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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-03
Washing Streets for Diamonds,

Perhaps the most interesting fact in
connection with Kimberley, the dia-
mond city, is the street washing"
which has been a recognized industry
for some time past. With the excep-
ton Of two or three of the principal
thoroughfares, all the streets have
been subjected to the washing process,
and some of the debris washers have
done very we'll. The washing" con-
sists of overhauling the earth for dia-
monds. At nearly every meeting of
the borough council applications for
permission to wash streets, or portions
of streets, are received. The would-be
washer has to obtain the consent of
persons resident in the street or road,
to put the latter into sound repair
again, and pay 1.-THE to the municipal
ity in the shape of ten per cent on the
gross mas. Last year $3.50 was paid
to the municipality in this way, a good
proportion Of which represented COM
mission on street finds. In the early
days of the diamond fields the ground
was washed in a very primitive style,
many diamonds being thrown away in
the debris, as it is called. This debris
was subsequently used for street-mak-
ing purposes, and now, years after,
with better machinery at their dis
posal, people find it pays to wash the
streets" Many houses built on mai
den" debris are removed in order to
wash the latter, and stones of compar-
atively large size are frequently found
by the energetic debris washer, who
literally works from morn till night,
from sunrise till sunset.-Pearson's
Weekly.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-03
Haman and E~sterhazy.

The Titusville Herald, under the cap
ton of Hannah and Esterhazy,"
draws a parallel between the case of
Dreyfus and that of a famous Jew
of earlier times, which will have its
interest for Bible readers. Mordecai,
the upright Jew, whose experience is
told in the book of Esther. was accus-
ed Of treason as Dreyfus was, and ap-
p~arently for the same reason. Thanks
to the good queen he escaped the fate
prepared for him, and Hannah, his ac-
cuser, was hanged on the gallows pre-
pared for Mordecai. The parallel is
likely to hold to the end. The curious
fact is to be noted, however, that Es-
terhazy, who is likely to bear Dreyfus'
punishment when justice is done, is
a respected descendant of Queen Es-
Their, as his name (''son of Esther")
indicates.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-03

multiply their race to the terror of the
inhabitants. Whatever skeptics may
FAY, the t%arantula's bite does cause that
terrible exhibition, or series OF jumps
and distortions, which give rise 10
the lovely and graceful dance.
A recent traveller writes from Brln-
dist: Il have seen a %tarantula and can
bear witness to it. 1t was when visit
Ing the Puglie province a few years ago
that 1 came across a tarantula dancer.
Her eyes were staring wildly, as If she
saw the tarantula still before her. Ev-
cry second she would stretch forward
her hands, then hurriedly clasp them
together, as if to crush the horrible
beast. The only means of healing from
the bite, or sting, is dancing, and for
this musicians are engaged by the vic.
TINS family"
There is also a sacred well about
thirty-six miles from Brindisi, dedicat-
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-03
MRS. TYLER.


shown by official records of the guVSs1a-
ment of India that the finger prints IS"
a number of Indian natives taken after
a lapse of fourteen years were abso-
lutely unchanged except by small cuts
and other artificial means. Out OF
many thousands of finger prints which
have been taken and carefully exam
ined no two have even been found that
were even approximately similar.
So well established is the fact that
thumb marks and finger prints are the
surest methods of Identification that
this system has been adopted by more
than n government. United States
officials at San Francisco, acting I'M
der the Geary law, take thumb marks
of Cinnamon leaving America and in
tending to return. They also take pho
tographs of the Cinnamon, but much
more reliance is placed upon the thumb
prints than upon the pictures.
The Scotland yard officials are now
bent upon the solution of the Black
heath murder mystery, and are believ-
ed to be deep in the study of thumbs
and fingers. The moment some per-
son is arrested under suspicion of
completely in this mysterious crime it
Is believed that his guilt or innocence
may be established by the thumb and
finger marks which he left upon the
window pane.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-03
FOUND E BOY.

