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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-07-03
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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-09-05
LIVE SNAKE FOR WAIST BELT.
The Peculiar Expe rfence of Young
Woman MaryIa
Farm.

A singular but well-authenti cated
snake story comes from Pleasant Val
ley, Mo-, the principal actors in which
were the snake and Miss Cora Legore,
a domestic employed by Frederick G.
Yingling, weu-known farmer residing
near that place.
Miss Legore went to the barn to milk
the COWS, as was her customary duty.
She did not return as promptly as
usual, and, becoming uneasy after
time Mrs. Yingling sent some one to
the barn to look for her She was found
lying in a dead faint in a cow stall,
and upon being revived appeared dazed
and frightened. Finally she became
sufficiently composed TO tell the cause
of her Inconsistencies. She said that
while milking she felt something NOV
ing about her clothing but supposed it
was a cat, until she felt a construction
about her waist. and she found herself
looking into the eyes of snake which
had wrapped itself about her and
reared it's head in front of her face. She
was too much frigh tened to noticewhat
sort of a serpent was thus confronting
her. but. striking at it with her hand,
tainted away. When she was found
the snake had disappeared.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-09-05
MANI BRiNO CLOUD

Ma1nbrino Cloud is 161a hands higl
black. with white stripe in forehead
hind leg white little above pasteri
and Weighs nearly 800 pounds. He is
Of great power and shows a strong ga
is shapely, and strong Well-made no
is richly bred and with the best of inc
Qualities, and to those who have pat
him he gives good satisfaction and g
fitable, practical colts that sell readily
prices He has the fashionable anc'
tent blood that will cause him to tran
his progeny out of all grades Ct ma
desirable qualities OF size, SubStan
color. His colts show that he does
these qualities. His second and thir
we're noted for their great endurans
his first dam was a grand producer OF
dual merits.
He was sired by Boaner's Nam brin
tie. who is also sire of Mambrino Maid
CollinwOod, 2:22 at years; Myra
2:25L; Captain Lee, 2:29 at years, ar
Palm at L:20A.
Startle 29O has a 3-year-old record !:
and later showed a trial over FleetWoC
in 2:19, half mile in 1:04%. With a We
tied opportunity i'll the stud Startle 6
jolica 2:15. Instant 2:24A, MISS MaJollc
Allie Bonner Us, POrtia 2:291a (dam O.
ming Maid. 4-yeaI-Old record 2:l9A), N
as a 4-year-old, and Mambrino Startle
Mambrino Maid 2.1o14) Others got h
file have shown trials as follows: We
FER 2:lS as a 3-year old and Loretta 2:s
trials for Mr.. Bonner. also Allie Bonnie
over Carl Burr's track and other fast
Jessie Kirk is dam of Majolica I'll
Majolica 2 pan and Mambrino Startles
Mambrino Maid. 2:l5A,
On his dams side he has great be
his dam being Kate, sired by Black
Cloud 37S, who is also sire of Bade
2:22R, dam Of Kate.
Terms of service S., cash down.
dents at owners risk. Will stand THU
this price.
Both horses will make the season
the old Sauter barn, corner Second
ket streets, WatertOwn, Wis.
n. ROGERS,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-09-05
SCORCHERS NOT COMMON.
Reckless Riders of Bicycles on Crowd
ed ThOroughfares Are Now
Seldom Seen.

Along with the decline of the bicycle,
or rather the wearing off Of the craze
for the wheel while the people take to
it seriously as a means of locomotion
has come an absence of the scorcher
The reckless hoodlum who, astride of
a wheel, went at break-neck pace along
the crowded Sunday Streets knocking
down men and women and frightening
children, is now seldom seen.
-Four years ago it was a common thing
for creature of this sort. and it was
not always a man, either, to be the
cause of several mishaps in single day.
Whether it was the exhilara ton of be-
ing on a wheel or whether it was some
subtle poison in the gum they chewed,
these people ran amuck frequently and
it was not uncommon for as many as
50 to face the police judge Monday
morning in answer to any charge from
mayhem to murder. But only a small
proportion was ever arrested. A far
greater number got away to do damage
elsewhere.
But even these apparently insane and
irresponsible people have sobered
down. and to see a bicycle going at
more than a moderate speed is an IN
usual thing.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-09-05
HCRSEnp
kim e 5ON

