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The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1905-01-19
Traffic In Human Skin.

The skin grating experiments which
have been so successful of recent years
have led to a new form of livelihood
which is fairly remunerative. Several
of the London hospitals have on their
books the names and addresses of
many men and women who have I'M
dertaken to sell portions of their cuti-
Gle whenever the necessity arises, and
it is said that quite a regular traffic is
now being done in the buying and sell
ing of human skin. The persons who
are willing to sacrifice their flesh for
money are by no means confined to the
poor and destitute class-London Mail.
The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1905-01-19

Prlm Mother-My son, am afraid
you are going to make a mistake in
marrying Miss Easyways. Both she
and her mother are fearfully lax house
keepers. SOM know it, mother: that's
what caught me. It's so comfortable
over there, you know. | can sit down
anywhere in the parlor without being
told that I'm mussing things up!-De-
troit Free Press.
The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1905-01-19
AN ODD FISH.
Queer Marine Monster a Natural En-
envy to Whales.

While operating at a fishery in AID
mlralty island, Alaska, one summer m,
attention and the attention of the fish
Ing crew were almost daily attracted t,
q large marine creature that would ap
pear in the main channel of Seymour
canal and our immediate vicinity
There are large numbers Of whales q
the species rorqual there, and the mon
ster seemed to be their natural enemy
| The whales generally travel in schools
and while at the surface to blow one
would be singled out and attacked by
the fish, and battle was soon in order
1t is the nature Of the rorq1al tC
make three blows at intervals of from
TWO to three minutes each, and then
sound deep and stay beneath the sur
face for thirty or forty minutes. AS {,
Whale would come to the surface there
would appear always at the whales
right side and just about where his
head would connect with the body a
great long tail or fin, Judged by five
fishermen and a number of Indians,
after seeing it about fifteen times at
:
four feet long, two and one half feet
wide at the end and tapering down to
the water, where it seemed to be about
eighteen inches in diameter, looking
very much like the blade Of the fan Of
an old fashioned Dutch windmill
The great club was used on the back
Of the unfortunate whale in such a
manner that it was a wonder to me
that every whale attacked was not i'll
stantly killed. It's operator seemed to
have perfect control of its movements
and would bend it back until the end
would touch the water, forming Il
horseshoe loop; then with sweep it
would be Strengthened and brought
over and down on the back of the
whale with a Whack that could be
heard for several miles. If the whale
was fortunate enough to submcrge it.
self before the blows came, the spray
would fly for a distance of hundred
ing report as loud as a yachts signal
gun.
What seemed most remarkable to me
was that no matter which way the
attacked whale went or how fast (the
usual speed is about fourteen knots,
that great club would follow right
along by it's side and deliver those ire
mendous blows at intervals of about
four or five seconds. 1t would always
get in from three to five blows at each
of the three times the whale would
come to the surface to blow The
whale would generally rid itself of the
enemy when it took it's deep sound,
especially if the water was forty
fathoms or more deep. During the day
the attack was always offshore, but
at night the whales would be attacked
in the bay and within 400 yards of the
fishery.
do not know of any whales being
killed, but there were several that had
great holes and sores on their backs
Questioning the Indians about it, | was
told that there was only one, that it
had been there for many years and that
1t once attacked an Indian canoe and
with one stroke of the great club
smashed the canoe into splinters, kill
ing and drowning several Of it's occr-
and Stream.
The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1905-01-19
An Uneasy Seat,

PA" said Tommy, opening the pa
per, ''Who sits on the seat of WARP"
mo one" responded papa, because
the seat Of war generally has a tack
In baltimore Herald.
The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1905-01-19

The great question is not so much
what money you have in your pocket
as what you will buy with it-Ruskin.
The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1905-01-19

Command great fields, but cultivate
small ones.-Virgil
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-08-27
HALLUCINATIONS OF MEN
WHO ARE NOT INSANE
Habit OF Seeing Visions Leads to Amor.
NAL Condition of Mind if Too Much In
diligence is Permitted Peculiar
Instances Recorded.

