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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-23
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Unanswered yet. the prayer your lips have
In ar0ny o. heart these many yearsg
Does faith begin % fail. Is hope declining.
And think you all IN vain those falling tears
Say not the Father has not heard your prayer
You shall have your desire sometime. some
wherei
Unanswered yet-th0ugh when you first pre-
scented
This one petition al the Fathers throne.
II seemed yop could not wait the time OF ask
So anxious was your heart TO have Il done ?
II years have passed since then. do not despair.
For God viii answer you sometime. some
where
Unanswered YETI But you are not unheeded;
The promises Of Cod forever stand:
Have faith in Godl' II Is your Lords COM
mand-
Hold on 20 Jacobs angel. and your prayer
shall bring blessing down. sometime. some
where
Unanswered YETI Nay. do not say unanswered;
PERHAPS your part Is not yet wholly done.
The work began when nrst your prayer was
uttered
And God win nuish what he has begun
Keep incense burning az the shrine OF prayer,
And glory shall descend. sometime, somewhere
Unanswered yet? Faith cannot be unanswered;
Her feet are firmly planted on the rock.
Amid the widest storms she stands umda
she knows Omnlpotence has heard her prayer.
And cries. 1T shall be done. sometime. some
-oPHELIA c. BROWNING.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-23
FATE OF r1CHDUKE JOHN
is DISCLOSED IN LETTER

