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The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-01-19
THEY WANT TO TELL
These Grateful Women Who Have
Boon Helped by Mrs. Pinkham.

Women who have suffered severely
and been relieved of their ills by Mrs.
Pinkham's advice and medicine are
constantly urging publication of their
sta sments for the benefit Of other wo-
men. Here are two such letters:
Mrs. LIZZIE BEVERLY. 25s Merrinan
St., Lowell, Mass, writes:
at affords me great pleasure TO tell
all suffering women of the benefit have
received from taking Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. lean hard
ly find words toexpress my gratitude for
what she has done for me. My trouble
was liberation Of the womb. Twas un-
der the doctors care. Upon examina-
ton he found fifteen very large ulcers,
but he failed to do me good. took sew
eral bottles of Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound, also used the Sanative
Wash, and am cured. Mrs. Pinkham's
medicine saved my life, and l would
recommend it to all suffering women"
Mrs. AMOS TRoMBLEAY, Ellenburgh
Ctr, N. Y. writes:
~ took cold at the time my baby
was born, causing me to have milk
legs, and was sick in bed for eight
weeks. Doctors did me no good. I
surely thought would die. was al
SO troubled with falling of the womb.
could not eat, had faint spells as
often as ten times day. One day .
lady came to see me and told me of the
benefit she had derived from taking
Lydia L. Pinkhan's medicine, and I'D
vised me to try it. 1 cid SO, and had
taken only half bottle before was
able to sit in a chair. After taking
three bottles could do my own work.
am now in perfect health"
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-01-19
MUSCULAR EXERCISE.
IL Is Absolutely Necessary 20 tho
Proper and Even Development
of body and Brain.

That physical exercise is necessary
for the development and well being of
the body is recognized by most persons
of intelligence, but that II is also neces.
sary for the proper development of the
brain will be news to many.
DIR. Luther Gulick, an eminent scien.
list and close observer, makes the latter
point in an article entitled Physical
Aspects of Muscular Exercise" in the
Popular Science Monthly.
He further says that, in order that a
mans brain may be fully developed by
exercise, his instinct to play as a child
must be INDUCED in without restraint
To deprive a boy of liberty OF oppor-
tunity to play is to deprive him of o
chance to become a sane or intelligent
man.
DR.. Gulick analyses the play instinct
of man from infancy to carly manhood
He finds that during this period mar
lives over the life history of the race
Up TO seven he merely plays games thai
involve muscular activity, but no ski
or competition.
This represents the life of the mos
primitive man. From seven to twelv'
our boys play games involving competi
ton, but not much skill. This brings
them TO about the period of the stone
age in human history. From l2 to II
they indulge in highly organized sports
such as baseball and football. From II
10 22 they are devoted TO the same
sports. but with passionate earnest.
ness, devotion and skill which they
rarely suIpass in the serious business OF
after life.
In this stage they represent the
highest type of savage, such as the
American Indian or the South Sea is
lander, who lives only for fighting,
hunting, fishing and other sports.
In order that child may start on the
business CT civilized life properly
equipped his brain and body must have
been built up in this way. II we fail
10 provide school childyen with proper
Fairgrounds, we shall wreck the race.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-01-19
THE LAND OF LONG AGO

Where the mountains grand and solem
Guard the landscape calm and stiu,
watching Ger its peaceful beauty
Just as giant watchers will,
Oft love amid the splendor,
As the sun is sinking low
Just to gaze upon the picture,
AS In days of long ago.
There the flowers are upward springing
As OF old they oft would grow;
And the happy birds are singing
Making music sweet and low,
While in many a wayside garden
Dear familiar blossoms stand,
oh. II Is a realm enchanted,
Wondrous glimpse of childhood's land.
Softly sounds the ripping streamlet
While II seeks the distant sea,
Hark, | hear the millstones whirring,
Grinding grain from hill and lea.
Ever sings the merry miller.
Some sweet strain In accent low.
oh, 1t is a land of gladness,
As Il was long years ago.
j. b. NJ. Wright, in Boston Budget
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-01-19

A New York merchant recently adver-
tised for an office boy. The first lad that
went to try for the position was asked what
his motto in life was.
The same as yours, sir" answered the
lad.
"tIow do you know my motto?" asked the
manager.
at tells you on the door, sir; it says
push"
The boy was employed at once.-Cincin.
natl Enquirer
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-01-19

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured
by Halls Catarrh Cure.
L. j. Cheney & CO., Props, Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known T.. j.
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lcdo, o.
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Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bot
tie. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials
free.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-01-19
And II wa. Dimerent.