A Boston daily newspaper mentioned
b other day, as an instance of pa
triotic fervor chastened by flial feeling,
a youth who entered his name at a re-
cruiting Office, and enthusiastically told
his friends he was going South with
the Sixth Regiment. Three days later
ne was seen wearing a sober look, but
bearing very quietly a great disappoint-
ment. His widowed mother had con-
WINGED him that he ought not to go to
the war, and he refused to sign her con-
sent to his enlistment.
His submission had a noble prece-
dent in the boy George Washington,
who Joined the navy, but gave up his
berth and his eager desire at the will
of his mother.
In connection with this we are re-
minded of a strange story told by the
Portland, Me-, Express.
A soldier, who had returned from
Georgia with a recruiting detachment,
said that when on the way South with
his regiment, an elderly women came
to the car windows during the halt at
Worcester, and with tears in her eyes
gave him a letter to her son. Would
he please try to find him?
1t was a blind commission, and a
wild request, for she could only say
that she thought her missing boy
might have enlisted somewhere" but
the soldier promised the woman that
he would do all he could to find the
wanderer.
Arrived at Chickamauga, he devoted
some of his spare time to searching
among the regiments there for the
name that was on the outside of the
letter. He was as much astonished as
gratif1ed when, after a two days hunt,
he found the very man.
The stranger opened the letter, turn
ing pale as he read it, and before he
had finished it he tainted away.
1t appeared that this young man
when a boy at home nine years before,
had become angry with his parents and
had run away. In all this time he had
not written to them, and they had no
idea of his whereabouts or his fate.
The strangely guided letter broke his
hardened spirit, and he Immediately
wrote to his mother in a passion of re-
morse.
IF I get out of this war alive" he
told her, Il will come right home, and
make up in the future for all the trou-
BILE l have made you and father suf-
fer"
War, like every other dark dispen-
sation, has it's bright episodes, and the
agitation it creates now and then I'M
covers a hidden joy in an old sorrow.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-03
Says Man Came from Apes.

At the meeting Of the Cambridge
congress Of zoology in London last
week Prof. Haecket, in a paper on the
present knowledge Of the descent of
man, declared that science has now
established with absolute certainty
that man descended through various
stages Of evolution from the lowest
form of animal life during a period es-
timated at 1000, 600, 900 years. After
going deep into the scientific features
of his Investigations, Prof. Haecket
says that man is a primate, and that
all primates, monkeys, apes and man,
descended from one common stem.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-03

Sea; and for the last $500 years, ac-
cording to the scientist, they have re-
manned in the same primeval condi-
ton. They are called Svanctias, and
their village, although consisting of
miserable stone hovel, without any at
tempt at form or adornment, even
such as nature might suggest to them,
is not without a certain picturesque
ness when seen from a distance. With
in, however, the huts are desperately
filthy. being filled with rags, skins,
vermin and dirt of every description.
Like the Eskimo and certain Austria
liam tribes and the Pueblos, they have
no f~ireplaces, their cooking being done
by a fire kindled in a hole scooped out
in the middle of the floor. In these
houses, many of which measure only
and children are huddled together, as
many as eight or twelve persons often
occupying a single hut, and in the win
ter their cattle and mountain sheep
share their quarters. Every aperture
is closed on account of the cold. Hor-
rible diseases arise from this long i'm
prisonment, aggravated by an abnor-
NAL consumption Of arrak, a strong
distilled drink of the Asiatics. Strange
as it may seem, they have adopted the
holidays decreed by almost every reli-
gious sect. Thus four days in the
week, no work is done. The only in
dustries of the people are farming, bee
culture and cattle breeding; and
throughout their territory there is not
a single manufactured article.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-03

any other man, so far as concerns sci
entif1c study, and it is not likely that
1t will ever be mounted for exhibition.
1t is interesting, however, as showing
the enthusiasm of the man, who, after
giving the best of his life to science.
bequeathed to it after death not only
q goodly share of his wealth, but also
all of his body that could be of any
possible value. An interesting eharac-
t~eristic noted in the autopsy of DR..
Cope, and also in the cases of DR.. D.
Hayes Agnew and the late DR.. Pepper,
was a thickening of the arterial sys-
tenn, indicative of the extremely active
nervous systems of these three eminent
men. AS yet no official examination
has been made of the brain of DR.. Pep
per, who was the societyis third presi-
dent, he having succeeded the late DR..
Harrison Allen. DR.. Peppers brain
was removed and placed in a preserv-
ing jar by DR.. A. E. Taylor, his Office
assistant, who was travelling with him
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-03