NEW YORK, June 12.-G. p. Wychgel,
If washington. superintendent OF dredg-
ing company with offices in this city, has
in his possession, according to The Herald,
a letter which would appear to prove al
most beyond doubt that Archduke John,
nephew of the Emperor of Austria who
mysteriously disappeared in 1890, while on
a voyage in South, American waters. lost
his life at sea.
For twelve years stories that the arch
duke was still alive have come from va
rious parts of the world. In 1887, an ir-
reconciliable quarrel occurred between
the emperor and his nephew. who was
Imperial Archduke of Austria, Royal
Prince of Hungary and Grand Prince Of
Tuscany. The duke was deprived Of all
his offices. His rank as soldier was
taken from him, his name was stricken
from the army list and he was forbidden
to appear at court.
This despite the fact that no one more
than his imperial uncle admired his tall
ents and force of character. 1t was about
this time that in Vienna he met singer.
whose beauty was attracting attention
throughout Europe. After continued sue
cess abroad, she came to this country and
had her debut at The Thalias in the Bow
cry, then the home of comic opera Soon
afterward she married the Duke of Ison-
don.
EFFORTS of friends to settle the quarrel
Stunning the name Of Johan Orth, bought
vessel in England assumed command and
with his wife sailed for South America.
The ship was reported at Ensenada. near
Buenos Ayres, and never has been heard
from since. Nevertheless, recurrent re-
ports that Johann Ortiz stiil lives here, It
is said, buoyed up the aged .archduchess,
who has never believed her son to be
dead.
Superintendent Wychgel says that while
he was, in 1890. superintendent Of a dredg-
ing company at Ensenada, Archduke Jo-
han sailed into port and purchased from
him ballast for trip to Valparaiso, Chile
They had a slight dispute over the weight
and the archduke said the ballast was to
come out at Valparaiso, where 1t should
be weighed and a draft sent for the diff
ference in price. If there was one. He
gave Wychgel a letter of recommendation
which he stilI keeps.
The ship sailed a few days later and
was never sighted afterward. Wychgel
says the archduke's wife was not aboard
the ship, however, and that she returned
TO Buenos Ayres after 1t sailed. No word
has ever been received from her. however.
and she also has been generally believed
to have lost her life at sea.
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Accompanying this card was a note
from the nobleman through whom 1t was
obtained. and which prescribed the garb
to be worn. 1t read as follows:
MY Dear H.: Enclosed L send you card
of admission for the execution. You must,
under no circumstances, speak about this,
as the time of execution must be kept Sc,
cret. Dress, black frock coat and high hat.
Yours. Won F.
AWAITING THE CONDEMNED.
1t was lacking just ten minutes of the
hour of when DIR. Wesley presented him
self at the prison gate. His card was taxi
en- by an attendant and he was led
through the prison ito another gate OPEN
ing upon a small courtyard. Here he
found the First States Attorney and the
Second States Attorney, accompanied by
their secretaries, standing beside a small
table, upon which were spread the legal
papers in the case, and which contained
also a cruciix and two candles. The at
torneys wore their robes Of black, with
black velvet skull caps. Behind them were
grouped the other witnesses, who had ar
rived earlier, and the prison guards, who
wore swords. Near one end Of the table
was the head block. separated from the
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In many parts of the German empire
the guillotine has taken the place of the
gallows and the block, but in Prussia old
fashioned justice clings tenaciously to
the old fashions, and not the rope nor
the automatic knife nor the power of
electricity has been able to displace the
broadax as the laws official implement
OF death. The only concession made to
modern sentiment is in the garb of the
executioner. This functionary does not
as in the earlier times. dress in doublet
and hose and hide his ensanguined identi-
ty behind a frightsOme mask. Instead,
he appears at the execution garbed in a
frock coat OF somber hue and correct
cut, and he wears upon his head, even
when delivering the death stroke, a tall
silk hat. His three assistants are sim
chosen no one can say authoritively. 1t
is one of those things the origin of which
appears to have been forgotten with the
originators. But it is the lawful cos
tune. prescribed in the regulations, which
apply also to the II civilian witnesses
who must attend an execution, with the
result that a stranger witness is unable
to say until the ak has fallen which of
the other Is silkhatted. frock-coated indi-
viduals grouped about him is the man
who lives by death.
AMERICAN SEES BEHEADING.
1t is not often that a stranger is adj
mitted to an execution in Prussia. DR..
Henry Wesley, of Baltimore, who has
just returned from years tour in Eu-
rope, was, through the influence of GER
tain high officials in Prussia, chosen as
one of the u civilians invited to witness
the mortal finish OF one Franz Deppe,
who had been sentenced to death for out
raging and numbering 7-year-old girl.
The execution took place in Flensburg.
which is in Schleswig- Holstein near the
Danish frontier. Deppe had been con-
victed on evidence purely circumstantial.
He was sheep herder, and = beetle
proved, epulsive-looking man of medium
size and of a low order of intelligence.
but of extraordinary strength physically.
The execution was scheduled for July
9Th. On the evening of July I'd, DIR. Yves.
ley received from the Kreis-artz. or dis
trict surgeon, a card of admission to the
Jail courtyard, which read:
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decimated divisions march out. Then
came Appomattox-and the Seventh was
there with about 200 of its aggregate
strength of $50, in all 1900 from first organ
ization to the reorganization in May 1852
1t is said they were as well organised at
the surrender as at any previous period
facts demonstrate.
Companies X and were organized In
Atlanta. Company was commanded
by Captain Foreacre and Company X by
Willis Ballard
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-23

Thousands suffer and hundreds die ev-
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of Bowel Complaint The best remedy
for these diseases in children or adults
is DIR SETH ARNOLD'S BALSAM. War
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The semI-WeekIy Journal Is the off,
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london Mail.

A curious election result IS reported
from Montauban Qlle-et-Vilainel. where.
out OF a constituency numbering about
$1,000. the radical candidate obtained L.
So votes. and won the seat by vote. his
opponent. conservative. receiving 1s.ss3
votes.
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Infant Prodigy.

New YORK Times.
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have learned in your school, Now can you tell
me the difference between B and CT
Freddy-Thath's eathy A bee 18th inthect
an a thea it'll full OF water.
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Wanted, Land Warrants.