"If you were not an heiress," he said AZ
a wind-up to his impassioned appeal--if you
hadn't hundreds of thousands Of dollars,
while | am poor, the case would be different.
You would know then that l loved you for
yourself alone"
Haven't you seen the evening papersr'
she calmly asked.
mo, darling"
Better get one. My bank has busted
and haven't got dollar. However, as you
love me for myself alone"
"As l was saying, Miss French" he in.
terrupted as he rose up, 81 called to see your
father about that coalyard, and will tres
pass no further on your valuable time.
Thanks for your kindness good EVENING""
Philadelphia Press.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-01-19
A Double Crop OF AppIcs.

On Long Island farm is an apple tree
which bore two crops of fruit the past year,
and the farmers are taking unusual interest
in this popularity Of nature. just as much
interest has been shown in Hostetter Stom-
ach Bitters, which has the popularity of cur
ing dyspepsia, indigestion, constipation and
blood disorders that other remedies fail to
benefit. In chronic cases it rarely fails, and
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-01-19

man and his wife quarrel and agree
to part. The man walks eastward, his
wife walks westward. After going
nearly 100 miles, they are less than loO
yards apart. The explanation IS thai
they are travelling on shipboard, and
that the man goes TO one end of the
ship, and his wife TO the other. - ST.
Lcpis Globe Democrat
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-01-19
A Dainty GIFT.

DIR. p. Harold Hayes, the well-lSnown
specialist in Asthma aud Hay Fever, whose
success In curing these diseases has been so
remarkable as to attract the attention of
physicians all over the world, has issued a
dainty Calendar for 1899 which he is send
ing 10 his many patients. Any sufferer from
either OF these diseases can obtain copy
free by writing DR.. Hayes for 1t, pro-
vided this paper Is mentioned.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-01-19
CZAR WANTS PEACE.
Still Hammering Away at His Dis
armament Proposal.
Editor stead Is the Autocrat's Chosen
Mouthpiece-Wby the Proposed
Congres. VIII Not Achieve
AnythinE Tangible.
Esneclal Correspondenee.l

The beginning of 1899, contrary 20
all predictions made a year or more
ago, sees all the nations of the world
at peace. Russia, which once led
the aggressive war powers OF the
European continent, is going around
seeking proselytes for the peace
policy advocated by the czar, the au-
tocrat himself leaving nothing undone
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-01-19
One of Many.

Mrs. Weeks-What business is your hus-
band engaged iny
Mrs. Meeks-He operates in stocks.
"Is he bull or 'bearY"
Both He's bull at the stack exchange
and a bear at home. Chicago Evening
News
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-01-19

New Form of an Old Question n.-"So you
wish to marry my daughter?" Eyes, sir
We'll, can yon support her in that condition
:ustomedT-Chicago Daily Record.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-01-19
Perfectly Harmless.

Dix-l once knew a young man who
smoked 80 cigarettes daily without any par.
ticuar harm resulting therefrom.
Hix-ls it possible?
Yes; and the only noticeable effect was
the death of the moker."-Chicago Evening
News.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-01-19

Never be at your place of business when
a person wants to borrow money Of you,
because if you are in you will be out, but
II you are out you will be in.-Town and
Country Journal
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-01-19
Feminine sIstcrIincss.

