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The herald., 1898-09-27
Murdered for Money

AKRON, o., Sept. 26.-The body of Oscar
Osborne. a farmer, was found in his barn
today. He had been murdered during tho
night for money. He was 80 years old and
very wealthy. There is no clue to the
murderer,
The herald., 1898-09-27
RAILROAD ASSETS

Gather cloudy; track sloppy.
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figger in his books, do you? Well, as L
said, we both wuz fond of telling stories
mighty fond of childrens doings and
whenever he'd see any little fellers
a-fghtin' on the street he'd alluS stop
and watch 'em and then he'd come up
to the Blue Wing and describe the
whole doings and then I'd try and beat
his yarn by telling him of the antics l
used to play when 1 Wuz kid and say,
/ don't believe there ever was such an
other little devil ever lived as l wuz.
.Sam he would listen to these pranks
of mine with great interest and he'd
occasionally take 'em down in his note
book.
lone day he says to me: I am going
to put you between the covers of book
some of these days, Tom
"'Go ahead, SAM L says, but don't
disgrace my name.
''WeH. in after years, when that book
wuz published he sent me copy and
felt as if l wuz readin out of my own
diary. He got me down TO a science, L
tell you.
"He also used some of the things
told him in 'Huckleberry Finn
You know how he got the name of
Mark Twain?
In those days I wuz plying between
here and Panama and in the meantime
Sam had gone up to Virginia City.
when I came back from trip he
wrote. asking me to make him a visit.
'FWell, I was pretty well heeled-had
$500 in my inside pocket-and as there
was nothing much dom in Frisco l
went.
"Such a time as I had! There wuz
a set of high rollers there in Virginia
City at that time, l can tell you-Bret
Harte, Pat Lynch, Sam Davis, Holland
of the Enterprise, Tom Fox, Doc Cole
and Sam.
"In four days 1 found myself busted,
without cent.
"Wel, we were down at Tom Pease-
lys saloon, and it was getting. near
morning. Everybody had piled out
'cept Sam and me and Larry Ryan,
who tended bar.
"Sam had been standin' Peasely off
for several days, and he thought hed
work the same game on Larry.
Give us two cocktails. Larry and
such cocktails as them We're! U-m, L
can taste EN- yet" added Tom smack
ing his lips together.
Larry mixed 'em and handed 'em
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off the coast of Ecuador. The species
is now almost extinct. 1t is believed
by biologists who have visited these
isolated dots of land that the island
of Albermarle, which they inhabit, was
at some prehistoric period separated
from the adjacent land, leaving a few
of the creatures, which might have
been in that particular locality, there
to propagate.
These tortoises somewhat resemble
the common turtle although more in
clined to rotundity, the upper armor
or shell being almost as round &C half
a ball. One of the specimens in the
possession of Captain Limbridge, which
is of average size, is about 16 inches
high, feet wide and feet long, and
weighs in the neighborhood of $50
pounds.
Their most striking popularity, and
a feature which distinguishes them
from the remainder of their tribe, is
the fact that they do not drag their
bodies along the ground after the slug
gish manner of the turtle, but lirt their
huge shells clear of the earth by at least
five or six inches and move ahead much
more rapidly. Their movements are
very similar to the elephant and pc
culiarly enough the neither limbs are
jofnted and bend in at the knee ex-
actly like the huge beasts which in
some degree they resemble. The head.
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than a Chevalier of France would the
badge of the Legion d'Honneur.
This real, live, up-to-date Tom Saw
yer spends his time telling stories of
former days, while he occasionally
mixes a brandy and soda or cock
tail.
He is fond of notwithstanding and re-
calling the jolly nights and days he
used to spend with Sam-as he always
calls him-Sam Clemmens.
His saloon is work of art from the
fireman's standpoint for the walls are
completely covered with helmets and
belts and other paraphernalia of fire.
men.
Here and there are huge frames con-
tanning the photographs of firemen and
groups, in which Tom Sawyer himself
