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CLOCKS PART IN A TRAGEDY
Ancicnt Kentucky Timepiece -with
Which Goes a Grnc8onic Story
Seven miles east of Bardstown Ky
in what is known as the Beech Grove
neighborhood dwells Nathan Colerain
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a widower of ad
vanced years and
his maiden sister
who is now past
middle life The
Colerain residence
is an old-fashioned
unpretentious
farmhouse
Miss Patsy Col
erain or Aunt
Patsy as she is
familiarly known
to her neighbors
and friends is a
woman of refine
ment bearing
traces of youthful
sflftvV beauty She Is
H u UN oulet and
tde old clock trusive and has
pot gone beyond the pale of her own
yard for over thirty years There is a
pagic history connected with her es
trangement from the world
5 In the spacious hall of the Colerain
homestead stands a clock an
affair of the grandfather spe
jcies This timepiece is over a century
old and is a quaint looking object The
pendulum has been motionless and the
elaborately carved brass hands have
THE COLERAIN RESIDENCE
never moved since a fateful night in
the year 1SG4
Miss Colerain was engaged to Reuben
IMorehead a young Kentuckian who in
April 1SG4 wore the blue uniform
Being In the vicinity of his sweet
hearts house Morehead stole across
the debatable land to visit her It
was a rainy night and while the lovers
were together a band of guerillas
headed by the notorious Munday came
up and surrounded the house At the
first alarm Morehead opened the door
of the clock case and squeezed in But
jhe left his hat and gloves in the room
land these telltales were seen The
guerrillas hunted high and low Final
ly one of them opened the clock door
and Morehead was discovered They
tehot him to death Since then the clock
Jhas marked the hour of his murder
OLD PUTS BIRTHPLACE
feronze Tablet Affixed to tlie Historic
House at Danvcra Mass
To remember Israel Putnam a bronze
tablet has been placed on a corner of
tthe house in which he was bom in Dan
gers Mass the dedication exercises
leaving been held by General Putnam
Chapter D A It under whose direc
tion the tablet was put in place
Owing to the season the outdoor exer
cises were as brief as possible but
khose held in the town hall of Danvers
were most elaborate The members of
jthe local chapter of the D A R were
assisted by a number of prominent
members of the order from other cities
among whom was Mrs Donald
of New York
The inscription on the tablet Is In
Jlarge raised letters the wide sur
rounded by a heavy border It reads
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Here Was Born
GEN ISRAEL PUTNAM
Jan 7 171S
Erected by the
Gen Israel Putnam Chapter
Daughters of the American
Revolution
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OLD PUTS BIRTHILACE
General Putnam was born in Dan
gers Jan 7 171S in the house now
standing which has been enlarged sev
eral times and is still in an excellent
state of preservation The original
structure was erected in 1G41 and it
was in a chamber of this section that
Putnam was born
The first proprietor of the house was
Thomas Putnam grandfather of Gen
Israel Putnam Thomas Putnams sec-
ond wife was Mary Yeren widow of
Nathaniel Veren a wealthy merchant
Kf Salem Their only cima was josepn
who inherited the homestead
Joseph married Elizabeth Porter
daughter of Israel and Elizabeth Ha
thorne Porter From this marriage
sprang the famous soldier
Sea Water
On a bright sunny day visitors are
often puzzled at the numerous colors
visible on tie surface of the sea There
will perhaps be some four or five
streaks of green blue yellow black
and so forth making the water appear
as though it were painted in color
istripes of mathematical precision
To the initiated these several sC lpes
thave their meaning They are nearly
jail produced by the character of the
-ocean bed and as a rule are only seen
iin close proximity to land
ff you see a deep blue or green patch
you may label it deep water the blu
usually being deeper than the green A
yellowish tint signifies a sandy bottom
and if It Is very pronounced Indicates
a shoal or sandbar
Black indicates rocks although sea
weed or cloud shadows will sometimes
produce a similar effect
On the east coast it is no uncommon
thing to see a patch of bright red
where the sun has reflected the color of
the deep brown sand on the surface
Where the bottom is muddy as on
the Essex coast a streak of bright silver-gray
Is often seen
Many people who can not claim Inti
macy with the sea Imagine these colors
are in the sea water Itself wThereas Its
intrinsic tint Is bluish green Answers
STEAMER STRUCK BY A WHALE
Sea Monster Frightens the Charmers
Crew Off Vancouver
The passengers on the little steamei
Charmer running between Yaucouvei
and Victoria had a fright and a novel
