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The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-11-12

TO Prepare Rcmains-N s, Griggs
OF the Maddrey-Kenyon company has
been called to Ceta, Texas, to pre-
pare the remains OF Mrs. Bd Defeu-
derfer for shipment to Covington,
Ind. Mr., Grigg5 was called TO Tulia
by train and from that point will
60 on an automobile to Ceta. Mrs,
Defenderfcr is 80 years OF age, and
came TO the West in the interest of
hH health, The remains will be
shipped to the north for burial.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-11-12

WANTED--Vendor's lien notes. VIII
buy 2 few at proper discount
John S. Harper, 1877 L. 9th street.
40-tf-c
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-11-12

Leaves for Dcnt0n--Mrs. S, r.,
Cazzell left Saturday evening accom-
panied by her little son Cleve CaS-
cell for Denton. She will be away
two months.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-11-12

onous.
Horn or so.calied Hoop Snake,
This is the most famous snake In
the world, not on account OF It's mer-
its, but on account OF the wild sto-
RIGS told about It rolling like hoop.
Now tins snake, properly CHASED, Is
the singing SNAKE, and Is found in
three varieties. The colors are as
follows; Grey, red and black, They
are poisonous, and do sting with
their toll, but do not roll like hoop,
as many have pleased 10 tell about
them,
The Tarantula.
The tarantula. Is the most deadly
of the Insects found, lie is simply
a large spider with huge fangs like
/ those Of the rattle snake, and bite
from one is fatal II not properly
treated The tarantula has also been
misrepresented. He can not jump
more than eighteen inches, and is
quite a peaceful creature unless mo-
Tested. You see two colors, that is
black and brown. They are the
same, only that black ones are fresh
shed off and the brown ones are
getting ready to shed; that makes
the difference In the color"
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-11-12

Health Is Better---The state OF
health in Amarillo and It's immediate
vicinIty'is reported to be better than
for the last several months. Physi-
clans say this Is due In measure
to the prevailing weather Conditions
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-11-12

Visitors From Canyon Ctty--Mr.
and Mrs. J, N. Hobson OF Canyon
City visited in Amarillo yesterday.
Today they were accompanied home
by the latter's mother, Mrs NJ. A.
Brooks Mrs, Brooks will DO away
several days.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-11-12

Leaves fOr DcnEerAshelly Chas-
tain who has been visiting here as
the guest OF W. o. Allen OF the Say
lor-Kendall company, LETT yesterday
for Denver. he may return to this
city later in the winter
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-11-12
++++++*++**+++++I
ROUND ABOUT THE CITY.

{ From Monday's paIly.l

IFTUm MUHUay UdII!'I
Visiting Happy-Jinks Currie, ac-
companied by his mother, left this
forenoon for HAPPY lie will be
away from Amarillo several days.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-11-12

Investigations are being made
looking toward moving the steam
shovel to some point west OF ANA
rillo in order,to ballast that norton
OF the track between Amarillo and
Texico.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-11-12

Leave for Convention---A party of
Baptists formulated here, leave to-
day for Fort WORTH where the Bap-
lists will hold their annual eonven-
ton. This party includes some of
the most prominent Baptists of the
Panhandle. Something like 800 900
Baptists in Texas Will be represented
by the great meeting.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-11-12

Only One Case---Sut one case APP
pearcd on the police court docket
this morning, Another case, one in
which disturbance Is charged, was
carried over till this evening.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-11-12

Oldham County sheriff--sheriff
Nell N. Armstrong is in the city from
Oldham county. The gentleman has
lived in the Panhandle for the last
quarter Of century or more, and is
now in charge Of his first official
station.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-11-12

Confederate Veterans Mcet-A
meeting was enjoyed yesterday aft
ernoon at the courthouse By the w.
B. Plemons camp No. 1881, United
Confederate Veterans. The attend.
ance was but fair, and the business
considered Of an Informal program
and routine transactions.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-11-12