Bon vivant clergyman, however, may
he relieved to learn that after Il short
time the unwecomc music ceased and
external objects resumed their nomnl
position.
All incipicnt form of hallucination
shows itself in the practice common
enough among children, and Familiarity
known as seeing faces in the fire"
DR.. AhercOmbic, with perhaps an cX-
cess Of caution, thinks the indulgence
of this, practice, MS well as of the habit
OF day-tirenming, or building castles in
the mir, to he distinctly dangerous. He
says IL sometimes leads to an I'M
shakcahlc belief in the real existence
of the vision, ana quotes, as Il case in
point. an instance known To him of
Il man who very much wished to he al-
pointed To IL certain office; then, in day
dreams, imagined that he had been
appointed, and mt last could not he per
suadcd that he had not been appoint
! ed, although the office in the mean
time had never become vacant DR.
Wigan, too, in his Duality of tho
Mind" warns portrait painters against
culiivatinE Il similar faculty. He cites
the case of William Blake, who began
by painting portraits from single
sitting of each subject. during which
he looked int the model attcntivcly for
half an hour and made an OCCASION
nj sketch on the canvas He then
passed on to the next persons, and
when he wished to continue the first
portrait he took the subject into his
mind and mentally placed him III the
sittcrs chair. lie could then, it, APP
pears, sec the person as distinctly as
If he were really there. He would
suspend his painting to examine the
pose. etc, and. as he said, Every
time | cast my eye on the chair see
the mon" This abnormal exercise,
we are told. inevitably led up to the
visions" which became so celebrated
and resulted In poor Blakc's contne-
mont for 80 years III Bethlehem asy-
lun.
Sir Isaac Newton. however export
mcntcd in this way with the solar
spectrum. and Goethe with the forms
of flowers. without any evil result But
perhaps the most striking instance of
is that recorded by an intimate friend
of the actor, Talma. I.anglois states
that the great tragcdian told him that
whenever he entered on the stage he
was accustomed by force of will To
make his brilliant audience disappear
and to substitute for them Il house
full of skeletons The emotion which
these CHASTITY creatures OF his own
imagination excited served, he dcclar-
ed, to give additional force to his I'M
ns.-IIumanitarian Maga-
zine
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-08-27

ties. being n low grade beer. This has
made the dealers rich. Patent mcdi-
cincS are good sellers, especially if
they are part whisky Varnish, where
corn alcohol is used, is favorite
drink, especially among the painters,
the drink being prepared by the pre-
cipitatiOn of the body, which leaves
the alcohol standing alone.
Lemon extract. where il is COM
posed largely of corn alcohol is an.
other favorite. Ii is prepared by the
use of large quantities of water, sugar
and fruits. Occasionally. though the
drinkcr gets hold of nh extract on n
wood base, and death usually results.
Often some citizen will make q trip
to the States. He returns home with
his grip heavily laden. If he gets past
the force of United States mnrshals,
who usually meet the trains, there
are things doing"
IL the marshal suspects him he usu.
ally suffers arrest, his liquid refresh.
mcnts are Cmpticd into tho gutter and
he is held under bond to appear before
the United States commissioner, who
binds the prisoner over to the grand
jury. Conviction usually means half
IL year in Jail. And the jails are con.
stantly filled.
'l'oot-lcggcrs." the "blnd-tigers" of
the territory, work hard to get their
money for the liquor they sell. They
adopt all sorts of schemes to outwit
the officers, but very few of them prac-
ttcc their avocation long. The mar
shals have keen noses and sharp eyes.
and their natural instincts lead them
into places where there isn't even Il
suspicion of liquor apparent
Not long ago man was arrested for
introducing" He carried his stock
in tho iron axle of his wagon. lie
had fooled the officers for months, but
finally was captured. He is now scry-
ing term in prison
Choctaw negro carried his stock
III the iron handles of a set of garden
tools. Each would hold nearly n quart,
and he carried them across the terri
forial line for months before he was
suspected. lie is i'm Jail
a woman was suspected of being Il
"peddlcr." The officers arrested he.
one day and found her skirt ON the
under side was n mass of pockets, eacl.
holding a half pint of whisky She
had 121 bottles. She, too, is in Jail.
Tulsa e. To Cor. ST Louis Post Dis.
patch.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-08-27
OHIO TOWN.
Bars Out Negroes and No Black Man
Has Ever Lived There