stands in the front RANKS, for he prides
himself upon being member of the
first volunteer fire company ever
formed in California.
Next to his badges of his fire COM
pany Tom Sawyer values his friendship
with Mark Twain, and he will sit for
hours telling of the FRANKS they used
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hid herself and the young chief was left
for dead.
We'll the girl came out and prayed
and prayed to the Great Spirit that he
would save her lovers life.
THE Great Spirit answered by shak-
ing the earth and at her feet appeared
an opening in the ground. Presently the
mud began to bubble up just as it does
to-day. A spring started to flow from
under a rock near by. She gave the
wounded man the water to drink and
put the mud on his wounds.
when the warriors of his tribe saw
him and that he had come back to
life they said 1t must be the Great
Spirits will that he should marry the
girl of his choice and he did so with a
great feast.
mo Indian dares go near the springs
now except the medicine man. He goes
up to battle, carrying a lock of hair of
every member of the tribe so they may
have the benefit of the bath and pros
per in their crops and cattle as well as
in their children and their health.
I'VE crossed a mountain and passed
the town of Cahto and went into the
redwood belt
1--WE camped for luncheon beside the
Mud Creek at a place where were
three springs under the redwood trees.
One spring was clear, pure water, one
was soda spring and the third a sui
phur spring.
Il tried bottling the water, but it was
not a success as it quickly became
stale
Mud Creek looks exactly like a river
of milk, the water is SO impregnated
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IS.
"'Twas a great sport in those days.
I am sober enough now to tell it, l
guess, and Sam and me used to meet
at the Blue Wing, kept by Dan Dris-
coll, down there next to the Russ
House, and many a night we'd sit
there telling stories till the stars went
out and the sun was staring down in
our faces.
fsam wuz workin' on The Call in
those days. They'd send him out down
at the paper to write something up,
and he'd go up to the Blue Wing and
sit around telling stories and drinking
all day Then he'd go back to the Of
flee and write up something.
Most times it was all wrong, but 1t
was mighty entertaining, anyhow.
Sam came near getting fired two or
three times and then he'd brace up for
a day or so and square himself with the
fellers that run the paper.
Sam was dandy, he Wuz He could
drink more and talk more than any fell
Ter I ever seen. He'd set down and
take a drink and then he'd begin to tell
us some joke or mother, and then
somebody'd buy him another drink and
he'd keep her up ell day.
"Once he got started he'd set there
fill morning telling yarns, provided
some one would throw bowl at him
every few minutes.
"He beat the record for lyin'-nobody
wuz in the race with him there, though
7 xuz considered a pretty good disciple
of Ananias myself.
.4Ie never had cent, his clothes
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growth of the eyebrows denotes lack
of vitality; on the contrary, heavys
thick eyebrows indicate a strong cons
stitution and great physical endurance.
They are not beautiful on Woman's
face, however much they may signify
either mental or bodily vigor, and
when they are not only heavy, but
droop and meet at the nose, they are
disagreeable, and are said to accom-
rany an insincere and prying nature,
Long, dropping eyebrows, lying wide
apart, indicate an amiable disposition.
Where the eyebrows are lighter in color
than the hair the indications are lack
Of vitality and great constituencies.
Family defined eyebrows high above
the nose are signs of Incidence and
weakness. Very black eyebrows give
the face an intense and searching eX-
preston; when natural, they accom-
pany passionate temperament. Very
light eyebrows rarely are seen on
strongly intellectual faces, although
the color of the eyebrows is not accept
ed simply as denotino lack of inte1li-
gence; the form gives the key to the
faculties and their direction. Red eyes
brows denote great fervor and ambi4
ton; brown, medium between the red
and black.
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and California in particular.
Because of i'll health DR.. Paget