No. 652G Walla ce's Register, Standard
sired by Harry Blandy. No. 1873, by
teer. sire Of twenty-seven $3.50 and
trotters sire of horses with record
2.l4M o2:19. sire OF six sons who ha
duced forty trotters with records frOI
to 2:3O. He is a seal brown stallion,
June %. 1854, seventeen hands high
withers. like the Volunteers has pl
depth through the girth, has broad,
ribs and strong, powerful loin, he
across the hips, and his quarters arr
lent
This horse will make the spring Sc
1900. commencing March /. Terms, 81
down
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-09-05
CARRIAGES AND PHAETQNS
Nothing Sells Like the Dust PrOofIn-
terchangeable Axle Box Buggy.

They give the very best satisfaction, and
are warranted to run from 500 to ] 200 miles
without Oiling. The parts arc interchange
able, and when worn can be renewed and
made good as new. The axle box is made
from wrought iron with sleeve properly
grooved to fit the balls pressed on the point
o. the box and a cap pressed into the back
end OF the box which is made to fit the balls
that are contained in the cone, which
mounted at the shoulder of the axle. The
nut is made with cup There is also back
dust cap which screws over the back end of
the box. also dust cap which screws over
the point Of he hub, making the axle dust
proof. The buggy is fitted with double end
springs which make it one Of the easiest rid
ing buggies manufactured,
When you want to buy the best
Buggies, Wagons, Binders, Reap ers
Mowers, Tanning Mills, Etc,
Call and see JOHN F. BRAMER,
No. Windmills speciality. 400 MAIN ST.
Pumps, Tanks, Repairs. always in stock
Low est prices guaranteed.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-09-05
FRESH FROM BORNEO.
The GuricOo1a Is q Curious Addition
to Philadelphia ZOO-Lives
Largely in Trees.

missionary in Borneo has just
sent guricoola to the Philadelphia zoo.
The little creature is one of the queer
est creations in the animal kingdom,
and just how to classify it is the prob
lem. At first glance it greatly resem-
bles a monkey, but many radical diff
ferences are soon apparent. The gurl-
coola lives largely in trees, and it
feeds on small birds. In this respect
1t differs from the monkey tribe, while
another and very apparent difference
Is it's snakelike tail which is fully
eight feet long. This remarkable APP
pendage, when not used in assisting
it's owner to travel, is carried in
neat, nauticallike coil When the ami
NAL wants to climb a tree it shoots
the coil out, lariot fashion, catches
the nearest limb, and shins up it's
own tail with amazing rapidity. Once
among the branches, another cast is
made, and up goes the guricoola like
a spider climbing his thread. So deft
is the creature at lassoing that the
tallest trees are ascended in jiffy,
and the absence of noise in the oper-
alton makes it easy to take the feath-
cred tribe unawares. Ancient scien-
tific writer's have casually mentioned
the creature in their works, but ow-
ing to the inaccessibility of the re-
gion whence they come, and the ra-
pidity Of the animals movements,
study of the species has not much en-
riched natural history. The animal
now in the ZOO at Philadelphia is the
first known specimen in captivity.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-09-05
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HOMEsEEkERS' EXCURSION
On May ! and 10 and June 5 d
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one fare plus two dollars for the
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DAYS from date of sale. For furths
formation apply at ticket office.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-09-05
$500 REWARD

We will pay the above reward for any case Of
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Indigestion, Constipation or Costiveness we can
not cure with Liverita, the Up To-Date Little
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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-09-05
GENIUS AMONG COLORED MEN
William Dean HOvelIs Pays n Well
Merited Tribute to Several
Notable Negroes.