experience which they will not soon
forget F P Stinson a passenger whe
was on board says We were bowling
merrily along between the Sand heads
and Plumper pass at a good rate and
every one was on deck enjoying th
weather Suddenly someone called out
See the whale I And sure enough s
good sized one was discerned on th
port bow a short distance off He was
enjoying himself immensely rolling
sportively in and out spouting and
diving to his hearts content Suddenly
he disappeared and was out of sight
so long that we lost Interest In him and
gave up looking for him A few min
utes later we felt a sharp shock which
shook the entire ship and threw sev
eral passengers to the deck Someone
cried out that we had struck Others
exclaimed that she had sprung a leak
and the greatest excitement followed
Women fainted and men ran this way
and that The engineer stopped his en
gines and this seemed to confirm the
story that we had struck a hidden
ledge At the same time we felt an
ominous grating under the keel I was
on a boat going to Alaska nine years
ago wrhich went on a rock and the
sound was identical with what I heard
This time I was sure that a rock had
been grazed a thought hardly consist
ent with the fact that the old veteran
skipper Captain Rudlin was on board
Finally the passengers became calm
er and the ships people began an in
vestigation There was no rock in the
vicinity They knew every foot of the
water there The signal to start was
given and we moved off again Those
on deck watched attentively the wake
of the ship until astern of the vessel
the rock loomed up in the form of the
big sea monster who lay on the surface
as If stunned by the blow He struck
In rising from one of his dives almost
under the wheelhouse and then had al
lowed the steamer to drag almost its
whole length over him Chicago
Chronicle
HORSE OF THE PRAIRIE
How the Patient Animal la Utilized in
Ionely Places
Of the more or less native horse of
the prairie the horse of the fields the
patient creature with its foal tender
and even compassionate and the mod
ern horse of civilization one of the best
records Is to be found in the collection
of drawings by Frederic Remington
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THE SQUAW HORSE
Away In the wilds of Arizona or Idaho
or Wyoming Remington carried the
pencil of a magician and brought back
records of the keenest personal value
To turn his pages is to live a life amid
the Immense solitudes of the prairies
where the horse In all his sturdiness
his muscular strength and his elas
ticity of step seems to be something of
an aboriginal The picture of a squaw
horse accompanying this article is a
copy of one of the Remington master
pieces and needs no verbal explana
tion
Raffing for Them
So long ago as 1025 a sporting parson
existed and one who thought that re
ligion could be made more popular by
a little excitement to this end he es
tablished a raffle for six Bibles each
year The clergyman who was so far
eccentric left in his will a sufficient
sum of money for the yearly purchase
of Testaments to be won by dice Only
a few days ago the ancient ceremony
was carried through and twelve chil
dren threw dice six of whom ran the
chance of winning a Bible A vicar a
curate and two church wardens watch
ed over the proceedings
Long and Short
Birds with long legs always have
short tails Writers on the flight of
birds have shown that the only use of
a birds tail is to serve as a rudder dur
ing the act of flight When birds aro
provided with long legs these are
stretched directly behind when the bird
is flying and so act as a sort of rudder
Korans Arabic
The Arabic used in the Koran differs
as much from the Arabic used in ordin
ary conversation in the east as the
Latin differs from the Italian The
Koran Arabic Is that of the literary
classes the colloquial Arabic that of
the common people
The beauty of the winter girl may be
only sealskin deep
HOSPITAL ANNEX CH1LDS DREXEL HOME FOR PRINTERS
The hospital annex to the Childs Drexel home for decrepit union printers At
Colorado Springs Colo is now about completed On the first floor are several
bedrooms a dining room and a drug room On the second floor are the wards
a room for nurses and a serving room The building is surrounded on the east and
west by balconies so that the sick can sit out all day in the sunshine Part of
the balconies will he enclosed in glass The erection of the hospital annex was
decided upon at the biennial meeting of the International Typographical Union
held in the fall of 1893 The necessary money was voted by the union
REFORM IN BABY CLOTHES
Apparel Fashioned on lanes of Clothes
for Grown Up Reformers
The new baby is not outdone by the
new woman nowadays when it comes
to clothes The little lady has her ap
parel faithfully fashioned after the