"What made you lose your place in the
line?"
Because wasn't going to be kissed by
the Lieutenant right after he had smacked
that odious, peppermint chewing Bagley
gril"-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-01-19

81 always want introductions to long.
haired men," "Why" 81 like to discover
what subjects they are foolish on."-Chi
cago Daily Record.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-01-19

Dropsy treated free by DR.. II. II. Green's
Sons, of Atlanta, Ga. The greatest dropsy
specialists in the world. Read their adver.
tisement in another column of this paper.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-01-19

There is, after all, no man so ornery as the
one who marries his landlady to avoid pay
ing his board bill.-Atchison Globe.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-01-19

Pleasant, Wholesome, Speedy, for coughs
Is Hale,s Honey OF Horehound and Tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-01-19

We think Pso's Cure for Consumption is
the only medicine for Coughs. Jennie
Pinckard, Springfield, I'LL, Oct. !, 1894.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-01-19

A captured ostrich always means q feathe,
in somebody's cap.-Chicago Daily News.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-01-19

To Cure a Cold I'm One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund money il it fails to cure. 25c
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-01-19

hands, first in thankfulness and then
in the bitterest despair. Aunt Tempy
was not dead; but they might lie there
for days, Aunt Tempy in the yard and
she in the house, and not a soul would
know that anything was wrong.
1t sometimes happens that when we
are suffering our utmost an unknown
strength is gathering in us to put our
suffering by. Suddenly little Miss sat
up on her couch almost as IL there had
been a hand TO help her. She forgot
that she could not walk. She would see
what had happened in the yard. She
rose to her feet and found herself at
the window, looking out.
Aunt Tempy was turned away from
the house, and she did not see a white
face at the window, nor hear her name
called again and again. She did not
see little Miss come out of the house
door all alone and walk across the un-
even, furrowed yard, as swift and pale
and noiseless as a ghost. She did not
know that anyone was near her until
there was a touch upon her arm. Then
she started, turned, and her face
changed to gray. Her lips opened, but
she did not say word.
Little Miss eyes were wide and dark
with excitement. II couldn't stay still;
| thought you were killed; and then
thought | heard you groaning, and
had to see. began to walk without
knowing il, YVES SO afraid for you;
and then saw il was old Charlie, and |
called TO know why you didn't 60 for
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turned and with his practiced aim
dropped the young man in his tracks.
The whole of Mingo County was now
stirred as no war had ever excited it be-
fore. Hatfield and twenty Of his feudists
retired to their fort on Tug River and
one hundred more of his adherents pre-
pared to go to the assistance of the
stronghold on the Devils Backbone to
prevent the arrest of Hatfield
Something had to be done by the legal
authorities if the power of the legal gov
ment was to be maintained. The fort
could not be taken, for 1t was only to be
reached by dizzy climbing single file Ar
tillery could not be brought in to those
wild cliffs, so the Sheriff finally deter
mined on blowing up the whole promon-
tory with nitro-glycerin. Tons of the ex-
plosive were piled at its base In a spot
sheltered by overhanging rocks from the
fire of the fort The slow match that was
to fire the mine was necessarily very long
in order to enable the Sheriff and his at
tacking forces to retire to a safe distance
After lighting it, in their haste to get
away before the mountain fell they ex-
posed themselves to view of the Hat
fields and three Of the posse were shot
The besieged force now looked for the
cause of the close approach of the in
truders. They saw the smoke from the
burning fuses, recognized the peculiar
that some sort of an explosion was in
store for them, and that instant escape
only might save their lives. The re-
mainder of the Sheriff's posse, having by
began with their rifles to pick off the
Hatf1eds as they clambered in wild
frenzy down the cliff trail Sure death
awaited every one, Sc they determined
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to await the uncertain. rather than take
the certain death, and returned to the
top of the promontory to hurl vast
stones below in vain attempts to strike
and extinguish the torturingly slow fuses
that sputtered out their dense folds Of
smoke.
Then came a burst of thunder sound,
the air was filed with rocks, trees and
binding dust that filled the valley like
fog; Before It had cleared away and
while the Sheriff was still looking for his