It appears William Dean Howells
has come to occupy position of pa
iron saint of the negro in his artistic
endeavors, and to be, as it were, a
"discoverer" of the colored man strug-
Cling toward artistic achievement, as
was DR.. Robertson Nicol, of the kali
yard novelist some years ago, says
the New Orleans Picayune. He has
recently found much to commend in
Charles w. Chestnut, the author Of
"The Wife of His Youth" and 1.-THE
Conjure Woman" and, speaking Of
Mr.. Chestnut and of the "colored peo-
ple," who are almost or quite as white
as the palest Caucasian land Mr..
Chestnut is one of these). he has re-
Gently said:
''They need not be ashamed of the
race from which they have sprung
and whose shame they share, for in
many of the arts it has already been
shown, during a single generation OF
freedom, gifts which slavery appar-
emily only obscured. With Mr.. Booker
Washington, the first American orator
of our time, fresh upon the time of
Frederick Douglass, and with Mr..
Dunbar among the truest of our
poets: with Mr.. Lewis, a black Amer
lean out of the only three Americans
from whom the French government
ever bought picture, Mr.. Chestnut
may well be willing to own his color"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-09-05
Chicago Il North w estern.
GOING SOUTH.

GOING SOUTH.
Chicago Fast Passenger -. $3.50.
. Mail - ....... 10
GAINESVILLE . ...... -.
New ROckford-Wa train.
Rockford $40 A NJ. arrives at Watt
80 A. NJ. and goes no further, ret
leaves Watertown so Z NJ. arriy
Rockford 800
GOING NORTH.
TaSSoUg0f....
hFfoI8ul.
Passenger from Chicago arrives at
town 9:25 p N and goes no farther.
1851 a III train connects direct VII
train for La Crosse WinOna, ST. Pa
intermediate points.
6:32 D M train connect direct for ST
.0:57 N train connects direct wit
f. r Madison, and Minnesota and
points.
a except Sunday.
FRED NJ. NEWTON Age
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-19
BRITISH BOER WAR UNR|GHTE0US|
THE MON. 2. L0UTER VESSELS COMMISSIONER FROM THE
SOUTH AFRICAN REPUBL Lies, SAYS so IN AN Ex.
elusive INTERVIEW.

The Hon. P. Louter Vessels, vice
chairman and special commissioner from
the South African republics, is in New
YORK by the advice of the consul in Eu-
rope to confer with and to Cooperate
with the National Boer Relief associa-
ton. In an interesting interview on the
subject he said:
Il am not here to make any xagger
ated statements in reference to either
belligerent, but am authorized to- give
authentic information in reference to
the cause of this present and unrighte-
Gus war now being carried on in Soutl,
Africa. Furthermore, whatever state
Inent l make l am prepared to challenge
any contradiction. In the previous war
the English desired n annexed the dia-
mond fields of South Africa on account
OF their wealth. They now desire to an
mex the gold fields in that country for
the same reason. Before the discovery
of these wealthy mines the English pol
iticians considered South Africa not
worth any attention and also indirectly
assisted the aboriginal tribes in South
Africa in their attempts to exterminate
the emigrant Beers. This wal now being
carried on in South Africa, to a certain
extent, has the same object in view. For
a long time the Dutch people had no
representative in parliament or on the
jury. They We're restricted in the use
of their language both in court and
school, and for various other wrongs per-
petrated they finally came to the con-
clusion that they could receive no JUS
tice at the hands of the English govern
nlent. The policy carried out by England
in South Africa has been more to OBJ
struct the advancement of the people
and country than to the same.
Notwithstanding which the Beers contin-
ued to progress, and at the last elections
In Cape Colony the Dutch received a ma
jority of votes and had their own premier
nominated. This evoked the jealousy of
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-19
NOTES ABOUT WOMENs

Miss Amanda Way has been nominated
for congress by the prohibitionists at Ida
no and promises to make a vigorous can
vass.
The old Stanford home in Sacramento,
Cal, which Mrs. Stanford has given, with
$75,O 900, for an o%rphanage to the catholic
church, is the one in which her husband
lived for twenty years and where her son
for whom the university was named, dled.
The room in which young Stanford died
is to be deliberately fitted out as an mfr
mary by his mother.
Princess Victoria of Wales, the younger
daughter of the Prince of Wales, is a
skillful and artistic bookkinder. At a
booSbinder's exhibition recently held In
London one OF the prizes. was awarded
to a Miss Matthews v,ic. it turned out
afterward. was none other than the
granddaughter of the queen.
Mrs. Ferdinand w. Peck, wife of the
United States commissioner general at the
Paris exposition. has opened magnif-
cent apartments in the Elysee hotel. She
has had the rooms refurnished. and deco
rated after her Own design. The salon is
hung in rose-colored silk. With curtains.
and the furniture is of the same tints.
At the hall entrance hangs a silk Amer
team flag.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-19
AWFUL FAMINE.