1iSlS "05 ~ AS~S
Mrs. Tyler, living in Kidbrookpark
road, strangled to death without ap-
parent motive. She had no known en-
emies, and robbery apparently was not
the object of her assailant.
AS if to add to the weird features OF
this case is the fact that the police
have only n clew to the identity Of
the murderer. That clew is a set of
finger prints. The murderer, his hands
stained with the blood of his victim,
left upon the window pane of Mrs. Ty-
ler's house, a clear, distinct impress
sion of his thumb.
This has been photographed and very
much enlarged by the Scotland yard
police. Should they arrest the real
man but lack sufficient evidence upon
which to secure his conviction, this
thumb mark alone would, according to
the teachings of modern science, be suf-
fcient to warrant his sentence to death.
Thumb mark Identification has now
been raised to a science. In this work
the Scotland yard officials have taken
a leading part. 1t was at Scotland YARD
that the Importance of thumb marks
and finger prints in just such cases as
this was first fully realized. At Scot
land yard there is a fine collection OF
finger prints of criminals and many Of
ficials who are highly skilled in their
decipherment. 1t has been practically
demonstrated that no two human
beings alive have thumbs which are
identical OF even resemble each other
In the formation of the whorls and
capillary ridges of the skin. 1t has
been shown, while a mans face may
change, while his voice may alter and
his handwriting may undergo modifi-
cations, that from childhood to old age
the ridges of his thumbs and fingers re-
main without alteration.
Sir. W. J. Herschel and Francis Gal
ton, F. R. S., are the leading English
authorities On this subject. In a re-
markable work embodying the result
Of much patient study Mr.. Gallon has
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-03
DIRTIEST IN THE WORLD.

According to LIE Petit Journal OF
Paris, the dirtiest people in the world,
dirtier even than Lieut.. Peary found
the Eskimo, have recently been discov-
cred by a Russion traveller and ex-
plorer, NJ. Zienoviff, in the Caucasus.
They dwell in an almost inaccessible
mountain range in a strip of territory
between the Black Sea and the Caspian
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-03
Appreciative.

AppreCIatfVe.
Don't misunderstood me-" said Me-
andering Mike; Il amt down on
work"
"You don't seem to have much af-
lection for it," said Flooding Pete.
Eyes l have. Work is a good ting.
TX 1t wasn't for work how would all
desc people git money to give us?"-
Washington Star.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-03

Giles-"Yes, 1 made a speech, but
I've been thinking it over since, and
under the circumstances 1 don't believe
it was the proper thing to have done"
Miles-"Oh, I guess it was all right,
You at least had one precedent"
Giles-"Well, I'm glad to know
that"
Miles-"Yes, the precedent I refer
to was established in the time of Ba,
lam"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-03
Merely a Judge.

Mrs. Veneering-"Why, your daugh-
ter seems to be a regular %connoiseur in
art"
Mrs. Parvenue-"Oh, no.; Henrietta
didn't paint any of them herself. She
just picked them out. She don't pre-
tend to be much of an artist, but she
knows all about pictures"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-03

Paper a now be hung on the wall
by machinery. The device has a rod
on which a roll of paper is placed, and
a paste reservoir with a feeder placed
so as to engage the wrong side Of the
paper.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-03

HE historic and
once highly ctviliz-
ed little town of
Brindisi, in south
ern Italy, is a wild
place, in which the
fields and commons
abound with o
pions, yipers and
tarantulas, which
are daily killed by
scores, but still
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-03
Rank Contempt.