Visiting Mihister--Rev. Kendriok
Of Dalhart, preached In the First
Baptist church Sunday forenoon and
evening. The visitor Is paster of the
Baptist church OF Dalhart, aud is
known as one OF the most able min
listers in this section OF Texas.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-01-05
Only One Mans Evidence

put, unlike kerner, who fastened back to
- Weinsberg to write the biography of this
delicate flower who lived upon sunbeams,"
sonality and ask seriously what manner of
mortal she was. This inquiry is the more i'm
perative since the doings of the tambourine
players and automatic writer's, of whom so
much is made in certain quarters to-day, pale
into insignifcance beside the story of her odd
career.
Now, in point of fact, the evidence bearing
out the claim that she saw and talked
with the dead is practically confined to the
account written by the mourning Kerner,
whom no would for moment call an
unprecedented witness. Already deeply i'm
mersed in the study of the marvellous, his mind
absorbed in the weird phenomena of the re-
Gently discovered science of animal mag
netsm, she came to him both as patient and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-01-05
Thought Dust

SOME women would make hit if they
substituted home made bread for waters.
Many degrees do not make an educated man
many small bacteria have long names.
Some self made men are wise in calling them
selves such: they have too much respect for
their lives to credit anyone else with the job.
The fact that ones great-great- grandfather
shook hands with Washington does not signify
the bravery of the great-grea grandson.
The brilliance of many diamond makes up
for lack of that quality farther up.
A mans reputation may be judged by his
hat and coat; his character. by the way he
treats the hired man.
Twelve pairs of shoes do not always signify
good understanding.
Blue blood sometimes is sign of lack of
oxygen.
A man is told, not by the company he keeps,
but by the company he would like to keep.
A silk hat and patent leather shoes always
do not signify gentleman, nor do three-year-
old SLOUGH hat and half-soed shoes signify a
boor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-01-05
S EERESS OF PREV ORST
Continued from page Ia

office of the local bailiff, kerner fastened
to that functionary with the astonishing news
and was still more astonished when the bailiff
told him that he had been occupied precisely
as she said. Together they searched among
the papers on the table; but could find none in
the lawyers handwriting. Frederick, however
was insistent, adding that one corner of the
paper in question was turned down and that
it was inclosed in stout brown envelop. A
second search proved that sh,, was right and
on opening the paper it was found to contain
not only figures but an explicit reference to a
private account book of which the lawyers
widow had denied all knowledge. Still more
striking was the fact that when the bailiff, as
a test placed the paper in a certain position
his desk and went to Frederick, pretending
that he had it with him. she correctly in
formed him where it was and read it off to him
word by word.
Although the sequel was rather unsatis-
factory, inasmuch as the widow persisted in
asserting that she knew nothing of private
account book and refused to yield penny
to the injured client, kerner was so impressed
by this exhibition of supernatural power that,
in order to study his patient more closely, he
had her removed from her lodgings to his own
house. Thither also, as soon as he learned
that their presence seemed to increase her
susceptibility to the occult influences by
which she was surrounded he brought her
sister and the maid servant of the dancing
candle episode.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-01-05

as living embodiment of the mysteries that
held for him boundless fascination, and once
he found reason to believe in her alleged
supernormal powers, there nothing too
fantastic extravagant to which he would
not give ready credence and assent.
His lengthy record of facts" includes not
but every tale and anecdote related to him by
the seeress and her friends, and also includes
so many incidents of supernaturalism on the
part of Others that it would well seem that
half the peasant population of Wurttemberg
were ghost seers. Besides this, detailed as his
narrative is it is lacking in precisely those de-
tails which would give it evidential value
so lacking, indeed, that even such spiritstic
advocate as the late F. w. H. Myers pronounced
it quite inadequate" for citation in support
of the spiritistic theory.
Nevertheless, taking his extraordinary docu-
ment for what it is worth, careful considera-
ton of it leads to the conclusion that it con-
talns the story not so much of great fraud
as of great tragedy. 1t is obvious that there
was frequent and barefaced trickery, par
ticularly on the part of Frederica's sister and
the ubiquitous servant girl; but it is equally
certain that Frederick herself was a wholly
abnormal creature, firmly self deluded, one
might better say self hypnotized, into the
belief chat the dead consorted with her. And
it is hardly less certain that in her singular
state of body and mind she gave evidence not
indeed of supernatural but of telepathic and
clairvoyant powers which she and those
about her, in that unenlightened age, could
not but put supernatural Interpretation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-01-05
Her Peculiar Temperament

