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Evening journal., 1898-12-23
IoKE BRINGS TRouBLr,
Magician Hcrrmnnn II sued n Prac-
ticing SleiRht of Hand ON
Negro.


The Herrraanns, the magicians, have
always been Goted as practical jokera.
and the stories that have been related
of their adventures would I'LL volumes
of space in the newspapers. That it
does not always pay TO perform prae-
teal Jokes on persons one may meet
Leon Herman, the present prince Of
magicians, is likely 10 find out 10 his
sorrow. It seems that last season,
while the company wns touring the
western states, Leon had some fun with
q Pullman car porter on one OF the
trips the company made over the North
ern Pacific railroad.
Tho sequel to last seasons joke is
just coming to hight now, and 1t is
not funny at all--at least not from the
Hermann standpoint. Leon had been
asleep all night in the Pullman, and
Just at dawn upon awakening he saw
the porter getting ready 70 leave the
car. II was lunch station, and un-
doubtedly the darky was headed for a
cup of coffee. As he neared the door
Hermann called TO him, and hastily
leaving his berth followed the darky
20 the door.
where are you going?" he asked.
"Just TO get a cup of coffee, boss" was
the answer. "That is all right" re-
marked Hermann. 81 don't object TO
your getting cup of coffee, but / do
object TO your leaving this car with
my watch in your pocket" and suiting
the action to the word, he reached in
the darly's vest pocket and pulled out
his gold watch.
THAT reminds me-" he said my
rings are missing also" and again he
made a grab for the darSys pocket.
and brought forth a number of diamond
rings The darlSy was astounded and
his surprise was so great he could only
stammer forth: For the Lords sake,
boss, how did those things come in my
pockets; honor bright, | never seed
them before"
THAT viii do" answered Hermann;
81 have had my eye you for some time.
and now I have caught you. will see
you don't rob anyone else. think
will take my money, too, which Is
missing" he continued, and again the
trip to the darky's pocket broughl
forth roll Of bills.
The darky, now thoroughly fright
ened gave one yell and dashed off the
car. When the train pulled out no
darky appeared and the company was
short a Pullman porter. Hermann
laughingly explained the joke TO the
conductor, who greatly enjoyed it. A
telegram was sent back to the station
at which the darlsy had left the train,
but he had disappeared. For over a
year no tidings had been received of
him.
Last week at Denver, Col, the sequel
20 the joke came to light when Leon
Hermann received n letter from an at
torncy at Seattle saying he had been
retained by the wife of the aforesaid
darky TO begin a suit at law against
him for defamation Of character, and
for the loss Of this darRy's services ia
the wife. The present time IS the time
that Leon Hermann IS frightened. as
he joke promises TO have n serious end
ing for him.-kansas City Times
Evening journal., 1898-12-23
wlImIngtOn & Northern 2. E.

TIMETABLE IN effect Nov %. 1898
Trains leave Wilmington (French Street
Station), for y. & o. Junction, Gra-
nogue, Cossart. Chadd's Ford Junction,
PocOpson, Coatcsvllle and intermediate
stations daily, except Sunday. at 7.20 a.
M; 2ls. 400 and $40 y. IN Sunday only,
sos %. NJ. .t5 and 400 r. m
For Waynesburg Junction, Springfield
and intermediate Citations. daily. except
sunday. az % e. m 215 ard 100 p. m.
Sundays only az SOS a. m. 2.i5 and 400
D. m.
For Joanna. Birdsborc Re13ing and IN
termediate staticus. daily, except sun
day at 7.20 a. m; and 2.l5 p n. Sunday
only. sos n. m and 215 p. m.
A. G.. MCAUSI.AND. superintendent.
BOWNESS BRIGGS, Gen. Pass. Agt.
Evening journal., 1898-12-23

A wealthy and responsible firm guar
antees its goods tha. are advertised.
Who stands sponsor for the substitutes
said to be lust as good"
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A partln~ shnt.

Woman" remarked the up-to-date
maid, sis rapidly becoming mans su-
perior"
"Nes-I don't think" answered the
slangy youth, as he lit another ciga-
rette.
NO. Of course you don't" she re-
torted. How could you?" - Chicago
Evening News.
Evening journal., 1898-12-23
A winner.