gowns of the grown up followers of
dress reform From the so called boot
ies on her pink toes to the hood shawl
for her little bald head the miniature
mistress of the nursery is strictly In
style from the Jenness Miller stand
point
The idea of dress reform for the baby
sprung into popularity but a short time
ago Previous to that time an ambi
tious man with an M D to his name
had patterned several pieces of stockin
et apparel without beauty which proud
mammas promptly refused to put on
their little ones Subsequently mem
bers of the fair sex succeeded in devel
oping numerous improvements for the
baby along less exaggerated dress re
form lines
The chief advantage of these vest
ment innovations for the infant over
the old fashioned modes Is the banish
ment of that tiny thing which has
been the cause of countless wails in the
nursery the paint of a pin The cure
for this crying need of the baby was
also accompanied by other improve
ments In its attire as to give it pre
cisely what women seek to find in their
dress reform gowns That desidera
tum is greater freedom of the body and
more comfort in their clothes as well
as to raduce to a minimu u the neces
sary pieces of appareL
One of the more useful additions to
common sense dress reform for the
baby are the booties which came out
but a few months ago They are hand
knitted foot coverings that come to the
knee where they are fastened with a
tiny ribbon Booties make unneces
sary the rather awkward looking pin
ning blanket They are dainty little
things with delicate borders of pale
pink of light blue
the skirt is gathered to a yoke over the
shoulder and Is buttoned in the back
As to dresses the reform baby may
have as many as her mother will per
mit only they must conform to the
same effects carried out centuries ago
by the Grecian maiden That is to say
the waist line If there is one must
come close under the arms Illustrative
of this idea is the white mull dress with
fancy lace yoke which has a narrow
sash that ties in front in a dainty bow
Then for negligee there is the comfort
able cashmere wrapper delicately em
broidered which the baby wears when
her first tooth begins to give her trou
ble
What Malaria Is
Malaria is not a distinct condition
germ or poison remarked a physician
to a Washington Star reporter It is
the result of a combination of circum
stances conditions and poisons At
certain seasons it is rather prevalent
not however because there is any par
ticular poison in the air in this city or
section but as the result of very warm
days and rather cool nights The bodies
get very much warmed up during the
day and the anxiety to cool them in
clines persons to ride about in open
cars or sit on the porches or the parks
in the evening They therefore cool off
too suddenly and the congested condi
tion of things resultant for want of a
better name is called and known as
malaria In old fashioned times the
same condition of things was known
as bilious fever There axe of course
many persons who are strong enough
to resist the evil influences of the night
air but in cases where the system is
run down many are very sensitive to
it I do not know that there is any
panacea for this condition If a person
feels that he is run down it would be
well for him to take a tonic prepara
tion for a couple of weeks and particu
larly to avoid the night air This rid
ing about the streets in the open cars
at night time is very bad for some per
sons though it does not seem to do any
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BELONGINGS OF THE DRESS REi ORM BABY
The tiny shirt with a bit of ribbon I
bow at the neck is made or wmte casn
mere these days as the knitted ones
are oonsidered old fashioend by the
dress reformers It is edged with silk
and buttoned down the front
To take the place of time honored
linen band for the babys waist which
had to be rolled around the little one
and then securely pinned In place the
reformers have made a knitted band
This innovation Is firmly held in place
by two straps which go over the shoul
ders At the lower part of the knitted
band is a pad to which the diaper may
be attached This garment obviates
any unequal pressure on the body and
throws part of the strain on the shoul
ders rather than all about the waist
The modern baby must also have a
bath robe This necessity is made of
light colored nuns veiling and tufted
with a bright zphyr Two tiny cords
secure it at the neck and it is briar
stitched with fancy floss
The little cashmere sacque of white
embroidered with a delicate color is
loose In cut to allow freedom while the
sleeves are small as becomes the style
of the dress reform baby
The reform idea is likewise carried
out in the mull underskirt with deep
embroidery on the edge In place of
the conventional band about the waist