is not difficult to trace the origin OF the
nervous and mental disease from which she
suffered. kerner's account of her childhood
shows plainly that she was born tempera-
mentally imaginative and unstable and that
she was raised IN an environment well calcu-
lated to exaggerate her imaginativeness and
instability. Ghosts and COLLINS were favorite
topics of conversation among the peasantry of
Prevorst, while the children with whom she
played were many of them unstable like her
self, neurotic, hysterical, and the victims of
St. Vitus's dance. The weird and uneasy
ideas and feelings which thus early took pos
session of her were given frmer Judgment by
her unfortunate sojourn with grave haunting
Grandfather Schmidgall. After this, it seems
she suffered for a year from some eye trouble,
and every physician knows how close the con-
nection is between optical disease and hallu-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-01-05
Greater Marvels Than Ever

THEN ensued greater marves than had ever
bewitched the family at Oberstenfeld In
visible hands threw articles of furniture at the
enthusiastic doctor and his friends ghosty
fingers sprinlded lime and gravel on the floor
ing of his halls and rooms; spirit knuckles
beat lively tattoos on walls, tables, chairs, and
bedsteads. And all the while ghosts with
criminal pasts focked in and out, seeking con-
ISOLATION and advice. Only once or twice, how
ever did the physician himself see anything
even remotely resembling a ghost. On one
occasion a cloudy shape f1oated past his WIN
dow; and on another he saw at Frederick S
bedside pillar of vapor, which she afterward
told him was the specter of tall old man who
had visited her twice before.
But if he neither saw the ghosts nor heard
them speak, it was sufficiently demonstrated
to him that they were really in evidence. The
knocking, furniture throwing, and gravel
sprinkling were the least of the wonders of
which it was permitted him to be a witness
Once when Frederick taking an after
noon nap, spirit that was evidently solicitous
for her comfort drew off her boots, and in his
presence carried them across the room to
where her sister was standing by window
Again at midnight, after preliminary knock
ing on the walls, he observed another spirit,
possibly the same, open a book she had
been reading which was lying on her bed
Most marvellous of all. when her father died
she herself enacted the role of ghost, the news
of his death being conveyed to her super
naturally conveyed back to the room where
his corpse lay, in Oberstenfeld, and where it
was distinctly heard by the physician who
had attended him in his last moments. After
this browning piece of testimony the good
Kerner felt that no doubt of her unheard of
powers could remain in the most skeptical
mind.
Judge, then, of his dismay and grief when
he saw her visibly fading away, daily growing
more ethereal of form and feature, more weak
in body and spirit. 1t was his belief that the
ghosts were robbing her of her vitality, and
earnestly but vainly he strove to Danish them.
She herself declared, with tone of indescriba-
Bile relief, that she knew the end was near, and
that she welcomed it, as she longed to attain
the quiet of the grave with her father and
Grandfather and Grandmother Schmidgall
When Kerner sought to cheer her with the
assurance that she yet had many years to live,
she silenced him with the tale of a gruesome
vision. Three times, she said, there had ap-
peared to her at dead of night female figure
wrapped in black and standing beside an open
and empty coffin, to which it beckoned her.
But before she died she wished to see again the
mountains of her childhood; and to the noun
tans kerner carried her. There, on August s.
1870, peacefully and happily, to the singing
of hymns and the sobbing utterance of prayers,
her soul took its fight.
no1x, ~. M,oss
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-07