Old Bullion-So, sir, you want to
marry my daughter? Wasn't that your
name i saw signed to poem in one of
the magazines the other day?
Reginald Ricksley- Yes. sir; have
written great deal of magazine poetry,
but indeed 1 assure you, sir, do not de
pend upon it for a livelihood. l have
a regular job as timekeeper in a ma
chine shop.
"0b in thot case | suppose I ought
70 let You have her."-Chicago Evening
News.
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Al rhnr.

Husband-I don't know where that
boy got his temper; am sure not from
me.
Wife-No, for don't find that you've
lost any.-Illustrated American.
Evening journal., 1898-12-23
Proof Posi.fvr

"Ihey say the jury has acquitted that
spaniard who murdered his employer" Z"
"Nes. He must have been innocent.
He shot him. yor know"
What does that prove"
why. the fact that he hit him shows
= was accidental. "~Harper's Baznr.
Evening journal., 1898-12-23

Something "iust as gcode viii not
answer. Stick to your point and when
you ask for goods advertised in this
paper. you can get them.
Evening journal., 1898-12-23

A cheap subetltute for a. standard
advertised article may prove to be any
thing but a bargain. Be careful TO get
what you ask for,
Evening journal., 1898-12-23
chiidren'. Theology.

A little girl explained Gods omni-
presence thus: HE was everywhere
without going there" A little boy, re-
heeting on the misdeeds of Satan. said
10 his mother: MA. Satan must be a
great trouble to God, mustn't he2 /
don't see why he turned out so bad
when he had no devil 10 put him up TO
It'll Better, perhaps, is the remark Of
a three-year-old, who said: Il want
God TO take care Of me nights. I can
take care Of myself days."-Temple
Magazine.
Evening journal., 1898-12-23

Something Just as good viii not
answer. Stick to your point. and when
you ask for goods advertised in this
paper. you can get them.
Evening journal., 1898-12-23

SHERIFF's sALE.-BY VIRTUE OF A
writ Of Levar Facias, to me directed
will be exposed to public sale, at the
Court House, on Market street, in the
city Of Wilmington, New Castle county,
Delaware
Evening journal., 1898-12-23

sHERIFF's sALE.-BY VIRTUE OF A
writ of Levari Facias, to me directed
will be exposed to public sale, at the
Court House. on Market street, in the
city Of Wilmington, New Castle county,
Delaware,
Evening journal., 1898-12-23

Schedule in effect November 20, 1898.
All trains illuminated with Pintsch
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-11
THE Stronghold
Of A BIG CITY.
Continued From Page II.

the manager. from S475 workingman'
xuis to a $S7. 50 suit he equal of which
cannot be touched here. Bar goods and
waters goods are made a speciality here.
Overcoats of every pattern. of every color,
TO fit anybody, at any sort of price They
are marked in pain figures, so that those
who run may read for themselves.
I'VE VIII please anybody" said the man
ager.
In the tailoring department expert tan-
ors are employed 60 ft suits where
customers wish it. Mr. Adler is making a
specially of boys suits for Christmas. He
has them m all late patterns and styles.
They are the best goods chat is Obtainable,
and the price viii suit This department
includes hats. gents furnishings of every
kind, umbrellas, mackiutoshes, rubber
goods, etc
The store of Leopold Adler Is busy
place now. 1t will be a show to the thou
sands Of visitors next week. The toy de-
partment alone viii be larger than any
three or four stores in the interior, and
great deal larger than any toy store here
This is the place to buy Christmas goods
Save express on them. The mammoth
building, lighted by electricity and heated
by steam, employing 200 people who are
busy as bees, presents a beautiful appear
ance now Mr. Joseph J. O'Connel is
manager for Mr.. Adler, and by his able
services has contributed largely to the sue
cess of the house Mr.. N. Schultz is ad-
vertising manager and is one of the
smartest men in the state in his line He
comes from one of the largest Chicago
houses, and Is doing some splendid work
for this great house.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-11

