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Coon mountains. When he eorralS a
rattler or a whistler or a cow moccastn
he fastens g, mesmerizer on to the end O.
q stick and sheves 1t under the sarpent's
sneller. The sarpent recognizes natur's
plan at once and don't lay back and Kick
agin it, but rubs itself on the mesmerizer
and shifts it, and by and by drops Off into
a sleep as sweet and innocent as a little
babes. When the snake does that Jack
picks it UP and puts It IN his basket, same
as he would a 'tater, and goes on to look
UP some more.
Now, every snake ketcher you ever
seen OF heerd on dumped his serpents in
box and Iugged em about the country
to show 'em at a nickel peep. didn't
they?
"I admitted that such had been the GUS
tom of most Of the snake catchers had
known.
OF course said the landlord. 'Cause
they amt real snake ketchers. Now
Jack Henderson don't carry none O. his
snakes about the country. He left other
folks do that. Folks come from all direo-
tions and distances to git them snakes q
Jacks and carry 'em round the country.
Half O. the Big Coon district is carryln'
tenn sround with 'em now every day in
the year and they pay Jack well for
1ettfn' 'em do It, too
eIt would have been rude in me not to
ask the landlord why.
" Cause Jack makes them snakes into
Shoes, said the landlord. He tans their
skins In way that makes calfskin seem
no use o. bein, born. That snake-skiu
leather is alive. as ycu mowt say cause
Jaeis peels the skins OFF o. the livin'
snakes. Jack mesmer1zes 'em with that
natur's plant that he diskiyered, and the
snake don't know IT'S bein' peeled. and il
dies happy, besides, Jack says. II takes
weeks and weeks to tarsthe skins, but
as Jack has hundreds Of 'em In the vata
eli the time he don't never run out os
stock to make into snake-sAin Shoes
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gotten with the rise of the next days sun.
One day, however, the stork came to the
tTinsley homestead and a son was born. G
It was a baby boy whose blue eyes
looked wonderingly upon the world and
yet there lurhed in their depths sinister
seriousness that boded none knew what
until passing years brought back again
the recollection of the execution on the
commons of the old England town For
the babe, unlike his playmates,. never
wreathed ssface In sunny baby smiles.-
Then the curse of the Tinsleys was re-
membered. 49,
Two centuries and more have passed
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sion, q peculiar frown results. Some of
our family have presented this popularity
to an extent more conspicuous than the
others-my uncle and sister particularly.
'The tradition has been in our family
for long time, but so far as I am per-
sonally concerned have but little faith
in 1T. It might, Of course, have occurred
and the effect of the priests words might
have been such, as every physician
knows. as would have exercised peculiar
prenatal influence. But I take no stock
in this theory,at all. think that possibly
some one observed the effect and then
invented the cause. They observed that
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1azfWs Ship That Century Search

bleaching in the sun. The whole shore,
from Renner's point to Rensen's door
yard, and from his barn to Repelje's
farm and the slopes of the hill, and the
sand island between the flood gates and
the mill dam that used to be there, were
filled with the remains of the martyrs.
1t Is estimated that eleven thousand
perished in the old Jersey alone. The
matter was frequently brought to the at
tention Of Gen. George Washington by
returned prisoners, and he wrote this let
ter to Lord Howe. under date of Jan. Is.
f777:
st am sorry that I am under the dis
agreeable necessity to trouble your lord
ship with a letter almost wholly on the
subject of the cruel treatment which our
officers and men in the naval department
who are unhappy enough to fall into
your hands receive on board the prison
ships in the harbor of New York. With
out descending to particulars / under
stand that thousands have perished In the
old Jersey alone. The matter contained in
the enclosed paper, which is an exact
copy of the usage of the prisoner. deliv-
cred to congress by one Capt. Gamble,
lately prisoner himself in New York.
eff this account be true, of which
have no reason to doubt, as Capt. Gamble
Is a man Of veracity. 1 call upon your
lordship to say, whether any treatment
Of your officers and seamen has merited
SO severe a retaliation. I am bold to
say It has not. And I hope upon
making the proper inquiry you will have
the matter SO regulated that the unhappy
persons in captivity may not in the fu-
ture have the miseries of cold, disease
and famine added to their other misfor-
tunes.
t,1Tc
we deserve no better treatment; but re-
member, my lord, that supposing US
rebels, we still have feelings equally keen
and sensible as loyalsts, and will, K
forced to- it.. most assuredly retaliats
upon those upon whom we look as the
unjust invaders Of our rights, liberties
and properties.