Issued 10 soldiers OF the War OF the RsvOlu-
ncn
Issued 20 soldiers Of tie War with Mexico.
Issued 70 soldiers Of any var. VIII also pur-
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rural College Scrip. Soldiers Additional Home
stead rights. Forest Reserve Land. OF any
valid Land warrants OF Land Scrip. VIII pay
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-01-18

the chlitteurs take their families into
the mountains with them and live near
the scene Of their work until the task
mas been accomplished. They live in lit
tie, roughly-built huts, made clunasily of
branches and bark, and rarely boasting
more than one room. In the middle of
this there usually is little castiron
stove which is the only piece Of furniture
IN evidence. There are no beds. The
FAMILY sleeps in the corners on leaves and
spruce branches, without going through
the formanty of discarding any clothing.
Ihere are no chairs. Visitors and hosts
SIT on the ground. Meals are eaten from
dishes held in the lap. These meals are
not rich Coarse black bread, salt pork
and potatoes form the bill Of fare for
breakfast, dinner and supper.
When the shlitteurs reach the scene Of
their labors. their first task is to build
the track for their sleds. This is work
demanding experience, talent and great
strength The entire regiou must be
studied minutely and the declivities
measured with an eye that does not make
mistakes. The roadway or track must
be laid so that it will form a regularly
sloping path that the heavy sleds will not
need to be pulled and yet will not sud
denly get an accelerated motion owing to
too sudden an incline. Therefore it is
necessary often to lay it I'M all kinds of
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-01-18

cent trip into that country. a man was
rescued from an awful death scarcely
three hundred yards from a fine spring
of water. When found he was stark
naked and was holding all his clothing
high above his head, shouting meanwhile
that he was wading in deep water and
would son be beyond his depth if they
did not help him. His tracks showed
that he had been travelling in a circle
for some time, and had the party not
found him when they did the sun and the
hot sand would have soon made an end
Of him His cant een-full of waterway
near by!
No Place for Tcnderfeet.
This is no place for a ,tenderfoot, even
though the maps OF the valley are dotted
at seemingly short intervals with ranch
IS, mines, snelters and springs. Over
half these mines and reducing works are
idle. and there is thousands of dollars
worth Of the very best mining machinery
scattered over the desert, with nc one
but the coyotes and American Arabs to
watch it, Es
MY mention OF desert ranch may
sound paradoxica1- there are some
of the most pleasant homes of California
right in the heart of the Mojaye desert.
The springs are all "fissures'-that is,
the water comes up through long rock
channels or cracks to the surface Of the
ground and may travel so underground
for hundred miles or more wildcat
ting for water on the desert does not
pay, as many blea ching skeleton could
tell were it able to speak.
The lowest point in Death valley is
Just opposite Telescope peak "a mountain
{ of 10,937 feet altitude). and is 427 feet
below sea level. Over against this, let us
note that the bottoms of Lakes Michigan
and Superior are, respectively, only 24G
II co f1ao fnyxyn r
Salton, ESQ feet and the Dead sea the
lowest point In the worlO 1900 feet.
Most Of the water in the valley is of
course, highly mineralized, and, in most
cases, rather warm; in fact the whole
valley Is is covered at Intervals with
mounds where hot springs, SO active as
s to be almost geysers, once threw forth
mud and water. Up in the canon of the
Amargosa there are several springs
maintaining heat Of over 100 deg at all
times.
Death valley owes its name to the fact
that a party OF Mormon emigrants per-
ished almost to a man just at the base
Of Telescope peak. A few escaped, some
of whom are row living in Los Angeles.
San Bernardino and o-her Southern Cali
fornia towns. The ironw0rk OF the wag-
ons and very few other relics remain
to mark the spot whore this party made
Its last camp. Death valley proper is
merely the sink Of the Amargosa river.
and is seventy five lniles long by from
Z five to twenty five IN width, ard lies be-
{ -s.aA., "a si1a<r N NH, esd az ~
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-01-18