ing at the westward, and there, was that opp
pressive feeling in the atmosphere that al
ways precedes summer storm :, -.
They, brought up the. little sail from its
place beneath the starboard deck. in the
cabin. and rigged its stay and bent 1t on,
slowing the big jib as soon as they were
done.
Erie was thirty miles astern, Dunkirk ten
or twelve miles ahead. and the next nearest
harbor on the American shore, Buffalo. fifty
miles distant.
1t. would be impossible to make Erie in
much Of blow. and also Dunkirk, in the
wind which was coming. if it was very strong:
she howls very long"
flap. and the storm ib filed. The wind
came from the west. two points south.
:. Ned steered course parallel with the shore
five miles distant
Ned clung to the wheel, and Rob and Will to
the cockpit combng
Hold on!" cried Ned. as it struck them.
Swash over the STERN some ten barrels of
solid water rushed. The deck for the Madge's
length was submerged. and it seemed for a
moment as though she was buried forever.
But. with duck-ike ease, the little yawl
shook the water from her deck, and she
bounded along like mad before the gale.
How the great waves chased the scurrying
yacht! How she bounded, with only the
little staysail pulling!
Sometimes wave would break almost un-
DER ner steIn Outr12Rer, Dut IL never reached
her deck. She few along too fast for that.
1t was no common summer squall. Soon the
waves were like hillocks. How the water in
the scuppers gurgled How the Madge tore
on!
Staunch little craftl She rode the waves
like swan.
The boys, too, were cool. Ned stood by
the wheel and steered. as If the squall were
but topsail breeze.
It would be impossible to make Dunkirk
harbor. The seas were too high.
They scudded past the town two hours
after the storm struck them. Nor would
they risk. running. in at Silver Creek Ned
held the little yacht for course for Buffalo.
At the rate they were sailing, they would
reach the lakes Queen City in seven hours
or less. II nothing happened.
But soon they had an alarming surprise.
Will had looked down in the cabin, to see
if the hands of the barometer had moved
any. either way, when he pulled his head out
suddenly, his face pale and scared-looking.
"Shes leaking!" he cried.
Get out the pump!" cried Ned.
Rob and Will hurried to obey him, when
another alarming discovery was made-the
pump was useless! In slowing the extra
anchor beneath the cockpit, where the pump
was kept, it had struck the lower end Of the
pump and broke the sucker.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-07

ding rolled up at the ends of the separate
hunks.
The little oil stove in the aft starboard
locker received some brisk polishing, and the
When all was done. with Robs banjo
hanging up by the forecastle and the table
covered with interesting books and papers,
the little cabin looked as CHEEKY and neat as
one could ask.
The forecastle held good load of extra
blocks and lines, and there was room for an
extra anchor and cable beneath the cockpit
floor. A small shelf near the cabin hatch
was occupied by. Ned's camera, and there
was space beneath the hunks for tools. She
had fine model; her rig was handy one,
and she steered with ,wheel-altogether an
ideal boat for a summers outing.
She showed her heels to four or five fishing
smacks as they chased her on the way 70
lively saiers in the hands of bronze-faced
fishermen. :,
Her stem parted the water proudly, and it
left her stern with hardly a ripple, an evi-
dence of her perfect lines.
The boys enjoyed the, morning hugeiv.
They did not mind the rather heavy sea that
At noon, Will brought on the stove and
cooked an appetizing dinner.
There were canned Boston baked beans,
fried veal and coffee, with rice pudding
from home for dessert. =,
AS the wind had mostly gone down. the
meal was enjoyed on the little table In the
cockpit .
After the dishes were washed. Rob started
to write the log, and Will took a. picture OF
him and Ned, who was at the wheel, from
the forward deck There was splendid lot
of sunshine for such work.
'T'm fearing that we're going to have a
blow!" exclaimed the captain, when the cam
era was put up. "a calm always before a
storm, you know .
Flows the barometer?" asked Rob. at
does look little threatening in the nor
west"
As he spoke he and Ned regarded the ugly
looking clouds that were marshaling them
selves in the western horizon. 1t certainly
did look as if a sauall, if nothing worse, was
"Gone over two points toward stormy" "
reported Will. who had consulted the ba-
rometer.
I'm with the topsails!" ordered Ned
And, locking the wheel. he began to clear
up the cockpit, slowing the table below.
Rob and Will hurried the light canvas on
deck in an incredibly short time. and. put
ting it below, waited for the next order.
"Now get out the storm staysail!" cried
Ned. "And step lively"
This the boys did.
They could see that the storm would soon
be upon them 1t kept getting blacker look
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-07