and California IN particular.
Because of i'll health DR.. Paget
determined to make tour of North
ern California, living entirely an out
of-door country life
Being strangers in California, they
were much impressed by the strange
natural wonders of the mountain dis
tricts through which they Travelled, Wis
iting and investigating whatever in
vited their attention.
And what did you find?" 1 asked
DR.. Burgoyne.
Find? Well, a good many things. 1
found, for one thing, some mud springs,
which [ consider about the most in
teresting springs of the sort 1 have
ever visited. I am carrying home
the analysis I made on the spot. have
a box Of specimens besides, taken from
the deposit of the springs, as well as
some Of the mud. DR.. Paget is the
tchnologist of the party and to him the
discovery is due"
"Yes?" 1 asked, looking at DR.. Paget.
well, maybe" DR.. Paget answered.
1--WE were looking for what we could
find. One day we met an old Indian
toiling over the mountains leading a
boy of about twelve years of age. The
spot was so far away from any known
Indian settlement that l naturally
wondered what the man was doing, and
asked him.
HE would not tell me at first In
dams are pretty slow about telling
anything that will excite white men's
curiosity. At last he did tell me.
- I big medicine man. 1 cure all peo-
pie sick
That was nice, but how did he man
L..
myself, but GOOD many of my pa
tients are not so lucky in their doctor.
- How do you do it?' 1 asked him.
He told us of a marvellous spring of
bubbling mud, where he went to battle
twice every year, and assured us he
would never grow old; that he was
more than a hundred already.
This my son. His son. he con-
tinued. he not get old-never. My son
he laugh. He say born fool. He pick
hops; he think he just same white man
He get old.
Il asked him where and what these
springs were and he told tale that de-
cided US at once to see the springs. We
hired the old man on the spot as a
guide.
While we logged along the Indian
told US that he could remember when
the springs were not there. 1t was
about sixty years ago, and the Indians
were camping on Eel River to gather a
supply Of tan bark acorns, which they
make into -four. There was a very
good chief, young man, and he loved
woman whose people were small
in the tribe and his father said he
should never marry the girl. The young
chief said he would Then his father
grew very angry and the young man
ana the girl had to run away and they
went UP into those mountains. pointing
to ridge of hills to the north. The
chief and his warriors followed them
gssV a. light followed. The young girl
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the doctor wanted a photograph and
went pretty close to the largest spring
Both of his feet went through the crust
and he threw himself onto the ground
and crawled out. Where his feet broke
the crust at once there was new
spring of boiling mud.
Our Indian guide told us about a
great cinnamon bear which had
troubled the ranchers, eating their
sheep and frightening the cattle. The
hunters and dogs had chased him to
this mountain. He was surrounded
and In trying to escape the bear fell
into the largest of the springs and sank
out of sight. No trace of the bear was
ever found.
THE mountain is doubtless the
mouth of a long extinct volcano, and
the mud is heavily charged with gases
and minerals. The analysis has shown
some unaccountable reactions, and /
expect to make a good many expert
ments in my laboratory at home which
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* HERE Is THE ORIGINAL OF MHRK TWHNS TOM SAWYER =