game, a rifle shot was heard up the val
ley and another of the posse fell That
was Hatf1eld's farewell to the Sheriff.
the force of the explosion and the dust
Of the explosion that was to have been
his death concealed his escape until safe
on the mountain above
Hatfields and McCoys and their active
partisans were now scattered far and
wide, always shooting. on sight, usually
killing and seldom suffering any penalty.
About six months after the destruction
of the fortress, Johnson Hatfield planned
a grand coup, by which the McCoys were
iy fired Mccoy house. Hatfeds had dVb BEEN en-
posted all about the place. The McCoys,
not suspecting the cause of the fire. were
endeavoring to pack UP and save some Of
Beautiful Affair Mccoy ran out of the
house followed by her brother Shots
were fired. He fell, and as she stopped
to lift him Johnson Hatfield shot her
frail body through and through. The
rage of Mccoy made him like a demon.
and in his fury the HatheldS, superior In
numbers, were routed with loss. The
trial of Johnson Hatfield did not occur
until the beginning of this year, and the
population of Prestonburg trembled at
the assemblage of Hatfields who were
called out by their leaders but kept In
submission by officers of the law.
For the present the feud Is quiescent in
the East. The stone fort is destroyed
and the bodies of its defenders carry
many bullets that pain and call forth
curses as the moonshiner tolls up stony
mountain trails. The McCoys seek in
far away lands to live in peace and es-
cape the bloody death that waits them.
but now under California's bright sun
and over her summer parched hills the
feudal bullets whistle and sing for when
the Thirty--f1rst Infantry was discovered
to be smallpox infected and sent into
quarantine on Angel Island the SPACE
became too small to hold the two bellig-
erent soldiers, whose traditions did not
allow them within forty miles of each
other The detention camp at Angel ISL
and has been placed as remote as pos
sible from civilization and far away from
sight OF human habitation Surrounded
by the great bay to the north and noun
famous ridges, guarded along their crests
by armed men on the southeast and west
this confinement became insupportabls to
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selves from active circulation in society
In order to secure their privacy they
commenced the construction of an i'm
pregnable stone fortress on the top Of q
thin cliff or wall of rock known as
Devils Backbone" that jutted out into
the valley Of the Tug River above Hun
tington, w Va Here for seven years
they defied law or MoCoys to take them
The fortress was entirely OF stone, even
the roof being of that material.
It may seem strange that men could
exist practically in state of siege dur
ing that time, but 1t must be remembered
that the friends and neighbors do not
forget them, for there Is always some
thing attractive in assisting fugitives, and
again there are many ways of profitable
action open to those who have succeeded
in placing themselves securely beyond the
reach of the law.
But confinement and lack of exercise
finally told upon the Hatf1elds and they
longed for something more than q mere
defensive existence
In November, 1896, "Old Cap Hatfield
went down to Matewan to vote Not that
he cared particularly. but there is no
nicer place to look for trouble than
around the polls. 1t is tradition of the
race that leaders should be chosen by
force and the old spirit still feebly shows
when election day comes around.
1t was not long before he was in a as
pute with Hutchinson, one of the men
whose family he had broken up in former
years, and who was member of the Mo-
Coy side of the feud.
Hatfield had % flee for his life, pursued
by a nephew of Hutchinson, who fired I
him repeatedly until Cap Hatfield
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the two feudatories used to the freedom
of their mountain life, and they met in
a furious quarrel before they had been
long confined and were with difficulty
separated. A solemn warning was given
them-fOr the commanders of the regi-
ment are mainly West Pointers and the
discipline there is on the whole noticeably
good.
The trouble still smoldered between
the two men, and one day one of them
fancied that his life was in danger IL
he/ did not protect it. With him fore
warned was forearmed indeed. To his
tent he rushed, and with malice afore-
to fire upon his fellow soldier.
AT the first shot the victim was struck
in the arm. The second struck him in the
chance for him to win glory now in the
wars. When his regiment sails he must
sadly stay behind, and with the Thirty
Once, when they were Kentucky yoIIJn
teers at Tampa. orders came for them to
saii. Great was their glee when the
scarcely had she cleared the land when
after her came flying arrow of a torpedo
boat to say that it was a mistake, and
regiment could scarcely yield Itself 10
discipline. To fight was their only ambi