j. During snls Glacial perlou rnree srea.
lakes were formed so close together as
almost to constitute one continuous sea.
These were Owens's lake. the sink of the
Mojave river, and Death Valley-the last
named being the lowest point of the
southwestern lake previously mentioned.
The end Of this Glacial period is placed
by James Croll at $4,000 years back,
while the remnants found on the shores
Of these very lakes indicate that prehls-
toric man once wandered over this same
region, and, as might be expected bones
of the maStodon, prehistoric horse and
camel, are also found
The Rock Formation.
The bedrocks of the desert are largely
slate and schist left from the Jura-trias-
sic period, but volcanic eruption has so
demoralized and scattered the various for-s
nations that widely different deposits
and often found within a few feet of each
other. The mountain ranges are for the
most part long and narrow-mere ridges,
lying quite uniformly north and SOUTH.
These were formed by the uplifting Of
whole blocks Of stone, which have since
become separated by profound faults.
Differing from any other mountain form
in the worli. this has been called the
basin range structure" and is so known
to biologists the world over.
Sandstorms, working for untold ages:
have both cut away and filled IN untS
the black Iva ana SCOrla OF once active
volcanic craters and cones have faded
into dull sepia or sickly yellow. Here.
and there a dash OF some rich-hued
quartz, or the emerald green Of a copper
vein. relieves the eye-otherwise the
scenery is monotonous. solemn. desola1e,
even fearsome, to the sensitive soul. Nor
is it less wearing upon that other sole,
and. alas, the nearest cobbler is good.
hundred miles away.
Country of Contrasts. "a
Nature has denied much to Death VAL
ley-yet she has granted enough 70 make
the region erticing to men who seek the
rich mines scattered rather thicklv in.
this section. Tt is a land of contrasts.
where the average rainfall is nil, but
where frequent cloudbursts tear away
whole mountain sides; where the traveller
climbs to the summit Of a lofty noun
/ tain only to behold, spread out before
Z him, the dry bed of an extensive lake
perched on the very apex of the range.
Here man digs his wood out of the
drifting sand hills; goes to bed In a warm
east wind and wakes up with the mer-
curry in his thermometer frozen solid:
and finally dies OF heat and thirst with
canteen Of water in his hand. Men
60 raving crazy in single day-and re-
4 cover their faculties In as short a time.
No one knows the cause of it-mayhap
the altitude. the loneliness. their own
thought, any one or all Of q thousand
reasons. 5s
a few weeks before 7 went on my re-
~ u +
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-01-18

shlltteur. He cannot run down the rude
track as fast as the loaded ,sleds can
slide. If he fails to hold it back he is a
dead man, for even if he should not be
killed outright there is little hope for
him, as it is impossible to get medical aid
in the Vogesen, and what little rude sur
gerry can be performed by the shlitteurs
themselves is not sof much. use when limbs
gre torn clean from the body or internal
organs are crushed. And these are the
common injuries. .-E
! Most of the accidents happen so sud-
denly that the mates Of the victim can do
nothing to avert them. Shlitteurs have
been killed without even having been run
over. The load behind them, starting for
ward suddenly, has actually compressed
them SO fiercely that they succumbed to
internal injuries brought on by the ter
rife strain and by the twisting which
their bodies underwent in the effort to
hold the load steady. Sometimes sud-
den turns In the track throw the sled out
of balance, and it topples over into the
abyss. Usually the shlitteur goes with
It, as he Is so firmly interlocked with his
load in order to guide it safely that he
cannot break away in time.
The traveller through the Vogesen will
see many black wooden crosses along al
most every mountain path, and even on
the sides of what seem impossible decliv-
ities Each one commentaries a shit.
teur who died in the course Of his hax-
ardous work.
And so poorly paid are these poor devils
that an accident to one means that his
family will starve or be forced to go beg
ging. Even when he has work his chill
dren freeze in the winter and never have
enough to eat, winter or summer. Wo-
men and children in the Vogesen noun