~1PANG"
I~I AS the report of the little yacht
cannon rang out, the line to the
buoy was let go, the Madge's canvas
filled. and she began to move away from her
moorings in Erie harbor at a rapid rate.
The three boys on board were in high
spirits This was the first cruise their father
had consented to let them make alone on
the yacht.
Before this time, either Mr.. Baxter or Jack
Dawson, an old sailor, had always been on
board.
Then the BOYS never felt so independent
as they did on this fine July morning as they
got the Madge under way.
They waved their yachting caps merrlly at
the little group Of friends on the bluff at the
water works, as the brisk southwest breeze
carried them toward the harbor's lighthouse.
Gaff topsail and jib-topsail were set as the
little thirty-foot yawl bounded along, and the
backstays-to keep the topmast from being
broken-brought aft.
White caps just fecked the harbor. 1t
was glorious morning.
A schooner-yacht headed toward them to
try friendly bout. but the Madge made a
lighthouse out of her" as the sailors put it
when one boat is sadly left by another; and
"cat" was treated in the same way. The
little yawl flew along at a splendid pace.
Beacon were passed. and the lake reached,
when she was headed on the course for Dun
kirk, fortyfve miles distant.
''Hurrah!" cried Ned Baxter, the Oldest
of the boys, and the captain in consequence;
"now | feel as though the cruise had really
begun"
"And II" exclaimed Rob, from forward.
Ever since father said we could go it alone,
I've been on pins and needles lest he should
take it back"
"Father wouldn't do that" averred Will,
as he worked off the side lights 50 they would
be all right when needed. "But if we don't
get through the cruise safely and should in
lure the Madge, we may count on not having
another run alone for some time"
"But we will get through all right" ejacu-
lated Ned. confidently. "And next year he'll
let US go up to Putin-Bay."
At the thought Of the fun in prospect, Rob
burst into song:
"a life on the ocean wave,
A home on the rolling deep
Where the pollywog wiggles his tail
Till the tears roll down his check!"
They made jolly trio
As the Madge scudded along all sail set,
their provisions which had been brought on
board too late to be slowed in the lockers,
were packed carefully away. and the bed
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-07

For moment the boys were disconcerte1
Take up a piece of the cabin floor an
bail from the cockpit" cried Ned; "sN
hurry, for l can feel the Madge gettir!
loggy."
This was done, and Rob began bailing.
They were in an alarming predicament
The storm instead Of decreasing in strengr1
was growing worse. and the leak, as is usuo'
began to get larger. 4
The shore along there was rocky; so, shou<|
they run in upon it, besides losing the Mad91
they would likely be dashed to pieces then
selves. What would they do?
Soon Rob thrust his head up from ~
cabin.
':It's. gaining, in spite of mel" he
claimed.
Cant you keep it down even with -
hcor" asked Ned.
"No. It's more than two inches above u
floor now.'
Fellows, we've got to get through this n
right" calculated Will, cor father won't h
us have the Put-in-Bay trip. Let me bail.
Going below. he worked like mad with u
bucket, but succeeded no better than Rol
The leak slowly gained upon him, work y
he would.
~ have it!' suddenly cried Ned almoa
letting go the wheel in his excitement. "Ge
the spinnaker.
The boys saw his scheme in an instant
Strange that they had forgotten their father
! The great triangular sail was brought o'
deck and its end passed with difficulty undo
the bowsprit. The centreboard had bed
pulled up, and the boys, after fastening on
part Of the sail forward, brought the rest y
Il aft under the yacht. Then it was draw
up on both sides and fastened tightly SO tha
it covered most of the yachts bottom snugr
When this was done, Will began to bal
again. For some time they. could not u
whether the sail covered the leak or not. b
at last they found that it did.
At this discovery they gave great shout
With any kind of luck they would be able +
reach Buffalo then in safety.
At five o'clock the sky was almost IRE
from clouds. A splendid evening was prom
ised the yachting party.
But the boys did not feel easy until. g
eleven o'clock. they tied up at one of tn
Buffalo shipyards. ,
Next morning they had the little yaw
pulled out and the leak fixed.
While this was being done, they had |
visitor. 1t was Mr.. Baxter. He had worries
about the boys. for the storm had been
particularly severe one.
Rob saw him coming to the shipyard
"He's going to shut down on u.s." Rol
said. disconsolately, to Ned.
"Not when he hears how nicely we brought
the Madce through" replied Ned hopefully
And it turned out as he said.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1908-09-25

W. D. Vredenburgb moved his stock
of jewelry goods into the west room Of
the new Brennan block last Monday.
The location is good and the room all
that could be desired.