The Judge-"I want you to under
stand, sir, that Justice in this court is
like love-it Is blind"
Rebuked Attorney-"It may be so,
your honor, but the resemblance ends
right there. Love keeps on hitting
the mark occasionally"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-03
Couldn't See an Opportunity,

He-'Do you know that for the last
hour l have been watching for a good
chance to steal a kiss from your"
She-"Indeed! Don't you think it
might be well for you to consult an
oculist 2"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-03
TELL TALE THUMB.
FINGER MARKS USED IN EVIL
DENCE IN COURT.
Tho One Left by the Murderer of MIR.
Tyler In England May Yet Results in
His Arrest and Conviction Some
Notable Gases.

NE of the most
mysterious crimes
which have oc-
Cured in England
was the Blackheath
murder. All the en-
ergies of Scotland
yard have for over
a week been devot-
ed to the solution
of the mystery.
Here was a lady,
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-03
A Strong Indication.

"Young Sands must have done some
great fighting down there in Cuba"
"Why?"
He isn't saying q word about it."
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-03
BRAINS TO SCIENCE.
STARTLING REQUESTS OF
FAMOUS MEN.
Tree Hundred Persons Have wIled
Their Heads to Various institutions
They Are Neither Cranks Nor Fools
but Are EvolutionIsts.
Especial letter.

HERE are 300 men
in various parts of
the United States
who have bequeath-
ed their brains to
science. These men
are neither cranks
nor o They
represent the cream
of American pro-
fessional life. But
pauartha1aSc If ic q
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-03
Wanted a Real Man.

Ella-'I refused to accept an apology
last evening"
Hattie-"Why, how vas that?"
Ella-"Because I'd rather die an old
maid than marry a brainless dude"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-03
TERRIBLY STRANGE,
TARANTULA'S VICTIMS DANCE
FOR THEIR LIVES,

Most Remarkable Phase of Life In
Southern Italy-The s~Inghalese Devil
Dancers Who Remove Evil spirIts-In
Their Mind.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-03

When a man has a wheel in his head
the tire is furnished by his associates.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-08-12
AN ADMIRABLE ADDRESS.

The annual meeting of the State Bank
ers' Assocationis in session at Charlotte
Mr.. Thos. III. Battle, president of the
association, made an admirable speech
closing with these words:
I'm some sections there is a prejudice
against banks. 1t should be our am
bition to remove this prejudice. Om
invited to attend. Our proceedings will
be published. We have nothing to con
ceal. We have no connection whatever
with politics."
1t should not only be the mission OF
bankers, hut of all other intelligent men
to overcome any prejudice against banks.
They are necessary and useful agents in
every community. The deposit bank is
Il modern discovery. 1t is comparatively
IA new thought that by putting all
the surplus money of the community in
bank it can be kept constantly at work.
One hundred years ago the banks lent out
their capital and individuals kept their
money in chimney corners and in iron
vaults at home. The greatest progress
made toward prosperity has been in the
utilization of banks of deposit They have
multiplied the money in circulation many
time and made industries profitable tina,
otherwise would never have been known.
Mr.. Battle says 1--WE have no connec-
ton whatever with politics." Whatever
of prejudice exists against banks has
been mainly produced by the demands
of the bankers associations to be al
lowed to dictate the financial policy of
the country by taking a very great hand
in politics. This was particularly notice
able in the campaign Of 1896 when
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-08-12
SORRY RECORD FOR CUBANs.

Stanhope Sans in \. Y. Tribune.
Fifty Cubans took active part in the
battle of Ell Sancy.
'"One or two Cubans fought with con-
spcuous bravery at lei Pozo III the at
tack on the blockhouse at San Juan.
Several hundred served, with not
much efficiency, as scouts at the battle
of La Guasima and at lei Cancy.
"Garcia's army of about 1000 occupied
a position presumably on the road from
Manzanilo to Santiago after the invest
ment of the latter city, but it. permitted
the Spaniards to send in 1000 reinforce
mentS.
"Aftcr the surrender the Cubans under
Garcia demanded share in the military
government of Santiago, and when the
demand was promptly and properly re-
icctcd, they withdrew from our lines i'll
Indignation"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-08-12
HAMRICK "COLLECTING DISTILL-
ING STATISTICS
Cleveland Star.