pearance and it does not reach the deep,
black superstitions of the Tahltan people.
While the coming of the white mantle
miner Of the Klondike with his freight to
be packed-has brought the comforts of
comparative wealth and a realization of
the advantages Of civilized dress, food and
horses it has not been extended to the
point that includes morals and religion.
Along these paths they have made no
progress. They buy and sell their wives
and children; they practice their heathen-
ish and religious rites, their medicine and
witch dances; they believe in and prac-
tce a very rude method of cremating the
dead and worst of all they believe in
witchcraft. Every natural death in the
tribe is accredited to witchcraft, and for
every "bewitched" Indian that dies some
poor Indian boy is barbarously murder
ed. To their open-air life and the health
full climate of the Cassior district is due
the low death rate of the tribe and the
correspondingly low murder" rate.
A wolf EXOrcises "a witch.
In the winter of 1896, an Indian woman
lay near unto death in her hone az Tail
tan village, and the wise men of the tribe
decided that she had been bewitched. She
belonged 10 the faction Of the Tahltans
known as the Wolves" so Wolf"
witch doctor was called upon to drive
out the witch that had crept into the
mortal body Of the Kloochman. The doc
tor came dressed in wolfskins and made
up to resemble as nearly as possible a
wolf, and for two hours he danced about
the couch Of the dying woman uttering
horrible cries ana making threatening ges-
lures calculated 90 drive the witch out
OF the woman. The witch did not appear.
and as the woman was apparently worse
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-11
WHERE WITCHCRAFT RElGNS.
a BOY MURDERED FOR EVERY
TAHLTAN WHO DIES NATU-
RAJ DEATH.

SILK Shirt Waists and Patent
Leather Shoes Came to the Tahl-
tans of British Columbia with
the Advent of the Miners of the
KIOndiI>e, but They still Cling to
the BarbarOus Rites of Witchcraft,
wife Selling and Cremation
story of the Torture ard Murder
of NVitches-Strange BuriaIs-HoW
the TahItans Were Cheated Out OF
Their Resery Generous
People in the World.
Washington, Dec. 9.-Witchcraft did not
perish from American soil with the last
witch burning of Salem. Away up in
British Columbia, where the Stikine river
nows too shallow to float the hoatboats Of
The miners Of Glenora and Telegraph
creek, a witch boy is killed with terrible
torture for every man or woman who dies
a natural death. And this is among In
dams whom civilization has marked for
its own. Where a belle has risen 10 silk
shirt waists and parasols and where the
braves wear patent leather shoes and jew
elry.
For civilization is of the outward ap-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-11
Arc Lamps without Cartoons.
From the London Daily Mail.

From the London Daily Mail.
Provisional protection has just been OBJ
tanned for what appears to be a valuable
electric arc lamp invention. The chief
merit of the new lamp, for which patents
have been applied for in England and
other countries by Mr. Peter Spies of
Fossdeneroad Charlton, lies lin the fact
that the ordinary carbons, inseparable
from other electric arc lights, are not re-
quired at all.
Nowadays everybody is more or less IA
miliar with the arc lights used so extern
sively for street and other outdoor illu-
mination. Doubtless. however, few Of the
general public are aware that at the point
OF illumination The electric current flows
along sticks of carbon. which are grad
ually burned away by the intense heat and
have 90 be regularly replaced. The cost of
material time and labor this necessitates
is expected 20 he saved by the carbonless
arc lamp the newest invention.
la an interview with a Daily Mail rep
resentatiVe the inventor and patentee ex-
planned the advantages and general prin-
ciples of this latest advance. ION an av-
erase" said MIR. Spies after every fifty
hours burning, the carbons have to be
renewed. The new lamp, as opposed to
this. viii require no attention for at least
twelve months except an occasional out
side cleaning. 1t has no intricate clock
work worked by an eloctro-magmat to get
out Of order. or to display The ordinary
antics of the are light. My are lamp is
simply an alright glass globe, from which
the air has been exhausted. Inside are
TWO L-shaped aluminium arms tipped with
platinum, which take the place of the old
fashioned carbon, and are regulated by a
pendulum.
The lap does not require 70 be sus-
pended perpendicularly. In fact, Il is IN
tended 70 hoe fixed to project horizontally.
lt throws no shadows. and reduces the ex-
penses of maintenance TO minimum The
wasting OF the alumni lum arms. owing 10
their being incloscd In the a.rless globe. Is
30 small that only yearly replacement
becomes necessary"
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THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. DECEMBER II. 1898

than before the medicine mans perform
ance, it,, Of course, became Immediately
apparent 10 the Indian mind that the
dying woman was possessed. The respon-
a leap, the Wolf doctor seized upon the
l2-year-old son of widow Of the tribe
and dragged him to the couch Of the dy-
ing woman, who admitted then that she
was bewitched, that the boy was response
Bile for the bewitchment-and thus she
died.
The mother wept and pleaded for the
boys life. The lad declared that he
would not know how to go to work to
bewitch any one; but what could the
mother and child do against the death
bed confession and accusation of the be-
witched Kloochman? The deceased should
certainly know whether she was bewitch-
ed or not, and to whom the responsibility
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-11
belonged. From such court there was
no appeal.
Tied Up by the Thumbs.