1T should have not said SO much, bit
my injured countrymen have long called
upon me to endeavor to obtain. redress CT
their grievances; and I should think my
self as cuipabIe as those who iDf1ict such
seventies upon them, were | to continue
silent GEORGE WASIINGTON.''
Although the letter of Gen. Washing
tom received no attention, be 1t said to
the credit of the American army that it
did not retaliate with like fndignities
In 1SCS the THmmany society of New
York gathered such Of the remains as
could be found, filling eleven hcgsheads,.
and inferred them with imposing mill
tary and civic ceremonies In a tomb near
the navy yard. Thence, in 1873 they were.
removed to vault prepared for them ON
the high ground Of the saluting battery
OF Washington OFT. Greene1 park.
After the close OF the revolutionary war Z
the prison, ship was abandoned where
she lay and finally sank from sistst. Until
the engines OF the rebels laying thu
keel Of the warship in the heart of the
second city In the world, found her ghost
In the mud Of the East river.
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in warning. It was nearly sunset, and
before we were alongside every man ex-
cept the sentinels on the gangway had
disappeared. AS we went up the gang
plank the croaking voice Of a wretched
prisoner called to US from one Of the
iron barred holes:
"It Is lamentable thing to see so
many young men in full strength, in the
flush Of health, about to- enter this IN
fernaI abode. Death has no relish for
such skeleton eareasses as we, but now
he will feed fat upon you rosy newcom-
,ers.'
In 1882 when Alexander Coffin was sent
prisoner on board the old Jersey, he
found about eleven hundred prisoners
there, many Of whom during the severity
Of the winter were without clothing to
keep them warm. To escape freezing it
was even necessary to walk the decks
brislzly or to stay below. Only by using
great effort could they keep from freez-
ing, and many Of the prisoners, wasted
by sickness, had not the strength for the
effort. They escaped smallpox and yell
low fever only to fall vieUlnls to the cold
In his memoirs Mr.. Coffin says tho
prisoners were fed on putrid beef and
pork and worm-eaten bread which had,
been condemned on the English warships.
It was SO full of vern1in that they had
to beat it against the hull before they
could eat it. On the upper gun deck hogs
were kept in pens for the use Of the Of
flcers. When lne hogs were fed bran
the prisoners would steal it from the
trough.
Sometimes the prisoners were denied
the use Of fire for several days in success
sion and had to eat their meat raw. When
fire was allowed 1t was confined to a.
large copper boiler, which was correded
by the use of salt water. The men were
compelled to put their meat into this
green boiling water and take 1t out again
at a particular time, whether it was
cooked or not To the use Of this poison
GUS boiler and the filthy biIge water they
drank Capt Dring attributed much of
their sickness.
Light was not permitted at night, and
the hulk was so crowded that the pris-
oners could not move without, falling
over each other. Their rest was broken
by the groans Of the sick and dying and
by the men who went crazy and cursed
their inhuman keepers. Inc dying IN
their last eonvltlsive agonies frequently
fell across the bodies Of their sick COM
penions, and as the sick were unable to
remove them they had to lie there until
morning. when the death patrol came in
search Of those who had died in the
night.
Turn out your deadg the patrol would
cry, coming out of the sunlight into the
stencil Of the black hulk below And the
dead were turned out from the living, 1t
being necessary to awaken. some Of the
prisoners to ask them If they were dead,
because movement, not appearances,
could be trusted only.