harm to others On the whole how
ever I think there are more harmed by
it than otherwise If people must go
out I would advise that they wear
clothing somewhat heavier than that
worn by them during the day
About Adam
A curious Jewish tradition reports
that Adam was entirely clothed in
a hard horny skin and only lost it and
became subject to evil spirits on losing
Paradise The nails are the remnants
of this dress and whoever cuts them
off and throws them away does himself
an injury An old Persian chronicle
says that Eve also possesed this dress
and the nails were left to remind them
of Paradise
co Ingenious
Simplex answered an advertisement
in which somebody offered to sell him
the secret for preventing trousers from
getting fringes around the bottom
What did they tell him
To wear knickerbockers Cleve
land Plain Dealer
Making Haste Klowly
And this said the gold seeker bit
terly as he tolled painfully through
the deep snow at the rate of five milea
a day this is what is known as the
rush to Klondike Puck
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SCIENCE OF A COAL FIRE
Here Are a Few Simple Rules Pounded
on General Principles
HEN people begin
to burn hard coal
says Good House
keeping they usu
ally go through a
series of perplexi
ties and mishaps
which may be es
caped by observing
a few simple rules
founded on general
principles Gas es
capes from the fire
into the rooms of
the house explo
sions and the burst
ing of flame and smoke Into ones face
upon opening the door of the stove or
heater need not occur the escape of
gas up the chimney should not be al
lowed as this is a serious loss of fuel
First As soon as a suitable quantity
of good kindlings are burning so as to
produce a good flame apply coal
enough to make a base for the fire after
the kindlings shall have been consum
ed but not enough to smother the
flame The heat beneath freshly ap
plied coal generates gas a flame sup
ported by a small direct draft of air
should come at once In contact with
this gas then a blue flame will creep
over the surface of the coal and the gas
will be burned greatly economizing the
fuel and saving the annoyances refer
red to above The next application of
coal should be made as soon as that
first applied is well ignited and with
the same precaution as to quantity
By covering the fire all out of sight
a reservoir of gas is obtained filling
the open space above the coal some of
this gas may escape into the house
some of it may pass up the chimney
and be lost but when the fire has burn
ed up through the freshly applied coal
and comes in contact with this reser
voir of gas the most natural thing in
the world under the circumstances is
an explosion which is the cause of fire
and smoke bursting Into ones face on
opening the door onto the fire at this
critical time
For heating purposes best results
are obtained by keeping a liberal quan
tity of coal burning regulating the
heat by the draft To run the heater
with only one application of coal per
day will usually result in a shivering
for the first few hours with the evils
of an atmosphere polluted with gas
while the dull fire is warming up the
coal and then in having more heat
than is desirable an economy of care
and labor at the expense of fuel com
fort and health
YOUNGEST TRICK RIDER
Six-Year-Old Berlin Boy Gives He
inarkable Wheel Exhibitions
The youngest trick rider in the world
is said to be Master Arthur Czekowski
a Benin boy who nas al
ready given exhibitions in the German
theaters
Little Arthur as he is called fell
into the trick riding habit by accident
so to speak His father was an acrobat
and juggler but had no intention of
having his son follow in his footsteps
One day however before the small boy
YOTT GisT OF TKICK RIDERS
was out of his bibs and skirts he aston
ished his parents by his mimicry of his
fathers feats He developed such an
astonishing ability both as a gymnast
and a mimic that it occurred to his
father about a year ago to make him
a trick bicyclist The youngster has
succeeded so remarkably that all Ber
lin raves over his performances
THE IOE BEAR
ECe Lives on Seal Mr at and Ilia Curi
osity Is Unbounded
The ice bears curiosity is so great
that he likes to stick his snout into
your tent or boat says the National
Magazine He rummages everything
he gets hold of He breaks open all
packages and tins that fall in his way
and when he gets a good chance makes
a frightful wreck of a camp or tent
The ice bear lives on the seal and in
catching the seal he is a great adept
One day we watched a bear for an
hour while he was trying to capture
a fat seal which was sunning himself
near his hole in the ice The bear first
went around to the leeward so that the
seal might not smell him for the nose
of the seal is as keen as that of the
bear himself Then he hid himself be