tp BN tUe
A brave of the tribe Chis name was Des-
culta) here took charge of the proceed
ings. The boy was tied up by the thumbs
and beaten with switches as punishment
for the witches. A big hunt was organized
and set for a date two months ahead, and
while waiting for the final act in the trag-
edy, the boy was frequently tied up and
whipped to bring him to a realizing sense
of his condition.
The mother of the doomed lad doubted
the wisdom of the elders of the tribe and
the justice of her boys sentence so she
journeyed to Telegraph Creek and laid
the matter before John Highland, a white
merchant. who is still in business there.
Mr.. Highland Immediately communicated
with Superintendent of Indian Affairs
Vowel at Victoria, B. c., who sent de-
teetive to Tahltau village to stop the muir
der and secure the executioner. In those
days means of communca ton between
Victoria and the towns in Northern Cas-
star were not up to their present mark,
and the detective arrived too late. The
hunt occurred, and at a convenient spot
on the banks of the Stikine Desculta's
hunting knife dextrously welded disem-
bowe.ed the poor little Siwash, and the
body was slipped under the ice of the
Sukine. river that seldom gives up its
dead.
The day following the murder the de-
tective arrived on the scene A friend
of Desculta's offered to help him find the
murderer, and they started off on thar
wild-goose chase. The treacherous guide
led him by one spot, where, twenty feet
away, an Indian woman with back to-
ward them was scraping the bloody snow
from the spot where the murder was com
mittedi led him by the teepee where Des-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-11
BEAT A RAILROAD WITH EASE.
The "SmOotIa' PASSENGER CO.
Through without Much Trouble
Conductor Was Puzzled.

hS SmOoth passenger Got
Through without Much Trouble.
Conductor Was Puzzled.
From The Chicago Record.
If the ticket seller of the Burlington
Railroad Office had noticed the man who
bought the ticket to Riverside at an he
must have been impressed by the appear-
ance of "smoothness." He was "smootn 8"
and although he had told an inferior b1t
similar type of person few minutes Ne
fore that he was going 20 Cedar Rani1s
Ia, 1t seemed inconceivable that he was
buying the Riverside ticket in a fit Of an
t-mindedness.
lt wanted ten minutes to train time and
having purchased his ticket the "smoorbo
man took up an easy position with his
back 70 the wall near the ticket wtndaN,
and began to scan yard long time ,ab'e
with an air Of intense interest. Three or
four other suburb-bound people came along
during the next five minutes. but the man
with the time table never looked up. Then
came man with a couple OF fat grips. srd
the time table student threw a swift sjda-
long glance toward him as he bought his
ticket, and then ran his finger along a
column OF figures as though he had inst
found Cow TO The train he wanted
Another man with grips hurried no 40
the window, aRd This time the smooth"
looking man began TO fold up his tlrne
table IN leisuroly way and ghcn sumter
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-11