Bars Out Negroes and No Black Man
Has Ever Lived There.
In the town Of Syracuse. Ohio, ON
the Ohio river, -four miles above Pom
eroy. IL town Of about 1000 inhabi-
tants, no negro is permitted to live.
No negro is permitted To stay in the
town over night under any cOnsidcra-
ton. This is an absolute rule in this
year, 1905, and it has existed for sew
eral generations. The enforcement Of
this unwritten law for keeping the ne
gro from staying i'm the town over Il
single night is in the hands of the
boys from II to 20 years OF age, while
the attempt of negro to become a
resident of the town is resisted by the
town ell massc
When the c0orcd man is seen in
The town during tho day he is gcncr-
ally told Of these traditions. il he Is
30 Ignorant as not to know them al.
ready, and is warned to leave before
shutdown. II he fails to take heed, he
Is surrounded at about the time dark
ness begins, and is addressed by tho
leaders of the gang in about this Ian
guage: No niger is allowed to stay
i'll this town over night. We don't care
what you are here for. Get ont of here
now, and get out quick" He sees
from 25 to so boys around him talking
In subdued voices and waiting to see
whether he obeys. If he hestitatcs,
little stones begin to reach him from
unseen quarters, and soon persuade
him to begin his hcgira. He is not al
lowed to walk, but is told to "gct on
his little dog trot." The command is
always effective. for 1t is backed by
stones in the ready hands of boys
none too friendly.
So long as he keeps mp a good gait,
the crowd, which follows just at his
heels. and which keeps growing until
1t sometimes numbers rs to 100 boys,
is good natured and contents itself
with yelling, laughing and hurting
gibes at its victim. But let him stop
his "trot" for one moment, from any
cause whatever, and the stones imme.
dately take effect as their chief per
/, snader.
Thus they follow him to the furthest
limits of the town where they send
him ON his way rejoicing co while
they return to the city with triumph
and tell their fathers all about the
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-08-27
MEANS ADOPTED BY SOME
MEN TO ESCAPE SERVICE
Simulate All Sorts OF Diseases III Order to
Secure Discharge and Garry Sinnula-
ton to Remarkable Lengths
Without Detection.

dent several LESSONS may he simulat
cd. and especially those obscure ami
ill-dclnCd conditions which have been
attributed to spinal cnncussioon."
Sad i0 relate, many of the attempts
To initiate disease have led to serious
and irrcmrablc results, and even to
death itself y man excited an ulcer
in his leg by means Of Il copper coin
and later sangrenc appeared. nccrssi-
tating aniputattOn below the knee. LII
cndravoring to- excite hcmoptySis IL
man swallowed n cork into which pins
had hccn inserted. lie spat up blood
and became very cmaciatcd and then
suddenly died from hcmOrrhagc at
the microscopy il was found that the
cork and pins had lodged mt the juno
ton ol the pharynx and csophagus
ana that the pins had liberated
through the csophagal walls and had
opened into the common carotid artery
on both sides
the detection of malingcring is Of
ten no easy matter. and no general
rule can he laid down which will he an
nlicahlc to all eases. The mere threat.
cninE Of severe methods OF treatment
Is sometimes successful, but frequently
| fails. The threat of the application OF
| HE actual cautcry has cured paralysis,
but cases have been recorded where
| malingcrcrs have endured the cautery
on several occasions 4 man who
simulated blindness was placed Don
the edge of n ictty and told to walk
straight forward. He stepped out and
fell into the water, for he knew that
those who were testing Him dared not
| let him drown. In another case, how
| ever, man who seemed to have para
| lysis Of an arm allowed The nmputat-
ing knife to he placed close to 1t
without flinching, but when thrown In.
to The river he struck ont with both
arms and swan.
| a very useful method of detection is
the suggesting of now signs and symp-
| toms to the patient. Tho surgeon re-
marks, say. in the case OF pnralyzeh
| arm. in the hearing of the malingerer,
that 1t Is strange that the little finger
Is ilcNcd-it ought to be straight In
all probability at the next visit the
little finger will have assumed the
| suggested position. The more outre
and irregular the fresh symptoms sug-
gestcd by The surgeon, the more de-
Unite is the detection In general
| anacsthesia wo posses valuable
means of discriminating in certain
cases between true anu false paralysis.
or contractrres. While the patient
i, is going under or recovering from
nnacsthcsia the "paralyzcd'' limb may
be seen to move frcGly.-London An
swcrs.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-08-27