The fortunate ones were sewn up In
their blankets and carried by their conn.,
panions. under guard, to the shore and
there buried. Sometimes the succeeding
tide washed out the remains and their
bones were expased along the beach.
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the Tfnsleys were unable to laugh, and.
finding no explanation convenient, sup
piled one wholly from the warp and woof
of their Imagination. When 1 was young
1t was said that had the Tinsley laugh,
but L believe that I have trained myself
so that I am now able to laugh without
attracting undue attention. All Of us
even those of US most expert-certainly
present funny and queer expressions
when we give vent to our merriment. A
frown overspreads our countenances-
other words we frown when we laugh"
Our position is certainly one without
parallel.
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darkened his features and with arms
uplifted he descended with stern mein
and dignided tread from the scaffold plat-s
form and, the people making way for him
from left and right, he passed down to
where Tinsley stood. Already the latter
had realized how utterly out Of place was
the sound of his laughter, but the realiza-
ton came too late. When the priest
reached Tinsley's side he raised aloft the
crucfix and, gazing heavenward, said
sharply and concise1y:
mo Tinsley shall ever laugh again.
The crowd dispersed In silence; the in
cident of the priest and TinsIey was for
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lifted from the floor and the body dangled
in the air.
Here it was that great laughing fit
seized Tfnsley. A boistereus and grating
laugh forced itself from his lips. There
was a moments forebeding silence in
which there was naught to disturb the
stiffness save the faint noise made by
the struggling man hanging to the gal
lows and the boisterous unmercffuI laugh
of this ancestral Tinsley. -
1t is related that the face Of the good
man who was attending the victim In his
last agony paled at the sound of the un-
sauetided merriment. Then heavy frown
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since that child was born and still no
rTinsIey laughs. Among the later mem
bers of the family there are some who
can laugh, but it Is a cultivated laugh.
1t is imitation and bears on it's surface
only too evidently the marks Of its un-
natural origin.
Dr. Frank Tinsley, the resident Of In
dianapolis, says that these-of the family
who can laugh have taught themselves to
do so by constant practice.
.'It is a sort of artificial laugh" he said.
st have studied the faces of the Tinsleys
when they laugh or. try to laugh and have
found that, instead of the usual express
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Squires Issued death warrants and while
the jails were yawning for prisoners the
hangmen were the busiest men in all
England.
All would have been well in the Tins
ley family had not this ancestral Tins
ley with the ungovernable rnfrth set him
self forth one fair bright day to witness
the execution of a notorious thief. Ira
dition says this thief had entered the
home Of the Tinsleys and dfvested it of
many of its richest treasures. Therefore,
this witness of the execution, at least, had
no compunction in observing the details
of the death Of the laws victim
Gathered round the gallows were the
constables, the hangman and the priest
who attended the condemned man The
execution occurred upon the commons and
the people crowded forward for places of
vantage wherefrom they might witness
to best purposes the thief's struggles in
the paroXysm of death:
The eulprit's hands were tied and the
moose adjusted about his neck The
priest lifted the crucifx before his eyes
and begged final time for a confession
The victim made no answer. The rope
was stretched and drawn taut; the feet
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Better the greedy wave should swallow all;
Better to meet the death-conductlng ball;
Better to sleep oceans oozy bed.
At once destroyed and numbered with the dead,
ahan thus to perish in the face of day,
Where twice ten thousand deaths one death
delay.
-Freneau's song of the prisoners on ''old Jer-
sey."
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a ~ 16,o00-ton battleship Con-
necticut. building at the
Brooklyn navy yard, lies the
ghost of "Old jersey" the notorious
prison ship of revolutionary times. Lost
for almost a hundred years; searched for
In vain by government authorities and
historical societies, the remains of the
ship which brings flush of shame to
the English cheek whenever it is men
toned today were found accidentally by
the laborers who were driving spiles upon
which to build the modern warship. It is
as if it were fulfllment of prophecy
that upon the ruins Of the wooden hulk
of the enemy shall rise the iron struct-
ure Of man-o'-war Of the infant coun-
try it sought to crush.