hind a hummock of ice and peered out
from its corner to see if his prey were
still there and quiet With remark
able skill he passed from behind one
ice hummock to another all the time
getting nearer and nearer his victim
At length he came so close that he did
not dare walk but lay flat on his belly
and pushed himself along with his hind
legs
Coming still nearer to the sleeping
seal the hungry bear adopted a ruse
which shows that in his big white skull
there is brain enough to do a little rea
soning Realizing that though all of
his body but his nose is white and not
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of ice and snow his snout is very black
and therefore likely to be detected by
the seal because of the contrasting
color what did the bear do but place
one of his white paws over his black
nose and push himself nearer and
nearer to his dinner When within
thirty or forty feet of the seal the bear
made a mighty bound or two anOB
pounced with great fury upon the spo
where the seal had been only a m
ment before But by this time the
wary seal had plunged into his hole
and was safe in the depths of the sea
Nothing could exceed the rage of th
bear He thrust his nose far down thoj
seal hole He bellowed and tore at hi
fur with his claws He picked up
pieces of ice and threw them high laj
the air He was simply beside himself
with anger and disappointment
nally he wandered away reluctantly
turning now and then to look regrets
fully at the hole through which hi
dinner had escaped
WINTER GIRL AWHEEL
Progressive Toronto Young Women
Use the Bicycle Sleigh
In Toronto there are several progress
sive young women who use the bicycle
sleigh as the latest Invention in the bl j
cycling line is called
It glides as smoothly over the ice and
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snow as the regular wheel does over
the asphalt roads It is designed for
use in Icj rinks as well as In climates
where a reasonable amount of snow
and Ice may be counted upon the winH
ter through Some adventurous spirits
are going to try it In the Klondike
But for the ordinary damsel it ial
enough to know that there is a new1
wheel which runs on skates as It were
and which will permit her to wear
with entire appropriateness a costume
combining the dash of a skating dress
and the comfort of a bicycle costumeJ
New York Journal
Saber Cut in a Skull
Dr William B Fletcher has a grim
souvenir of the work of a famous
geon the Baron Larrey whom
leon remembered In his will with q
gift of 100000 francs and the tribute
to Larrey my surgeon the most vlrV
tuous man x nave cret hnOTm
The relic is the upper part of thei
skull the valvarium and shows a sa
ber cut extending from the junction oi
the occipital and parietal bones for
ward to the orbital ridge on the right
side
I well knew the man whose skul
this was said the doctor turning th
calvarium in his hand He was 3
German I have forgotten his name
and lived in this city many years dvx
Ing about 1875 at the age of 80 yearsi
He took care of horses for Dr Parvlq
and myself along about 1865 and alss
sawed wood to earn his living
He was taken care of by the CathOt
lie sisters here in a hospital during tha
last years of his life and as he bad
saved his earnings small though the
were he left them a small farm la
Kansas at his death
He was a German in the FrencS
army and received this terrible cul
from a Russian saber as he told me
during the retreat from Moscow IS
1812 He told me that Baron Larrej
operated on him He was about 11
years old at the time and though hlj
life was saved he was partially pan
alyzed on one side ever after ani
dragged one foot until the day of hif
death
Here is where Baron Larrey Si
years ago trephined the skull and lift
ed up the depressed bone to relieve th
brain The orifice and the saber cui
through the skull both closed up witX
a membrane like a drum head la
dianapolis News
Primitive Mothods
How would you like to drive in a
great thatched hood of a wagon drawir
by bullocks If you go to Ceylon yoa
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may The Ceylon bullock cart is among
the most interesting sights on the
island
More Cyclzsts Liuofc
A cyclist of Louisville was so fright
ened at finding herself in imminent
peril of being run down by one of two
vehicles that she was unable to turn
her wheel to either side until a big dog
ran out from a door yard barking and
scared her into forgetting the wheel
altogether She sought to gather hex
skirts about her and as she let go of
the handle bar the wneel wabbled tot
the curb and she was thrown off to
safety
At this season of the year we cherish
the greatest contempt for the friend
who recalls that we said last wirrtexj
that we loved summer
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