Il mc'illm ot communication between
the departments and with the public
II Is In b" hoped that the commission
VIII CIV" the question duo and full
considerations; for. though the publica.
ton OF such Il bulletin anl register
may BE- opposed by buroaucrats uf the
old rcd.tapc school as IN unnecessary
and frivolous innovation. its anth0ris.
alton would he in many respects a sign
Of progress.
An n'licial gazette would certainly
serve TWO excellent purposes 1t
would lead to better administration.
In that il would bring the business
operations Of each department under
moro direct scrutiny. Each branch of
the service now acts independently of
all others II issues and prints its
own proposals. publishes its own
records in form practically inacccs.
sihlc Ia the outer world, and escapes
thereby any comparison nf its meth.
obs with the methods of other depart.
mrnts- by establishing an official me.
dinm. through which each depart.
mont must issue it's bids and sum.
marie it's general transactions. every
branch has IA chance to inspect aud
profit by the work If the others. and
| given Ia the operations of the big gov
eminent machine.
Again. the public would he greatly
served by such an official register.
TO Sct any general knowledge now of
| what is being done in the departments;
ono must 80 to fifty ur Il hundred di..
fcrcnt sources. Appointments. promo.
lions. army, navy and marine corps 0r.
dcrs, bids. proposals., and reports drib.
bio ont picc"mral: hut no convenient
! and accurate record exists. such as Il
| comprehensive and wrll-chitcd gazette
wonld furnish. For newspapers and
for the reading public interested in the
4, governments work such Il register
would prove of genuine value The
= great success Of tho experiment made
/, in issuing daily cOnsmlr and trade
| reports demonstrates that bulletin
of the sort described would find an an
prcciativc constituency and do use
FIJI work We trust that the KccI
! commission will recommend the insti
tui"n of an up-to-hntc gazcttc-Ncw
York Tribune.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-08-27
CHILD LABOR UNNECESSARY.
Adults Should do the Work That is
Now Done by Children.

If all the children who hold ccrtifi-
cafes showing they arc Just thirteen
years of age under the child.labor act
OF 1901 were actually thirteen years of
age, Mai. John G. Delaney, chief fac
tory inspector, might he justified in
his answer to the KcnsingtOn textile
workers proposing not to disturb these
children in the few months left before
they reach fourteen years, the age re-
qurcd by the new act Of 1905
l''lt IL is notorious that under the
act OF 1901 host of children hold
certificates who were really only elev-
en- or twelve years old or younger.
Moreover. the act Of 1905 not only
raised the age to fourteen, hut it re-
1liircd new educational qualification.
Children with only n few months be-
fore they are fourteen must, we fear,
suffer the sad and unmcrted penalty
ct labor and Insufficient instruction.
But is is Mai Delaney's plain duty
to challangc all labor certificates I'M
der the act Of 1906
II these children have not enough
schooling, let them so to school. Let
Mai. Delaney enforce the law instead
OF lodging it. Neither need Mai. De-
lancy be so anxious To prevent n child
from having to study until he or she
Is sixteen. since the law requires this
OF children unschOoled Who is Mai.
Delaney to pnt himself above the law?
il is monstrous, too. that the "chief
factory inspector" should speak of this
necessity OF child labor. No child
labor is necessary. Every child whose
work is stopped will be replaced by
an adult. Necessary" child labor
may be to employers profits. To this
commonwealth it is not only unneces-
sary, but is pcrnicions.
If night labor is still required OF
mere children in this State of glass
works, where poor. stunted children
are having their strength Slapped by
working through weary nights, it. is
not because of any necessity" but
because OF the hardness of mems
hearts. -Philadclphia Press.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-08-27
NEWPORT NEWS VA, SUNDAY AUGUST 81 1905