The announcement that a new novel by
Mr.. Gable is soon to begin publication has
a more than ordinary literary interest. At
his fruitfuest, Mr. Gable has never been
a two-novel a year man. Indeed the
muscularity of two novels a year has al
ways been an English, rather than an
American endowment Mr.. Howells has,
/ believe made one or two special
'spurts" up to the mark of two novels in
one year. and other Americans perhaps
have. But none has held that for any
thing like his normal pace; and with Mr..
Gable the average has been considerably
below one a year. After "Old Creole
Days" published in 1879, when Mr.. Gable
was So; The Grandissimes" and Mad
anne Dephine" followed with intervals of
just a year between each two. Then
two years elapsed before DIR SEWER
appeared and then there followed nine or
ten years before John March" came out.
In this nine or ten years, two or three
volumes of slgAter work were published,
but no full-bloWn novel; and the one now
promised Will be the first since John
March" AS these figures Indicate, Mr.
Gable is a fastidious worker; he has, if
anything, grown more fastidious as time
has gone on; and there were those who
thought they saw in John March" the
evidence of perhaps an excess of care.
He shuts himself each day in his study,
at his pleasant home in Northampton,
Mass, and works out his daily portion
with the regularity of a man of business,
and he does not shrink from going over a
thing again and again in order 10 get it to
his mind.
There have been only two notable in
terruptions to this daily routine; one was
the course OF lectures which Mr. Cable de-
uvered each winter for number of
years, but which now, l think ne has
about given up; and the other was his
editorship of Current Literature. 1t was
almost a foregone conclusion that this
last would not continue long; and it did
not but it was very obvious while 1t did
continue Any author, TO be worth men
tioning, must be a man who puts much of
himself into whatever he does. Mr.. Ca
BILE as such a man. and he did not discard
his temperament through the brief term of
his editorship. e. c. Martin.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-11

An improved apparatus for producing
acetyiene gas has been invented by Thorn
as Holiday OF Huddersheld. Eng and. In
this device the arrangement Is such az '
permit the use Of gas directly from tae
generator. the surplus pressure beng COM
pensated for by he Weigh. ~ wai@' b"
adjoining coinpari mehts.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-11

lished books. the first was THE Closing
Scene being twelve books Of a Miltonie
poem composed in tWenty-four and putting
20 the pubic. i'm good bod type al the end,
the unique question. DOCS the world want
The other twelve books?'' Il was before
the shrewd fashion arose Of enclosing pos
tai cards for replies, and The world gave
the question no direct answer, and once
when I visited the author. near the end
Of his life. he showed me "the other
twelve books" in manuscript, all neatly
tied up and carefully preserved against
any sudden call that might be sounded for
them later Yet the published twelve did
not pass wholly unremarked. About the
time they came out the author made
visit to England, and when his second
book came out il contained, as a sort of
appendix, an assemblage of opinions Of
the first. a number of them from eminent
Ensishmen. Thomas Noon Talford and
Samuel Rogers, l remember were among
those who had found a good word TO say
for THE Closing Scene" The title of
this second book was Wrinkles Gathered
From the Brow of Experience" and the
author always referred 20 it as My
Wrinkles" When l last saw him his
special occupation was a blank verse
poem on the seasons, ito beat Thompson"
as he told me and, to demonstrate that he
was beating Thompson, he had me take
book in hand and follow certain passages
in Thompson while he read out to me cor
responding ones from his manuscript ]
could not detect but that he was in all
things content, and he is about the only
man of any sort that have ever known
who was. He delighted in production; he
had no misgivings as to the worth of what
he produced and the attitude of the world
toward him did not touch him.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-11
LoIi's Belief in witchcraft.

u.
MY name is Lo1li; am Tahltan Indian:
have declared for hunt at which Joe CuRl-
han is to be disembowled by me and his
body sunk in Stkine, for having bewitch-
ed a girl in our tribe. l believe in witch
craft My tribe has always believed in
witchcrafr and executed witches ! do
not know it is wrong. 1 believe it is
right"
Magistrate Webster of Vancouver. Brit
ish Columbia, gave Loih a lecture on the
enormity OF the crime he was about to
commit. lie also gave him ninety DAYS
in jail in Telegraph creek in which TO con-
slider the main points of the lecture
Rev. 3. Appleyard of the Church of Eng
land. who is now in winter quarters at
Port Essington, b. c., then came forward.
and asked The chief of the Tahltans to
give him charge of little Joe for five years
that he might be educated Lolis fate
had so frightened the old Tyee that he
evidently feared the day of judgment was
at hand. for placing one hand on the head
of the missionary and the other on that of
Little Joe, he sealed" Joe TO the minister
for a period Of five years.
Joe, the witch dressed in his first suit
of American clothes and first pair of shoes,
is absorbing knowledge and government
food a the Indian school at Metlakatla,
y. c. Lolli, the witch executioner of this
day and age win be out of Jail this month.
uurepentant but resolved 10 move here
after IN more mysterious ways his execu-
tons 10 perform.
COfnns OF Tin and Zine.
on tire summit Of the mountain that
rises back OF telegraph creek there is a