ton. and to be pulled back was worse to
them than facing death.
Again, in San Francisco thev were or
oered on board the Grant; their baggage
was on board when the smallpox was dis
SoNSIeu dllOHs the men, ana away they
went to Camp Detention, at Angel Island.
But while they sail away happy and free
to fight, the wounded man and his assail-
ant will suffer more in being left behind
than from the wound or the punishment
inflicted for the crime
But there will be an atonement When
the snow comes again at the old Ken
tucky home kind friends will redden it
with the blood of his enemys family, to
make sorrowing women weep over how-
erless mound beneath the silent hemlocks
So the patient nurses his wounds and bis
wrath
Serious but not necessarily fatal the
surgeon said. Not fatal to the wounded
man But have care, you innocent chill
dren, clambering on the barnyard gate
back there In old Kentucky. Somewhere,
somewhere there is bullet, long and slim
like the stub of q lead pencil, and some
day from an ambush will come a rife
crack and your golden curls will tumble
in the dust, and ere your mother can
wipe the blood from your foaming mouth
and close the whitening eyes her blood
will be mixing with yours in the little
pools in the hollows of the dust, and
tall quite serious faced man will throw
another shell in his rife, pass his hand
over the handle of his pistol and walk
away through the darksning forest
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munition with which they might defend
themselves from an expected attack upon
the various members and friends Of the
Mccoy family, which was to be made by
an armed force consisting of nearly 100
of the Hatfield family and adherents, who
were coming from West Virginia under
the leadership of Devil Anse Hatfield
and Cap Hatfield.
This contemplated expedition of the
Hatfields lacked only Government sane
tion to give it the title of war for there
were as many men and as much method
in their preparations IN many of the
Governments military exploits during the
early history of our country.
1t was the elimination of an election
fight that took place in-Pike County in
1889 when a Mccoy shot Hatfield, but
even back of this there seemed to be
faint shadows of beautiful faces and bold
hearts that loved not wisely, for like all
Of the sons of Mars they were no lag
CARDS in love.
Law was laxly administered In that wild
mountain region, where the moonshiner
defies even the Governments most willy
secret service men and the power of the
military combined. so the Hatfields. in
order to prevent any miscarriage of JUS
tice and also to give salutary warning
to any other men who might be inclined
to send bullets trespassing within their
anatomies, captured four members Of
the Mccoy family who had been con-
cerned in the disturbance and forcibly
carried them as prisoners to West Vir-
ginia With the prisoners once in their
power, however, 1t seemed to them that
to execute them in West Virginia was
sort of killing sheep too near home"
Besides the laws Of West Virginia were
more actively enforced. So by secret
mountain trails and through wild forest
paths the unhappy prisoners were re-
turned to their native State and shot by
their captors
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The Governor of Kentucky thereupon
made a reouisition on the Governor Of
West Virginia for some Hatfields. The
West Virginia Governor was evidently
we'll acquainted with his citizens. and not
desiring to suddenly leave his Office va
cant, firmly but politely refused the
request This unusual proceeding caused
a storm of popular feeling. Large re-
wards were offered for the Hatffelds, and
the Sheriff OF Pike County finally ex-
tended his strong arm and his jurisdic-
ton into the State OF West Virginia until
It embraced three Hatf1elds
The Hatfields now considered that not
only their own honor and feelings were
outraged, but also that their State had
been insulted.
Another Hatfield foray was organized
to raid the Mccoy home in Pike County.
Again the Hatfields crossed the border
and succeeded in attacking and burning
the Mccoy house and killing while con-
fined in the burning house McCoys wife,
daughter and son.
The elder Mccoy escaped, persuaded
thirty of his relatives and friends to ioin
him. invaded Logan County, West Vir-
ginia, killed two Hatfelds and captured
six, whom they took back with them
and turned over to the authorities of
Pike County.
1t was now the turn of the West vir-
ginia Governor to plead for the return
Of his citizens, but the Governor of
Kentucky not only refused but under
the authority vested in him by law for
the suppression of crime offered a reward
of $4,000 apiece for each and every one of
the West Virginia Hatfelds who had
been engaged in trespasses on Kentucky
soil
The size Of this reward made the Hat
fields much-sought-after people, and, de-
string to be somewhat more retiring and
exclusive than formerly, like all who at
taip prominence. they withdrew them