw. 1t will
take the place of the Coliseum build
ing which burned down recently.
The leader., 1898-01-05

PARIS police statistics just published
effectually prove that murder does not
pay from a financial point of view.
They enumerate 81 murders by which
the assassins averaged SIG, and all the
criminals were guillotined. The sta
tistics also cite cases of over 100 more
or less famous murders yielding in
many cases but few cents. The big
uest haul was S65.
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WANTED IN LOUISIANA.

A Requisition for Joe Gladney. Now In
in the Colorado Penitentiary.
DENVER, Col, Dec. 30.-Gov. Adams
yesterday received a requisition from
Gov. Foster of Louisiana for Joe Glad
ney, a convict, whose term il the Colo
RADIO penitentiary for robbery CON-
mitted at Pueblo in 1894 will expire
January IA next
Gladney was sentenced under the
name Of F. II. Jones. He is wanted in
Louisiana for the murder of VIM. Mad
dox ia the parish Of Claiborne in June,
lssS.
The leader., 1898-01-05

MINT DIRECTOR PRESTON estimates
the gold production of the world in
1897 at 1924, 00O, 900, an increase over
1896 of $50, 600, 900. The United States
will lead the column with $50, 900, 600,
an increase of IA per cent
The leader., 1898-01-05

GEN MILES has recommended, it was
reported, that the uniform of the
United States army be changed to cor
respond with the more gorgeous uni
forms of European armies, but Secre-
tary Alger does not think favorably of
the recommendation
The leader., 1898-01-05

EARLY in the spring DIR. Ziegfeld
will begin the building of the Chicago
Musical college, the estimated cost of
which will be $500, 600. 1t is his avowed
intention to make Chicago the musical
center of the United States.
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SOUTHERN olEANINos
sho, and CO., Almond 70 rIece..


Charles Holloway. well-known
young farmer near Whitewell, Tenn.
went to the home of a companion, and,
calling him out, quarreled. Blows fol-
lowed hard words, and then both drew
revolvers and began shooting. One
bullet took effect in IIolloway's arm,
and he tried to close on Smith. AT
that juncture Smiths father and
mother, who had been at
tracted by the shooting. APP
peared on the scene, the former
with shotgun and the latter with a
huge carving knife. The old man fired
at Holloway, who fell, badly wounded.
Mrs. Smith then with her knife stabbed
him three times in the breast, on the
arm and in the right side. A physician
was summoned, the ARRAY having been
finally stopped by neighbors. Hollo-
ways wounds are pronounced fatal, he
having been shot and cut almost to
pieces. Holloway is a son of Green
Holloway, n respectable citizen OF
Whitwell. Heis married. The Smiths
were arrested.
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SEIZED BY THE FRENCH.
The Tricolor Hoisted Over the Island of
Hal Nan.

The Tricolor Hoisted Over the Island of
Hal Nan.
SHANGHAI, Dec. 3O.-It is reported
here that the admiral of the French
fleet has hoisted the French flag ON
Hal Nan island. The Chinese offered
no opposition.
Hal Nan island is off the south coast
of China and separates the gulf of Ton
quin from the China sea. 1t has an
estimated area of IL 900 square miles,
and population of 1, 600, 900 Chinese,
exclusive of wild tribes who occupy the
interior.
The leader., 1898-01-05
Enyaroement of the Womb.

This may be caused by congestion. inhan,.
nation or tumors. The symptoms, are
dull pain in the lower part Of the abdomen,
the womb, and some uneasiness in empty.
ing the bladder and bowels. Costiveness
should be avoided by using DIR. M. A. Sim.
mons Liver NJ edicine in small doses, and
injection, and the persistent use of DR..
Simmons Squaw Vine Vino, will bring
about cure.
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SaYed Their Lives.

1t was at an afternoon tea and the crush
was simply horrid. 1t seemed that nothing
would save the few men present, when one
quickwitted woman exclaimed: Ladies,
please remember there are gentlemen in the
crowdl'' 1t was all that preserved the poor
things from horrible fate.-Philadelph
North American.
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Categorical.

But what do you mean by saying that the
man was more or less intoxicated?" asked
the lawyer. "Lemme see, said the witness,
as he scratched his chin. Il guess ! mean
that if he had been more intoxicated he
would have been drunk, and if he had been
less he would have been sober. How'll that
o?"-Indiananolis Journal
The leader., 1898-01-05

THE Rainy Day club of Syracuse, n.
Y, which was organized with flour
ish of short skirts last spring, has col
lapsed, owing to the sensitiveness of
the members to criticism. A news
paper cartoon broke the spirit of the
girls. This represented that the club
had been formed for vulgar display
rather than for the promotion of dress
reform, and was so pointed that the
members concluded to abandon the
"object lesson" promenades on rainy
The leader., 1898-01-05