On solid earth. away from the sea, the
''Old Jersey lies today where the wind
or the tide or the blood of patriots will
trouble her no more. Buried as deep as
the breach has been between the two
countries, but it is still there, a grim
monument to the fact that while the past
is forgiven yet it is not forgotten. Six
teen feet of soil have been thrown in on
top Of the British vessel, more deeply In
tered than were the bones of the mar
tyrs who died within her siekening sides
and were afterward left bleaching on the
sands Of the shore, washed by the tide.
The massive oak and teak tmbers Of
the prison ship, preserved by the water,
are still in as good condition as when she
first slid from her ways into the waters
of the harbor of Glasgow. But now that
she has been found. there is little prob
ability that she will be raised for several
years, if at all. In order to get her out OF
her grave it would be necessary to dig
up a large area Of the ground she occu-
pies in the navy yard, which would
greatly hamper the work Of laying the
foundation for the keel Of the Connectf-
cut.
It is altogether likely that the work of
the pile drivers will go on, in which
event the "Old Jersey would be pierced
in hundred places and practically
broken up. Civil Engineer Bellinger, who
has charge of the foundations, experi-
enoed considerable difficulty in driving
the Long piles where he wanted them.
Everywhere he went along the track laid
down for the ways he came in contact
with heavy tinbers at a depth of sixteen
feet. So persistent was the obstruction
that 1t seemed as II there were a wooden
floor laid down under the earth.
No particular Importance was attached
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ENEATH the waters of
Wallabout bay, beneath the
rearing structure Of the new
16,oO0-ton battleship Con-
necticut. building at the
BROOKLYN navy yard. lies the
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AUGH and the world laughs
with you,
Weep and you weep alone"
In Indianapolis there is at
least one exception to this
The Washington times., 1902-06-12
LITTLE MUSICIANS HAD
TIME OF THEIR LIVES
Times Newsboys Band Took
Harrisburg by Storm.
Flatterilg Praise ,or Local Papers-Ef-
fective Participation in Penny
packers Nomination.

After taking the capital of the great
State of Pennsylvania by storm and hav-
ing been the recipients of ovation after
ovation all along the line. The Wash
ington Times Newsboys Band returned
to the city last night in a blaze OF
glory which eclipsed any reception they
have ever before received at the hands
of their home admirers.
The trip was their first out of the
city. They were a tired lot of little
fellows. but their short stay had been
a liberal education to them. They came
back with an enlarged idea as to the
great world in which they live.
furthermore they were elated at the
success of Governor Pennypacker in
securing the gubernatorial nomination.
drews Republican Club in his interest.
That their efforts played no inconsider-
able part in securing the remarkable
walkover in the first ballot for Mr.. Pen
nypacker is thoroughly believed by the
little musicians.
The boys were treated royalty In Har-
risburg and the demands upon them
were continuous. Wherever they went
they were followed by an admiring
crowd, who cheered them on and en-
couraged every effort.
The press also gave the boys every
encouragement. the Patriot" saying:
lone of the most pleasing of the many
bands on the streets yesterday was The
Washington Times Newsboys Band.
The organization is composed entirely
OF boys and rendered many excellent
selections.
In a more extended notice. the band
in the Star Independent" said:
THE band is made up of forty little
fellows. the Oldest of whom is sixteen.
Although young in years, they can play
like veterans, and are unquestionably
one Of the best bands that has been at
tracted to the city by the convention.
One does not enjoy their music simply
because the makers are boys, but be-
cause the music is good
One of the other Harrisburg papers,
the Telegraph" was equally enthusiast
tic about the work OF the boys, and took
occasion to print the following:
Some of the members were not as
large as their instruments, but they all
knew how to play. and were followed
about the city by large crow"
The boys left Harrisburg on a special
car at 415 yesterday afternoon and
made the run to this city without in
cident other than that between Balti-
more and Washington delay was caused
by the heavy train parting on three diff
ferert occasions. But the youngsters
were not SO easily to be left behind and
pulled into this city at Sis o'clock. just
thirty minutes late.