over the bar expecting Sam to ante up
Instead he stood there and held up
two fingers, and pointing to the slate
said, Larry, mark twain.
Larry told Peasely of it in the morn
ing, and Peasely thought 1t such good
joke that he told all the boys, and af-
ter that Sam wuz dubbed Mark Twain
Where under the sun he got 1t has
always been a mystery, but that morn
ing Sam walked in with $500 In his
pocket, gave me $50, and put me on
the stage for California, saying that
he guessed his Virginia City friends
wuz too speedy for me.
THAT wuz the last time l ever saw
Sam, but he's coming out here some
day. and I am saving up for him.
when he does come there'll be some
fun, for if he gives a lecture. Intend
coming right in on the platform and
have few old time sallfes with him.
Guess Sam hasn't forgotten how we
used to go around to the dance halls
and scatter cayenne pepper on the seats
and get all the girls a cryin'.
I'VE just escaped gettin' locked up
many a night. I'll just ask him right
out in meetin' about a few OF those
things when he comes to Frisco"
Tom Sawyer is now 70 years old. but
to look at his "shinin~ morning face
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feminine laugh has to be decorative,
and so it should be the laugh of gayety
rather than of humor. There can hardly
be question as to the sweetest laugh to
be heard among nations of women-it is
surely the French woman's. She has the
softest MARBLE of all. If doves were not
so serious they might remind us of Par
islam women laughing together. The Ital-
ian laugh is happy enough, but it is not
quite so independent of the subject of
laughter; it has a jollity all it's own. 1t
is somewhat uncivilized, but needs no CIV
iIizing. But its principal characteristic Is
the contralto tone proper to the woman
who is to the last somewhat of peas
ant
The laughter of English women is too
various for any brief description. For
English women laugh, not according to-
their race, but according to their caste,
as caste has lately been revised and re-
distributed. 1t may be said in caste also
the treble note, the ready, the inmediata
fits up to it's own place-the top-and is
audible there. for all it's slender quality
Golfers Weekly.
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will be too technical in scientlhc way
to be of general interest.
81 have always felt certain that your
California mineral springs contain
minerals that we are not gen
orally acquainted with, and, though l
wish to say nothing about 1t just at
present. I believe that in these specl-
mems l have found something quite
.Do YOU think that you can find
new mineral in one mud spring that
has not been discovered before?
"Wen. why not? The mud comes
from a great depth, maybe from the
portion of the crust of the earth which
is very hot Owing, doubtless, to the
great pressure the substances thrown
UP by the spring have been subjected
to. electricity has been generated, as my
needle proves. 1t may be that the cleo
tricity is in a measure responsible for
the action of the mud. 1 am inclined
to believe, however, as is DIR. Paget,
that in this mud is volatile mineral
which we do not know and which es-
capes into the air Immediately when it
reaches the surface.
81 have a quantity of the mud pre-
served in different ways which l am
carrying to London to experiment upon.
1 have better facilities in my own lab
oratory than is possible up in the Men
docino mountains
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were always ragged and he never had
his hair cut or a shave in them days
and an judging from his pictures l see IN IN
the 1apers lately, 1 should say ne
hasn't had his hair cut since '6o.
Il used to give him half my wages,
and then he'd borrow from the other
half, but jollier companion anu neto
+ar mate never want. He wuz prince
among men, you can bet, though III
low he wuz the darndest homei1est
man I ever set eyes on, Sam wuz.
you want to know how 1 came to
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with the mud, which is only held in
mechanical suspension.
THE springs are located at the top of
a perfectly denuded hill. All the land
around is very fertile and covered with
dense forests of redwood. There are
seven of the mud springs"
There are eight now, DOCTOR" Dr.
Burgoyne said, telling about the eighth
spring. I'VE were admiring the springs
and Dr. Paget rather snubbed the In
dian who kept warning him not to go
too near But in the cause Of science
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n PAIR of the oldest specimens
~ of the turtle family ever
IA brought to this port are at
present waddling about the
garden of Captain Robert
Limbridge of Berkeley. He
captured them on one of the South Sea
islands.
The pair We're brought here in COM
pany with sixty-nine others of the
same species. They were secured for
and shipped directly to Walter Roth
child of London, who owns the largest
geological museum in the world.
These strange members of the Che
lonian tribe are known to science as
the Elephantapus, but are commonly
called the giant tortoise. They are to
be found on one island only of the
Galapagos group, which is situated di-
rectly on the equator, about 600 miles
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Willie-I think old Moneybags is the
meanest man 1 ever knew.
Millie-What has he done?
Willie-Bought for his daughter a
musical parlor clock which plays
Home, Sweet Home" at 10 O'Clock,
Tramp, Tramp Tramp" at 1915, and
Johnny. Get Your Gun" at 10:30.-Jew-
eler'S Weekly.
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@ g 90 g y 81 - % " " " " " " " " " " "
one would say he had not passed the
half century mark.
He says he keeps young by keeping
good natured, which one can readily
believe for he is always ready for a
good joke.
He is married, and is the father of
seven sons. His wife keeps house for
him in the rooms above his saloon,
where he has lived for thirtyseven
years.
The greatest sorrow of his life was
the recent death Of his parrot. His
voice grows shaky and he gets "teary''
round the lashes when he speaks of
poor polls demise, whose companion
Ship he enjoyed for eighteen years.
And so Tom Sawyer who gave Mark
Twain the impetus for his famous book.
now stands at the bar giving other
things to other people.
VIOLA RODGERS.
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Reading Character by the Eyebrow
Al arched eyebrow does not indicate
the highest order of intelligence, but is
expressive of great sensibility. Scant
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8 o o @ o o o o o o o o o o o o o
How Tom SoWyer's aunt Dee
scribed Him in Mark
TWain's Famous
Book.