Leslie's Weekly: The famine area IN
india is about $50, 900 square miles. ana
extends over the central. south and
provinces. No pen couli
describe its awful horrors. Some Of the
things proved by photography are tnn
realistically horrible to be reprodnced IL
any publication, and we only print a few
81 the less frightful photographs taken
py the missionaries, because many have
not believed that such an awful ccndi-
tlon could exist in this century Of plenty
and prosperity. Emaciated beyond be-
lief, the starving natives crawl to the
house Of the nearest sahib, usually a
missionary, to crave food: but GO, 900, 600
mouths have to be fed. Fifteen dollars
a year will feed a Hindu, yet even this
pitiable allowance is not to be had. ri
causes Of the famine are the failure Of
the crops, the refusal of the native
princes to allow their hunting lungles to
be converted into fertile agricultural re-
glons, and the mysterious disappearance
OF a special famine fund of 500, 900, 900
collected by the government after the
famine of 1877.
The Hindu is a strict vegetarian. The
low caste Hindu is a ~fatalist. So. when
famine stalks abroad, the Hindu submits
uncomplainingly. Day by day he will
subsist on less food, until at last, when a
mere shadow, he will drag his bonv self
to a relief station. There he may get
food-or he may not. If not, he crouches
"a SOIue COIISI, VI OuI III lIle ueluS, I'M
der Gods trees, and awaits the coming of
death.
The majority of the victims are wo-
men and children. Once that famine
knocks at the door, these helpless beings
are ont Their suEport-fath - or
brother, or other male relative-unable
to further earn his miserable three cents
a day, begins by selling his cow; then
come the few silver trinkets of the wo-
men, then the wooden parts of their
wretched dwellings, then their clothing,
then-when hope has already fed-the
naked wretches, half dead, lettering
along in agony. drag themselves to the
meath a pitiless sur, dropping exhaust
ed. to be devoured by vultures or wild
dogs ere even life is extinct. Three-quar-
ters of all those who start thus for sue
cor die-the balance lives, ~perchance, un-
til another visitation plays further havoc
! with them and theirs. Twenty million
human beings died from hunger in 1897.
God only knows what the fearful record
will be for 19O0-the last year of the most
''civilized'' century of history!
In order that there can be NO accusa-
ton of s~ensationalism, the following in
stances and the sources from which they
emanate are quoted: Mrs. ]. G. Lawson.
an American missionary in Aiigarch.
northwest provinces, writes: w found
one widow with two children-a girl OF
2 years n a bright little boy Of 6. She
was trying to sell the girl for two rupees
(65 cents). She had no food for them,
and believed she must die anyhow, but
that the price of the girl would enable
her and the boy to live a little longer"
writes from Viramguan, in Gujerat:
More than a score have died already In
front of the (mission) house, and hun-
dreds have died on the way
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-19

of courage There have been martyrs in
england as well as warriors.
AS for the Great Britain of the politi-
clan, foremost In the path of civilization
by the rod of conquest. I do not believe
that such methods have added materially
to happiness or Justice in the world. Ag-
erosion has gained nothing worthy of
"CromwelIs England" which could not
have been gained in a slower, surer and
~juster way.
Richard Rumbold, whom they slew in
the Bloody AssiZes. could never believe
that God had created one set of men al
ready saddled and bridled for another
set of men already booted and spurred to
ride" The clearer eyed England of to-
day does not believe it either. But equal
~ false is the notion that God has ere
ated nations booted and spurIed to ride
His ready saddled and bridled millions of
the tropics. At least l do not believe it.,
and 1T Is my own opinion which most
concerns me.
The peaceful invasion of Mexico by
which our sister republic Is growing sta
bic and strong to be sometime as An
glo-SaXon' as our own. is an example Of
the methods of peace and permeation.
If our cause is righteous it needs no
force of arms behind it. There is always
a better way han the way of war. and
"noblesse oblige" that America shout
point this way to striving nations. THE
force of arms must be kept far from mat
tiers of the gospel"
DAVID STARR JORDAN.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-19