function. how fast tho victim ran, how
scared he WAS how he pleaded and
promised that hc would 80 and never
return If they would only 50 back and
leave him; how Johnnie Jones hit
him with such Il big rock that it
knocked him down. Then the fathers
tell how they used To do the same
thing. and thus the heroes OF two wars
spend the rcSt Of the evening by the
old campfire, rccounting their several
campaigns.
The cause of this extraordinary
race prejudice is hard To discern. The
majority of the inhabitants arc not
from the South, but. strange to say,
are Of New England stock. In the
early days of the town many Irish
lived there who were so bitterly hos
tile to the negro that some people at
tribute the present treatment of the
colorcd man To their influence
Tho population is mixed. including
many Welsh and Germans. Most of
the people arc day laborcrs working
in the coal mines and in salt manmrac.
turc. and perhaps they fool the danger
of negro competition. Certainly they
would as readily associate with a
snake as permit n black man to work
Wy thelT Sluc- hey almost lccl tnat
he dciilcs anything that he touches
To the women he is an object to he
dreaded and feared. even in tho day
time. The little children are taught
to fear tho black man with all the
horrors associated with that name
The writer has seen many child
frightened almost into Mysteries at tho
mere sight of Il colorcd man. and ht
was himself imbucd with tho terror
What has caused this fear? NJ
crime has ever hccn committed by I;
negro within tho town, although many
have occurred near by. which perhaps
serve to maintain the prejudice III
spite at mait things that might have
worked toward undermining it,
Since that town was founded, about
1873, not single negro family has
lived in 1.-THE independent
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-08-27
PROHIBITION AS 1T IS
in INDIAN TERRITORY
Expedients Adopted by Thirsty Red Men to
Meet Craving for the Cup That Cheers
and Incidentally Inebiates-
Clever Schemes

Ever live in a land where the lid
Is on every day in the week, 500 days
in tho year?
Ever live in a country where the
punishment for being under the in
lhlence OF the products of stills, vine
yards, brcwcries and cider mills is 81
ana costs and the punishment from 80
uays to six months in IL federal prison
This is the condition in Indian Ter.
ritory.
Uncle Sam puts his stamp on the
products of distillerics, brcwcrics and
Kindred institutions, but he puts his
stamp or disapproval on the sale of
these goods in Indian country
flc has no objection TO granting a
license to sell liquors in Kansas, where
inc State laws arc against it. and the
blind tiger" does big business.
There are no blind tigers" i'm the
Indian country, but the federal gov.
ernmcnt, in it's suppression of liquor
traffic, has to deal with far more
dangerous parsonage in tho "boot-lcg.
ger, who pcddlcs the worst kind Of
whisky to the negroes and Indians at
big profits.
When the government began to
make treaties with the Indians it
found that the greatest foe to the
country and the natives was the ma.
tnral addiction of the red man to wills.
Ky. So in the treaties il was written,
witnessed and sealed with the great
seal of Uncle Sam that so long as he
exercised n guardianship over poor Io,
he would prohibit the sale of liquor
OF any kind or character in what is
known as the Five Civilized Nations.
FOR more than a quarter of CEN
tlry he has been doing it. and today
1t probably costs the government 81
a minute TO live up to that agreement.
70 satisfy n thirst for IL thing that
cannot he had bad mon who arc adj
dicted to the use of alcohol will go 10
any extreme. Many have lost their
lives in trying to qucnch their thirst.
Some have been shot down by United
States marshals, while others have re-
sorted to patent medicines, lemon OK
tracts, red ink, extract of ginger or
any compound that had for its base
alcohol. Hardly n week passes with
out some poor man, and occasionally
woman, leaving the world by one
OF these routes.
In certain sections of the torrit0:y
permits are given to dealers to sell Il
drink that is known under various ii.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-08-27
She Jumped at II.

Mr.. I.aybor-Wc travelling men arc
thinking of organizing
Miss Nicllcrman (vagucly)
MIR. laybdr-Gcs. | wonder what the
public would think Of our union?
Miss Nicdcrman-Oh. Mr.. layhur.
this is so smddcn.-Philadclp Pub
lie ledger.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-08-27
A FEDERAL GAZETTE.
Excellent Purpose Which Would Be
Served by Such a Publication.

oC'Veu ny 0uCV q TUDTTCdtIOn.
The commission appointed by Prcsi-
dent Roosevelt to examine INTO the
methods of conducting business in the
various executive departments was di.
rcctcd, among other things, to report
on the advisabiity of establishing an
official gazette. In his letter to the
investigators the President called a.
tcntion 10 the lack of any authorized
publication nj this sort. and asked
for an opinion on its possible value as
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-08-27
Finally Landed the Riuht Idea.

Secretary Wilson is improving He
has decided To lake into the bureau
couple Of men from the South who
Know something about cotton.-Dal-
las News