Cleveland Star.
The speech of Lem. Wetmore, the
Republican candidate for solicitor, de-
livered in the court house Monday, was
enough to make any white man puke. Wet
more made clear-cut negro speech and
completely Disguised the white PopulIsts.
Wetmore boosted about how many ne
groes this administration had put in of
fee and j. Y. Hamrick, in his speech
said there were no more negroes Ill otncC
than under Il Democratic administration,
but everybody knew that this statement
was untrue, if he meant it TO apply to
any Democratic appointees Wetmore
was brutally candid and told the truth
about the negroes holding office, but
Hamrick was too shrewd politician to
tell the truth about thing like that
and then he knows how Cleveland coun-
ty Populists dislike the negro anyway.
Wetmore ran for mayor of Iincolnton
last year and only received one vote
and it is said he voted in that election.
If the people all over the district learn
to know him as well as the people Of
Lincolnt0n do, it is doubtful whether he
will receive many more votes for solicit
tor than he did for mayor.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-08-12

The above is an extract from u pri-
vate letter received from Murfreesboro
yesterday. In this campaign, the wisdom
of appealing to white men as white
men to redeem the State from the degra-
dation into which it has fallen is APP
parent. There are not a few Republicans
who are sick and tired of association with
thicving, lecherous rascals who are in
public office, and they are going TO help
kick out the gang that put them in
places of trust for decency's sake And
there are many Populsts who will do the
same thing.
The publication Of the State from the
filth and slime that now polIutes it is
more far-rcaching than questions of
political difference. Men VINO love their
State ought all to vote together to drive
out the gang that has brought reproach
upon the name of the State. Many
more will follow the example of Mr..
Parker.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-08-12

politics and when in some parts of the
North men who owed the banks were
coerced into voting against their con-
victions. This united and aggressive
method of trying to control politics natur-
ally worked prejudice against banks, and
President Battle wisely tells the North
Carolina bankers at should be our am
bition to remove this prejudice" Logical
ly his last sentence tells how to re-
move it, "have no connection whatever
with politics."
When the banks go out of the govern
ing business, the prejudice will vanish
as snow mets under the heat of the
noon day sun.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-08-12
DEMOCRATIC PUBLIC SPEAKING

Gibson Station. Richmond County,
august 1Sth-Chas. Il. Aycock and John
ID. Bellamy.
Bayboro, Pamlico County, Grand Rally
and Barbecue. August 20th.-B. +. Ay-
cock and Il. w. Pou.
pittsboro, Chatham County, August
20th-Chas. b. Aycock and II. +. Boone.
Brevard, Pennsylvania County, County
Convention. August 22nd-Locke Craig
and j. Frank Ray.
= -Albermarlc, Stanley County, Grand
Democratic Rally. August 20th-Theo.
T.. Klutz, a. Leazer and James +. Lock
hart.
Durham (at night August 25th-
Chas. Il. Aycock.
Hayes Store. Durham County, August
26th-Chas. b. Aycock.
Hilsboro. Orange County, County Con
yention, August 21th--Chas. Il. Aycock.
Pine Level, Johnston County. Demo
cratic Rally, August 27th-Chas. NJ
Busbee.
+. NJ. SIMMONS,
Chairman.
JNO. w. THOMPSON,
Npcratory
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-08-12
NEGRO TROOPER CONFESSED
MURDER
beaufort Herald Dispatch. J

One William Davis, colored. who was
enlisted i'll company | from Kinston
colOred State troops, now mobiiZed al
Fort Macon. was arrested Thursday by
Deputy Sheriff Benjamin Robertson.
Davis was wanted in Kenansyille fol-
the murder of Il colored man. He broke
Jail from that place some time since and
ran away to Kinston and enlisted for the
war.
Davis confessed his guilt to Deputy
Sheriff Robertson. The sheriff of Kenans-
vile took the prisoner away this morn
ing.