In an address before the Illinois
State Teachers association at SPRING
field, President E. Benjamin Andrews,
of Brown university, strongly urged
free textbooks and favored free
lunches in the schools.
The leader., 1898-01-05
Ina Philadelphia hospital is blind

In Philadelphia hospital is blind,
crippled, nine-year-old girl undergoing
treatment for hip disease, who has in
a few weeks come to be known as a
human photograph. She is said by
the doctors and nurses to have the
most marvellous memory of any human
being that ever came under scientific
examination. Whatever is repeated
to her seems to become fixed in her
memory as steadfastly as the records
of the photograph are taken on the
wax cylinder, and days afterward she
can repeat poems, speeches and stories
word for word as they were read. Her
name is Josephine Bremen.
The leader., 1898-01-05

THE secretary of the National spir>
ttualistic association, at the recent
meeting of the society at Cleveland.
o., said that there were 15o, 900 spiritu-
alists in this country.
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TEsr.A has nd last

NICOLA TESLA has Ut last succeeded
IN hsrnessipg the energy of the sun.
r was only few months ago that
Te>Ia announced that he had perfected
- Invention BY which electricity
could be transmitted over the whole
eerth ard - made 10 work 1t the viii
q nnn. II WAS said that the great
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AMERICAN property owners in Cuba
have lost, IL is stated, $40, 900. 900
through Spain's maladministration of
Cuban affairs.
The leader., 1898-01-05

AT the patent Office at Washington
on the 2Ith of December ST5 applica-
tons for patents were received, being
the highest on record for any one day
in the history of the Office.
The leader., 1898-01-05

The war department at Washington
will soon issue a handsome book
entitled Medals of Honor Issued by
the War Department Up to and Includ-
ing October 81. 1897" with the laws,
orders and regulations relative to the
medal. the ribbon to be worn with the
u1edal and the knot to be worn in lieu
Of the medal In 1862 congress author
ixed the prepai alton of 1000 medals of
honor for such non-commissioned
officers and privates as distinguished
themselves by their gallantry in action
and other soldierlike qualities In all,
2.37s medals have been distributed, 2e
going TO Missouri volunteers
The leader., 1898-01-05
That Robbery 1T De Kalb, Miss.

The Office of the sheriff at De kalb,
Miss, was entered, the other night. by
parties who robbed the safe of 81, 500.
The authorities went to work on the
case, and Deputy Sheriff j. j. Scott
and his brother, Frank Scott, were ar
rested, charged with the crime. They
were given preliminary hearing be-
fore a justice of the peace and admitted
to bail in the sum of 81 200 each, which
they furnished. The burglary, with
the arrests following. created quite
sensation. Both the accused have been
prominent in county affairs.
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One Better,

81 won't submit to being turned away
said the disappointed arrival at the hotel
See here, I'm flush, and he displayed roll
of bills.
81 know" responded the clerk; "but I've
got a full house. philadelphia North
American
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CURRENT COMMENT.

THE commissioner of pensions says
there are $4,000 pension attorneys in
this country.
The leader., 1898-01-05

Hattieville, S. c., says:
mons Liver Medicine
six years in my family. Ny
Wife thinks there Is moth
ing like it for Consti-
pated Bowels and Bill
iousness. 1t cured me
Of Palpitation Of Heart.
Have used "Zeilin's Regu-
lator," and think DR.. M:
A. s. l.. NJ. the best, ana
use no other.
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d. w. Washington. . rich colored
man of Memphis, Tenn, and Georgia
E. L. Patton. q female physician. were
married few days ago.
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Celebrated Chrlssnas and I

At Woodford, Tenn, Jerry Cage
fred of an old muskct on Christmas
day. The weapon was heavily losded.
burst and killed him.
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Charge Against AN Express Agent.

p. III. Mabrey, agent of the Southern
Express Co. at Brunswick. Ga, disap-
peared the other day, and it was al
legged that he took with him S., 900 con-
signed to the Brunswick Savings and
Trust Co., and SIS, 900 consigned to the
National bank of Brunswick. This
currency was shipped by the Savannah
(Ga.) Bank and Trust Co. In addition
Mabrey is supposed to have taken $4,-
500 placed in the express Office by the
johnson Steamship line.
The leader., 1898-01-05

A girl stands before a mirror while dress
ing so she can see what is going on.-Chi-
cago News.
The leader., 1898-01-05

Herbert 4. futile. one Of the beat.
known sports IN the south. was found
dead in bed ct lhis home in San An
TONIC. lex.
The leader., 1898-01-05

Col. John w. Buford, clerk of tho su.
preme court of the western district OF
Tennessee, died at his home in Jack.
son, after protracted illness.
The leader., 1898-01-05

We wish somebody would invent suspend
ers that never wear out.-W ashingtOn
Demoorat