The Washington times., 1902-06-12
CORLISS PACIFIC CABLE BILL
MEETS WITH SIGNAL DEFEAT

in favor of the Corliss bill. He said he
would never vote for the Dalzell sub
stitute. FOR 1t would expose the Govern
ment to the danger of cable con-
structed and laid by inexperienced men.
When the first section of the btil had
been read under the fve-minute rule,
Mr.. Adamson Dem, Cal moved to
strike out the enacting clause.
Re had read cablegrams from G. G.
Ward, vice president of the Commercial
Pacific Cable Company, and B. X. Gray.
managing director of the Indiaru5ber
and Gutta Percha Company, of London.
certifying that LOGS miles of the cable to
be laid between San Francisco and Hen
olulu had been constructed up to Tues
day; that it was proceeding at the
rate of twenty-five miles a day; and
that steamer to lay the cable would
sail about August 1, to begin laying the
cable
Mr.. Cannon's Views.
Mr.. Cannon Rep., I'D said he had
opposed former cable bills because they
contemplated the payment Of a subsidy.
and in one case of three millions of
dollars. He hoped and believed that
without waiting too long. cable would
be laid without the Government paying
any subsidy, and now he had been In
formed that corporation able and will
ling was ready to lay the cable. He
was ready therefore to vote to bring
about the condition that that company
stood ready to inaugurate. the construc-
ton OF a cable from California to the
Philippines.
He was opposed to the Government do
ing ANYTHING that private enterprise
could do better. He believed that the
contract proposed by the Commercial
Pacific Cable Company could be exc
cuted by the officers of the Government.
and II signed would be binding. The
President had as much authority to act
on the proposed contract as General
Grant had in 1878 when the French
cable was landed. He would therefore
vote to strike ont the enacting clause
of the bill.
The motion to strike out was agreed
to. los to II, the announcement being
greeted with applause. This action was
concurred in by the House on yea and
nay vote, 11G to Il.
The Washington times., 1902-06-12
COST OF FOOD.
Grape-Nuts VS.. White Bread, Etc.

A family figured carefully on the cost
of food. taking into consideration the
strength and health that Grape-Nuts
furnished. The report is interesting.
I'VE first took up GrapeNuts because
it agreed with me SO we'll. was suf-
fering from dyspepsia that medicine did
not relieve. l frequently laughed at the
idea when some of my friends told Of
the use of Grape-Nuts; however. one
day Wife bought a package and we
found it good and it agreed with me.
I'VE were accustomed TO using white
bread and oats, wheat or barley mushes
boiled from two to four hours. We con-
sidered Grape Nuts too expensive. but
noticed that when | had breakfast or
Grape Nuts l felt fine, and other days
when white bread and other cereals
were used I felt weak and bloated.
Zone day about six months ago | said
to Wife, L am satisfied that Grape-Nuts
is the thing that makes me feel better
in between the blue spells. Then we sat
down and figured awhile on the cost OF
living and came to the conclusion that
we could live better and happier on ff-
teen cents worth of Grape-Nuts than on
twenty-five cents' worth of white bread
or cooked at home cereals. You see
four teaspoonfuls OF Grape-Nuts fur
nish more strength to work on than
large quantities of other food. so We
started on Grape Nuts in earnest. using
it every morning. and a WONDERFUL
change has come over me.
Il am gaining in weight every day.
Never have any of the old bloated feel
Jugs. Feel strong and well and can en-
Gure more hard work than / could on
the old diet. and this result is all with
out any doctor or drugs at all. but di-
rect!y from using GrupeNuts. Name
given by Postum Company, Battle Creek.
Mich
Recipes for many easy hot-westhe-
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