Hang the boy; can't I never
) learn anything? Amt he played
me tricks enough for me to be
) looking out for him by this time?
But old fools is the biggest fools
there is. Can't learn an old dog
; new tricks, as the saying is. But,
my goodness, he never plays
, them alike two days, and how Is
) a body to know what's coming?
) He pears to know just how long
) he can torment me before I get
my dander UP, and he knows
, that if he can make out to put
me off for a minute, or make me
, laugh, it's all down again, and
I can't hit him a lick.
Every time / let him off my
conscience hurts me so, and
every time L hit him my old
) heart most breaks"
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0niu a Few Of Them Left on Earth.
asst Specimens Of the Almost Extinct Giant Turtle Have
Just Been Captured

and
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Unknown Minerals in California SPRINGS.
Claims of Two English Scientists Who Have Just Beer
Exploring the Northern Counties.
They feel confident that they have disco
proposes to fix them If poss ibIe.

reaching the air. ana they
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tn WO English scientists, DR.. Bur
goyne and DR.. Paget, have just
returned to London after most
interesting visit to this country
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TO casual observer that name
would mean no more than if it were
Jack Brown or Tom Jones. but to Mark
Twain it meant the inspiration Of his
most famous work.
For the jolly old fireman sitting in
there in an old-fashioned hair cloth
chair is the original Tom Sawyer, and
1t was from him that Mark Twain
gathered the material for his two best
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wears navy blue cap, and in his shirt
there sparkles an electric diamond
about half an inch in diameter, which
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Err the door of a little old-fash-
oned saloon on Mission street,
lust back of the Mint, hangs
sign which reads THE Gotham
Tom Sawyer. Proprietor"
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-07-15
.AiTRAVELLER'S TESTIMONY.
What He Carried on the Cars
A-gs
To- Take when Travelling.

Rvery traveller knows that continuous
leurneyiug ON the railroad is very apt to
dsrangs tie system in some way. In spite
Of springs and soft seats there 10 contin-
uovs jar ard vibration. which acts upon
the nervous system. aud produces results
varying somswhat, according 20 the
strength Of the traveller or his predisposi-
tion 10 some specific ailinent The most
common consequence Of continuous car
riding 10 constipation. And this condition
invariably produces headache, and tends
70 biiiousness. J: J. converse, 81, Louis,
Of constip alton. to which he was subject
when travelling, Ne carried with him
"the pill that VIII cure constipation aud
all Its sequsnt suferings. Tiis IL what
he says:
travelling on the cars tends to consti-
patton with me-. but by using DR., J. c.
Ayers Pills moderately. my bowels are
kept In healthy action. They also prevent
hsndache."-J. J. CONVERSE, st. Louis, Mo-
,'Dr. Ayers Pills arc good for con stipation
under ALI circumstances and conditions.
They have cured long standing cases after
every other medicine had failed Rev.
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cERvERA LOVES AMERICANS.
But He Had Duty to Perform for His
Country.

Portsmouth, N. H., July 11.-Admir-
al Cervera has made the following
statement when asked his opinion
concerning America:
"You ask me, how l like America,
and l answer that L have always liked,
and l may say loved your people, but
this war has been duty with me and
the men under me- 1 knew the Amer
lean fleet clearly outclassed US, but it
was question of fighting either in
side or outside the harbor. l have
many friends in America and have
only the kindliest feelings for them,
but every man has a duty to perform
to his country, and all Spaniards tried
to perform that duty. There has been
much feeling in Spain and 1 want all
Spain to know the truth, that every
ship of my squadron fought until the
last and when we could do no more we
surrendered.
ST have much interest to know the
exact situation in Spain. Captain
Goodrich has treated us all as we'll as
anyone could possibly be treated. Ny
officers have occupied quarters in the
saloon and we cannot complain"