could put a barrel over it when it be-
gins. l wonder no one has ever thought
of doing it. But it whirls and grows,
and grows and whirls, until, the first
thing you know, it is as big as a tent
and something near the same shape, ex-
cept that the point at the top may reach
straight up in a long brown thread sixty
or eighty feet high. Well, it whirls and
grows. and grows and whirls, until it is
half an acre in size, and has begun to
pick up big planks, and mems coats and
hats, and heavy waterproof wagon cov-
ers. and to fling them around in it's put
ermost circle. At last, when it has be-
come a full devil. it turns right
about and makes for the camp. Every
one in camp except sentries, PUSHES for
shelter n find that shelter from such a
demon is impossible to get. 1t squeezes
under tents. into windows, through cram
MES and cracks. between the doors and
their frames. It Sits through outer
clothes and underclothes. and paints ev-
cry mans skin khaki color. 1T forces
its way under the lids of the cooking
pots, aye. 1t drives itself into the watch
IN your pocket and clogs its wheels. In
five minutes it has gone, and then we
have an hour of u storm, which is the
same thing, except that it drives straight
ahead and does not whirl around. Nv
n now come the thunder and light
ning-real able bodied thunder and light
nlng-the quicker" thing. as they say in
India. or number one proper" as it
would be called in China. / hope the
wicked will experience nothing worse
hereafter. Crash! comes the thunder
and always on the same instant a flash
comes which seems to SINCE --our eve
balls. Very soon the heavens open and
the rain comes down in torrents. with
thunder and lightning to puncture the
1t rains in such an enthusiast
tic. high-spirited, wholesale fashion that
each storm puts the rivers in flood.
we see our shallow stream. the
Modder. suddenly choking with liouefed
mud, and rushing along at twelve miles
an hour. and playing havoc with our fer
res ana pontoons. we know that there
Free State, ~
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-19
AGAINST ENGLAND
PRESIDENT OF LELAND STAN
FORD UNIVERSITY SEES MOTH
ING TO JUSTIFY HER IN
THE BoER WAR.
Does Not Believe in the manifest Des-
tiny Of the Anglo-saxon
Race.

stanford University. May 12.-I enter
tam very emphatic views on the sub-
Ject OF the Boer war and have no hesi-
tation In stating them.
recognize that the Beers are a stolid
ana narrowly pious folk, who have been
more or less unjust to those who have
tried to live among them. and that tho
cause OF this injustice is a desire to pre-
serve the existence of their customs and
the integrity of their nation. I care not
what the p~roVocation may have been. I
see nothing in his whole business that
Justihes England in actual war or threats
OF war. The financial disputes could
nave been settled by diplomacy, arbitra-
tlon or time, and in such matters 1t is
only the bully who talks fight. War may
be necessary sometimes to save a com
monwealth from disruption or to protect
a people from tyranny. 1t is justifiable
when m~anslaughter would be the duty
of an individual similarly placed. be-
lleVe that there is an ethics of nations
as well as of men, and that it rests on
the same principles.
Wars" says Franklin Smith, "have
their origin in the evil passions Of man.
kind Hence. according to Benjamin
Franklin, all wars are bad" and they
are justitiable only on the same grounds
as n other street brawling, that is to
saw some men or set of men or races
from instant abuse or death. Wars to
enforce "order." to revenge an injury,
to secure railroad franchises. to seize
gold mines. to extend the blessings of
freedom or to promote the spread of
Christianity, l regard as wholly wrong.
I am sure that no such wal will be ac-
counted righteous when viewed in the
light of history. We may not care to
read our own history, but history will
read us. It would be instructive If at